Joseph Vilsmaier (Director)
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Works
Abendschau
The Berliner Abendschau is the news magazine for Berlin.
Release Date2000-05-04
Charactersd self
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
Bavaria - A magical journey
Joseph Vilsmaier documentary BAVARIA - dream journey through Bavaria is the first major documentary film about Germany's most beautiful open country. At the same time it is a journey through the history of the region, its traditions, customs and traditions.
Release Date2012-07-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Narrator (voice)
Vote Count3
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
Release Date1998-01-22
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Volle Kanne
Release Date1999-08-30
Charactersd Self
Episode Count3
Vote Count5
Menschen bei Maischberger
Release Date2003-09-02
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
Vote Count3
Der Sonntags-Stammtisch
Release Date2007-10-14
Charactersd Self
Episode Count3
Deutscher Filmpreis
Release Date1951-01-01
Charactersd Self
Episode Count3
Vote Count1
Bayerischer Filmpreis
Release Date1979-12-01
Charactersd Self
Episode Count6
Köpfe in Bayern
Release Date2004-04-08
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
ZDF-Mittagsmagazin
Release Date1989-10-02
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Wir in Bayern
Release Date2003-09-08
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
Heimat - Deine Filme
This documentary takes an entertaining and informative look at the German Heimatfilm phenomenon. The first part examines the history of the genre since the 1950s, while the second part presents crowd favorites of the genre.
Release Date2008-12-13
Charactersd Self
Episode Count2
Hollywood, Germany - Die amerikanische Herausforderung
Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt.
Release Date1996-03-26
Charactersd Self
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
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Episode Count2
Vote Count114
Auf Achse
The adventures of a group of German truckers on jobs all over the world.
Release Date1980-10-28
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Episode Count2
Vote Count15
Vera - Die Frau des Sizilianers
Release Date2005-03-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count4
Das Blaue Palais
Das Blaue Palais is a series of five TV feature films written and directed by German author and filmmaker Rainer Erler. All five stories about the research and findings of an interdisciplinary scientific project have also been published as novels by Goldmann in 1978, 1979 and 1980. The series had an international cast. It was shot in Bavaria, Scotland, USA and Asia.
Release Date1974-10-15
DepartmentCamera
JobCamera Operator
Episode Count5
Vote Count1
Stalingrad
A German Platoon is explored through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After half of their number is wiped out and they're placed under the command of a sadistic captain, the platoon lieutenant leads his men to desert. The platoon members attempt escape from the city, now surrounded by the Soviet Army.
Release Date1993-01-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count575
M/S Gustloff
Joseph Vilsmaier Two-part TV movie focuses on the tragic events surrounding the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German passenger ship, at the end of World War II. On 30 January 1945, Captain Hellmuth Kehding was in charge of the ship, evacuating wounded soldiers and civilians trapped by the Red Army. Soon after leaving the harbor of Danzig, it was hit by three torpedoes from the Soviet submarine and sank in less than an hour.
Release Date2008-02-03
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
The Last Train
A group of people are imprisoned in a rail car bound from Berlin to a concentration camp in 1945.
Release Date2006-10-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count72
M/S Gustloff
Joseph Vilsmaier Two-part TV movie focuses on the tragic events surrounding the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German passenger ship, at the end of World War II. On 30 January 1945, Captain Hellmuth Kehding was in charge of the ship, evacuating wounded soldiers and civilians trapped by the Red Army. Soon after leaving the harbor of Danzig, it was hit by three torpedoes from the Soviet submarine and sank in less than an hour.
Release Date2008-03-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count20
Nanga Parbat
Drama about the tragic Nanga Parbat expedition by the two Messner brothers in 1970, on which Reinhold Messners younger brother Günther died.
Release Date2010-01-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count59
Charlie & Louise - Das doppelte Lottchen
The two twelve-year-old girls Charlotte Palfy and Louise Kröger meet on a language trip to Scotland and discover that they are twins who were separated shortly after birth. Charlotte, the daughter of a music hall composer, is cool, self-confident and cheeky, dresses accordingly and listens to techno music. Louise, who grew up with her mother, an advertising executive, wears more "old-fashioned" clothes, is shy and reserved, but conscientious and orderly. Determined to play fate, the two swap roles - at the end of the journey, Louise travels as Charlie to her father, who works as a composer in Berlin-Kreuzberg, while Charlie travels as Louise to her mother in Hamburg, where she works in an advertising agency. The girls realize that getting their parents back together is not as easy as they thought.
