In the first century of the third millennium, a galactic civil war is raging between governments, industrial giants and space pirates. Run for your lives! The Big Mess features space captain Douglas, the pirate couple sterr, a space admiral and countless other characters trying to eke out a living in the cosmos. But whenever they get anywhere , they find they've been beaten to it by monopolist enterprises. In Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet, Willi endeavours to survive in a world where annihilistic galactic battles rage, by taking a job at the centre of power. But it's wrong side that he takes in this civil war.

一名妓女兼小偷同一名西德女间谍穿行于1974年的法兰克福。时值狂欢节。与此同时，警察正在暴力清赶强占空楼的学生。克鲁格：“电影名字‘危急时中道致死’取自我们当时在被强占空楼的地下室墙上的一处涂鸦。”

A young circus director ends up going into television after her father, a trapeze performer, dies in a circus accident.