In this documentary Peter Merseburger depicts the German, who fought against two totalitarianisms: Fascism and Stalinism. The author traces the path taken by Willy Brandt from socialist to social democrat.

Karen Brendel and her husband, protestant pastor Oskar Brendel, live a harmonious and rewarding life. They have made their church work their central obligation.

Hotel manager Eva Sahlmann begins her “happy day” with an event that troubles her. She has refused to accept a rose and letter from a page-boy that was given to him by a chauffeur, ordering the boy to throw both away.

“Happy Brithday” (WT): Gudrun Landgrebe in the centre of a turbulent birthday party

“Charlotte Link: The Father of My Son” – the ZDF Sunday film in the Charlotte Link Collection

As Jews they escaped from the Nazis, as scientists they became famous in the USA - and as Communists they had to flee from McCarthy: it was in East Germany that Inge and Mitja Rapoport found their third home. They are regarded as the founders for modern post-natal care in East Germany, and he is one of the most brilliant biochemists of our day. People who know little about the lives of these idealists, now over 90 years of age, may wonder how they manage to believe to this day in the ideals of a social form which is generally regarded as having failed miserably.

The moving two-part drama “The Amber Necklace” (WT), based on the novel of the same name by Peter Prange, has been filmed for Channel One in a castle near Stendal, in Krumke (Osterburg, Sachsen-Anhalt).

Filming of the dramatic ZDF two-part TV film “The Rose-Grower”, based on the novel of the same name by Charlotte Link, has now been completed in South Africa and on the island of Guernsey. Hannelore Elsner is the rose-grower Beatrice Shaye - an extraordinary woman who has been struggling for freedom all her life.

Veteran film director Matty Bonkers (Bob Rafelson), a Hollywood legend, arrives in Berlin for an honorary retrospective tribute. While introducing his film MOCKERY, he receives a phone call from his producer lying in intensive care at a hospital. Blau (Trevor Griffiths) needs a favor for old times' sake. Could Matty finish a porn movie before his legs get broken by Tokyo Tony?Matty reluctantly agrees. On the set he meets movie star and ex-cello-player Inga (Fabienne Babe) - and the experience is bizarre spirited uplifting a comédie humaine. The sequel to Rafelson's Wet, a classic in the Erotic Tales series, PORN.com features Bob in his first major acting role.

In January 1998, the Vatican opened the secret archives of the Inquisition for the first time - but only for a few privileged researchers.

Paule (15) lives an exciting life around Friedrichstraße and Alexanderplatz in Berlin, where, together with his Bosnian friend Arnel, he steals from department stores and robs people on the street.

Maria Bergmann owns a flower shop in a first-class Berlin hotel. Her son Niklas, her pride and joy, is about to take his final exams in his studies as a concert pianist.

The Aegean Region of Turkey has much to offer for tourists. Especially and also matching Holiday resort Marmaris´motto: time for emotions.

Ernest Hemingway wrote his Parisian stories on the table of a sidwalk café. Niko prefers to pen his Berlin tales on the counter of a funky bar behind the shark tank. What better place for a writer to pick up a girl? Along comes Sonja, who wants to know how the horny tale he’s now working on will end. So she invites Niko to finish his erotic tale over a drink at her apartment! There’s only one catch: Martin, her ex-husband, still hasn’t moved out of the place. So what, says Sonja - we’ll just change the ending of the story … to a ménage a trois. AN EROTIC TALE by Georgian director Dito Tsintsadze (LOST KILLERS, Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2000).

The Californian desert, somewhere between Death Valley and Los Angeles. She - pert, forward, a ball of fire - has just thrown her mobile away after an angry tete-a-tete with her (ex-)boyfriend.

Bernd Lackner, a very busy architect, spends less and less time at home. He considers himself a great organizer, not realizing that he would be in a fix without his wife Katrin and his assistant Sonja.

Christoph is a faithful family father and a very charming married man. Nevertheless, this incorrigible perfectionist has a way of getting on his wife’s nerves. Even worse, he’s an incurable hypochondriac.

The energetic Dorothee Auer starts her job as new mayor of a picturesque town on Lake Constance.

German celebrity reporter Mike Hansen is fed up with secretly taking pictures from VIPs on Mallorca. He believes he is about to uncover the men behind a sex trade.

