The predominantly female readership loves the romantic love novels that the Berlin author Max Mangold writes under the female pseudonym Jana van Hausten. For the anniversary edition of "Stürmische Zeiten" he gets into a real creative, life and marriage crisis despite the best sales figures. His publisher is pushing for the next bestseller to be completed and his wife Susanne, a respected law professor, decides to accept a call from Rostock University for a year. Alone because her marriage needs a break, explains Susanne. Max suspects that she is alone because her old childhood sweetheart, the fisherman Jörn, lives in Rostock. For the time being, Susanne is staying at her mother Greta's rural inn, who thinks as much of her son-in-law as he thinks of her: very little. But that doesn't stop Max from following his wife and camping in front of the inn because Greta refuses to give him a room. Max persistently courts Susanne and initially only impresses his mother-in-law, who turns out to be an ally. While torpedoing Jörn's advances to Susanne and at the same time struggling with his next novel, Max meets the attractive hairdresser Nancy. She has read all 25 of Jana van Hausten's novels and is using unusual means to help him overcome his writer's block.

Keine Ehe ohne Pause

A coming-of-age tale with a difference about the grumpy doctor Annebarbel Buschhaus donning her ice skates again at the age of 58 after an absence of 40 years. Back on the ice, she tries to revive long suppressed childhood dreams – and makes a new friend, Jolina Kuhn, Berlin’s youth figure skating champion. Through her new friend, Annebarbel begins to open up and break away from her dominant mother.

The Beginner

Kathleen Selchow has been working as a kindergarten teacher for many years and leads a harmonious life with her husband Robert and son Luca, who goes to primary school. But from one minute to the next, nothing in Kathleen's life is the same again... On a trip to the nearby forest, the experienced educator takes over the management of the motley group of children. The mood on this November day is exuberant and everyone is looking forward to the planned campfire after the hike. But suddenly, while counting, Kathleen notices that two children are missing. Jenny and Nico are gone. The colleagues Nina and Miriam, who ran in front and to the side, did not notice the disappearance either. A dramatic search with a tragic outcome begins. In a mixture of guilt and emotional overwhelm, Kathleen desperately searches for what happened. She needs to understand who is responsible for the accident. Also, what is their part in the disaster? How could that happen to you as an experienced group leader? Why didn't she notice the children's disappearance, outside, in the nature that was so familiar to her? The parents in the day care center turn their backs on Kathleen and her colleagues. Eventually, Kathleen is released from her leadership. The educators clash, and son Luca also has stress at school. Because the accident Nico is the son of neighbor Melanie Sieten and was a friend of Luca, Kathleen's son. Kathleen stumbles, as does her family and ultimately everyone around her. The lawyer Johanna Deich tries to help the family, but detective Leila Storm cross-examines the teacher. Every day is increasingly becoming a challenge. Given the events, how can life go on for Kathleen and her family?

Kalt

It was one of the great crimes of the Second World War: from 1941 to 1944, a total of 872 days, the siege and starvation of Leningrad by the German Wehrmacht on Hitler's orders lasted. Over a million people fell victim to the blockade, most of them dying of hunger. Countless of these starving people wrote diaries with the last of their strength, and cameramen filmed in the paralyzed city. Evidence from the hell of the siege, many of the film recordings, but above all the written memories on which this documentary on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the liberation is based, remained under lock and key after the war. The voices of those who had suffered through this terrible time should not be heard by anyone, because they did not fit the pathos of the Leningrad heroic song that was officially sung. Most of the recordings come from women. The writers feared neither the enemy nor the Communist Party or Stalin, who often proved incompetent in providing for the population.