Corinna Harfouch

Basilio lives in an abandoned villa in Sicily with his mysterious elderly mentor Casimir who is to help him find true poetry. In this villa, he tries to translate the symbols of his inner world into music. One day, Basilio meets equally strange Karla whose life already seems mysteriously intertwined with his. The symbolism of the world around them leads to an unexpected discovery.

On a beautiful spring day, a small village full of eccentric characters wake up to hear Selma has had a premonition: she dreamt of a rare animal again – an okapi. All the village knows this means someone is about to die. Selma’s granddaughter, 11-year-old Luise, and her best friend Martin look on as fears of being the victim of the prophecy throw the village into a frenzy of confusion. But when the premonition comes true, it is young Luise’s world that is suddenly turned upside down. Ten years on from the event that changed her life, Luise lives a quiet life working in a bookstore, until the arrival of an unexpected guest enables her to rediscover how powerful and life-giving love can be.

Eva is struggling to live happily with her autistic son Felix. The two are inseparable, but Felix's frequent outbursts of anger, the constant problems at school and his fear of strangers are almost impossible for Eva to cope with. One day when Felix accidentally seriously injured Eva, suddenly nothing is the same as it used to be.

The contrasts between Marlen (Corinna Harfouch) and Fynn (newcomer Daniel Sträßer) couldn't be any more extreme if they tried: Marlen's apartment is packed to the rafters with objects too valuable or important to throw away, while Fynn plans to go through life with only 100 things in his possession. The fact that they can't keep their hands off each other and end up falling in love holds true to the old adage that opposites really do attract...

Una comedia marxista de vampiros en la que los Monty Python, Kaurismaki y Wes Anderson se dan la mano. Es 1928 y Lyovischka, trabajador/actor soviético, escapa de su país tras la Revolución (y tras sus roces con Eisenstein y la censura) y recala en una mansión en el Mar Báltico donde vive la aristócrata Octavia. Un romance improbable triangulado por el extraño asistente personal de la millonaria, en el que se prueba que cuando Marx habla en El capital de “vampiros capitalistas” no se trata de una metáfora.

East Germany, in autumn 1999. Gudrun Pfaff is about to turn sixty when she finds out that the orphanage she grew up in is being sold to turn into a hotel, and she is willing to do anything to stop it.

Tanja, que tiene poco más de 50 años, ve como se presentan nuevos desafíos profesionales, ya que está perdiendo pedidos debido al aumento de los negocios en Internet.

Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilliantly assembled this film about the life and work of the exceptional artist Christoph Schlingensief, who died in 2010.

Es el 60 cumpleaños de Lara, a quien no le faltan motivos para celebrarlo: su hijo Viktor va a dar el concierto de piano más importante de su carrera. Ella fue quien proyectó y guió su trayectoria musical, pero llevan varias semanas sin hablar y nada parece indicar que Lara será bienvenida en su debut como intérprete profesional. Sin pensárselo dos veces, compra todas las entradas que quedan a la venta y las distribuye entre cuantos se va encontrando. Pero cuanto más se esfuerza para que la velada sea un éxito, más se descontrola todo.

Hamburgo, St. Pauli, Nochevieja. Oskar Wrobel dirige un club de música en un antiguo hospital al borde de Reeperbahn. Mientras se disparan los fuegos artificiales en las calles de St. Pauli, él prepara la gran fiesta final: el club tiene que cerrar. Afortunadamente, no hay tiempo para pensarlo porque el caos está entrando en su sala de estar, mientras el infierno se desata en el club. La película, basada en la novela de Tino Hanekamp, ​​fue filmada con cientos de extras que asistieron a una fiesta de tres noches de la vida real.

On an impulse, 60 year old Charlotte leaves her husband stranded at a gas station in the middle of nowhere. A deep and driven instinct has her setting off, away from her old mundane life as a grandmother, a mother, a wife, and towards a new and different life. Little does she know that her granddaughter, Jo, a wonderfully whimsical child, is hiding in the back of the car. Charlotte’s spontaneous escape triggers off a journey, not only for her and her granddaughter, but also for her husband Paul and daughter Alex. As Paul and Alex pursue Charlotte and Jo across the countryside, they stumble into their own mishaps, self discoveries and emotional confrontations.

Tercera entrega de "Fack ju Göhte", que fue la película alemana más taquillera del año 2013 en su país. Tras salir de la cárcel, un ladrón de bancos se convierte en maestro, lo que no le librará de encontrarse en medio de una serie de locas aventuras.