At first it was just a passing fancy, but then Luise Fischbach gets serious.

Tom Rehberg is acting as a special agent in Berlin’s redlight district.

Anna Schröder was once a celebrated ice princess. But a fall that left her badly injured put an end to her career. Her marriage with the dull-witted attorney Reiner doesn’t make her happy.

The inconspicuous Burkharda Meier dreams of becoming a famous singer. So she answers an ad seeking a singer-soloist on a luxury liner. At the casting, however, Burkharda flunks the test in grand style.

Fashion consultant Juliane is a successful business lady. Together with her boyfriend René she owns an exclusive salon, which he uses as a gallery to exhibit paintings.

“Victories have a huge number of fathers and mothers. Defeats only ever have one.” (Gerhard Schröder)

On 30th November 2002,  in the fourth episode of “Laughing is Good for You - Comedy for UNICEF” presenter Dirk Bach, along with stars of the German comedy scenes such as Ingo Appelt, Maren Kroyman, Rüdiger Hoffmann, Anke Engelke, Ingolf

Part of an Arte theme evening entitled What we want to know: Natural catastrophes - who pays?

Katarina Diezmann (Gudrun Landgrebe) is generally happy with life. The well-known art expert has a senior position with the auctioneers Wegener.

Sandra Speichert, Dominic Raacke and Charles Brauer in “Love is the Best Medicine”: love in Sicilian and a faked death

Rosemarie Fendel, Jennifer Nitsch, Helmut Zierl, Florian Fitz in “In the Cave of the Lioness”: a story of mothers, daughters and secret love

When his wife dies of cancer, the only thing that still matters to advertising photographer Michael Bender is his nine-year-old daughter Sammy.

A smear campaign - definitely! Successful lawyer Rebekka Butt has no other way of explaining the photographs which have just appeared in the tabloid newspaper “Sonne”.

Eva Maria Split is pleased when her husband Herbert retires. But she is less taken with his idea that they should set off on a long journey in the new mobile home. Eva Maria hates camping holidays.

Hildegard Reimund has three grown-up daughters and would like nothing more than some grandchildren to make the house feel alive once again.

Her company is older than the German Republic – she herself is better known than the German Chancellor: 98 per cent of the population knows Beate Uhse. Her name stands for a legend of German moral history and is a synonym for sexual freedom.

A documentary about "Alzheimer" by Claudia Bissinger and Michael Jürgs

NANCY AND FRANK is an international production for cinema release, this is the New York love story from which arises a bitterly fought conflict...

THE PUBLISHER is a telefeature biography of a German titan who builds a media empire of European format out of nothing.

A documentary about the biggest tunnel-escape in the history of the Berlin wall, the soldier Egon Schultz, and a Cold War lie.

A HEART IN FLAMES is the first TV movies in a new series called STAR SIGNS produced by ZIEGLER FILM GmbH & Co. KG for ARD/DEGETO. The TV movies are romantic or sophisticated comedies, inspired by the different star signs. Winfried Noe, the famous astrologist works as a consultant on the entire collection.

The Tyrolean radio station Radio Kaisertal has a regular feature: Dream Couple of the Week. This involves the presenter turning up unexpectedly at a couple’s front door, and on this occasion he catches Hans and Vera.

Professor Robert von Reichenbach (Peter Sattmann) is an astronomer and the director of the Berlin Observatory.

Dirk Bach presents a wonderful combination of the best that the German comedy scene has to offer (Anke Engelke, Mirco Nontschew, Helge Schneider, Rüdiger Hofmann, Karl Dall, Jörg Knör, Hans-Hermann Thielke, Bodo Bach, Alf Poier and many others),

The adaptation of the novel by Charlotte Link tells the sinister involvement of a German couple with the fate of their English holiday cottage owners.

Leona, lector in a publishing house, has just called her husband Wolfgang on her mobile to announce happily that she has found their dream house, when a young woman falls onto the pavement in front of her and dies in her arms.

So many men in the world and it has to be him! Adele Weiß is horrified when she learns that her daughter Linda is planning to get married to Dieter Morus, of all people.

Anna can safely say there is only one man in her life: her seven-year-old son Tobi.

Sophie Dukakis has a very particular passion in life: books!