Jurek Becker

2차 세계대전, 폴란드의 게토 지역에서 카페를 운영하는 제이콥은 계속 가게를 열지 못하고 있다. 어느 날, 제이콥은 야간 통행 금지를 어긴 죄로 독일군에게 불려간다. 제이콥이 독일군의 본부에서 처벌을 기다리는 동안 소련군이 폴란드의 가까운 지역에서 독일군을 물리쳤다는 소식을 전하는 라디오 방송을 듣게 된다. 운좋게 제이콥은 죽음을 면하고 몇 년만에 듣는 뉴스를 가지고 마을로 돌아온다.제이콥은 기쁜 소식을 필요로 하는 사람들과 그 뉴스를 공유해야 겠다고 생각한다. 그 다음 날, 제이콥은 친구 미샤에게 이 소식을 전하게 되는데 이것 때문에 제이콥이 라디오를 가지고 있다는 소문이 퍼진다. 하지만 라디오 소유는 사형이 적용되는 중죄이다. 그렇지만 제이콥은 거짓으로 연합군이 나찌를 물리치고 진격하고 있다는 뉴스를 중계한다. 이런 희망적인 뉴스는 주민들에게 활기와 희망을 가져다준다. 하지만 제이콥은 자신이 전하는 그 소식 때문에 점점 위험에 처하게 되는데...

After 50 years, Marek remembers his dangerous adventure as a five-year-old, when he and his friend Itzek left a Polish transit camp one night in 1942 – a few days before their evacuation to Auschwitz – to go get the toys they forgot at the ghetto. Based on Becker's personal memories and his 1980 short story "The Wall."

A sensitively told Encounter between a Turkish migrant worker and a woman from East-Berlin, shortly after the fall of the wall - full of incertainty and situational comedy.

An American filmmaker travels to modern day Berlin to make a film based on a real-life incident from 1942 in which 13 Jewish prisoners from a concentration camp were promised freedom if they appeared in a German propaganda film. Unfortunately, the Germans lied. The psychological process undergone by the modern filmmaker while shooting the story provides the basis of this arty and challenging film.

Although members of the Hitler Youth chant anti-Semitic paroles in front of his house during the Purim festival, Rabbi Singer is still profoundly convinced that Germany will stay a safe country for him, his family, and his fellow believers. But several years later, his son David is banned from going to school because he is a Jew. Shortly after, Rabbi Singer and his wife are deported. Now, young David also fears for his life. In constant fear of being detected, he tries to find a way to leave Germany.

One year has passed since Max and Wanda got their divorce. Max has come to the realization that he wants his ex-wife back - no matter what the cost! So he concocts a sneaky plan: he asks Wanda to hide him from the police, who are apparently looking for him. At first, Wanda rejects all his attempts to restart their relationship. But she is soon unable to resist Max's convincing promises and even throws her lover out of the house. But then she discovers Max's lie.

A Jewish ghetto in the east of Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making slow by steady progress towards central Europe. In order to keep his companion in misfortune, Mischa, from risking his life for a few potatoes, he tells him what he heard and announces that he is in possession of a radio - in the ghetto a crime punishable by death. It doesn't take long for word of Jakob's secret to spread - suddenly, there is new hope and something to live for - and so Jakob finds himself in the uncomforting position of having to come up with more and more stories.

Germany in 1943. The Berlin worker Klaus Hartung is deployed as a soldier to the Eastern front during World War II. During a tour, he is captured by a Russian patrol. While in captivity, Hartung comes to the conclusion that he has to come through and actively take part in the effort to end the war. He consents to abduct a German officer together with two Russian soldiers. During their adventurous mission, the men who at first had been enemies, become sincere friends.

A Saxon village in 1792: While the Prussians go against France, the haymaking takes place in the village and the resolute Marthe catches her daughter Ev with the village blacksmith Ruprecht in the hay.