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The lives of two families in East Berlin between 1980 and 1990 as the era of communist DDR slowly comes to an end.

Based on the true story that shocked a nation in the summer of 1988 and revealed the scandalizing amount of errors committed by the media and the police in a half-baked attempt to rescue hostages.

A wide-ranging, energetic period piece tracing the rise of the Protestant Henry of Navarre as he goes from battlefield warrior to France's beloved King Henri IV. Director Jo Baier's epic is a classically-entertaining adventure, albeit one with much bloodshed and frequent bawdy sexual interludes. In late-16th-century France, Catholics and Protestant Huguenots are at war. Seemingly seeking peace, French dowager Queen Catherine de Medici summons Henry to her court to marry him to her daughter, which would unite the two warring factions. However, the Catholics slaughter the Protestant wedding guests in what became known as the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre and Henry--now married--must use all his guile to stay alive and maneuver for the throne.

After winning top awards in Montreux, Utrecht, and St. Petersburg for THE WAITING ROOM, followed by the Grand Prix at the Mediawave festival in Györ (Hungary) for THE GAS STATION, Jos Stelling completed his Erotic Tales trilogy with THE GALLERY. Stylistically they're all connected: each is narrated visually without dialogue, each makes merry fun of an embarrassing erotic fantasy in a public place, and each features the same likeable fall-guy - Belgian actor Gene Bervoets - as the hero always ready and willing to strut his manhood like a peacock in heat. In THE GALLERY Gene finds himself the sensual object of a beautiful woman's desire. So when, suddenly and unexpectedly, she begins to strip for his pleasure ... one good turn deserves another ...

Star photographer Mike Hansen doesn't just want to shoot glamour photos. On Mallorca, he thinks he's on the trail of a criminal gang who is selling girls

Los Angeles, 2000. Megan David likes to keep track of her life with a camcorder. It's her video-diary, her art project for the Biennale. It depicts who she is, where she's going, how she's going 'to pop her cherry', as she informs her girlfriend. And hip video artist that she is, Megan has even picked out the right partner through the Internet - a theology major named Luke - for the summer of her deflowering at the Garden of Eden. But when the love-birds arrive on the motel, the concierge hands them the key to their room on a condition - they are not to eat the apple...

A handsome Midwest man (Stryker) moves into a Hollywood motel and immediately becomes the obsession of the quirky manager and the assorted guests.

Jakob Fugger's scheming to become as rich as Croesus from copper and silver mining as banker of the mighty in Catholic Christianity requires seeing the papacy to organize a European crusader defense against the Ottoman Turkish threat. The church's self-absorbed puritanical Inquisition party would rather concentrate on fighting heresy and so on within, which includes burning at the stake converted Saracene Zobeida, the mother of monastery oblate Richard, the bastard son of Fugger's late brother, who swears revenge at inquisitor Heinrich Institoris -and remains his target- which he seeks to find as Jacob's confident.

In her teens, Mme. Zachanassian had to flee her home town in disgrace. Now she's old and rich and the town is facing bankruptcy. But she returns with news that she wants to help - as long as the townsfolk kill someone for her.

Poor but confident and resourceful tailor David trusts, after killing seven flies in one swat, he's a match for any challenge and sets out to prove himself in the wide world. After luck and cunning help him deal with giant Lothar, he arrives at the castle of petty king Ernst, who is ruled by constant migraine and his ambitious, manipulative court counselor Klaus, who desires to succeed by winning brat princess Paula's hand and claims to be the only savior who can rid the land of three supernatural dangers. David's costume-embroidered motto 'seven at once' however is misread as a warrior's tally, and he eagerly accepts to win the princess, who teases but likes him, and half the country by dealing with the giant brothers, then both other dangers, and having triumphed each time Klaus's last attempt to deal with his commoner rival.

A rainy night, a car breaks down, an old house in the middle of nowhere with a light burning in the window. Soaking wet, Markus knocks on the door - and interrupts Renee in the middle of her pottery. She's suspicious of the young stranger, but interested. An Adonis is missing from her artistic collection of dildos. It's only a matter of warming to the occasion, and she's in the flush of life. So she reaches for Apollinaire on the book shelf. . .and a jar of honey.

On his deathbed, miller Hinze, fallen victim to the cruel sorcerer Abbadon who terrorizes the whole region, bequeaths his goods to his sons. Hermann and Hubert get half of the mill each, only last-born Hans gets just the tomcat Minkus. However the feline speaks, transforms into a dashing knight and promises, if fitted with new boots, to turn Hans's fate for the better. Once attired, he sets out to the court of idle king Otto and his daughter Frieda. Fowl gifts win heir favor, and soon an invitation for his master, under the name of marques of Carabass. Hans, clearly more interested in the princess then in gold, is coached to fit the part, while the cat takes o the sorcerer in his castle by crafty magical dare.