An award-winning performer trio and a sophisticated story characterize the thrilling TV thriller "The Missing Woman". From the naive betrayed to the tough revenge angel Corinna Harfouch turns into the lead role. At her side, Ulrich Matthes silently plays a professional killer, who does not look at the cards. Never laying an excuse, is the Dortmund crime scene commissar Jörg Hartmann in the role of a shameless swindler. Because all three want to cash in on the life insurance, begins a game of fraud and extortion, in which also the red light milieu interferes.

Delving deep into the soul of one of Austria’s most infamous real-life convicts, Jack is a fascinating, unprejudiced look at the path to redemption and the obstacles that bar the way.

Katharina Bruckner, 50, has to deal with many serious cases in the youth welfare office. Even at home she is under stress: Her husband, a surgeon, she sees arm in arm with a younger. And her daughter, who has to go to Marrakech for work, quickly incurs her grandson. In this situation, school psychologist Schubert asks her for help: The city-renowned architect Bremer has appeared with him with her seven-year-old son because of its over-activity in school. The boy looks scared, claims that the Bremer is not his mother, suddenly seems to have disappeared.

The film tells different stories in a kind of parallel Germany about love, affection and hatred.

One night, a shooting star appears, whizzing through outer space towards the moon. Moon Man seizes his chance, grabs the speeding comet by the tail and hitches a ride to earth. This 'attack from outer space' sets the alarm bells ringing in the Presidential Headquarters. While escaping the President and his soldiers, Moon Man sets off on a long journey and marvels at the many wonders the earth has to offer – and he realizes how much children love and need him.

Eleven moving dates, eight friends: Philipp, Wiebke, Jessica, Maria, Swantje, Michael, Thomas, Dina – all in their twenties and mutually lonesome. And always searching: For a new city, a new job, an own apartment, a new, or even an old love. The search is never-ending, and so they repeatedly find themselves at a ritual gathering: someone moving. Boxes are shifted from one side of Berlin to the other, or the length and breadth of Germany, from one abode to the next as one life is exchanged for another. In 3 ZIMMER/KÜCHE/BAD, director Dietrich Brüggemann portrays existences in which relationships, social networks and backdrops are in a constant state of flux; where best friends are the only, and therefore the most valuable constant. Humorous sketches of the self-conception of a generation for whom moving has become the symbol of a life on the go.

Marko tiene treinta y tantos años y acaba de publicar un libro. Desde su antigua vida universitaria pudo vivir en el centro de Berlín, debido a su falta de complicidad con la vida burguesa que llevan a cabo sus padres y sus ganas de enfocar su vida hacia otro extremo. No aguanta a sus padres, aunque todos los años pasan juntos dos o tres días para que disfruten de su nieto. Marko adora a su hijo y por ello no quiere separarle de la fmailia y de aquello que significa para un niño, por ello invita a pasar el fin de semana a casa a su familia.

En Josephine, una tímida estudiante de Arte Dramático, no repara nadie excepto su madre y su hermana minusválida, que viven con ella. Su vida da un giro inesperado cuando un famoso director de teatro la elige para ser la protagonista de un arriesgado y ambicioso montaje, “Camille”, en el que sólo participarán estudiantes. A partir de ese momento, Josephine se enfrenta a un proceso de transformación: por un lado, intenta dejar de lado sus traumas y frustraciones para adaptarse a lo que le pide el exigente director, que, además la manipula sin compasión. Por otro, empieza a interiorizar el personaje de Camille, dando así rienda suelta a la sensualidad y feminidad que siempre ha escondido dentro de una concha protectora.

The recruiter Tom Moreno (Stephan Luca) are familiar with women and how they, after you won it for themselves, going on at the latest after the third time back to. As ELISA (Marleen Lohse), the new art director of his agency, doesn't want to exit on this scam, Tom falls into a crisis of meaning. But even his friends have to contend with their problems: Vince (Oliver Fleischer) finds his wife in Tom's bed. By Tom's mother (Corinna Harfouch), Luke (Johannes Allmayer) learns that sex is not a solution. Tom's roommate Paule (Anna Thalbach) fell into a tie holder (Michael Lott) and mutated by the buddy type to the Femme fatale. His Chief Rolf created him (Armin Rohde) also still, that the Agency is virtually broke. Tom starts for the first time, to reconsider his old proven lifestyle.

