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Paul Winkelmann is the CEO of a successful business in Hamburg that he took over after the death of his father eight years ago. But he is still strongly dominated by his 78 year old mother who cares for him as a child, and who cannot understand why he took an apartment on his own after all these years. The real "problem" starts when Paul gets to know psychologist Margarethe Tietze whose relationship to her parents is also not so easy after all.

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German biochemist Dr. Peter Lester, his wife and 15-year-old son Michael, become the victims of an unscrupulous pharmaceutical company in Australia, as young Michael disappears from the heavily guarded research camp in the outback.

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It is the story of a middle age professor who falls deaply in love with a young student in his English literature class. The student is a boarder in the teacher's house. The teacher is married and his wife knows he is mostly attracted to young men. She loves him nevertheless. The whole story revolves around a book the professor will write, dictating to his young pupil... he will only declare his love at the end of the writing ...and, it is too late.

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Timm Thaler is a 1979 children's television miniseries based on the 1962 children's novel by German writer James Krüss. The series originally aired in Germany as the first Christmas series on German national broadcaster ZDF. In 1988, the series was acquired for transmission in the United Kingdom by the BBC. The English version was produced by Angela Beeching, with script by Nel Romano, and retitled The Legend of Tim Tyler. It aired during Children's BBC in the weekday afternoons. The screenplay was written by Justus Pfaue and Peter M. Thouet and differs somewhat from the original novel. Directed by Sigi Rothemund, the series became a hit in Germany and made then 14-year-old Tommi Ohrner, in the lead role of Timm Thaler, a popular teen idol of the era. The role of the Baron was played by Horst Frank.

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After the death of his father, the ambitious farmhand Hauke Haien works his way up to become the successor to the old dyke count, whose daughter Elke he marries. He develops plans for the construction of a new dyke to provide better protection against storm surges, but encounters resistance and inertia from the villagers, who superstitiously suspect him of being in league with the devil. As a heavy storm approaches, he chases towards the floods with his white horse...

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Kara Ben Nemsi Effendi is a German television series broadcast from 1973 through 1975 in 26 parts and two seasons. It featured an adventurer probably inspired by British explorers Richard Francis Burton and T. E. Lawrence. The scripts were faithful to Karl May's Orient novels and the score is from Martin Böttcher who previously had composed the music for ten very successful Karl May films in cinema and in 1998 also for the two parts of Winnetous Rückkehr, also being aired by the German station ZDF.

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Alice Thursday brings her grandson David back to England from a family visit to the New World. On the way from the airport to the country house near London, the headstrong boy causes chauffeur Bates and butler Hunter some grief. He takes advantage of a car breakdown to go trout fishing and climbs into the stately Rolls Royce with his pants dripping wet. The millionaire heiress also experiences trouble at home and at work upon her return. The housekeeper complains that Alice has hired Mary, a girl with a criminal record.

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Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

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Der Kurier der Kaiserin is a German Television series.

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"Take care of Merton Hall!" is the last wish of industrial magnate George Dunrich to cleaning lady Alice Thursday. A few days later, the executor of his will, Bridger, informs the respectable woman, who grew up on the same street as Dunrich, that the deceased has left her £10 million of his fortune...

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Reconstruction of the murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg and the following farcical military court procedures.

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The disaster began in the late summer of 1894, when a French staff officer appeared at the military attaché of the German embassy in Paris. He offers important military information at very high prices. A cover letter for this case ends up in the attaché's wastepaper basket. It is stolen. Investigations by the French Ministry of War incriminate Captain Dreyfus.

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In 1876, Englishman Henry Wickham breaks Brazil's rubber monopoly. Although exporting rubber tree seeds is punishable by death, he illegally transports the valuable seeds out of the country after a dangerous expedition through the Amazon region.

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