Wolfgang Staudte
Wolfgang Staudte was born on October 9, 1906 in Saarbrücken, Germany. He was a director and actor, known for Ciske de Rat (1955), Rotation (1949) and Murderers Among Us (1946).
Works
All Quiet on the Western Front
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
Release Date1930-04-29
Charactersd Minor Role (uncredited)
Vote Count968
The Blue Angel
Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there. Seeing Lola perform, the teacher is filled with lust, eventually resigning his position at the school to marry the young woman. However, his marriage to a coquette -- whose job is to entice men -- proves to be more difficult than Rath imagined.
Release Date1930-04-01
Charactersd Pupil (uncredited)
Vote Count379
Many Lies
The stories' setup: a bunch of passive weaklings being dominated by two strong and ambitious women who fight for the same man.
Release Date1938-12-23
Charactersd Barmixer
Vote Count4
Süss, the Jew
Nazi historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer.
Release Date1940-09-24
Charactersd Freund und Vertrauter Fabers
Vote Count46
Heimkehr ins Glück
After a burn-out Karl spends time in his home region, the Black Forest. His car gets lost and is picked up by penniless magician Amadori who enjoys posing as wealthy entrepreneur Karl while Karl reunites with the love of his youth, Liesl.
Release Date1933-05-08
Charactersd Phillip, Grubers Sekretär
Vote Count2
Drei Unteroffiziere
A soldier thinks about leaving the army for a woman. His friends try to stop him.
Release Date1939-03-30
Charactersd Kern
Vote Count3
Tannenberg
Shortly after the outbreak of World War I August 1914, Eastern Front. The Russian surprise attack on the northeasternmost part of the country causes serious problems for the German defenders.
Release Date1932-09-07
Charactersd Husar Franke
Vote Count1
Sechs Tage Heimaturlaub
Release Date1941-10-03
Charactersd Skatspielender Schütze
Vote Count5
....reitet für Deutschland
Release Date1941-08-18
Charactersd Rebenschütz
Vote Count5
Das Gewehr über
Release Date1939-12-07
Charactersd Unteroffizier Schmidt
Vote Count1
D III 88
Across German screens at the outbreak of WWII streaks "DIII88: The New German Air Force Attacks", an aeronautic and maritime spectacle glorifying Hermann Goring's Luftwaffe and the spirit of the newly arisen Germany. Once war became imminent, Joseph Goebbels instructed the German film industry to initiate production of numerous militaristic projects, but DIII88 was initiated by the Propaganda Minister's rival, Goring, who commissioned several aviation pictures. DIII88 is not a war picture per se, because it takes place in peacetime, but the young, fresh-faced air aces enthusiastically look forward to the coming war. The propaganda is blatant: The only thing that matters is dedication to duty and unconditional commitment to the Fatherland.
Release Date1939-10-25
Charactersd Marineoffizier
Vote Count4
The Big Game
A player on a soccer team, where everyone matches together just perfectly, has fallen out of a championship tournament due to illness; which leads to a big problem: who would be the perfect man to replace him? Werner Fehling appears to be the perfect replacement for the sick man. The problem is, he's a bitter rival of the goalkeeper, Jupp Jaeger. Both men love the same girl, Grete Gabler. Grete is the daughter of a senior member of the sports club, which is why she feels doubly under pressure not to do anything to jeopardize the success of the team.
Release Date1942-07-10
Charactersd Fritz Eysoldt
Vote Count2
Am seidenen Faden
A WWI veteran comes home and with a scientist's help opens an artificial silk factory later used for clothing. Crooked international profiteers ,a lawyer and a banker, threaten the profitability of the concern and the workers' jobs.
Release Date1938-09-22
Charactersd Arbeiter bei Hellwerth
Vote Count1
Die fremde Frau
Release Date1939-08-31
Charactersd Teini
Vote Count1
Mordsache Holm
A wrecked car is found on the Reichsautobahn between Hamburg and Bremen. Inside is a murdered woman. It soon becomes clear that the woman is the dancer Grazielle Holm. The investigators are certain: it was murder! But unfortunately there are far too many suspects...
Release Date1938-06-17
Charactersd Agent Budger
Vote Count4
Fire on the Ocean
Tom Finberg and Nick Dorland, two highly competent divers working for the Caribbian Oil Company, have been the best friends in the world since the day they met. But this wonderful friendship is endangered by their falling in love with the same young woman, Juana, the young owner of a hacienda. Worse, following a misunderstanding, generated by the belle's scheming uncle, Pedro de Alvarado, the two men fall out with each other. But when Tom is trapped under the surface of the burning ocean, Nick finally comes to his rescue.
