Sigfrit Steiner Movies

A remarkable approach to Goethe's novel "The Sorrows of Young Werther": on the one hand, a film adaptation that strives to remain faithful to the...

Prosecutor Etzel discovers that his father has sentenced a man, Leonardo Maurizius, on mere presumptions. He then makes it a point of honor to trace...

Persona Non Grata in his homeland, protest singer Klaus Drittemann must leave East Berlin, his wife and child and emigrate to the West, where...

Anna is a Jewish girl in Germany. When the Nazis come to power in the 1930s, her family has to flee the country without being able to bring any of...

A hairdresser is being recruited during World War I by the Swiss military where they turn this soft civilian into a 'real man'.

The Zurich social welfare office sends a young worker to look after a 75 year old man thinking about suicide: His wife is suddenly paralyzed and his...

The old and sick detective superintendent Bärlach has to investigate the murder of his colleague Ulrich Schmied, who was murdered in the middle...

An oily careerist for whom becoming the highest earner is not enough: now he also wants a title of nobility.

A man in his fifties returns from America to his native village. Everyone knows that in the New World he served a lengthy prison sentence for...