Detlev, a single insurance clerk in his 30s, is kept dependent by his loving and caring mother and loses his girlfriend Karin as a result. Grief and an alcoholic chance acquaintance prompt him to place an ad for marriage. Detlev gets caught up in a whirlwind of friendships and love affairs: with the caring widow Karin; the well-to-do hair salon owner Ute Schöbel; the cultural editor Norma Goldbach, the photo reporter Kerstin and the student Andrea Binz. Detlev, who initially proves himself as a friend and advisor, but also as a lover, becomes increasingly self-confident. He is also successful in his work and finally emancipates himself from his mother. Although he loses "his" women in a turbulent odyssey, Detlev has transformed himself from a mama's boy into a thoroughly acceptable man.

Jette and Johannes have been living together for two years when Johannes suggests that they "legaliz...

August 13, 1961: The passengers on the interzonal train from Munich to East Berlin learn 3½ hours be...

End of the 1970s in East Germany: Fred and Jonas are close friends. The 10-year-olds live near at th...

Jonas and Ines are in love and want to spend their vacation together camping on the Baltic coast. Bu...

All his life, Michael Hartung, owner of a hopelessly debt-ridden video store, has bet on the wrong h...

This film takes place during the Seven Years' War. The Prussian Major von Tellheim has become engage...

Interview with Jochen Girke, a retired East German Stasi agent, filmed March, 1990 to June, 1991. Qu...

Sister Agnes helps in all situations and does not only make friends. She has just fallen out with th...

East Berlin, early 1980s: Ludger is hired by the Stasi to spy on the oppositional arts scene in Pren...

Armin Glaser, a lieutenant in the Stasi, lives with his wife Marie and daughter Kati in Karl-Marx-St...

Erich Kasulke and Rudolf Portmann are comedian stars of the former GDR. When the Wall falls, so does...

GDR, August 1989: Hanna and Andreas became a target of the secret police and had to give up their pl...

The famous actor Ralf Horricht is a pain in his current director's butt while shooting a comedy abou...

Iran 1979. The Islamic Revolution is shaking up the country. Dissident Omid, who lived for several y...

Until he was 11, Detlef Kammrath (René Siodla) had a carefree childhood. But now his parents have de...

A conference is to be held once again to discuss the construction of a new dam, which Professor Paul...

Frank, a tenth grade student, falls in love with his classmate Regine. His father is a well-connecte...

A ship from the GDR fishing fleet is on its way home. The work is done, the hold full of fish. Capta...
The three friends Stepan, Kolja and Anton go camping together on the beach and are looking forward t...