Ursula Höf

One house, three apartments and three friendly couples, who have to put their relationships and life concepts to the test. After 20 years of marriage, Anne and Martin are close to separation. Eva and Thomas are freshly in love and want to do everything right. The relationship between Saskia and Kai gets into a crisis when she returns to work and takes care of the daughter.

Между 1860 и 1960 годами, тысячи детей из бедных семей или осиротевших детей в Швейцарии, были взяты на воспитание в приёмные фермерские семьи, где они часто подвергались жестокому обращению и эксплуатировались в качестве дешевой рабочей силы. Этих детей так и называли «Приёмыши».

Two policemen are stationed on Amrum, a North Sea island on the West coast of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany’ – an elder, and one who is several decades his junior. Life is easy, just that the junior can’t find a wife, because no young woman seems to be interested in the peaceful life on the island. All of a sudden, a wounded lady who turns out to be one of two bodyguard for a threatened witness who lives in hiding on Amrum, bursts into the police station and seeks help from the two officers. I missed some bits of the plot, but somehow, the second one of the bodyguards hiding the witness on the island has been killed already, and the second one, seeking help from the local police, was wounded in the incidence, and then she apparently succumbs, too.

A look behind the heroic story of a Guatamalan immigrant who became the first US soldier to die in the American-led war in Iraq.

Attractive uncompromising politician Mona Dengler is investigating the tobacco industry. Tomboyish bodyguard and single mother Johanna Sieber is assigned to protect her. This endangers Johanna's son. Mona unexpectedly falls for her.

Будапешт тридцатых годов. Владелец ресторана Ласло нанимает пианиста Андраса, чтобы играть в его ресторане. Оба мужчины влюбляются в красивую официантку Илону, которая вдохновляет Андраса на написание его песни. Его песня «Мрачное Воскресенье» становится популярной и всеми любимой, но позже приводит к страхам, поскольку ее меланхоличная мелодия провоцирует на ряд самоубийств. В Илону также влюбляется немец Ганс.

Будапешт тридцатых годов. Владелец ресторана Ласло нанимает пианиста Андраса, чтобы играть в его ресторане. Оба мужчины влюбляются в красивую официантку Илону, которая вдохновляет Андраса на написание его песни. Его песня «Мрачное Воскресенье» становится популярной и всеми любимой, но позже приводит к страхам, поскольку ее меланхоличная мелодия провоцирует на ряд самоубийств. В Илону также влюбляется немец Ганс.

A 13-year-old German boy, Robert, (Max Kullman) sets out to try and find his father, who's in Turkmenistan. On his arrival there he meets up with a local boy (Murat Orasov) who agrees to help him, but they are abandoned by their adult guides and must fend for themselves.

Helke Sander interviews multiple German women who were raped in Berlin by Soviet soldiers in May 1945. Most women never spoke of their experience to anyone, due largely to the shame attached to rape in German culture at that time.

The 2nd of three self-contained shorts by Helke Sander from her series of shorts entitled From the Reports of Security Guards & Patrol Services.

Here is the third and last of three self-contained shorts by Helke Sander from her series of shorts entitled From the Reports of Security Guards & Patrol Services . BTW the numbering of the parts is a bit confusing, the only existing parts of the series are No. 1,5 and 8.

A woman threatens to jump off a crane with her two young children in order to secure affordable housing. Won Golden Bear for Best Short at the 1985 International Film Festival Berlin.

Documentation on the Berlin S-Bahn, which threatened to fall into oblivion as a result of the division of the city.

At the end of the 1960s a young woman lays the foundation of the women's movement. As well as political initiatives against male dominance, a detailed picture is drawn of society, which establishes the women’s motivation.

Edda Chiemnyjewski, a freelance press photographer and single mother living in 1970s West Berlin, is confronted with the fact that "a cook has no time for affairs of state". She also fails to find a market for the project she has been working on with her women′s photography group that seeks to document the city. While from today′s perspective the city, which becomes one of the film′s protagonists, looks like post-war Berlin, little has actually changed as regards the precarious existence of free-lancers. With a heavy dose of self-irony Helke Sander, who also plays the leading role, tells of a divided life in a divided city.