Valerie Niehaus
Driven by the thought of being the father of Paul, the eldest son of his childhood friend Katharina, Juri Hoffmann stays in his hometown Eisenach instead of returning to his adopted country Canada. In fact, it turns out that Juri is Paul's father and Paul, who has just opened his own medical practice in Eisenach, reacts very disturbed to this information. Juri continues to have problems with his dementia-stricken father, who barricades himself in his house because he imagines the danger of an "imperialist invasion".
Juri suspects that his current girlfriend Sybille may have once betrayed him and his former girlfriend Katharina to the Ministry for State Security. Katharina is given an old Stasi file in which an IM "Gänseblümchen" is mentioned - Gänseblümchen is also Sybille's nickname and Katharina and Juri were once betrayed to the State Security before Juri's escape from the GDR because of a song critical of the system. Juri continues to have problems with his dementia-stricken father, who this time runs away from home and gets lost in the Thuringian Forest, where Juri and Katharina search for him and become closer.
30 years ago, Juri fled the GDR for the West via the Prague embassy and built up an existence in Canada. Thirty years later, he returns to his hometown of Eisenach to take care of his demented father, a former veterinarian. He also meets his former girlfriend Katharina again, who did not follow him onto the embassy grounds back in Prague and whom he has not seen again since. Katharina has been married for years now and is the mother of a grown-up son and a teenage daughter. She helps Juri find a place for his father in a nursing home and soon feels drawn to Juri again. Juri wants to return to Canada, but since the home placement for his father fails, Juri stays in Eisenach.
Day-care centre director Katharina is still attracted to her childhood sweetheart Juri Hoffmann. He spends a night of drinking with his best friend Christian and Katharina's best friend Sybille, which makes Katharina and especially Christian's wife Yvonne jealous. Tensions also arise between Sybille and Katharina, who are also colleagues. Meanwhile, Katharina's husband Georg is jealous of Juri, with whom Katharina almost became intimate if Sybille - who for her part has a strong interest in Juri - had not interrupted her. In a discussion with Georg and Juri, Katharina makes it clear to both of them that she wants to stay together with Georg. Katharina denies Yuri's question whether Katharina's first-born son is his. Juri continues to have problems with his dementia-stricken father, for whom Katharina finds him a carer, so Juri plans his return flight to Canada. Whether he actually takes off remains open at the end of the film.
Andrea Bredow makes friends quickly with her new colleague at the health department. Judith Lorenz seems nice and competent. And she does not like anything about office macho Volker Lehmann. But then the unbelievable happens: Judith is brutally raped by Volker Lehmann during her working hours in a storeroom. So she tells Andrea and later the police. Andrea encourages her friend to tell the truth. But Judith's behavior seems increasingly puzzling.
Teacher Antonia is taking her spanish class to Mallorca. Once on the island, nothing is going according to plan and the trip is about to turn into a mess. When one of the students asks her father Gregor for help, who is working on the island as a partysinger, the trip is starting to get interesting. Especially for Antonia who starts to grow an interest in Gregor...
In 2012 German Bundespraesident Christian Wulff declares his resignation in the great hall of Bellevue Palace. At the side of his wife, he had to face the pressure of the media for 68 days while struggling for office of head of state of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Vera von Schalburg is a German prostitute working in Nazi Germany. In 1938, one year before the outbreak of World War II, Schalburg is arrested by the Berlin police. She is offered to work as a spy for the Abwehr, the German military intelligence service, instead of facing jail time. Completely unaware of the secret war preparations being conducted by her government, and unwilling to leave her teenage son who later joins the Hitler Youth, she accepts the offer.
Bremen, 1891. Udo Jürgens' grandfather Heinrich strolls thoughtfully about the Christmas market. For days, the young man has suffered a momentous decision: should he emigrate to America or seek his fortune in Moscow? The touching performance of a street musician playing a Russian song on his bassoon gives him an unexpected decision-making aid. Henry sets off for Russia - and thus begins a fateful story that spans three generations and two world wars.
