He could have had women, he could have climbed the ladder of his accountancy career, and he could have stood on the podium next to the highest in the land. If only he had wanted to! But Farssmann, shaken by divorce and unwilling to better himself, wants to remain what he is: an ordinary bookkeeper like you and me. And so the dollar deal with Mr. Osbar from Utah (USA) is not the first time he comes into conflict with the very palpable unreality of a country called the German Democratic Republic.
Seven-year-old Kati is glad that despite her spastic disability she is allowed to attend a normal school. Her parents made that possible. In her first year there, she is supposed to prove that she can get along at the school and she does her utmost to keep up with her classmates. Her disability, however, is greeted with constant mockery and disrespect. Even her teachers have a hard time treating her equally. When Kati fails math, she has to attend a special school. Katie is devastated but her friends help her to cope with the new situation.
Tom, a 17-year-old window design apprentice, dreams about true love. One day, a new girl from East Berlin moves to town. Tom has a crush on her and will do anything to impress her. When he finds out that she plans to become an actress, he even discovers the aspiration to perform himself. For a while, Tom is on cloud 9.
1934, Germany. The ten-year-old Peter lives in a small town with his parents. His father, an underground Communist, is arrested. In the summer vacation the kids from the neighbourhood fight in two teams, which prevail in turns. One team, led by Ewald, imitates the Nazis, while the other, headed by Fritz, follows his Communist father's example.
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Adaptation of Theodor Storm's novella "Hans and Heinz Kirch".
Bodo Murmer (voice)
Slovakian villagers towards the end of WW II are despairing as German troops fall back to their village.
15-year old Klaus Kambor, called Kurbel, is living in a village in Lusatia and already thinks of himself as an adult. He can hold a lot of rhubarb wine and has already kissed a girl. But with his new method of lawn mowing, which he thinks is brilliant, Klaus makes a big mistake: He causes a wild fire in the forest. Then he does not react adult-like at all, but shirks the responsibility, which leads to the break-up with his girlfriend Daniela. Furthermore, Klaus does not realize that several of the places he likes the most in his environment are now going to be sacrificed to mining. When Klaus becomes friends with the teacher Konzak and with the construction worker Jule, he feels understood for the first time and starts to take more responsibility.
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Мачеха Золушки всеми силами хочет выдать свою глупую и злую родную дочь замуж за принца. Но тому совсем не хочется жениться, он ссорится с отцом и собирается покинуть дворец, но… в последний момент он влюбляется в очаровательную незнакомку в маске, которая быстро исчезает. Принц и не догадывается, что эта прекрасная девушка, ловкий стрелок, которого он встретил в лесу и озорная девчонка — одно и то же лицо. Все эти превращения оказались возможными благодаря волшебным орешкам, в одном из которых находился и свадебный подарок для Золушки.
Северная Америка, начало 19 столетия. Белые перешли к новой тактике изгнания индейцев с их исконных земель. Теперь они заключают с ними договоры о покупке земли и заставляют их переселяться в бесплодные западные области. Самый ненасытный из белых - губернатор Индианы Гаррисон. Чтобы положить конец его проискам, вождь племени шауни Текумзе пытается объединить индейцев. Ему удается создать племенной союз, который объявил индейские земли общинной собственностью, не подлежащей продаже. Вождей, нарушивших это постановление, убивали. В 1811 году Гаррисон нападает на лагерь сторонников Текумзе, воспользовавшись его отсутствием. Оставшиеся в живых бегут в Канаду и участвуют на стороне англичан в так называемой «второй войне за независимость». Однако, проиграв войну, англичане бросают индейцев на произвол судьбы и обрекают их на разгром американцами.
