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15.July2026

  1. Der Held meiner Träume

    In memoriam Heidi Brühl

    Finally, vacation! Marianne, Franziska, and Bernhard Kleinschmidt are spending their holidays together with their friends Oliver and Petra Martens at their parents' vacation home. The young people have every reason to be in a good mood, but something is gnawing at the two young men—Oliver and Bernhard are in love.

    • Comedy
    • Romance

    Murnau-FilmtheaterDF

  2. Der Fremde

    After years of drifting around, Willi Palko arrives in the lignite mining area. He was not only looking for a new job, but also wanted to finally settle down here. The party leadership sends him to the Schepp brigade, which has made itself "suspicious" (on paper) due to its extremely high production figures. The stranger is accused of being a spy for the factory management. Willi finds it difficult to assert himself, but he is taken with the big excavator, the prospect of one day being allowed to drive it, and the brash flapper Hanna. He stays, and with his help a mine foreman is exposed as a Western agent and coal production is brought up to a really high level.

    • Drama

    Capitol Mainz

  3. TMDB 73IMDb 7.4

    Asphalt

    125. Geburtstag Hans Székely

    Starring Betty Amann in her most famous leading role, Joe May's Asphalt is a luxuriously produced German Expressionist classic where tragic liaisons and fatal encounters are shaped alongside the constant roar of Berlin traffic.

    • Drama

    Murnau-FilmtheaterDF


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