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- Why was classical music so important to Hitler and Goebbels? The stories of Jewish cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who survived Auschwitz, and of star conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who worked with the Nazis, provide insight. The film centers around two people who represent musical culture during the Third Reich - albeit in very different ways. Wilhelm Furtwängler was a star conductor; Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, the cellist of the infamous Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz. Both shared a love for the classical German music.
- 45 years ago, with the victory of the revolution in Nicaragua, an era of hope begins. A young generation takes over the government with the ambitious goal of building a fairer and more socially just society. In the 1980s, 15,000 "brigadists" from West Germany alone traveled to Nicaragua to help rebuild the exhausted country: liberals, Greens, trade unionists, social democrats, leftists and church representatives harvested coffee and cotton, built schools, kindergartens and health stations. No other movement has mobilized so many people. Director Petra Hoffmann is also involved. 45 years after the victory of the revolution, she asks what has become of the wishes and dreams of the revolutionaries and their supporters.
- To gauge the significance of Beethoven's work, we pose the question: What would the world 'sound' like without it? Without his genius, would movie scores, jazz, concept albums and much more exist as we know it?
- 24 hours that changed the world: On November 9, 1989, Günter Schabowski, member and spokesman of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED, read out the GDR's new travel regulations at a press conference broadcast live on GDR television. It had been drawn up by high-ranking officers from the Ministry of the Interior and the State Security. Contrary to the guidelines of the political leadership, the authors had written the possibility of an unbureaucratic departure and re-entry into the paper. Nevertheless, the travel regulation passed the Central Committee without objection.
- In the fall of 2013, Ukraine became involved in a tug-of-war between the EU and Russia. Both wanted to tie the country closer to them. Extensive protests broke out in the country when it appeared that the then president had canceled the negotiations with the EU on a rapprochement. The center of the protests was Maidan Square in Kyiv. The consequences of the protests were both far-reaching and dramatic.
- ME/CFS is a debilitating condition that affects millions of people throughout the world. And yet little research has been carried out into the disease to date. Recently, things have started happening - because the long-term effects of Covid-19 are similar to the typical symptoms of ME/CFS. Scientists are now trying to get to the bottom of this mysterious disease.
- A fast-paced journey through the history of Nollywood and an insight into the turbulent current dynamics of the film industry based in Lagos.
- The life of the Cranach family of painters in Germany in the 16th century.