Grenzbeamter
사랑하는 연인 바실리와 아들 알렉시를 키우며 행복한 나날을 보내던 넬리는 바실리가 모스크바에서 교통사고로 사망하면서 커다란 혼란을 겪게 된다. 3년 후, 넬리는 알렉시와 동독 국경을 넘어 서독으로 향한다. 정식 이주를 위해 수용소에서 심사를 받지만, 하나같이 이어지는 바실리에 대한 질문에 넬리는 점점 지쳐간다. 결국, 넬리는 자신에게 호감을 보이는 미국 심사관 존과 정사를 나누고 그를 닦달해 까맣게 몰랐던 사실을 알게 된다. 비밀경찰 정보원으로 활동하던 바실리가 마음을 바꾸고, 서독 비밀 정보국과 공모해서 교통사고와 사망을 위장한 채 어딘가에서 살고 있을 수도 있다는 것이다…
Ein Moritatensänger / Münz-Matthias
The Threepenny Opera proclaims itself "an opera for beggars," and it was in fact an attempt both to satirize traditional opera and operetta and to create a new kind of musical theater based on the theories of two young German artists, composer Kurt Weill and poet-playwright Bert Brecht. The show opens with a mock-Baroque overture, a nod to Threepenny's source, The Beggar's Opera, a brilliantly successful parody of Handel's operas written by John Gay in 1728. In a brief prologue following the overture, a shabby figure comes onstage with a barrel organ and launches into a song chronicling the crimes of the notorious bandit and womanizer Macheath, "Mack the Knife." The setting is a fair in Soho (London), just before Queen Victoria's coronation. In this production, Weill champion HK Gruber led the Ensemble Modern in a performance of Weill's complete original score, the first time it had been heard in Germany in many years. This production was broadcast on German television (3sat).
Unteroffizier Harry Harbolla
Even the military academy can't stop kind-hearted officer Gottfried Engelhardt from seeing the world through rose-colored glasses. Everything in the young GDR is blooming: Engelhardt's career, the socialist state, the black market, and maybe even a chance at love.
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.
