Petra Kelly, the 1980s 'green queen' and peace activist, is shot in her sleep by her lover and political ally, former West German army general Gert Bastian. He kills himself shortly afterwards. Was it murder, or did she want that shot? What happens to Petra, from the time Gert's bullet enters her skull to the moment it lodges in her brain and she dies? She experiences a flash-forward to the present time and wakes up in the glassy transit zone of an international airport. On her trip through this modern purgatory, Petra struggles to unravel the meaning of the shot together with Gert and other figures from her life. In the explosive moment between life and death, she recognizes the force of her most absolute desires.

Happiness Is a Warm Gun

A documentary about a biography that covers an entire century: the delusion of Bruno Wilkomirski, who wrote a celebrated book about his childhood as a concentration camp victim and was later revealed. How this deception came about, how the person concerned reflects on it from the distance of almost 20 years and what it says about our country and our time.

W. - What Remains of the Lie

A raw, honest look at the relationship between film-makers, actors, and the characters they create together. Sometimes comical, sometimes infuriating, always fascinating. happy two takes us behind the scenes of the tour-de-force performances of "Happiness Is a Warm Gun". While the first film focused on the stormy, ultimately fatal relationship between Petra Kelly and Gert Bastian, "happy too" looks at the dangers of a different kind of shooting: independent fiction filmmaking. "happy too" is not a "making-of" documentary in the conventional sense. Its focus is the flip side of the world portrayed in "Happiness Is a Warm Gun". With the same penetrating gaze, irony and courage that Thomas Imbach used to probe the fantasy of activist romance, this time he takes aim at the myth of glamorous film acting. "happy too" parallels the Kelly-Bastian relationship with the struggles of actors Linda Olsansky and Herbert Fritsch. How to merge with the characters they play, without falling into the same patterns of self-destruction?

Happy Too

Jana and Andreas go on a romantic getaway that leads them directly to a marriage crisis.