Release Date1939-12-19
Charactersd Monteur Ronny
Vote Count2
Pour le Mérite
This Nazi propaganda film chronicles the rise of the German Air Force ("Luftwaffe") from World War I until Adolf Hitler took power in 1933.
Release Date1938-12-22
Charactersd Leutnant Ellermann
Vote Count5
Stronger Than Paragraphs
Renate Hubricht finds her uncle, the money broker Theodor Hubricht, murdered in his villa. That very night, the banker Lorik is arrested, who was last seen in Hubricht’s house. Renate, who doesn’t wish to live alone in the eerie estate lodges with the lawyer Dr. Birk. She doesn’t tell him, that her lover, the musician Robert Wendland, had an argument with her uncle on the evening of the murder. When Lorik is sentenced to 10 years prison, Renate is thrown into a quandary. She believes she’s protecting the real culprit with her silence.
Release Date1936-08-26
Charactersd Freund der Portierstochter
Vote Count2
Togger
Release Date1937-02-12
Charactersd Streikender Setzer bei Breitenbach
Vote Count1
Grand Duchess Alexandra
A Czarist refugee, separated from her husband, gets a job as a nightclub singer in Vienna and has to decide later if she wants to rejoin him.
Release Date1933-10-12
Charactersd Flüchtling
Vote Count9
Play in the Summer Breezes
Young Percy Averhoff returns to Hamburg after a five-year stay abroad and finds that his parents have already found a bride for him. The young man however has his own ideas, and rebelliously answers a contact ad in which a girl is looking for a young man as a companion for a car trip to Southern Germany. Soon the two of them are on the way. What Percy doesn't know is that the damsel is none other than the girl his parents have chosen for him.
Release Date1939-02-02
Charactersd Tankstellenwart, der den geborgten Wagen erkennt
Vote Count1
The Anthem of Leuthen
The story of the rise to power of King Frederick II (aka "Frederick the Great") of Prussia of his military campaigns to make Prussia a major power in Europe.
Release Date1933-02-02
Charactersd Sächsischer Offizier
Vote Count4
The Secret of the Blue Room
Just for fun and to prove to the daughter of the castle lord how courageous they are, three young men agree to each spend one night in the "blue room“ of the castle. Years ago two people lost their lives in this room under most mysterious circumstances. Ever since, the door to the room has been locked. The youngest of the three men insists upon spending the first night in the blue room. At exact 1 a.m. a shot rings out...
Release Date1932-12-13
Charactersd Frank Färber
Vote Count5
Aus erster Ehe
Movie based on the novel by Christel Broehl-Delhaes
Release Date1940-07-23
Charactersd Gast bei Stahlschmidts Musikabend
Vote Count6
Beates Flitterwoche
The castle-estate Dachenstein is located in the beautiful surroundings of Upper Bavaria and has been farmed for years by the young Baron Georg von Muckenreiter. According to the will of his uncle, the castle-estate is to pass permanently into Georg's possession once he marries someone and makes her the legitimate lady-of-estate. Thus, he must marry! George, a farmer, huntsman and a freedom-loving bachelor, has little love for that, which is eternally feminine and a revulsion of marriage altogether. To his great fortune, however, his friend Heinz Kuppelweger has arrived for a small vacation at the castle. Heinz knows a lot about the "noble women kind" and he's going to help Georg. First, he's going to help Georg with some correspondence to his future, young bride in Belgrade -- Beate -- who is as happy with Georg's romantic correspondence as is her father.
Release Date1940-08-30
Charactersd Kunstmaler
Vote Count1
Die Drehscheibe
Release Date1964-04-01
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
Vote Count3
German Film Award
Release Date1951-06-06
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
100 Years of the UFA
The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime, the Adenauer era and the many and tumultuous events of contemporary Germany, and has always been the epicenter of the German film industry.
Release Date2017-08-28
Charactersd Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Vote Count2
Scene of the Crime
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
Release Date1970-11-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count7
Vote Count127
The Commissioner
Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein.
Release Date1969-01-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count14
Vote Count10
Kommissariat 9
Release Date1975-07-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count39
Vote Count1
The Murderers Are Among Us
After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds a traumatized ex-soldier living in her apartment in bombed out Berlin. Together the two try to move past their experiences during WWII.