Alemania /// Simon, un joven médico alemán, que vive y trabaja en Marsella, no da ninguna noticia. Su apartamento está vacío. Valérie, su madre, está desesperada. Ella no entiende el motivo de su desaparición. Por lo tanto le pide a Jens, el ex novio de Simon, que vaya con ella a Marsella a ayudarla a llevar a cabo esta investigación.

In no less than 180 minutes the film showed frenzied dashes of wild colors and idyllic natural images, of wonderful music and powerful lyricism, which, among others was flawlessly recited by star actors such as Corinna Harfouch, Angela Winkler and Ulrich Matthes. The work treats of the consciousness-defining echoing thunder of modern rock music, of the rock inscriptions of the ancient Egyptians, of the Merseburg magic spells, the author’s childhood impressions, in the latter’s homeland in the forests of the Upper Palatinate, and the ghosts of the Nazi era, who today continue to haunt us in the most vivid manner.

Der beliebte Pädagoge Alex Berger (Brandt) steht entgeistert vor seinen Bücherbergen: Eine Schülerin, mit der er Sex hatte,wurde erschlagen am See der brandenburgischen Kleinstadt aufgefunden, nun plant das Kripoteam (Lavinia Wilson, Peter Lerchbaumer) einen Massen-Gentest. Berger beichtet seiner Frau (Corinna Harfouch) den angeblich einmaligen Seitensprung, mit dem Mord habe er aber nichts zu tun. Bergers Familie droht an der Belastung zu zerbrechen… Die Auflösung steht im Hintergrund, der Film konzentriert sich auf das Drama im Hause Berger. Fabelhaft: die dynamische Kamera und das auch in kleinen Rollen nuanciert agierende Ensemble.

A comedy about aging, youth and other eternal truths. Of all days, precisely on her fiftieth birthday, Julia has to experience that age makes you invisible. Frustrated, she goes shopping and makes an acquaintance, spontaneously deciding to spend the evening with this stranger, rather than with the guests of her own birthday party. They wait for her in a restaurant, all dressed up and groomed, lively debating the years that have passed. The truths and wisdom of Julia's closest friends on aging and growing old are drowned increasingly in sufficient quantities of alcohol. In the mean time, on her eightieth birthday, Leonie, sulking over the loss of youth, is rebelling against her daughter, the senior citizen's home, conventions, and old age in general - and joyfully sabotaging the party in her honor.

Set in Vietnam and Germany, This Is Love centers on Chris and the nine-year-old Jenjira on the run from the mafia. Together with his friend Holger, Chris bought the young Vietnamese girl's freedom from human traffickers – without actually being able to pay. Meanwhile, the female detective Maggie learns after 16 years why her husband up and left her without a word. These two worlds come together when Chris is accused of murder and Maggie is charged with interrogating him.....

En Whisky with Vodka, gracias al cual Andreas Dresen ganó el premio al mejor director en Karlovy Vary, un maduro actor se enfrenta a sus limitaciones durante el rodaje de una comedia. El guión es obra de Wolfgang Kohlhaase, que ya había trabajado con Dresen en 2005 en Verano en Berlín (premio al mejor guión en el Festival de San Sebastián). Como en aquella película, existe una cierta sensación de melancolía detrás de todo lo que pasa. Algunos de los temas que Dresen y Kohlhaase exploran en Whisky with Vodka, como el envejecimiento y la importancia de vivir el momento, ya que puede no volver a presentarse jamás, está en línea con una película con la que Dresen tuvo mucho éxito en Una Cierta Mirada de Cannes, En el séptimo cielo.

Narra el drama de una familia tras el suicidio de Alexander, su hijo menor. Un año después, la madre (Corinna Harfouch) contrata al prestigioso pintor Max Hollander (Josef Bierbichler) para que haga un retrato del hijo perdido y de la hija mayor (Karoline Herfurth). A partir de ese momento empiezan a salir a la luz diversos y dolorosos problemas familiares que hasta entonces habían permanecido ocultos.

