Jenny Gröllmann
1947 - 2006
Eva und Adam
Horst E. Brandt
Ursula Karusseit, Helga Göring
The "Eva" whose story is being told is the self-confident and ambitious young scientist Dr. Vera Schmitt. After successfully completing her doctorate, Vera Schmitt married the director of the printing press plant, Dr. Stefan Bunge, with the firm intention to never let jealousy and arguments arise in their marriage. This resolution is soon put to the test and threatens to fail when Stefan Bunge is promoted to general director of a combine in Leipzig. From now on, the two have a weekend marriage because Vera is not ready to subordinate her own professional development to Stefan's new job.
Eva und Adam
I Was Nineteen
Konrad Wolf
Jaecki Schwarz, Vasiliy Livanov
Gregor is a young soldier entering Germany with the victorious Soviet troops at the end of WWII. But he is also the child of left-wing Germans who fled from Hitler and spent the war in the Soviet Union. As a result, his return to Germany is ambivalent; he finds he is a stranger in his own land. As they enter Germany, Gregor begins to realize that he is different from all his comrades in arms, for this defeated land is his home country, the Germans he meets are his compatriots. He is a victor, but also one of the vanquished. He attempts to understand the Germans he meets along his way, but he is a 19-year-old: inquisitive, occasionally uncomprehending and repeatedly dismayed by the atrocities and lies he encounters.
I Was Nineteen
Isabel on the Stairs
Hannelore Unterberg
Irina Gallardo, Mario Krüger
Twelve-year-old Isabel and her mother, who was a famous political singer, had to escape Chile after the 1973 military coup. Isabel’s father stayed behind fighting in the underground. For six years, they have lived in a new apartment building in East Berlin. At first, the neighbors made an effort to welcome them, but later became more distant. Isabel does not feel at home in the strange country. Not even her friendship to Philip, the neighbors’ son, can change her mind. Almost every day, Isabel sits on the stairs waiting for a letter from her father, from whom she has not heard for many years.
Isabel on the Stairs
Peas at 5:30
Lars Büchel
Fritzi Haberlandt, Tina Engel
It all starts with a bang. The car breaks through the crash barrier and falls off the bridge. The lights go out. After that, he is not able to see anymore. His optic nerve is severed, from now on the young stage-director Jakob is blind. His life will change and nothing will ever be the same. Jakob cannot handle the idea of never being able to see again and screams at the only woman who is able and willing to help him, Lily. A rehabilitation teacher, she helps the blind deal with the darkness. Lily has been living with it since birth, she too is blind.
Peas at 5:30
Geschichten jener Nacht
Frank Vogel, Karl-Heinz Carpentier
Hans Hardt-Hardtloff, Peter Reusse
Four directors - four styles - four episodes, all relating the events of a single night which has entered the history books: August 12-13, 1961. There are thousands of complex narratives connected with the frontier drawn through the middle of Berlin, and each episode relates the story of a difficult decision made on that night...
Geschichten jener Nacht