Release Date1946-10-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count74
The Kaiser's Lackey
Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that he has to offer his services to the powers-that-be if he wants to wield power himself. His life motto now runs: bow to those at the top and tread on those below. In this way, he always succeeds: as a student in a duel-fighting student fraternity and as a businessman in a paper factory. He cajoles the obese district administrative president Von Wulkow and wins his favor. He slanders his financial rivals and hatches a plot with the social democrats in the town council. On his honeymoon with his rich wife Guste, he finally finds a chance to do his beloved Kaiser a favor. And when a memorial to the Kaiser is unveiled in the town where Diederich lives and works, he delivers the address. He stands behind the lectern in the pouring rain, saluting his Kaiser. The crowd is dispersed. Everything is laid in ruins...
Release Date1951-08-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count25
The Threepenny Opera
The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the beggars of Soho will disturb the upcoming coronation.
Release Date1963-02-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
Der eiserne Gustav
The stern and reserved Gustav Hartmann, known as "Iron Gustav", is the last Berlin cab driver. At the end of the 1920s, his time is over as horse-drawn cabs are replaced by automobile cabs. He is threatened with impoverishment. His family wants to have him incapacitated. So he sets off on one last great journey that takes him from Berlin to Paris and back. A reporter with a nose for a big story accompanies him, Gustav becomes famous, returns to Berlin in triumph and, having become a gentle and approachable person, reconciles with his family.
Release Date1979-08-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count7
Vote Count2
The Sea Wolf
Writer Humphrey van Weyden is thrown overboard in a shipwreck in the Bay of San Francisco, and is rescued by the seal-hunting schooner 'Ghost' under the command of the brutal Captain Wolf Larsen.
Release Date1971-12-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count24
MS Franziska
MS Franziska is a German television series.
Release Date1978-01-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count8
Vote Count1
The Ice Road
The young farmhand Veit Kolb from Hausberg in Bavaria loses his job at the farmer Kriele, who emigrates to America with his family.
Release Date1985-02-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count5
Vote Count1
The Last Witness
Director Wolfgang Staudte who left East Germany in 1953 to make movies in West Germany, takes a few swipes at the West German judicial system in this fairly effective courtroom drama about the murder of a four-month-old baby. Police almost immediately arrest the mother Ingrid who is the mistress of the father, a rich business VIP married to another woman. His position and wealth keep him insulated from suspicion. A hot-shot lawyer has to overcome the unaccountably biased perceptions of the police, the judge, the prosecutor and almost everyone else in the judicial system. The defence lawyer, driven to an extreme, knows he has to find the real killer or his client will be convicted.
Release Date1960-12-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count21
The Revenge
Sequel of "The Sea Wolf". The writer van Weyden, who escaped from Captain Larsen's ship, follows the trail of his enemy for years in order to take revenge. He finds him as a man who has been mentally and physically destroyed by other criminals.
Release Date1973-12-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
The Story of Little Mook
An old man living in an oriental city tells the story of his life to a group of kids: He too was once a young boy by the name of Little Muck - much like them, but with better manners and a heap of problems. Having lost his father at early age, little Muck is expelled from home by his greedy relatives. He wanders off into the desert hoping to find the merchant who sells good fortune. Amidst the dunes of sand he comes across a small house owned by a wicked woman and her many cats. She wants to make Little Muck her servant, but he manages to escape by stealing a pair of magic shoes which enable him to run faster than any man in the country. From there he heads right into the next set of challenges...
Release Date1953-12-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count41
Der Fall Kapitän Behrens. Fremdenlegionäre an Bord
Release Date1966-02-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Die Kriminalnovelle
Release Date1970-09-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count5
A Tale of Five Cities
An Englishman has been working in the US so long he now speaks with an American accent. He is drafted into the British Army during WWII but is injured and loses his memory. Because he talks like an American, the doctors repatriate him to the States where he is housed with a New York family. After the war they all travel throughout Europe, searching for the women he still remembers in the hope of restoring his lost memory
Release Date1951-03-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count9
Schließfach 763
Erik Hoopen’s “Oversea Travel Agency” in Hamburg fronts an international gold‐smuggling ring. Couriers hide gold bars in special vests, exporting them to black markets in Cairo, Khartoum, Hong Kong, and Singapore and returning with suitcases of cash. Fierce underworld competition leads to thefts and murders. Central to the intrigue is mysterious locker #763, tying the criminal network together.
