Screenplay: Klaus Richter

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Klaus Richter. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


The Harmonists

1997 · Movie · 115 min. · Germany

Direction Joseph Vilsmaier

Cast Ben Becker · Heino Ferch · Ulrich Noethen · Heinrich Schafmeister

Synopsis Comedian Harmonists tells the story of a famous, German male sextet, five vocals and piano, the "Comedian Harmonists", from the day they meet first in 1927 to the day in 1934, when they become banned by the upcoming Nazis, because...

6.5

61 votes

6.5

61 votes

The Tobacconist

2018 · Movie · 117 min. · Austria

Direction Nikolaus Leytner

Cast Simon Morzé · Bruno Ganz · Johannes Krisch · Emma Drogunova

Synopsis Vienna,1937, through the Anschluss. A 17-year-old boy from the provinces apprentices with a tobacconist, whose customers include a cigar-smoking Sigmund Freud.

5.6

734 votes

5.6

734 votes

Jew Suss: Rise and Fall

2010 · Movie · 100 min. · Germany

Direction Oskar Roehler

Cast Tobias Moretti · Martina Gedeck · Moritz Bleibtreu · Justus von Dohnanyi

Synopsis Rise and Fall of actor Ferdinand Marian who takes the chance and stars in the anti-semitic movie "Jud Süß". Ferdinand Marian was the actor who in 1940 gave a brilliant performance in the lead in Veit Harlan’s Nazi propaganda film...

5.6

24 votes

5.6

24 votes

Enfant Terrible

2020 · Movie · 134 min. · Germany

Direction Oskar Roehler

Cast Oliver Masucci · Hary Prinz · Katja Riemann · Jochen Schropp

Synopsis The life and the impact of iconic German New Wave director, Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

5.4

44 votes

5.4

44 votes

Die schwarzen Brüder

2013 · Movie · 100 min. · Germany

Direction Xavier Koller

Cast Moritz Bleibtreu · Richy Müller · Waldemar Kobus · Fynn Henkel

Synopsis Up until the middle of the 19Th century, poverty stricken mountain farmers from the Ticino area of Switzerland frequently sold their children to Milan as chimney sweeps or spazzacamini. That is also young Giorgios fate. He is forced to climb...

4.9

228 votes

4.9

228 votes

Fat World

1998 · Movie · 89 min. · Germany

Direction Jan Schütte

Cast Jürgen Vogel · Julia Kravitz · Lars Rudolph · Sibylle Canonica

Synopsis Munich, Germany. Homeless people live under bridges, in boxes, in the subway. A life that is hard but manageable for those who do not want to or who cannot leave. Hagen Trinker, still quite young and definitely not out of...

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Quellen des Lebens

2013 · Movie · 174 min. · Germany

Direction Oskar Roehler

Cast Jürgen Vogel · Meret Becker · Moritz Bleibtreu · Lavinia Wilson

Synopsis This is a family story that covers thirty years in the life of the Freytag family (narrated by the grandson, Robert). When his grandfather returns from Russia in 1949, he becomes part of the German "economic miracle" by producing garden...

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Die Geschichte vom Brandner Kaspar

2008 · Movie · 96 min. · Germany

Direction Joseph Vilsmaier

Cast Franz-Xaver Kroetz · Michael Herbig · Lisa Maria Potthoff · Peter Ketnath

Synopsis 70-year old Brandner Kaspar lives with his granddaughter Nannerl in the mountains at the Schliersee. As he is visited by the Death and wants to take him, Brandner Kaspar tricks him and gets another 20 years of life.

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Der Unsichtbare

1987 · Movie · 90 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Ulf Miehe

Cast Klaus Wennemann · Barbara Rudnik · Nena · Benedict Freitag

Synopsis TV star Benjamin inherits from his uncle a cloak of invisibility. Invisible he must discover that his wife is cheating on him with his best friend.

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Charlie & Louise

1994 · Movie · 98 min. · Germany

Direction Joseph Vilsmaier

Cast Fritzi Eichhorn · Floriane Eichhorn · Heiner Lauterbach · Corinna Harfouch

Synopsis Ten years ago Wolf and Sabine Palfy got divorced. Since then their daughter Charlie grew up with her father and her twin sister Louise lived with her mother. They never knew anything about one another and thus only met by...

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Bergkristall

2004 · Movie · 92 min. · Germany

Direction Joseph Vilsmaier

Cast Dana Vávrová · Daniel Morgenroth · François Goeske · Josefina Vilsmaier

Synopsis Two siblings try to find a rock crystal in order to bring together their parents who are from villages that are at enmity with each other.

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The Call of the Toad

2005 · Movie · 98 min. · Poland

Direction Robert Glinski

Cast Matthias Habich · Krystyna Janda · Dorothea Walda · Bhasker Patel

Synopsis Based on the novel "The Call of the Toad" written by Nobel Prize Winner Günter Grass, it tells the love story between a German (Matthias Habich) and a Polish woman (Krystyna Janda) who become caught up in the advent of...

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