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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.

The life and films of iconic producer. director, and actor Otto Preminger are depicted through clips from his films and interviews with co-workers.

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.

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...

Kampl wants to bring love and inheritance matters into the right hands. His grandson Gabriel has plans for what's best for himself.

A German translation of the hit American play Visiting Mr. Green, Besuch bei Mr. Green tells the story of an old man who is almost run over by a car. The young man who was driving the car receives a community service sentence of having to visit the old man once a month for six months. What begins as a comedy of two men who don't want to spend any time together grows intense as they get to know each other, and play out some unfinished family business they each have with each other.

German language adaptation of Neil Simon's "The Sunshine Boys", made for Austrian TV.

Arthur Schnitzler's key piece describes the liaisons of his artist colleagues from the Cafe Central, Vienna.