Barbara Morawiecz

Paul consiguió en 1956 el oro olímpico como corredor de maratón. Él era una leyenda pero ahora ha envejecido y su hija insiste en internarlo en un hogar para ancianos. Para escapar de la deprimente existencia en la que se ha visto sumergido, decide participar de nuevo en la Maratón de Berlín. A pesar de algunos recelos, su esposa se convierte, como antes, en su entrenadora. Dentro del internado para ancianos, Paul entrena con más entusiasmo que nunca aunque los demás se rían de él, y hasta su compañero de habitación lo reconoce como el ex campeón de Melbourne en 1950. Se prepara para superar los 42.195 kilómetros y cruzar la meta entre aplausos. ¿Será Capaz Paul de volver a ganar como ya lo hizo en su juventud?

Lisbeth está preocupada porque durante días su estudiante hija Fanny (estudiando en Italia) no le contesta el teléfono. ¿Tal vez la sucedió algo? Entonces decide viajar de Múnich a Urbino para comprobar que Fanny está bien. Cuando llega , todo está bien, sin embargo su hija se ha enamorado de una atractiva estudiante de Derecho, llamada Luca.

A short directed by Sebastian and Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.

Ironies abound in this extremely sad melodrama about Elif (Zuhal Olcay), a Turkish immigrant in Germany who has been sent to prison for murdering her abusive husband. At the time of her imprisonment, she has never ventured outside the Turkish community, and even there has had no friends because of the demands her husband placed on her. She speaks no German. Now, in a place which most people find to be hell on earth, she gains a never-before known taste of freedom among these strangers, who don't even speak her own language. Unfortunately, as a "guest worker," she is horrified to discover that she is soon to be transferred to the horrific prisons of Turkey and will stand trial there for her crime, which will be much less understandingly dealt with in her home country than it would have been in Germany. The false paradise she must say goodbye to is her German prison.

After the essay "On Marionette theatre" by Heinrich von Kleist.

Edith runs a left-wing journal and when her marriage starts to fall apart (her husband is unfaithful), she can find no solace in her son who is more of a problem than an asset. On top of heading toward a divorce and being unable to handle her son's asocial tendencies, her neurotic uncle moves in, demanding personalized care. Just to keep her sanity intact, Edith starts writing in her diary to vent her own feelings and ambitions. As her son goes from bad to worse over a five-year period, it turns out that Edith's diary may be of more benefit than she could have ever imagined. In this adaptation of Edith's Diary by Patricia Highsmith, director and writer Hans W. Geissendoerfer has maintained Highsmith's psychologically tormented characters while changing the location and time of her story from the U.S. of the 1960s to Germany in the early 1980s.

The "Our Gang" type adventures of German working class kids from a Berlin apartment building (number 67) during the early 1930s. With Nazism's rise, however, their tight-knit group unravels. One leader, Paul, becomes a Nazi.

1964 in Berlin, not long after the raise of the wall that separated the city: ex-prisoner Bruno is chosen by the eastern secret agency to be sent west with a special order. However as soon as he's crossed the border, he reports to the police. He claims his order was to kidnap someone, but he doesn't know who yet. He's forced to continue feignedly. However the east agents don't really trust him and play a double game...

In this docudrama, police in the countryside near Berlin attempt to trick a confession out of a Polish guest worker for the 1927 murder of an eight-year-old girl.

This feature film describes the labor dispute of a piecework crew in a large German industrial company and its workforce against the background of the "September strikes" in Germany.