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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.

Shades of Guilt – Season 1

In the final analysis, it all comes down to guilt, different shades of guilt that one assumes in a single moment of thoughtlessness or in months of premeditated planning. Defence Attorney Friedrich Knonberg knows he must tip legal scales of justice in favour of his client for crimes that are never black and white and what they may seem.

Shades of Guilt – Season 2

Sissi (2009)

The Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph falls in love with the young Elisabeth. It’s love at first sight but Franz Joseph’s mother Sophie doesn’t approve this love.

Sissi Trilogy (1955-1957)

Sissi is a trilogy of 1950 films starring Romy Schneider and Karlheinz Böhm and is part of the classic German-Austrian film history and some of the most successful German language films in box-office history.

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.

Sophie – Braut wider Willen

Reluctant Bride is a German melodramatic Telenovela set in the 19th century. Yvonne Catterfeld stars as the central character of Countess Sophie. A tale of a forbidden love and intrigue in a Germany of past times.

Sophie – Schlauer als die Polizei erlaubt

Miss Sophie Meyerhofer loves investigating crime almost as much as she loves sausage, sauerkraut and driving around Regensburg in her British car! Open-hearted and curious, she and her childhood friend, Father Anselm, contribute to the local investigations whether the chief inspector – her brother – likes it or not!

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….

Tannbach – Season 1

After the fall of the Third Reich, the small town of Tannbach is cruelly divided between East and West regimes and the town’s inhabitants suffer the consequences. A gripping historical drama exploring the devastating effects decades of conflict had on communities from the end of the Second War War to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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.

The Same Sky – Season 1

Cold War, the seventies. Lars is a Romeo agent from East Germany: he must go to the West side and seduce and spy on Western women who work in government or defense institutions.

The Team – Season 1

The series follows a number of national police agencies, working through the framework of EUROPOL, to attempt to solve a series of cross-border murders.

The Weissensee Saga – Season 1

A sweeping, gripping family saga of conflicting loyalties, love and betrayal, set behind the Iron Curtain in 1980s East Berlin. Uwe Kockisch (Donna Leon’s Brunetti) stars as Hans Kupfer, a Stasi officer whose youngest son, Martin, falls in love with Julia, the daughter of a dissident singer. Their courtship threatens the safety of both families, and sets into motion tumultuous events which play out over the course of the subsequent decade.

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