Thomas Brasch was born as a German-Jewish emigrant in England in order to move to the young GDR with his family at the beginning of the 1950s. His father Horst is primarily interested in helping to build the new German state. But Thomas prefers to realize himself as a writer and in doing so...
Love and loss are closely linked in MY SON, an emotional drama about a teenager and his mother who go on a journey together after nearly having lost one another.
The widower Danyal worries about his adult daughter Jila, even though the doctor has long been on her own feet. When the man in his mid-fifties can't reach her by phone, he rushes from Kitzingen in Franconia to Berlin with two friends. The career lawyer Markus and the entertainer Tobi, also loving...
Almost 10 years after the Arab spring, the young Egyptian archaeologist Maysoon is living in Berlin with her German boyfriend Tobi and their two children. When she experiences some turbulences in her personal life and an unexpected threat to her political status, Maysoon fears that she may lose...
Karla, a strong, sensual and experienced woman, learns that she has terminal cancer. She only has a few months left. After a wild life as a photographer of music bands, full of touring, joints and rock 'n' roll, the woman in her mid-sixties has no desire for sentimentality. She wants to be left...
Until now, Carlo thought he was living a quiet, manageable life. And he seemed content with his "small world". But somehow, things have not been running smoothly in Carlo's life for a few weeks now. At home, problems are emerging with his son Hendrik and wife Jutta. His now somewhat outdated...
Parcel carrier Adika, who works as a parcel driver over the holidays, rarely loses his good mood despite the stress and the many deliveries to be made. It's only when he has to fight with Tessa over the same parking spaces that he gets a bit annoyed. He finds the nurse quite interesting, but...
During the night, patrol officer Ida Sörensen hears urgent cries for help coming from the church tower. Together with her young colleague Emma, the policewoman arrives at Ribe Cathedral. There, high up in the tower, a man is threatening a young woman with a knife. Ida and Emma draw their weapons...
Susanne's husband left her six months ago; she doesn’t go out, she doesn’t visit her friends, she lies about having been left. Her only outlets are her work and her beloved synchronized swimming, until a young single mother and her daughter move into her building and turn her life upside down.
Katja Sterner has to start again. Full of confidence, she follows the beckoning of her rediscovered lucky talisman to the beautiful village of Herzfeldt. Will she find happiness there? There is an old pavilion in Herzfeldt where Katja's parents once got engaged. The pavilion is said to have magical...
