Roland Florstedt

Alma manages to obtain a job as a court painter with the bourgeois prince Philip, passionate about botany. When he sees a portrait of her sister, the beautiful Christine, he immediately falls in love. But the Baroness has plans for her own daughter. Fortunately the faithful Shaky is still here.

Weimar, 1921. The life of 20-year-old Lotte Brendel seems to be predetermined. Her father sees her as a future wife and mother on the side of a man who is to take over the parental carpentry business. But the idiosyncratic Lotte joins a group of young artists against the will of her family, applies at the Bauhaus and is accepted. The Weimar Bauhaus, under the direction of the visionary Walter Gropius, aspires not only to combine arts and crafts, but also to find the place for the "New Man". In the student Paul Seligmann Lotte finds a supporter and her great love.

End of the 1970s in East Germany: Fred and Jonas are close friends. The 10-year-olds live near at the German-German frontier. After the mother from Jonas has made an exit application, the boys have to recognize that they are soon separated from each other. But they want to dig a tunnel to Australia to meet there themselves again. When Jonas should leave the country with his mother this night changes everything.

A former East German boxing champion reduced to working as a bouncer and debt collector is forced to reflect on his life when he is diagnosed with a fatal disease.

Johanna can't find any friends. Not in the lecture hall, in the cafeteria or in the student club. That's why she creates a lie: she has cancer. Had she known what she was doing, she would rather have remained invisible forever.

16세기 루마니아, 아름다운 외모와 막강한 부로 권력의 중심에 있었던 백작부인 엘리자베스 바토리(줄리 델피). 다른 귀족들의 질투로 고립된 삶을 살던 어느 날, 그녀는 파티에서 만난 젊고 매력적인 귀족 청년 이스트반(다니엘 브륄)과 운명 같은 사랑에 빠지게 된다. 그러나 그와의 사랑이 깊어질수록 그녀는 점점 늙고 추해지는 자신이 불안하기만 한데… 한편, 바토리의 숙적인 튜르조 백작(윌리엄 허트)의 계략으로 이스트반은 그녀를 떠나게 되고 그 사실을 모르는 채 그가 떠난 이유가 자신이 더 이상 아름답지 않기 때문이라 생각한 그녀는 깊은 절망에 빠진다. 우연히 하녀의 피로 자신의 얼굴이 더욱 젊어진 것을 느낀 바토리는 처녀의 피만이 자신의 젊음과 아름다움을 유지할 수 있는 유일한 방법으로 여기게 되고 본격적인 처녀 사냥을 시작하는데….

From the youth directed novel of the same name by Greogor Tressnow comes a film by Detlev Buck that is a realistic portrait of life in the section of Berlin called Neukölln. It’s about power and weakness, delinquents and victims, and the difficulties a 15-year-old faces in a poor and criminal environment.