The air has been sweaty forweeks in the conference center of Baguio City (Philippines) where the new chess world champion will be determined in the broiling summer of 1978. Viktor Kortchnoi (47) and Anatoly Karpov (27) are facing each other in a match that will decide who is going to take the title home. Karpov back to Russia and Kortschnoi, well, that ́s a controversial matter...
Michail
Six intertwined people struggle with their own sincerity, and, in so doing, unravel their secrets and the lies they live.
Pawel (segment "Stuttgart")
In the form of an anthology film, travelers and hosts encounter one another in four different places in Europe via an internet-based hosting network called “Couchsurfing”. In Stuttgart, the Swabian publisher Annette meets the Polish master in the art of living Pawel, while her niece Nina is expecting a big fiesta in Spain, but meets only a deaf old man. In parallel Matti, a freshly minted high school graduate, hopes to find a great adventure in Paris, while the two Erasmus students Reka and Alma wander through Frankfurt desperately seeking their hosts. In the quest of adventure, diversion or just an authentic travel experience, encountering people whom one never would have met otherwise and so they are confronted not only with counterparts, but also with themselves.
Berlin. Grisha, a Russian-German boy, fools around with a toygun. The longer he plays, the further he is thrust into an altered reality. The boundaries between the present and the past start to blur. Images from a bygone Berlin appear; streets and buildings still carry the memories of war. Suddenly, he is caught in a nightmare of another lifetime.
Jurij
Malchow, German Democratic Republic, 1980. 20-year-old Anne is hiding Juri, a deserter of the Red Army. The two fall in love with each other. But their love is threatened: there is an arrest warrant and possibly a death sentence waiting for Juri. The two leave the country and flee to the West, leaving Anne’s six-month-old daughter Inga behind. Inga grows up with her grandparents and thinks that her mother died during a swimming accident. 25 years later she meets the literature professor Robert, who sends her on the trail of her past. He met Inga’s mother Anne during one of his seminars. At first Inga is resistant, but then she asks for Robert’s help. Together they take off on a journey through Germany, in search of Inga’s mother Anne...
소련군이 베를린을 침공했던 1945년 여성들은 강간과 폭력의 희생양이었다. 그 중에 한 명이 전직 언론인이자 사진작가(니나 호스)였다. 절망한 그녀는 자신을 보호해줄 수 있는 사람을 찾기로 결심하고, 소련군 지휘관인 안드레이(에브게니 시디킨)을 만난다. 이 만남은 복잡하고 상징적인 관계로 발전하게 되고, 씁쓸한 결론에 이르기까지 두 사람을 계속적으로 남게 한다. 1950년 작가 미상으로 출간되었던 동명의 소설을 원작으로 만들어진 영화로 1945년 소련군이 베를린을 점령했던 시기의 베를린의 모습을 담고 있다.
