Amid the chaos of civilians fleeing West in a provincial German railway station in 1945 Helene has brought her seven-year-old son. Having survived with him through the horrors and deprivations of the war years, she abandons him on the station platform and never returns. The Blind Side of the Heart [...]

Scientist Nelly Senff is desperate to escape her life in East Berlin. The father of her two children has supposedly committed suicide, and she wants to leave behind the prying eyes of the Stasi. But the West is not all she hoped for. Nelly and her children are held in Marienfelde, a processing centr[...]

Als ihre Nachbarin Charlotte bei einem Autounfall tödlich verunglückt, zieht Beyla in deren Wohnung und findet sich mitten im Leben ihrer toten Vorgängerin wieder. Sie verliebt sich in den rätselhaften Albert, den sie bereits auf Charlottes Beerdigung gesehen hat, und erfährt erst ganz allmähl[...]

Like his contemporaries Neo Rauch and Michael Triegel, Leipzig painter Peter Krauskopf (born 1966) was a student of Arno Rink, who encouraged his students to pursue their own paths, however unfashionable they might seem. Following this advice, Krauskopf initially embraced classical landscape paintin[...]