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- Leonard and Judith have little in common. More precisely: almost nothing. He is a math professor who loves solitude and avoids other people. Judith, on the other hand, enjoys being around people at her job in the campus café and lets herself into unusual ideas. This also includes the plan of her long-term affair, Stefan, to smuggle her into the academic world without studying so that she can continue to live in her cheap university apartment. Without further ado, Stefan stamps a new educational series out of the ground in his function as head of PR at the university and orders the surprised Leonard to inspire students for the magic of numbers. For the presentations in the classroom, the professor, who suffers from anxiety disorders, is provided with the communicative Judith. Actually not a bad idea, because who could reach math gruff better and more credibly than Judith, who so far has little knowledge of algebra and geometry. The fact that Leonard's father Franz Damovsky, a former comedian, should also support the project with his celebrities in the media, turns out to be a bad idea. As in the past, the reckless senior makes his rough jokes at the expense of his neurotic son. Meanwhile, Judith is not only beginning to see mathematics through different eyes, but also her project partner Leonard .
- The king decides that since his daughter Snow White, whose mother died in childbirth, is old enough to marry an already-chosen prince, it's time now for him to remarry, but his evil bride stops at nothing to eliminate her stepdaughter as a 'beauty rival' and cut every other tie with the late queen. She mounts he throne after the softy king dies at the news that Snow White was devoured by a wild beast. In fact, she ordered the royal huntsman to bring her heart as proof of death, but instead he shot a deer and left the princess in the forest, where she found the messy home of the seven miner dwarfs and became their housekeeper. Informed by her magic mirror that princess lives beyond the mountain, she incarcerates the huntsman and repeatedly passes through in disguise to offer magical death sentences, which are accepted naively, but each time she's saved by the dwarfs, the last time mostly the prince who came looking for his bride, having been incognito at court as the huntsman's inconspicuous assistant.
- Major German wine merchant checks up, with his romantic side agenda, on his oenologist Sandra in Sicily where she must find him an extraordinary claret, preferably from a local grape varietal. She refuses to 'settle for' the "nero d'avola" presented by local wine tycoon Vincent, but after running from his 'excessive flirting' after dinner accidentally finds in a grocery shop the right stuff, In Vino, alas without clues to the supplier. Stumbling upon a beached-up man, whom she brings to hospital as "Robinson" Sandra gets a crush on the amnesiac mystery compatriot and meets local commissioner Velani, who suspects an illegal refugee or crook but wants to help defeat crooked Vincenzo, thus provides tips where to look for the winemaker. He turns out to be Vincenzo's old neighbor and hereditary feud rival Ludovico Veritas, whom he sabotages by bribing the waterworks. She hesitates to tell Robinson he's identified as family father Bruno Haller until her brother Jens Brinkmann, whim she invited for a holiday with high-pregnant wife Alma, kicks her a conscience. All may still work out 'the Italian way'.
- Very different sisters Rike and Nicola annually make a joint exotic voyage. This time chaotic do-gooder Nicola chose Salamanca, Spain, failing to tell she actually booked to a paying volunteers program, two weeks in self-service inns to help restore a traditional route St.Jacob's pilgrimage to Compostella. Organized, bossy younger Rike still stays, feeling she must solve Rike's marital crisis meanwhile. The volunteers reside in the rural inn of old Felipe, who got his efficient son Carlos, who runs a languages school in Salamanca with his wife, as his unreliable hedonistic brother Pablo missed up again. While both sibling pairs argue, Rike and Carlos get romantically involved.
- The story of Beauty and the beast.
- The once celebrated stock exchange genius Piet N. Schneller has a hard time baking small rolls as a Hartz IV recipient. Under pressure from his case manager Runknagel, Piet reluctantly accepts a driver's job at the Hamburger Tafel. On his first day he surprisingly meets his ex-girlfriend Veronika at the food distribution for the needy. In order not to show any weaknesses in front of the love of his life, Piet switches back to the successful type. Although Veronika soon finds out how he really is, she gets involved in the game and accepts his invitation to dinner. At the dinner in his former noble restaurant "Truffaldino" he is the chef in the tried and tested manner. Veronika doesn't play with open cards either: the successful manager keeps to herself that she runs a famous auction house and only helped out at the table on a voluntary basis. There is a great need for talks between her and Piet, because they both secretly mourn their separation 20 years ago. Without promising each other anything, they decide to continue where their future together ended abruptly: as hitchhikers, Piet and Veronika set off on a romantic trip to Venice. Despite the best of intentions, it initially cracks more than it crackles. In order to start anew, an unfinished business from back then and the truth about the living conditions of today have to be put on the table.
- Summer 1780: On the way to Salzburg, Emanuel Schikaneder's theatre group gets held up in a small mountain village on the Austrian border due to a missing performance permit. In this village a dispute between mine owner Paccoli and the rebelling mine workers is escalating. The situation immediately inspires Schikaneder with the idea for a new play, but before long not only the mineworkers but also Schikaneder's performers take to the picket line because Schikaneder seems to care more about spending time with high society than his actors, whom the Landlord refuses to feed until Schikaneder pays the outstanding bill. A hastily-put-together open-air performance by the troupe leads to major disruption..
- Anne Schuster is soccer scout and has been invited to the wedding of her best friend Laura with Vlado.So Anne travels to Istria and is happy to meet her friend Laura.After that Anne discovers a soccer field where young boys are playing.She notices Matija , a 12 years old boy who is shows talent: the boys are coached by the grandfather of Matija.Some moments later Laura is angry because Miha, Vlado's father wants to organize a huge wedding in the family house, so Anne and Laura have a walk through the hills and notice a little chapel and near an olive tree plantation.In the chapel they cross a man and Anne recognizes Darijo, her youth love. Some hours later Anne meets Darijo in the village and tries to speak with him: the talk is short and full of bitterness.Then Anne decides to spent a good time with Zoran, Vlado's brother.Later when Anne goes to the olive plantation with Vlado she discovers that the cabin and the plantation belongs to Darijo who accepts to lend the place for the wedding celebration.
