Günter Rohrbach

Günter Rohrbach is a German film producer, perhaps most well known for producing the war drama 'Das Boot', fantasy film 'The Neverending Story' and the Loriot comedys 'Ödipussi' and 'Pappa Ante Portas'.

Works

Loriot 100

Documentary about German comedian Loriot alias Vicco von Bülow, who would have been 100 years old in 2023.

Release Date:2023-11-05

Character:Self

Vote Count:2

U-96, The True Story of 'Das Boot'

Today, 80 years after the events and 40 years after the film, these images and testimonies shed an unexpected light on the reality of the fiction filmed by Petersen. The international success of the film Das Boot made the U-96, of which it fictionally recounts the 7th combat patrol at sea, the most famous of all Hitler's submarines and arguably one of the most famous movie submarines. But the true story of this extraordinary submarine and its equally exceptional crew goes far beyond fiction. Knowing that the success of Das Boot not only opened the doors of Hollywood to Wolfgang Petersen, but also made this film an absolute reference from which all submarine warfare films produced by American cinema were subsequently inspired, this opens ultimately the way to a broader reflection on the indirect, even unconscious relationship that exists between the power of the images of Hitler's propaganda and that of today's Hollywood cinema.

Release Date:2023-08-24

Character:Self

Vote Count:2

Melting Ink

In 2020, the author Anatol Regnier published Jeder schreibt für sich allein, a book that examines the life and work of writers in Nazi Germany. In collaboration with Regnier, Dominik Graf, Constantin Lieband, and Felix von Boehm have adapted this book into a polyphonic essay film of the same name – almost three hours in duration – that takes a meticulous look at the contradictory biographies of Hans Fallada, Gottfried Benn, Erich Kästner, Ina Seidel and Will Vesper.

Release Date:2023-08-24

Character:Self

Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story

In 1981, a film about the misadventures of a German U-boat crew in 1941 becomes a worldwide hit almost four decades after the end of the World War II. Millions of viewers worldwide make Das Boot the most internationally successful German film of all time. But due to disputes over the script, accidents on the set, and voices accusing the makers of glorifying the war, the project was many times on the verge of being cancelled.

Release Date:2021-01-10

Character:Self - Das Boot Producer

Vote Count:5

How Holocaust came to Television

At the beginning of 1979, after more than 30 years of collective repression, a dramatized and emotional US television miniseries ensured that the German population was suddenly reminded of the terrible Nazi crimes against the Jews. What is now expressed with the hitherto unknown word Holocaust, hits many millions of people in the heart. The unexpected echo and the audience reactions were fierce. Even before the TV broadcast neo-Nazis blasted in vain transmitting towers in Germany to prevent this. From the creation and the shooting over the broadcast to the tremendous reactions, documentary filmmaker Alice Agneskirchner tells the story of this emotional television event, which led to a paradigm shift in the perception of German Nazi crimes.

Release Date:2019-01-14

Character:Self

Der weisse Äthiopier

In Ethiopia, Frank Michalka has found a new home and left his criminal past behind. But happiness does not last long and the former offender must go back to Germany. Once there, he immediately falls back into old patterns and robbed a bank.

Release Date:2015-07-03

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:7

Return to Beethoven Street: Sam Fuller in Germany

A documentary on the 1973 Sam Fuller film Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street.

Release Date:2015-07-03

Character:Self

Fassbinder

A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director and screenwriter who publicly confessed his homosexuality.

Release Date:2015-04-30

Character:Self

Vote Count:8

Hotel Lux

In 1938 Hans Zeisig, an apolitical comedian, impersonator and cabaret actor, flees with a Russian passport (instead of American, which he would have preferred) from Nazi-Berlin, and finds himself in the legendary Hotel Lux, the 'lost paradise' of the Comintern, in Moscow. Everyone believes that Zeisig is a man named Hansen, Hitler's personal astrologer. But Zeisig quickly realizes that he's gone from the frying pan into the fire. In the Hotel Lux he meets his friends Frida and later Meyer again, still passionate communists. For the three idealists an adventure between love and death begins to run his course.

Release Date:2011-10-27

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:45

Rainer Werner Fassbinder's World on a Wire: Looking Ahead to Today

A retrospective look at the making of "World on a Wire".

Release Date:2010-02-18

Character:Self

Vote Count:5

Effi Briest

Following her parents' wishes, spirited seventeen-year-old Effi Briest marries Baron von Innstetten – a former admirer of her mother – who is twenty years Effi's senior. This marriage of prudence heralds the beginning of a humdrum life, far from home, for Effi. Innstetten devotes himself entirely to his political career, and the sleepy small town of Kessin has very little to offer in terms of variety. But then, one day, Innstetten's old regimental comrade, Major Crampas – a charming womanizer – arrives on the scene.

Release Date:2009-02-09

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:20

A Woman in Berlin

A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II.

