Anja Altmann disappears after a birthday party. When the police ask husband Thomas about her , family attorney and friend Lavinia Bertok manage to dispel any suspicions about him. But soon Thomas is arrested. While the Altmann family start hurling accusations and recriminations at each other, Anja allegedly surfaces in Spain, raising a strange suspicion against Lavinia.
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.
벤은 대학 졸업 후 캄보디아로 떠난 생애 첫 배낭여행 중 우연히 스무살 소녀 스레이케오를 만나 첫 눈에 사랑에 빠진다. 하지만 그녀가 생계를 위해 몸을 팔면서 생활을 한다는 것을 알게 되고 그녀를 지키기 위해 벤은 독일로 돌아간 후 열심히 돈을 벌기 시작한다. 그러던 어느 날, 그녀가 에이즈에 걸렸다는 사실을 알게 되고 벤은 큰 충격과 혼란에 빠지게 된다. 주변 모든 사람들의 만류와 설득에도 벤은 다시 캄보디아로 돌아가 그녀를 살리기 위해 백방으로 애를 쓴다. 이 사실을 알게 된 벤의 형은 스레이케오와 헤어지고, 그녀와의 사랑 이야기를 아름답게 포장하여 책으로 내자고 권유하지만 스레이케오를 진심으로 사랑하고 있음을 깨달은 벤은 쉽게 결정하지 못한다. 넘을 수 없는 가혹한 현실의 운명 앞에서 벤은 과연 스레이케오를 지켜줄 수 있을까?
After her release from prison Alex, who has lost her faith in love, tries to reclaim her psychic balance through a retreat into loneliness. A man and a child interrupt her plan and force her to reengage. Alex dares to emerge from her shell and learns again how thin the ice is and how fragile happiness is, small though it may be.
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.
Comedy drama about one of life's perennial losers who finally strikes it lucky with a beautiful woman, but not before experiencing the usual seemingly endless pitfalls.
In East Berlin in the late 70s, two boys meet one evening in a disco: Thomas, who is from a working class family and is doing an apprenticeship, and Michael, a 16-year-old school pupil from an educated middle-class family. They both miss the tram home and walk together instead, ending up at Michael’s house where they discuss God and the world into the early hours. Following this encounter the two boys enter into an unusual friendship, united by their mutual desire to get away from the phoniness, the limitations and the restrictions of their parents and of society.