- Monika has been invited by her mother Gertrud for a journey to Scotland.Monika have been in Scotland 30 years ago for a student exchange and remembers always her first love Angus Sinclair.The bus in which they travel is full of retired persons , her mother speaks always about her private life and Monika doesn't feel well with this group of tourists and with her mother. After three days she leaves her mother and the group to look for her first love.Soon she meets Richard Travis, a landscape photographer who manages the bed and breakfast of his mother who is in a hospital.Then later she meets Angus Sinclair who has become an important man in the whiskey business.
- Brothers Grimms' fairy tale about Hansel and Gretel, brother and sister, who struggle against the witches.
- This animated short follows the life of a poor, German coal miner, Peter Munk. Coal mining leaves Peter far from the riches he desires, yet when given the opportunity to have three wishes granted, things do not go as well as he had hoped.
- Based on real events in the second half of the 19th century, the film tells the story of Bavarian poacher Georg Jennerwein and the rivalry for the affections of a girl between him and his closest friend.
- A German woman from Franckfurt has been fired from her job in the bank when she receives news about her father's death. After that, she's informed she's the heiress of some land located in Masuria, Poland where her father spent three weeks at his nurse's home. She has to travel there in order to resolve her financial problems when she meets a Polish farmer who happens to be that nurse's brother.
- Sleeping Beauty - the fairy tale.
- In order to be able to marry the princess, the miller boy Hans has to find his way to hell. If he fails to steal three golden hairs from the devil, all is lost.
- CICERO pays tribute to the brilliant musicians Roger and Eugen Cicero, who died tragically unexpected and far too early. 'Mr. Golden Hands' Eugen in Zurich, 1997, and his son, singer Roger in 2016 when the shooting process was already ongoing in Germany. Both were master of their trades, with their their deep musicality, their technique and impressive skills to improvise. The story reveals two remarkable biographies, enormous parallels and differences how to manage their way of life on stage and in reality. The cinema movie entails the uniqueness of the protagonists relationship and focuses on the peerless life's path of the artists: colourful, intense, varied, with humorous moments, and deeply engaging for the audience. With the dense interviews of close companions, family members and friends the film creates a great cinematic and musical experience combined with legendary archive, concert moods and recording footage. --- An homage to Roger Cicero and his father Eugen - two exceptional musicians who died too young, but left behind an inimitable musical legacy. Piano player Eugen Cicero was considered a wunderkind. But he had problems with the communist regime in his home country early on in his career. During a tour to East Berlin in the 1960s, he fled to West Germany, where he played with the RIAS orchestra and many of the era's jazz greats. His son Roger became one of Germany's best known singers. Father and son both had extraordinary music careers, both of which ended in similar tragedies. Their life stories were marked by genius coupled with passion, by surmounting obstacles, and by a balancing act between commercial success and artistic integrity. In this film, friends and colleagues give insights in the two's work and creativity. It is a portrait of special father-son relationship, accentuated with their sublime concert moments, musical cosmos and their bright personalities they left behind. --- Eugen Cicero played with fabled singers as Shirley Bassey, Ella Fitzgerald, Caterina Valente, or legend Oscar Peterson and many more exceptional musicians. He recorded at the MPS studios with tremendous success. His son Roger created sensational concerts in his career i.a. at Montreux Jazz Festival.
- Ten-year-old Jakob, a handsome, dreamy, sheltered boy, prefers to help his mother at her vegetable stall at the market instead of helping his father in the shoemaker's workshop. One day an ugly old woman appears there, whose behavior Jacob looks at both critically and fearfully. It is the fairy herb white who lures the boy away from his parents with a ruse - and into their house. This is where a seven-year hard apprenticeship begins for him, which leads him into the witch's kitchen in several stages. Under the strict guidance of the fairy, Jakob ultimately develops into a true master of the art of cooking.When he wakes up from his supposed dream and can finally escape, Jakob sees himself transformed into a misshapen dwarf with a long nose. Repelled in horror by his parents, who do not recognize him, and mocked by his fellow citizens because of his appearance, the unfortunate man finally arrives at Duke Alois' court. He was enthusiastic about Jacob's cooking skills and accepted him into his service. Henceforth he is called "dwarf nose" and for the first time since his transformation he has received professional recognition. As a person, however, he remains a lonely outsider. Only when he meets Mimi, a young girl who has been transformed into a goose, is there a being with whom he is can speak openly about his fate. New mischief brews when the demanding Countess Wilhelmine comes to visit. Duke Alois wants to persuade his beloved to marry and dwarf nose should seduce her with his culinary art. When the lady asks of all things a pie whose recipe Jakob does not know, the master chef's life is in danger. Fortunately, Mimi, who is also enchanted, has advice.
- Michael, the young king of a small German realm, promised on his father's deathbed to marry, but instead of choosing any of the daughters of reigning princes his minister makes him visit, Michael looses his heart to Marie, the blond daughter of a simple miller. Worse, the chief minister, who learned her father's secret, hides Marie locked-up in a castle tower, pretending to the king she was killed by wolves in the forest, and threatens her family so she spins gold from straw; so Marie must accept the terms of the magical dwarf Rumpelstilzchen (Rumpelstiltskin in English), who appears when Marie pricks her finger to spin gold thrice for her, but each time demands a prized counterpart- first her beloved Peter's gift, a ring, then her late mother's necklace, finally her firstborn when she will be Michael's queen...