Germany

A few days after the end of World War II, 11-year-old orphan Julius is on the run from the destroyed city of Berlin. Julius and formerly imprisoned communist Kaiser both stumble on a horse in a forest and report it to the Soviet commander in a nearby town. They are given jobs at a traveling circus which has set up camp on the outskirts, and Kaiser is even appointed ringmaster. Since it is very expensive to feed the circus main attraction, a lion, Kaiser thinks of using the horse as food. Julius, however, is horrified by this idea and runs away with the horse.

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Dantzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.

During World War II, a circus is used as a hiding place for spies and refugees.

Sequel to Wings of Desire. The Berlin Wall collapsed. Cassiel is an angel, like his one-time partner Daniel who chose to become human out of love for aerialist Marion. Cassiel also decides to become human, but everything goes wrong.

A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.

Michaela Destrez receives a promising job offer abroad - but when she meets circus manager Martin Kier she falls under the spell of life in the Big Top, and decides to train as a circus rider. Martin stretches Michaela's abilities to the limit during the training sessions, however, and the circus employees regard her as an unwelcome intruder. Isabella, who is an excellent rider and is also suffering from unrequited love for Martin, is particularly jealous of Michaela. Very soon, however, Michaela becomes the star of the circus, and Martin's wife.

October 1925. Inventor Carl Akerblom, an admirer of Franz Schubert, is a patient in the pyschiatric yard of a hospital in Uppsala. Together with another patient, Pr. Osvald Vogler, they set up a film project: the living talkie. Before long, they set off on a frantic tour with their film, ‘The Joy of the Joyous Girl’.

13-year-old Julia has to leave Berlin to spend her holidays with her mother in the Bohemian Forest. However the holidays are anything but boring: there are a traveling circus, circus director’s son Tom whom she takes to, and also his bear Joschka. As a rich hunter arrives and Joschka is to be released for shooting, the children must help him as soon as possible…

Hungary during Communist times. An innocent young man witnesses violence break out after an anonymous, desolate, isolated small town is inflamed by the arrival of a circus and its peculiar attractions: a giant dead whale and a mysterious man dubbed ‘The Prince’.

A fairy-tale like love story between young circus artist Lola and the bear Misha, who one day transforms into a human.