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Cats are the most popular pet in Europe. Around 14 million house pets live in German households alone. But hardly anything is known about the nature...

Romantic art was a response to the social upheavals of the 19th century, as shown by works by its emblematic painters Friedrich, Venetsianov and...

The Triple Concerto is one of Beethoven's less frequently performed works - probably also because it requires three soloists and makes considerable...

In rural Russia, children convicted of theft, murder and rape are sent to a home for delinquents. Without the outside world's pressures, they're...

Since 2003, human DNA has been completely decoded. Scientists are currently working on decoding all of the body's own proteins, the so-called Proteom...

Philipp Melanchthon decisively shaped the history of the Reformation in Germany and renewed German education. In the shadow of his fatherly friend...

What actually happens to our plastic waste after we throw it in the recycling garbage can? Plastic pollution is becoming an ever greater problem...

A woman from a big city moves to a small village near the former border zone between East and West Germany. What is she looking for? What will she...

The film shows how strong women took up the fight against social injustice and for their own rights and how the uprising of 1525 changed people's...

The river Oder: A historical and cultural land-scape churned again and again by the tide of events of the past century. A tale told in concentric...

The film explores the only known case in the history of post-WWII era of concentration camp survivors helping the SS Commandant of the Auschwitz and...

Is tradition the highest honor or the greatest misfortune? The village of Pöhla is debating this. Despite the devastating health consequences,...

Cats are the most popular pets in Europe, with twelve million living in Germany alone. And yet: hardly anyone knows how they live and what they do as...

The third part of Thomas Heise's time-lapse observation, in which he accompanies the people of Saxony-Anhalt. At the centre of the film is Jeanette,...

Mueller is a young and unsuccessful actor who has one big problem. He does not have time. He does not have time for his little daughter Elina and he...