Lea Kurka

İkinci Dünya Savaşı'nın çıkmasından kısa bir süre önce Almanya'da yaşayan Yahudi bir aile Nazi zulmünden kaçmak için ülkelerini terk etmek zorunda kalır. Kenya'da bir çiftliğe yerleşen Redlich ailesi geride bıraktıklarının üzüntüsüyle yeni hayatlarına alışmaya çalışır. Bir an önce eski hayatlarına dönmeyi uman Redlich'ler dünyanın diğer tarafından gelen haberlerle sarsılırlar. Aile bireyleri yeni düzenin getirdiklerine alışmak ve direnmek arasında bocalarlar. Stefanie Zweig'ın otobiyografisinden uyarlama bu modern klasik 2002 yılında En İyi Yabancı Film Oscar'ını kazandı. Filmin ödüllü yönetmeni Caroline Link "Jenseits der Stille - Beyond Silence" adlı filmiyle 1998 senesinde En İyi Yabancı Film dalında Oscar'a aday oldu. Başrolde izlediğimiz Juliane Köhler "Aimee & Jaguar"daki performansıyla 1999 yılında Berlin Film Festivali'nde En İyi Kadın Oyuncu ödülünü aldı.

For a long time, Halfried Seelig forced herself not to make use of her special gift for healing. When she does help a sick man one day, the news spreads quickly. Meanwhile, there is a crisis in the marriage of Halfried's daughter Marion. On her wedding day, Marion leaves her husband, fetches her daughter Laura from boarding school and moves with her to her parents in Tyrol. There she wants to take over her father's surgery after his retirement and finally work as a doctor again. At first she is not accepted by the population, Laura also does not find her way in the new environment, Marion in turn resolutely rejects her mother's methods. It also worries Marion that her daughter appears to have inherited Halfried's abilities......

High school teacher Andreas Vossen (39) is an avid soccer fan who goes to his team's games every Saturday. At least that's what everyone thinks. In reality, however, he spends his weekends enjoying fights with hooligans. His double life is jeopardized by the appearance of a new pupil. Benny (18) is a hooligan by conviction. A confrontation begins that drives the teacher more and more into a corner.

After earlier hostility, Halfried Seelig is now widely recognized for what she does. Her daughter Marion is trying to put down roots again in her former home after separating from her husband Thomas. It is not made easy for her, especially not by her adolescent daughter Laura.

Dr. Sonja Martin is a neurosurgeon at a large clinic in Leipzig. She loves her job. But she has bigger plans: She wants to become a clinic director. She pursues this career goal with ambition. But she has lost sight of the important things in life. Sonja gradually realizes this when she involuntarily has to put up her grandchildren Clarissa, Paula and little Benedikt in her apartment for a few days.

12-year-old Anne can't believe her eyes when her uncle Cornelius, a marine biologist at a polar station in Antarctica, shows up at her parents' house in Cologne one day with a live penguin in his luggage. Cornelius asks her to look after the little guy temporarily. Excited, Anne names her new friend Amundsen and empties the refrigerator. Where else would a penguin sleep in summer temperatures? However, the joy over the exotic visitor is soon dampened. Three sinister figures, led by the mean Kullmann, are apparently after the penguin.

The SOKO Köln investigates the cathedral city with humor and often with hard work. Their cases take them into a variety of environments, from the Cologne clique to the terraced housing estates on the outskirts of the city.