Rolf Illig

The young Hubertus von Saatlow is planning his engagement to a designer and hopes for a career in business. But a visit to his family’s ...

Melanie Sheffield visits her childhood friend Sarah Rudd at her estate. After her arrival she meets the mysterious Ben Fox. Melanie feels ...

Konrad von Seidlitz is a young yuppie lawyer currently celebrating his engagement with Cornelia, daughter of minister of justice Volkerts. As a ...

Tracing the life and work of the poet and artist Unica Zürn and her tragic love affair with the surrealist Hans Bellmer, based on play scenes and ...

Four stories set in the city of Regensburg.

Two men and a young woman who recently met spend a night together at a secluded mountain inn. It soon turns out that one of the two men could be ...

A Scottish woman who attends school in Paris comes home for the summer and helps take in the straw, where she meets an attractive and simple man. ...

A pilot crashes his plane in the desert, in the middle of the night. There is no one in the vast distance. Suddenly, a miraculous figure of a ...

For many years the old Waller worked as a railwayman. After Waller is informed that “his” track will be closed down and that he will ...

Not far from Windsor Castle, the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn visits the German astronomer Friedrich W. Herschel in the summer of 1792. But ...

A year on an Alpine farm: an older couple have two children, Belli, who wanted to be a teacher, and the younger Franzi, deaf, and although he ...

At the beginning of the 16th century, the Christian Martin Luther followed his calling and became an Augustinian monk in Erfurt. However, his ...

Garden parties, music and dancing characterize the lives of a family of German aristocrats in the days leading to World War I.

In 1914, with men gone to war, Marcel Proust hired Céleste Albaret as his attendant. More than eight years later, she was at his side when he ...