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Insurance man Max has tried out all the ladies in his shared flat, but it's not until he meets Laura on vacation that things really spark. Marriage and having children are the order of the day. But although Max is potent, he is unfortunately infertile. So Laura wants to have the offspring fathered by a surrogate. Max's best friend Mani, of all people, wins the bid. When his boss starts to get nasty with him, Max snaps and retreats to a men's camp for a macho course. The level of humor in this comedy corresponds to the advertising slogan: "If your own man can't do it, how about a hired man".
A village pastor and a tourism entrepreneur come into conflict over building land on which the pastor wants to build a youth center and the entrepreneur wants to build a luxury hotel. When a parishioner bequeathed "paradise" to the pastor, which is a well-known brothel, the entrepreneur plans to put the press on him. However, the entrepreneur's daughter and her lover take the pastor's side.
Marienhof is a German soap opera, first shown on October 1, 1992 on German TV channel, Das Erste. It started as a weekly series, before becoming a daily program on January 2, 1995. The show was canceled in February 2011 and aired its last episode on June 15, 2011. In the 90s, the Marienhof became a huge success in Finland and remained a fan favorite until it was canceled to license problems. Over the years, the show became known for tackling several social issues, such as homosexuality, homelessness, private bankruptcy, rape, drug abuse, AIDS, child abuse, suicide, cancer, adultery and murder. The show focuses on the everyday life of the residents of the Marienhof, a fictional suburb in Cologne.
Hamburg 1962, you dream in English and only understand German. The four boys in Claude-Oliver Rudolph's film "The Wonderbeats" work as lifeguards or in the pigsty and play a hot beat in the evenings. This is the story of the most successful German beat band. It's called THE WONDERBEATS in our film. The events from 1962 to 1967 are described. During this time the band had 15 hits in the German charts.
The famous Viennese harlot ends up in inhospitable Bavaria, where she meets Emperor Napoleon in a remote inn, who naturally falls for her charms on the spot.
With the death of her mother, eight-year-old Anna ends her childhood: From now on, she has to look after the nine-member family. Deprivation-rich years, which also find no end when Anna marries: Her husband Albert must be a soldier in the Second World War, and the pregnant Anna has to work hard in the farm and care sick relatives. Lonely and exposed to the harassment of the tyrannical mother-in-law, she waits for Albert, with no certainty that he will ever return.
The 30-years old Max is MD and engaged to the attractive Coco, who jealously keep watch over him. After he heard the lovely voice of an unknown misdialing woman, he starts a restless search ...
