Tilo Prückner Filmography

Willenbrock

Actors: Axel Prahl, Inka Friedrich, Anne Ratte-Polle, Dagmar Manzel, Tilo Prückner

The Inheritors

Actors: Simon Schwarz, Sophie Rois, Lars Rudolph, Julia Gschnitzer, Ulrich Wildgruber

Synopsis: In an Austrian farming village during the '30s, narrator Severin (Lars Rudolph) watches an old woman, Rosalind (Elisabeth Orth) visit the bed of sleeping farmhand Lukas (Simon Schwarz). Rosalind is accused when the owner of the farm is found dead. Local farmers believe his land will be divided Read More

Camerone

Deutschfieber

The Neverending Story

Actors: Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver, Tami Stronach, Moses Gunn, Patricia Hayes

Synopsis: Wolfgang Petersen adapted Michael Ende's children's story for this charming fantasy film that spawned several sequels. Bastian (Barret Oliver) is dealing with his mother's recent death. His father (Gerald McRaney) is an imperious sort who continually lambastes Bastian for daydreaming and falling Read More

Hab Ich Nur Deine Liebe

Actors: Christa Berndl, Tilo Prückner, Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger

Synopsis: Peter Kern, the director of this offbeat film, was one of the regular actors in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's films, and it seems unlikely that reviewers will ever let him live that down. In this story, a shy, inhibited executive in a computer firm seeks his sexual release through the materials Read More

Verfolgte Wege

Actors: Peter Cieslinski, Barbara Auer, Tilo Prückner

Synopsis: Hermann (Peter Cieslinski) was traumatized by the war and its violence, and in 1946 he is released from a hospital to work at a small rural railway station. There he slowly emerges from his dazed condition and takes notice of the world around him, including a woman named Marie (Barbara Auer), whom Read More

Der Kleine Staatsanwalt

Actors: Hark Bohm, Martin Lüttge, Corinna Harfouch, Michael Gwisdek, Alexander Radszun

Synopsis: Konig is a very minor cog in a huge piece of legal machinery, a low-level state prosecutor. He would like to be a bigger cog, but when he gets involved investigating a routine bankruptcy case which turns out to implicate governmental higher-ups, he opts for something resembling professional Read More

Der Schnuffler

Actors: Dieter Hallervorden, Catherine Alric, Nikolaus Dutsch, Tilo Prückner, Manfred Lehmann

Synopsis: Herbie Melbourne (Didi Hallervorden) is a poor schlemiel who is inadvertently caught between the Devil and the deep blue sea in this German farce about a cab driver (Hallervorden) assigned to bring a "comrade" back to the East German side of the Berlin wall, a passenger who is dead to the world Read More

Wenn Ich Mich Fürchte

Actors: Horst Buchholz, Franziska Bronnen, Tilo Prückner, Constanze Engelbrecht, Herta Schwarz

Synopsis: Engrossing, dramatic, and effective, this psychological drama about a film director and his friends and acquaintances does not, in the end, provide any solutions to the issues it so expertly raises. Robert Feldmann (Horst Buchholz), the filmmaker, decides to escape to Italy for awhile after his Read More

Didi Der Doppelgänger

Actors: Dieter Hallervorden, Tilo Prückner, Ruth-Maria Kubitschek, Barbara Nielsen

Synopsis: Popular West German television comedian Dieter Hallervorden takes up a dual role in this slapstick comedy about switched identities. On the one hand, Hallervorden plays the CEO of a large conglomerate, Hans Immer, and on the other, he is Bruno Koob, a lowly bartender, falling off the opposite end Read More

Donauwalzer

Actors: Christiane Horbiger, Hans Michael Rehberg, Axel Corti, Hugo Gottschlich, Jane Tilden

Synopsis: In this dull melodrama, a young woman is rescued from a troubled Hungary in 1956, brought to Austria by the journalist who saved her, and then the two fall in love and marry. Before much time has passed, the journalist dies unexpectedly, and, with no viable alternative, his widow goes to live with Read More

Kassensturz

Actors: Christoph Marius Ohrt, Britta Pohland, Kai Fischer

Synopsis: First-time director and writer Rolf Silber has skimmed the surface in this comedy about a bank teller who ends up with some money accidentally left behind in a robbery. After loaning some of the cash to his friends, the teller runs away to join a road company because he is in love with one of its Read More

Der Zauberberg

Actors: Rod Steiger, Marie-France Pisier, Flavio Bucci, Christoph Eichhorn, Hans-Christian Blech

