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Öllers and Niederländer have everything under control. For the past six years, the two successful business consultants have been traveling through some of the seediest countries around the world in order to satisfy their clients' greed.

Stemming from a photo of a dead American soldier in a German village at the end of WW2, an intriguing deep dive into a war scene.

Recollects the filmmaker's experience in 1990 when he staged a play by Heiner Müller, "Anatomie Titus Fall of Rome". Sven Behrendt was one of the young actors, whom the director follows from 1999 through 2005. The word Neger in the title refers to the statement "Ich bin ein Neger" of the playwright Heiner Müller.

The documentary takes time to show the staying power of the exceptional politician Angela Merkel and traces fundamental questions defining her politics.

Launched in 2018, the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project will come to fruition in October 2021: the 1,230 kilometers of pipes built under the Baltic Sea are complete. Connecting the village of Bolshoi Kuziomkino in Russia to the city of Lubmin in Germany, the pipeline follows the route of its big brother, Nord Stream 1, which has been operating since 2012. Two months later, just as the pipeline was about to be inaugurated, Germany warns that the pipeline will not be approved if the escalation with Ukraine escalates. In February 2022, Europe's major gas supplier invaded its neighbor, and Chancellor Olaf Scholz halted the pipeline's certification process as part of the sanctions against Russia.

Katarina Witt is the most successful female athlete in the history of figure skating with two Olympic victories, four world championship and six European championship titles. She combines East German identity with international flair and is to this day the "most beautiful face of socialism" - and the most internationally known citizen of the former GDR. She has reinvented herself again and again: as an East German ice princess, as an international show star, as an ambassador for sport. To this day, she confidently stands by her GDR origins, which many give her high credit, but which also brought her hostility.

1,300 years ago, the east of today's Germany between the Elbe and the Oder was almost deserted. But then strangers from the east, Slavs, enter the fertile land. They settle in the 7th century AD.

After three unsuccessful attempts at the Olympics, the 30-year-old Aljona Savchenko finally wants to win a gold medal with a new partner in four years. A rather bold plan, especially since the young Frenchman Bruno Massot, chosen by the German-Ukrainian ice princess, has no international successes in pairs figure skating. He moves to Germany and has no idea of the manic perfectionist he's getting involved with. Aljona's training is tough. Constant disputes about the right course threaten to bring the project to failure. Two completely different characters collide. However, the team of trainers manages to calm things down. February 2018: The competition at the Winter Olympics in South Korea begins with the short program. Inexplicably, Bruno blunders and the pair sit fourth by a wide gap. Gold is hardly possible anymore. It only remains for them to show the world their unique free skating.Their intoxicating, perfect run will go down in history. It will be the free skating of their life.

Through the Trianon Peace Treaty (signed in 1920) Hungary lost two thirds of its territories around 100 years ago. Every third Hungarian suddenly lived abroad. In total there are 1.8 million Hungarians who live in other countries such as Slovakia, Ukraine or Romania. Families were torn apart, the economy collapsed. The large Kingdom of Hungary - part of the powerful Habsburg dual monarchy - became a small country. In the summer of 2020, the Hungarian head of government inaugurated a controversial monument: the monument to national unity. The walls are engraved with the names of more than 12,500 places that once belonged to Hungary before the borders in Europe were redrawn by the victorious powers after World War I. Victor Orbán has been courting foreign Hungarians with one-two passports and voting rights for years. The neighboring countries are alarmed. This leads to tensions and conflicts in Europe. Outrage, anger and sadness. The feelings of Hungarians at that time are still alive today and it is not only nationalists and right-wing radicals who try to make political capital out of them. The documentary examines the question: How is it possible that an event that took place one hundred years ago can have such far-reaching consequences and still be politically relevant today?

Jan Vermeer was once forgotten, his paintings misidentified as Rembrandt masterpieces. Now considered one of the finest Dutch Masters, what secrets are still hidden behind the curtain of one of his most brilliant works?

Years ago, the two Poles Juliusz (92) and Krzysztof (77) decided to drop out. Since then, the wilderness on the shore of the Polish Lake Solina - far away from civilization - has been her home.