The IEK team investigates the corpse of 1970s-disappeared flower girl Monika Rothmann, both burned and suffocated as drowned. She was believed to have abandoned husband Herbert and daughter Anja without a trace, but it turns out she started a new life as a political and environmental activist, yielding potential motives and suspects, but also an adulterous affair.
An affluent city is covered in snow, all seems perfect – on the surface. Divorcé Rolf is doing his best to rebuild his relationship with his daughter. Pregnant Lena appears to be living a faultless family life with her husband and son. Social worker Judith has a tough job and escapes it through her fantasies, whilst widowed Maria has finally built up the courage to invite her male acquaintance to a romantic dinner.
In the course of one day, all of them will cross paths with the Bulgarian Mia, who works in the red-light trade and their seemingly perfect lives will never be the same…
A young couple in love: Rebecca (32) and her boyfriend Julian (34) are expecting their first child and are full of pleasant expectation. As Rebecca gives birth to a healthy boy their luck seems to be perfect. But instead of the unconditional motherly love she was expecting she is thrown into an emotional turmoil. Helplessness and desperation reign and her own baby is a stranger to her. With every day that passes her inability to meet the demands of motherhood become more and more apparent. Unable to admit this to anyone, not even Julian, she falls into a deep darkness - to the point that she realises she is becoming a threat to her child. Now only unconditional love can bring her back on track…
Durante unas excavaciones en Israel, unos arqueólogos encuentran el esqueleto de un hombre que, según los primeros indicios, tiene más de 2.000 años. Pero el hallazgo es aún más sorprendente cuando en la tumba también encuentran enterrada una bolsa que contiene el manual de una videocámara. Todo apunta a que el esqueleto es el de un supuesto viajero en el tiempo con la misión de filmar un vídeo de Jesús de Nazaret.
Una metáfora de una sociedad que manipula y aliena a los individuos que la conforman. Haneke muestra en esta obra su habilidad para generar en el espectador sensaciones que lo remiten constantemente a la angustia existencial del hombre contemporáneo.
A fearless Antigone, refusing to allow the dishonored body of her murdered brother Polynices to be devoured by vultures and dogs, defies the Thebian tyrant Creon by burying him.
