Erich Ponto

German Film Award

The Third Man

In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his child...

The Punch Bowl

Writer Johannes Pfeiffer who goes undercover as a student in a high school after his friends told him that he m...

The Rothschilds

Biopic about the Rothschilds, a Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community d...

The Four Companions

Four graduates of an industrial design school team up and form a small business. The protagonist is so excited...

Hallo Janine

The French ballet girl Janine, a gifted tap-dancer, dreams of a musical career in Paris. But first she wants to...

I Accuse

In this film, the wife of a renowned doctor becomes ill with multiple sclerosis. Trying to spare her beloved hu...

The Night in Venice

The marriage of the celebrated operetta diva Vilma and the chamber singer Peter has come to an end. Peter, howe...

Diesel

A German wartime biography of Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the Diesel engine. The movie links the importance of t...

Blutsbrüderschaft

On November 11, 1918, the last day of the First World War , Lieutenant Colonel Klaus Olden desperately tried to...

Joan of Arc

France in the 15th Century: The country is marked by the wars with England and internal power struggles. King C...

Hokuspokus

A murder trial becomes a farce when a widow tries to convince the district attorney that she didn't drown her h...

The Final Chord

After her husband dies, a German woman who gave up her infant for adoption to emigrate to America returns to Ge...

Wibbel the Tailor

During the Napoleonic occupation of the German states in 1812, a tailor by the name of Anton Wibbel is sentence...

The Girl and the Legend

London, in 1730. Charly, Jim and Ben work hard, with the brave Maud, in a cotton mill to earn a few shillings....

The Flying Classroom

The third form of a boarding school and the students of a neighboring school do not get along. Each side dreams...

Clothes Make the Man

The daydreaming tailor Wenzel is fired from his job, because the fancy frock he was supposed to cut for the may...

Schicksal aus zweiter Hand

A man's life breaks down in pursuit of material success.

Tobias Knopp, Adventure of a Bachelor

The wealthy man Tobias Knopp becomes ever more lonely and quirky over the years. He had let himself go, his gir...

The Golden Plague

At the end of the war a disillusioned German exile returns home only to fall into the dark world of black marke...

Sky Without Stars

Anna is a factory worker in East Germany, but her five-year-old son Jochen lives with his grandparents in the W...

The Lost Face

A clearly confused girl is found wandering around Stuttgart and can't be understood, because she's speaking in...

Between Yesterday and Tomorrow

A group of people gathers back in the post-war ruins of a luxurious Munich hotel they inhabited at one point or...

Geliebter Lügner

The young fashion illustrator Jeanette meets the chief engineer Rudolf Siebert at an artists' festival in Schwa...

No Greater Love

Directed by Harald Braun and told from the perspective of Bertha von Suttner, the first female to receive the N...

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson look into reports that a huge, vicious hound has killed Lord Charles Baskerville...

Achtung! Feind hört mit!

This is the war and everybody in Germany should beware : the enemy is listening. One family in particular had b...

Attack on Baku

Azerbaijan, 1919. The British hope to secure control of the vast oil fields around Baku by launching a series o...

Philharmonic

Alexander Schonath is an exceptionally gifted musician who plays first violin in a philharmonic orchestra. But...

Film Without Title

A screenwriter comes up with a story about an affair between a maid and her employer.

Der Feuerteufel

The Star of Africa

Biographic movie of the German fighter ace, who was killed in a plane crash after over 150 kills in North Afric...

Made in Germany – Ein Leben für Zeiss

...und ewig bleibt die Liebe

Wenn wir alle Engel wären

Love '47

A young man and woman meet on a bridge, both about to commit suicide by jumping into the river, and recount to...