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- A practical joking father tries to reconnect with his hard working daughter by creating an outrageous alter ego and posing as her CEO's life coach.
- A Berlin-set drama centered on a 40-something couple who, separately, fall in love with the same man.
- In a remote mountain village, Anna tries to preserve her young love for Marco, against all odds.
- Three ex-servicemen return to Basra, each for a different reason.
- Yiannis, a faded musician who is about to leave Cyprus for a better life abroad, sees his plans turned upside down when his dog crosses the Buffer Zone that separates the "Greek South" from the "Turkish North". Can he smuggle him back in?
- After her mom's tragic death on the Polish-Belarusian border a 16-year-old Kurdish girl Runa has to become a mother for her 4 younger brothers. A partially animated coming-of-age story in the times of a global refugee crisis.
- In Hamburg, Ibrahim "Ibo" Secmez, of Turkish descent, wants to direct the first German kung-fu movie. For now he makes commercials for his uncle's kebab restaurant. When Titzie, Ibo's aspiring-actress girlfriend, finds out that she's pregnant, Ibo's uncertainty about fatherhood is compounded by his own father's disowning him for getting a German girl pregnant--so Titzie sends him packing. He makes attempts at getting it right, but as the birth approaches, he's still not ready. In the background are three thugs in search of good tripe soup and a Capulet-Montague feud between the kebab joint and the Greek taverna across the street. Can Ibo be the glove upon that hand?
- A personal essay about the United States, viewed through the life and work of a movie actor. Henry Fonda and the roles he played merge into a dazzling and conflicted figure. A very private man who thought he had "no good answers to anything" becomes the unlikely motor of a parallel history. His voice, recorded during his last interview in 1981, and his onscreen avatars guide us through America's past and present - on a road trip from the village of Fonda, NY, across the Midwest to the Pacific; from 1651 to the 1980s and the presidency of another movie actor. It takes many places and times and characters to imagine an invisible republic - the United States of Fonda.
- Using extracts from individuals' diaries and some film records, this documentary series tells the story of the changes that occurred in Berlin (and Germany) during the pivotal year of 1933.
- Two couples who can't stand each other need to become friends. Because this is their only chance for a life-saving organ donation.
- An exciting piece of Berlin's cultural history from the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall to the vibrant present.
- Griesenow, 2013: Die Friseurin Marianne Voss wird von ihrer Tochter Heike tot im Wald gefunden. Kurz darauf gerät Ehemann Karsten unter Mordverdacht. Doch er beteuert seine Unschuld. Marianne und Karsten Voss führten über nahezu 50 Jahre eine harmonische Ehe. Als Karsten wegen Mordes angeklagt wird, steht die Kleinstadt unter Schock. Der Indizienprozess bringt erschütternde Einsichten in die Ehe des scheinbaren Vorzeigepaars. Die Zeugenaussagen vor Gericht lassen die Geschichte der Familie Voss ab 1990 wieder aufleben. Nachdem Karsten zum Bürgermeister der brandenburgischen Kleinstadt gewählt wird, beschert er dem Ort einen unvergleichlichen Aufschwung. Er ist als charismatischer, tatkräftiger und sympathischer Macher bekannt und beliebt. Und auch nachdem er in Rente geht, sind Karsten und Marianne Voss ein gern gesehenes, perfektes Paar. Und jetzt soll er seine Frau ermordet haben?
- Tai and Jannik are outsiders at their school who are also bullied by their classmates. They manage to lock their school principal, Mr. Lamprecht, in his apartment and torture him via a PC. What starts as a prank gradually escalates. In his attempts to find out who his kidnappers are, Lamprecht reports more and more about his past and his private life, including: about his failed marriage and his problematic actions surrounding the suicide of a student. When he finally wants to commit suicide himself, Jannik frees him. Until the end, Lamprecht doesn't know who kidnapped him and can't prove the kidnapping itself.
- A star dancer at the Cambodian royal court lovingly raises her husband's little brother as her own son. Decades later, as a forced laborer under the oppressive rule of Khmer Rouge, she discovers that her foster son is none other than Pol Pot. The mass purges of the regime (spanning from 1975 to 1979 - Pol Pot annihilated 25% of Cambodia's population) are intertwined with painful memories of the relatives of the bloodthirsty dictator, who today stage an impressive dance performance depicting an encounter between the leader of the Khmer Rouge and his foster mother. In this stunning documentary, valuable archival material is seamlessly combined with the images of the dancers, the traditional costumes, and the descriptions of the deep significance behind this major cultural expression of the Cambodian people, offering a flawless outcome, one that is profoundly melancholic, beautiful, and yet at the same time tragic. Art serves as pain relief for the greatest open wounds of History.
