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- The life and films of iconic producer. director, and actor Otto Preminger are depicted through clips from his films and interviews with co-workers.
- German - and Russian literature professor Pierre Garaud and his wife Elisabeth host an intimate party, where her brother Vincent announces he and his partner Anna Caravati are finally expecting an baby, then shocks everyone, having chosen the Hitlerian name Adolf. It starts a cycle of disbelief and reproaches, with more secret thrown in, like Anna's affair with best friend Claude Gatignol, both also guests. Before Vincent retracts the 'joke', much harm is done.
- In 1928, 200 years after the London premiere of John Gay's "Beggar's Opera", Bertolt Brecht edited a new translation for the opening of the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin and, at Lion Feuchtwanger's suggestion, gave the play the title The Threepenny Opera. Kurt Weill's music contains elements of jazz and light music, of church and opera melodies - the audience at the premiere reacts icily at first, then enthusiastically: the evening becomes a triumph, the greatest theatrical success of the 1920s and is only taken off the schedule in 1933 - under pressure Joseph Goebbels' Nazi Propaganda Ministry.
- The third part of the internationally award-winning MeTube short film series. This time the intergalactic music nerds August and Elfi conquer the opera stage and orchestrate their final adventure in an opulent manner.
- German language adaptation of Neil Simon's "The Sunshine Boys", made for Austrian TV.
- Kampl wants to bring love and inheritance matters into the right hands. His grandson Gabriel has plans for what's best for himself.
- A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena. The estate originally belonged to his first wife, now deceased; her mother and brother still live there and manage the farm. For many years the brother (Uncle Vanya) has sent the farm's proceeds to the professor, while receiving only a small salary himself. Sonya, the professor's daughter, who is about the same age as his new wife, also lives on the estate. The professor is pompous, vain, and irritable. He calls the doctor (Astrov) to treat his gout, only to send him away without seeing him. Astrov is an experienced physician who performs his job conscientiously, but has lost all idealism and spends much of his time drinking. The presence of Yelena introduces a bit of sexual tension into the household. Astrov and Uncle Vanya both fall in love with Yelena; she spurns them both. Meanwhile, Sonya is in love with Astrov, who fails even to notice her. Finally, when the professor announces he wants to sell the estate, Vanya, whose admiration for the man died with his sister, tries to kill him.
- Victor is a "man with character", his son Thomas does not agree with his principles at all. Thomas returns after a long absence for a weekend but he is not coming alone...
- Charlie, the insatiable womanizer, is dead. Or has he been reincarnated - as a girl?
- Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her brother and goes into the service of the Duke Orsino. Orsino sends her to help him woo the Lady Olivia, who doesn't want the Duke, but finds that she likes the new messenger the Duke's sending. Then, of course, Viola's brother shows up, and merry hell breaks loose. Meanwhile, Olivia's uncle and his cohorts are trying to find some way to get back at Olivia's officious majordomo, Malvolio.