Christian Lerch

A girl struggling with asthma is taken to a clinic in South Tyrol to be cured. After some time she decides to get out of this hell (that's how she feels about it) and soon she'll meet a new friend. Together they try to reach the peak of a mountain where, according to an old custom, she can be healed.

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Chief Inspector Schaller and his team solve the most unusual cases in beautiful Munich with wit and charm.

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Honesty is the best? The original comedy tells of a farmer's clever family, which comes to this insight after some confusion. Director and author Thomas Kronthaler packages a fine morality about money, family ties and charity with a black sense of humor and a sense of subtle punchlines. In addition to Saskia Vester and Heinz-Josef Braun, who is mainly known through the films of Marcus H. Rosenmüller, shines not least the multi-award winning Gertrud Roll as a clever senior.

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The ultra-conservative master butcher Franz dies from an electric shock. His spirit is chained to the black African asylum seeker Alpha, who is in the same room. Together they must try to save the bankrupt traditional butcher's shop for Franz's daughter Zita. Business is going badly and her brother Anton has completely different plans. Together with his wife, he wants to open a trendy lounge for the neighboring football club.

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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. This is because Schikaneder seems to care more about spending time with high society than his actors, who 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....

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A show about two Bavarian police officers, Franz Hubert and Johannes Staller, who sometimes work a bit differently. Where Franz wants to follow regulations, Johannes likes to do things his own way.

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Even today, Mathias Kneißl (1875-1902) is considered a national hero in the collective memory of Bavaria. During his lifetime, he was the most wanted criminal in Bavaria and even Prince Regent Luitpold was reported daily on the hunt for the lawbreaker report. Again and again Kneißl's story has occupied the Bavarian artists: his life was retold in folk songs and murders, sung in ballads, filmed and treated in various plays. In his feature film version, the Bavarian filmmaker Marcus H. Rosenmüller relies on a rapid staging, opulent images and a moving love story.

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Andreas Kaiser returns to his Bavarian hometown of Schexing after around 15 years. The mayoral elections are coming up, but there is no one who wants to take over the office. Municipal treasurer Nelz and town hall manager Rosi Specht see Andreas as the ideal candidate. Inexperienced as he is, they believe they have an easy game with him. A mistake, as it soon turns out. No less stubborn than his father, farmer Ludwig Kaiser, Andreas throws himself into his work, develops unusual ideas and slowly but surely begins to turn the idyllic village upside down. Which doesn't meet with everyone's approval.

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An attractive farmer's wife attends a tango course in Munich with a friend while her two grumpy husbands stay on the farm. In the city, she attracts the attention of a passionate Argentinean man who woos her and makes her dream of a different future.

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The Hobeditz farmer, threatened with ruin, is promised 53 million euros as an inheritance when his will is opened. The only condition: He is to revive the custom of hobeditzing in memory of his grandfather. The only problem: there is no one far and wide who can remember the Hobeditz...

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München 7 is a German police drama series from Franz Xaver Bogner. The show is set in Munich, Germany and features the fictive police station "München 7" or "Munich 7". The main characters are the "Sheriff from Marienplatz" Xaver Bartl and his new colleague Felix Kandler. München 7 is part of a series of commonly branded shows with similar themes called "Heiter bis tödlich".

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Johanna, a librarian who was recently abandoned by her partner, has stopped her car at a railroad crossing to end her life. She caught her boyfriend in the act—with her best friend, of all people. Car mechanic Uwe shares Johanna's fate; he has been left by his career-obsessed girlfriend Sabine, who suddenly decided he wasn't good enough for her anymore. At the last second, Uwe manages to intervene and save Johanna, but in doing so, he almost wrecks his Opel Kadett. Johanna is first taken to a mental hospital, where her uncle is already staying. The elderly gentleman is a little crazy, but quite lovable. Convinced that he is a knight from the 13th century, he wants to do everything he can to reunite with Johanna's deceased mother Anneliese. He is firmly convinced that he can do this if he finds the time hole that opens every seven years on the Großglockner.

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A team of inspectors investigates murders in and around the small Upper Bavarian town of Rosenheim, and they still have plenty of time to see idyllic landscapes and luxurious pre-alpine villas and enjoy sumptuous Bavarian fare with beer.

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The film is a comedy centering on the lives of eight Germans who long for sexual excitement.

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Chancellor Helmut Kohl is to blame in Germany and has to go away without violence. The homeless Hick takes up the idea and demonstrates the abolition of Kohl.

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Two men become entangled in a torrid love affair with the same woman. Pierre is Miriam's longtime lover. John is desperately searching for clues about his past when he and Miriam have a fateful encounter in a Berlin train station. The allure of forbidden love becomes irresistible, and an intense love triangle is ignited. Who will Miriam choose? Who will walk away? For two men who desperately adore the same woman and for the woman who loves them equally...there is no easy way out.

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In this surrealist film director Picasso can awaken from the dead. He steals a paintings painted by himself of a couple of wealthy psychiatrists. When Picasso meets Takla Bash, a patient of the psychiatrists, Picasso falls in love. Although it is his own daughter, he remembers an incredible love affair, in which a film with a blue cow plays a role. In the majority of the paintings shown in the film are works of Herbert Achternbusch.

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In a small town in southern Germany, Rick, Lutz and Georg try to live out their frustrations in extended drinking bouts. In the "Paloma" pub, they look for confirmation in sexual adventures. They rape several girls, and none of the victims have the courage to talk, because everyone in the small town knows each other. Then one day, the body of a strange 20-year-old girl is found behind the rest area not far from the town, abused and strangled. She was hitchhiking to Landshut. The police initially investigate without success. No one claims to have seen anything and the case is finally filed away as unsolved. Only years later does Andi, one of the suspects, begin to talk, apparently driven by his conscience. He claims to have been there when Lutz, Georg and the landlord of their local pub committed the crime. The wall of silence threatens to topple...

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Café Meineid is a German courtroom comedy television series based on actual cases. The series aired 147 episodes from 1990 to 2003 and ended with the death of lead actor Erich Hallhuber.

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SOKO 5113 is a long-running German police procedural television series. It was first aired in 1978 on 2 January. SOKO is an abbreviation of the term "Sonderkommission" in German.

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Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.

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In this black comedy set in small-town Bavaria, 11-year-old Sebastian thinks you can never be too young to be a murderer. He's convinced that he killed his mother on the day he was born and is certain he's already been condemned to purgatory. Deciding he might be able to knock off a few years of his sentence by doing good deeds, Sebastian sets out to find a wife for his father Lorenz. When Lorenz and Sebastian's schoolteacher Veronika fall madly in love with each other, it seems the heavens must be smiling. There's just one hitch: Veronika is married.

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When the somewhat unsuccessful musician Sebastian returns to his Bavarian hometown, he learns that he is going to be a father. Although he is incredibly happy, he is haunted by the nightly visions of his childhood: in them, his future daughter declares that she does not want to be born! So Sebastian does everything he can to prove to his unborn child that this world is worth living in. Not an easy undertaking...

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