Heinz Bennent

80’li yılların başında Batı Almanya’da geçen öyküde, ayrılmanın eşiğine gelmiş Mark ve Anna’nın yaşadıkları anlatılır. Mark’tan ayrılmak isteyen Anna, neden olarak eşine geçerli bir neden sunamaz. Başka bir adam olduğunu düşünen Mark, olayı araştırır. Anna’nın sevgilisine ulaşan Mark, onun da karısından uzun süredir haber alamadığını ve Anna’nın garip davanışlarının nedenini bilmediğini söyler. Karısının peşine düşen Mark’ın olayın daha ciddi, karanlık ve doğaüstü boyutlarda olduğunu öğrenmesi pek uzun sürmeyecektir. Andrzej Zulawski'nin fantastik, korkutucu ve sürreal öğelerle anlattığı Possession, gösterildiği dönem bazı ülkelerde yasaklanmış, bazılarında ise sansüre uğramıştı.

Film 1920'li yıllarda Almanların, Polonyalılar ve diğer azınlıklarla birlikte uyum içinde yaşadıkları yoksul kent Danzig'de başlar. Annesi ve hangisinin babası olduğunu bilmediği iki erkekle birlikte yaşayan Oskar'a (David Bennent) üç yaşına bastığı doğum gününde teneke bir trampet hediye edilir. Bu andan itibaren çevresinde gözlemlediği erişkinlerin mutsuz ve acınılacak dünyalarına katılmaktansa hep çocuk olarak kalmaya karar verir. Gerçekten de yıllarca fiziksel olarak bir gelişme göstermez. Çevreye karşı tek protestosu büyümeyi reddetmek değildir, aynı zamanda teneke davuluna şiddetle vururken çıkardığı cam eşyaları bile parçalayan tiz çığlığı da 2. Dünya Savaşı yaklaşırken ülkede olup bitenlere duyarsız kalan orta sınıf Alman toplumunu bir yadsıma biçimidir, gitgide çıldıran dünyaya karşı bir protestodur.

Paris, Eylül 1942. Nazi'lerden kaçan Yahudi yönetmen Lucas Steiner hayatta kalabilmek için tiyatrosunun kilerinde saklanır. Karısı Marion ise tiyatronun yönetimini üstlenir ve sahnelenecek yeni bir oyun için Bernard Granger adlı genç aktörü işe alır. Tiyatronun geleceği için bu oyunun başarı kazanması gerekir. Ancak Yahudi düşmanı eleştirmen Daxiat'nın gölgesi her an üzerlerindedir. Marion, hem tiyatrosunu ayakta tutmaya hem de kocasının hayatta kalmasına çalışmaktadır. Tüm bunlar olurken Marion ve genç Bernard arasında alevlenen aşk acaba nasıl sonlanacaktır?

1923 yılının Almanya'sında geçen film, kadın - erkek ilişkilerini, geçim derdini ve Alman - Yahudi çatışmasını irdeliyor. Abel Rosenberg, abisi öldükten sonra, birlikte çalıştıkları sirki bırakmış, işsizlik ve yalnızlık nedeniyle alkolik olmuştur. Abisi henüz ölmeden önce, ayrıldığı karısı Manuela ise hala sirkte görev yapmaktadır. Bir akşam sirke gelen Abel, Manuela'yı ziyaret eder. Abisinin, ölmeden önce bıraktığı mektubu ve parayı, Manuela'ya teslim eden Abel, kalacak yeri olmadığı için, Manuela'nın yanına yerleşir. Bir Yahudi olan Abel, herhangi bir Yahudi'nin Almanya'da yaşadığı zorlukları pek tatmamıştır ve Manuela'nın parasıyla hayatını sürdürmektedir. Abel'in Almanya'ya taşındığı sıralarda, 7 kişinin esrarengiz şekilde ölmesi ve her birinin de, genç adamın çevresinden olmasını ipucu kabul eden polis, Abel Rosenberg'i gözaltına alır. Her ölümün nedeni farklıdır ve polis, kanıt olmamasına rağmen Abel'den şüphelenmektedir.

After a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she takes violent action.

General George S. Patton died in a car accident in 1945. But was his death actually a murder. Is he targeted by Nazis angered by Germany's defeat? Or by Russians who knew that Patton had argued in favor of invading the Soviet Union towards the end of the war? Or is it because Patton is investigating the theft of a quarter of a billion dollars of Nazi gold? Or is it because his subordinate Colonels - the flamboyantly gay Colonel and his worried lover are fearful that he is getting too close to discovering the truth.

An account of the events before and after a murder committed by a disturbed businessman in a strained marriage, and what led him to perform such a shocking act.

Sebastien Grenier, a former French spy, is working as a financial analyst in Zurich. However, his peaceful existence starts to disintegrate when he is recruited by a top French intelligence operative to discover how one of their own secret agents was found out and executed in broad daylight.

Nine fictitious documentaries and films reflect the mood of late 1970s Germany, particularly the two-month period in 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped by the RAF (Red Army Faction). The kidnap had been made to orchestrate the release of the original leaders of the RAF, aka the Baader-Meinhof.

Having both suffered extreme losses, two disparate souls try to form a relationship for consolation rather than romance.

A TV reporter and his assisstant go to a small Swiss village to do a programme with a reclusive scientist, an expert on world food shortages. During this time, an Italian immigrant worker is killed in a road crash and the reporter becomes involved in uncovering the truth about his death.

