Margarita Broich

Hermine Huntgeburth's coming-of-age drama focuses on a girl, growing up in a typical German working class family during the 1950s. Although her parents believe that a woman doesn't need a good education, Hildegard, living in a plain and hypocritical world, gets the opportunity to attend a good high school and fights to decide on her own life. (imdb)

Following her parents' wishes, spirited seventeen-year-old Effi Briest marries Baron von Innstetten - a former admirer of her mother - who is twenty years Effi's senior. This marriage of prudence heralds the beginning of a humdrum life, far from home, for Effi. (filmportal.de)

1961. A father and his daughter are trying to meet in Berlin after seventeen years when destiny had separated them. Irrespective that there is a "thawing" period in the Soviet Union and the wall has not been built yet in Berlin, the Cold War is approaching its culmination. (lfc.lt)

Divided into four chapters - Son, Daughter, Father and Mother - "Four Windows" is a look inside the brains of a not-so-normal German family. Son leaves for school but actually cruises the local gay video arcade. Dad hires a hooker, Mom flirts with the handyman and Daughter rides the subways, looking to share some intimate moments. At dinner that night, the secrets they hold come to a head. (imdb)

Barely out of her teens, dependent on her family and extremely nearsighted, Monika, 20, desperately wants to pass her driving test. She undertakes a risky eye laser operation which fails and she loses her sight. (imdb)

Frido is a fun-loving kid and just like most kids his age, a little lazy in school. One day during a town fair he encounters a magical mirror. With the mirrors magic he is able to create a double (aka doppelgänger) of himself – who is just perfect at everything he is not. With the help of is double who is very smart in school Frido starts to give up more and more responsibility not only in school but also at home. At first it is much fun...