This film takes place during the Seven Years' War. The Prussian Major von Tellheim has become engaged to the Saxon noblewoman Minna von Barnhelm. After the war, the King - in an unwarranted move - deprives the major of his honor. Von Tellheim becomes impoverished and, filled with shame, breaks off his relationship to Minna. An innkeeper in Berlin, who is a police informer, makes the Major move to a shabby little attic because he cannot pay his debt. In the meantime, Minna has also arrived at the inn. She and her lady's maid Franziska are questioned and spied on by the nosy innkeeper. Minna has followed her beloved Tellheim and she now cunningly manages to elicit a new declaration of love from him...
The law student Caroline and the assistant professor Tom are husband and wife, but they keep their m...
Günter Walcher, 40-years-old, is a hardworking, apolitical West German businessman caught in a moral...
An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century Englan...
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Frank, a tenth grade student, falls in love with his classmate Regine. His father is a well-connecte...
Post-war Germany 1945: Two rival gangs of uprooted boys fight each other in the ruins of Berlin, who...
East Berlin, early 1980s: Ludger is hired by the Stasi to spy on the oppositional arts scene in Pre...
Marie is an adolescent woman who lives in Prussia in 1813 with her mother, a countess. They live in ...
Jette and Johannes have been living together for two years when Johannes suggests that they "legaliz...
On a forest road in the Brandenburg March, village teacher Potsch accidentally encounters the distin...
Jonas and Ines are in love and want to spend their vacation together camping on the Baltic coast. Bu...
Comedy about the "Husarenstreich", the 1757 Berlin raid during the Seven Years' War.
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Soldier Ignaz Wolz returns from WWI with an immeasurable hatred of capitalist war profiteers. He dec...
Fourteen-year-old Stefan Kolbe, along with his mother and sister, moves from an idyllic small town t...
Sister Agnes helps in all situations and does not only make friends. She has just fallen out with th...
August 13, 1961: The passengers on the interzonal train from Munich to East Berlin learn 3½ hours be...