Release Date1975-04-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Lockruf des Goldes
America at the end of the 19th century: news spreads like wildfire that gold has been found in the Klondike. Half of America is in an uproar. Among the adventurers is the young lawyer Elam Harnish from San Francisco. Over the next few months, he experiences unique adventures with the hard search for gold, the merciless nature and the shrewd stock market sharks of the big city...
Release Date1975-12-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count6
Yesterday's Tomorrow
On a winter day in 1961, 31-year-old Anna Eichmayr crosses the Grosshesseloher bridge in Munich, she suddenly stops in the middle of the bridge, opens a manhole and plunges into the depths. The film traces the young woman's life in flashbacks. It goes back to 1945.
Release Date1978-10-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Ciske the Rat
“Ciske de Rat” belongs to the Dickensean “little man’s hard life” model and tells a deceptively simple story about a boy in modern Netherlands. Persecution, loneliness, adults’ hostility, fear, mixture of obstinacy and tenderness, and even an imprisonment. Excellent camera movement and delicate portraying of Ciske’s fragile soul put this film out of merely historical context and ensure its place in the history of great cinema.
Release Date1955-10-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count9
Feuerwasser
Release Date1978-07-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Das Lamm
Release Date1964-11-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Destination Death
A group of West German men on a stag party find themselves stranded in a Montenegrin village inhabited only by vengeful women since all their men were shot during the war.
Release Date1964-03-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
The Rest Is Silence
A "mufti" version of Hamlet, with young Hardy Krüger trying to prove that his uncle has killed his father. Direct references to the Shakespeare original abound, right down to the re-enactment of the crime for the benefit of the Uncle and the periodic appearances of the ghost of the hero's father.'
Release Date1959-07-21
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count7
Roses for the Prosecutor
April 1945. Because he stole two bars of chocolate, the soldier Rudi is sentenced to death by the court-martial judge Dr. Schramm. Rudi manages to escape from the firing squad at the last minute, and since the end of the war has been making a meager living as a street peddler. Years later, Dr. Schramm is now a respected public prosecutor. By chance, he runs into Rudi one day on the street. Afraid that Rudi will blow the whistle on him, Dr. Schramm wants to scare him out of town. He has Rudi arrested and bullied by the police.
Release Date1959-09-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count22
Gentlemen in White Vests
Bruno Stiegler, a boxing promoter with a disreputable past, returns from America to Berlin to make some big things again with his friends. Fatally, he is always preceded by some gentlemen from better circles who are developing amazing criminal activity in their old days. They are led by Oberlandesgerichtsrat a. D. Herbert Zänker, whom it still hisses, that he could bring in his term Bruno never behind bars.
Release Date1970-03-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count8
Ganovenehre
In the crazy twenties, safecracker Orje is released from prison and, through the mediation of his friend Nelly, finds a job at the "Sparverein Biene". The honorable gentlemen train him as a pimp, but because he is bored, he starts an affair with Olga. Soon his colleagues are planning his murder.
Release Date1966-04-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Der Snob
An oily careerist for whom becoming the highest earner is not enough: now he also wants a title of nobility.
Release Date1984-03-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Das Mädchen Juanita
Release Date1945-03-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
I Have Dreamed of You
After a successful concert, the singer Maria dreams about a man with a boquet of lilies, who follows her and kisses her. A short time later, she actually meets such a man: his name is Peter and he’s on his way to his bride, Helene. In the afternoon, Maria receives a valuable diamond pin from a messenger, which was actually intended for Helene. This confusion will now trigger a wild chase through concert halls and overnight trains. During all of this, Maria’s fiancée will show up, who, in light of all this nonsense, decides he’d be better off with someone less fickle and breaks off the engagement. Maria and Peter, who barely know one another, will be drawn closer together by fate and will eventually marry … and will stay so until Maria no doubt dreams of a lawyer with a divorce decree knocking on her door.
Release Date1944-07-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
The Hussy
An unemployed engineer working as a driver at an oil company hears about a lost Inca treasure and goes in search of it.
Release Date1978-05-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Jailbreak in Hamburg
The dangerous violent criminal Willy Jensen flees from a prison in Hamburg and seeks shelter at his brother Heinz' apartment. Heinz, an honest taxi-driver, believes in his innocence and helps him - until Willy kills another man in a robbery. After an argument Willy takes his wife Vera, who now lives with Heinz, as hostage on his further flight from the police. Heinz feels responsible for his brother and trails him, which makes it look to the police as if he's helping his brother.
