Alfred Maack

The Berliner

Otto, a feckless Everyman, tries to adjust to the postwar travails of his defeated nation. Stymied by black-mar...

Der Etappenhase

Alibi

An industrialist's wife was killed and now her lover is accused of murder.

Freed Hands

A German peasant woman is determined to succeed as a sculptor and ,though she has a child out of wedlock, spurn...

Destinies of Women

Berlin 1952, seven years after WWII. Four women are looking for a good man and happiness in the divided city. T...

Rotation

The mechanic Behnke wants to join the Nazi party to secure a good living. However, after his Jewish neighbors h...

A Man with Principles?

The day before chemist Dr. Hans Wynhold leaves for a six months business trip to Africa, he meets chemistry stu...

In the Evening After the Opera

A wealthy man murders his wife, then marries a young woman who becomes suspicious of him.

Die Degenhardts

A stuffy old civil servant is forced to retire during World War II, but when his son, a Navy submariner, is los...

Marriage in the Shadows

Set during the rise of the Nazi regime, Elisabeth Maurer and Hans Wieland enjoy successful careers as actors in...

The Beacon

On a barren and stormy island, fishing families eke out a meager existence on what they can catch during summer...

Old Boat and Young Love

The stubborn old skipper Heinrich Borchert refuses to recognize the progress of the new era. Sailing for the DS...

Weiße Wäsche

Musician Eduard Boeckel wants to settle down and marries laundry owner Lisbeth Timm. He brings his friend Augus...

Gefährliche Fracht

During the unloading of the freighter "Florida", West German dock workers discover napalm bombs instead of the...

The Blue Swords

The story of Johann Friedrich Böttger, an apothecary’s apprentice and alchemist’s assistant. Fleeing from the P...

The Marriage Swindler

A confidence trickster is released from prison and travels to a village where he blackmails and tricks women ou...

Hexen

Germany in 1949: The residents of the Thuringian village Hunsdorf are still heavily influenced by archaic super...

Anna Susanna

A Girl Goes Ashore

Erna, the daughter of a Hamburg coastal skipper, loses her fiancé to the sea. In her grief, she first flees to...

A Girl Goes Ashore

Erna, the daughter of a Hamburg coastal skipper, loses her fiancé to the sea. In her grief, she first flees to...

The Devil from Mill Mountain

This film is set in a medieval mill town in the Harz mountains. The greedy and brutal millman and his accomplic...

My Wife Wants to Sing

Having been happily married for ten years, Gerda Wagner, devoted mother and housewife, suddenly gets it into he...

Die unvollkommene Liebe

In Bremen, a ship is launched, which was built by Thomas Holk. That evening, he gets to know the middle-aged wi...

Die Meere rufen

The Barge of Happy People

The girl Marianne inherited a motorboat called “Eintracht” from her parents and struggled to get her to drive i...

The Star of Rio

Concha flies from his natal Rio to Germany to help his loved one, who has been caught after finding some diamon...

Summer, Sunshine, Erica

Actually, Erika and Werner wanted to take a pleasant boat trip on the Isar. But who would have thought what cou...

Musketier Meier III

Fahrt ins Leben

The four sailing school cadets Gerhard, Fritz, Kurt, and Christian are close friends; there's hardly anything t...

Junge Adler

Director Brakke has good reason to be happy: he has just received the news that his son, Theo, won first place...

Für die Katz'

He who loves, torments himself: This turn of phrase works for the big farmer Gerd Tapken and his landlady Katri...

Under Sealed Orders

In a Near East land, a German company building waterworks and mining copper is threatened by foreign interests....

The Mysterious Wreck

Several children find out what's the matter with a wreck offshore, which puts them into jeopardy.

...and the Sky Above Us

Hans Albers plays returning war veteran Hans Richter who has trouble finding work. With nowhere else to turn, R...

Das Mädchen Juanita

Life Lies Ahead of Us

Captain Harms still suffers from the bomb attack on his ship. He can not put up with sitting on land, but is af...