Cast: Günther Simon

Direction Kurt Maetzig

Cast Yoko Tani · Oldrick Lukes · Ignacy Machowski · Julius Ongewe

Synopsis While mankind lives in peace, scientists pick up a threatening message coming from Venus. An international spaceship is sent to this planet to clear the matter. The crew, composed of human beings and one chess player robot, discovers on this...

Direction Egon Günther

Cast Marita Böhme · Günther Simon · Klaus Piontek · Gerry Wolff

Synopsis The marriage of Katrin and Richard Lot has become a routine. She has a career and he, as a Marine officer, comes home only once every fourteen days. The children greet him with joy, but she greets him only with...

Direction Konrad Wolf

Cast Ulrike von Zerboni · Günther Simon · Erwin Geschonneck · Manja Behrens

Synopsis Sun Seekers was banned in 1958 at the urging of the USSR, since it treats Soviet/German relations in mining uranium in the GDR's Wismut region, to support the nuclear arms race. Encouraged by the "thaw" promised by the 20th Congress...

Direction Egon Günther

Cast Stephan Jahnke · Gerry Wolff · Manfred Krug · Daisy Granados

Synopsis Adam receives a flashlight with special powers: every liar it shines on flies into the air. Production was cancelled in 1965 due to the film's political content. Only in 1989/90 could the director reconstruct the film, where missing sounds and...

Direction Martin Hellberg

Cast Helga Göring · Günther Simon · Eduard von Winterstein · Albert Garbe

Synopsis After years in Soviet Captivity, farmer Heinz Weizmann returns to his village in West Germany. His joy of returning home is clouded by news the U.S. occupation forces intend to build an airfield on village lands.

Direction Horst E. Brandt

Cast Horst Drinda · Irma Münch · Horst Schulze · Barbara Adolph

Synopsis 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.

Direction Vladimír Cech

Cast Jaroslav Mares · Frantisek Peterka · Günther Simon · Ladislav Chudík

Synopsis A plane just landed on the Ruzyne airport with special passengers who retured home. They are former members of the Foreign Legion who fought in Indo-China on the French side and defected to the Vietnamese. A woman is looking for...

Direction Konrad Petzold

Cast Helmut Rossmann · Claudia Mögenburg · Günther Simon · Angela Brunner

Direction Günter Stahnke

Cast Eberhard Mellies · Günther Simon · Doris Abeßer · Karla Runkehl

Synopsis The non-party engineer Heinz Solter is suddenly arrested and accused of approving a defective pipeline that caused a half million loss to his company.

Direction Kurt Maetzig

Cast Günther Simon · Hans-Peter Minetti · Erich Franz · Erika Dunkelmann

Direction Hans Heinrich

Cast Lore Frisch · Günther Simon · Axel Dietrich · Guido Thielsch

Direction Kurt Maetzig · Günter Reisch

Cast Günther Simon · Raimund Schelcher · Ulrich Thein · Rainer Adler

Synopsis The Russian Revolution is finally triumphant in the Fall of 1917. As soldiers, the engineer Henne Lobke and the stoker Jens Kasten show solidarity with the Russians, eventually disarming their officers to stop the sinking of a Russian cargo ship....

Direction Horst E. Brandt · Heinz Thiel

Cast Günther Simon · Günter Wolf · Werner Dissel · Walter Lendrich

Synopsis This East German movie was co-produced with studios in Hungary and Yugoslavia, with many interesting location shots (border checkpoint to West Berlin, the Gellert bath in Budapest, and more). The plot is about French drug dealers, who obtain heroin somewhere...

Direction Kurt Maetzig

Cast Günther Simon · Hans-Peter Minetti · Karla Runkehl · Hans Wehrl

Direction Kurt Maetzig

Cast Armin Mueller-Stahl · Günther Simon · Miguel Benavides · Roberto Blanco

Direction Heiner Carow

Cast Käte Alving · Rudolf Christoph · Axel Dietz · Fred Düren

Synopsis Berlin in the 1950s. Kalle, 13, lives with his family in Wedding in West Berlin. He is crazy about Wild West novels. Proudly sporting a sheriff’s star on his jacket, he is the leader of the “Teddy Gang”, a clique...

Direction Horst Reinecke

Cast Renate Küster · Günther Simon · Rolf Möbius · Paul R. Henker

Synopsis Filmed in Berlin, Treffpunkt Aimee introduces the shady millieu of smugglers, who trade between the Soviet and the Western allies occupied sectors of Berlin. It is advertised as a tight crime drama based on a true case, even though I...

Direction Horst E. Brandt · Heinz Thiel

Cast Günther Simon · Irma Münch · Lissy Tempelhof · Gerd Ehlers