2차 대전 후 독일의 어느 탄광촌. 아버지 없이 자라난 13살 소년 '마테스'에겐 같은 마을 출신의 축구선수 '란'이 영웅이자 아버지 같은 존재다. 그러던 어느 날, 러시아 포로수용소에 갇혀 있던 마테스의 아버지가 풀려나 가족의 품으로 돌아온다. 하지만 힘겨운 포로 생활로 심신이 피폐해진 아버지는 강박적이고 독단적인 행동으로 가족들과 갈등만 키워간다. 그러던 중, 그토록 기다리던 스위스 월드컵이 시작되고 역전에 역전을 거듭하는 파란 속에서 결승전에 진출한 대표팀. 그러자 냉담했던 아버지는 승리를 꿈꾸는 ‘마테스’를 데리고 베른으로 향하는데…
Kripobeamter in Hamburg
Set during the rise of the Nazi regime, Elisabeth Maurer and Hans Wieland enjoy successful careers as actors in Berlin. Confident in her career, Elisabeth, who is Jewish, ignores the advice of a colleague to leave Germany in the face of increasing anti-Semitism. Believing that he can protect her if she becomes his wife, Hans convinces Elisabeth to marry him. In the following years, as Hans's career thrives, Elisabeth awaits the end of the Nazi terror which bars her from public life. When the situation worsens in 1938 with the Kristallnacht pogrom, Elisabeth decides to leave the country, but Hans, who still believes he can protect her, convinces her to stay with him.
Herr Januschko (uncredited)
Vera Meiners' life was sweet but unfortunately for her, it was not to last. Her husband, Jan, left her after she met a former lover in a harmless friendly meeting. Forced to resume her disrupted medical career, she worked in a Swiss clinic but, without the knowledge of the chief surgeon, Vera ordered a risky operation to be performed and was thereafter fired. Penniless, she then works in Spanish nightclubs in order to provide for herself and her child. After many years, she runs into her friend Frank again in one of these nightclubs...
The story of the stormy relationship between King Friedrich Wilhelm and his son, who later became known as King Frederick the Great of Prussia.
Siedler Schmidelka
Directed by Carl Froelich
