Election season in Germany. A right- wing party is challenging the political establishment. What’s needed now are emotional issues, the kind that move people. So it suits everyone rather well when not one but three sperm whales beach themselves on the coast of Rügen. Candidates of every political stripe try to use the story to save democracy, or at least to save themselves. Only Lava Wonder, a trainee marine biologist, genuinely cares about the animals’ welfare, so much so that at first she fails to notice her efforts are being ruthlessly exploited.

They were best friends starting their stage careers together — until things fell apart. Sonja, nicknamed Sun, was betrayed by Jana von Mond. Years later, Jana — now a comedy star — shows up at Sun’s funeral parlour and asks her to host the memorial service for her late partner. Old wounds reopen, new ones are inflicted. Sun and Moon are unable to break free from their orbit; they shine on, each in their own way, sometimes cold, sometimes warm.

The great new German novel by filmmaker Chris Kraus who proves himself a great narrator and finds images of biblical force.

An epos of two Baltic-German brothers in the maelstrom of the 20th century.

A novel that takes readers to the dark chambers arose from the rubble of the Nazi regime.

Cold Blood tells the story of an entire epoch: a drama of betrayal and self-delusion spanning the years 1905 to 1975 and taking us from Riga to Moscow, Berlin and Munich all the way to Tel Aviv.

The protagonists are Hubert, Konstantin and Ev Solm – two Baltic-German brothers and their Jewish adopted sister.

Their constant companion on their convoluted paths through life is a lie, disguised as a secret.

Two brothers from Riga climb the career ladder: first in Nazi Germany, then as spies for the young West Germany. Along with and between them is the Jewess Ev, the lover of both of them by turns. A passionate ménage à trois unfolds that takes the protagonists to terrifying moral and political depths.

The story of the Solms is also the story of twentieth-century Germany: the decline of an old world and the rise of a new one – under new auspices but with the same familiar protagonists.

An almost romantic comedy on the brink of the abyss.

With a colour picture section and annotations by the director and screenplay writer Chris Kraus.

In cinemas from January 2017. Featuring Lars Eidinger, Adèle Haenel, Hannah Herzsprung, Jan Josef Liefers, Sigrid Marquardt, Rolf Hoppe and others.

World premiere at the 29th Tokyo International Film Festival 2016.

›Thomas Strittmatter Prize‹ 2013 for the screenplay.

In the midst of his deepest personal crisis, Holocaust historian Toto meets the French research assistant Zazie, a Jewish woman with a finely honed abhorrence for all things Germanic. Her eccentric approach turns Toto’s private and professional life on its head, until nothing is left of it – apart from the horror and beauty of an impossible romance.

An irresistibly charming story marked by absurd humour and underlying melancholy.