Günther Simon Movies

Daniela – a single mother, whose boyfriend left for the US – believes wholeheartedly in Cuba's revolutionary new order. Meanwhile, in...

Genre: War

Cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl

Bundeswehr soldier Klaus’ regiment is stationed in France, to take part in NATO maneuvers. The soldiers are ordered to be kind to the populace,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Angelica Domröse

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gunter Schoß

A mysterious magnetic spool found during a construction project is discovered to have originated from Venus. A rocket expedition to Venus is launched...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Oldřich Lukeš

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Wolfgang Heinz

The World War II. 1944. Nazis staged a cache which stores archival documents of its agents, rescued from the east during the retreat, near a small...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Hans-Peter Minetti

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

The famous actor Ralf Horricht is a pain in his current director's butt while shooting a comedy about the army. So Horricht believes it a joke, when...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rolf Herricht

Alfons is very unlucky boy. Even when he intends well everything is going wrong, so his life is full of various mishaps.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Helmut Rossmann

This film is the first of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. In early...

Genre: History

Cast: Günther Simon

A fictionalized account of Czech soldiers who fought for the French Foreign Legion in Vietnam.

Genre: War

Cast: Jaroslav Mareš

Genre: Drama

Cast: Günther Simon

Stasi agent Alexander Berg has to uncover a plot of sabotage.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Fred Delmare

Genre: Drama

Cast: Günther Grabbert

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wolfgang Heinz

Was it an act of sabotage or willful negligence? The non-party engineer Heinz Solter is suddenly arrested and accused of approving a defective...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eberhard Mellies

This East German movie was co-produced with studios in Hungary and Yugoslavia, with many interesting location shots (border checkpoint to West...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Günther Simon

Genre: Crime

Cast: Günther Simon

A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of 1917, German and Russian soldiers start to...

Genre: History

Cast: Günther Simon

The marriage of Katrin and Richard Lot has become a routine. She has a career and he, as a Marine officer, comes home only once every fourteen days....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marita Böhme

Andreas works as an assistant in his father’s small-town bakery. However, he actually has other plans: As a passionate trumpeter, he wants to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Angela Brunner

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Cast: Manfred Zetzsche

The two half-orphans Reni and Rolf are 13 and 10 years old and they live with their grandmother in Berlin. Their father has died during the war,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Günther Simon

DEFA crime film about the smuggling of PVC across the (still open) border from East to West Berlin.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Renate Küster

This film is the second of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. Autumn,...

Genre: History

Cast: Günther Simon

Genre: Drama

Cast: Günther Simon

Two boys are helping the border guards to find a mysterious moor hound used by spies to transfer messages across the border.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Günther Simon

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gisela May

Genre: Drama

Cast: Johannes Arpe

17-year-old Traudel flees the orphanage she has to live in, in order to venture to Berlin.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eva-Maria Hagen

East German film about the history of Red Orchestra, a real life German pro-Soviet spy ring created after the rise of Hitler that turned into a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Horst Drinda

Having been happily married for ten years, Gerda Wagner, devoted mother and housewife, suddenly gets it into her head that she would like a career as...

Genre: Music

Cast: Lore Frisch

After 1945, land reform forces Old Kraske to become an agricultural worker, but he continues to work on his own, flatly refusing to join any...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Max Reichhoff

The captain of a ship of the merchant navy is always on the move because of his job – and has a different girlfriend in every harbour. But his...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Claus Jurichs

A story about thirteen years old Kalle who is moving with the family from West Berlin to East.

Genre: Family

Cast: Gerhard Kuhn

Poor weavers Hans (Horst Drinda) und Kumpan (Werner Lierck) try to enter a town surrounded by a tall, impenetrable wall, where everyone is apparently...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Wolf Kaiser

Helmut Kamp, the construction brigade leader, a man no longer young, life immediately confronted several difficult and woeful problems. The birth of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Günther Simon

Dr. Gerd Thiessen, an experienced veterinarian, takes up a new job at a publicly owned manor. His research colleagues are less than thrilled about...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ursula Werner

This is a political picture about the Bulgarian revolutionary Georgi Dimitrov. In 1933 during the Reichstag Fire Trial trumped-up charges of having...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stefan Getsov

Adam receives a flashlight with special powers: every liar it shines on flies into the air. Production was cancelled in 1965/66 due to the film's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stephan Jahnke

Film by Rainer Bär.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Rolf Ripperger

What do grown-ups actually do at night? Little Kuno has been asking himself this question a lot lately. One day, the curious six-year-old decides to...

Genre: Family

Cast: Margit Schaumäker

Genre: Drama

Cast: Günther Simon

Co-pilot Horst Schubert is a braggart and a true Don Juan. Thus, he tells young Ilse that he is in fact an "aircraft commander". This assertion...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Horst Drinda

An American military plane takes six people, who have taken part in a NATO maneuver, from Tripoli to Oslo. Among them are the British Captain Loy and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Horst Drinda

Film by Thiel and Brandt.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Günther Simon

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

Fritz Weineck, a worker′s son from Halle, loves music – and dreams to make a living out of it one day. When his friend Alfons, a World...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Horst Jonischkan

At the beginning of the 1960s, a German turns up on behalf of the NATO in the British village of Rocksmouth. NATO wants to establish a naval base in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Johannes Arpe

Film by Kurt Jung-Alsen.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helga Göring

Film by Helmut Schneider.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Sturm

Genre: Crime

Cast: Günther Simon

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gisela Trowe

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Irene Korb

East German propaganda film about an American army base trying to take away land from a West German village.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helga Göring

East German television film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Günther Simon

Genre: Crime

Cast: Günther Simon