Bernhard Schir

Angela Merkel's decision in autumn 2015 to open the borders for refugees split the country - some praised the moral stance, others criticized the surrender of sovereignty. Yet what would appear to be well-planned activity is in reality a policy of muddling along, chance, trial and error. The Driven Ones is a chronicle of the refugee crisis which shows that the political actors are being driven along, crushed between self-imposed constraints and events that have spun out of control.

After missing four years, the body of a little boy is found in the forest. An unlikely pair of police officers investigate the boy's death.

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In their second joint case, detectives Lisa Kuen and Alexander "Alex" Yüsüf-Demir from the Innsbruck criminal police investigate a murder near a small Tyrolean town, where a dead man is found in the Wolfsschlucht, the victim was shot.

Nina Wenzel used to be an undercover agent. After her sister's death five years ago Nina gets child custody of the three orphans and quits her dangerous job. In her new family-life she manages to retain some of her skills. When Wolf Geiger, the last person Nina imprisoned, escapes, Nina's old skills are needed again.

Anna, an attractive woman of 40 years, lives with her husband Johann and his small daughter. Both have managed to succeed economically and lead a helpless life. Suddenly appears a dark character, associated with the underworld, who begins to blackmail Anna, threatening to reveal his past.

For 25 years, restorer Willibald Adrian Metzger has heard nothing from his former schoolmates. Then he suddenly stumbles - quite literally - over the corpse of a former classmate who had bullied him in a cruel way in his school days. When Metzger arrives at the scene with the police, he can't believe his eyes: the body is gone. Against his nature and spurred on by Danjela's curiosity, the former eccentric organizes a class reunion to uncover the cover-up of the bloody deed. His former classmates are astounded by the eloquence of the actually shy outsider, who uses his sharp mind and great powers of deduction to twist their words around in their mouths...

Set in the midst of World War II and interspersed with beautiful choir music, the horrors of the war unfold when the Germans realized one of the boys in the choir is a Jew and they must find him immediately.

In the loneliness of the Lower Havel lowlands, one of the last bird paradise in Germany, twelve-year-old Lea lives alone with her father Lutz, a passionate environmentalist. She is on the cusp of adulthood, confronted with the challenges of the present and the pains of the past. She often feels lonely in the childhood-remote world in which she lives, in which schools are closed and people leave. Even the father, who has withdrawn from the world, is increasingly becoming a problem for Lea, who longs for fellowship.

Marlis and Johanna work in a travel agency high mountain. Then Johanna by Marlis's suggestion, decides to visit a mountainous area of ​​Austria.

In the second part of the historical thriller, midwife Gesa succeeds in becoming the first female medical student to be admitted to Vienna's General Hospital. But while Gesa immerses herself in the world of medicine, a gruesome series of murders begins to spread fear and terror among the women.

A marriage couple find their daughter drowned in the pool house. At the hospital, the doctor refuses to give up and holds tightly to a remote hope of saving the girl.

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Their 20th wedding anniversary is coming up and Liane and Ben want to celebrate it together in Lisbon. In the years of their marriage, the two have had little of each other. While Liane took care of the children and the household, architect Ben jetted around the world building luxury hotels. Now the children are out of the house and the couple want to spend more time together again. So much for the theory. In reality, Ben is stuck on a project in Morocco and can't pick up his wife at the airport in Lisbon. He has sent his friend, the Portuguese João, as a replacement. He takes his role very seriously and Liane obviously takes a liking to the new man at her side.

Shortly after a family moves into a new house, the parents split up and the family becomes the victims of a furious dispute.

One year in Thailand! When management consultant Christof Kremer accepts an assignment in Bangkok, his wife Sabine and daughter Emma are looking forward to a great adventure. But while Emma quickly acclimatizes and is soon babbling away cheerfully in the local language, Sabine is quickly sobered to realize that she had imagined life in Bangkok to be a little different.

After many years in Germany, the young doctor Lena returns to South Africa, the place of her childhood, for the first time. Her grandfather Jo, on whose farm she lived with her parents, is terminally ill. With the help of her partner Felix and her mother Sarah, Lena tries to persuade the headstrong old big-game hunter to seek treatment in Germany.

