Count Alfred von Schlieffen, head of the German General Staff, developed in the years up to 1905 a promising plan which was to help the German Reich to a lightning victory should they get embroiled in a multi-front war. However, in the summer of 1914, everything unfolded totally differently. Dr. Gerhard Gross, lieutenant colonel and historian, reports.

The soul is an underwater entity. It expresses itself equally in Romeo and Juliet (by Vincenzo Bellini) and in the tragic fate of a deep-sea diver.

Documentary film about a Yugoslavian migrant worker couple who have been living in German-speaking Switzerland for 16 years but hope to realize their dreams and values by returning to their homeland.

Documentary short about the stage play "Wessis in Weimar"

"Laughing with Hitler" is a journey into a supposedly humorless time. In the Third Reich, however, the Führer and his Nazi bigwigs were laughed at. The political jokes of the Hitler years were a barometer of true public opinion. But those who dared to make jokes critical of the regime lived dangerously. In the early Nazi era, Hitler jokes were punished as "insidious", during the war even as "undermining of military strength" and the penalty was the death penalty! The conflict with the Nazi authorities ended more mildly for other pranksters: the cheeky cabaret artist Werner Finck was deported to a concentration camp, but was released again.

Claudia Alemann's film documents the general strike and student mass protests in Paris in 1968. As a participant in various film collectives, she also examines the role of the medium of film in times of political and social upheaval and the impact of changing cultural-political paradigms on artistic activity. Alemann allows workers, students, teachers and filmmakers to have their say.

Short western.

To make an object based on a photograph means adding dimensions such as space, time and continuity. Roasting skewers, hairpins and nails were the tools of self-liberation in the photo series Zerstörung einer Illusion ("Destruction of an Illusion") by Karin Mack, which was produced in 1977 with a self-timer and her hand processing work in the darkroom. Forty years after its creation, it is a new perspective that transforms and sets into motion the examination of the self-image and role as a woman into a three-dimensional object. Light and rotation create an illusory horizon of perception inherent in filmmaking and make the living shadows dance in the delirium of the real. (C. P.)

The little asshole's grandfather, the old bag, has fallen into the coffin at a funeral and been buried alive. It's no surprise that instead of going to heaven, the old sack goes straight to hell. The little asshole and his dog Peppi, whom he inherited from Mrs. Mövenpick, try everything in their power to snatch the old bag from the clutches of the devil and do not shy away from dubious cloning techniques and black magic.

Their names are Chantal or Zoe, Bastien or Marina. Time and again, children die in Germany and France as a result of abuse. Often, the families in which such tragedies occur are known to the youth welfare offices. But the social workers, who have a state mandate to protect the children entrusted to them and offer them prospects for the future, seem to be failing. What mistakes are the youth welfare offices in Germany and France making—are they even capable of fulfilling their duties?

Fifteen years after the first crypto-currency appeared on the scene, what role do these virtual assets play in the financial system? In El Salvador, where bitcoin is an official currency, and in the United States and Europe, experts reveal what's at stake in this controversial sector.