خلاصه داستان : اولریش موهه در نقش یک تاجر آلمانی بازی می کند که کاملاً بدون آدمهای بی ادب به دنیا آمده است. این باعث می شود وی یک نامزد کاملاً مناسب برای موفقیت در سالهای آشفته پس از جنگ جهانی اول باشد...

Ulrich Mühe plays a German businessman who was born completely without scruples. This makes him an eminently suitable candidate for success in the chaotic years after World War I. The shameless man's story is contrasted with that of his polar opposite, a Jewish anarchist.

خلاصه داستان : روایتِ رفاقتِ زنانه‌ی اولگا و روت، اولی پیانیستِ حرفه‌ای و وفادار یه فمینیسم و دومی مبتلا به جنون ادواری.

Olga and Ruth become friends. Olga is independent, separated from her husband, living with an immigrant pianist, and teaching feminist literature. Ruth is withdrawn, a painter, possibly mentally ill. Ruth dreams in black and white, sometimes of her suicide. Olga lectures on a 19th-century writer, von Günderrode, a suicide after the breakup of her intense friendship with Bettina Brentano. Ruth's husband Franz encourages the women's friendship, then, as Olga draws Ruth out and the friendship deepens, he becomes jealous. After the women travel to Egypt, Franz has a tirade. Ruth seems crushed between her husband and her friend, and how she responds is the film's climax.