Erwin Geschonneck Movies

A Jewish ghetto in the east of Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making...

Genre: History

Cast: Vlastimil Brodský

It is the year 1936 and the Spanish Civil War is raging. When the German commander of an international brigade is badly wounded he gives his five...

Genre: War

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

Ewald Honig can't break his bad habit. Hardly has he crossed over into the GDR when the strapping, well-built man in his late fifties once again...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl

Based on a true story of inmates at KZ Buchenwald that risked their lives to hide a small Jewish boy shortly before the liberation of the camp.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Ekkehard Schall

Lavish adaptation of Wilhelm Hauff′s fairy tale: Young charburner Peter Munk dreams of joining the upper class. He makes a deal with the...

Genre: Family

Cast: Lutz Moik

After the second World War, Dresden has a lot of reconstructing to do. To get the cigarette factory he once worked for running again, Kalle has to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

Two narrators read the letters of unknown people and tell about the fate of individuals, their work, love and life.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gisela May

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

A flamboyant comedy about love, work and money—revealing that the "planned" economy produced some unconventional entrepreneurial methods.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ulrich Thein

Survivors of the Concentration camp Dachau are recounting from their limited cultural activities they had access to due to smuggling them.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

A senior professor is kidnapped in the park by residents of a veterans home. Once there, he is asked to invent a "rejuvenating machine" to restore...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

A socialist story of "atoms for peace" and compulsory labor in an East German uranium mine under Soviet control.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ulrike Behrmann von Zerboni

In the 16th century, as Flanders is invaded by the Spanish, Till the Mischievous uses stratagems to enter the service of Ferdinand Alvare de Toledo,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gérard Philipe

Hamburg, Germany 1934: An executioner is needed. Teetjen makes the biggest mistake of his life. Because his butcher shop is facing bankruptcy, he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

In a small village in West Prussia in the 1870s, Germans, Poles, Gypsies and Jews live together as neighbors. One night Johann, a German mill-owner,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

Lifelong hard work for the count makes the servant Anton a cripple. Everybody calls him Crooked Anton. When, after the end of the war, the land of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raimund Schelcher

For thirty years, Karl Achilles has been working at the chemical collective in Bitterfeld. But now his last day as a master at the plant has come. He...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

Berlin in the 1960s. Olaf and Horst are two young metalworkers, who provoke their older colleagues with critiques of the antiquated equipment and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dieter Mann

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

Mother Wolffen, a washerwoman, is a woman of principle: A poor man must do what he must to get through life, only he mustn't get caught doing it. All...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Werner Hinz

Albert Hauptmann is an out of work waiter in Cologne who is often confused with a former Captain of the Nazi Army. Albert uses this to his advantage...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rolf Ludwig

The film "Die Unbesiegbaren" covers an episode in German history, in which the Bismarck government tried to mitigate the rise of the social-democrat...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Willy A. Kleinau

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

The late summer of 1918. Paul, Willi and Heinrich from an age-old German town are good friends, although there is a great deal that divides them....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

Europe in 1793. For years, England and France have been at war with each other. Now, France sends three men to the British colony of Jamaica to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alexander Lang

A funny adventures of a two young boys who are trying to rebuild the ship called "Emma" for their friend - the old captain.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

Two young building workers are more interested in girls than their work; complications ensue at home.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hartmut Reck

Two boys from West Berlin, Klaus and Max, live in poverty. They dream of a career in boxing and save every penny in order to buy boxing gloves for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

This film continues the story of radio operator Ludwig Bartuschek from “The Sailor’s Song”. Near the end of the Weimar Republic,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

In an act of friendship and solidarity between two mining towns in 1929, the locals of Kriwoj Rog, Russia, give their flag as a gift to the locals of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

Four directors - four styles - four episodes, all relating the events of a single night which has entered the history books: August 12-13, 1961....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hans Hardt-Hardtloff

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ulrich Thein

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helene Weigel

Tambari - it's a name of an old boat which children of a small village on a Baltic sea shore got from an old fisherman Luden. But not all the village...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

Little Matti and his friends are restoring the old abandoned fire truck .

Genre: Family

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

Benno (Torsten Rennert), a bright boy from Berlin, is not really a problem case, although his parents have enough trouble with him. But that's not...

Genre: Family

Cast: Torsten Rennert

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines describing steadily-rising unemployment figures....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hertha Thiele

A car tells its story and the story of its seven owners during the years of the Third Reich.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erich Schellow

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Schütte

Set in German-occupied France in 1944 where a female resistance operative and a German army officer fall in love.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sybille Schmitz

A young man and woman meet on a bridge, both about to commit suicide by jumping into the river, and recount to each other their experiences.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hilde Krahl

1982: East German actor Erwin Gregorek travels to Hamburg to shoot screen tests for a film about the sinking of the ocean-liner Cap Arcona in 1945 -...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

The thirty year old bee is a daredevil, everything seems to work for him. But suddenly a tragic event tears him out of his carelessness. In the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hans-Gerd Sonnenburg

Film by Ulrich Thein.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

Six years old Dirk wants to be a train driver, just like his grandfather. He is seriously impressed with all of the exciting rides through the desert...

Genre: Family

Cast: Maik Saewert

Genre: Drama

Cast: Horst Schulze

A detailed reconstruction of the censorship case against the landmark Weimar-era communist film, Kuhle Wampe, or Who Owns the World? (1932). Directed...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jan Spitzer