Known for Acting
Like every year, Maike and her husband Sören invite family and friends over for New Year's Eve. This time, however, the raclette dinner turns out differently than the meticulously planned Maike had hoped: In addition to the cheese, all three couples sitting at the table reveal hard-to-digest truths and intimate secrets.
Harald Juhnke was a great entertainer, actor, comedian, singer, emcee and charmer. The stage was his life and success his drug, a life and a career with many ups and downs, triumphs and crashes. He loved his audience and the audience loved him. The film portrays the great entertainer. His family, friends, fellow artists and companions have their say.
It's no surprise when Karo is fired. She is loud, over-emotional and egocentric, more so than the average Berliner wise-ass, says her best friend Anna. Karo is not one to give up easily, though: she opts for radical change and goes into therapy. Although her therapist advises her to keep calm, Karo throws herself into it.
Heidemarie pays her husband back with her last breath: one of her three children was the result of an affair, she breathes - and dies. Ulrich, a newly retired airline captain and old Casanova, gets the moths. Accompanied by the mocking spirit of his "Heide-Maus" and dog Specki, the Berlin widower jets from Hamburg via Hanover to Kassel to collect samples for a genetic test from his now grown-up offspring. It turns out that the marriages of daughter Bettina and son Christian are also on the rocks. Only his future daughter-in-law Jessica, the bride of Ulrich's flighty son Thomas, is happy about the widower's visit.
In a senior citizens' residence in Berlin, six residents are betting on the Lotto jackpot of € 30 million. But what should one do with so much money in his old days? Lebemann Conrad wants to hit the spot again, while the gay couple Otto and Jakob are fulfilling their dream of sailing. The good-natured Rosi is unabashedly exempted from her children, while the adventurous Karin finally wants to travel the world, if need be even without her sullen husband. But although almost all can fulfill their dreams, fate holds after the lottery luck also a few setbacks.
The SOKO Stuttgart team investigates analytically and with sensitivity in the likeable state capital. The exciting cases of the series lead them to bizarre crime scenes and to different milieus.
After greengrocer Mehmet Üsker is murdered, police detective Inspector Menemenci is put on the case. At the same time, detective Vera Gemini is on the lookout for a former foreign legionnaire who, however, has been presumed dead for years. It soon turns out that there must be a connection between the two cases.
