Grandpa Oskar takes neither the truth nor himself very seriously. The rascal has just been released from prison, where he was serving a sentence for...

Journalist Sophie Bergmann is working on a legacy study on the effects of Hartz IV on society. She is increasingly reluctant to report on the...

Dr. Viktoria Wex tries to solve the coldly executed murder of an IT entrepreneur.

The documentary tells the life story of Margot Friedländer, a 101-year-old Berlin native who survived the Holocaust and was awarded the Federal...

The widower Danyal worries about his adult daughter Jila, even though the doctor has long been on her own feet. When the man in his mid-fifties can't...

A man and a woman meet in a bar. They walk through the night without any reason. At dawn they separate again. A long take.

In a world where death has become a private service company, three workers rebel against their own mortality.

When 22-year-old Rainer Werner Fassbinder storms the stage of a small, progressive theatre in Munich 1967, and seizes the production without further...

Shows the interaction between Hamburg police officers and paramedics.

Bella Block is a long-running German detective television series starring Hannelore Hoger, first broadcast in 1994 on ZDF. In 2010 the 30th series...

Almost half a century ago, a young woman dared to speak out publicly with pointed theses on gender roles or abortion laws. The reactions were violent.

This series explores both the personal lives and careers of a series of influential women, examining their lives in a modern context.