Directing
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
Annual awarding of the Grimme Awards.
No description available.
The three-part miniseries portrays the rise of the unscrupulous Stefan Stolze. Stefan Stolze gets through life with the motto "smarter than the others." Even as a schoolboy, he supplements his pocket money with tricks and scams. In the 1970s, he initially works as a pimp, but then manages to break into the Berlin real estate business—the first step on his way to the top, on which rich, influential women always play a role, but whom he drops at the right moment.
Achim Hagenau and his farm neighbor Bärbel Ramsbächle have been happily married for five years. What the former city doctor and current farmer Achim doesn't realize is that Bärbel has been worried about his health for some time. She is convinced that Achim's heart won't play ball much longer if he doesn't finally take a step back. Bärbel herself is troubled by the ongoing dispute with her malicious brother-in-law, the ox farmer, who has set his sights on her farm.
The tension between a working-class family on the rise and their middle-class neighbors is reflected in the relationship between two boys, who take on their fathers' hostility. The situation escalates. When the neighborhood is declared a rabies zone, the worker grabs his rifle for no good reason, injures his neighbor's son, and kills his poodle.
The sympathetic music teacher Clarissa Springer leads a thoroughly average, but contented life in Freiburg. She lives with her father Walter, whom she has cared for since her mother's death. Although her boyfriend Marco urges her to finally move in with him, Clarissa does not have the heart to let her father "down", at least not so shortly before his 70th birthday. A special, rare guest arrives on Walter's day of honor: Ina, Clarissa's younger sister. Ina, beautiful and internationally successful as a model, turned her back on her homeland years ago and lives in Paris.
East Germany before reunification: Wolfgang Schulz watches Western television and discovers his long-lost twin brother Walter on the show "Aktuelles Sportstudio." They quickly get in touch, and the two decide to switch roles for a few days. Since both work in advertising, they think it will be a temporary bit of fun. But everyday life turns out to be different. Shortly afterwards, the Berlin Wall falls and the brothers found a company together. Now their different mentalities really come to the fore, and "Schulz & Schulz" have to realize that even in the general spirit of optimism, it is not so easy to run a company together. It doesn't take long before the two find themselves in the red.
After a long business trip to the USA, shipping company manager Albert Marquard returns to Berlin. However, his girlfriend Astrid WĂĽnsche has mixed feelings about the reunion: After all, Albert had only contacted her once in all that time. Much to the annoyance of Astrid's jealous ex-husband Uwe, the suave charmer manages to win Astrid over again.
Anna is a Jewish girl in Germany. When the Nazis come to power in the 1930s, her family has to flee the country without being able to bring any of their belongings. Even young Anna's pink toy rabbit has been confiscated along with the family's other possessions. Initially the family lives in Switzerland, but even here they come to feel the antisemitism. And when money becomes scarce, and Anna's father can't find work as a journalist and Jew, they move on to France, where they are no long submitted to racial discrimination, but struggle financially. Eventually the entire family manages to go to England.
The notoriously single and not-so-successful womanizer Max has settled down perfectly into his bachelor life when suddenly the enchanting Lisa, sister of his flatmate and partner Ulli, appears on his doorstep and asks to stay for the next four weeks. Nothing better than that, Max thinks to himself and smells prey. But in no time at all, Lisa's appeal is gone when Max realizes that she hasn't come alone: she has her sweet baby Maya with her - and that's the last straw for Max. How is he and Ulli supposed to win the city council's architectural competition if a toddler is constantly bawling in their ears? Ulli insists on helping Lisa and puts a gun to Max's head: either mother and child can stay - or he will leave the apartment they share.
The Berlin Wall has fallen. Walter Schulz travels to Hamburg with his wife Marlene and their children Dorothee and Alexander. Here, his brother Wolfgang tells him that he wants to help him set up a company. While Walter is overwhelmed by Wolfgang, his former boss GĂĽnther tries to accuse him of having a past with the Stasi.
Anna Lechner loves her work as a flower wholesaler in Amsterdam and has found her dream husband, Ed Verkerk, an ambitious tulip grower. But when her father dies, he makes her promise to take care of her younger sister Lilli. Since a serious childhood car accident, in which the mother died, Lilli is handicapped and full of complexes. Anna stays in Munich for the time being to help Lilli and thus puts her luck to risk with Ed. Lilli, however, gets to know the doctor Lorenz and hovers in the seventh heaven. But Anna is suspicious. which Lilli completely misinterprets.
Computer expert Silvia Berger suffers from severe amnesia: she neither knows her true identity nor can she remember the past. She is tormented by terrible nightmares. Against the wishes of her psychoanalyst, she researches her past. Using a computer, she finds her home town: a small island in the Baltic Sea. Silvia travels there - and discovers her family's criminal machinations...
