When Dr. Schmith's proposal for international research on infant mortality is rejected, he decides to leave East Germany and strikes a deal with an escape agency that promises him a leading position at a children's hospital in West Germany. But then the decision is reversed: the project is approved and his international colleagues want Dr. Schmith to head the GDR section. Moreover, he falls in love with his new colleague, Katharina. Schmith initially tries to ignore the arrangements he made with the escape agency, but they blackmail him. Things soon turn deadly...

A communist is released from prison in 1935 Hamburg. He tries to link up with the Party again, but is unsure as to who he can trust, and has difficulty adjusting to life in Nazi Germany.

Unternehmensberater Max Tanner ist ein Luftikus wie er im Buche steht. Diese leidvolle Erfahrung muss auch seine neue Freundin Anna machen, als sie ihn ausgerechnet an ihrem Geburtstag mit einer anderen ertappt. In ihrem Zorn verflucht Anna ihn mit den Worten "Von nun an bist Du Luft!" Und tatsächlich: Von diesem Moment an ist Max für alle Welt unsichtbar. Für Max, der es gewohnt war, dass sich alles nur um ihn dreht, eine ebenso unangenehme wie lehrreiche Situation. Nach dem ersten Schreck setzt er jedoch alles daran, wieder sichtbar zu werden und Annas Herz zurückzuerobern.

2004 television film directed by Markus Imboden

A funny story about fifth grader Ottokar who is always ready to fight for justice.

Katja and Johann are two teenagers who are the best of friends. They spend most of their time in a ruined fort, fantasizing about an ideal world. Their relationship becomes threatened when Johann is taken ill with leukemia, and Katja's mother is undecided on whether to stay with her husband or leave with her lover.

Fall 1989: Jan is almost 16. Caught while trying to escape to West Germany, he is transferred from prison to a juvenile detention center. Here, he meets Jana ... and what starts as a bet, becomes true love. When Jana gets pregnant, the situation spirals out of control. In the summer of 1990, Jana and Jan flee into the unknown, insecure future of a new Germany.

2007 film by Bernd Böhlich

A crown princess works incognito for the embassy of her country in Berlin, where she fells in love with a gardener who does not know who she is. As the affair blows up, two lovers and one kingdom have to make the right decision.

From Martin Anderson Nexo's novel comes this loved story of a Swedish boy and his elderly father trying to make a better life for themselves in Denmark. A bleak future quickly becomes apparent when the two find employment on a farm full of misery.