Otto Graf

Bismarck

A biographical film of Otto von Bismarck, the Prime Minister of Prussia, and how he and his policies - includin...

The Dismissal

German chancellor Otto von Bismarck promises the dying emperor Wilhelm I. to be loyal to his grandson. But the...

Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes

Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his district and no...

Was geschah in dieser Nacht?

Since Marion feels ill-treated by her boyfriend her friend Julia confronts him in his home only to learn that s...

Anastasia: the Czar's Last Daughter

In 1920, an unknown 24-year-old woman was fished out of Berlin's Landwehr kanal after a suicide attempt. Since...

Salonwagen E 417

In a transport museum, the items on display begin to tell their stories. Most interesting is the history of the...

Gentlemen in White Vests

Bruno Stiegler, a boxing promoter with a disreputable past, returns from America to Berlin to make some big thi...

The Traitor

This 1936 film tells the story of the doings of foreign agents in Germany and their allies among the German pop...

Andreas Schlüter

Historical drama portraying the life of German baroque architect Andreas Schlüter.

The Last Witness

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

Damals

Vera Meiners' life was sweet but unfortunately for her, it was not to last. Her husband, Jan, left her after sh...

Angelika

Once a celebrated opera singer, who sacrificed her career for her husband. Now she strives to become a successf...

Endspurt

The author Peter Ustinov has called his work "Endspurt" a "biographical adventure". Biographical because the so...

The Third Sex

Klaus is a young man in post-war Berlin. He is drawn to his friend Manfred and, under the encouragement of thei...

Krach im Vorderhaus

It can hardly be said that things are peaceful in the Berlin apartment building where the film's story takes pl...

Devil in Silk

After leaving his overbearing wife for another woman, a composer is suspected of her murder when she is found d...

A Night of Change

Nacht der Verwandlung (A Night of Change) stars Gustav Froelich as a globe-circling aviator, a character clearl...

Die Wirtin zum weißen Röss'l

Up till now, Eri Bel and Heinz Marius were a happy couple only on the movie screen. Now, however, the successfu...

The Bat

The delightful Johann Strauss comic opera Die Fledermaus was mercilessly lampooned in this truly bizarre produc...

Der Fall Pinedus

1913

The Angel and the Lyre

Achim and Vera are friends and live an uncomplicated and happy life .... that is, until they get into their fir...

Novemberverbrecher - Eine Erinnerung

Henze: The Young Lord (Deutsche Oper Berlin)

A 1968 production of Hans-Werner Henze's comic opera filmed at Berlin's Deutsche Oper. With the plot centering...