Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 12, 1914
Deathday: October 26, 1989
Popularity:
1965-06-17
Overview: After causing a deadly hit-and-run motorcycle accident, Conny Schenk spends two years in prison, where he is able to complete a printing apprenticeship and is released early for good behavior. While he is still on probation, money is stolen at the company where he works and everyone is quick to suspect Conny. Can he overcome his past mistakes and start fresh, or will the mistrust of his colleagues and friends become a self-fulfilling prophecy?
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-06-17
Popularity:
1971-03-26
Overview: On the occasion of their daughter's birth, the king and queen give a lavish feast. Among the guests are twelve fairies who endow the infant in the cradle with all good qualities. As the king loathes diligence, he does not invite the thirteenth fairy - the fairy of diligence. A captain lets her slip into the castle and she casts a spell on Sleeping Beauty, wishing death upon her. The twelfth fairy transforms and mitigates the spell. On the day she turns fifteen, the princess is to sink into a hundred-year sleep after pricking her finger on a spindle.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-03-26
Popularity:
1963-04-12
Overview: The World War II. 1944. Nazis staged a cache which stores archival documents of its agents, rescued from the east during the retreat, near a small German town Ostburga.
Genres: Adventure War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-04-12
Popularity:
1965-07-30
Overview: Film by Jindrich Polák.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-07-30
Popularity:
1982-03-17
Overview:
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-03-17
Popularity:
1974-05-02
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-05-02
Popularity:
1968-06-02
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-06-02
Popularity:
1957-03-07
Overview: East Germany's contribution to the 1957 Cannes Film Festival was the wartime melodrama Betrogen bis zum Juengsten Tag. Had the film been released in the U.S., the title would probably have translated to Duped Till the Last. The film condemns the Nazi mindset by concentrating on a particularly odious cover-up. When his son is involved in the accidental killing of a girl, a Gestapo general pulls strings to save the boy from prosecution. The general manages to pin the blame for the killing on a group of Russians, whereupon he gives the men under his command carte blanche to round up and execute as many innocent Russians as they wish. This act of brutality is contrasted with the pangs of guilt suffered by the son and his co-conspirators.
Genres: Drama Crime War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-03-07
Popularity:
1959-07-02
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-07-02
Popularity:
1973-04-27
Overview: This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot), politicians and ordinary citizens, to save the independence and the territorial integrity of the state from the advance of Hitler's Germany. On the 29th of March 1938 the leader of the Sudeten Germans Henlein (Werner Ehrlicher) has a meeting with Hitler (Gunnar Möller). Hitler orders him to intensify pressure on the Czechoslovak government. On the 24th of April in Carlsbad, the Sudetendeutsche Partei (Sudeten German Party) decides upon eight demands that are unacceptable to the Czechoslovak President, since they would ultimately lead to the break-up of the Republic. Benes still shows a certain willingness to negotiate, and Henlein resents this. The Germans are determined to make further negotiations impossible through incidents and violence.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1973-04-27
Popularity:
1970-11-01
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-11-01
Popularity:
1962-06-08
Overview: Magdalena and Michael have loved each other since they were children. But when the Nazis come to power, Michael rebels against the regime and is sentenced to fifteen years in a concentration camp. Magdalena, meanwhile, goes underground with the help of a friend and later immigrates to the Soviet Union. Michael, who has joined the Red Army, discovers on the way to Moscow that Magdalena is staying there. But when his plane lands, she is already on her way back to Germany. Michael hopes that one day, he and Magdalena will be reunited.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-06-08
Popularity:
1974-09-28
Overview: Ironically, at the beginning of the summer holidays, Alwins strict father has grounded him to get him to improve his spelling. Alwin feels like a prisoner and decides to run away heading to his grandparents in the Harz mountains nearly 200 kilometers away. On the road Alwin meets many people and with their help Alwin slowly progresses towards his destination.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-09-28
Popularity:
1977-07-08
Overview: Tambari - it's a name of an old boat which children of a small village on a Baltic sea shore got from an old fisherman Luden. But not all the village adults were ready to approve it...
