
Three men accidentally end up stranded on an island in the Baltic Sea: friends Achim and Klaus and railroad worker Erich Spalteholtz. Both friends try to swim ashore to get help. In the process, they have adventures with the police as well as with the enchanting girls Anne and Brigitte! However, before Erich Spalteholtz is rescued from the island, he helps himself alone - thinking that Achim and Klaus have drowned...
Anne
Leutnant der Volkspolizei
Kneister

Three men accidentally end up stranded on an island in the Baltic Sea: friends Achim and Klaus and railroad worker Erich Spalteholtz. Both friends try to swim ashore to get help. In the process, they have adventures with the police as well as with the enchanting girls Anne and Brigitte! However, before Erich Spalteholtz is rescued from the island, he helps himself alone - thinking that Achim and Klaus have drowned...
1960-01-01
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5.8A compelling drama about a silent, violent teenager. Kevin suffers from elective mutism and no one has ever heard him utter a word.
4.0Jack Killoran is a lawyer who can 'fix' any situation for his wealthy clients, usually by bribing or blackmailing corrupt officials. Killoran runs afoul of some of his clients when he has a crisis of conscience after miraculously surviving a riding accident.
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8.8Bawdy adaption of Tom Sharpe's comic tale. A landowning MP attempts to have a motorway built through the grounds of his wife's ancestral home.
0.0Faced with the prospect of being sent to work abroad, Sally Brown returns home from London to Hull, to see if she still feels the same attachment for her home town - and for her old boyfriend Mike Thurlow. Will she decide to take the job abroad or return to live with Mike in Hull?
0.0The wife of a public school head becomes gradually aware that her husband has been physically abusing his pupils. Written by the master of late-middle-age morality plays, William Trevor.
6.5Mads' father’s company is too small for a proper Christmas tree party, so Mads decides to arrange his own for himself and his best friend. But arranging such a party is easier said than done. It involves theft, intrigue and deception. Can Mads overcome the difficulties, or will there be no Christmas tree party?
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7.0A stark, two-character chamber drama about Joanna, a middle-aged woman who returns from the camps after World War II. Seeking out her deceased husband’s mother, she cannot bring herself to reveal the truth about his fate. Instead, she invents a story to spare the grieving woman further pain. What begins as a compassionate lie soon entangles Joanna in an ever-growing web of deception, as more people who know the truth become drawn into her fragile fiction.
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