Jürgen Hartmann

Julius, an eloquent young museum attendant loved by the people around him, invites his colleagues on a sailing trip on his aristocratic family's boat, but something goes wrong. Julius is not who he seems to be.

1770년, 본에서 평민으로 태어난 루트비히 반 베토벤은 어릴 때부터 엄격한 아버지 밑에서 혹독하게 음악을 공부한다. 루트비히의 아버지는 루트비히를 동시대에 먼저 태어나 이미 유명세를 떨치던 모차르트처럼 만들려고 하고, 루트비히는 힘든 상황에서도 묵묵히 음악적인 재능을 발휘한다. 루트비히는 자신의 재능을 알아본 네페를 스승으로 만나 작곡하는 법을 배우고 스승의 조수로서 궁중 오르간 연주자로 활약하지만 한편으로는 뛰어난 재능에도 불구하고 평민으로 차별당하는 현실에 힘들어한다. 곧 어린 루트비히는 자신의 재능을 사랑하는 귀족을 후원자로 두게 되고 귀족의 딸과 사랑에 빠지는데...

After his return from World War I, there is no more work for Fidelis in his parents' butcher shop in Swabia, Germany. To make a better life for himself and Eva, the former fiancée of a friend who fell in battle, he emigrates to Argus, a town in North Dakota, in the United States. The artist Delphine, in whom Eva will find a friend, also moves there. To relieve Eva's homesickness, Fidelis founds a singing club.

Things could truly be better for regionally successful entrepreneur Manfred Brenner in the mid-1980s. For Brenner, however, there is no reason to worry, because he is firmly counting on a breakthrough with his newly founded company FlowTex. With innovative horizontal drilling systems, he wants to revolutionize underground pipeline construction. But at first the big success remains elusive. He finally succeeds by relying on drilling systems and orders that don't even exist, piling up loan upon loan and leasing contract upon leasing contract. He uses charm and persuasion, and for a long time no one notices that Brenner is building a fraudulent consortium of companies with just a few helpers and a lot of falsified documents.

Life on the land is undergoing a fundamental change: the villages are dying out, people go away, the houses remain empty. Frank is facing a major change: the decision to move to the city for his family the only future promising solution. A tragicomic film about a family between techno and brass bands and a place between nature reserve and piglets factory.