Felix Hauser is the high-flyer par excellence in haute cuisine. He hosts a popular cooking show and his upmarket restaurant is frequented by hand-picked celebrities. A restaurant chain with branches in Tokyo and New York is in the pipeline. As he rushes from appointment to appointment in his convertible, he overlooks Frieda, a cyclist, who crashes into a ditch. The prudent farmer's wife is fuming with rage - not only because she has broken her ankle, leaving her with a lot of work to do on the farm, but also because the driver simply speeds off.

Hubert and Helga are separated. Hubert has not yet told her about it in order to spare his heart-broken mother. On her 80th birthday he finally wants to tell the truth. The feast takes its course, until at the end all are exhausted, hurt, drunk and desperate and even do not know exactly what they really want. And then, at the right moment, Hubert takes the floor and - lies.

The fall is so rapid that it seems like a bad dream. Just a moment ago, 16-year-old Nadja was a carefree, cheerful young girl, but shortly afterwards the horror follows: the older boy she falls in love with is a junkie who also drags Nadja into misery. Her wealthy parents learn in an extremely painful way about a world they had previously only known from hearsay: their search for their daughter literally becomes a journey into the underworld.

Anna is annoyed. For 18 years she's made every effort to make her family a comfortable home, and what's the result? Instead of relishing her roast lamb, her husband Frank works late. Their teenage kids Thomas and Petra stay out all night, and on top of that her father, Horst, reveals that as of tonight, he's off on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. And when she wants to take the roast lamb to her hard-working husband, she sees him busy taking his secretary's clothes off. That's it. Anna is off. In high heels and smeared mascara, she climbs onto the train to the last station before the Pyrenees, joining her father on his quest for... for what?

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After a violent incident, Martha Müller is disillusioned with the teaching profession and decides that she does not want to get involved so much as a teacher. At her new school in Vienna, however, she is immediately confronted with a problem Ilayda. The 17-year-old Turkish student lives in Vienna with her very well integrated family. But she decided to wear a headscarf after her father's death. However, this distinguishes her more and more from her class.

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Architect Sophie has finally found a beautiful apartment where she wants to move in with her boyfriend Martin. But although his marriage has long since ended, he is reluctant to leave his wife and daughter.

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Alexander Hoffmann travels to Stansbury in southwest England with his fiancée Jessica Wahlberg and his child Ricarda from his first marriage. They are staying in the manor house of Patricia Roth, who inherited it from her uncle. Alexander regularly spends his vacations there with his two former fellow students Leon Roth and Tim Burkhard. When they all enter the property together, a man named Phillip Bowen storms past them out of the house. He has spent the night there without permission.

Diana, looking job, gets an interview for a nanny motherless children. Arriving at the house discovers that the father is a man who knows and with whom there is a strong attraction.

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Postal worker Jenny finds and reads the letters that the little girl Lilly sent to her dead mother. Jenny decided to help Lilly and gets involved with her father Matthias.

Podiak marriage are on vacation in a cruise. Suzanne, who is fed up of her husband mistreatment, decides to get out through overboard, leaving a goodbye lettre, but during her funeral her husband discover that she is not death.

Stefan is a well respected doctor. Together with his fiancée Miriam, he visits his father in South Africa on the occasion of his birthday. Miriam meets a former friend of Stefan's, Jo . Jo is a bishop who is committed to helping the slum dwellers. As the two get closer, Miriam falls in love.

When Hanna Herold from Namibia receives the news of her father's death, it is a double shock for her: she had previously lived in the belief that her father had died in Africa when she was three years old. Together with her husband Holger, Hanna flies to Lüderitz. She wants to find out who her father was. The notary's letter also announces that her father has left her an inheritance.

