Lothar Schellhorn

The criminalist Hannes Bergemann tries to blackmail the city where he spent his youth. After many years returning to the familiar places of his childhood, he hopes to meet again his old friends, especially Fred, Helmuth and Richard, with whom he had a close childhood friendship. When confronted with a murder shortly after his arrival and given the task of investigating it, he has the painful experience that his friends are involved in the case.

Film by Horst E. Brandt.

A life-threatening heart attack confines Richard Roth to the hospital bed. There, Richard, who is in his late fifties, asks himself what will remain of him and his life. What happened to his four daughters? Do they take after him? How have they developed? His youngest daughter Nanny, who is still living with her father, gets her three other siblings to Weimar to visit their father.

Wolf Brandin is in his mid-twenties and lives with his wife and child in East Berlin at the end of the 1950s. In West Berlin, the student of electrical engineering is recruited by the American secret service CIA. But Brandin immediately notifies the State Security of the German Democratic Republic and from then on lives a dangerous life as a double agent. When Brandin reaches the breaking point, his marriage starts to unravel because Brandin is not allowed to tell his family about his double life.

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".

Главный герой - слесарь автомастерской Петер Папенбольдт - всё свободное время отдаёт занятиям с детьми в секции гимнастики добровольного спортивного клуба. В его секции с увлечением и отдачей занимаются дети разного возраста. Начальство уговаривает Папенбольдта перейти на настоящую тренерскую работу, бросить свою секцию, заняться подготовкой профессиональных спортивных кадров... Но постепенно Папенбольдт понимает, что не может обмануть преданные детские сердца.

Приключения Кита Белью, молодого золотоискателя, и его друга Коротышки во времена золотой лихорадки на Аляске.

Josef Neumann has always been an outsider to society, and at the age of 30, he has already lived an adventurous life when he comes to the GDR. He was raised as a foundling by nuns, made an apprenticeship as a construction worker, went to the Foreign Legion, and was a seaman and a tramp. Now, he is working at the Warnow shipyard. Brigadier Bruno has a lot of sympathy and patience with the unconventional Josef, but Josef cannot fall in line with strict orders and again and again acts against the rules.

Electronic data processing is an absolute must in the Information Age. Karl Hoppe, the director of a large plant, is aware of this need for modernization and hires mathematician Dr. Jochen Bernhardt to install computerized systems which are supposed to calculate ways in which the plant could be run more effectively. Dr. Bernhardt is so focused on efficiency that he forgets about the human side of work, causing his girlfriend to leave him and several dissatisfied employees to quit their jobs.

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.