Release Date1971-10-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count9
Nerze nachts am Straßenrand
Detective Heinz Ebelings car breaks down with a broken windshield and a defective fuel pump on the way to Frankfurt. On the way to the next village, Ebeling witnesses a murder and other crimes, which he tries to solve.
Release Date1973-08-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Schicksal aus zweiter Hand
A man's life breaks down in pursuit of material success.
Release Date1949-10-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Cannon Serenade
Release Date1958-07-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Escape from Sahara
Three Foreign Legionnaires - Luigi, Pat and Kurt - desert during the Algerian war because they have had enough of the inhumane war machine. But their comrade Robert intercepts them and decides to have them court-martialed. On their way to Algiers, they pick up young Madeleine, who has just survived an attack by insurgents. Suddenly Robert changes his mind and joins the deserters. Madeleine realizes that she is now a prisoner of the four foreign legionnaires and must make her own escape.
Release Date1958-01-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Rotation
The mechanic Behnke wants to join the Nazi party to secure a good living. However, after his Jewish neighbors have been taken away, he changes his views. Trying to remain "a non-political man," he withdraws from reality and becomes a Nazis laborer.
Release Date1950-02-09
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count8
Der Mann, dem man den Namen stahl
During his trip to the city, a naïve man from the countryside falls victim to a thief who steals his wallet. Since all his personal documents were in it, he not only looses his money but also his identity. The thief turns out to be a cunning con man, who uses the papers for his criminal schemes. Soon enough, a warrant is issued, and eventually both men – the thief and the innocent guy – are arrested. But since all the red tape of the government causes even more confusion, the odyssey of the victim searching for his lost identity has just started.
Release Date1945-03-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
The Sins of Rose Bernd
A young domestic worker on a farm is used and abused by the men in her life.
Release Date1957-01-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count6
The Beacon
On a barren and stormy island, fishing families eke out a meager existence on what they can catch during summer, and what washes ashore during winter. But little has been washing ashore of late, and their situation worsens. Elders recall how twenty years ago, when the lighthouse keeper’s beacon went dark, a cargo ship broke apart on the cliffs. It proved a bountiful accident for the fishermen. Today people on the island view the conscientious lighthouse keepers with evil hungry eyes...
Release Date1954-12-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
Satan ist auf Gottes Seite
A top-level meeting of the Eastern secret services is taking place in Prague. Martin, an agent who knows all the tricks of the trade, is tasked with obtaining the minutes of the conference for the West German intelligence service. And he does so via Zimra, his former lover. She is now the right-hand woman of the GDR intelligence chief. A life-threatening assignment, but Martin accepts it. His condition: Zimra is to be taken to the West. The ageing West German spy chief accepts. He has only one goal in mind: to finally defeat his opponent in the East. He coldly plans to use Martin and Zimra for his purposes...
Release Date1983-07-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Die Pawlaks
Release Date1982-09-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count12
Vote Count1
The Happy Years of the Thorwalds
The Thorwald family is well-off and contented when a tragedy strikes: the father is killed in an accident. Miss Thorwald takes over the raising of her children, four girls and two boys with the youngest already fifteen years old. She manages to keep them together in spite of the fact that their economic situation deteriorates after World War I. Never one to look too critically upon her brood, the woman undergoes a moving and gradual transformation as the adult activities of her children bring home the fact that none of them are what she had once imagined.
Release Date1962-11-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Verrat ist kein Gesellschaftsspiel
Release Date1972-09-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
So ein Theater
The passionate seducer Robert has made all the preparations perfectly to spend a fun evening with Solange, the wife of his friend Fressinet.
Release Date1984-04-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Der Maulkorb
Out of outrage, the usually proper prosecutor Treskow, after a night of heavy drinking, adorns the statue of the local ruler with a muzzle. The next morning, he can’t remember a thing due to his intoxication. In the meantime, his act has been discovered and is causing a scandal. Of all people, Treskow is assigned the task of tracking down the culprit...
Release Date1958-09-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
Bravo Acrobat!
Charlie, a very gifted, young acrobat, cannot find employment. A dancer and colleague, whom he trained, has gotten him a job as a stagehand at a vaudeville theatre. After a number of chaotic events and some highs and lows - none of which ever discourage him - his hour arrives: an act can't go on and "Akrobat schööön" can finally make his grand entrance.
