Otto Meissner (Producer)

Abenteuer Airport

Abenteuer Airport was a German television series broadcast in 1990. It was an airport adventure series; 12 episodes were produced.

Release Date1990-09-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count12

Vote Count1

Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?

In the winter of 1943, against the background of battle scenes, a young German Lieutenant who increasingly distrusts the inhuman Nazi ideology struggles with the concept of war.

Release Date1959-04-07

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count25

Die Wildnis

The son of a farmer is bathed in his blood in front of an isolated mountain hut. There is no record of the attacker. Two investigators disappear without a trace. Years later, policeman Brenner sets out to find his colleagues.

Release Date1993-10-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count2

Natürlich die Autofahrer

Eberhard Dobermann is a widower and a policeman who loves to control the roads and let people pay fines. Even with his neighbour and friend Jutta Schmalbach he has no pity. Thus he cannot understand why his daughter Karin just falls in love with a racing pilot called Walter. But it gets even worse when Eberhard wins a VW-Kaefer at the annual police party. So he has to learn to drive and thus even brings his teacher close to a heart attack.

Release Date1959-08-20

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count22

Witwer mit 5 Töchtern

Father Scherzer generally buries himself in the books of the castle library, which he is responsible for managing. He is a warm-hearted but somewhat overwhelmed father to his five daughters, ranging from a preschooler to two teenage girls to a successful press photographer who flirts with a dashing dentist. While he is trying to sell the castle to an overbearing American millionaire, the housekeeper quits, and the youth welfare office insists on discipline and order in the five-girl household.

Release Date1957-09-06

DepartmentProduction

JobProduction Manager

Vote Count17

On the Road to Atlantis

Unterwegs nach Atlantis is an Austrian-German-Swiss-Czechoslovakian science fiction television series from 1981.

Release Date1982-09-18

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count13

Vote Count2

Drillinge an Bord

Househusband Heinz lives with his two brothers Otto and Eduard. When Heinz wins a luxury cruise in a pop song contest, Otto and Eduard don't want to stay at home. The two decide to secretly go along as stowaways...

Release Date1959-12-22

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count20

Abschiedsvorstellung

A classical who-dunnit-detective-story in an unusual setting: In the retirement-home for aging stage-artists "Ewige Rampe", an overly engaged doctor discovers what seems to be a murder by poison. The victim is the only inhabitant of the home who was not on stage, but a reporter of a gossip magazine. The two investigating police inspectors soon find out that the deceased lady blackmailed most of the inhabitants with little secrets she found out in her time as a reporter - nasty, but harmless things like a little shoplifting, alcoholism, a corrected date of birth, a success one never had... but are these little old secrets reason enough to kill someone? Or is there someone with a more important dark spot in the past? And

Release Date1986-03-17

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

The Last Pedestrian

Heinz Erhardt wanders through the Black Forest as a photographer for a magazine. On the train he meets a young girl who from now on does not leave his side.

Release Date1960-09-15

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count15

Ein Mann für alle Fälle

Frank Engelmann is an entrepreneur who takes on unusual jobs. For example, he steps in as a circus performer, a dressman, an actor, a party guest, or a guardian of valuable jewelry—in short, a "man for all occasions."

Release Date1978-07-27

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count3

Vote Count1

The Miracle of Father Malachia

The ardent prayer of a monk brings about a true miracle in a West German industrial town, which, however, is not understood by the people but only exploited as a lucrative sensation.

Release Date1961-07-03

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count10

Musikparade

Greta Lund leads her own jazz band with charm and flair, but she’s not interested in romantic entanglements with her musicians. Then the popular trumpeter and singer Peter joins her band and falls in love with her. He tries in creative ways to convince her that musicians are real men after all. After a chaotic concert, a brawl, and a series of mix-ups, the two finally find their way to each other.

Release Date1956-05-08

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count2

While All Germans Sleep

After 50 years, Marek remembers his dangerous adventure as a five-year-old, when he and his friend Itzek left a Polish transit camp one night in 1942 – a few days before their evacuation to Auschwitz – to go get the toys they forgot at the ghetto. Based on Becker's personal memories and his 1980 short story "The Wall."

Release Date1995-07-31

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count1

Hütet eure Töchter!

A film consisting of seven episodes directed by young West German filmmakers, some of whom were signatories of the famous Oberhausen Manifesto. The film focuses on the sometimes highly dramatic fates of young girls.

Release Date1964-05-28

DepartmentProduction

JobLine Producer

Vote Count1

Der Trauschein

Release Date1983-01-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count1

Bandits of the Highway

The film is based on a true story, concerning a series of robberies on the highways of Germany. At the time of the actual events, there was a controversy over whether or not highway patrolmen should be given permission to use firearms against perpetrators.

Release Date1955-08-31

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count3