Cast: Erwin Geschonneck
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Erwin Geschonneck. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Jacob the Liar
1975 · Movie · 100 min. · Germany - East Germany (GDR)
Direction Frank Beyer
Cast Vlastimil Brodsky · Erwin Geschonneck · Henry Hübchen · Blanche Kommerell
Plot A Jewish ghetto in the east of Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making slow by steady progress towards...
6.9
211 votes
6.9
211 votes
Naked Among the Wolves
1963 · Movie · 124 min. · Germany - East Germany (GDR)
Direction Frank Beyer
Cast Erwin Geschonneck · Armin Mueller-Stahl · Krystyn Wójcik · Fred Delmare
Plot Set just prior to the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp, Naked Among Wolves is the true story of the male prisoners who risked their lives to hide a small...
6.9
104 votes
6.9
104 votes
Five Cartridges
1960 · Movie · 87 min. · Germany - East Germany (GDR)
Direction Frank Beyer
Cast Ernst Busch · Erwin Geschonneck · Manfred Krug · Edwin Marian
Plot The Spanish Civil War in the year 1936. Five brigadiers are singled out to stay behind in the Spanish Sierras and fend off the fascist enemy while the rest of...
6.4
25 votes
6.4
25 votes
Heart of Stone
1950 · Movie · 110 min. · Germany - East Germany (GDR)
Direction Paul Verhoeven II
Cast Lutz Moik · Hanna Rucker · Paul Bildt · Paul Esser
Plot Peter Munk, a poor charcoal burner, after loosing his wealth, abandons his bride and summons an evil spirit. Peter is promised all the riches on earth if he is willing...
6.3
33 votes
6.3
33 votes
Sun Seekers
1958 · Movie · 116 min. · Germany - East Germany (GDR)
Direction Konrad Wolf
Cast Ulrike von Zerboni · Günther Simon · Erwin Geschonneck · Manja Behrens
Plot 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...
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Love '47
1949 · Movie · 118 min. · Germany
Direction Wolfgang Liebeneiner
Cast Dieter Horn · Hilde Krahl · Sylvia Schwarz · Karl John
Plot A young man and woman meet on a bridge, both about to commit suicide by jumping into the river, and recount to each other their experiences.
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Tambari
1977 · Movie · 91 min. · Germany - East Germany (GDR)
Direction Ulrich Weiß
Cast Erwin Geschonneck · Kurt Böwe · Hans-Peter Reinecke · Barbara Dittus
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Circus maximus
1980 · Movie · 99 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Géza von Radványi · Tamás Almási
Cast Ági Margitai · Antal Páger · Tamás Major · Gábor Reviczky
Plot During World War II Carlotta, the circus owner maintains herself, her lover and her rather run-down circus-team by illegal man-smuggling. In the year of 1944, besides the usual refugees, she...
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The Captain from Cologne
1956 · Movie · 118 min. · Germany - East Germany (GDR)
Direction Slatan Dudow
Cast Rolf Ludwig · Erwin Geschonneck · Else Wolz · Christel Bodenstein
Plot Jobless waiter Hans Albert Hauptmann accidentally runs into a meeting of ex-Wehrmacht combatants in Cologne, West Germany. They mistake him with a high nazi officer and he's considered to be...
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The Flag of Krivoy Rog
1967 · Movie · 108 min. · Germany - East Germany (GDR)
Direction Kurt Maetzig
Cast Erwin Geschonneck · Marga Legal · Manfred Krug · Helmut Schellhardt
Plot Gerbstedt is a small village in the mining district of Mansfeld. In 1929, a celebration of brotherhood between workers and Soviet mining town, received as a gift Gerbstedt Flag Kriwoj...
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Leute mit Flügeln
1960 · Movie · 120 min. · Germany - East Germany (GDR)
Direction Konrad Wolf
Cast Erwin Geschonneck · Wilhelm Koch-Hooge · Hilmar Thate · Franz Kutschera
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Levins Mühle
1980 · Movie · 113 min. · Germany - East Germany (GDR)
Direction Horst Seemann
Cast Erwin Geschonneck · Katja Paryla · Christian Grashof · Ilonka Ilieva
Plot In a small village in West Prussia in the 1870s, Germans and Poles, Gypsies and Jews live together as neighbors. Johann, the rich owner of a large mill, does not...
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Karbid und Sauerampfer
1963 · Movie · 85 min. · Germany - East Germany (GDR)
Direction Frank Beyer
Cast Erwin Geschonneck · Marita Böhme · Manja Behrens · Margot Busse
Plot 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 travel to Wittenberg...
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Everyone Dies Alone (TV) (TV Miniseries)
1970 · Movie · 307 min. · Germany - East Germany (GDR)
Direction Hans-Joachim Kasprzik
Cast Erwin Geschonneck · Elsa Grube-Deister · Wolfgang Kieling · Dieter Franke
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A Lively Christmas Eve
1962 · Movie · 95 min. · Germany - East Germany (GDR)
Direction Günter Reisch
Cast Erwin Geschonneck · Karin Schröder · Günter Junghans · Rosemarie Schelenz
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Die Unbesiegbaren
1953 · Movie · 107 min. · Germany - East Germany (GDR)
Direction Arthur Pohl
Cast Alice Treff · Willy A. Kleinau · Tamara Osske · Werner Peters
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Anton the Magician
1978 · Movie · 106 min. · Germany - East Germany (GDR)
Direction Günter Reisch
Cast Ulrich Thein · Anna Dymna · Erwin Geschonneck · Barbara Dittus
Plot Car mechanic Anton Grubske manages to flee from captivity by using his wits. With the same cunning, he succeeds in escaping from a widow who is not only beautiful but...
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Berlin Around the Corner
1966 · Movie · 85 min. · Germany - East Germany (GDR)
Direction Gerhard Klein
Cast Dieter Mann · Monika Gabriel · Erwin Geschonneck · Hans Hardt-Hardtloff
Plot Berlin in the 1960s. Olaf and Horst are two young metalworkers, who provoke their older colleagues with critiques of the antiquated equipment and lack of materials… not to mention their...
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Das Beil von Wandsbek
1950 · Movie · 110 min. · Germany - East Germany (GDR)
Direction Falk Harnack
Cast Erwin Geschonneck · Käthe Braun · Gefion Helmke · Willy A. Kleinau
Plot After a crime is committed during the Nazi era in the Reeperbahn area of Hamburg, the aspiring local leader, a ship owner, needs to find an executioner to kill the...
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Alarm im Zirkus
1954 · Movie · 75 min. · Germany - East Germany (GDR)
Direction Gerhard Klein
Cast Erwin Geschonneck · Uwe-Jens Pape · Karl Kendzia · Ulrich Thein
Plot Two boys in West Berlin, Klaus and Max live in poverty. Both dream of a career in boxing, and save every penny in order to buy boxing gloves with which...
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