The young Berlin anesthesiologist Nora is facing exciting times: her partner Eric makes her a marriage proposal and she has the opportunity to give her first important speech at an international congress in St. Petersburg. Nora goes to Russia, where she gets a frosty reception. The Russian pediatrician Andrej, who has been assigned to her as a personal companion, is not very enthusiastic about this task. So he puts Nora in a taxi soon. But then Nora is attacked and Andrej plagues his guilty conscience. Soon, the people are coming closer to the fight.
After the death of his wife, the veterinarian Sebastian Brunnen and his daughter Kira move from Berlin to a small Moselle town to try a new beginning there. Barely arrived, he is confronted with a dramatic case: Because Sebastian has been diagnosed with the pathogen of a dangerous disease in a broodmare on the equestrian farm of Katherina Mohr, the responsible medical officer will also take precaution to euthanize the healthy horses of the farm. While the two get closer to each other privately, Sebastian realizes almost too late how lonely and unhappy his daughter is.
After freakish atmospheric conditions force commercial pilot Andrea Schubert to ground her flight, she and her crew decide to investigate. To determine the nature of this new lethal storm system, they fly directly into its core in this thriller.
Joseph Vilsmaier Two-part TV movie focuses on the tragic events surrounding the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German passenger ship, at the end of World War II. On 30 January 1945, Captain Hellmuth Kehding was in charge of the ship, evacuating wounded soldiers and civilians trapped by the Red Army. Soon after leaving the harbor of Danzig, it was hit by three torpedoes from the Soviet submarine and sank in less than an hour.
The incredible true story of Lufthansa Flight 181, which was hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in October of 1977, and the noble efforts of stewardess Gabriele Dillmann (Nadja Uhl) to ensure the safety of the terrified passengers throughout the harrowing ordeal. When terrorists sympathetic to the cause of the German Red Army Faction seize control of the flight, German chancellor Helmut Schmidt refuses to negotiate. Meanwhile, terrorist leader "Captain Martyr Mahmud" grows increasingly agitated, and the Yemeni government refuses to let the plane land on their soil. After Captain Schumann (Thomas Kretschmann) makes an emergency landing in the sand, he is brutally executed in front of the passengers by "Captain Martyr Mahmud" (Said Taghmaoui), who then forces the co-pilot to fly the plane to Somolia. Once there, counter terrorism measures quickly get underway as the passengers brace themselves for the worst.
For the career of her husband, Irina has renounced her journalistic career and has become a housewife. After countless job-related processions, the two return to their hometown of Munich to finally start a family. When Reinhard has to leave for New York in the short term and leaves his wife with empty accounts and a debt mountain, Irina is forced to take the initiative for the first time. She founds a housekeeping agency. Her old school friend Frank stands by her side.
Restaurant critic Ina is on the verge of marrying the wealthy son of an entrepreneur Clemens Kehl. But then she runs into the car of smart Gunnar. With consequences: After the accident, she wakes up with no memory in the hospital again! Under the name Jula they try to get her true identity back on track...
Sometimes your fate lies in the hands of those you meet. Filled with promising ambitions, shattered dreams, love and revenge and in the end hope, the story reveals how tangibly interconnected our induividual fates really are. Cabby Robby drives in and around St.Pauli, Hamburg, from sunset to sunrise. He is surrounded by stories of the night. Drowning in human incidents.
The IEK team investigates the corpse of 1970s-disappeared flower girl Monika Rothmann, both burned and suffocated as drowned. She was believed to have abandoned husband Herbert and daughter Anja without a trace, but it turns out she started a new life as a political and environmental activist, yielding potential motives and suspects, but also an adulterous affair.
During the 2006 football world cup match Tunisia-Ukraine in Berlin, Bernd and Nina Weyer's spoiled-rotten tomcat brat Lilly disappeared, leaving her model big brother Paul a hopeless 'substitute', until her corpse is found near the family home, but it was moved from a forest. The forensic team's reconstruction, co-starring an ant colony, proves painful, for Mertens due to his back condition, for the Weyers as it unearths marital troubles. Katrin also suspects the aupair, who wanted to turn Lilly into a girlish princess, and Bernd's PA, whose family assistance went beyond babysitting, the whole story spells more tragedy.