Release Date1994-02-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count28
Marlene
Marlene is a 2000 German biopic film directed by Joseph Vilsmaier and starring Katja Flint, Hans Werner Meyer and Herbert Knaup. It follows the life of the German actress Marlene Dietrich and her success in Hollywood.
Release Date2000-03-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count16
Brother of Sleep
In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austrian mountains. While growing up he is considered strange by the other villagers and discovers his love of music, especially rebuilding and playing the organ at the village church. After experiencing an "acoustic wonder", his eye color changes and he can hear even the most subtle sounds.
Release Date1995-09-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count32
Leo & Claire
In 1933 Nuremberg, successful Jewish businessman Leo Katzenberger owns an apartment building and runs a shoe store. A devoted family man, he has a good relationship with his loving wife Claire. As the climate in Germany grows increasingly dangerous, bombshell Irene moves to the neighborhood. After forming an unlikely friendship, his relationship with Irene is immediately regarded with suspicion.
Release Date2002-04-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count7
The Harmonists
Comedian Harmonists tells the story of a famous, German male sextet, five vocals and piano, the "Comedian Harmonists", from the day they meet first in 1927 to the day in 1934, when they become banned by the upcoming Nazis, because three of them are Jewish.
Release Date1997-12-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count62
Rock Crystal
The towns of Gschaid and Millsdorf are in a constant state of feuding with each other. Nevertheless Gschaid's Sebastian and Millsdorf's Susanne are married. In her husband's town Susanne has to put up with daily harassment by the locals, which also extends to her two children. Finally she moves back to her parents, alone. When the children, who long to find a magical crystal they believe has the power to reunite the family, get lost in a howling blizzard on the exposed mountain after bringing their mother her Christmas presents, both towns set up rescue missions.
Release Date2004-11-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count9
Russisch Roulette
Release Date2012-01-01
DepartmentCamera
JobCamera Operator
Vote Count3
Autumn Milk
With the death of her mother, eight-year-old Anna ends her childhood: From now on, she has to look after the nine-member family. Deprivation-rich years, which also find no end when Anna marries: Her husband Albert must be a soldier in the Second World War, and the pregnant Anna has to work hard in the farm and care sick relatives. Lonely and exposed to the harassment of the tyrannical mother-in-law, she waits for Albert, with no certainty that he will ever return.
Release Date1989-01-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count9
Der Boandlkramer und die ewige Liebe
Death (in Bavarian: Boandlkramer) is supposed to get little Maxl, but he falls in love with Maxl's mother. Confused by the previously unknown feelings, he confides in the devil. The incarnate persuades him to start a business where the Boandlkramer gets the chance to compete for Gefi as a mortal. Encouraged by the advice of the recently deceased womanizer Max Gumberger, the Boandl stumbles through earthly life in search of eternal love.
Release Date2021-05-14
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count32
Didi at Full Speed
German vehicle fanatic Dieter 'Didi' accepts to drive a truckload of waste barrels to a French dump site. Didi ignores the plant needs to dump toxic waste after a major incident, which made the international news. But while the French site exploiter's agent Marcel believes it's Did's load, that's in fact a deliberately obvious diversion. Now everyone chases everyone else.
Release Date1986-11-27
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count19
Die Geschichte vom Brandner Kaspar
70-year old Brandner Kaspar lives with his granddaughter Nannerl in the mountains at the Schliersee. As he is visited by the Death and wants to take him, Brandner Kaspar tricks him and gets another 20 years of life.
Release Date2008-10-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count31
And Nobody Weeps For Me
Between 1924 and 1934, six children grow up in an apartment building in the Munich suburbs. Among them is the rather inconspicuous and melancholy Leo Knie, who has been in love with the pretty Marilli Kosemund since early childhood. Marilli is not averse to the young man's advances, but she wants to be conquered. But that is exactly what shy Leo finds difficult. So he escapes into harmless dancing with his buddies, pursues other girls - rather unsuccessfully - and resigns himself to his predetermined fate.
