Max Riemelt

A passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship, when an Australian photojournalist wakes one morning in a Berlin apartment and is unable to leave.

A high school teacher's experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own.

In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) - high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over his father's objections, Friedrich enrolls, seeing this as his ticket out of factory life to university and a good salary. During his year in seventh column (fifth form), this innocence is altered as Friedrich encounters hazing, cruelty, death, and the Nazi code. His friendship with Albrecht, the ascetic son of the area's governor, is central to this education; a night in the forest hunting for escaped Russian POWs brings things to a head.

A journalist gets caught up in a terrorist plot in Moscow while investigating the Russian secret service.

The Israeli basketball coach Max Stoller is a national hero, which quickly turned into a traitor of his country men's eyes, when he chose to train the west German national team. For Max, the situation is double-edged: he is of German origin, but argue that it is just a job anywhere. How long can he escape from his past?