Rudolf Kowalski

Hardly released from prison, the real estate swindler Thomas tries to get rid of his half-brother Roland. Roland has Downs Syndrome and his mother has granted him a lifelong right to live in her house. But Thomas wants to sell it as quickly as possible.

After initially turning down an assignment to investigate whether a child is taken care of by her father, as children are not really her thing, Sophie reconsiders it when she needs an escape after her boyfriend suggests starting a family.

Dramatised origin story of one of Germany's most beloved contemporary comedians, Hape Kerkeling.

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TV post-war drama about a gruesome chapter of the Nazi era. Nadja Uhl reveals "wild" euthanasia in psychiatry. Oldenburg, 1948: For Margaret Oelkers (Uhl) and her two little sons, the pension is not enough as a war-wittwe behind and in front. But the authorities are working hard, not even because of their lack of credentials on the employment of their killed in the war. After an energetic appearance at the office, she is briefly put into the psychiatry of the Wehnen nursing home as a trainee. The consequences are bitter: one attests to their schizophrenia, takes away the children and brings them to the sister in the country. For a year, Margarete was kept in the hospital against her will, and forced to do so with electric shocks. After her release, she was placed under the guardianship of her neighbor Erich Windhorst (Martin Wuttke), a man with an SS past...

Bonn 1948. The member of parliament and lawyer Elisabeth Selbert fights tirelessly for the inclusion of the sentence "Men and women have equal rights" in the Basic Law of the future Federal Republic of Germany. Despite the opposition she encounters during sessions in the Parliamentary Council , there is _she does not stop and stubbornly sticks to her plan . Selbert experiences a grandiose triumph when her application is included in the new Basic Law under Article 3, Paragraph 2 . In doing so , she lays the foundation for what has now been a 65-year political and social debate on the subjectEqual rights.

Sophie, a successful publishing editor in her mid-30s, is happy enough to be single. But deep down she'd love to have her own family. Then she meets Fritz Mertens: a newly-divorced dentist open to new relationships--but with no strings attached, please. He has enough of those already in the shape of his 12-year-old son Vincent, who lives part-time with him and part-time with his mother in Munich. Sophie and Fritz fall in love, but can there be a future for a "second-hand" man and a woman with her own hopes for happiness?

Claire and David have been happily married for years, but there seems to be a curse on their marriage. They have been trying to have a child for a long time, but unfortunately without success. When David dies unexpectedly, Claire's life is thrown into complete chaos. But as she tries to come to terms with the loss, she suddenly discovers dark secrets that cast her husband in a completely new light: the respected aid worker was apparently involved in dirty business in Africa. And then for years he has also kept it from Claire that he has been having regular sex with the call girl Sabina. Suddenly more and more strange things are happening and Claire suddenly feels persecuted. Could David have been murdered? If so, who has something to cover up? And what did David's assistant Michael know? For Claire's psychiatrist and David's confidant Hagedorn, these are just delusions. But who can the widow trust now?

A kindly but poverty-stricken fisherman catches a magical fish. The fish begs him to let it go, claiming to be a prince. The fisherman lets it go and tells his wife all about it. The fisherman's wife is overbearing and greedy and she demands that he go back and ask the fish to grant him a wish out of gratitude. The fisherman does not have any desires, so the wife tells him to make the fish give them a nicer house, which is what she wants. Mandje! Mandje! Timpe Te! Flounder, flounder, in the sea! For my wife, good ilsabil, Wills not as I'd have her will."

While Dr. Ellen Bischoff celebrates success in her career, her family life is not at its best. Once she quarreled with her father Anton and turned her back on the local dairy farm. But now Anton is in the hospital after a severe heart attack. Ellen returns home to keep the operation going. There she meets her childhood sweetheart Felix again, whom she never forgave that he cheated on her with her former best friend Karin. In addition, Ellen struggles with serious problems: The father's farm is highly indebted and should be auctioned. The situation seems hopeless.

A Berlin family is totally hooked on new technologies. Nina, the mother, decides one day to requisition all mobile phones for a month and adhere to a digital diet.

Jella and her husband, Klaus, have moved to the other side of Germany to be close to their three grown children. Jella longs for the rich family life she once had; the children, however, have other priorities.

The branch manager of a haulage company is found dead one morning, shortly before he had to dismiss an employee. All the employees are suspects and Inspector Maxi Schweiger tries to find out what really happened that evening.

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The exciting, highly emotional story of a "fake" doctor who falls in love with the father of a sick child.

Max Krenke, once a promising journalist, has made himself comfortable at a third-rate newspaper; as a husband and family man, he keeps the hamster wheel of everyday life running. Until he is laid off without notice on his 45th birthday of all days.

The twelve-year-old Emil and his father are haunted by bad luck. To take a break from a series of family disasters, Emil is allowed to spend a few days with a friend of the family, the female priest Hummel in Berlin. In the train he runs across the slick Max Grundeis who anaesthetizes Emil and steals his savings of 1500 DM. When he finally arrives in Berlin, Emil and a gang of street kids, led by the cheeky girl Pony Hütchen, try to find the gangster, who haunts the posh Hotel Adlon as a hotel thief. Meanwhile, to prevent anyone from finding out about Emil's mishap, Gypsi, a member of the gang of kids, passes himself off as Emil, thus wreaking havoc on the home of the priest.

Towing contractor Drechsler doesn't like himself or anyone else. Together with the corrupt policeman Budde, he does crooked business. But when the Danish woman Iben desperately asks him for help, the sourpuss thaws...

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Marianne is diagnosed with cancer. She doesn't dare confide in her stressed husband and two grown-up children. It is only when she meets her childhood friend Philipp that she learns to believe in the future again.

