Käte Alving

Weiße Wäsche

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

Forbidden Paradise

Combining documentary elements with a playful narrative, the film explores the evolution of bathing culture and...

An Old Heart Becomes Young Again

All throughout his entire life, Friedrich Wilhelm Hoffmann let his career run roughshod over his personal life....

Du mein stilles Tal

Elisabeth, wife of a landowner, has kept from her husband for twenty years that their daughter is not his. Rath...

The Lady of Scuderi

Several men have been murdered lately, mostly rich lovers on their way to meet their mistresses with gifts of f...

Destinies of Women

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

… und wenn’s nur einer wär’ …

The young actress Bettina has angered the director of a West Berlin camp for troubled youth with a song that ce...

With the Eyes of a Woman

A typical woman's fate at the turn of the century, from the first love mistake to the arranged marriage and fur...

Schatten über den Inseln

On the Faroe Islands, people eke out a meagre existence by catching birds. Merchant Brause pays them little and...

Anna Susanna

Sheriff Teddy

A story about thirteen years old Kalle who is moving with the family from West Berlin to East.

The Last Witness

Director Wolfgang Staudte who left East Germany in 1953 to make movies in West Germany, takes a few swipes at t...

Girls in Gingham

A moving saga focusing on the women in a family that spans three generations and almost 70 years of German hist...

The Sonnenbrucks

Professor Sonnenbruck is a scientist who is not particularly interested in politics. Even the meeting in 1943 w...

Castles and Cottages

Lifelong hard work for the count makes the servant Anton a cripple. Everybody calls him Crooked Anton. When, af...

Lissy

In 1930s Berlin, a woman’s life unravels as her unemployed husband succumbs to Nazi propaganda and joins the St...

Bank Vault 713

A man is unable to find a job. In his desperation, he plans to rob a bank together with a friend who works in a...

Die Meere rufen

Der wahre Jakob

Meine vier Jungens

Anna Christiansen has not heard from her husband Klaus, a sailor, for twelve years. To provide a secure life fo...

Michael Kramer