Synopsis: Hans Castrop (Christoph Eichhorn) goes to visit a cousin in a Swiss tuberculosis sanatorium, intending to stay for about three weeks, but instead ends up staying for seven years observing the fascinating inhabitants at this supposed haven from the society that has slid downhill to the brink of Read More

Lena Rais

Actors: Tilo Prückner, Nikolaus Paryla, Kai Fischer

Synopsis: An insightful, well-rounded, and often acerbic look at the slow burn of a middle-aged housewife, Lena Rais says a lot in its 116-minute running time. Lena (Krista Stadler) begins to feel like a tool for her husband's sexual needs and an automatic machine for her children. Her life is losing its Read More

Die Hamburger Krankheit

Actors: Helmut Griem, Fernando Arrabal, Ulrich Wildgruber

Synopsis: An imaginative, symbolic drama with political overtones, Die Hamburger Krankheit postulates an affliction that is attacking the citizenry in Hamburg and threatening to spread like the bubonic plague. By coincidence, there is a medical conference taking place in the city at the time of the Read More

Bomber und Paganini

Actors: Mario Adorf, Tilo Prückner, Barbara Valentin, Margot Werner, Hannelore Schroth

Synopsis: In this comedy, Bomber and Paganini are two small-time hoods who have teamed up to pull off a robbery which is not sanctioned by their gang. After opening the safe, they lose their heads during an argument, and wind up in the hospital. One of them has been blinded, the other has been rendered Read More

Grete Minde

Actors: Siemen Ruhaack, Hannelore Elsner, Tilo Prückner, Brigitte Grothum

Synopsis: Grete Minde, based on the novel by Theodor Fontane, tells the story of a girl trapped in the turbulent religious and social prejudices of 17th-century Sweden. Born of a noble Lutheran father and his second wife, a Spanish Catholic, Grete is barely tolerated by her anti-Catholic older half-brother Read More

Sternsteinhof

Actors: Katja Rupé, Tilo Prückner, Peter Kern, Agnes Fink, Elfriede Kuzmany

Synopsis: The lovely Leni (Katja Rupe) lives in a cottage on the slopes of the hill owned by the wealthy Sternstein farming family. She has had her eye on Toni, the son of that family, for some time and hopes to wed him and occupy the glorious Sternstein manor. Toni, too, has been longing to marry her. Read More

Hauptlehrer Hofer

Synopsis: At the turn of the century, an idealistic schoolteacher who has just finished his training arrives in the small town which is to be his territory. There, he finds a smug factory-owner, who has cleared out an old barn for a schoolhouse -- for children who have already worked eight hours each day in Read More

Berlinger

Actors: Martin Benrath, Hannelore Elsner, Peter Ehrlich, Tilo Prückner

Synopsis: In this drama, Berlinger (Martin Benrath) is an important scientist in the Nazi era, who refuses to join the party, or to support many of the country's designs. Instead, he wafted people out of Germany into safer climes and then was forced to flee himself. In the film, he returns to Germany in Read More

Familienglueck

Actors: Tilo Prückner

Synopsis: In the tradition of the film movement called New German Realism, this drama focuses closely on the efforts of Manfred and Manuela to live out their dream of marital bliss, despite the forces which will eventually drain their relationship of all its joy and spontaneity. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Read More

John Glueckstadt

Actors: Dieter Laser, Marie-Christine Barrault, Johannes Schaaf, Dan van Husen, Tilo Prückner

Synopsis: Adapted from the novel Die Döppelgänger by Theodor Storm, this black-and-white drama tells the tragic story of a war veteran who, in 1860, returns to his home in Schleswig Holstein after serving a term for robbery. There he finds nothing but hardship and rejection, save from the town's mayor and a Read More

Die Verrohung des Franz Blum

Actors: Jürgen Prochnow, Eike Gallwitz, Burkhardt Driest, Tilo Prückner

Synopsis: In this prison drama, Franz Blum (Jurgen Prochnow) goes from being a fairly ordinary middle-class man to a hardened convict. Sent to prison for participating in a bank robbery, he learns how to use blackmail and graft in order to survive the harsh life he encounters "inside." The screenplay was Read More

Einer Von Uns Beiden

Actors: Elke Sommer, Jürgen Prochnow, Klaus Schwarzkopf, Otto Sander

Apokal

Synopsis: This German language film is said to be loosely based on a story by Edgar Allen Poe. It is difficult to say, as there is no story to be discerned in this non-stop pastiche, heavy with symbolism but with no other distinguishing features. It was, however, a German entry in the 1971 Cannes Film Read More