Jakob Knoblauch

In this sun soaked adventure for the entire family, a group of five orphaned children form their own makeshift family while attempting to operate outside the rules of society. Though they must sometimes steal to survive, their loyalty to one another means that they will always have a brother or sister to count on.

Helen, in her early 50s, really doesn't know which problem she should solve first: her husband seems to be cheating on her, the children are in terrible puberty, things aren't going well with the gardening business, and she herself is going through menopause. When her old mother also has a stroke, the otherwise calm Helen threatens to go crazy.

With provocative dresses and a lot of make-up, the 19-year-old Melanie defies her bleak hospital stay in Masserberg in Thuringia. For years, she suffers from a very serious eye disease that will lead to blindness without expensive therapy and expensive drugs. Mel dreams of freedom in the West and is convinced that they could be treated there as well. So you only the new doctor Carlo Sanchez remains as a worldly glimmer of hope. As their escape plans fly up and Carlo is to spy on behalf of the Stasi, begins for the unequal pair a race for life and death, love and freedom.

À la mort de son mari, la comtesse Elizabeth Bathory se trouve à la tête d’un vaste domaine et d’une immense fortune. Aidée de sa confidente, la sorcière Anna Darvulia, Elizabeth étend progressivement son influence, suscitant chez chacun crainte, admiration et haine, pour devenir la femme la plus puissante de la Hongrie du 17ème siècle – dictant ses conditions jusqu’au roi lui-même. Elle rencontre alors un séduisant jeune homme dont elle tombe éperdument amoureuse mais celui-ci l’abandonne. Certaine d’avoir été délaissée car elle n’était plus assez jeune et belle. Sombrant progressivement dans la folie, Elizabeth, à la suite d’un accident, se persuade que le sang de jeunes vierges lui procure jeunesse et beauté...