Harry
Фильм разделен на три части, и в каждой из них практически на один и тот же сценарий разыгрываются довольно разные истории. Хартли пытается сказать, что среда определяет смысл слов, как бы эмоционально эти слова не звучали. Так что в Нью-Йорке, Берлине, и Токио одни и те же слова приобретают свои краски, города преломляют диалог и сквозь неоновые огни Токио и Нью-Йорка перед нами вдруг отрывается калейдоскоп вербальных взаимотношений, даже если все что происходит — это просто флирт.
Weit entfernt depicts in black and white a telephone conversation between two women, one of whom states that apart from the people she loves, she only wishes to meet others once in her life.
The subject of this historical drama is a splintering Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949. Played against the backdrop of social upheaval, the characters in the drama come to epitomize the best and worst of each pole of the political sphere. A 17-year-old hoodlum by the name of Gladow works hand-in-glove with a local white-collar criminal to rob and pillage every day and night, defying capture. While he and his gang of thugs are terrorizing the people of Berlin, the Soviets are trying to make the blockade of their region of control impermeable. The future casts long shadows over the drama, as Berlin's problems take the shape of times to come.
Kapuste
In the late 1970s the German secret service fights against RAF terrorism and searches for constitutional enemies in the public service. Teacher Brasch implicates secret service agent Körner and the government in the suicide of a young teen. As a result Brasch and the exposed Körner are fired.