Klaudia Wehmeyer, the proud co-owner of a pastry shop, has to stand trial because her manager Müller and her fraudulent partner Lehmann accuse her of embezzling half a million euros. After she is wrongly sentenced to prison, the spirited woman flees the courtroom in a hurry. Disguised in a Santa Claus costume, she plans to break into Lehmann's villa to gather evidence of her innocence on her own. When the plan fails, she finds shelter with two neighboring children who believe they are looking at the real Santa Claus. However, their single father is anything but happy about the strange guest. Only when he gets to know Klaudia better does he realize that there is more to the Santa Claus costume than a simple burglar.

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Katharina and Maria are identical twins. They were separated as babies and have no idea about each other. Katharina is a single mother of three children and earns a living by working hard in a bakery. Maria is a successful bathroom designer with her own company and a life of luxury. However, both have reached the point of complete exhaustion, leaving everyday life behind for the first time and hoping to recharge their batteries in a wellness hotel. In fact, everything changes when they unexpectedly come face to face with their "mirror image".

The sisters couldn't be more different: while journalist Dana is fighting tooth and nail for the position of editor-in-chief, her sister Julie has decided to forgive her husband Bertram for his affair and return to him. However, when the betrayed woman learns that the infidelity is harmless compared to what Bertram did to her in the past, Julie draws a line under it. In this turmoil, Maria reminds her two sisters of the urgently needed patent renewal for the baking powder that their mother once invented. But Dana and Julie don't have the nerve for that at the moment. Because in addition to all the back and forth, they have both found a new crush - who happens to be the same man! Only when Maria finds out why the charming pilot Claus is courting Dana and Julie at the same time do the three "golden girls" pull together again ...

Ines Kupfer is a famous, universally acclaimed and popular actress. But her career has meant she has never had much time for her only daughter Nathalie. Now Nathalie's wedding to the charming Stephan de Groot is just around the corner, and Ines wants to throw her daughter a lavish party on her estate. But when a woman in a red dress threatens to reveal a dark event from Ines' past at the wedding reception and is found dead the next day, events come thick and fast.

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Katja Stern, a successful newspaper editor, is shocked to find that the tensions in her marriage with Erik, a no less successful lawyer, have led to health problems for her 12-year-old son. On the advice of her doctor she drives the boy alone into the mountains. Christopher is getting better, but the family life of Stern is not going well. When Katja meets the farmer Johannes in the mountains and falls in love, she has to make a decision.

A woman travels to New Zealand for the purpose of visiting his daughter. Give the fact that your company is interested in buying the farm where the girl works. But when her daughter announces the unexpected commitment to the son of the owner of the farm, a series of unexpected events completely change the two families.

Rent-a-baby Traffic policeman Leo Fink has two passions: Firstly the revolutionary programme he invented and developed which shall avoid any kind of traffic jam and secondly Vera Becker, head of the traffic guidance department. She, however, ignores him - at least until she sees him carrying a baby. Suddenly, the single woman, otherwise so cool, gets interested in Leo who, in turn, scents that this is his big chance. He is rather sure that he will be able to win her over to his side with the help of the baby and his pioneering plan against traffic jams which he wants to introduce to her in a presentation. But there is a small problem: Little Felix is not his son.

Elizabeth and Tom Schubert are going through a marital crisis due to jealousy of him. They decide given a new opportunity and travel to Phuket in Thailand, where they expected Julia, a friend of Elizabeth to that Tom does not support. The couple had a heated argument and she decides to leave with Julia for a few days, a period in which lives a romance with an attractive architect.

Ten-year-old Edgar, the son of a wealthy family, finds his world turned upside down when his parents decide to adopt Anibal, a Peruvian boy, whom Edgar considers an intruder.

The parents of a talented 23-year-old pianist were killed in an accident on the way to her wedding to a career-oriented violinist. She tries to keep the family together and gets custody of her three underage siblings. Although her relationship breaks up and her job suffers considerably, the young woman remains in good spirits and manages to bring calm to the sometimes turbulent and problematic family life.

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Paul and Erik, two introverted loosers lacking social contacts, both work in a smudgy kitchen of the cheap chickenburger fast food store "El Chicko".To pass time and monotony, Paul tells his partner time and again stories about a murderer killing women, of which Erik always wants to hear more and more. Eventually, Erik starts to believe that Paul is telling about himself.

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