Gray-haired furniture retailer Paul Winkelmann still has his dinner cooked and his laundry done by his mother. He spends his evenings playing Scrabble with Mama's friends and discussing the role of women in society in his carnival club. When he meets psychologist Margarete Tietze, "Pussi" finally begins to rebel against his dominant mother.

　　Wunder der Schöpfung is an extraordinary, fascinating Kulturfilm trying to explain the whole human knowledge of the 1920s about the world and the universe. 15 special effects experts and 9 cameramen were involved in the production of this film which combines documentary scenes, historical documents, fiction elements, animation scenes and educational impact. It its beautifully colored, using tinting and toning in a very elaborated way. Some visual ideas in the sequences with a space shuttle visiting different planets in the universe seem to have to be the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.
　　In the context of Germany's Kulturfilm phenomenon, Wunder der Schöpfung was among the greatest achievements of the 1920s. The production was constructed, rehearsed, and shot over a period of two and a half years, under the supervision of Hanns Walter Kornblum. The idea to describe the universe and man's place in it well suited UFA's Grossfilm mentality, one year before the Metropolis catastrophe. Hundreds of skilled craftsmen participated in the project, building props and constructing scale models drawn by 15 special effects draughtsmen, while 9 cameramen in separate units worked on the historical, documentary, fiction, animation, and science-fiction sequences. Without star roles or even protagonists, the film's plot is crowded with meticulously structured and skillfully acted single scenes an artful mosaic of small vignettes. No less than four credited university professors ensured the factual background behind the scientific and historical events portrayed.
　　The film's symbol of progress and the new scientific era is a spacecraft, travelling through the Milky Way, making all the planets and their inspiring worlds familiar to us, with the extravaganza of their distinctive features. The film's educational intentions, however, become steadily more obscure, humorous, or even campy as this popularization project proceeds. With the excuse of presenting the end of the world a not-so-new concept as a new, undeniably scientific truth, the film veers happily along a new path, displaying detailed apocalyptic scenes of the end of mankind. For today's audiences, this amazing film demonstrates how the universe was comprehended in the 1920s, and how that view was sold to contemporary audiences.

　　佩特拉（玛吉特·卡斯滕森 Margit Carstensen 饰）是一位小有名气的女画家，和丈夫结婚多年，两人养育了一个女儿。然而，随着时间的推移，佩特拉发现自己越来越看不起虚伪冷漠的丈夫，不自由的婚姻生活令她感到窒息，于是，她选择了离婚
　　经朋友西朵妮（Katrin Schaake 饰）的介绍，佩特拉结识了名为卡琳（汉娜·许古拉 Hanna Schygulla 饰）的美国女子，趣味相投的两人很快就彼此吸引，开始了她们的同居生活。佩特拉供养着卡琳，并且积极地将她引入时装模特的行列，然而，卡琳却将佩特拉的爱意视为束缚，最终她选择了离开。失去了卡琳，佩特拉的生活陷入一片混乱，渐渐走向崩溃的边缘。

　　二战末期，德国军人科利基文斯（米高·文度 Michael Mendl）在战争中沦为战俘，被处以25年的刑期，而此时他怀孕的妻子和女儿则完全没有他的消息，只能求神保佑他还能活着回来。经过漫长的跋涉，一行战俘被送到了一个劳改场，那里没有围墙也没有栅栏，然而极度的严寒和千里冰原则成了难以逾越的屏障。这里位于西伯利亚东部，初到之时，由于天气和疾病，很多人都不幸死去，然而非人的矿工生活，才是真正的炼狱。科利基文斯从来没有忘记远方的亲人，一次失败的逃亡让他饱受看守的虐待，然而这却更加坚定了他要逃出这里的决心。后来在年迈的医生的帮助下，科利基文斯才得以逃离劳改场，从此获得回家的希望。可是在他面前的，将是长达14000公里的“死亡之地”，在被积雪覆盖的千里冰原，科利孤身一开始了漫长的回家之路……
　　本片曾获多项国际大奖，其情节源自一个真实的逃亡故事。

　　Two best friends try to make it through high school while dealing with embarrassing new urges and their very inconvenient feelings for each other.