Hans-Jürgen Kruse

Claudia and Georg Rattey, a married couple, have everything what people in their mid-thirties might wish for: a car, a farmhouse for vacations on the weekends, and their son Oliver. But their contentedness does not turn into happiness but into an inner void: Claudia and Georg have nothing left to say to each other and just live alongside each other. One day, they discover a ten-year old burglar in their half-finished vacation home.

Young construction worker Ralf Reider leaves his home village Katzsprung in the Rhön mountains during the "Berlin Initiative". In the capital, he wants to earn enough money in construction to build his own house for his wife and his child. But Ralf is an unconventional character who soon becomes an outsider because of his behaviour.

В замке живет властолюбивая, капризная королева, которая будит своих подданных каждое утро пушечным выстрелом. И всегда ядро попадает в кузницу. Недовольный кузнец задумал проучить королеву. Вместе с придворным шутом они ночью меняют злую властительницу королевства на супругу кузнеца…

Film by Horst E. Brandt.

Южная Америка, начало 1980-х годов. Мария, молодая женщина, стала свидетелем убийства человека, которого убили преследователи из близлежащей фермы. Мария просит своего друга, журналиста Освальдо, чтобы расследовал это преступление. Освальдо узнаёт, что хозяева фермы - бывшие фашисты. Он решается на собственное расследование, но скоро понимает, что недооценил опасности, которая ему угрожает...

In three episodes about six people, the film takes on the topics of relationships, difficult social engagements , and love in the German Democratic Republic.

In a small village in West Prussia in the 1870s, Germans, Poles, Gypsies and Jews live together as neighbors. One night Johann, a German mill-owner, secretly opens the dam gates and floods the mill of his Jewish rival Levin. After his business is ruined and his calls for justice go unanswered, Levin leaves town.

Film by Bernhard Stephan.

At the textile company, everyone appreciates the work of 18-year-old Susanne, but nobody really considers her a woman—including Lutz, with whom she is in love. She sets about to make a change, but it is only when she realizes that she is being taken advantage of that a more self-confident Susanne emerges.

По одноимённой пьесе немецкой писательницы Хедды Циннер. Весной 1813 года в саксонском городке в доме купца и советника Керстинна был организован заговор против майора Лютцова. Керстинн и его партнер Трауберг хотят устроить ловушку для майора Лютцова в сотрудничестве с французскими и прусскими армейскими ведомствами.

When 17-year-old Angelika moves to Leipzig, she is forced to rent a room at Mrs. Häublein’s for a start, since her parents will not follow until a few months later. Fellow tenant Thomas, a philosophy student, is not at all enthused about his new, pretty housemate. Because of Angelika he has to move into a smaller room. Furthermore, he is annoyed at her many male acquaintances, without sensing that his aggression might be prompted by jealousy. When Angelika’s father comes for a visit, he asks Thomas to keep an eye on his daughter. Thomas takes this assignment very seriously and finally realizes that he has fallen in love with Angelika.

К доктору Грюнерту, специалисту по электронике из ГДР, приезжает старый знакомый по войне. Оба тогда работали над морскими торпедами. Его бывший коллега хочет переманить Грюнерта в Скенектади, штаб-квартиру крупнейшей в Америке компании по производству электроники. Он пытается шантажировать Грюнерта предполагаемыми военными преступлениями, но быстро становится ясно, где находятся настоящие преступники: на влиятельных должностях в американской промышленности. Грюнерт недооценил беспринципность своего оппонента и пригласил его в уединенный загородный дом, чтобы прояснить дело. Министерство госбезопасности уже идет по следу и спасает инженера от того, чтобы действовать в одиночку.

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.

This story of the miller Florian, who gave all his money to the war against Napoleon, is loosely based on a true story. After the war, Florian's reimbursement is challenged, and he must also pay taxes on his destroyed mill. He resists the tax collectors and takes off to Vienna, where he intends to defend his rights. On the way, he rescues the Duchess of Guastalla from assault. She also wants to go to Vienna, as His Majesty Franz II is trying to contest an heir in her favor. With cunning, luck, and dagger, Florian fights his way through a slew of nobility and their secret police.

Test film for a 70mm film stock produced in East Germany.