Das Westpaket
Almost half a century the shipments from the west connected both sides of germany.
Gunther Scholz
Director
Also Directed by Gunther Scholz
On April 1st, single mother Maria and her ten-year-old son Micha move into a new apartment located in the Berlin district Marzahn. On the very first evening, Maria gets an invitation from her neighbor Alvaro, a political emigrant from Uruguay who keeps working for his country’s Communist Party while staying in the GDR. Maria and Alvaro fall passionately in love. Even Micha, who is suspicious of Alvaro in the beginning, eventually becomes friend with him. Thus, nothing stands in the way of their happiness – except for the certainty that Alvaro will have to leave as soon as he gets a new assignment.
A documentary about the so-called "crossword puzzle murder" that was finally solved in November 1981. It´s considered to be one of the most spectacular and elaborate investigations in the criminal history of the GDR. In January of that year, a seven-year-old boy from Halle-Neustadt disappeared while visiting the cinema. Two weeks later, his body was found on a railway embankment. The suitcase was stuffed with crumpled newspaper. Some of the pages had filled in crossword puzzles. It was the only tiny trace and with that began an action, that has remained unprecedented in the history of the country. In total, the enormous number of 551.198 font samples were evaluated. After ten months of insane work by hand, hardly anyone still believed in success, the investigators finally reached their goal ...
German miniseries
A teenager is found murdered, and the examining doctor recognizes her son's knife. The film works its way back to reveal how this situation came about; a rare treatment of the taboo subject of youth criminality in Socialist society.
After the accidental death of her mother, 12 year old Nicki must care for the family particularly her two young siblings.
