Arno Wyzniewski

Six episodes taking place the night the Berlin Wall came down.

Young Elisabeth goes on a country trip with her mother, her friends Reinhard and Erich, their parents and the pastor. While the adults prepare a ...

1523. The Protestant theologian Thomas Müntzer is entrusted with the pastorate by the ‘Allstedt Council’. On the one hand, he is to ...

After two failed marriages, Walter is finally looking for a wife again. But his father Paul, who believes his own position in the house would be ...

Based on a novella by Bertolt Brecht.

In 1896 the Berlin noble doctor Dr. Wilhelm Holtfreter takes over his well-to-do wife Mathilde and takes over the country doctor’s office ...

In the wintry Baltics, a century is drawing to a close and with it the era of the old Junker aristocracy. Pastor Erwin Wenger falls in love with ...

Adaptation of the classic fairytale. Rapunzel lives alone in the woods, in a tower with no doors. Then, one day, a mysterious stranger comes for ...

Johann Gottfried Schadow is only in his early twenties when he is put in charge of the royal sculptor’s workshop in Prussia’s capital ...

A German scientist drowns while on vacation in Bulgaria. The GDR state security authorities become involved in the investigation, suspecting a ...

Grandpa Lörke is preparing for a contemplative, quiet Christmas Eve. But nothing comes of it, because his daughter Anne informs him that his ...

Plumber Martin and his younger colleague Frank are on call on Christmas Eve of all days. Frank’s girlfriend Regina, who is expecting her ...

The real blue is the color with which potter Benito Guerrero makes his fortune. When he no longer receives the color from Germany as a result of ...

In 1794 Bützow, widow Hornborstel, a top goose breeder, presses Mayor Hane to marry her. Rebuffed, he bans free‐range geese under a “goose ...

The plot revolves around three men waiting to be deported in a prison. To escape the monotony, they form chess pieces from their bread rations, ...

The magician of the court feels offended by princely arbitrariness and senses for revenge. For this, cinnabar alias “Klein Zaches”, a ...

Franz Xavier Stannebein, a young boy at the turn of the 20th century, wants to do nothing more than fly. He carries this dream through his years ...

A communist is released from prison in 1935 Hamburg. He tries to link up with the Party again, but is unsure as to who he can trust, and has ...

When the hare stumbles over the sleeping hedgehog one Sunday morning, an argument ensues. The insulting word “crooked leg” is ...

Ralph grows up in pre-war Dresden as the eldest son of a principled and orderly streetcar conductor. With the rise to power of the Nazis, the ...

In 1920 Moscow, a wounded Red Guard paints “Blue Horses on Red Grass” to symbolize hope he’ll never see. He presents it to a gravely ill Lenin ...