Nicole Heesters

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Hardly anyone knows the artist, but almost everyone knows her paintings: Tamara de Lempicka, icon of the 1920s. Her art deco paintings of women in cars or in evening dress adorn book covers and break auction records. But who was she? The ARTE documentary by Grimme Prize-winning author Sylvie Kürsten ventures a self-portrait of Lempicka, narrated and played by Nicole Heesters.

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When a body is found floating inside a pond deep in the forest, Detective Paul Werner is faced with a mystery.

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In 1918, at the end of World War I, young Emil Dreesen returns from the battlefield with the intention of taking over the family business, an elegant hotel on the banks of the Rhine.

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Carolinas, summer in Antwerp will be different from what she thought. She actually wants to found a new fashion label with Johann in Hamburg. But Mathis turns her life upside down.

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Vlad has just moved and joined one of the most famous magical schools in the world, where he meets fairies, witches, trolls and dwarfs. Him and his father are the first vampires in town, but he soon meets other special kids.

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Only a short time left until Max Telligan's diary is finished. Hollywood is already interested in the book's film rights. US producer Terry Wilde makes the successful British author a lucrative offer. But shortly after the negotiations, the American is found dead at the airport and a fierce battle for the diary begins. Telligan's wife Harriet and daughter Marsha also feel the effects. Terrorists, the CIA and Scotland Yard suddenly take an interest in the book. But Telligan's beautiful secretary Liz Ferber defies all threats and saves the manuscript from shady characters and brutal intruders. Will she uncover the secret of the book?

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Lou Andreas-Salomé, the woman who enraptured 19th century Europe’s greatest minds, recounts her life to Ernst Pfeiffer in this German film directed by Cordula Kablitz-Post. A published novelist, poet and essayist, Salomé’s desire to live a life free from convention scandalized society but spurred genius and passion in others, including Friedrich Nietzsche, Paul Rée and her lover, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Under the tutelage of Sigmund Freud, she became the first female psychoanalyst.

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A Black Forest timber industrialist has to assert herself against male supremacy and economic difficulties in the first half of the 20th century.

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Relationships between mothers and daughters are often very complex. Love and protective instincts, recognition and pride play just as important a role as patronization and envy, dependency and jealousy. This documentary allows prominent mother-daughter pairs to have their say, being surprisingly open about birth and puberty, growing up, sexuality and old age.

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Two single parents decide to move in together and their two teenage children fall in love.

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The young Berlin anesthesiologist Nora is facing exciting times: her partner Eric makes her a marriage proposal and she has the opportunity to give her first important speech at an international congress in St. Petersburg. Nora goes to Russia, where she gets a frosty reception. The Russian pediatrician Andrej, who has been assigned to her as a personal companion, is not very enthusiastic about this task. So he puts Nora in a taxi soon. But then Nora is attacked and Andrej plagues his guilty conscience. Soon, the people are coming closer to the fight.

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Summer 1969: The Americans fly to the moon and Johanna's life gets into turmoil. While her family spends some days in Hamburg, the hostess stays alone on the secluded Hallig to accommodate a guest. The hydraulic engineer Anton Brunner will carry out the necessary investigations so that the Halligs can be supplied with fresh water from the mainland. In these summer days, Anton and Johanna fall in love with each other passionately. When her family comes back, she has to make a decision.

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The focus is on the Gotland investigation team led by Inspector Robert Anders, who originally comes from Germany, his assistants Karin Jacobson and Thomas Wittberg, and the pathologist Ewa, played by Pippi Longstocking actress Inger Nilsson.

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After much hesitation, the doctor, who fell in love, Peter Hauser finally managed to make his girlfriend Stella a marriage proposal. But when the two want to surprise his father Heinrich with the good news, the one holds much greater surprise ready: On holiday, he has fallen in love with the attractive widow Johanna and married her right away. Peter is anything but excited. He believes that Johanna is a notorious husband murderer. However, in trying to gather evidence of his suspicion, the awkward amateur detective moves from one fool to the next.

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After surviving a heart attack, bus company owner Marianne Toeplitz should actually be more concerned about her health than her ailing business. But she only does this after an argument with her daughter Susanne, who wants to merge with the competition. Against all reason, Marianne sets off for Italy with her granddaughter: Teenager Nellie is in love and wants to join her boyfriend in Rimini - where Marianne experienced an unforgettable romance with the charming Giuseppe many years ago. Susanne follows the two runaways and gets closer to her ex-husband again. Marianne also learns that old love never rusts.

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SOKO Donau is an Austrian television series.

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Pastor Hund is horrified: a woman is now in charge of Pfullendorf. The arch-conservative man of God wants to put every stone in Dorothee Auer's path. He doesn't have to look far: Unsuspectingly, the mayor has offered the new business park to a dubious entrepreneur. That could cost her her job! But the lady has something else up her sleeve...

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The love of his life, Svetlana, chose suicide twelve years ago. At that time, Stein resigned from the Federal Intelligence Service. Since then, the ex-agent no longer searches for criminals, but is a professional hunter on the prowl. One morning, Stein comes across explosive secret documents in his hunting ground. They reveal the name of the man who had Svetlana on his conscience: Like Stein, Mooser worked for the BND in the CSSR and was in love with Svetlana. Out of wounded vanity, he blocked her exit visa and thus drove the Czech woman to her death. Stein senses an opportunity for the final shot. But Mooser also knows how to lay traps...

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Eva Blond is a German television series.

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The multiple burden as a mother, wife and author of successful historical romance novels Ellen swiss mastered always bravado. Actually, the attractive late forties could be satisfied with her life. But while it's just crackling with eroticism in her books, it only seems to exist for her husband as a housewife and mother. Gudrun Landgrebe plays the lead role in this quick-witted, aptly-watched comedy about the everyday chaos between kitchen, children, job and bed.

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Murder, Venice, relationships...it's a delicious concoction in the hands of crime novelist Donna Leon. Venice provides the backdrop for the lush film versions of the bestselling novels, which features the indelible Commissario Guido Brunetti, canal boat rides instead of car chases, fine cuisine and crime investigations in one of Europe’s most beautiful locations.

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