Walter Ulbrich (Writer)
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Works
Kidnapped
David McCallum stars as the rebellious Alan Breck Stewart, and this ambitious serial (a co-production between HTV and Germany's Tele-Munchen) also features a host of British character actors, including Bill Simpson, Patrick Allen, Andrew Keir, Patrick Magee and Frank Windsor. When young David Balfour arrives at his uncle's bleak Scottish house to claim his inheritance, his relative tries to murder him then has him shipped off to be sold as a slave in the colonies. Luckily for the lad, he strikes up a friendship with Alan Breck Stewart, who is on the run after Bonnie Prince Charlie's defeat at Culloden. When a ship's captain tries to kill Breck for his money, the two manage to get to land and set out for Edinburgh, dodging the ruthless Redcoats along the way.
Release Date1979-04-07
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Episode Count13
Vote Count7
Die Schatzinsel
Release Date1966-12-25
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count25
Michael Strogoff
Captain Michael Strogoff is chosen in Moscow to be the courier of the Tsar, 5,523 km far to Irkutsk, to warn the governor about the traitor Ivan Ogareff, a former colonel, who was once demoted and exiled and now seeks revenge.
Release Date1975-12-23
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count11
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
DepartmentProduction
JobProduction Manager
Episode Count4
Vote Count20
Two Years Vacation
The story of a group of young New Zealand school boys. Because one of them is the nephew of a ship captain, they win the opportunity to go on a sailing trip. Some pirates (Forbes and Pike) are looking for a boat so they can go and find treasure on a deserted island. They manage to be recruited as crew members on that same boat as the school boys. After a mutiny, the pirates take over the boat and take the young boys as hostages. Helped by O'Brian, the young kids manage to escape from the pirates with the boat. After a storm, they have to land on a deserted island. They have learn to live together in harmony if they want their community to survive, despite the rivalry within the group. But is this island really a deserted one? And can they really get away from the pirates?
Release Date1974-06-10
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Episode Count6
Vote Count14
The Leatherstocking Tales
German miniseries based upon the novel, The Last of the Mohicans.
Release Date1969-12-25
DepartmentCrew
JobDramaturgy
Episode Count4
Vote Count8
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn live in a small town on the Mississippi River above St. Louis. Tom is raised by his Aunt Polly, with whom he lives together with his brother Sid. Huckleberry, known as Huck, is homeless and does not go to school—his father is an alcoholic and has been missing for some time, with many believing him to be dead. But Tom and Huck are friends—and will remain so, come what may.
Release Date1968-12-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Episode Count4
Vote Count5
Don Quijote von der Mancha
Release Date1965-10-08
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count4
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
DepartmentWriting
JobBook
Episode Count4
Vote Count4
Seven Years in Tibet
Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian moutain climber, escapes from a British POW camp in India and flees north across the Himalayan mountains into Tibet. There he meets and befriends the young Dalai Lama.
Release Date1956-05-01
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count4
Black Gravel
Tensions rise when a U.S. military base is built in a small village in post-war Germany.
Release Date1961-04-12
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count10
Without Trumpet or Drum
Summer 1870. Following the French defeat at Sedan. Léon, a soldier in a detachment isolated in the Ardennes forest, is sent in search of water. When he discovers the most peaceful of rivers, he decides to undress and bathe in it. At bend of the river he catches sight of another naked swimmer. It's a Prussian! Both men start bickering a bit: aren't they supposed to be arch enemies? But they soon fraternize. Unfortunately the patrol has not vanished in the haze and they hear it coming. Each man gets hold of his uniform and runs away in two opposite directions. The only trouble is that Fritz the Prussian has donned the French uniform and Leon the Prussian one!
Release Date1959-12-22
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Under the Bridges
Two barge skippers fall in love with the same woman.
Release Date1946-08-31
DepartmentProduction
JobLine Producer
Vote Count21
The Death of Joe the Indian
The film is a continuation of the story of Tom Sawyer and his friends, the second part of the Romanian screenplay after the famous novel by Mark Twain. The three friends Tom, Huck and Becky continue their adventures full of puzzles and suspense.
Release Date1968-12-01
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count2
Der 5. Juni
Release Date1942-11-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Me and the Forty Year Old Man
A story about Caroline, a young girl who decides to start dating only men after forty.
Release Date1965-03-19
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count2
As Long as the Heart Still Beats
Release Date1958-12-27
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Taste of Violence
Perez kidnaps the President's daughter to trade her for imprisoned revolutionaries.
Release Date1961-08-10
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count8
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
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count5
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
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
As the Sea Rages
After five years of war, Clements, a professional seaman, has no ambitions other than to live in peace and carry out his activity. Having settled down in the archipelago of the Aegean Sea, he has founded a small sponge fishing company in an idyllic place and foresees an optimistic future. Unfortunately, he soon finds himself caught in a crossfire...
Release Date1959-11-10
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
Türme des Schweigens
Release Date1952-09-30
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter