We start with the current documentary "I want it all", which, in the form of a cinematic autobiography
cinematic autobiography that paints the picture of a highly talented, ambitious, laconic and sharp-witted woman who showed the world how to survive fame and defeat. She was a diva, opinionated, controversial, the mirror and antithesis of her time. As an actress, singer and author, she celebrated international successes, experienced crushing defeats and was creatively active for more than five decades. She became part of the German public at the age of 20
and never left it again. Her favorite topic, being successful, failing, reinventing herself again and again and - against all odds - getting up again and again, makes her an expert on survival.

Germany 2025, 98 minutes, FSK: unrated

Hildegard Knef would have been 100 years old on December 28. The film series opens with one of her earliest films, in which she only has a small role as a girl in Havelberg; the leading role is played by Hannelore Schroth: a girl disappointed by life and love embarks on a trip on a tugboat. Both skippers fall in love with the passenger.

Germany 1945, 100 minutes, FSK: 12+

Marina, who has become a prostitute due to unfortunate circumstances, meets the love of her life one day. But the elderly painter Alexander is seriously ill and only a very expensive operation could save his life. To make this possible, Marina pursues her old trade. Willi Forst's first post-war film became the biggest scandal in German cinema; not, however, because of the nude scene involving the young Hildegard Knef, as was often assumed, but because the churches, who disagreed with the "Voluntary Self-Regulation of the Film Industry", demonstratively ceased their participation in the FSK (until its reorganization). The resulting protests from church and political circles made "Die Sünderin" a box office success.

FRG 1950, 100 minutes, FSK: 12+