Rolf HoppeFilmography

Go for Zucker!

Actors: Henry Huebchen, Udo Samel, Hannelore Elsner, Golda Tencer, Anja Franke, Sebastian Blomberg, Steffen Groth

Synopsis: A man gets in touch with his spiritual side for a very material reason in this comedy from Germany. Jacob Zuckermann was a young man living in Eastern Germany when the Berlin Wall divided the nation in 1961. Jacob's mother escaped to West Berlin with her other son, Samuel, in tow, but Jacob was Read More

The Harmonists

Actors: Ben Becker, Heino Ferch, Ulrich Noethen, Heinrich Schafmeister, Max Tidof

Synopsis: Joseph Vilsmaier (Stalingrad and Brother of Sleep) directed this fact-based German musical drama about a popular barbershop sextet in Nazi Germany of the '30s. In 1927, musician Harry Frommermann (Ulrich Noethen), attracted to music-shop assistant Erna (Meret Becker), joins ambitious vocalist Read More

Palmetto

Actors: Woody Harrelson, Elisabeth Shue, Gina Gershon, Rolf Hoppe, Michael Rapaport

Synopsis: When new evidence confirms that he was framed, reporter Harry Barber (Woody Harrelson) is released from prison after serving two years. He then goes on to demonstrate repeatedly that he is the dumbest, most masochistic noir hero since Adam ate the apple. His original plan, to leave Palmetto, is Read More

Wachtmeister Zumbuhl

Synopsis: A super straight-arrow Swiss-German town becomes obsessed with upholding the law in this grim drama set in 1964. The cop is Sergeant Zumbuhl who cares nothing for political delicacy when doing his job. Recently the town has been plagued by drunk drivers so Zumbuhl has taken to standing outside the Read More

Mario und der Zauberer

Actors: Julian Sands, Anna Galiena, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Pavel Greco, Jan Wachtel, Valentina Chico

Synopsis: Noted Austrian actor Klaus-Maria Brandauer stepped into the director's chair for this drama about the rise of fascism in Europe, based on a story by Thomas Mann. In the 1920s, Bernhard Fuhrmann (Julian Sands), a German author and outspoken leftist, takes his family to Torre di Venere, a resort Read More

Den Demokratiske Terroristen

Actors: Stellan Skarsgård, Katja Flint, Ulrich Tukur, Rolf Hoppe

Synopsis: Carl Hamilton is in one sense a peculiar sort of secret agent in that he has a license to kill but applies his conscience to that license far more often than is comfortable for him. In another sense, since he is Swedish, it makes sense that this would be so. In this story, one of a series of Read More

Brandnacht

Actors: Bruno Ganz, Barbara Auer, Rolf Hoppe

Synopsis: Peter Keller has come back to his native village in Switzerland from Berlin to investigate a murder. It seems that an old army buddy of his is the accused. As he pokes around, it becomes clear that his having roots there cuts no ice with the locals: they all seem to have something to hide and Read More

Schtonk!

Actors: Götz George, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Christiane Horbiger, Rolf Hoppe, Dagmar Manzel

Synopsis: In this slapstick satire, Fritz is a life-long forger of Nazi memorabilia. He got his start as a boy, selling items of clothing as something Hitler wore. His current income-generating scam is to sell "original" portraits by Hitler of his mistress Eva Braun to connoisseurs of Nazi art. He runs into Read More

Das Grosse Fest

Bronsteins Kinder

Die Tanzerin

Actors: Brigitte Grothum, Haruko Kato, Mareike Carriere

Synopsis: After Commodore Perry forcibly opened Japan to trade in 1853, the Japanese responded as if they had been waiting for this event, and sent sons from prominent families to study abroad and learn how, for instance, a navy, an army, or an international trading company might be set up. European models Read More

Der Bruch

Actors: Götz George, Rolf Hoppe, Otto Sander, Hermann Beyer

Synopsis: Evoking the complexities of life in 1946 postwar Berlin, this detective drama focuses on the efforts of a small group of bank robbers to bring off their heist and avoid punishment for it. Due to the need throughout society to replace active Nazis with politically untainted officials, a large part Read More

Der Nachbar

Actors: Rolf Hoppe, Vera Schweiger

Synopsis: A few years ago, when he was on the police force, Georg Walz accidentally shot and injured a woman while chasing a Middle-Eastern bad guy. The woman was brain-damaged for life, and Georg was overcome with guilt at this and was also forced into early retirement. To occupy his time, he has been Read More

Magnat

Actors: Jan Nowicki, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Jan Englert, Boguslaw Linda

Synopsis: A noble family struggles to survive the political upheaval and social change of the early 20th century in this grim drama based on a true story. Prince Hans von Teuss (Jan Nowicki) divorces his wife when he discovers she has been the lover of Emperor Wilhelm II. He becomes wheelchair bound when he Read More

Besuch Bei Van Gogh

Das Haus am Fluss

Actors: Katrin Sass, Manfred Gorr, Jutta Wachowiak, Rolf Hoppe, Corinna Harfouch

Synopsis: The German Das Haus Am Fluss (House on the River) is based on "The Russian Pelt," a 1942 story by Frederick Wolf. The film takes place in an industrial community just outside of Berlin in 1941. Two sisters--unmarried Emmi and married Agnes--live with their mother while their men are off to war. Read More

