Kirsten Block

A married couple get seperated when the husband escapes into West-Berlin and the wife, still in East-Berlin, gets into trouble with the State Police.

When a deadly virus of unknown origins breaks out on a transatlantic flight, the plane is diverted, landed and quarantined. Soon, though, the passengers - infected or not - discover they are now prisoners and unwilling guinea pigs of the sinister government agents.

Our young hero falls in love, from an early age, with a girl whose family is not in good standing with the ruling Communist party. Our hero's father, however, is a member of the "Stasi", the secret state police. The father not only hinders his son's relationship with the girl, but he arranges for his son, after finishing school, to become a Stasi spy himself. The absurdities of everyday life in the former German "Democratic" Republic are comically exposed throughout the film. (imdb)

While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refuge is being sheltered by her adoptive parents. (imdb)

A woman survivalist of the prisons in East Germany believes that his husband's colleague is the doctor who treated her when she was imprisoned. She is convinced after having dinner with him and hearing his voice but the man denies everything.

David, a waiter, finds an unpublished manuscript in a dresser drawer. To impress a girl, he claims to be the author. When the novel becomes a best-seller the real author introduces himself in his life and begins to take-over David's life.

Three different sisters, Iris, Anne and Marianne, get together to celebrate the birthday of their alcoholic mother Silvia. (imdb)