Ulrich Matschoss

On his birthday, Tobias goes shopping to the city with his mother. While waiting in the car for her to remove money from an ATM, he disappears without a trace. His mother, distraught, desperately seeks him. When she returns home, a phone call confirms her fears: Tobias has been kidnapped. Meanwhile the guests begin to arrive to the party.

A man enters the car and drives it to a local car dealer where he hopes to sell it. It seems that he has moved back from Canada and cannot afford the tax on the car. The dealership is manned by two. One appears to be the worker of the pair - keeping the cars clean and running. The other is a cookie cutter version of many auto salesmen to be found everywhere in the world. He is Shmuel, the apparent owner of the lot and has seen the same car in a German dealer's catalog priced at €50,000. He conferences with Siso, the worker of the pair, whose financial support he needs and convinces him to invest in the purchase of the car. In the typical car dealer fashion, Shmuel makes a deal to buy the car from the "ignorant Arab" for €5,000.

Jack Moore um advogado americano (Richard Gere),viaja para a China representando uma companhia dos EUA que pretende fazer um acordo para TV via satélite. Ele tem um caso de uma noite com uma jovem chinesa e acorda de manhã ao lado de um cadáver cercado por evidências de que ele assassinou a mulher. Ele consegue convencer seu advogado, Shen Yuelin (Bai Ling), de que ele não é culpado, e juntos eles descobrem evidências de uma trama na qual o alvo é Moore.

72 years old Martha Jellneck lives alone in a small apartment in Hamburg. Since she's hampered in walking, she never leaves her home. Her only contacts to the outside world are the young social worker Thomas and a neighbor boy who walks her dog. When Thomas tells her one day that Franz Laub, another one of his clients, has his birthday, she becomes suspicious: that was also her half-brother's name and day of birth - only that he died in WW2...

1934, Hamburg. Adolf Hitler is about to visit the city. Hamburg's executioner falls ill, and is unable to deliver the sentence of four communists who are awaiting capital punishment in jail. Fearing that this would spoil Hitler's visit, SS leader Footh offers a local bankrupt butcher, Albert Teetjen, 2,000 Marks in order to carry out the verdict. The broke Teetjen agrees and follows suit. When his neighbors hear of the execution, they shun him. His wife cannot tolerate her husband's deed and puts an end to her life. Eventually, Teetjen also commits suicide.

"The ancestors heritage" - The Ahnenerbe was a scientific institute in the Third Reich dedicated to research the archaeological and cultural history of the Aryan Race. The films deals with trials against the guilty ones of this part of the Holocaust.

Reconstruction of the murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg and the following farcical military court procedures.

Holden interpreta um executivo sueco, Erick Ericksson, de origem americana que, aceitando ser agente duplo para os Aliados, finge-se de simpatizante dos nazistas visando ganhar-lhes a confiança e ter livre acesso à Alemanha, para onde viaja rotineiramente a pretexto de fazer negócios. Manifestando publicamente sua simpatia pelo nazismo, Erick acaba por ver-se abandonado pela família e hostilizado pelos amigos que se afastam dele devido a suas 'convicções fascista'. Na Alemanha, seu contato é uma mulher de família tradicional, católica, Marianne Möllendorf (Palmer), esposa de um oficial alemão, e ambos simulam ser amantes para se encontrar num apartamento e trocar informações. Com o tempo, eles realmente acabam por se apaixonar, mas os nazistas desconfiam e passam a segui-los. Em crise emocional porque suas informações permitiram aos Aliados bombardear uma região onde foram atingidas e mortas muitas crianças, Marianne vai-se confessar com um padre que, em verdade, é agente da Gestapo.