On November 30 2002, in the fourth episode of “Laughter 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
He likes to sail in the storm, he loves dangerous rock climbing and his wife always has to accompany him. Ursula Winkler does not lead an easy life with Walter, owner of a packaging plant.
Linda, a 32 year-old-single, works as an art director for the advertising agency König & König. Together with her gay colleague Donald she enjoys watching happy couples on TV.
Julia loves her family: her four children, aunt Isolde and the dog Victor. The only person she does not love as much is her still-to-be- husband Wolf. He was unfaithful and so she threw him out.
Judith cannot help it, she just is a little clumsy. Any kind of problem just sticks to her like flies to a wall. And of course she is unhappy with her boy-friend Holger as well as with her economics studies at university.
Just recently Sarah became a single mother. Until then she used to have a happy family, a husband Ralf and a son Benny. Sarah though has learned her lesson from that experience and will now only date married man.
RIDING THE STORM, a five-part series on the fate of a woman and a family, begins in the summer of 1914 and literally takes the pulse of the entire 20th century.
Tough magazine journalist Alexa writes her fingers to the bone for a Munich lifestyle glossy, churning out features about unfaithful men, relationship problems and unhappy couples.
Rüdiger Dohmann, a specialist in internal medicine, reveals to his wife Iris that he wants to marry his pregnant mistress, psychologist Clarissa Mawaldt.
This time the two inspectors Herbert Schmücke and Schneider have to investigate the mysterious death of restaurant-owner and painter Jens Dallman , whose body is found one day by his girlfriend Katrin Kreuzer in the central courtyard of the
The new film version of “Winnetou” with Pierre Brice in the leading role concentrates in particular on the special relationship of American Indians with the natural environment, which in this case is about to be destroyed systematically by an
One day diamond expert Ronnie discovers a real jewel: Ginnie. A victim of Cupid’s arrow, after having met this attractive young woman purely by chance he resolves to follow her all the way to Belgium.
When a young doctor - Charlotte - and her daughter Franzi move into Frankenstein’s villa, they discover the legendary monster imprisoned down in the cellar and make friends with him.
Harry Oswald, a 50-year-old Berlin based architect, has been seeing his mistress regularly and discreetly for a long time. Britta Burkhard is considerably younger than him, and they meet in a rented apartment.
Andrea lives in a stuffy little town where she constantly rubs people up the wrong way. One day the richest man in town dies, which turns out to be bad luck for Andrea: she was there at the time. The young woman becomes the victim of a witch-hunt.
The Kids from Berlin: the street-fighters and the joy-riders, the gangs from Grunewald and the yuppie kids, children who have come into conflict with the law because they want to explore the frontiers of their worlds, because they are desperate and
Luise is a housewife and mother of three. Her two daughters are exhausting enough, but when baby Michael begins to scream every night he deprives his mother of her sleep - and almost drives her out of her mind.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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
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