1990 film directed by Ulli Lommel

In the first century of the third millennium, a galactic civil war is raging between governments, industrial giants and space pirates. Run for your lives! The Big Mess features space captain Douglas, the pirate couple sterr, a space admiral and countless other characters trying to eke out a living in the cosmos. But whenever they get anywhere , they find they've been beaten to it by monopolist enterprises.
In Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet, Willi endeavours to survive in a world where annihilistic galactic battles rage, by taking a job at the centre of power. But it's wrong side that he takes in this civil war.

老艺人曼弗雷德·派克特为了改变马戏团的处境建议经理加一个大象表演的节目，可他自己在表演空中飞人时，失足摔断了脖子，轮到他的女尔莱妮接棒用父亲的思想进一步改编马戏团的节目。对她来说这无疑是一种考验，她开始制订改革马戏团的计划，但在经济现实面前低头屈服，把马戏改造成电视上的常备节目。此时，莱妮的好友去世，她继承了好友的财产，决定买下旧的冬季马戏团表演场所，与男友一起重建马戏团，可是这一切都成为徒劳。