Sat, Dec 11, 2021
New York, 1882. Georg Schmidt, a young German newly arrived in the United States, leaves behind him a Reich led by the iron fist of Chancellor Bismarck. He crossed the Atlantic with dreams of social ascension, like many of his fellow citizens. He was able to become a lawyer in three years, and now finds himself at the heart of an important trial involving gangs. His fiancée, who joined him after months of separation, has just arrived in this metropolis that has almost as many Germans as Berlin or Vienna. Arrested at the port after her luggage was found to contain stolen goods, she ended up in prison. The young lawyer then turns to the New York bandits, the only ones able to help him prove his beloved's innocence.
Sat, Dec 11, 2021
In 1218, life was in full swing at Münzenberg Castle. In the heart of the Holy Roman Empire, in the present-day state of Hesse, Eberhard von Münzenberg managed the estate, collected taxes and oversaw the care of the building. As an illegitimate child, Eberhard was not the real master of the place: it was his half-brother Ulrich I who owned the castle. In the midst of this emblematic picture of the time, a quarrel with another noble house and a marriage on the verge of falling apart upset the old residence, and all the organization of life that goes with it. Negotiations, intrigues and family stories shake up this microcosm.