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An anthology series that follows the work of homicide detectives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Physicist congress in Alps encounters Iranian guest, mysterious pianist. Bizarre cloud, underground booming. Quantum mechanical thriller unravels amidst enigmatic events. Black and white setting.

Sabine, an adolescent girl with a gift for mathematics becomes involved with Jiri, a 40-something man-of-the-theatre from Prague. The story of their relationship and the gradual transformation of Sabine's life as a result of it.

During the long train ride from Montreal to Vancouver, a man and woman find themselves increasingly attracted to each other.

In the year 1963, an awkward thirteen-year-old girl comes of age during her escapism into the world of cinema, with potentially dangerous results.

Shots, scenery and traditions of some Tuareg (plural of Targi) tribes, the Berber pre-Arab native camel-mounted nomads of the Sahara and bordering Sahel region. Their favorite pastime are stories, mixing truth, dreams, legends and poetic liberty, mainly told by the elderly and professional "griot", in tents or by the campfire, often accompanied on the single-string imzhad bow instrument. The central concept is "asshak", their ancient honor code, which stands for virtue, Allah's will and respect for life.

Dominik, a 16-year-old student, lives with a troubled family and finds himself alone. In order to impress a girl, he gets involved in a shady deal where things go wrong. Then a true friendship comes to save him from the disaster.

An old writer travels the world, accompanied by a young and pretty woman, to give a series of lectures. René Kermadec is blind-as were Borges and probably Homer. From Rome to Madrid, from Seville to Zurich, from Paris to Munich, Sibilla, his companion, "explains" to him the reality she sees, with eyes eager for life. Sibilla loves René, but she regularly cheats on him. How could the old man satisfy a body full of desire ?

A Swiss alpine wrestler gets a crack at the national championship.

The documentary shows how Gerhard Meier became a writer after 33 years of working in the lamp factory and is considered an introduction to the poet's work.

The story of some young people who grew up in a working-class area in Zurich in the late 1950s. The plain living style of their educators is not on their wavelength. They find the occurrences in the newly opened Jazz club much more tempting. Down there is what must not be up there: spontaneous lust for life. Jazz electrifies them all. And then there are the girls.

In his book "Der schnurgerade Kanal" Gerhard Meier describes the writer K. as follows: "He left technical college early, got married and took on a temporary job in a factory - where he got stuck". In Meier's own case it was after dropping out of technical college that he got a job in the lamp factory in Niederbipp. After working in the factory for 33 years, he finally made up his mind to quit and become a writer. His wife started working in a kiosk in order to make a living for them both. The film asks questions about the sort of literature than can spring from a biography like Meier's. It shows the conflict of a provincial citizen who becomes a poet, and it accompanies the writer, who sees life in terms of eyeopening images, on his wanderings trough his immediate and extended home territory, including the island of Rügen and the house of Tolstoi's birth.

Prisoner Edmund Frank is offered a large amount of money by the editor of a magazine, to tell the real story of his crime and the hiding place of the one million Mark he stole from the bank he worked for.

After receiving a dubious Phone call at work, Eva Konalsky, a typist working at a Steel Factory disappears without a trace. The Saarbrücken Police sends the two cops Liersdahl and Schäfermann to investigate. Both of them have a very different view of how police work should be done and they are not very fond of each other at first. When another person of the Steel Factory's personnel is murdered they both have to do their best to solve the case.

The East German authorities are calling the West German Police for assistance on a case. The body of a boy was found at a Truck Stop near Leipzig. The boy wears shoes made in West Germany. Some time later the assistance call is withdrawn. Phoning his colleague in East Berlin, a man he worked together with in the past, investigator Paul Trimmel in Hamburg is told: "There is no work for you here." But Trimmel investigates on his own. He finds out that the wealthy Erich Landsberger is the illegitimate father of the dead kid. Landsberger and his other son have moved to Frankfurt. Trimmel pays him a visit there. The man is of no great help for him, but Trimmel gets an unexpected clue from Landsberger's little son. He has to go to Leipzig himself to find out more. So he leaves the Transit Route near the city, pretending his car broke down, takes a Taxi and goes looking for Eva Billsing, the dead boy's mother. She is not home when Trimmel arrives. The next day Trimmel encounters Eva's boyfriend Peter Klaus, who works for the East German Police, and talks him into letting him have a word with Eva. At least Klaus gives in to Trimmel and the things Eva tells him help solve the case.

A dead woman found in the Donau, is the wife of a very important guest of the Austrian Government. Oberinspektor Marek is asked to investigate the case very gently.

Brigitta Beerenberg calls the police to inform them she has killed her husband in self-defense. Trimmel wants her to be examined by a psychiatrist.