On December 23, 2013, former Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt will be 95 years old. As the second Social Democratic head of government in the Federal Republic of Germany, he shaped the country like few other chancellors. Even 30 years after the end of his time in government, he is still a highly esteemed expert whose advice and opinions are in demand. He is one of the most popular chancellors among the population and is held in the highest esteem by his party; even his political opponents at the time pay him the greatest respect.

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Hamburg, summer 1945: The young English control officer Captain Hannes Hacker arrives in the Hanseat...

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Short documentary about a Hamburg tenants' initiative that is fighting for its neighborhood.

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This rockumentary-style presidential portrait shows how Jimmy Carter reinvigorated a post-Watergate ...
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The story of women's struggle against sexual discrimination and for inclusion in the democratic proc...

Biopic on the father of the nation of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The film will showcase his ...
Ayşe Polat grows up in Hafenstraße in Hamburg in the 1980s. The 15-year-old is surrounded by crime a...

Set during the tense 19 days of the Yom Kippur War in 1973, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir is fac...

The German documentary is dedicated to an influential figure of the 20th century: Petra Kelly spent ...
A series of bizarre deaths shock the city of Hamburg: Mummified corpses are discovered in school bas...

When a girl with a promising future finds herself in financial straits, she makes an agreement with ...

When her parents' financial problems threaten Ashley's dreams for college, the high school whiz kid ...
Short-documentary about the squat at Amandastraße 73 in Hamburg.