Today, Mel (34) belongs to the winners in life, but that wasn’t always the case. The thought of her own past so upsets the self-made millionaire’s that she summarily buys the large panel systems-building where she grew up. She would like to come to terms with her history, but the past is a stubborn beast.

Übersetzerin Inga Hauck begibt sich gemeinsam mit ihrem sechsjährigen Sohn Max in ihr Heimatdorf, als sie vom Tod ihres Vaters Georg hört. Dort begegnet sie auch Anna Kertesz, die vor 28 Jahren von Ingas Eltern aufgenommen wurde, nachdem ihr älterer Bruder Zoltan plötzlich verschwand. Auch von Ingas damals sechsjährigem Bruder Magnus fehlt seitdem jede Spur. Während viele immer noch überzeugt sind, dass Zoltan den Jungen entführt hat, hat Anna nie an der Unschuld ihres Bruders gezweifelt. Bei einem Spaziergang konfrontiert Anna Inga mit der Vergangenheit, indem sie sie zu einem alten Bauwagen am Rand des Moores führt und in Inga alte Erinnerungen wach werden...

The U.S. scholarships Austrian student Inge and young mining student from Burma Sao Kya Seng fall in love. But it's only at the lavish wedding ceremony that Inge discovers her husband is the ruling prince of the Shan state of Burma. After a coup staged by the Burmese military, Sao is imprisoned. Inge does everything she can to free him. Base on the true story of Inge Sargent.

On 6 May 1945, soldiers of the 88th US Infantry Division occupied the Himmlers’ family home in Gmund on Lake Tegernsee where they discovered hundreds of private letters, documents, journals and photographs. The film makes use of these materials and copious archive footage to sketch the biography of SS commander Heinrich Himmler who committed suicide at the end of May 1945 by taking a cyanide capsule. How did this nationalistic lower-middle-class man become Hitler’s henchman responsible for developing and executing the strategies that led to the murder of millions of Jews, homosexuals, Communists and Romany people? Where did his ideology originate? How did he see himself and how was he perceived in private by his wife Margarete, his daughter Gudrun and his mistress Hedwig? How could the man who often referred to so-called German virtues such as order, decency and goodness also write home in the midst of the war and Holocaust: ‘I am well in spite of my heavy workload’? What was it that caused his daughter to say after a visit to Dachau concentration camp: ‘It was lovely …’ A film about the pretensions of a mass murderer and the repression of any sense of guilt.
Berlinale 2014