Movies: Matthias Schweighöfer

The 10-year-old Elisa skips her dull ballet lessons to visit ice-cream parlor Dolomiti where teenage Holger, the object of her infatuation, works. Here her can imagination go free and she can philosophize about life in a childlike way....

Because the war is not for him, the young soldier Albert deserts. He wants to wait out the end of World War II on his parents' farm in East Prussia. His father's excessive sense of duty leads to disaster....