Hilmar Thate

In World War II, after a period living hell on earth in the concentration camp of Dachau with other catholic priests, Father Abbé Henri Kremer (Ulrich Matthes) gets a nine days leave to return to his home town for his mother's funeral. Along this period, the SS Gestapo lieutenant Gebhardt (August Diehl) tries to persuade Henri, who was born in silver-spoon and member of an influent Luxembourgian family, to convince the local bishop to give-up resisting... (imdb)

Munich, 1955: A sports journalist meets Veronika Voss, an UFA actress who supposedly had an affair with Goebbels... (imdb)

After a breakdown, Rita returns to her childhood village. It is 1961. As she recovers, she remembers the past two years: her love for the chemist Manfred, ten years her senior; his enthusiasm about his new chemical process, which turned to bitter disappointment in the face of rejection; his escape to West Berlin a few weeks before the Wall was built; and his hope that she would follow him. (imdb)

Berlin, 1948/1949. The town is divided into two sectors. The world is close to World War III. West Berlin is kept alive by the biggest airlift in history. While the city is deadlocked, three teenagers set out to fulfil their dreams. (mubi.com)

A dramatic reenactment of the Gleiwitz incident when Nazi forces, posing as Poles, staged an attack against a German radio station in Gleiwitz, Poland (today Gliwice) as part of Operation Himmler, which was intended to justify a German invasion of Poland.

Professor Hans Mamlock is the distinguished chief of surgery in a university hospital. The year is 1933, and although the Professor is Jewish, he remains unconcerned with politics and the growing Nazi threat. Mamlock identifies strongly as a German, and he believes his culture to be simply incapable of the common barbarism associated with the Nazi party. Accordingly, he shows little understanding for people with strong or unpopular political views. (DEFA Film Library)

The Hamburg player and strip club owner Rudi Kranzow hardly knows how to pay his gambling debts. Graf, the 'godfather' of the neighborhood, wants to use this to his advantage in order to get to Kranzow's strip club 'Die Blaue Banana'. But one of Graf's henchmen is playing a double game, to which Kranzow almost falls victim... (imdb)