Screenplay: Manfred Freitag

Direction Rainer Simon

Cast Jiří Menzel · Günter Schubert · Friedo Solter · Olga Strub

Direction Ralf Kirsten

Cast Fred Düren · Erika Pelikowsky · Erik S. Klein · Walter Lendrich

Plot August 24, 1937: a day in the life of expressionist sculptor and author Ernst Barlach. Barlach lives in the small town of Güstrow, keeping to himself, not interested in politics....

Direction Bernhard Stephan

Cast Alois Svehlík · Margrit Tenner · Olgierd Lukaszewicz · Günter Naumann

Plot On the eve of the Peasants' War, painter Jörg Ratgeb is in search of a Christ figure. He can't find anyone who can fulfill this longing. Cast into self-doubt, he...

Direction Frank Vogel

Cast Peter Reusse · Anne-Kathrein Kretzschmar · Hans Hardt-Hardtloff · Jutta Hoffmann

Plot High-school senior Peter considers the adults around him to be hypocritical, self-congratulatory, and immersed in the past. He gets suspended for writing an essay that his teachers consider to be...