Wolfgang Staudte Movies

Director Wolfgang Staudte who left East Germany in 1953 to make movies in West Germany, takes a few swipes at the West German judicial system in this...

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

The stories' setup: a bunch of passive weaklings being dominated by two strong and ambitious women who fight for the same man.

During his trip to the city, a naïve man from the countryside falls victim to a thief who steals his wallet. Since all his personal documents...

Shortly after the outbreak of World War I August 1914, Eastern Front. The Russian surprise attack on the northeasternmost part of the country causes...

An Englishman has been working in the US so long he now speaks with an American accent. He is drafted into the British Army during WWII but is...

After a burn-out Karl spends time in his home region, the Black Forest. His car gets lost and is picked up by penniless magician Amadori who enjoys...

April 1945. Because he stole two bars of chocolate, the soldier Rudi is sentenced to death by the court-martial judge Dr. Schramm. Rudi manages to...

The dangerous violent criminal Willy Jensen flees from a prison in Hamburg and seeks shelter at his brother Heinz' apartment. Heinz, an honest...

A "mufti" version of Hamlet, with young Hardy Krüger trying to prove that his uncle has killed his father. Direct references to the Shakespeare...

On a winter day in 1961, 31-year-old Anna Eichmayr crosses the Grosshesseloher bridge in Munich, she suddenly stops in the middle of the bridge,...

A man's life breaks down in pursuit of material success.

The Thorwald family is well-off and contented when a tragedy strikes: the father is killed in an accident. Miss Thorwald takes over the raising of...

“Ciske de Rat” belongs to the Dickensean “little man’s hard life” model and tells a deceptively simple story about a...

A young domestic worker on a farm is used and abused by the men in her life.

A decent small-town citizen named Fridolin Biedermann travels to Berlin and wants to finally experience something. And he succeeds. First he falls...