Often cited for his quaint, ironic, humorous, close-to-the-skin story-telling talents - "the Woody Allen of the American Independents," said one critic - Amos Kollek is an actor-writer-screenwriter-director all rolled into one. He knows Manhattan like the back of his hand. His films are filled with a bevy of familiar Village characters: bar-hoppers and park-benchers, retirees and wanabees, the lonely and the beautiful. In ANGELA, his first Erotic Tale, Amos Kollek told a delightfully funny fairy tale about an ordinary guy aching for one last fling at the tender age of 70. In MUSIC he extends the metaphor to embrace a city that never sleeps - as though Manhattan at night is the very essence of the elusive, vulnerable woman. Spiced with surreal, Kafkaesque twists, MUSIC is about a man who loves music and is fascinated by the fair sex. But he is not quite sure why and how he has ended up in this strange hotel room ...

A middle-aged man is in a traffic jam making eye contact with a young woman. When he bumps into the woman's car, she gets out and breaks off the rearview mirror of his car and takes it in her own car.

Ernest Hemingway wrote his Parisian stories on the table of a sidwalk café. Niko prefers to pen his Berlin tales on the counter of a funky bar behind the shark tank. What better place for a writer to pick up a girl? Along comes Sonja, who wants to know how the horny tale he's now working on will end. So she invites Niko to finish his erotic tale over a drink at her apartment! There's only one catch: Martin, her ex-husband, still hasn't moved out of the place.

An attractive young woman is accosted in the corridor by a young man with something rather sinister on his mind. A contest of give-and-take follows.

On Top - Iceland, a lighthouse, a cold winter evening. Her thoughts drift back to that summer ... to bathing in the hot springs ... to when they first met ... and embraced. Down Under - Australia, the desert, a blistering heat wave. His pickup stops at an icehouse ... he lays the blocks neatly on the buckboard ... and drives off haunted by a aching memory. Without dialogue or comment, save for verses from a sonnet by John Keats, Fridrik Thor Fridriksson links the thoughts, the emotions, the sensual longing of young lovers at opposite ends of the world. A tone poem, a collage of sight and sound.

In Hamburg's red-light district, where the Albanian mafia rules the prostitution business, the harmless sandwich-seller Andi Ommsen is hired to take care of the mob leader's wife while he is away. Now Andi needs to act like the pimp king.

A woman goes in search of an impotent man.

A hot summer day on a country road. A young woman in her bridal dress gets kicked out of a car. Lost and frustrated, she wanders off across a sea of grass into a dark wood - and discovers an abandoned house. Tired and worn out, she lies down on a bed. When she is awakened from her nap by a clap of thunder, she sees a cup of steaming hot tea and a package on the floor. She opens it - and finds a kimono. The bride knows she no longer is alone ... but should she put on the kimono?

Brandenburg, near the Polish border; it all started with a toothache. Then the boss called to say he was needed. Extra Duty - to guard a gangster for the night in an emergency ward. Konzak was sorry he ever became a cop. Besides, the prisoner was a moody boxer-type, and the room at the hospital was like in the middle of the Sahara Desert. Sweat was already dripping down his back when the night nurse stopped by on her rounds. A sway of the hips.. the look in her eye...she was a real knockout. Konzak forgot the toothache and the prisoner...

On the day of her golden wedding in 1994, Barbara Reichenbach's lost wedding gift, an amber amulet, reappears. Barbara is now forced to reveal her well-kept secret to her three children and her husband Alexander. Flashback to 1944: Weddings are celebrated on the Schlossgut Hagenow in eastern Germany. The pretty Comtesse Barbara von Ganski marries the charming physicist Alexander Reichenbach, who is exempted from working at the front as a scientist. As a pledge of his love, Alexander puts an amber amulet around his bride's neck. But not all guests wish the happy couple a good future: SS man Luschnat, for example, has had an eye on the bride himself, and the young estate manager Elisabeth is in love with Alexander. After a dispute between the carefree Alexander and the staunch Nazi Luschnat, Barbara's father, Baron Albin von Ganski, expelled his son-in-law from the house. Barbara follows her husband to Berlin and accepts the break with her conservative father. Through this turning point, Elisabeth, who is the secret, illegitimate daughter of the baron, sees her long-awaited chance of finally being recognized as an equal member of the family. The baron finally agrees. But when Barbara and Alexander's mother Gunhild and shortly afterwards Alexander returned from bombed Berlin after a heavy bombing attack, Elisabeth was once again on the sidelines from one day to the next. Gunhild confesses to her son that she is a converted Jew. In order to avoid persecution by the Nazis and to protect Barbara, Alexander reports as a soldier for front service without her knowledge. Meanwhile, Albin von Ganski hides Gunhild on the castle grounds. When the war finally comes to an end, Barbara, Elisabeth, Albin and his wife Henriette wait in eager anticipation for the liberation by the Russian troops. The feared atrocities do not materialize, but Barbara and her father are appalled when Elisabeth fraternises with the rude soldiers. Meanwhile, Barbara falls in love with the cultivated Russian officer Belajew, who protects her from attacks by his soldiers. But even he cannot help her when Albin von Ganski is executed one day for the alleged murder of a Russian prisoner of war. When her mother then commits suicide, Barbara is faced with a difficult decision: should she and Belayev leave their homeland? Just as the young woman is about to leave her past behind, she thinks she sees Alexander on the estate.

A designer with her own store must come to terms with being pregnant.