Sisters Maria and Anna live together. Maria is a most proficient executive secretary, encouraging Anna to finish her studies and start a career. Anna broods, threatens to quit university, takes pills, and keeps a diary. When Maria's relationship with Maurice, the son of her boss, starts to lead to love, Anna takes a selfish and drastic step that plummets Maria into solitude. No longer able to connect with Maurice, Maria does establish a relationship with Miriam, a typist at her office who becomes a surrogate younger sister. But Maria is intrusive as well as helpful. Can this or any relationship work out for this talented woman whose past seems to choke her soul?

Lulu models for a young painter who tries to seduce her. When her husband enters the room he dies from a heart attack. Lulu marries the painter, who commits suicide when he finds out that she has been having a long standing affair with Dr Schon and whose son gives her a job. Lulu kills Dr Schon and goes to London to live with his son. Eventually, she becomes a prostitute and dies a victim of Jack the Ripper.

The story of an impossible love between a 60 years old jobless bookkeeper and an unpredictable 40 years younger woman, who seems to be in big troubles.

Love story spanning 60 years of the lives of Charlotte and Hugo. As a teenager before the war she is in love with him, but he marries her sister. They share some brief happy moments during the difficult post-war period, then they are separated for the longest time. They meet again as 80-year olds.

In 1934, young archaeologist Robert returns to his home in Salzburg after spending several years working in Crete. He wants to officially break up with his original fiancée Hannah, as he has fallen in love with his employer's wife. But his personal plans get caught up in the political turmoil of the Austrian coup year. In a small village, he and Hannah find themselves caught between the fronts of the coup plotters and the Home Guard troops. A defenseless deaf-mute is to be lynched as a scapegoat. To protect him, Robert invents a mysterious "man in the reeds." But Hannah also eventually falls victim to the unrest.

On a rainy vacation day in a hotel room in Yugoslavia, a 40-year-old father and his adolescent daughter are bored. In the free-flowing surroundings, the dreams he once had in his youth come back to life in him. The game becomes almost serious. Only the presence of his daughter makes him realize that there is no way to start a new life without acting irresponsibly towards his child. And so he is left with a quiet resignation and the hope that his daughter will do better one day.

In Nazi-occupied France, a German officer is assassinated. The Germans demand justice, and the Vichy government is quick to capitulate. Unable to apprehend the actual culprits, Minister of Justice Joseph Barthélémy decides the execution of token Frenchmen will suffice, but the problem is finding judges and jurors eager to participate in a sham trial of innocent men. The solution is a Special Section, a court comprised of individuals handpicked for this exact purpose.

16 yaşındaki Sybille, erotik bir başyapıt kaleme alabileceğine dair bir yayıncıyla iddiaya girer. Tek sorun, hiç cinsel tecrübesinin olmamasıdır. Bu açığı kapamak için anne babasını yatakta izler ve şoke edici şeylere şahit olur. Kısa bir süre sonra, yayıncısını baştan çıkarmaya karar verir.

Diziye konu olan olaylarda hep tanıdık temalar hakim. Almanya’da gündelik yaşamı etkileyen ya da geçmişte etkilemiş olan her konu, dizide ele alınıyor ya da alındı: Almanya’nın birleşmesi, terör, organ ticareti, küreselleşme, ırkçılık, uyuşturucu kullanımı, çevre skandalları, çocuk istismarı, işsizlik, sanayi suçları, yaşlı bakımıyla ilgili sorunlar, ya da eş bulma hizmetleri. Gerçek yaşamdakinden farklı olarak, toplumsal ayrılıklar “Tatort”ta her zaman çözülmese de, cinayetin faili her zaman bulunuyor ve pazar akşamı herkes yatağına huzur içinde gidiyor. Edebiyatbilimci Jochen Vogel’in sözleriyle “Tatort, Alman toplumunu anlatan bir roman.”

Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.

Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein.

The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.

Das Kriminalmuseum was a German television series. It ran from 1963 to 1970 on ZDF and was one of its first programs. Each episode began with a tracking shot through an unspecified crime museum, stopping at one of the displays, whose story was then told. Each episode was between 60 and 75 minutes long and featured different actors as the criminal commissioner. The best known was Erik Ode, who in 1969 moved to Der Kommissar, appearing in 97 episodes. The theme music of the series was written by German composer Martin Böttcher, who also composed the complete scores for five episodes.

The brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes investigate crimes in Victorian London with the help of his friend Dr. John Watson in a German series.

Le Tiroir secret is a 1986 French family drama TV mini-series directed by Michel Boisrond, Edouard Molinaro, Nadine Trintignant and Roger Gillioz. The screenplay was written by Danièle Thompson, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Patrick Besson and Roger Grenier. The music score is by Vladimir Cosma. It was released on DVD in France on 18 October 2006. It tells the story of a woman who suspects that her husband had in fact led a double life.

The story of Napoleon Bonaparte's grandniece, the famous Princess Marie, her friendship and her work with Sigmund Freud.

A miniseries about a scientific project trying to develop and exploit efficient solar power. The group members have the normal family and funding problems to concern them. But more sinisterly, they have to contend with energy companies who need them to fail and are too happy to help them along their way, mysterious business concerns who want to pump money into the project but for unknown or dubious reasons, and, worst, terrorists and murder attempts.