Release Date1943-12-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
The Fair
In 1959, in a small German village, the annual fair is set up. When a carousel is fixed firmly in the ground, a fair worker discovers a skeleton, a steel helmet, and a machine gun. The skeleton belongs to Robert Mertens, a plain soldier, who deserted in 1944 und flew to his home village. But when he arrived, no one wanted to help him, neither his former friends nor the minister, or even his own parents.
Release Date1960-08-18
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count11
The Adventures of Fridolin
A decent small-town citizen named Fridolin Biedermann travels to Berlin and wants to finally experience something. And he succeeds. First he falls into the hands of a couple of crooks who rip him off terribly, and - back home - the law...
Release Date1948-03-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
Die Klasse
Release Date1968-09-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Prozeß Medusa
Drama about the shipwreck of the frigate "Méduse" off the coast of Senegal. In France, the commander responsible, Chaumarey, is finally put on trial.
Release Date1976-11-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Sets
People from all over the world spend their summer holidays at the Black Sea. German Walter and his girlfriend Gisela check in at the hotel as spouses. Walter uses the passport of his wife. The police find the body of a young woman washes up by the waves. Inspector Damyanov begins an investigation. Walter is not under suspicion, but he is ill at ease. It is because of his wife passport? Ex-Nazi officer Kunze has his own little secret and causes for worry. Dutch musician Jan has something on his conscience, too, after a little love with a Bulgarian girl. Having penetrated the unsavory secrets of all those people, Damyanov leads them to the conviction that it is difficult to live a life of deception.
Release Date1968-11-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Die Person
tv-movie by Wolfgang Staudte
Release Date1970-09-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Um zwei Erfahrungen reicher
Joseph Völz, a punctual, rule-bound tax officer from Cologne’s Bergisches Land, expects life to run like his orderly forms, until his daughter Grete, back from Scotland, rejects his small-town ways for big-city Berlin. Unable to reach her in Cologne, Völz and his friend Schickedanz follow her to the capital. There, Joseph is charmed by a hotel clerk and briefly considers remarriage, while Schickedanz’s own advances also fail. Ultimately, Grete returns home, teaching Joseph that his rigid world only seems turbulent to himself.
Release Date1976-03-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Lehmanns Erzählungen
Release Date1975-04-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Die Gartenlaube
Release Date1970-03-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Ein fröhliches Dasein
Grete, the daughter of the widowed Cologne dog tax inspector Joseph Völz, once married a British occupying soldier and followed him to the Scottish provinces. When she now visits her father, he soon realizes that her marriage has gone awry. He tries to resolve the crisis by taking a trip to Scotland, but his insensitive nature causes even more damage, even though he gets on well with his son-in-law - who ensures that the whisky is properly taxed at the local factory.
Release Date1974-10-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Marya Sklodowska-Curie. Ein Mädchen, das die Welt veränderte
Release Date1972-10-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
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Die Rebellion
Release Date1962-09-12
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Vote Count1
Jeder hat mal Glück
Wolfgang Staudte's first short film, which he produced in 1933 for Ethos-Film GmbH in Berlin. Staudte not only directed, but also wrote the script.
Release Date1933-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
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Vote Count1
Gift im Zoo
Animals start to mysteriously die in a zoo in Hamburg. Is somebody poisoning the animals and with what purpose?
Release Date1952-01-23
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Vote Count1
Die Treppe
Release Date1950-09-14
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Vote Count1
Aus eins mach' vier
Release Date1942-01-01
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Vote Count1
Ins Grab kann man nichts mitnehmen
on overview.
Release Date1941-04-01
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Vote Count1
Spätlese
After the death of her husband, a woman becomes entangled in an extortion scheme.
Release Date1977-12-26
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Hard Luck Mary
A young woman from the Berlin slums gets her chance to move into a new suburban home with her boyfriend, when she wins a lottery.
Release Date1934-09-11
Vote Count1
Popular Tune
The story is set in Berlin at the beginning of the 20th century. The members of a singing group live in poor conditions in a dilapidated building. When the manager of the property is murdered, Peter and Paul, both members of the singing group, become suspects in the murder. When they return from a performance, the police are waiting for them to take them in for questioning. Since Paul is the most likely perpetrator according to the investigation, he is arrested immediately.
Release Date1931-04-02
Vote Count1
Into the Blue
A recent rediscovery, master cinematographer Schüfftan’s only film as a director is a free-spirited, fast-paced ode to being young, free, hopeful... and completely broke.
Release Date1931-12-31
Vote Count5