Charlotte Schwab

A woman and a man encounter each other at the place of final decisions.

Based on a true story, Miguel Alexandre's two-part drama focuses on an East German woman and the fight for her children. Spring 1982: Sara Bender, living with her daughters Silvia and Sabine in the East German town of Erfurt, wants to marry her colleague Peter, but shortly before the wedding, her father is killed in a road accident. As the funeral takes place in West Germany, she isn't allowed to got there, so she starts planning to leave her communist home country forever. Trying to flee via Romania, she is caught by the secret service. After years in jail, Sara is ransomed by the West German government, but without her daughters. To draw the world's attention on her desperate situation, she starts demonstrating at the Berlin border crossing Checkpoint Charlie

Stefanie and Felix are engaged to be married so they're going to celebrate their wedding in a Scottish castle. That castle is the place where Stefanie passed her summer holidays as a child with her family and where she fell in love for the first time. One fateful event could change her plans forever, affecting all her family members.

The tide washes up a slain Viking warrior on the beach in Husum: the unusual "dead body by the sea" is not a case for historians, however, but for the police and detective Ria Larsen. Marlene Tanczik plays the battered but combative investigator in the second film in the Saturday evening crime series on the first channel. Christoph Letkowski plays her partner Brandt, who believes in Ria's special abilities and is loyal to her.

“Light and Shadow” is a fictional 1970s short documentary about the blind filmmaker Christopher Keller. In improvised interviews and scenes, the film introduces the unlikely and obscure artist personality. A playful exploration of the power of assertion and the cameras abilty to construct reality.

2010 documentary film on the Armenian Genocide by the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. It is based on eyewitness reports by European and American personnel stationed in the Near East at the time, Armenian survivors and other contemporary witnesses which are recited by modern German actors.

Katharina, a successful management consultant, has to face Maren as a new assistant. The young woman is very ambitious but has been employed by junior Boss Grosser to spoil Katharina's career. Despite all circumstances they work perfectly well as a team - and fall in love. Katharina, wife and mother to teenage twins, is shaken up by the new situation. Is she willing to live her life with Maren, an open lesbian?

Felix from Hamburg comes into possession of a run-down gas station in the middle of the north German provinces through a dubious barter. But that's not all: right across the street, the young Weda also runs a petrol pump business and is of course not very enthusiastic about the annoying competition. Only when an oil company stretches out its greedy fingers for the two gas stations do the quarreling operators also get closer personally...

What do you do if you are pregnant and the biological father is only an affair, but not at all a suitable partner and father? Passionate headhunter Mila has access to numerous application portfolios from men who perfectly match her "type." She embarks on a hunt for another, "more suitable" father and subjects the unsuspecting "daddy candidates" to a thorough, absurdly comical assessment. But what if a potential father doesn't live up to the promises of his resume during the "trial period"? Mila needs a plan B and quickly steals another woman's blind date. But this only maneuvers Mila further into a self-inflicted vicious circle, and she must be careful that the hunter doesn't suddenly become the hunted...

Gottfried Binder, a simple employee in the pathology department of the University Hospital Zurich, is suffering from lung cancer and does not have long to live. He is convinced that the fatal disease was actually intended for someone else. For his superior, the unpopular Dr. Götze. The senior physician has always harassed him and smoked incessantly. Binder is certain that Götze made him ill in this way. Binder is inspired by the idea of achieving justice and getting rid of Götze. And he already knows how...

Finally, the right time! After the best friends Klaus and Fred have taken the well-deserved early retirement, they want to dedicate themselves to the beautiful things in life with their wives. However, the big plans quickly give way to a little exciting everyday routine, until Klaus and Fred rescue a young woman in distress on a sailing trip on the Wannsee: the highly pregnant Franziska was left by her boyfriend and does not know where to go. Shortly determined, the two offer her to live on her sailboat for the time being. But the men do not tell their women about it.

Five friends in their early 60s see things differently. They are afraid of loneliness and want to give their lives a new twist. The quintet cheerfully, if a little naively, found a shared flat. A risky move, as the communards could hardly be more different in character.

A long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Mord in bester Gesellschaft is a German television series.

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Wolffs Revier is a German television series.

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Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall is a German crime detective television series starring Wolfgang Stumph as detective Stubbe. It is being broadcast on ZDF, the second German public television channel since 1995.

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