Screenplay: Wolfgang Staudte

Direction Wolfgang Staudte

Cast Paul Esser · Irene Korb · Karl Heinz Deickert · Reinhold Bernt

Plot The mechanic Behnke wants to join the Nazi party to secure a good living. However, after his Jewish neighbors have been taken away, he changes his views. Trying to remain...

Direction Wolfgang Staudte

Cast Ernst Wilhelm Borchert · Hildegard Knef · Arno Paulsen · Elly Burgmer

Plot Susanne Wallner returns to the ruins of Berlin from a Concentration Camp after WW2 to discover that a certain Dr. Mertens lives in her apartment, who drinks to try forget...

Direction Wolfgang Staudte

Cast Apostol Karamitev · Reinhild Solf · Karl Michael Vogler · Ani Bakalova

Plot People from all over the world spend their summer holidays at the Black Sea. German Walter and his girlfriend Gisela check in at the hotel as spouses. Walter uses the...

Direction Wolfgang Staudte

Cast Martin Held · Ingrid van Bergen · Camilla Spira · Werner Peters

Plot April 1945. Because he stole two bars of chocolate, the soldier Rudi is sentenced to death by the court-martial judge Dr. Schramm. Rudi manages to escape from the firing squad...

Direction Wolfgang Staudte

Cast Josef Meinrad · Erwin Linder · Katrin Schirrmeister · Peter Vogel

Plot The disabled ex-soldier Andreas Pum lost a leg for emperor and father land. After leaving the army he receives a license and a drehorgel. One day he gets into a...

Direction Wolfgang Staudte

Cast Leonhard Ritter · Horst Naumann · Waltraud Kramm · Jochen Thomas

Direction Wolfgang Staudte

Cast Charlie Rivel · Clara Tabody · Karl Schönböck · Käthe Dyckhoff

Direction Wolfgang Staudte

Cast Kees Brusse · Jenny Van Maerlant · Riek Schagen

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...

Direction Wolfgang Staudte

Cast Erich Ponto · Heinz Klevenow · Marianne Hoppe · Ernst Wilhelm Borchert

Direction Wolfgang Staudte

Cast Götz · Hans Nielsen · Rudolf Platte · Reinhold Bernt

Plot A German man's choir of 8 persons is on a vacation in Yugoslavia. Most are middle-aged previous Nazis. They arrive at a village populated solely by women who avoid contact....

Direction Wolfgang Staudte

Cast Curd Jürgens · Hildegard Knef · Gert Fröbe · Hilde Hildebrand

Direction Wolfgang Staudte

Cast Thomas Schmidt · Johannes Maus · Friedrich Richter · Trude Hesterberg

Plot An old man living in an oriental city tells the story of his life to a group of kids: He too was once a young boy by the name of...

Direction Wolfgang Staudte

Cast Vittorio De Sica · Folco Lulli · Heinz Reicke · Ingmar Zeisberg

Direction Wolfgang Staudte

Cast Juliette Mayniel · Götz · Hans Mahnke · Wolfgang Reichmann

Plot At the end of WWII a soldier who had often been ordered to execute women and children deserts and tries to find a hiding place in his native village. Almost...

Direction Wolfgang Staudte

Cast Werner Peters · Paul Esser · Renate Fischer · Ernst Legal

Plot Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that he has to offer his services to the powers-that-be if he wants...

Direction Wolfgang Staudte

Cast Axel von Ambesser · Ilse Petri · Hubert von Meyernick · Ursula Krieg