German biopic starring Tilo Prückner as Albrecht Berblinger, the tailor who became famous for building a flying contraption. Born in 1770 in Ulm to a poor family, Berblinger later became an orphan and was pressured into becoming a tailor despite having a mechanical mind. He began to put all his efforts into inventing a working flying machine, encountering many obstacles but never giving up his dream.

German filmmaker Edgar Reitz directs this 1960s tragic drama. When the attractive and beguiling Elisabeth (Heidi Stroh) falls pregnant, her boyfriend, medical student Rolf (Georg Hauke), gives up his future career to wed her. As their family grows, Rolf becomes increasingly depressed and contemplates suicide.

German drama co-written and directed by Edgar Reitz. In the fictional Hunsrueck village of Schabbach in 1840, inhabitants struggle with crippling poverty brought on by food shortages and years of bad harvests. The Simon family are particularly affected as patriarch and local blacksmith Johann (Rüdiger Kriese) struggles to put enough food on his family's table despite his best efforts. His son Jakob (Jan Dieter Schneider) tries to keep his head in books and out of his father's wrath but Johann favours his more practical older brother Gustav (Maximilian Scheidt) and berates Jakob for his perceived laziness. Young Jakob dreams of travelling to explore foreign lands and, like many others in the rural region, is tempted to leave by the promise of land in South America from the powerful Portuguese Empire.