Martin Karow es Dj Ickarus, un disc-jockey y productor de electro en la cresta de la ola. Sus noches transcurren en clubs de techno alrededor del mundo y sus días de aeropuerto en aeropuerto. Le acompaña Mathilde, su manager y novia. Ambos se encuentran en plena producción del próximo álbum de Ickarus cuando, tras una de sus actuaciones, Martin acaba en los servicios de urgencia de un hospital psiquiátrico berlinés debido a los excesos con las drogas. Durante los días que deberá pasar internado, continúa trabajando en su disco, pero su situación personal comienza a resultar demasiado frustrante. La compañía discográfica no parece demasiado interesada en publicar su trabajo y, tras escaparse del hospital, se entrega a un orgiástico fin de semana en compañía de una de sus fans. La espiral autodestructiva en la Martin se ha situado parece no tener fin y, de nuevo, ingresará en el hospital, esta vez por propia voluntad.

19-year-old NVA soldier, Alex Karow, is sent to the West German-East German border in May 1974, shortly after Willy Brandt's resignation and during the World Cup. The army is dominated by brutal rituals, tolerated or used by the officers. Alex understands that the ideals of balance, democracy and human dignity are propaganda. The question of what happens when the other appears in the sights of the Kalashnikov occupies the soldiers day and night, interrupted almost exclusively by the games of the World Cup with the historic encounter between the GDR and the FRG. Alex draws strength from his love for Christine, a confident tractor driver who lives in the neighbouring village. Christine encourages him not to do what his father expects, but to follow his dream of becoming a photographer. But when her brother sends Alex's photo from the border fortifications to the West, everything gets out of control...

For a moment the otherwise proper station master Thomas Hudetz is distracted by Anna's flirtatious behavior. This results in a catastrophic train accident with countless deaths. Thomas and Anna lie to escape blame, and this lie about their shared guilt forges their bond , changes and ends yet more lives.

Francia, siglo XVIII. Adaptación del famoso best-seller de Patrick Süskind. Jean Baptiste Grenouille nació en medio del hedor de los restos de pescado de un mercado y fue abandonado por su madre en la basura. Las autoridades se hicieron cargo de él y lo mandaron a un hospicio. Creció en un ambiente hostil; nadie le quería, porque había en él algo excepcional: carecía por completo de olor. Estaba, sin embargo, dotado de un extraordinario sentido del olfato. A los veinte años, después de trabajar en una curtiduría, consiguió trabajo en casa del perfumista Bandini, que le enseñó a destilar esencias. Pero él vivía obsesionado con la idea de atrapar otros olores: el olor del cristal, del cobre, pero, sobre todo, el olor de algunas mujeres.

The German filmmaker Marcus Attila Vetter has a Turkish father, Cahit Cubuk, and he goes to visit him for the first time in this documentary. He travels to the Anatolian village of Cubuk Koye, where his 72-year-old father lives with his wife and two daughters. A film crew that got there ahead of him interviews the hopeful father, who wonders what his son will be like. "If he's anything like me, he'll be warm-hearted. If he's more like his mother, the prospects are not very good." Marcus films the Turkish landscape and talks with his newly found family, who all cry many tears. Marcus's father feels that he had no choice back then but to leave Germany, and his halfsisters explain how much they missed their father when he was away. In the meantime, we hear passages read in voice-over from the diary of Marcus's mother Gerlinde, from the time that she was with Cahit - how they met, fell in love and ultimately broke up.

Michael y Bruno son medio hermanos, pero son totalmente diferentes. Sólo tienen en común una madre que nunca se ocupó de ellos y que siempre los dejó al cuidado de sus abuelas para seguir pasándolo bien. Michael es un biólogo molecular introvertido que no parece interesarse por otra cosa que no sea la investigación genética. Bruno es esclavo de sus fantasías sexuales y paga por hacerlas realidad. Todo cambia cuando los dos descubren el amor a los treinta y tantos años. Michael reencuentra a Annabelle, su novia de la infancia, y Bruno conoce a Christiane que comparte y disfruta de sus obsesiones sexuales. Sin embargo, el destino les juega una mala pasada: de repente, las dos mujeres enferman gravemente. Aturdidos por la noticia, Bruno y Michael tendrán que decidir si, a pesar de la situación, vale la pena mantener la relación con sus parejas o si es preferible volver a sus solitarias vidas.

The film portrays the final days of the most famous Czech authoress, Božena Nìmcová, who in the mid-19th century dared to live a life free of social constraints.

A killer for the Russian Mafia in Vienna wants to retire and write a book about his passion - cooking. The mafia godfather suspects treason.

