A story about a family after the Second World War. The petty bourgeois cashier Karl Weber of Berlin observes from a distance how his son Ernst participates in the building of a new socialist society. Karl does not understand Ernst's visions, instead he confides in his other son Harry. However, Harry becomes involved in illicit business and Karl quickly realizes that it would be best to join his son Ernst in the citizen-owned factory.
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economi...
Women play a heroic role in the Volunteer Army fighting the Japanese in the puppet state of Manchuku...
Celebrating the end of World War II and liberation of their city, a group of students is set on hold...
The story of a war-orphan, who remembers first post-war days, his stay in Home for war-orphans, his ...
Carola has been running the family-owned circus alone since her husband’s death, but she suddenly fi...
Dr. Wagner is a scientist currently working on an experiment for the Asta plant in East Berlin. If t...
Hamid is part of a secret group pursuing the Syrian regime’s fugitive leaders. His mission takes him...
A soldier comes home with the weight of the world pinned to his chest.
With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ d...
Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that...
Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young ...
The cunning Cardinal Richelieu must save King Louis XIII from treachery within his inner circle.
A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is jailed for fifteen years....
Comedian Harmonists tells the story of a famous, German male sextet, five vocals and piano, the "Com...
A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.
At the end of the 18th century, the wealthy French scholar Saussure comes to a small Alpine village ...
What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...
Shortages in postwar Berlin have created a blooming black market, and the goods rounded up during a ...
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the ...
Undine is a historian and tour guide at the Berlin City Museum specializing in urban development, wh...