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.

Comedian Harmonists tells the story of a famous, German male sextet, five vocals and piano, the "Com...

In the heat of a shimmering Berlin summer, Nora spends her days as a third wheel to her older sister...

David, a recently fired scrapyard worker and Marie, a prostitute, both about 20 years old, meet on N...

Marika is a cheerful girl who lives on the Danube aboard an old barge she inherited from her father....

Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female ...

The story of Finnish singer Abraham 'Aappo' Ojanperä, who was born in the late 1850s. On his journey...

A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.

Dr. Wagner is a scientist currently working on an experiment for the Asta plant in East Berlin. If t...

A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World W...

At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in...

Lene Thurner is standing on a train platform in Munich. She has to decide: back to Berlin where she ...

Factory workers in 1947 repair a bridge over Song Hua River so that Communist forces can use it.

In 1912, the Titanic embarks on its inevitable collision course with history. In the wake of the ove...

Brothers Franz and Erich Sass grew up poor. Together with his brother Franz, Erich specializes in cr...

Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound th...

After a series of traumatic childhood events, a psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a...

A group of angels look longingly upon the life of humans. Berlin now is a very different place: unif...

Berlin in the 1960s. Olaf and Horst are two young metalworkers, who provoke their older colleagues w...

Germany 1982: The country is divided into two parts. Nele, coming from West-Germany, travels to East...