Acting
A cinematic reflection on the lives of two middle-aged gay men and the formative value of personal freedom.
He is considered to be one of the greatest German film stars, Hans Albers, known as "Der blonde Hans", a man made for the cinema. He was an actor, singer, idol of the Germans - and darling of the Nazis. Nevertheless, he could not protect his great love, the Jewess Hansi Burg. In 1938 she had to flee to London from anti-Semitism in Germany. But Albers himself stayed in Germany and continued to film, driven by a desire for a career and the call of money. In 1946, one year after the end of the Second World War, they meet again: Hansi Burg returns to the land of the murderers of her parents in the uniform of the British Army and visits Hans Albers in his villa on Lake Starnberg. He lives there with another woman. The rival has to go, then there is a tense debate. For a day and a night, the blonde Hans has to face uncomfortable questions and even more uncomfortable truths.
After a local factory worker named Dorem Clery dies under mysterious circumstances, Werner Herzog travels to Getunkirchenburg to investigate his perplexing death. But Herzog, our narrator, is not who he seems, and the film is not what we expect…
In the chaotic, highly emotional period after the First World War in 1918, the foreign ministers Gustav Stresemann (1878-1929) and Aristide Briand (1862-1932) put all their energies into trying to lead their countries, Germany and France, which were at enmity with each other, into a peaceful future and a united Europe. After their deaths, Europe has to go through a second hell before the plan of these two visionaries succeeds. The cinematic mix of archive footage and re-enactments shows two statesmen, full of facts and emotion, who give each other nothing in difficult negotiations, but at the same time hold on to their shared vision. Even if these two human lives were not enough to reap the fruits of their labor, they sowed the seeds for the next generation. In 1926, Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. It is a sign that the peoples of the world believe in a Europe at peace.
Village policeman Husmann bids farewell to his boss Eggers on his well-deserved retirement. Tough Inspector Posch is put in temporary charge of the small police station in Eggeborg. Shortly afterwards, the first case arises: an unknown person is smearing cows with aggressive slogans at night. Stefanie Posch and local policeman Thies Husmann take over the investigation, which quickly leads them from the cows to a completely different, much more dubious mystery.
The dynamic detective Stefanie Posch from the Federal Police is transferred to the countryside in Schleswig-Holstein to solve a case. A blackmailer is sawing small pieces of rail out of the tracks and threatening to resize them if the railroad doesn't pay up. Stefanie Posch causes quite a stir at her new place of work, not only with the cunning villagers but also with the local police.