Bibí Blocksberg ha pasado demasiado tiempo pensando en la magia, y muy poco tiempo en sus estudios. Así que la obligan a pasar sus vacaciones de verano en el colegio de internos del castillo de Altenberg. Pronto, se hace amiga de Elea, una compañera que está en silla de ruedas. Cuando escucha la leyenda de los búhos azules y sus poderes milagrosos, decide ayudar a su amiga, aunque el código de las brujas prohíba expresamente intervenir en el destino humano. Pero Bibí no es la única que sabe de estos mágicos poderes, también lo sabe su archienemiga la bruja Rabia von Katzenstein.

Berlín, abril de 1945. En las calles de Berlín se libra una encarnizada batalla. Hitler y sus fieles se han atrincherado en un búnker. Entre ellos se encuentra Traudl Junge, la secretaria personal del Führer. En el exterior, la situación se recrudece. A pesar de que Berlín ya no puede resistir más, Hitler se niega a abandonar la ciudad y, acompañado de Eva Braun, prepara su despedida.

A great mosaic, a labyrinth of scenes, dialogue splinters, interviews, portraits of people surrounding Hamlet and wanting to be part of his story.

La alegría invade a los habitantes de un lugar llamado Neustadt: Bibi acaba de salvar a dos niños de una muerte segura con un poco de magia un tanto involuntaria. Su madre Bárbara, una bruja de prestigio, se siente orgullosa de ella.

A couple of slackers find an antique dagger and manage to free the gorgeous female warrior was imprisoned in it by an evil spell. An evil sorcerer is not happy by this turn of events and determines to possess both the blade and the warrior through a sacrificial ceremony. The two heroes manage to rescue the damsel in distress and defeat the wizard and his minions by employing skills mastered through hours of video game play.

A holocaust survivor now living as a respected writer in Manhattan is the only person who can identify a suspected Nazi back in his native Austria. When a beautiful reporter eager for a scoop tries to lure him back, Geburtig must decide whether to confront his past.

Three elderly ladies, Carla, Lilli and Meta, who, after their hard earned holiday money is stolen by bank robbers, decide to steal from their local bank. Along the way their are romances, arguments and a few other unexpected surprises.

Katja and Johann are two teenagers who are the best of friends. They spend most of their time in a ruined fort, fantasizing about an ideal world. Their relationship becomes threatened when Johann is taken ill with leukemia, and Katja's mother is undecided on whether to stay with her husband or leave with her lover.

Berlin, Germany. A cruel murder took place in an appartment building. Somebody bit off quite a piece of the victim's penis, who then, of course, lost a lot of blood, before being struck down at the head. Leading investigator Bernhard Kominka, being in stress due to a mentally retarded son and a problematic wife, seems to be the only one to see a lady in a red coat. After a while, his theory of her being the murderer may prove to be true, but the Cop also kind of fell in love with this new, interesting person in both of his lives: professional and private as well. Borders dissolve. His decision may be disastrous in any way.

The actors Martin and Maria have not been a couple for a long time, but they didn't get very far without each other. While he spends his time with alcohol, numerous affairs and reveries about his own film, she is bored with her young lover. When Maria surprisingly finds the loot of a bank robbery in the trash, she takes the opportunity to get rid of her lover, only to run into her ex-husband shortly afterwards. The old passion flares up again and Martin suddenly sees the chance to finally realize his long-held script.

Dos jóvenes enfermos terminales dedicen vivir con intensidad y alocamiento sus últimos días, saltándose todas las normas. La historia narrada combina de modo singular drama y comedia. Y presenta situaciones muy disparadas, que provocan la risa. Aunque los anhelos más íntimos de los protagonistas se revelan limitados -ver el mar, que uno de ellos no conoce-, el alemán Thomas Jahn logra impregnarlos de entidad dramática. Esta atrevida película ganó el premio a la mejor película en el festival de Sitges de 1997.

"The Devil's General" - A post war Germany pick up the involuntarily knowledge about the "black hole" of the 1950s.

A thriller directed by Hermine Huntgeburth.

Harry Kowa (Götz Gorge) era agente de policía hasta que se vio envuelto en un duro tiroteo y fue expulsado. Ahora trabaja como guardaespaldas VIP de su amigo el Dr. Sander, un político que se encuentra en plena investigación sobre exportaciones de alta tecnología a Oriente Próximo. Después de que Sander le cuente el contenido de las investigaciones, es disparado. Kowa reacciona muy tarde, pero dispara a alguien que apuntaba a Sander. Sander sobrevive al disparo pero Kowa es arrestado inmediatamente por haber disparado a un agente de policía infiltrado. Pronto descubrirá que las cosas no son lo que parecen. Pero de momento, encerrado en una cárcel, no puede hacer nada. (FILMAFFINITY)

El doctor de la prisión Lucy le dice a Edgar, un asesino con la menor cantidad de escrúpulos en la historia del país, que solo le quedan algunos días de vida. Él toma a su rehén y se escapa.

