Otto-Erich Edenharter

Adaptation of Theodor Storm's novella "Hans and Heinz Kirch".

After a fierce argument Steffi Zinn′s husband leaves the joint flat and stays away from home over night. The next morning, his wife Steffi has disappeared and is reported as a missing person. Captain Lohm takes over the case and at first looks for signs of a murder, but to no avail. Then, Steffi′s body is found in a lake. After her funeral, a stranger who had attended Steffi′s funeral for a short time is also found dead in a lake, and the connection between the two cases becomes apparent.

On the eve of the German Peasants' Revolt, painter Joerg Ratgeb is occupied by a crisis of his own: finding a model for a Christ figure. He sets off on a journey to consult with his artistic role model, Albrecht Dürer. Although Ratgeb has always tried to stay out of the political conflict, his journey brings him face-to-face with peasant revolutionaries and the brutality and violence of their daily lives.

Kasper Mai, an export merchant and comrade with a “clean” record, discovers he is the prince of Hohenlohe-Liebenstein. His royal grandmother designates him as the heir to her estate. A private trip to her reveals that she does not want a NATO airbase built on her land. The GDR and his grandmother thus find a common interest, and a clever lawyer from the East works against other family members looking to settle their debts with the estate money.

A Saxon village in 1792: While the Prussians go against France, the haymaking takes place in the village and the resolute Marthe catches her daughter Ev with the village blacksmith Ruprecht in the hay.

Сын богатого дельца Михаэля Витте соблазнил молодую девушку Анну Ковальски, горничную в их доме. У Анны будет ребенок. Это не устраивает Михаэля, так как он мечтает женить сына на дочери богатого французского коммерсанта, а если история с Анной раскроется, планы выгодной женитьбы сына рухнут. Михаэль решает избавиться от Анны.

Времена мушкетов и шпаг. В Прусском королевстве не хватает солдат, Барон Фон Юббенау пытается насильно забрать в рекруты веселого, крепкого парня Александра, но он гражданин соседнего королевства. Молодой человек не так прост, он при помощи друзей умудряется не только перехитрить Барона, но и вовлечь в интриги и придворных и самого короля, да к тому же бежать с Ульрикой, дочерью знатного вельможи.

Hatifa is tired of her difficult fate and escapes from the place of her enslavement, a quarry in the desert. There she wanders around in freedom, but ultimately helpless, without water or food. Shortly before dying of thirst, she is saved by the sage Simsal, who is traveling with a caravan of the merchant Ganem. Hatifa quickly makes many friends, including the young servant Hodja. Only to him she confides her secret. The girl had to keep the fact that she was a slave to herself. After all, anyone who helps escaped slaves is mercilessly threatened with the death penalty. Out of consideration for the caravan, they both flee, but are soon picked up by Ganem. When he realizes that he can make a lot of money with Hatifa, he sells her again to a quarry.

Фильм посвящен памяти выдающегося борца с фашизмом, немецкого спортсмена Вернера Зейленбиндера, погибшего в 1944 году от рук гитлеровских палачей.

По роману Эдуарда Клаудиса "Зеленые оливы и голые горы", о любви немецкого коммуниста Якоба Роде и швейцарской подданной - врача Теа Ричи.