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East Germany before reunification: Wolfgang Schulz watches Western television and discovers his long-lost twin brother Walter on the show "Aktuelles Sportstudio." They quickly get in touch, and the two decide to switch roles for a few days. Since both work in advertising, they think it will be a temporary bit of fun. But everyday life turns out to be different. Shortly afterwards, the Berlin Wall falls and the brothers found a company together. Now their different mentalities really come to the fore, and "Schulz & Schulz" have to realize that even in the general spirit of optimism, it is not so easy to run a company together. It doesn't take long before the two find themselves in the red.
The Berlin Wall has fallen. Walter Schulz travels to Hamburg with his wife Marlene and their children Dorothee and Alexander. Here, his brother Wolfgang tells him that he wants to help him set up a company. While Walter is overwhelmed by Wolfgang, his former boss Günther tries to accuse him of having a past with the Stasi.
Wolfgang from Hamburg wants his twin brother Walter to become a politician in Stralsund.
Thomas, the son of a prison warden, falls for Martin, one of the prison inmates. After Martin is released, they try to build a relationship and a life together but, no one will leave them alone.
Four teenagers in the German Ruhr region try to succeed as a rock band in 1966. A girl tries to join them as a singer but is rejected by them.
Walter invests his money in his friend Erwin's train station bar. Neo-Nazis smash it up. Walter's eternal adversary Günther has a hand in this. In addition, his son Alexander goes astray and joins the Nazis.
In the minds of brothers Walter and Wolfgang, the Wall still exists. Walter stands in for his brother Wolfgang at his wedding to Britta. The two also outsmart the devious ex-Stasi agent and turncoat Günther.
Fictional story of a traffic accident that triggers a catastrophe near a small village in 1990. A liquefied gas truck collides with a transport truck carrying radioactive material for reprocessing. An accident that was never thought possible by human standards. The radioactivity released must be contained at all costs. Not only the catastrophic consequences of the radiation, but also the panicked, irrational and inhumane behavior of those trapped in the village and the German army are portrayed in an almost unbearable way in this film.
A biography of Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höss.