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Sechs auf einen Streich: Allerleirauh

Maddened by grief over his late queen, king Tobald decides to wed their only daughter Lotte, the only female resembling her. Having failed to put him off by exorbitant demands, she puts on the unique cloak made of all fur types in the realm and flees over the border, carrying only her mother’s three-party golden seduction kit and the king’s miniaturized gifts while posing as a poor girl. Hunting, king Jacob finds her and orders her into court chef Mathis’s scullery. He appreciates her zeal and culinary talents, helping him put the best dishes ever before the king, who is determined to find out about the gastronomic phenomenon, yet she makes that difficult.

Sechs auf einen Streich: Die zertanzten Schuhe

King Karl is desperate. His twelve daughters hold secrets from him. Every morning their dancing shoes have holes in their soles. Only Amanda’s shoes don’t have holes. A lot of princes already tried to unveil their secrets, but didn’t succeed and ended at the gallows. Soldier and puppeteer Anton falls in love with Princess Amanda the first time he sees her. He isn’t easily scared off and tries to get behind the princesses’s secrets. He gets help from a strange old woman.

Smaragdgrün

Adaptation of the final part of famous time-travel trilogy. Gwendolyn’s heart is broken, will she trust Gideon again? There’s no time to wallow in tears. Something unbelievable happens, and Gwendolyn finds herself in the race against time.

Surviving With Wolves

Eight-year old Misha travels across Nazi Europe looking for her deported parents. She knows they’re in the east. Using just a compass, she leaves her native Belgium on foot and heads for Ukraine. In the middle of winter, she’s adopted by family of wolves….

The Counterfeiters

The film begins shortly after the end of the World War II, with a man arriving in Monte Carlo. After checking into an expensive hotel and paying with cash, he takes in the high life of Monte Carlo, successfully gambling in a casino and attracting the attention of a beautiful French woman. Later, she discovers Identification in Nazi camps on his arm, revealing him as a survivor of the Nazi concentration camps.

The Lives of Others

In 1984 East Germany, five years before the fall of the Berlin wall, an agent with the secret police, begins conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover and finds that he is becoming increasingly absorbed and obsessed with their lives.

Undine

Undine is a historian and tour guide at the Berlin City Museum specializing in urban development, while Christoph is an industrial diver. Linked by a love of the water, the two form an intense bond, which can only do so much to help Undine overcome the considerable baggage of her former affair.

Victoria (2015)

A young Spanish woman who has recently moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.