Volker Einrauch

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)

Chlodwig Pullmann works as a tax inspector in northern Germany. He usually does this in a way that reduces the taxes to a minimum. (arte.tv)