Direction: Frank Beyer

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Frank Beyer. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


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

The Trace of Stones

1966 · Movie · 139 min. · Germany - East Germany (GDR)

Direction Frank Beyer

Cast Manfred Krug · Krystyna Stypulkowska · Jutta Hoffmann · Eberhard Esche

Plot A film about living and working conditons in the GDR of the 60's Includes a little lovestory of course.

6.7

44 votes

6.7

44 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

The Last U-Boat (TV)

1993 · Movie · 105 min. · Germany

Direction Frank Beyer

Cast Ulrich Mühe · Ulrich Tukur · Kaoru Kobayashi · Goro Ohashi

Plot Near the end of the war a lone U-Boat is sent from Germany to japan carring plutonium needed for a japanies A-Bomb. During the long sail, the officers hear from...

5.0

190 votes

5.0

190 votes

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The Turning Point

1983 · Movie · 97 min. · Germany - East Germany (GDR)

Direction Frank Beyer

Cast Sylvester Groth · Fred Düren · Matthias Günther · Klaus Piontek

Plot The young German POW Mark Niebuhr, a former rifleman of an infantry battalion, arrives on a train at the Warsaw depot in October 1945. A Polish woman believes to have...

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Zwei Mütter

1957 · Movie · 87 min. · Germany - East Germany (GDR)

Direction Frank Beyer

Cast Françoise Spira · Helga Göring · Ruth Wacker · Wilhelm Koch-Hooge

Plot The story of two women, one French and the other German, who fight for a child who has been mistakenly taken by the Germans after a bomb raid.

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Die sieben Affären der Dona Juanita (TV Miniseries)

1971 · Movie · 348 min. · Germany - East Germany (GDR)

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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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Der König und sein Narr (TV)

1981 · Movie · 108 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

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Das Versteck

1978 · Movie · 98 min. · Germany - East Germany (GDR)

Direction Frank Beyer

Cast Jutta Hoffmann · Manfred Krug · Alfred Müller · Dieter Mann

Plot One year has passed since Max and Wanda got their divorce. Max has come to the realization that he wants his ex-wife back - no matter what the cost! So...

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Closed Company (TV)

1978 · Movie · 107 min. · Germany - East Germany (GDR)

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Nikolaikirche (TV)

1995 · Movie · 130 min. · Germany

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Invincible Love

1962 · Movie · 89 min. · Germany - East Germany (GDR)

Direction Frank Beyer

Cast Annekathrin Bürger · Armin Mueller-Stahl · Ulrich Thein · Marga Legal

Plot Set in the historical context of anti-Nazi resistance, this love story explores the moral issues of the period. Beyer's second antifascist film, it stands out stylistically due to the clear...

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The Break

1989 · Movie · 111 min. · Germany - East Germany (GDR)

Direction Frank Beyer

Cast Götz · Rolf Hoppe · Otto Sander · Ulrike Krumbiegel

Plot Massive robbery from the safe of German railways set in 1946

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Abgehauen (TV)

1998 · Movie · 90 min. · Germany

Direction Frank Beyer

Cast Peter Lohmeyer · Karoline Eichhorn · Peter Donath · Ann-Kathrin Kramer

Plot The movie tells a true story in the life of well-known German actor Manfred Krug. Living in the German Democratic Republic he is forced to leave the country after protesting...

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Ende der Unschuld (TV)

1991 · Movie · 184 min. · Germany

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