Berlin whrend der Wirtschaftskrise von 1930: Rosamunde ist ein eigenwilliges, aber immer sehr emotionales Mdchen. Auf der Schattenseite des Lebens geboren, ist sie immer auf der Suche nach einer besseren Zukunft. Deshalb entführt Rosamunde mit ihrem Bruder Emil und seinen Kumpanen den jüdischen Fabrikantensohn Abel. Doch Rosamunde verliebt sich in das Lsegeldopfer, wodurch d...
The marriage of Katrin and Richard Lot has become a routine. She has a career and he, as a Marine officer, comes home only once every fourteen days. The children greet him with joy, but she greets him only with anxiety because their marriage is missing its key: love. She wants a divorce, but he refuses mainly out of comfort as well as due to remarks from the party. Katrin finds...
An award-winning TV adaptation in three parts of Arnold Zweig’s 1935 novel of the First World War Erziehung vor Verdun. Set in 1916 during the later stages of the Battle of Verdun, much of the story concerns the German occupiers of the captured French Fort Douaumont. More than that is not safe for me to say, because quite apart from the language barrier the heavily stylised mix...
The ******e of this imaginative historical drama is Ursula Schnurrenberger (Suzanne Stoll), an unsophisticated and pure-hearted young peasant woman living in a cabin amongst the Swiss Alps (for proof of lack of sophistication, note the faint ‘tache naively embellishing her healthy schoolgirl complexion).
But Ursula's honest and peaceful lifestyle is doomed to end, as this is th...
Based on Hans Christian Andersen's "The Emperor's New Clothes." Hans and Kumpan repeatedly try to enter a town surrounded by a tall, impenetrable wall, where everyone is apparently very happy. When they finally make it inside, the tyrannical emperor demands they make him new clothes that would 'bring all creatures to their knees'. Hans and Kumpan claim only intelligent people w...