Rolf Ludwig

Paul and Paula have had bad experiences with love: Paul is financially well off but has lost all affection for his wife, and Paula leads a troublesome life raising two children on her own. They meet and discover a strong passion for each other. Life seems like a dream when they're together - but their short flights from the burdens of reality are once and again interrupted by Paul's ties to family and career. (imdb)

The voluntary fire brigade of the small village Siebenthal has nothing to do. They look for challenges, but nothing burns. When their favorite pub gets in an awful condition, they try to set it on fire themselves.

Charlotte Kestner, the love of Goethe's youth, became famous because she was the real-life Lotte represented in his renowned The Sorrows of Young Werther. At forty-four years of age she travels to Weimar to see Goethe again. The posturing of high society and Goethe's personal history lead her to an unexpected conclusion. (imdb)

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.

An East German TV-Film adaptation of Hans Fallada's classic novel, which depicts the day-to-day hardships of the white-collar worker at the end of the Weimar Republic. Pinneberg is fired while his wife Lämmchen is two months pregannt. In the months that follow he must attempt to earn for his family, while those around him - his family, his employer(s), the trade unions, the labour market - are only looking out for themselves.

Margit is a single mother in her mid-thirties with two daughters by different men. Looking back on her failed relationships, Margit realizes that her life has been shaped by perceived social expectations and that she has always allowed the men in her life to choose her. Although she is already romantically involved with a woman, a newly liberated Margit decides to win the affections of a male colleague, as lover and a father for her children. (anonymous)

Jakob, a clumsy villager, must obtain the three golden hairs of the devil to free the land from the clutches of its arrogant, drunken king and marry the princess.

A humorous and satirical comedy, which places a man from the year 2222 one day in the (then) present day life in GDR, East Germany under Communist regime. Using a crystal for mind reading he uncovers some improprieties and moral weaknesses in the "Beautiful future" professed by VEB ("Volkseigener Betrieb" - "State Owned Holdings"). (imdb)