Kaiser Und Eine Nacht

Actors: Brigitte Karner, Rolf Hoppe, Rosemarie Fendel, Vera Schweiger

Synopsis: In this run-of-the-mill comedy, the bizarre environment and unbalanced owners of a run-down inn give an unsuspecting Swiss businessman a bit of grief. Just as Kaiser (Emil Steinberger) is about to finish a phone call at the train station, his train pulls away, and he is left stranded. Along comes Read More

Die Grunstein - Variante

Actors: Klaus Schwarzkopf, Rolf Ludwig, Rolf Hoppe

Synopsis: No more than a two-hour dialogue between three disparate foreigners held for investigation in a Paris cell block in 1939, this drama about war and its consequences focuses primarily on the three men. Lodek (Jorg Godzuhn) is a German sailor who is very much against Hitler and his tactics (Lodek Read More

Arztinnen

Actors: Judy Winter, Inge Keller, Walter Reyer, Rolf Hoppe, Michael Gwisdek

Synopsis: This propaganda film from East Germany about a corrupt society in West Germany goes to such extremes that it may offend many viewers -- especially doctors. Essentially, the film, by director Horst Seemann who also wrote the script, focuses on the evils lurking in West German hospitals. When a Read More

Spring Symphony

Actors: Nastassja Kinski, Rolf Hoppe

Synopsis: Whatever it is about 19th century composer Robert Schumann and his pianist wife Clara Wieck that fascinates filmmakers, it is a strong enough fascination to prompt a retelling of the Schumanns' lives every few years. First, there was the 1947 Katharine Hepburn/Paul Henreid film vehicle Song of Read More

Mephisto

Actors: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Krystyna Janda, Ildikó Bánsági, Karin Boyd, Rolf Hoppe

Synopsis: Based on Klaus Mann's novel, Mephisto details the rise of a Faustian character who figuratively sells his soul in exchange for greatness. Hendrik Hofgen (Klaus Maria Brandauer, offering an electric performance) is the star of a state-funded theater department who tires of his job. Like his Read More

Levins Muehle

Actors: Erwin Geschonneck, Christian Grashoff, Fred Dueren

Synopsis: Based on the last novel written by Johannes Bobrowski (1917-1965), Levin's Mill dramatizes the cultural and ethnic tensions in western Prussia during the 1870s, a place where not only Germans and Poles were mixed together, but within those larger groups, Jews and Gypsies as well. The mix does not Read More

Die Flucht

Actors: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Wilhelm Koch-Hooge, Karin Gregorek

Synopsis: The theme of escaping to West Germany from East Germany is the theme of this melodramatic East German movie. In the story, a doctor is tempted to self-exile by the possibility of conducting well-supported research in a center of his own. After all, he has an offer of a contract from a West German Read More

Joerg Ratgeb, Maler

Actors: Alois Svehlik, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Malgorzata Braunek

Synopsis: The painter Joerge Ratgeb was a contemporary of Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528). Based on the evidence in paintings discovered to be Ratgeb's work, and on fragments of the historical record, he is believed to have been one of the rare craftsmen who supported the Peasant's War (1524-26). This East Read More

Leben Mit Uwe

Actors: Eberhard Esche, Cox Habbema, Dieter Mann, Karin Gregorek

Synopsis: Uwe is a microbiologist and geneticist, a doctoral candidate, whose focus is completely on his work, as his wife and children's focus is on him. Everything works for him and sustains his vast intellectual effort, until he is confronted by his dissatisfied wife, who is asking for a divorce. He is Read More

Three Wishes for Cinderella

Actors: Libuse Safrankova, Pavel Travnicek

Synopsis: Released as Three Wishes for Cinderella in the US, Tri Orisky Pro Popelku has been a Christmas tradition in the Czech Republic since its original release in 1973, and also enjoys a large fan base in Germany. Based on the story by Bozena Nemcová, director Vaclav Vorlicek retells the classic Read More

Apachen

Actors: Gojko Mitic

Synopsis: Gottfried Kolditz's 1973 Apachen constitutes an East German Western, influenced by (and made in the mold of) classic American cinematic forays into the Old West, such as the works of Howard Hawks and John Ford. The picture covers some of the same territory as Robert Aldrich in his 1972 Ulzana's Raid Read More

Eolomea

Synopsis: This East German space-travel film depicts the difficulties experienced by intrepid explorers: resistance to new exploration by bureaucrats, confusing instructions from scientists, the lure of the familiar and, of course, the difficulties of the exploration itself. In this film, the planet which Read More

Goya

Actors: Donatas Banionis, Olivera Katarina, Fred Düren, Tatyana Lolova, Rolf Hoppe

Synopsis: Revered Lithuanian actor Donatas Banionis wields the masterful brush of celebrated Spanish artist Don Francisco deo Goya Lucientes in this biopic shot in 70mm and directed by Konrad Wolf. Having attained boundless wealth and iconic status as a painter in the court of King Carlos IV, Goya falls Read More

Spur des Falken

Mohr und Die Raben Von London

Karla

Actors: Jutta Hoffmann, Jurgen Hentsch, Inge Keller, Hans Hardt-Hardtloff

Synopsis: In this melodrama, Karla is an idealistic young teacher fresh out of school who is unable to do other than to pay more attention to honoring her student's needs than to the requirements of political correctness. In East Germany in the 1960s, this is a risky course. She is backed up by one of the Read More