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- A group of friends are in a holiday home by the Baltic Sea where emotions run high as the parched forest around them catches fire.
- Who is lovesick these days? A young journalist wants to expose the charming founder of a lovesick agency as a fake and embarks on a search for his own lost ability to love.
- Cows and nothing but fields. 24-year-old Christin lives on the farm of her long-term boyfriend Jan in Mecklenburg. Their relationship is loveless. Time seems to stand still - until 46-year-old engineer Klaus turns up.
- Abandoned as a baby, Jon finds himself in prison on a manslaughter charge. He falls in love with prison guard Iro, unaware of their fateful connection.
- Together with his therapy dog, psychologist Paul supports his patients in challenging life situations, spanning a variety of topics, such as the drive for self-optimization, the difficulty of forgiving, loneliness or narcissism.
- Kacper, an ex-guerrilla soldier is chased by a female werewolf, realizes that he is possessed by the spirit of his deceased wife Maryna. He also recognizes the same werewolf symptoms in Julia, a predatory countess who has a relationship with an Austrian officer.
- Tristan is a young and ambitious fashion designer searching for independence from his family. When he meets Sunny, a charismatic hustler, he sees what freedom can look like. But Sunny has secrets. What begins as a wild and beautiful love story slowly turns into an intense trip between dream and reality.
- The cover model of an East German fashion magazine is tempted by a photographer she falls in love with, to flee to to the West.
- Structurally weak and sparsely populated regions of Germany, especially in the north, such as Mecklenburg Switzerland, attract a very special form of ideologically extreme right-wing colonists. Nationalist settlers. For generations, such families have settled in the countryside with right-wing sentiments. They often cultivate organic farming, follow traditional crafts and maintain old traditions. They operate in secret and are difficult to grasp. There are no secured numbers and no umbrella organization. Stealth is their strategy. Even their children are brought in line in educational centers. Where villages die, farms are abandoned and schools are closed for lack of pupils, every new settler is welcome and nobody asks what political views are being taken by the new friendly neighbors. They are networked and dangerous. Because therefore they are observed by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. The documentary goes on exploration, analyzes their historical roots and describes their influence in today's burgeoning right-wing scene.
- For 45 years East Germany was ruled by a strict and secretive communist government, on the geographical edge but political heart of the Soviet bloc. In 1987, a British film crew gained unprecedented access to film everyday life inside the GDR - but only the side of life the state let them see. In this doc the crew return to the places and people they visited then, to see how their lives have changed and how they recall the "workers' paradise".
- It would be better if there weren't any missions abroad, but somebody has to do it, "says the young Bundeswehr recruit Jerell to his worried mother on the balcony of her rented apartment in Berlin-Reinickendorf. In a few months he will be boarding a military plane to Afghanistan As one of the last Bundeswehr soldiers to be called up for this mission. "Of course it is difficult as a mother when your own son goes into the military," says Jerell's mother. "But it is his wish, I have to accept it. " A few years after the conversion to the professional army, the film follows three young men through their basic military training up to their first assignment abroad. A personal film that gives deep insights into the living conditions of young soldiers and their everyday lives. "What does it mean if I have to go to the crisis area as a soldier?" "Soldiers" tells the story of Jeremy, Alexis and Jerell, who signed up for service at the age of 20 in the Panzergrenadier company in Hagenow, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Shaped by a sometimes difficult youth, they are now looking for recognition, belonging and a perspective. However, their new job also entails enormous risks: As an experienced combat unit, the soldiers from Hagenow play a relevant role in the Afghanistan conflict and other crisis areas. In the first few days, the recruits are confronted with a strange world: the loud commanding tone, the many unknown people in the eight-bed room, the first night, far away from home. In the following months: Drills, shooting training with live ammunition, personal challenges in private life. And again and again the discussion with the relatives: "What does it mean if I have to go to the crisis area as a soldier?" It actually comes to that. After a year, the young Berliner Jerell is sent to Afghanistan. As one of the last soldiers for the "Resolute Support" mission in Mazar-e Sharif.
- Germany, 1927: In order to save her reputation after a tragic accident, neurologist Auguste (Laura Eichten) helps a wealthy dementia patient: the reclusive Roland (Falk Rockstroh). While Auguste's husband keeps an eye on Roland's large fortune, Auguste notices that Roland becomes more mentally stable when he talks about Karoline, his deceased childhood sweetheart. But then Roland claims that he can bring Karoline back to life through his dreams and lures Auguste into the legendary "dreamlands": a timeless and enchantingly beautiful afterlife full of possibilities that seems far more real (and dangerous) than just a dream. For Auguste, this world is a mirror of her own dark past, and an existential battle for life - and dreams - is unleashed between her and Roland.
