Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys enthusiastically…
In 1949, German writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika embark on a road trip across a Germany in ruins, from US-dominated Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar.
Twenty-year-old Joachim is unexpectedly accepted at drama school in Munich and moves into his grandparents’ upper-class villa. From then on, he tries to find his identity as a young man…