13-year-old Pauline, called Pik, has lived with her grandmother Wischonka since her mother died. Pik has never met her father. Her grandmother runs a boarding kennel that is on the verge of insolvency because many customers have handed in their animals at the wrong address. Pik wants to help her grandmother and tries to raise money at Cologne airport by performing a song. But she is taken away by the airport police. Although she manages to escape from the police at first, she accidentally observes how the corrupt policeman Kowatsch and a customs officer take away seized drugs. Kowatsch realizes that he has been observed, but is unable to catch Pik.

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.

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Law student Ben has only ever received a monthly check from his father. So he moves in with him - and discovers the unexpected: grumpy loner Alexander Yorck (Heinz Hoenig) has lung cancer, is seeing a very young woman - and turns out to be a professional killer... A bit too much of a good thing. Filius should have left it at a check.

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TV special that aired in 2003 to celebrate Loriot’s 80th birthday. It features classic sketches, interviews, and tributes to his career.

The widowed, single-parent pastor Anja has a silent admirer in Herbert. But then she falls in love with Jochen.

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Conny could be happy all round. Her bike rental business with a small workshop is going well, she is happy with her boyfriend Frank and the fact that Conny is pregnant rounds off her happiness. But Conny is struggling with the past. Years ago, she gave up her son Jan for adoption. Her boyfriend Frank tracks down the name of the adoptive parents. Conny cannot suppress her curiosity and finds a way to take part in her son's life. He is now 16 years old and his name is Alexander. He loves cycling more than anything - and is gradually starting to fall in love with Conny...

Helen's life is a chain of misfortune: She loses her job, she fails her final exams at university, and then she is dumped by her husband Jan on their wedding day - he moves in with his new girlfriend Jeanette. Her mother Ruth and her friend Olga try to cheer her up - but then Jan has a fatal accident...

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The ambitious young Ina Littmann is an investigative journalist for the TV talk show "Eye in Eye". Her current subject is Henry Kupfer, who wrote a bestseller about a psychopathic killer after he was himself in prison for 8 years for manslaughter. As an entry for the show Ina plans to use a current series of brutal murders among prostitutes. When Ina meets Kupfer, she is despised and fascinated at the same time. Soon she's convinced that Kupfer not only writes about murders, but commits them himself. She smells a smash hit and prepares to prove him guilty on the show.

In order to find an apartment, dancer Pia pressures the straight-laced clerk Hartwig to pretend to be a prosecutor and pose as her husband. Although Hartwig is acting on behalf of his snobbish girlfriend, he agrees and falls in love with the vivacious blonde. But Pia isn’t quite ready for that yet.

María has fled her home of Germany in the wake of the aftermath of the second world war and comes to Iceland to work on a farm.

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German TV movie chronicling the life of singer and actor Roy Black.

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Christoph, cop and self-confident macho, has trouble with his fiance. After a long night he wakes up in the arms of Edgar, a good-looking, gay auto-mechanic. His live gets more and more troublesome after his girl friend throws him out of their apartment and as last resort he moves to Edgars place. Working together with a new, good-looking, very self-confident, female collegue, but living with a good-looking gay guy makes him pretty uncertain about his sexuality and his role as a cop. Written by Konstantin Articus

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The Mupfer gang is again forced to admit defeat by the Schmutzer gang, and the Mupfers then begin to stir up trouble. If the bosses - Meier and Ferri - do not come up with a brillant idea soon, they will be toppled. Ivonka Pivonka, a 12-year-old girl who is inclined to snoop, is on the trail of three robbers of postal money transports. Unfortunately, Ivonka is more curious than she is careful. After being caught, she is locked up at gentle-natured Kitty's apartment. Meier and Ferri read about Ivonka's disappearance and decide to help her escape. With the help of Liese, Ivonka's best friend, and Alice and Aline, two elderly ladies, they begin to track down the postal robbers.

Secret service ace Ben risks his life every day. But the job pays badly. Ben can't even pay the lawyer who has to fight for custody of his daughter. Then the agent receives a lucrative offer: for one million marks, he is to crack the security system of armaments magnate Otto Hardenberg...

A married university professor ends his explosive affair with a female student who then accuses him of sexual harassment. A satire with plenty of situation comedy about a misstep with consequences!

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Shokov is the last cosmonaut of the "Mir" station. On board: the secret satellite weapon "Medusa". A corrupt minister wants to sell them abroad. Shokov, fearing for his life, causes galactic chaos.

Year by year millions celebrate Christmas with the Hoppenstedts. Where else would you learn how to have comfortable holidays (like with the game "Wir bauen uns ein Atomkraftwerk") and how to put secretly dispose of wrapping paper in the hallway?

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In contrast to his successful brother Ernst (Heino Ferch), Robby (Sebastian Koch) dropped out of teacher training early and ekes out a living as a taxi driver. When Ernst emigrates to New Zealand to find love, Robby spontaneously takes on his brother's trainee position.

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The annual sailing trip of four respectable men from Baden-Baden turns into a horror trip when a drug-addicted occasional prostitute is killed by one of them. They want to cover it up, but the father of the deceased, a local editor, investigates and decides to play the friends off against each other. They see their bourgeois existence threatened.

TV special that celebrated the comedian and filmmaker Vicco von Bülow’s 65th birthday. The special is a mix of retrospective and tribute to his incredible body of work, filled with humorous moments, interviews, and highlights from his career.

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It's Loriot's birthday. Reason enough to show him as he really is. Evelyn Hamann interviews him in the TV studio where he always records his show. A lot of guests are invited, mostly people who played in Loriot's show, and a big surprise is announced for the end. - This fake celebration shows Loriot as a bitter old man, his guests as humorless bourgeois and Evelyn Hamann as an overtaxed presenter who can't save the show.