Jan Niklas

Summer Solstice is a collection of love stories about, and for, people of all different ages and generations. Each character's tale connects, weaving in and out of the others, mirroring and countering them so that, as the long hot summer draws to its close, each is forced to examine their lives and decide to whom their loyalties lie or else risk loosing everything they hold so dear.

It's true that a hotel can hardly look more impressive and be more beautifully situated than Rhives Castle, but all beginnings are difficult. The young manager Carrie, who wants to lead the house to new splendor, has to realize this as well. That's why she worries a lot when she realizes that she is pregnant. What will her financier and life partner Sam say about this? As a newspaper publisher, he has his hands full trying to dissuade bestselling author Alexia White from suing for defamation: one of his employees accused her of plagiarism. The writer has it in her hands to financially destroy him and Carrie. Carrie's jealousy and the pressure from his bank don't make Sam's negotiations with the woman whose honor has been violated any easier.

An unmarried 18 year-old Amish girl is charged with the murder of her infant child.

When Elfrida Philips abandons London for a country village, she settles in quickly. She is very poor, but has a tiny cottage, her four-legged friend Horace, and friendships of good neighbors. Tragedy upsets her newfound tranquillity, and she takes refuge in a rambling house with a new gentleman friend in Corrydale. But the group proves to be greater than the sum of its ill-fitting parts, and as the solstice passes, and as Christmas approaches, the healing power of love, begins to work its magic. (Filmed at Dunrobin Castle, Golspie, Sutherland)

A feature film about the life and death of the famous Bavarian actor Walter Sedlmayr, who was murdered in 1990 and who tried all his life to hide his homosexual tendencies from the public. The life story is told from the perspective of his professional environment and - sometimes in a documentary style - his fellow actors report on him. His sexual preferences in the BDSM area are also discussed.

Trixi Jancik leads a risky double life. At home, she is an obedient housewife. But when she puts on a disguise and goes to the racetrack to indulge in her secret passion, she catches a glimpse of a better life. Although she blows her grocery money, she has tasted the kind of luxury she can normally only dream about. A minor squabble at home brings the situation to a head and marks a turning point in her life: Trixi fixes her husband a lethal cocktail of pills.

Tracy Garret's a cop and after an incident that left one person dead, she's invited by her father to spend sometime with him in Berlin. While they were out having dinner, her father's shot. She is then informed by the German inspector assigned to her father's case that her father's a CIA operative. She then decides to investigate the case...

Prince Victor looks in vain for a swan which was wounded by one of his servants. Instead he discovers a beautiful girl with golden hair who has an arrow in her shoulder. She is dumb and can't explain her origin. He falls immediately for her. The girl quickly recovers, but disappears mysteriously.

Psychotherapist Katharina welcomes a new patient, Alex Neumann. Soon she also learns to know him on a more private basis. But when two of her colleagues, who had love affairs with their patients, are killed, she fears that Alex might by the murderer. She's torn between love and fear.

한 집안의 4대에 걸친 서사극으로 칠레의 정치적 격동기를 배경으로 했다. 쿠테타로 희생된 대통령의 가정, 한 사람의 남편, 가장으로서의 그의 몰락과 붕괴를 보여준다. 정치가의 딸 클라라(메릴 스트립)는 심령의 능력을 타고 났다. 그녀는 언니 로사가 독살당하자 로사의 약혼자였던 에스테반(제레미 아이언스)과 결혼한다. 그러나 에스테반은 결혼 후에도 바람을 피워 가르시아(빈센트 갈로)라는 아들을 낳아오고 성격은 점점 포악해진다. 그는 딸 블랑카(위노나 라이더)가 인디언 혈통의 사회주의자 페드로와 사귄다는 사실을 알고는 딸의 애인을 죽이려고까지 한다. 더 이상 견디지 못한 클라라는 딸 브랑카를 데리고 에스테반 곁을 떠난다. 그 사이 블랑카는 페드로(안토니오 반데라스)와 결혼해 예쁜 딸을 낳고 살지만 사회주의자라는 이유로 군부에 수감되는데...

In 1959, a young Soviet musician risks everything to pursue his newfound love of American rock 'n' roll.

In the not-too-distant future Berlin is shocked by a series of spectacular suicides; a policeman's investigations lead him to a beautiful, enigmatic woman and the revelation of a sinister plot to manipulate the population through mass hypnosis.

In Germany, an old man attacks another old man and is arrested. The attacker refuses to speak. A female lawyer is appointed to him. She discovers that the attacker has numbers tattooed on his arm and the attacked man was a German officer.

Story of Anna Anderson, who claimed to be Anastasia Romanov, the only surviving daughter of the Czar and Czarina of Russia.

레들은 선생의 추천으로 사관학교에 진학하고 쿠비니와 친해져 그의 누이 카타린과도 알게 된다. 세월이 흘러 중위가 된 레들은 주위의 인정을 받고 로덴 대령의 신임도 얻는다. 그는 사창가를 출입하거난 반정부적인 불만을 늘어놓는 동료들과는 달리 상관의 명령에 충성한다. 레들이 중령이 되었을 때, 첩보활동을 위해 제국 중심지에서 일하게 되지만, 자신의 일에만 충실할 뿐 다른 군인들에게는 눈의 가시같은 존재가 된다. 그런데 군내부의 정치 싸움에서 진 로덴 대령이 이러한 레들을 적국러시아의 첩자로 만들어 황실의 희생양으로 삼으려 한다. 이를 눈치챈 레들은 정치가들을 증오하며 자포자기하여 평생 우정을 준 쿠비니의 권총으로 자살한다.

1983 play. A British woman falls for a German prisoner of war, despite the fact that her fiancée was killed by Germans during the Second World War.

A woman enlists a man who claims he is gay to accompany her on a long drive to a feminist conference in Munich.

While investigating the death of a friend and fellow cop, Los Angeles police officer Barney Caine stumbles across evidence that Nazis created a synthetic alternative to gasoline during World War II. This revelation has the potential to end the established global oil industry, making the formula a very valuable and dangerous piece of information. Eventually, Caine must contend with oil tycoon Adam Steiffel, who clearly has his own agenda regarding the formula.

A dramatization of the incident in 1972 when Arab terrorists broke into the Olympic compound in Munich and murdered 11 Israeli athletes.

Based on the best-selling novel by Nobel-laureate Heinrich Böll, this drama is a passionate indictment of Catholicism. Hans Schnier (Helmut Griem) has earned his living as a clown, though he is in fact a very covert sort of social critic. After enduring a difficult childhood in Bonn during the Second World War, including his mother's fanatic Nazism, he is appalled to discover many of the people he knows and loves swept deeply into involvement in the Catholic Church.