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Actors: Nina Hoss, Meret Becker, Christian Nickel, Udo Samel, Sylvester Groth
Synopsis: Nina Hoss stars in this adaptation of a novel by Klaus Mann as Marion von Kammer, a singer who leaves Germany for Zurich as the Nazis rise to power. However, she finds life in Switzerland dull and suffocating, so she journeys to Paris, where she works at a pirate radio station broadcasting Read More
Actors: Jean Yanne, Albert Dupontel, Roland Blanche, Michèle Laroque, Catherine Arditi
Synopsis: This European buddy movie chronicles the relationship between a famed yet depressive hairdresser and the suicidal plumber who becomes his "adopted" son after he rescues him from a canal. Georges is the hairdresser who gained notoriety as a hairdresser to stars such as Grace Kelly, and Ava Gardner. Read More
Actors: Erika Pluhar, Günter Lamprecht, Friedrich Karl Praetorius, Nina Hoger, Heinz Schubert
Synopsis: When a mother meets her teenage daughter's boyfriend, an attraction starts that leads to an affair -- and has disastrous results on the family. This drama about the dissolution of a middle-class family might be unconvincing for some viewers because of a rather weak psychological rendering of Read More
Actors: Elisabeth Bergner, Lilli Palmer, Heinz Schubert, Hardy Kruger, Wolf Roth
Synopsis: The action in this comedy is set within a 24-hour period, as unusual events unfold in the lives of two elderly sisters, Else (Elisabeth Bergner) and Hilde (Lilli Palmer). The sisters were living together in the family mansion in Hamburg when Else got tired of that life and hit the streets to make Read More
Actors: Volker Spengler, Karina Fallenstein, Heinz Schubert, Hanno Pöschl
Synopsis: In this send-up of politics and sex, and what is or is not obscene, director Hans -Christof Stenzel has hero Peter Herzl (Volker Spengler) is forced by circumstances into temporary shelter with Kathi Zokan (Lydia Kreibohm), a prostitute who keeps Peter's presence a secret from her pimp, Joe Read More
Synopsis: This seven-hour long epic completes the "German Trilogy" of Hans-Jurgen Syberberg, which began with his meditation on the life of Ludwig II of Bavaria and continued with a biography of popular writer Karl May. In this film, he explores the factors in the German psyche which sought for and then Read More
Actors: Heinz Schubert, Siegfried Wischnewski
Synopsis: Ferdinand Rieche (Heinz Schubert) was a policeman, but found the legal constraints of that profession too stifling. He gets into the business of protecting manufacturing plants and outfits and trains his men like a private army expecting an invasion. After his excesses prove too much for his Read More
Actors: Gerhard Olschewski, Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Gert Haucke, Richard Beek
Synopsis: In this docudrama, police in the countryside near Berlin attempt to trick a confession out of a Polish guest worker for the 1927 murder of an eight-year-old girl. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: In this version of the charming Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, a soldier brings a tinderbox from a cave to help a witch. At the last moment, he changes his mind and uses the powerful magic within to help him marry a princess and become the king. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Helga Anders, Christof Wackernagel, Rosemarie Fendel, Alexander May
Synopsis: Benno (Christof Wackernagel) is a troubled 16 year-old who is placed in a home for juvenile delinquents in this depressing drama. He is mercilessly tortured by the other residents when he refuses to tell them where he has hidden a stolen gun. His isolation ends when he is invited back home to Read More
Actors: Michael Caine, Paul Hubschmid, Oscar Homolka, Eva Renzi, Guy Doleman
Synopsis: Funeral in Berlin was the second of three films based on the Harry Palmer novels by Len Deighton. As he did in The Ipcress File, Michael Caine stars as Palmer, Deighton's bespectacled, somewhat disreputable British secret agent. In the manner of Graham Greene's The Third Man, Palmer is dispatched Read More
Actors: Walter Slezak, Bryan Russell, Roger Mobley, Heinz Schubert, Peter Ehrlich
Synopsis: Erich Kastner's oft-filmed children's story Emil and the Detectives was given the Disney treatment in 1964. Though the plot is still set in Berlin, the younger characters have been extensively Americanized, none more so than the title character (played by Bryan Russell) and aspiring teenaged Read More
Actors: Heinz Schubert
Synopsis: Based on the noted play by Bertolt Brecht, this tragic drama is set in 17th-century Europe and tells of Mutter Courage (Helene Weigel), who follows a variety of armies in the many battles fought during that era. She earns a living by selling goods to the soldiers but she also forms more than one Read More
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