Karola Hattop

A young girl must journey through the seasons to rescue her boyfriend who has been kidnapped by the evil Snow Queen.

For Jenny, in her mid 30s, everything is going great: Her career at the Munich Opera House is going uphill and in her friend Tobias she seems to have found the ideal man. But then the events rush: The new stage designer at the opera proves to be her ex-boyfriend Erik and a pregnancy test turns out to be positive. That's not enough, Jenny's free-spirited mother Jutta lodges with her and Tobias indefinitely. The casual hippy lady soon shakes up the orderly life of the couple. At the same time, Erik Jenny turns his head violently.

Eva has mainly cared for her young son in recent years, but now the charming mid-thirties wants to return to her job as an interior designer. The talented designer applies for the equipment of a hip scene, but does not receive any support from either her busy husband or her retired father. In this emergency, the old childhood friend Lucy comes in, who makes the prototypes for Eva's designs in her small carpentry shop. Even as a substitute father for Eva's little son Jona makes the carpenter a good figure.

The divorced Johanna wants to contract with her new friend Klaus, as she completely unexpectedly met her great ex-love Walter again. Twenty years ago, the renowned professor of literature emigrated to the USA and for the first time returned to his homeland. At that time Johanna had taken on an affair with Walter and still does not know whether her daughter Marie, with whom she subsequently became pregnant, is from him or her former husband. When Marie falls in love with Walter's son Tom, it's high time to find out.

Marvin Feldmann has an unusual job: he works for the "Book of Records". His new order leads the strict and incorruptible record watcher to the Finnish island of Föglö. There is said to be a boy there who can make a stone jump 52 times on the water. Marvin does not have a great desire for the arduous journey, and when the twelve-year-old Elias barely fails in his attempt to set a record, he wants to leave immediately. However, Marvin did not count on the shrewd islanders who want to give the life-threatening boy a second chance - especially Elias' aunt Fanny.

On her 18th birthday, Constanze encounters a highly guarded secret. She discovers in amazement that she has six brothers, who have been transformed into snow-white swans by a careless word from their father on the day of Constanze's birth. Constanze is stunned when suddenly the six swans appear. They explain to her sister that only she alone can curse the curse: for six years Constanze could not speak a single word and has to sew shirts made of stinging nettles. The shirts will be able to turn the swans back into people.

On her 18th birthday, Constanze encounters a highly guarded secret. She discovers in amazement that she has six brothers, who have been transformed into snow-white swans by a careless word from their father on the day of Constanze's birth. Constanze is stunned when suddenly the six swans appear. They explain to her sister that only she alone can curse the curse: for six years Constanze could not speak a single word and has to sew shirts made of stinging nettles. The shirts will be able to turn the swans back into people.

Linda Hessler and her husband Frank have been running a small gourmet restaurant for years. The business is going well, and with his talent, Frank has made a star. But that does not satisfy the ambitious perfectionist: he wants a second star, no matter what he wants. No wonder that the romantically inclined Linda feels increasingly neglected by her workaholic spouse - until she finds a charming admirer in the florist Peer. The passionate dancer brings new life into her life and leaves no stone unturned to win her heart.

Three seasoned women, successful and in the prime of their years, have had enough of the masters of creation. Maria finally leaves her husband Josef, to whom she led the common starred restaurant in Vienna in spite of his affairs during the marriage. The family judge Steffi wants to find a new beginning after their early retirement, and the pharmacist Carola is tired of being the eternal lover of her married friend. The trio travel from Vienna to Saxony, where Maria inherited a small castle-like estate.

Tobias, aged 13, lives in an East German city and has learned to get by on his own. Then Max moves into the neighboring apartment, and he keeps it just like Tobias. He likes to determine how things should go by himself. Without further ado, Tobias decides to pass Max off as his father!

The ambitious business newcomer Marc wants to marry the successful lawyer Sandra. On paper, he is still married to Katrin, from whom he lives separately. The divorce thus appears as a mere formality, but when Katrin says the wrong word in front of the judge at the wrong time, the two spouses receive a second chance against their will.

Summer holidays are beginning for 13 years old Daniel, a boy from East Berlin. He does not know yet that his parents are going to get divorced. They are afraid of Daniel`s reaction, so they have not told him about their decision until now. Together they drive to a village in the mountains. There Daniel finally recognizes the truth about his parents marital problems. When Daniel has an accident, this brings his parents together again, at least for the moment...

Summer holidays are beginning for 13 years old Daniel, a boy from East Berlin. He does not know yet that his parents are going to get divorced. They are afraid of Daniel`s reaction, so they have not told him about their decision until now. Together they drive to a village in the mountains. There Daniel finally recognizes the truth about his parents marital problems. When Daniel has an accident, this brings his parents together again, at least for the moment...

Everyone dreams of a horse - and especially four Kulman family children...

Everyone dreams of a horse - and especially four Kulman family children...

Anne is a sixth grade student. Every school day, with beating hearts, she waits for her to meet Tom in the stairwell to go to school with him, and perhaps there are signs that Tom may return Anne's feelings. The boy is for her something like the first love, which always changes something every day. But more and more Anne has to realize that Tom is interested in another girl, whereby the disappointment with her is great. But when Jens Anne's new companion on the way to school, Anne can overcome her first heartache.

Two best teenage friends spend the summer holidays together in a village. Then a good looking teenage boy appears.

A tale of two youngsters who want to reunite their estranged parents. Because of her work commitments, Mum has to leave the children with their absent father for an extended vacation and so he has to learn how to be a proper Dad to them. Meanwhile, the kids do their best to bring the family back together.

Two young boys are trying to organize a wedding of the father of one of them and the mother of the second.

Two young boys are trying to organize a wedding of the father of one of them and the mother of the second.

Karola Hattop juxtaposes the many media images of confident working women and the men who support them with a naïve reporter who finds out that in practice equal rights are often quite a different matter. Somewhat pushy, he seeks out women at the hairdresser’s and in the maternity wear department, joins functionaries in their cars, crashes wedding parties and sneaks into museum tours for children. A revelatory curiosity full of the casually captured mundane drabness that was often revealed more clearly in student films than in comparable DEFA productions.