Erich Ponto Movies

A German wartime biography of Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the Diesel engine. The movie links the importance of the engine to the war by starting the...

Germany in the fall of 1918: Accompanied by the Archduke Karl Maria, Princess Henriette von Battenstein makes an inspection tour of hospitals. ...

A WWI veteran comes home and with a scientist's help opens an artificial silk factory later used for clothing. Crooked international profiteers ,a...

At the end of the war a disillusioned German exile returns home only to fall into the dark world of black market goods and drug trafficking.

A screenwriter comes up with a story about an affair between a maid and her employer.

Alexander Schonath is an exceptionally gifted musician who plays first violin in a philharmonic orchestra. But when the orchestra runs into financial...

Three young couples who are friends get married on the same day and promise to celebrate their copper wedding anniversary together in seven years....

Movie based on the novel by Christel Broehl-Delhaes

A composer finds commercial success but has to confront difficulties in his private life.

A murder trial becomes a farce when a widow tries to convince the district attorney that she didn't drown her husband, with the help of an eccentric...

The plot closely follows the Grimm fairy tale. Hans, a hard-working miller's apprentice, sets off on a journey to discover the big, wide world. As a...

Germany, 1914: The bourgeois austerity of the small, northern German town in which Ulyssa lives conflicts sharply with her desire to flirt with and...

During the Biedermeier era, a young singer searches for her missing father. Remake of "Das Hofkonzert", 1936.