Difficulty:
Intermediate
Germany High German
Eighteen-year-old Piet Mundry made the feature film Entropia together with amateur actors, and directed it himself. The plot: Charles returns to his childhood home town and encounters old friends and enemies who will change his future. With entropy as an alibi for his revenge, Charles begins to create chaos in Lüdinghausen.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Germany High German
How do people celebrate Christmas in Germany? Paula and Alina compare their family traditions.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Germany High German
It's time to play the Christmas ABCs! Paula and Alina take turns guessing Christmas-related words and share what they particularly like about this time of year.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Germany Upper Saxon
It's just before Christmas, a busy time of year for delivery man Wolfgang Paschke.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Germany Upper Saxon
Wolfgang Paschke stops by the house to say hi to his wife and finds his son in the middle of a snowball fight. Unfortunately, he has to go back out again.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Germany Upper Saxon
Paschke has some trouble at the bank and we get the impression that he is experiencing some financial problems.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Germany South German
Diane interviews passersby at the Christmas market in Karlsruhe to learn about their Christmas traditions.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Germany High German Palatine German
Paula interviews people at Karlsruhe's Christmas market. She wants to know what presents they have bought and how they like the market.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Germany
“Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht” (known as “Silent Night” in English) is one of the best-known Christmas carols on the planet, and the definitive Christmas song in the German-speaking world. It was first performed on December 24, 1818 in a Roman Catholic church in Oberndorf, a village near Salzburg, with a melody by Franz Xaver Gruber and lyrics by Joseph Mohr. Since then, the original German text has been adapted into 320 languages and dialects worldwide.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Germany
In this Christmas comedy, Academy Award-winning actor Christoph Waltz plays a pet shop owner who generally prefers animals to people. Recently divorced, he is still very attached to his ex-wife – who lives right across the hall from him.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Germany
Konstantin, the new temp worker at the pet store, wonders why he's even needed considering how little money the store is making. Meanwhile, owner Johannes uses the store's problems to try to bring his ex-wife Marion – who also happens to be his neighbor – back into his life.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Germany South German
Johannes asks his new employee, a psychology student, about love and relationships – but doesn't particularly like the answer he gets in return.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Germany
When Marion comes by to help Johannes with his taxes, he finds out she's met someone else – news he doesn't deal with particularly well.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Germany
To earn some money and help out his injured employee, Johannes visits several families pretending to be Saint Nicholas – and ends up making quite an impression.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Germany
Sascha reveals to Johannes, who is dressed as Saint Nicholas, that his parents are on the verge of separation. Later, Johannes spies on Marion and her new boyfriend at the Christmas market.
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