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Stories Set in Frankfurt
Frankfurt is Germany's financial capital, all bank towers rising from wartime rubble. It is also Goethe's birthplace, and even Heidi passes through — the Alps girl is dragged here to civilize a sickly rich kid. Only God Can Judge Me works the other Frankfurt. Open Frankfurt on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
Open Frankfurt on the StoryTerra map10 famous stories set in Frankfurt
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Browse 3 books and 12 movies set in Frankfurt.

Heidi
Heidi is an eight-year-old Swiss orphan who is given by her aunt to her mountain-dwelling grandfather. She is then stolen back by her aunt from her grandfather to live in the wealthy Sesemann household in Frankfurt…

Heidi
Swiss girl Adelheid 'Heidi' is orphaned young. Aunt Detie brings her to grandpa Alp and his wife who live isolated in the Alps since his murder charge. Heidi soon takes to the wild country especially accompanying young…

Depeche Mode: Devotional
This video release by Depeche Mode features almost an entire concert from their 1993-1994 Devotional Tour filmed in Barcelona Liévin and Frankfurt.

Only God Can Judge Me
Ricky spent years behind bars after taking the rap for his brother Rafael and his buddy Latif after a failed robbery. Now Latif wants to express gratitude by letting Ricky in on a coup that will bring lots of money.…

Master of the Universe
He was one of Germany's leading investment experts with an income of several million Euros per day. Now he sits on one of the upper floors of an empty bank building in the middle of Frankfurt overlooking a skyline of…

Rush: R30
R30 captures the band's $21-million grossing sell-out 30th Anniversary World Tour and was filmed with 14 hi-definition cameras in 16x9 widescreen format at the Festhalle Frankfurt Germany on September 24 2004. The set…

Heidi
After charming her reclusive grandfather and falling in love with the beautiful mountain he calls home Heidi is uprooted and sent to Frankfurt where she befriends Klara a young girl confined to a wheelchair.

The Great Ephemeral Skin
Inside the claustrophobic scenery of a fancy apartment in the city of Frankfurt three men and a woman lock themselves in for ten days. Oskar and Julia are a couple. They have sex and let themselves be filmed. Benjamin…

Heidi geht nach Frankfurt

Wild Beasts
PCP is unexplainably released into the Frankfurt water supply and sends the zoo inhabitants crazy. One evening after a malfunction of zoo security the gonzo critters rampage through the city eating and killing whatever…
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