Timocin Ziegler

Autumn 1952: Committed journalist Hedda and her husband Winfried ambush Felix Kersten, former massage therapist to SS Reich Leader Himmler, on a train to Oslo. Kersten is said to have helped thousands of concentration camp prisoners to freedom during the Nazi era—at least according to his own account. But Hedda has her doubts. She considers Kersten a mythmaker who is using fabricated heroic deeds to put himself in the running for the Nobel Peace Prize. What begins as an interview develops into a tense, psychological cat-and-mouse game: Kersten, rhetorically brilliant and armed with alleged evidence, encounters a stubborn opponent who relentlessly confronts him with contradictions. As the conversation comes to a head, the announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize winner draws ever closer....

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Leonardo, whose real name is Michael, wants new white teeth—because everyone has them now. Only unsuccessful people still have yellow ones. So he needs 150 euros, which he doesn’t have, since he’s got more credit record entries than cash. On the streets, the law of the strongest applies—if you don’t have something, you take it, and Leonardo takes it. But the watch he steals turns out to be a fake, and he decides to simply return it to its owner. Luck, however, arrives a little later…

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High school sweethearts on the cusp of 30 undertake a 30-day open relationship experiment. Amid awkward dates and emotional upheaval their bond is tested, leaving uncertainty whether it brought them closer or pushed them apart.

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The undercover investigator Robert is supposed to win the trust of a criminal through a fictitious relationship with Leni. However, the feelings are not just a game. It is the spied criminal, of all people, who makes him confront his contradictory feelings…

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A man in search of his son: Adil Bahdari comes from Berlin to Passau after a fisherman finds an expensive watch with a dedication on the back on the banks of the Danube. The watch was a gift from Adil Bahdari to his son Ahmed, whom he has not heard from for some time. He hires private detective Ferdinand Zankl to search for his son.

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An overwhelmed young mother, her hard-working boyfriend and her lonely sister are trapped in their daily routine and social conventions, until one of them breaks out of her role and turns everything upside down.

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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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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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