Geheimnisvolle Orte

The Kurfürstendamm is one of the most famous streets in Germany. A must for every Berlin visitor. But hardly anyone knows the eventful history of the great German boulevard. Every house here has its story. The film tells the most exciting of them: for example, about the 1920s, when nude bars in private homes opened and closed in close succession, via the Café Reimann, in which the Nazis rioted in 1931 and whose owners later belonged to a barely known resistance group, about the "Maison de France ", on which a terrorist attack was perpetrated in August 1983, in which the Stasi had its finger in the play. The film goes in search of traces, shows rise and decay, glittering world and dark sides of the infamous boulevard. Interview partners tell of criminal cases, the assassination of Rudi Dutschke and the Kurfürstendamm as a place of longing.

The childhood dream of a young prince becomes the most exciting construction project in the world. Shortly after his accession to the throne is Ludwig II, who was always kept very briefly by his frugal father: "I want all unnecessary Knauserei stops!" Previously unknown photos of the major construction site, intimate diary entries of the young Ludwig and unpublished descriptions of the village chroniclers prove the Uniqueness of Neuschwanstein Castle, give an insight into the detail obsession of the client and allow a look behind the scenes of the true medieval dream. Today, the most famous building in Bavaria is inextricably linked to the fate of its builder King Ludwig II. "The sudden death of the king has given the castle a brilliant start in his career as a tourist attraction," says Ludwig, Prince of Bavaria, a relative of the fairytale king. "It's a built fantasy. You are not in a house, you are in a dream. "Even during the construction, the castle seems to have fallen out of time. It is the perfect symbiosis of high-tech and medieval times. The client wants to escape the reality of his office by the fantastic construction project. The feeling of not being understood and accepted causes the monarch to slip into ever-wandering dream worlds. Neuschwanstein becomes his last refuge. Here, the personal friend of the composer Richard Wagner dines with the legendary figures from the Nibelungenlied and sleeps under the watchful eyes of Tristan and Isoldes. It remains the builder refused to inhabit his palace in the finished state. On June 12, 1986 Ludwig is picked up. It is raining, Ludwig takes one last look back at his dream castle. The fact that the King of Bavaria is arrested and disempowered here contributes to the mystification of the place. The mysterious death in Lake Starnberg a few days later makes the fairy tale king a legend. Six weeks after his death, the castle is opened to visitors, also to prove how "crazy" the king was. For decades, the castle is in de