Lotti Mehnert

Two people love each other when they know they should not. Their parents' and friends' pleas, their social backgrounds and reputation, their careers; everything is used to make them give each other up. Flattery, lies and threats finally drive Frank to despair and Karin to treason. But it is not due to their parents' hatred, nor to any greed for inherited wealth. Rather, the mere conjecture expressed by the authorities is enough to set off a merciless mechanism.

Two part movie about Einstein's escape from Germany in 1932 and his influence in the invention of the nuclear bomb in 1939.

In the 1770s, Swiss farmer Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi established a school for poor orphaned children in the Aargau. Up to total exhaustion he sacrificed himself for his pedagogical theories. Five years later, the project of the idealistic educator failed after bloody attacks of the French. In retrospect, the disappointed Pestalozzi experiences the last few months with "his" children.

Defectors from Hitler's army join the French Foreign Legion and end up in Vietnam in the late '40s.

Romantic comedy about a series of mix-ups. Brigitte Kaufmann wants to divorce her husband Jörg who is an engineer and chief executive of an electronics company – and a hopeless pedant. Benno, a former boy friend of Brigitte, has a slightly bizarre idea how they could save their marriage. A piano player, whom Benno has seen in a bar, and who looks exactly like Jörg, is asked to work his charms on Brigitte and to try to dissuade her from divorce while Jörg is on a business trip. Piano player Engel agrees on the plan and acts as Jörg at home with Brigitte as well as in Jörg′s workplace.

Two men and two women in a hotel.

Зима 1941 года. Немецкий солдат Фриц Шменкель, разочаровавшись в войне, переходит линию фронта в лесах Смоленщины. Здесь он встречает партизанский отряд. Партизаны относятся к нему сначала скептически, недоверяют ему. Вскоре отношение к Шменкелю кардинально меняется - он участвует в опасных операциях, идет за линию фронта как разведчик. Партизаны называют его "Ваня". Фрица Шменкеля награждают орденом "Красного Знамени". В 1943 году Фриц попадает в руки к фашистам, его казнят. Посмертно удостоен звания "Герой Советского Союза".

Alma Krause is the proud owner of a thoroughbred French bully. Even otherwise, she nurses and harbors several two- and four-legged friends in her apartment - just as one would expect from a veterinarian's widow. Her nephew Heinz, on the other hand, is kind of beaten. Not as for the love of animals, that would fit badly to a nascent vet, but for a small animal practice, as the blessed uncle operated, he seems to have no ambitions. A future as a "Bazillenscheuche" in the cowshed would like to spare him again Aunt Alma. And she takes her appropriate action.

This episodic comedy explores love in all its varieties.

The film describes the activity of an ABV of the People's Police in its section in East Berlin. A mixture of “positive” characters from the beginning, the extensively staged “owl”, who is introduced as a criminal and over the course of time, especially due to the influence of the ABV, develops into a good citizen, and incorrigible characters, with whom the ABV fails with its extensive attempts at rehabilitation and who are arrested after having committed again offenses.

On one very fine sunny day, a fourth-grader Thomas, as always, is out of the house in the morning to get to school by subway. But on this day he has a too good mood and that, along with the good weather, prevents him get to the lessons. He decides to skip his station, and take a walk through Berlin.

Four directors - four styles - four episodes, all relating the events of a single night which has entered the history books: August 12-13, 1961. There are thousands of complex narratives connected with the frontier drawn through the middle of Berlin, and each episode relates the story of a difficult decision made on that night...

A fantasy story about the young boy Lutz who is looking, with two friends, for a missing magical bird.

Фильм о неприемлемой для человеческой совести снисходительности к военным преступникам, о том, как невозможно сосуществования с ними, с этими изворотливыми, умело мимикрирующими апологетами "обыкновенного фашизма".

С помощью немецких антифашистов советская разведка отыскивает в немецком тылу и переправляет на родину тайные архивы. При этом фашисты знают, что за архивами придут. Они готовят самые хитроумные ловушки. Но всё же архивы изъяты и вывезены. Гестаповские заправилы — Торн, Висбах, Беккер — уничтожены. Лишь группенфюреру Упицу удаётся уйти...