Michael Ende's "strange story of the time thieves and the child who brought back stolen time to the people" is now almost 50 years old. Long before the advent of mobile phones and the Internet, Ende's fairytale novel describes a society that is determined by time constraints, rushedness and the need for constant self-optimization, and which can only be healed through the power of interpersonal encounters. Then as now, children and adults alike are touched by Momo's kindness - and by the idea that we can all choose a life without consumer pressure and incessant acceleration if we just want to.

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1974 - Summer - The Football World Cup - Jürgen Sparwasser, the legendary striker of 1.FC Magdeburg scores a winning goal for the DDR against West Germany - triggering the young boy Matse to encounter a world he never met before. Jörg Menke-Peitzmeyer’s story is a road movie about family, generations clash, politics, ideologies and football.

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The family's money is gone. Now the landowner Ranjewskaya is back in the Russian provinces and her existence is in ruins. solutions are offered: Cut down the beautiful cherry orchard, parcel out the land and sell it to nouveau riche city dwellers so that they can build their dachas there. But the Family is proud, hoping for a miracle. In his play written in 1903, Chekhov precisely describes the impositions of capitalism on a society with stagnant values.

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