Even today, Mathias Kneißl (1875-1902) is considered a national hero in the collective memory of Bavaria. During his lifetime, he was the most wanted criminal in Bavaria and even Prince Regent Luitpold was reported daily on the hunt for the lawbreaker report. Again and again Kneißl's story has occupied the Bavarian artists: his life was retold in folk songs and murders, sung in ballads, filmed and treated in various plays. In his feature film version, the Bavarian filmmaker Marcus H. Rosenmüller relies on a rapid staging, opulent images and a moving love story.
In this black comedy set in small-town Bavaria, 11-year-old Sebastian thinks you can never be too young to be a murderer. He's convinced that he killed his mother on the day he was born and is certain he's already been condemned to purgatory. Deciding he might be able to knock off a few years of his sentence by doing good deeds, Sebastian sets out to find a wife for his father Lorenz. When Lorenz and Sebastian's schoolteacher Veronika fall madly in love with each other, it seems the heavens must be smiling. There's just one hitch: Veronika is married.
When wealthy college student Richard Oetker is kidnapped and held for a hefty ransom, state police officer Georg Kufbach becomes obsessed with bringing the kidnapper to justice. This film is based on a true story.
Biologist Karin Aich hopes to reintroduce wolves in Bavaria, making many enemies, including her own neighbors and family, along the way. One of her few supporters is a girl who befriends a feral wolfdog.
A not so clever guy called Bertie with a Opel Manta (a low budget European sports-coupe from the '80s) gets competition in a street race from a guy with a fast Mercedes, and another slick guy with a Ferrari tries to get his hands on Bertie's girlfriend.
In this tragic melodrama, a man who has been hiding his Nazi past has it come back to haunt him when his hippie daughter, whom he disapproves of, comes back to bond with her daughter, whom he's been raising. Meanwhile, he and his drinking buddy, a beer-truck driver, go on a jaunt to Poland to recover some gold fillings he had hidden years ago during the time when he worked in a concentration camp. The truck driver inadvertently leaves a filling lying around at home, and his mother immediately recognizes it for what it is. When she confronts him, he claims that "Jews don't mean anything to me" and she must then reveal his Jewish heritage to him: she was a housekeeper in a Jewish household and he was a child there whom she adopted during the Holocaust in order to save his life. The driver then confronts the wily old Nazi, who conceives a brutal scheme which will save his cozy life at the expense of the reputations of the driver and his granddaughter.
디디는 배운 것 없고 어리숙하지만 정직하게 살아가는 평범한 사람이다. 트럭 운전 면허에 간신히 합격하여 운전수로 일을 하게 된 그는 어느 날, 화학 화물이 든 드럼통을 프랑스로 운반하는 일을 맡게 된다. 디디는 트럭에 싣고 가는 화물에 일어나는 모든 일에 대해서 책임을 지는 조건을 단 계약서에 서명을 한 후 일을 시작한다. 한편 화학 폐기물을 인수하려고 대기하고 있던 쓰레기 처리업자 레온과 마르셀은 경찰이 따라 오는 것을 보고 디디가 타고 오는 트럭을 중간에 멈춰 세우려고 한다. 하지만 드럼통 속에 못쓰는 기름이 들은 것으로만 생각하고 있는 디디는 마르셀의 말을 듣지 않는데...
