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Young student Lene is standing at the train station; she must decide whether to take the train back to Berlin where she lives or the one to the Bavarian countryside where her family resides--the place she left in anger many years ago. 'Hierankl' is the name of a Bavarian "Bergbauernhof", i.e., a solitary farm in the mountains with nothing else around but Alps, cows, and nature. Lene returns home to her beloved father Lukas, her rejecting mother Rosemarie, her brother Paul, and a dark, sinister farmhand. She walks through the places of her childhood and feels better. Things get better yet when Götz, a long-missed friend of her father's, arrives to celebrate Lukas' 60th birthday. Despite their significant age difference, Lene and Götz are attracted to each other, and they have a good time. But the day of celebration that should have been, turns into family day of reckoning, and more than one well-kept family secret is revealed.

Portrait of Christian Gerhartsreiter, who posed as a Rockefeller heir for decades, but who was, in fact, a con artist and a murderer.

All is not really well between the boys of Gymnasium and the boys of the six-form High School: sparks fly when they get within 100m of each other. The continuous feud between the pupils is only one of the pleasant alternations, which life brings into the everyday school life. In addition, there are the rehearsals for the school theatre, and there are the secrets around a teacher called 'Justus' and a man called 'Nichtraucher' or the "non-smoker" since he lives in an abandoned non-smoking railway carriage. In between all the exciting surprises, a few serious things remain to be done.

Thomas Holinka has returned home from war and captivity. In the absence of a suitable home, he finds himself in what seems to be an abandoned monastery. When the nuns return, a conflict is inevitable because Holinka is addicted to alcohol and gambling.

A chronicle of the lives of the inhabitants of the Bavarian village Sachrang during the years of the Napoleonic wars (1791-1814). The main character is Peter Müllner, who has been away to the big city of Munich to study there, and who is seen as a rebel and reformer when he returns to the village. Not all of the villagers see eye to eye with him and his modern ideas.

Seeking to solve the mystery of the abandoned house owned by her estranged father, young burned-out songwriter Julika first has to face her own demons to find out if she has the strength to finally let go the shadows of her past.

Art and curiosities are her life: Together with her husband Wolfgang, Andrea Steckenreiter fulfilled a lifelong dream many years ago and opened a shop for old handicrafts and original junk. The business was never very profitable, but Andrea only became aware of the full extent of her financial distress after the sudden death of her husband. The shop is hopelessly over-indebted and the homeowner is already threatening the bailiff because of the outstanding rent. Together with her mother-in-law Lucy, she is desperately looking for a way out of her misery. The likeable restorer Ludwig Reiter, who has been silently adoring Andrea for a long time, would be happy to give her advice and help. But the "Trödelqueen" stubbornly gives her admirer the cold shoulder. Until one day she accidentally meets a woman in the cemetery who claims to have been her husband's lover - and has been for eleven years. At first the stunned Andrea cannot believe what she is hearing. But she soon finds more clues to Wolfgang's years of hide-and-seek. She gives vent to her disappointment and anger in a radical way: not only does the legacy of her faithless husband fly into the fire, but the defense against Ludwig gradually begins to crumble. Above all, Andrea wants to find out more about the woman her husband cheated on her with: the elegant Elisabeth von Greifenstein runs a small art bookshop and appears unapproachable and superior. Of course, the two rivals can't stand each other at first, one verbal broadside follows the next. But when Andrea finds out that her rival is also sitting on a mountain of debt, she quickly realizes that they can only save their business from bankruptcy if they join forces. Gritting their teeth, the opponents form an alliance of convenience and hatch a (not entirely serious) plan to restructure themselves financially in one fell swoop: They want to sell a truck full of junk as valuable antiques to a rich, aristocratic art collector. If that works out?

Reinhard Münchenhagen about Klaus Kinski.

Helen (36) runs a bookshop exclusively for romance novels. But her belief in true love was driven out of her by her ex-husband Robert

First part of a documentary film series by Bayerischer Rundfunk, in which well-known Bavarian directors show how they see their homeland

Looking for a home in the heartlands of Bavaria. Refugees from all over the world bring world politics to Chiemgau, an area rich in provincial traditions. A culture-clash tragicomedy that explores the meaning of home.

Bavarian industrialist Otto Kilian's socialite wife Helen plans a fairy-tale wedding on (hence the title) their country estate. It's for their daughter Martina and Arndt, the Graf (count) of Solm-Weltingen, her better in show-jumping. When his horse has a fatal accident, Arndt calls off their plan to raise horses together and considers a job in Singapore, but Otto offers him a job in his firm. To out-stage Otto's jet set sister Johanna, Helen engages butler William, ignoring their common past. William enlists as his gopher Erik, the only other horse fanatic Martina ever sort of loved.

Star Biathlon 2007.

Join Michael Tellinger as he explores his plan to break free from the misery of our everyday slave lives in this episode of Hidden Origins. What are the next steps to achieve our utopian civilization?

*Florian, a brilliant astrophysicist in the running for a Bavarian science foundation prize, supplements his meager research funds by teaching basic mathematics to backward adults. Caro(line) Waldheim, who runs her late mother Taunstein kiosk into the ground by miscalculation, slack dues collecting and chaotic accounting is beyond hiding it's near bankruptcy, so she joins his course. Alas Mathematics teacher jumps straight to Einstein, yet Caro somehow seduces loner Florian. Her father Wolfgang Waldheim is tired of bailing her out in vain, yet a surprise visit from his 'kid' brother Martin, who moved to Canada while their mother died, gets him reconsidering things.