Rolf Becker

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Jacob Kaplan lives an ordinary life in Uruguay. Like many of his other Jewish friends, Jacob fled Europe for South America because of World War II. But now turning 76, he is grumpy and in need of adventure. An unexpected opportunity to achieve greatness comes in the form of a quiet, elderly German, who Mr Kaplan believes to be a runaway Nazi. Determined to capture this Nazi, as Eichmann was captured before him, Mr Kaplan surprises everyone when he takes up this challenge.

New York lawyer Alicia Charles faces a challenge: to help penniless globetrotter Will in a custody battle over his godchild Linus. The nine-year-old Linus lost his parents in a car accident. Will wants custody of his godchild, although as a poor globetrotter he has little chance. He is not even related to the boy. He cannot present more than a snippet from a family video that identifies him as a godfather.

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Hanna, who works with her husband Martin at a Hamburg shipyard, is to be promoted to Deputy Managing Director. Enthusiastically, she accepts the job. But her boss Bernd Möller aims at closing the yard and uses Hanna for his perfidious plans. It must enforce unpopular decisions that affect Martin's work. It does not take long for her private and family life to be seriously harmed by the workload. Not only the future of the company, but also the marriage of Hanna and Martin is at stake

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Jenny is sent to inspect a wool factory in the Hudson Highlands. It depends on her audit whether her client will turn the factory into fodder for "investors". But Jenny immediately falls in love with the store, the country and the people - and with her boss.

In the second part of the "Katie Fforde" trilogy, Ursula Karven surprisingly finds an election family as Alicia Charles in Christmas New York. Alicia wants to start her skiing vacation when Will Hillinger, the guardian of the parentless Linus, ends up in prison: Will broke in with the singer Peggy Bloom. Alicia tries everything to save Linus Will from losing custody.

Kay Foster has not set foot on the Winley stud farm since her stepsister married Kay's childhood sweetheart. However, when she learns from her father George that an uncontrollable virus is raging there that threatens the existence of the stud farm, the renowned vet puts her feelings aside and travels to her old home, the Hudson Valley - a picturesque region just outside New York. She receives anything but a warm welcome from her stepmother Esther. Esther fears that Kay could jeopardize her daughter Alison's marriage - not unfounded, as Eric soon makes advances to Kay. Kay would prefer to leave again when her father suddenly dies. Esther accuses Kay of having upset George, who has a heart condition, too much and of being partly responsible for his death. Her accusations are not without consequences: Kay feels responsible.

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Fashion designer Irena falls in love with a professional gamer after the death of her husband, without realizing that he received her husband's heart as an organ recipient.

After many years, Dr. Knut Hansen marries his old childhood sweetheart Stina Thorwald.

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Anne Petersen returns to the harbor with her catch of fish. There she meets the vet Thomas Krugmann, who has just arrived from Hanover with his children and his girlfriend Sabine. As their car breaks down and they have to go to a garage, they decide to stay in town.

Leo has been working for the insurance company for 19 years, without a sick day, without being late, without ever being noticed. Now there is panic in the office: Layoffs are imminent. Nevertheless, the Christmas party takes place - for some it's more of a farewell party. Leo plucks up his courage and asks his shy new colleague Marie to the dance. But is he the right man to win Marie's wounded heart?

Hannah hero finds out that her husband Martin is cheating on her. Angered, she announces that she wants a divorce. But Hannah is waiting for the million-dollar legacy of her great-aunt Käthe and a divorced woman will never entrust her family heritage to the tradition-conscious old lady. So Hannah arranges the separation of table and bed with her future ex-husband. Then Hannah and Martin move into Aunt Käthe's villa and play a harmonious married life.

Lona Vogt is a target investigator and, together with her friend and colleague Simon Katzer, has been on the trail of the murderer Manuel Bove for some time. Then the body of a young woman is found in the Wadden Sea near Husum.

Jan Landers made it: Grown up in East Berlin, he quickly made his career after the turnaround: from the weatherman of a local station to the newsreader in Hamburg.

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Budapest in the 1930s. Restaurant owner Laszlo hires pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the beautiful waitress Ilona who inspires András to his only composition. His song of Gloomy Sunday is, at first, loved and then feared, for its melancholic melody sets off a chain of suicides. The fragile balance of the erotic ménage à trois is sent off kilter when the German Hans falls in love with Ilona as well.