Berlín Oriental, otoño de 1961. Sophie y Konrad se han propuesto huir juntos al Berlín occidental. Sophie logra burlar la vigilancia, pero Konrad es sorprendido por un coche militar y no puede escapar. A partir de ese momento, la vida de ambos sigue cursos totalmente distintos. En casi 30 años ellos sólo se ven cuatro veces. Sin embargo, durante la larga noche del 9 al 10 de noviembre de 1989 el muro de Berlín es derribado...

A psychodrama based on the criminal activities of the former STASI (state security police) in the now defunct German Democratic Republic.

A gardener decides to exact revenge on the men he believes to be responsible for the death of his mentally disturbed wife.

Charlie & Louise – Das doppelte Lottchen is a German children's film directed by Joseph Vilsmaier in 1994, starring Corinna Harfouch. It is a film adaptation of the novel Das doppelte Lottchen by Erich Kästner.

Winter 1968. Historian Dr. Dallow is released from prison. He is still trying to cope with and understand why he was put behind bars for 21 months for defamation of the state. His supposed "crime:" for five minutes he accompanied a cabaret chanson on the piano. The film shows what "ordinary socialism" was like, letting the audience feel the threat under which the people in the GDR had to live over many years.

The time is the French Revolution; the place is the village of Travers, ensconsed in neutral Switzerland. Prussian aesthete Herman Beyer is on the verge of divorcing wife Corinna Harfouch. Radical writer Uwe Kokisch, Corinna's lover, hopes to find a way of smoothing out animosities. What follows, however, is a nonstop drinking binge. The film subliminally addresses the then-prevalent issue of a divided Germany. Whether or not it succeeds is unimportant; Treffen in Travers (Reunion in Travers) has proven to be a crowd pleaser wherever it has been shown.

El suizo Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827), especialista en educación experimental, sentó las bases de la educación primaria universal primaria y desarrolló teorías y técnicas educativas todavía vigentes. Una etapa importante y crítica de su vida la pasó en un convento abandonado, donde enseñó a los niños pobres de las aldeas del cantón francés de Suiza.

The year 1933: Successful actress Maria Rheine is in love with her Jewish colleague Mark Löwenthal. When the Nazis implement the racist Nuremberg Laws, their relationship is severely endangered. Defiant Maria decides to stay together with Mark and ends her promising career: She assumes a Jewish identity and continues to work under the name Manja Löwenthal. She and Mark perform at the Jewish Theatre in Berlin, until they become victims of an intrigue: Their colleague Judith, who has a crush on Mark, denounces them to the secret police.

This biographical film is set in 1937, with Fallada suffering the effects of living under a microscope. The film details his decline, as he is intermittently imprisoned and threatened in order to motivate him to write for the Fatherland. Even the attention of his kind, patient wife and loving children begin to feel oppressive to him. This is one of the few films to take a serious, in-depth look at the tribulations of a creative artist pulled in all different directions by the real world.

Yasemin is a 17-year old Turkish girl who lives with her parents near Hamburg in Germany. While her mother and father accept that Yasemin has her own German friends, they also expect her to honor the traditions of their country of origin. The arrival of Jan, a German student aged 21, throws this situation into conflict.

A story spanning three generations, from 1871 to 1945. When Gustav Wengler, a farmer’s son, returns from the Franco-German war in 1871, he goes to work for a precision mechanics and optical company, where he soon becomes a master craftsman. Wengler loyally promises the owner on his deathbed that his sons and grandsons will also stand by the company.

1942. The members of the Voß family, mother, two daughters, a daughter-in-law, and a son-in-law, are living in a house at the river. A fellow soldier of son Paul, who fights at the eastern front, delivers his greetings and an embroidered Russian blouse for Emmi, Paul′s wife. Daughter Agnes, whose husband is also fighting in the war, receives a fur vest from the junior partner who is stalking her. Obviously, the vest is also loot from the eastern front. When the family receives news that Emmi′s husband has been killed in action, the war finally enters the house at the river. Emmi commits suicide while Agnes′s husband returns as a cripple from the war front. At home, he has to learn what a price his wife had to pay for the "Russian fur".