- Eva Jensen is a carpenter form Hamburg who wants to make a new start on the Baltic Sea coast. She faces prejudice but ends up growing closer to fish-seller Christian, with whom shares common passion, kite-surfing.
- 13-year-old Bärbel has to come to terms with her mother now being part of her class mate's family. She's also looking for a balance between being proactive and fitting in her class.
- Die 57-jährige Hilde gibt gerne die Richtung vor - in ihrer Familie ebenso wie im Beruf. Deshalb geht es ihr nach, vor Jahren mit ihrem eigenen Restaurant gescheitert zu sein. Jetzt macht sie in der Burgerkette Quincys's zwar ihren x-ten Neuanfang, bleibt sich dabei jedoch treu: Sie hält sich nur an Regeln, die sie sinnvoll findet. Als Hilde von dem Filialleiter, ihrem eigenen Sohn Tommie gekündigt wird, setzt sie alles auf eine Karte: Zusammen mit ihren beiden Freundinnen, die sie schon zu DDR-Zeiten als Kantinenchefin im Team hatte, möchte Hilde das Sportheim übernehmen und dort hausgemachte Buletten anbieten - keine gewöhnlichen Hamburger, sondern "McLenBurger". Ihr Sohn, der als Hauptsponsor den Verein und heimlich sogar seinen Papa Ronnie als Jugendtrainer subventioniert, kann eine Konkurrenz aus der eigenen Familie nicht hinnehmen. Und er sorgt sich, dass seine Mama erneut scheitert, weil sie zwar reichlich Tatkraft, aber wenig Geschäftssinn mitbringt. Für Hilde gibt es jedoch kein Zurück.
- Meetings with readers, acquaintances and contemporaries of Uwe Johnson at places he lived. Volker Koepp, who is also from Pomerania, looks for Johnson's sophisticated literary voice in the landscapes of the region they both stem from.
- Sassnitz is a small coastal town at the Baltic Sea on the Island of Rügen. In its vicinity are the world-famous chalk cliffs, a tourist magnet. The Mukran Port is also part of the municipality. The overseas port is the starting point for the construction of North Stream 2, a natural gas pipeline that connects Germany directly with Russia. In 2020, the port town hit the international headlines. Even the New York Times reported and cited Mayor Frank Kracht as a staunch opponent from the northeast German province against the rumbling America of Donald Trump. The reason is the undisguised threat from Washington to ruin the international port economically if the natural gas pipeline continues to be built from there. Many jobs and the region's economic stability are at risk. Reporter Klaus Scherer documents the case, questions experts as well as those affected and looks at the behavior of national politicians towards the USA and how they react to the interference in internal affairs.
- The Belgian documentarian Frans Buyens interviewed passers-by in East Berlin and Dresden, factory workers and technical draftswomen at the Warnow shipyard in Stralsund, small business owners in Chemnitz, LPG farmers in the countryside, foreign students at the Gottfried Herder Institute in Leipzig and industrial workers in Magdeburg and Eisenhuettenstadt. "The GDR seen through the eyes of a foreigner" was the original title of the film.
- In his book "Der schnurgerade Kanal" Gerhard Meier describes the writer K. as follows: "He left technical college early, got married and took on a temporary job in a factory - where he got stuck". In Meier's own case it was after dropping out of technical college that he got a job in the lamp factory in Niederbipp. After working in the factory for 33 years, he finally made up his mind to quit and become a writer. His wife started working in a kiosk in order to make a living for them both. The film asks questions about the sort of literature than can spring from a biography like Meier's. It shows the conflict of a provincial citizen who becomes a poet, and it accompanies the writer, who sees life in terms of eyeopening images, on his wanderings trough his immediate and extended home territory, including the island of Rügen and the house of Tolstoi's birth.
- The white chalk cliffs of Rügen are belong to the most impressive natural monuments of planet Earth, which the painter Casper David Friedrich immortalized for posterity as early as the 19th century. The island with its seaside resorts from the Gründerzeit, their small side islands and peninsulas, their lagoon-style Bodden waters, the thick beech forests and white sandy beaches is not only a magnet for tourists but also a unique natural paradise in the Baltic Sea, a habitat for the rare white-tailed sea eagle, fallow deers, raccoon dogs and badgers as well as resting place for huge migrant birds swarms of geeses and trumpeting cranes. In this nature documentary the unique landscapes and the variety of the animal world are captured with beautiful pictures in the change of the seasons.