Release Date1996-02-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Hunger - Addicted to Love
Laura loves Simon and Simon loves Laura. But Laura does not love herself enough to let Simon closer to her. The reason being something nobody is allowed to know: she tries to suffocate any kind of feelings by giving in to eating attacks. When Simon finds out, their relationship threatens to break apart.
Release Date1997-09-04
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count3
Marvellous Bavaria
Bayern Sagenhaft is a documentary about the German state of Bavaria and its customs and traditions.
Release Date2017-11-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Das Weihnachts-Ekel
Robert Lahnstein, feared TV commentator, doesn't like people, not even at Christmas. He wants to be alone - even on Christmas Eve. He thinks Christmas is just as hypocritical as politics. That's why he packs his SUV with a frozen goose and a Christmas tree to retreat to his lonely cabin in the mountains. But the plan ends for him in a tree. With the last of his strength he reaches a barn. But he is not allowed to be alone even in the deepest wilderness, because other people have also sought shelter from the snowstorm in this barn and Robert Lahnstein has to gradually put aside his rudeness and his prejudices.
Release Date2006-12-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
The Perjured Farmer
The wealthy farmer Karl Bruckner and his fiancée Anna are about to marry when Karl is killed in a car accident. While a world collapses for Anna, Charles' stepbrother Franz takes the opportunity to take possession of the family-owned farm. He lets Charles's will, in which Anna had been considered, disappear and swears a perjury that there was never a probate document. Anna is chased from the yard and leaves the village with her little daughter. Years later, she returns to finally bring the truth to light. Ludwig Anzengruber's famous folk piece as a gripping ...
Release Date2012-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
August der Glückliche
When the heart-sick bus driver August is forced into involuntary retirement, he decides to gamble away his severance pay at the casino. But he wins: a million euros! Looking for a person who truly loves him, August places an advertisement in the newspaper: Millionaire is looking for a loving wife who will give him an heir! The pretty Sonja answers. She is supposed to give August a child, in exchange for the child inheriting the assets. What Sonja August is keeping quiet about: She is already pregnant and in acute financial trouble. But August's relatives also sense their chance at the million.
Release Date2002-12-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Österreich: Oben und Unten
Documentary about Austrian nature and culture, comprised almost exclusively of aerial footage, narrated by Persian born Austrian comedian Michael Niavarani.
Release Date2015-01-27
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count2
Rama Dama
Munich, World War II: The young Kati Zeiler runs a small barbershop. Her husband Felix is fighting on the Eastern Front. So Kati draws her daughter Marie alone. A bomb attack destroys the shop and the apartment.
Release Date1991-01-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count7
Eddy Merckx - The Greatest Show on Earth
Documents the 1974 Giro d'Italia, from the Pope's blessing of the riders to the record-tying finish.
Release Date1975-05-10
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Für 'n Groschen Brause
Tomas and his friends are happy in their town and school but must face the fact that some of the adults around are preparing to leave GDR and move to West Germany.
Release Date1983-11-23
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count2
Zwischenmusik
Wolfgang Sawallisch conducts Hans Werner Henze's opera "Der Prinz von Homburg".
Release Date1995-01-01
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Bullyparade: The Movie
A multi-episode movie based on the skit TV show "bullyparade".
Release Date2017-08-17
Vote Count209
Life Is Too Long
No crisis is as disastrous, overwhelming and unjust as that of Alfi Seliger. The Jewish filmmaker, hypochondriac and family man is up to his neck in problems: his pubescent children Romy and Alain find him ridiculous, his wife Helena would be happy if she only found him ridiculous, his bank is going bankrupt and his new film project is finding it difficult to meet with approval. Friend becomes foe, hope becomes paranoia and when even his psychiatrist advises him to end his life, Alfi Seliger attempts a theatrical exit. But as befits a born "Nebbich", a lovable loser, even this fails - he survives and only appears to awaken in his old life...
Release Date2010-08-26
Vote Count4