The Legend of Timm Thaler: or The Boy Who Sold His Laughter

The Legend of Timm Thaler: or The Boy Who Sold His Laughter

The devil tricks a little boy off his laughter in exchange for assured wins in all his bets. It depicts his journey after the deal with the devil...

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Fog in August

Fog in August

A Yenish boy is placed in a mental hospital and experiences the Nazi euthanasia program. Aware of what was happening and attached to friends, the...

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Peas at 5:30

Peas at 5:30

It all starts with a bang. The car breaks through the crash barrier and falls off the bridge. The lights go out. After that, he is not able to see...

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Eine Insel namens Udo

Eine Insel namens Udo

Udo is invisible - no one ever seems to notice him. He makes the most of it, working as a department store detective and living off other people's...

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Learning to Lie

Learning to Lie

18-year-old school boy Helmut falls in love with fellow pupil Britta. He starts working for a Peace movement to get to know Britta. Britta, however...

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Fiddlesticks

Fiddlesticks

Nichts als Gespenster

Nichts als Gespenster

Episodes about different stages of relationships: from flirtation to falling out of love.

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Summer Window

Summer Window

Juliane's happiness seems perfect. She is head over heals in love and has just begun a new life with August. One morning, however, she wakes up to...

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Martha Liebermann

Martha Liebermann

Berlin, 1943, during World War II. Martha Liebermann, an elderly upper-class Jewish woman, faces the decision of her life: should the widow of the...

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Promising the Moon

Promising the Moon

Throughout her life Marga has shown little feeling for her daughter Sofia. But now she reveals fear, wounds and a deep longing for her...

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An Old Maid

An Old Maid

Kalt ist der Abendhauch

Kalt ist der Abendhauch

Love story spanning 60 years of the lives of Charlotte and Hugo. As a teenager before the war she is in love with him, but he marries her sister...

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Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence

Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence

Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilliantly assembled this film about the life and...

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Head Under Water

Head Under Water

Something terrible is about to happen in a small town in Germany. Nobody knows the reason why, except one person: Rico Bartsch. The 15-year old...

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Die Braut

Die Braut

The relationship between Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the great German writer, and Christiane Vulpius, a village girl, is one of the instantaneous...

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Krauses Geheimnis

Krauses Geheimnis

Horst Krause still can't believe that his sister Meta moved to Cologne because of love. When a stranger surprisingly asks for a room, some...

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Hands off Mississippi

Hands off Mississippi

Full of anticipation, ten-year-old Emma goes on vacation to her grandma Dolly in the country. Once there, however, the girl learns that old...

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Nichts weiter als

Nichts weiter als

Transpapa

Transpapa

Fifteen-year-old Maren wants to get away – far away. Aside from all the boys thinking she’s frigid, her recently love-struck mother is driving her...

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Mord geht immer - Der Koch ist tot

Mord geht immer - Der Koch ist tot