David Baalcke

Jean and Otto, a French newspaperman and a young German Francophile, are fighting for peace in Europe. Jean’s daughter, Corinne, is launching a brilliant acting career in the film world, but war breaks out and France is occupied. The two friends have a major role to play in this new France. Jean becomes a big press baron and an ardent advocate of collaboration with the occupying forces, while Otto becomes the Reich’s ambassador in Paris. Corinne, meanwhile, finds herself thrown into the lion’s pit.

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Twenty-year-old Joachim is unexpectedly accepted at drama school in Munich and moves into his grandparents' upper-class villa. From then on, he tries to find his identity as a young man between the world of theater and the everyday life of his eccentric grandparents.

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After World War I, political divisions deepen in a village in Upper Bavaria. Julius Kraus, a reclusive cobbler, finds himself caught between the fronts when his Jewish identity is revealed. The two 90-minute feature films are based on the novel "Unruhe um einen Friedfertigen" (Unrest Around a Peaceful Man) by Oskar Maria Graf, a masterpiece of German-language exile literature.

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In order to finally get that long-awaited promotion, Heinz Hellmich, an old white man, has to show his "wokest" side at work. When he invites his superiors to a private dinner at his home, his family's politically correct façade quickly begins to crumble and the evening takes a hair-raising turn.

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The rise and fall of Milli Vanilli, a studio group assembled by German producer Frank Farian and fronted by nightclub dancers Robert Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan. After a string of worldwide hit singles, awards and performances, it was revealed that the duo never sang a note of their songs, leading to one of the biggest scandals in music history.

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Pensioner Gerda grabs burglar Simon (armed with a harpoon) and forces him to be her carer. Anything is better than the nursing home to which she was taken by her daughter Linda. When the daughter has to move in with her mother because her apartment has become a permanent building site, things really start to get "funny".

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Star reporter Lars Bogenius is a respected journalist and knows how to wow his readers and critics with emotional reportage. Emotional, realistic and moving, his style regularly promises to win him the industry's most coveted awards. His publishing house is also grateful to the exceptional journalist, because the paper's numbers are sinking and are being cushioned by Bogenius' reportage, among other things. Everything sounds too good to be true - at least that's the opinion of freelance journalist Juan Romero, who takes on the inconsistencies and looks deeper behind Bogenius' research and reportage. It's a dangerous plan that faces numerous obstacles. But what he discovers turns out to be the biggest journalism scandal in Germany.

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Ercan is fed up with clichés of migrant roles. Instead of playing a terrorist on television, the Turkish actor is trying to get a role as Hitler in a new movie.

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Guesthouse landlady Sophie and Barthl, her unloved stablemate for life, have unusual holiday guests come to their house. Janine Brieschke from Berlin is traveling with her three children from three fathers and her current partner “Zecke”. Barthl would like to immediately chase the capital city residents who are making a lot of noise and trampling his beloved meadows off the farm.

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The fate of Nora, a supermarket cashier who lives happily with her boyfriend Aron, and that of Natan, a loving father who works as a night watchman, cross paths when misfortune turns their lives upside down.

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Pop star Mirko Mortauk has delivered the party anthem for an entire generation. When he comes on stage, his loyal fans want to hear his hit "Bingo" and party like they did back in the 1990s. That was quite a while ago, so Mirko is in the midst of a career and life crisis.

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Now that too. As soon as the model Bavarian Toni Freitag has properly integrated his son-in-law Osman, daughter Franzi drags an uninvited boarder from Berlin - in the person of her mother-in-law Farah. Unfortunately, good Toni gets along with the quick-witted businesswoman like cats and dogs. Servus. The fact that Farah has left her stubborn "Pascha" Mesut and her wedding dress shop and wants to stay indefinitely also shakes the ideal world of the reigning shooter king. His wife Anne soon showed a rapidly decreasing willingness to keep his back in the family and in the company as before.

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In order to save her mountain guesthouse from ruin, Sopie plans to build a glass extension with a pool as an attraction. She comes up with this saving idea when her best friend Verena visits, who brings her brother Jan with her and who draws the plans for it. However, Sophie's permanent guest for life does not agree with these plans at all: Barthl, who would like to drive away all visitors, fears for his stable rights.

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The fact that Rudolph Moshammer is a dazzling figure and the most prominent fashion designer in Munich is no longer enough for his silent partners and financiers. So it happens that he is looking for a seductive woman to sell and - to the horror of his mother - brings on the young pedicurist Evi from Augsburg, of all places. With Evi's help, Mosahmmer wins the hearts and purses of the truly rich - if it weren't for his mother, who is scheming in the background. A fictional story that tells of beauty and money, but also of the friendship of two outsiders in Munich in 1983.

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En route to a party they are not keen on attending, the Famous Five are almost relieved when Aunt Fanny's car breaks down, stranding them in a small town. To pass the time, they visit the local natural history museum, where some newly-discovered dinosaur bones are being unveiled. Here they meet Marty, who tells them that his father, long dead, supposedly found a complete dinosaur skeleton and made a map of its whereabouts. Unfortunately the map has been stolen. Unable to let a good mystery go unsolved, George, Julian, Dick, Anne and Timmy, join a guided hike through the Valley of Dinosaurs. But their fact-finding mission soon turns into a race to find the dinosaur when they suspect that the thief is one of the group.

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A bank robber becomes a teacher after being released from prison and finds himself at the center of a number of crazy adventures.

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Alfons Zischl, mayor of Hindafing, tries to give his community a new image by building a mall for organic food. Soon enough the whole village is taking part in his corrupt games, entangling Zischl in growing debt and dubious obligations.

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Sonja and her fiancé Thomas are about to get married. Their young happiness is shaken when Sonja is sexually assaulted by her childhood sweetheart Adrian after a birthday party.

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Gwen has just discovered, that she's the final member of the secret time-traveling Circle of Twelve. Now she has to juggle with constant trips to the past, her relationships with Gideon and figuring out dark secrets surrounding the Circle.

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Matthias, who is about to lead his beloved Diana in front of the altar, cannot believe his eyes: Lily, the former love of his life, appears as the pastor who has stepped in at short notice! The convincingly played love drama sends its protagonists on an exciting emotional balancing act with a constant risk of falling.

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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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After the death of her mother Gesa also wants to learn the profession of midwife, But because the city midwife rejects her she has to apprentice to Professor Kilian in the city's birthing house. However, he abuses the unmarried pregnant women housed there for his studies.

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First Police Chief Inspector Vera Lanz, a Munich police detective, attempts to balance her professional and private life.

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Morden im Norden is a German Police that has been broadcast by Das Erste. The show is set in Lübeck, Germany Morden im Norden is part of a series of commonly branded shows with similar themes called "Heiter bis tödlich".

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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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The SOKO Stuttgart team investigates analytically and with sensitivity in the likeable state capital. The exciting cases of the series lead them to bizarre crime scenes and to different milieus.

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An almost bombproof method of staying single is called "speed dating". 18 people participate in such an event. Nine men and nine women are sitting opposite each other in order to sell optimally under the pressure of time and to find a partner. They are looking for a date - and have nothing else in common. They talk about allergies, cappuccino, consumer behavior, buses and designer clothes: the list of serious embarrassments is long. Yet none of the lonely hearts has given up the hope of romance.

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