Claudius Freyer

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

After a botched robbery, a young gangster couple takes a mother and her daughter hostage and ends up in a forgotten forest cemetery on the edge of a disused industrial estate.

When the seven-year-old daughter of an architect falls ill with a rare but curable form of cancer, the family wants to give the child the best possible treatment. Unfortunately, they decide against chemotherapy in favor of a gentle natural remedy. When the hospital doctors notice that the child's condition is deteriorating, the necessary race against time can only begin once the parents are convinced of the effectiveness of conventional therapy.

A portrait of a single day in the late summer of 1956, toward the end of Bertolt Brecht's life, as he prepares to leave his lakeside home, surrounded by the women who form his extended family.