Alte Frau
Twelve princesses sleep in twelve beds in the same room; every night their doors are securely locked, but in the morning their shoes are found to be worn through as if they had been dancing all night. The king, in mourning, promises his kingdom and a daughter to any man who can discover the princesses'secret within three days and three nights, but those who fail within the set time limit will be put to death.
Margot Mulder
74살의 동갑내기 부부 프레드와 아니타는 두 명의 자녀를 키우며 50년 동안 부부로 행복하고 평범하게 살아왔다. 하지만 지난 시절과 최근의 변화들을 돌아보며 삶과 죽음을 생각하던 부부는 ‘잠시’ 떨어져 지내기로 한다.
Charlottes Tochter
좀도둑질로 생활을 이어오던 ‘레나’(카롤리네 헤어퍼스)는 우연히 찾아 가게 된 클럽에서 뱀파이어 ‘루이즈’(니나 호스)의 눈에 띄어 목을 물리게 된다. 다음 날, 자신의 몸이 이상해진 것을 알게 된 그녀는 어두운 밤에 다시 클럽을 찾아가고, 그곳에서 ‘샤롯’(제니퍼 울리히)’과 ‘노라’(애너 피셔)를 만난다. 영겁의 세월을 거친 그녀들과 한 무리가 된 ‘레나’는 자신의 존재를 있는 그대로 받아들여주는 진정한 사랑 ‘톰’(막스 리에멜트)을 만나게 되지만 자신 때문에 그가 위험에 처하게 됨을 깨달은 그녀는 돌이킬 수 없는 선택을 하게 되는데...
Grandmother
Dorothea
Hilde Reimer is overjoyed when her three grown-up daughters and their partners move into the old family villa. The only thing that really bothers Hilde is that her three girls are still not married, despite having children and being very much in love.
Mutter Fritzi
Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others flee East Berlin through a 145-yard underground tunnel.
베를린 장벽이 세워진 1961년 직후 서독으로 탈출을 결행한 동독의 젊은이들 중 서로 헤어지게 된 두 남녀의 슬픈 사랑.탈출에 실패해 동독에 잔류한 콘라드는 서독으로 넘어간 여자친구 소피와 장벽을 넘는 사랑의 "약속"을 하지만, 이약속은 28년 동안 지속된 동서독의 갈등과 대립으로 인해 지켜지지 못한다. 둘은 결국 베를린 장벽이 붕괴하던 날 감격스런 재회를 하지만 이들간의 약속은 이미 깨진 상태이며 이후의 미래 또한 불확실하다.
Winter 1968. Historian Dr. Dallow is released from prison. He is still trying to cope with and understand why he was put behind bars for 21 months for defamation of the state. His supposed "crime:" for five minutes he accompanied a cabaret chanson on the piano. The film shows what "ordinary socialism" was like, letting the audience feel the threat under which the people in the GDR had to live over many years.
Brautmutter
Adaptation of the classic fairytale.
On a forest road in the Brandenburg March, village teacher Potsch accidentally encounters the distinguished Professor Menzel, who got stuck there in his car. In the conversation that ensues, Menzel and Pötsch quickly discover that they both are great admirers of the early 19th-century writer Max von Schwedenow who was born in the area.
Emmi, seine Frau
Frau Sianko
A Saturday evening dance in the village pub is interrupted when the barn of local farmer Paul Gäbler catches on fire. The farmer himself is soon found – hanged. Sawmill owner Züllich claims that Gäbler committed suicide because he was forced to join an agricultural production cooperative, but others are convinced Gäbler was murdered. Officers Schneider and Anders must navigate their way through a complex maze of personal and political motivations in order to reconstruct the crime.
