Young Bernd is having great difficulty in adjusting to his family's move to a distant city.
Adam, Evchen, and Manni are looking at the moon through their home-made telescope. Evchen isn't interested, and dismisses the moon as a lump of cheese. Manni, who is a big fan of technology...
The captain of an East German merchantman takes a snowman to Africa as a present to his friends there. While underway the snowman comes alive - much to the amusement of the crew.
Seventeen-year-old Susanne is a gymnast and has a chance at making the national team. But of all things, she now has problems at training. She cannot do the new dismount from the uneven ...
A young boy fantasizes his way to school into a battle between cowboys and Indians, where the bad guys want to steal some gold medals. Real events and fantasy interacts in his mind.
At age 12 Hannes and Carolin falls in love comparing this as a cloud. Unfortunately the parents of each child has differing opinions of this relationship causing a breakup. But there is more 'fish in the sea' as these two soon found out.
Carola is a mischievous girl who doesn't care much for school - except for sports and recess, of course. Without her good friend Willi to keep her on the straight and narrow, she would ...
A village has to be destroyed for coal mining. Henning, a 15 years old boy, who wants to visit his grandfather one more time, realizes that nothing will be the way it used to be.
Little boy Friedrich does not need a TV, because he likes reading books very much. On his birthday, a masked burglar breaks into the apartment. As Friedrich denies him the key for the ...
As a small boy, Hans is sent by his poor parents to an old mill days from home, where he works for seven years as the miller's industrious apprentice. When Hans decides, having outgrown the...