Hartmut Reck

A hooded serial killer finds a novel way to murder his victims--he lashes them to death with a whip. The police try to track him down before any more...

In the small town of Benderath, Jewish high school student Jakob is the victim of hostility because of his religion. He forms the student group...

At the end of the 1950s, the production of optics in the German Democratic Republic has reached top quality and instigates interest in the West. When...

A new world full of excitement and temptation opens up for 18-year-old Erika when her father flees from Krüselin, a small village in...

Based on historical events, the film tells the story of Operation Anthropoid which led to the assassination of the German SS leader Heydrich in...

The young orphan Helga is raised by her aunt after WW II. At the age of sixteen, she turns her back to go her own way. As a rambler, Helga wanders...

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

Rudi Prange is released from prison for good behavior. He gets a job in a transport unit but gets involuntarily involved in a smuggling business by a...

A young father has been left by his wife, and has to go on military service with his baby.

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

Strange things happen in the overnight express: according to a cryptic, obviously military announcement, the train's telephone link with the outside...

Jack Radford and his wife Sarah no longer love each other, but money keeps their marriage together. Jack runs the Donnington real estate agency,...

The corner Schönhauser Allee in East Berlin is the main meeting-point for a group of adolescents. Dieter is a construction worker who falls in...

German television version of the story “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe.

Karin is married to a pharmacist. Happy? She doesn't know herself. In any case, she is bored and feels more than restricted in her development by her...

Relations between middle-aged businessman Arthur Dahlberg and his young wife Anja are not at their best. So it occurred to them to leave their...

Mid-1950s Berlin, before the building of the Wall. Uschi, a salesgirl and aspiring fashion model from the East, is attracted to Hans, from the West....

Germany, January 1939: a day in a concentration camp. Subjected to harsh military discipline the hungry prisoners are digging a huge hole and filling...

In wartime Berlin, a factory foreman, Otto Quangel and his wife, Anna learn that their only son, Paul, has been killed in action in France. In their...

The important German wood sculptor Tilman Riemenschneider (born around 1460) is considered to be artistically and socially established. He was a...

Yerma wants a child but with her dispassionate husband has failed to conceive. On the other hand, Victor courts her but the sense of caste and honor...

A terrorist drives a car to Hamburg's Rathausmarkt and unloads an unknown device that he claims can cause radioactive contamination. A special unit...

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the...

Railway employee Fritz Marr is not regarded well by his superiors. It is the year 1920, and trains regularly pass the railway hub of Erfurt to the...