- In 1989, thirteen GDR scientists and technicians set off from East Berlin to the Georg Forster research station in the Antarctic. During their expedition the Berlin Wall fell on November 9th. Cut off from the images that go around the world, the men can only experience the historical events passively. When they return in the spring of 1991, their homeland is a foreign country. The documentary reconstructs the thoughts and feelings of the East German researchers on the basis of eyewitness accounts, diary excerpts, letters, film material, grandiose landscape shots from the location of the action and unique photos to make the consequences of the events tens of thousands of kilometers away on the small GDR expedition in the middle of the eternal ice tangible.
- Cure or humbug? Homeopathy polarizes, because on the one hand there are enthusiastic patients with their homeopathic doctors, but on the other hand there are a large number of experts and institutions that fight homeopathy and expose it as a large-scale charlatanism that serves only one purpose, making money. While lobbyists praise the effect of the globules, there is still no scientific knowledge about the healing effects of these diluted preparations. Their exclusive use on seriously ill patients is life-threatening. The health insurance companies should no longer pay for it. In this documentary the investigative journalist Patrick Hünerfeld, himself also a doctor, traces the current state of homeopathy in our society.
- How do you deal with right-wing extremists in the neighborhood? Exclude, tolerate or involve? Rural regions in particular are vulnerable to the infiltration of nationalist settlers. Right-wing extremists penetrate village structures with strategy and system, pretending to be nice neighbors, committed citizens, philanthropists and troubleshooter without the locals knowing of their ideological convictions. In particular, the local volunteer fire brigades and local football clubs are infiltrated by the Nazis. This also happened in the small village of Groß Krams in the west of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where the two right-wing extremists Sebastian Richter and Ragnar Böhm seem to be part of everyday village life. One of them works as a firefighter. But there is also resistance from a female lawyer who has moved in from the big city. In Appen, a village in southern Schleswig-Holstein, the state chairman of the Hamburg NPD wanted to join the village's football club incognito as a nice athlete from next door. But the club's management said no when they found out about the man's political background. The documentary by Hans Jakob Rausch illuminates the infiltration strategies of the extreme right and the difficult balance between tolerance and engagement against right-wing radicalism.
- S16E111 Cornelius and Hilli socialize well together. Dominik tries to convince Leonie to give up her obedient life and join him to Spain. Carpenter Christian misses an order. Simone tries to find Anne's weak spot. Gunter fetches Thomas.
- S16E112 Parents react when Dominik is with their daughter Leonie. Anne reveals Ben all about her addiction; will she give up her fight against Simone? Amelie warns Carla. Thomas says goodbye to Stralsund.
- Simon examines the Romantics' contribution to the idea of 'national belonging' and the distinctly mixed consequences, from the facilitation of authentic cultural development, to the manipulation of their work by nationalist movements.
- Psychologist Paul Winter and his therapy dog Käthe receive an unusual request. After being diagnosed with dementia, 79-year-old Christine Saalfeld does not ask for support for herself, but for her daughter Marianne. The forward-thinking senior fears that once the disease progresses from its early stages, her single daughter will become completely lonely. In order to get the dejected ex-actress, whose promising career faltered after reunification, out of her deep life crisis, Paul sets out in search of a biographical breaking point: the abrupt end of a childhood friendship that Marianne still mourns. Before they can meet, Paul works with Käthe's support to open up Marianne. What he finds out touches him deeply. A chance observation leads Paul into the conflict area of Jule's marriage. He now knows that Aaron is having a secret affair. He has no choice but to tell the truth to his best friend, even if it strains his already complex relationship with Aaron.
- The blind teacher Ina Meyrose is bitten by her guide dog and suffers a double trauma. As a result of the incident, she not only loses trust, but also her four-legged companion. The dog is suffering from a brain tumor, as an examination shows, and has to be euthanized. In order to help Ina, the psychologist Paul Winter relies on therapeutic methods and Käthe's special gift. In fact, the young woman begins to build trust again. Ina even opts for "shock therapy", which directly confronts her with her fear. However, Paul's closeness to her causes the alarm bells to ring in his environment: Eric speaks to his conscience to keep the boundaries between professional empathy and his private feelings. To find his way, Paul must deal with his own love life. His best friend Jule finds the right tone to encourage him. The vet herself is in the process of freeing herself from the acute pain of separation since her husband moved out. A handsome new addition to Jule's veterinary practice makes a charming contribution to this.
- The Turin Shroud - a revered catholic icon since the Renaissance - is examined by historian, photographic, and christian perspectives.