- Fredo Schulz hat Darmkrebs und nur noch drei Monate zu leben, wenn er sich nicht sofort in Behandlung begibt. Der Mord an einem Personenschützer deuten auf einen Krieg zwischen Verbrecherclans hin.
- The vikings are feared as plunderers. However, their longboats also serve for their manhunts. Slaves are often the most important treasure for Norsemen. Three men or four women about equal the worth of a chain-mail. Slavs, Anglo-Saxons and especially Irish Celts are caught and sold into slavery. Ireland is the center of this slave trade and in the Middle Ages, Dublin is Europe's largest slave market. "ZDF-History" reconstructs the true life story of Findan, who was able to flee from viking slavery. It shows how important slaves were for a smoothly working Norse society and what fate awaited the captives.
- Seeking the truth in a human grey area. Lawyer Annabelle Martinelli has specialized in sexual offences and represents victims of domestic violence. Shoe salesperson Doreen Markowitz seeks her support after pressing charges against her husband Leon for assault and sexual violence. The opposing lawyer is Annabelle's ex-boss John Quante, a cunning and unscrupulous divorce lawyer. Annabelle is convinced that her client has been systematically intimidated, beaten and forced to have sex. But the evidence is thin. One of several cases she has to deal with which put her professional distance to the test.
- Kosovo 1999: Two KFOR soldiers save a Serbian woman from the vendetta of an Albanian child and lose their political and emotional distance.
- From Africa to Asia and from Australia to America. The series explores how the continental plates and nature have shaped and influenced our different cultures.
- How do researchers observe the physical forces at work on the Sun's surface? Can we recreate in the laboratory the nuclear fusion that takes place at its heart? What would be the impact of a major solar storm on the power grids of an interconnected world? With astrophysicists, nuclear energy researchers, historians of science, artists and hunters of the aurora borealis - a phenomenon caused by the entry of particles from the solar wind into the Earth's atmosphere - this documentary sets out to discover a star that has been a symbol of life since the dawn of humanity.
- A couple celebrates Christmas with their 3 ex-husbands, 1 ex-wife and everyone's new partners.
- Amid Venezuela's economic and political turmoil, two single mothers navigate the challenges of providing for their children, as millions flee the failed state and many are left behind.
- A man who earned his life by imitating Elvis Presley in the retired houses, with his newly reunited daughter traveling all over Europe, to deliver a sheep to Norway. A hearthwarmer road movie.
- We want cheap fruit and veg, all year. No problem. The Pickers deliver, but they are paying the price for us.
- There is a lack of basic knowledge about the menstrual cycle. However, various fields of research are beginning to take an interest in it and ask questions. Freed from myths and prejudices, the menstrual cycle is being re-evaluated and no longer seen as something weakening, but as something strengthening.
- Feature adaptation of Torsten Schulz's novel set in East Berlin in 1968.
- After the death of her mother, Freja embarks on a desperate journey to reunite her family - no matter the cost. But soon, letting go seems inevitable.
- In occupied Poland, the Nazis established three extermination camps, one in Sobibor. The inmates had organized an uprising that allowed some to survive and report the horrific events.
- Deep in the jungle of Cambodia lies a jewel from the Khmer Empire: the temple of Banteay Chhmar. Half devoured by plants and long forgotten by most people, the 800-year-old complex is being rediscovered, slowly.
- By launching its fleet against the Chinese junks in 1889, the British Empire declared one of the first wars motivated solely by economic interests. Deploring a trade balance largely in deficit with China, the United Kingdom wants to sell him its stocks of opium by force. Faced with resistance from the Qing Empire, the British went on the offensive in the name of free trade, whose pacificating virtues they were convinced of. Since this exemplary history of ambiguous relations between states, from cooperation to fierce competition, trade wars have been repeated, increasingly sophisticated but not always less bloody. The advent of the industrial revolution, liberalism and then globalization have multiplied the sources of conflict.