Charlotte works in a record store. After an encounter with a Charlie Parker fan, she is irritated. Her life suddenly seems conformist and meaningless, her relationship with her boyfriend and her parents superficial. At night, she meets the musician Leonard Blau in the subway car wash and falls in love with him. Leonard is different from all the others, full of secrets and crazy ideas. Leonard Blau is an outsider who doesn't want to fit in. He often offends his fellow human beings and causes a lack of understanding. He himself is increasingly unsettled by this because he is plagued by fears whose origins he does not know. But there is an angel watching over him, the angel looks like Allen Ginsberg. Charlotte quickly senses that something is wrong with Leonard, but she loves him and wants to live this amour fou.
Shy medical student Milla stumbles across a medieval manuscript from the time of the witch hunts while researching for a presentation: The Bible of Blood. Together with three fellow students, she starts experimenting with the text - with extremely deadly consequences: Because "The Bible of Blood" actually seems to have the power to make her most secret wishes come true. But they have also unleashed a dark power. The inconspicuous students become sex-obsessed beasts who will walk over dead bodies...
A desperate family on its way to self-destruction - a drama about struggling generations, "Kronos" becomes an absurd symbol of the recurrent process of perishing and new beginnings.
It is set in a dreary village in the Schwabian-Frankish Forest where the seemingly reserved Lena lives with her tyrant of a husband, Johannes, in a loveless marriage. Johannes is the village's spiritual leader and Lena is his faithful, ever-ready-to-serve wife. Lena's daily life is characterized by grinding monotony, a life narrowly circumscribed by nursing, organ playing and the duties of the marriage bed. The mysterious murder of a village girl suddenly knocks this humdrum existence off its tracks. In the wake of these events Lena discovers the affection and tenderness for which she has always longed in Paul, the village mechanic. This encounter is the start of an emancipation that leads her not to reveal Paul's secret regarding the girl's murder, for fear of losing her newly won piece of happiness. In turn it means she has to remain silent, as she has always done in her many years of marriage. So it is that this love ultimately turns Lena herself into a fallen angel.
Nonni and Manni is a children's television series produced as a joint venture between Iceland and West Germany. It debuted on 26 December 1988 on West Germany's ZDF channel and lasted for six episodes with the last one being aired on 1 January 1989. The story was based on the eponymous book written by the popular Icelandic children's author Jón Sveinsson, nicknamed "Nonni", who had written several books inspired by his own experiences of growing up alongside his brother Ármann, nicknamed "Manni". The filming for the series took place in Iceland, West Germany and Norway.
Allied prisoners tunnel out of a stalag, then return to avenge fellow escapees executed by the Nazis.
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