Release Date:2008-10-23

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:61

Fernsehgeschichte(n). Deutsch

Documentary about the history of German television.

Release Date:2007-11-24

Character:Self

Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz: A Mega Movie and Its Story

A documentary about the making of the television mini-series by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including interviewees with the principal actors.

Release Date:2007-11-13

Character:Self

The White Masai

A girl, Carola, whose vacation in Kenya takes an interesting turn when she becomes infatuated with a Masai. Carola decides to leave her boyfriend to stay with her lover. There, she has to adapt to the Masai's way of life and get used to their food which includes milk mixed with blood. She also has to face her husband's attitude towards women and what he expects from a wife. Nonetheless, Carola is welcomed warmly into the tribe she has chosen to join.

Release Date:2005-09-14

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:62

Aimée & Jaguar

In 1943, while the Allies are bombing Berlin and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dangerous love affair blossoms between two women – one a Jewish member of the underground, the other an exemplar of Nazi motherhood.

Release Date:1999-02-11

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:105

The Pharmacist

Hella is around 30 and works in a pharmacy. She is waiting for the right man to step into her life, but as she has a certain affinity for losers, she is kind of disillusionized. When she gets to know Levin, a dentist student who likes cars most, her dreams seem to come true. Levin has a very rich grandfather who likes her at first glance. The old man thinks of changing his last will to the condition that Levin has to marry Hella in order to inherit his fortunes. Like in a fairy-tale the door to a new life opens for Hella, but can she take it?

Release Date:1997-10-02

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:20

Release Date:1992-06-11

Character:Self

Vote Count:10

Schtonk!

Schtonk! is a farce of the actual events of 1983, when Germany's Stern magazine published, with great fanfare, 60 volumes of the alleged diaries of Adolf Hitler – which two weeks later turned out to be entirely fake. Fritz Knobel (based on real-life forger Konrad Kujau) supports himself by faking and selling Nazi memorabilia. When Knobel writes and sells a volume of Hitler's (nonexistent) diaries, he thinks it's just another job. When sleazy journalist Hermann Willié learns of the diaries, however, he quickly realizes their potential value... and Knobel is quickly in over his head. As the pressure builds and Knobel is forced to deliver more and more volumes of the fake diaries, he finds himself acting increasingly like the man whose life he is rewriting. The film is a romping and hilarious satire, poking fun not only at the events and characters involved in the hoax (who are only thinly disguised in the film), but at the discomfort Germany has with its difficult past.

Release Date:1992-03-12

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:68

Pappa ante Portas

After ordering enough typewriting paper for 40 years, just to get discount, Heinrich Lohse is forced to retire.

Release Date:1991-02-21

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:134

Go Trabi Go

Family Struutz lives in Bitterfeld (GDR). After the fall of the wall, they take the opportunity to go on holiday with their car, an old Trabant. They simply want to visit Italy. But there are some incidents during their journey.

Release Date:1991-01-17

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:60

Silence Like Glass

True story of two diametrically opposed young women dealing with terminal illness.

Release Date:1989-07-06

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:6

Blauer Panther

Release Date:1989-01-01

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Ödipussi

Paul Winkelmann is the CEO of a successful business in Hamburg that he took over after the death of his father eight years ago. But he is still strongly dominated by his 78 year old mother who cares for him as a child, and who cannot understand why he took an apartment on his own after all these years. The real "problem" starts when Paul gets to know psychologist Margarethe Tietze whose relationship to her parents is also not so easy after all.

Release Date:1988-03-10

Department:Production

Job:Co-Producer

Vote Count:110

The Cat

Two bank robbers hold the clerks hostage and demand 3 million German marks as ransom. What the police do not realize is that the true criminal mastermind watches them from outside the bank, anticipating every move.

Release Date:1988-01-21

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:25

Fathers and Sons: A German Tragedy

Follows two wealthy families in Germany during the first half of the 20th century. One of them is German, the other one Jewish.

Release Date:1986-11-12

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:4

The NeverEnding Story

While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverending Story. The book tells the tale of Atreyu, a young warrior who, with the help of a luck dragon named Falkor, must save Fantasia from the destruction of The Nothing.

Release Date:1984-04-06

Department:Production

Job:Co-Producer

Vote Count:4057

Die wilden Fünfziger

Release Date:1983-09-23

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:1

Das Boot

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.

Release Date:1981-09-17

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:2252

Berlin Alexanderplatz

In late 1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city’s criminal underworld.

Release Date:1980-10-12

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:14

Vote Count:38

Bayerischer Filmpreis

Release Date:1979-12-01

Character:Self

Episode Count:4

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 Date:1970-11-29

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:110

TV Intim

Release Date:1969-12-23

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Goldene Kamera Verleihung

Release Date:1966-01-25

Character:Self

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:2

Grimme-Preis-Verleihung

Release Date:1964-01-16

Character:Self

Episode Count:2

Bambi Awards

The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.

Release Date:1948-01-01

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1