Dr. Kathrin Klein is an anaesthetist in the casualty department of a Dresden hospital. Her son is a student, at present in Africa as part of an internship programme. Kathrin’s relationship with her colleague Dr.

In Winners and Losers Conny Knipper has agreed to act as a replacement for an older colleague who has fallen sick - and soon begins to hope that he may have a secure future as a doctor with a permanent practice.

As a sports doctor, Conny Knipper places far more significance on feet and reflex zones than on boring X-ray machines: in the end his healing hands have proven themselves against more traditional methods.

This is the story of little Natasha - based loosely on the authentic case of a young girl called Olivia - who is suffering from Wilm’s Tumor, a form of cancer which only strikes children.

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Horst, a powerful and good-natured man in his late 30s, is the manager and doorman of a discotheque.

An ambitious woman who wants to get to the top - unfortunately even in today’s society female ambition is often frowned upon and often still not socially accepted.

Rolf and Renate Fischer, teachers from Frankfurt, are extremely excited about the cultural holiday they have planned so carefully in the west of the USA. They board the plane that will take them to San Francisco.

When ageing actress Martha arrives in the small town of Husum she meets the wealthy furniture manufacturer Schorsch Waller, encounters a young carpenter called Sebastian Göbel and comes up against the massed forces of provincialism.

Fashion designer Alexandra Meyberg, an attractive older also married woman, falls in love with up-and-coming young pianist Stefan Weber and helps him with his career. Meanwhile her company descends into chaos.

There has been a murder in the idyllic city of Freiberg. The investigation quickly reveals a number of possible suspects, because the dead man, a car thief called Steffen Kemper, has a long police record.

When Frank Meinberg discovers that his son Stefan has a double, his world comes crashing down around him.

This family is constantly hatching plans that will make them rich and happy, but even when good fortune appears about to fall into their laps the Trotzkis always mess things up - because they simply can’t come to terms with the new age.

Paul is the young, dynamic managing director of a sporting goods company. Caroline works in a bank, and some weeks ago she moved in with him. They are a couple, despite the many differences between them.

At your own risk

Inspector Max Beckmann and his colleague Christian Markowski are faced with a series of unusual murders; at first they are baffled when they establish that the only apparent similarities between the victims is that they are all blonde - and have all

A serious car accident results in the death of the woman Michel Camus (Pierre Brice) loves; Sylvia (Gudrun Landgrebe) and her son Bertel are both killed.

What can you say about a father who forbids his son from doing something and then proceeds to do it himself? One day the translator Eric gets a phone call from Frauke and Alex, his two best friends, who live on Majorca.

Stephan Waldhoff, a journalist from Hamburg who is well-known for his committed reporting on social issues, finds himself in a professional crisis: the newspaper he works for decides it will not after all print his series about people who have

A group of young people start a school magazine and embark upon an attempt to break away from the lethargic, monotonous atmosphere at school. Now, rather than grades or individual excellence, joint action is required in all areas of life.

Dangerous Love: a beautiful woman wants her married lover all to herself. Rita, charming and apparently extremely confident, senses that his daughter Anni is a rival and attempts to drive a wedge between father and daughter.

CLOSING CHORUS, (…) in a 123-minutes recording by the Mainz theatre department on ZDF, links up in dramatic terms with the “Trilogy of Reunion” and reflects the decline of East German communism as exemplified by individual characters who

There are blind children who develop astonishing abilities to understand their surroundings. Some of them are able to find their way through completely alien environments. Others refuse even to walk towards a chair without assistance.

The unmistakable Brigitte Mira gives an amazing performance in her solo show from the foyer of the Theater des Westens in Berlin, including cheeky and amusing Berlin songs (“The Sawn-Up Lady”) and provocative, melancholy chansons (“So Was

Live recording of a performance at the “Theater des Westens” in Berlin, 1994. The unmistakable actress Brigitte Mira excites audiences with her solo-program at the foyer of the “Theater des Westens” in Berlin.

Brigitte Mira plays the leading role in these four episodes and also links them together as she strolls through the city with her dog, past family homes, tenement blocks and apartment complexes. There is a story hidden behind every door.

Leontes, King of Sicily, wrongfully accuses his wife Hermione of committing adultery with his brother Polyxenes. He throws his unhappy queen into jail and abandons the child she has in prison to the wilds.

After many years in America working as a boat-builder, Felix Jung returns to the village where he was born, on the banks of Lake Constance.

Lakeview Cottage tells a love story in four episodes in a wonderful setting: the foothills of the Alps in Bavaria, Chiemgauer country.

Martin Baerwald, a yuppie manager from Hamburg and a successful property dealer, gets hopelessly lost in deepest Mecklenburg (former GDR) whilst on a business trip.

On her way home through a park in the centre of the city one evening a student called Susanne Meier is sexually attacked and murdered. She had with her Ricki, a two-year-old boy she was babysitting at the time.

Three ladies in the prime of life, none of them under 60, live together in a terraced house in the Berlin suburb of Lankwitz.

With the assistance of protagonist Ingolf Lück and several other well-known actors in guest roles a number of young authors demonstrate their talents at sketch-writing and the enjoyment they take in performing these pieces.

Fourteen- year-old Laura has fallen desperately in love with John Barth, an English actor.

Fiete Hansen discovers the huge sum of 2.3 million German marks in his bank account. This surprise deeply annoys the lucky chap who never makes a mistake.

The stories are set in an exclusive apartment complex. The janitor also lives in this extensive facility being responsible for the safety of the upmarket residents.

The human lifespan is no longer limited to 70 or 80 years. Genetic research in the last hundred years has increased life expectancy from 40 to 80.

We guarantee that nobody will doze off during our show! An international repertoire of musical hits, from West Side Story to Showboat with Sweet Charity looking for the Phantom of the Opera - and all of that at the Cage aux Folles, of course.

His curiosity aroused by the joy so clearly visible in those television images from November 9th 1989, the day of German reunification, Marcel Ophüls resolved to return to the site of these historic events one year later and talk to the people

A mysterious child, a young married couple with a host of problems, and a sect which lays claim to not only their sect members’ money but also to their souls.

Berlin has a vast network of lakes, rivers and canals, integrated into the urban landscape. In fact, it is often said that Berlin has more bridges than Venice.

Karl Heinz Lotz, a DEFA director, tells the story of how an East Berlin family managed to follow this very route to Hungary, then Austria, and finally back to West Berlin - to arrive on that historic day when the wall came down.

He is one of the most important international film directors and his successes are

Ruth Feldmann is planning to go away for a dirty weekend with her boyfriend, the police officer Andreas Bongart. She tells her husband Karl, a sergeant in the police, that she has to visit her sick sister for a few days.

Three Smith families check in at one hotel. An American and his wife: One glass of alcohol is enough to trigger nymphomaniac seizures in her. Her hubby is restlessly preoccupied preventing her from such predicaments.

Three guests in a luxury hotel: the well-respected managing director of a computer company, an actor known to be a ladies’ man, and a murderer wearing glasses who has calculated that a hotel room provides the perfect setting for the murder of his

Verdi had fallen in love with Shakespeare’s FALLSTAFF, the wise and amusing clown, the drunkard who can laugh at himself and is well aware that everything in this world is fun - though not always good fun. He had enchanted Verdi.