Josh Engel owns a martial arts gym. Despite working daily with blows and blows, his life is calm and peaceful, as he prefers to focus on the peaceful and poetic side of the Eastern philosophies that form the basis of fights. Therefore, he is a kind of "guru" for the city's children. However, everything changes in Josh's life when Lisa is taken hostage during a criminal action. Negotiations between the bandits and the police become more tense with each passing moment. Commissioner Jackie Winter and her partner Mehmet Schulz, from the anti-crime division, have no other option and enlist the help of Josh, also known as Der Puma. It is in this extreme situation, disturbed by the tension of seeing her one step away from death, that Josh will be forced to use all his knowledge and techniques to try to save Lisa's life.

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A businessman books a Santa Claus with his wife from the student employment service for his children on Christmas Eve. He appears too late and when he realizes that he should only be the mess clown for the children so that they can go to bed quickly, because business friends are supposed to come to dinner, he calls his colleagues.

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Victoria Bradshaw was still very young when she fell in love with the playwright Oliver Dobbs. He left her one day for another woman and disappeared from her life. But the memory of him always stayed alive. Many years later, Oliver suddenly appears again, together with his little son ...

Vera, a young, attractive shipbuilding engineer, has both feet on the ground. She is independent, energetic and self-reliant and is bringing up her daughter Taddi on her own. A long-cherished professional dream also comes true: Vera is to work in Shanghai for the next few years.

Prosecutor Thomas Kopper is transferred to Berlin and confronts the cigarette mafia after a warehouse manager is executed. As Kopper pursues justice, his car is bombed and key witnesses die. Facing a possible leak within the prosecutor’s office, and suspecting his new lover or even the justice minister, he fights to expose the syndicate.

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The spoiled Leonora swears eternal revenge on her classmate Cassie out of jealousy and ensures that the orphan girl flies from boarding school. Years later, Cassie marries the stud owner Tyrone, the ex-lover of Leonora's mother. Leonora has an intrigue that nearly ruins Tyrone and puts a strain on his marriage. Cassie is miscarrying. After the accidental death of Tyrone she challenges her rival to an all-important horse race.

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An American actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, to trap a Palestinian bomber, by pretending to be the girlfriend of his dead brother.

Anna and Kurt spent their youth in Berlin, then the capital of the Greater German Reich. In the summer of 1938, they met on board the "Strength through Joy" cruise ship "Ozeana" during a trip to Norway. Kurt and Hanna fell in love and almost got married later, but the war broke them up. While Anna stayed in Berlin, Kurt was taken prisoner. Twenty years after the end of the war, the two met by chance in Düsseldorf and since then Kurt, who now lived in Canada, had come to Berlin from time to time. It was here that he proposed to Anna for the second time. As a preliminary answer, however, Anna had given him her diary from those days...

Comedy about a group of musicians who are sent to play to villagers and workers to raise morale during a 5 year plan. The trouble is they prefer to play jazz and boogie music to the traditional folk songs, and each time they try their jazz they are reprimanded by the local party secretary.

A “film-noir” on double identity and role reversal. A man is looking for a woman to love. He finds her in a seedy bar and persuades her to marry him. The day she decides to flee… he kills her. To ward off suspicion, he moves in with the sister of the deceased.

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

German movie set in the future where there is a village existing only to maintain a game preserve for the ruling class and whose inhabitants are kept happy by popping pills. Written and directed by Uwe Brandner, the movie operates on many levels of love-hate relationships, but it is primarily a political parable about fascism and freedom. A young teacher comes to a remote village , which rich gentlemen have chosen as their hunting ground. The residents are happy and nice to each other. Any dissatisfaction that arises is wiped away with freely available drugs or with the clubs of the village police. A gamekeeper who makes sure that the high lords' hunting parties are not endangered becomes the new teacher in the village's first friend. They fall in love, and the gamekeepers gift of love is a gun, which will eventually break their relationship as a confrontation ensues as the teacher starts poaching with his new gun.

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An educational film about an aspect of political economy. The concepts of use value, barter value and labor as a commodity are the subjects; they are intended to introduce the process of understanding the theory of value of work and the law of values, alienation and fetish.

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Two rival gangs try to obtain the five parts of a dangerous formula held by five scientists.

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Based on the play by Lion Feuchtwanger.

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An elderly lady has a trauma and simply must celebrate Christmas every day of the year, to the dismay of her family and relatives.

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The pupil Rull rehearses the uprising at a grammar school in Bremen and tries to break through the authoritarian structures of his school. The result is a humorous protest movement that demands a democratic school form.

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The action takes place in a central German town in the 1920s. A Jewish factory owner is accused of murdering his accountant. The German nationalist investigating judge, who is determined to have a Jewish perpetrator, still sees Blum as the perpetrator even when evidence of the actual murderer, a former Freikorp fighter, is found. The Social Democratic court president from Berlin sends a criminal investigator to tear apart the judge's chain of evidence.