Peter Kalisch

Switzerland 1523. The mercenary Hansli Gyr returns with his soldiers from Italy to his home in the Oberland. They have fought for the Pope and now...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Suzanne Stoll

During the October Revolution in 1917 the Bolshevik Party appointed a woman commissioner of the “Free Anarchist-Revolutionary Section”....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Renate Richter

The film tells the story of the smelter brigade of a steel mill whose members are connected by a strong comradeship. Among the workers are, for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Uwe Kockisch

The oceans seem to be the Nehls' second home. But there is one exception that Grandpa Nehl, alias Martin XI, captain of a training sailing ship, is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Herbert Köfer

This elaborate two-part television film features a section from the life of communist worker leader Ernst Thälmann. It begins with the bloody...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helmut Schellhardt

This is part one of a two-part biopic about Karl Liebknecht. In 1914, Germany is arming itself for war. Karl Liebknecht, left-wing revolutionary...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Horst Schulze

Maria is a record saleswoman by profession. She is lucky to have a job, because the year is 1930 and a major economic crisis has hit the world,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Renate Blume

A flamboyant comedy about love, work and money—revealing that the "planned" economy produced some unconventional entrepreneurial methods.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ulrich Thein

The late summer of 1918. Paul, Willi and Heinrich from an age-old German town are good friends, although there is a great deal that divides them....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

Hitler's seizure of power in 1933 and his rule in the years that followed are transferred to the North American criminal world of the 1930s in a...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Ekkehard Schall

Berlin in the 1930s - Adolf Hitler comes to power, communists and social democrats are persecuted, books are burned and Jewish citizens are...

Genre: History

Cast: Ulrich Mühe

Journalist Marga is commissioned by her editor-in-chief to interview a rock singer from Prenzlauer Berg in Berlin.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sylvia Rieger

The real blue is the color with which potter Benito Guerrero makes his fortune. When he no longer receives the color from Germany as a result of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Henry Hübchen

Plumber Martin and his younger colleague Frank are on call on Christmas Eve of all days. Frank's girlfriend Regina, who is expecting her first baby...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ulrich Thein

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Bause

Set during the Thirty Years' War between 1624 and 1636, film tells the story of the sutler Anna Fierling, known as Mother Courage, who tries to make...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helene Weigel

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helene Weigel

Victory and demise of the first proletarian dictatorship in the history of mankind, about the struggling, bleeding workers of Paris who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Angelica Domröse

In 1920 Moscow, a wounded Red Guard paints “Blue Horses on Red Grass” to symbolize hope he’ll never see. He presents it to a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jaecki Schwarz

Frieda and August Walkowiak celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary. However, the marriage has been in crisis for some time. August wants to spend...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gisela May

Alfons lives with his grandparents on a Silesian village farm at the end of WWII. He adores his grandmother, who runs everything after her husband...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carmen-Maja Antoni

A refugee from a Nazi concentration camp is discovered by some boys in WWII Berlin. They provide him with food and help him to continue his flight....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ernst-Georg Schwill

The successful entertainment artist Ralf Keul must develop his land on the Baltic Sea or else ultimately give it up. Inexperienced yet courageous, he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rolf Herricht

The young Walter Retzlow, drafted into the guard team of a foreign labor factory in the last year of the war, receives the papers of a murdered...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ulrich Mühe

Last years in the Life of german Dramatican Georg Büchner. Around the year 1830 he and his fellow students try to initiate a revolution in...

Genre: History

Cast: Hilmar Eichhorn

Adaptation of Theodor Fontane's novel.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Renate Krößner

In the 22nd Century, antiquities command huge prices. A woman uses a time machine to travel back the the 19th Century in order to buy paintings from...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Christian Grashof

Electronic data processing is an absolute must in the Information Age. Karl Hoppe, the director of a large plant, is aware of this need for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ekkehard Schall

In 1903, Jan Anskath and his half-brother Martin are living in Rajgorod at the border between Russia and Prussia – Jan on the Russian, Martin...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Walter Plathe

A life-threatening heart attack confines Richard Roth to the hospital bed. There, Richard, who is in his late fifties, asks himself what will remain...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dietrich Mechow

Berlin at the end of the 1940s. Anneliese Weyher is working as a switchboard operator. She is living with her aunt after losing her parents in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Simone von Zglinicki

The thirty year old bee is a daredevil, everything seems to work for him. But suddenly a tragic event tears him out of his carelessness. In the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hans-Gerd Sonnenburg

Dr. Barbara Heim, a heart surgeon, and Gunter Heim, a well-known actor, have been married for seven years. They have a six-year-old daughter. Both...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jessy Rameik

During the Thirty Years' War, the camp-follower Anna Fierling, called "Mother Courage", travels the length and breadth of Europe with her covered...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helene Weigel

Four directors - four styles - four episodes, all relating the events of a single night which has entered the history books: August 12-13, 1961....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hans Hardt-Hardtloff

In 1945, Ernst Machner returns home from the war in his mid-20s. Tuche would like him to weave for a living, but his comrades persuade him to become...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Horst Drinda

Paul Pospischiel loses his job in the great colliery collapse in the Ruhr, retrains and builds a new life for himself. One day, he receives a letter...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Günther Simon

Abel Hradscheck, the owner of an inn in the Oderbruch country, faces financial ruin. For this state of affairs, Ursula, his wife and former actress,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Angelica Domröse

A detailed reconstruction of the censorship case against the landmark Weimar-era communist film, Kuhle Wampe, or Who Owns the World? (1932). Directed...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

Private detective Fritsch from Munich had received a lucrative assignment: he was to obtain proof of inheritance for a Mr. Seligmann from Canada;...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wolf Kaiser

Historical television comedy around Friedrich Alfred Krupp, whose connection to the imperial court and the influence of Kaiser Wilhelm II. to the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ekkehard Schall

After the second World War, Dresden has a lot of reconstructing to do. To get the cigarette factory he once worked for running again, Kalle has to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

A little man wants to order a warm coat from a fabric he has brought with him to a tailor's workshop in winter. He is laughed at and told that orders...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arno Paulsen

Genre: Drama

Cast: Klaus Bamberg

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Cast: Dietmar Richter-Reinick