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-07-08
Popularity:
1955-10-06
Overview: This film is the second of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. Autumn, 1918: Somewhere on Germany’s western front, Ernst Thälmann, age twenty-four, is calling on his fellow soldiers to put down their guns and join him in the communist struggle at home. When Hamburg’s Police Commissioner blocks a much-needed food shipment to the workers of Petrograd, Ernst battles to see it allowed through. Until his murder on August 18, 1944, Ernst remained true to his political convictions in the face of many setbacks.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-10-06
Popularity:
1967-04-13
Overview: In November of 1939, the British consulate in Norway receives documents saying that the Nazis are conducting secret rocket research in Peenemünde. But the British doubt the authenticity of the so called "Oslo report". Thus, the Germans continue their experiments unimpeded. At the same time, resistance groups from France, England, Poland, and Germany try to find and to sabotage the secret Nazi research base. When the first "V 2" rocket is successfully launched, the Allied commanders finally become interested in the "Oslo report".
Genres: Drama War Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-04-13
Popularity:
1958-02-28
Overview: Film by Václav Gajer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-02-28
Popularity:
1956-05-16
Overview: In 1523, young Thomas Müntzer arrives with his wife Ottilie in the Thuringian village Allstedt to assume the rectorate. As a follower of Luther′s teachings, he finds in the Bible not only reasons for clerical, but also for secular reforms. But when Luther turns away from the rural population after a discord with Müntzer, it is Müntzer who becomes the peoples′ spokesman. He is forced to go to Southern Germany, where he convenes with revolting farmers. But his way leads him back to Thuringia. In 1525, he and Heinrich Pfeiffer form the centre of the Thuringian peasant uprising in Mühlhausen, but their success is diminished by the fact that peasants and craftsmen don′t seem to be able to work together. In Frankenhausen, Müntzer becomes the leader of a peasants′ army that is set to fighting the ruler′s army – and sustains a devastating loss. Müntzer is arrested and sentenced to death by decapitation for his insurgency.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-05-16
Popularity:
1975-02-27
Overview: Suse works as a truck driver on a major construction site. The young woman has a hard life behind her. She was foundling, was raised by farmers. Manne, the father of her child, wanted to escape from the GDR and is in prison. After he is released, Manne wants to live again with Suse and their child together. But she rejects him as well as another worshiper. Suse is more interested in the Soviet engineer Boris, but apparently not for her, since he can never remember her at their chance encounters. But a much bigger problem - and a difficult one - is Suse, when she is offered to go to the Soviet Union for six months.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-02-27
Popularity:
1961-03-03
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-03-03
Popularity:
1964-12-27
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-12-27
Popularity:
1955-03-25
Overview: A musician seeks a peaceful vacation in a Vogtland village but is soon overwhelmed by requests for a symphonic composition and a pop song for a local dance band, leaving him with no time to relax.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-03-25
Popularity:
1954-03-09
Overview: This film is the first of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. In early November 1918, Ernst Thälmann is an unwilling soldier serving on the western front. As the revolutionary movement at home is threatened by the betrayal of the Social Democrats and fissures in the working class, Thälmann calls on his fellow soldiers to put down their weapons and unite with the workers in the communist struggle at home. Thälmann’s qualms about which side he is fighting on continue, but when the local police attempt to prevent a shipment of provisions and supplies from reaching the people in Petrograd, he intervenes and the ship is unloaded. With this moment of clarity, Thälmann continues to follow his political convictions and joins the workers at the Hamburg uprising in October 1923.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-03-09
Popularity:
1956-07-19
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-07-19
Popularity:
1960-04-02
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-04-02
Popularity:
1960-08-24
Overview: This film continues the story of radio operator Ludwig Bartuschek from “The Sailor’s Song”. Near the end of the Weimar Republic, Bartuschek (Erwin Geschonneck) is working as a mechanic in the Sperber airplane plant. Director Dehringer offers him the opportunity to train as an airplane constructor if he is willing to give up his communist beliefs under oath. Bartuschek will not allow himself to be bought and instead joins the underground resistance movement.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-08-24
Popularity:
1971-03-25
Overview: East German film about the history of Red Orchestra, a real life German pro-Soviet spy ring created after the rise of Hitler that turned into a resistance movement led by a leftist Nazi officer, Harro Schulze-Boysen, and Arvid Harnack.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-03-25
Popularity:
1960-09-22
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-09-22
Popularity:
1968-11-10
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-11-10
Popularity: