Wolfgang Staudte Movies

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

Erik Hoopen’s “Oversea Travel Agency” in Hamburg fronts an international gold‐smuggling ring. Couriers hide gold bars in...

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...

An unemployed engineer working as a driver at an oil company hears about a lost Inca treasure and goes in search of it.

A player on a soccer team, where everyone matches together just perfectly, has fallen out of a championship tournament due to illness; which leads to...

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 young woman from the Berlin slums gets her chance to move into a new suburban home with her boyfriend, when she wins a lottery.

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

In the crazy twenties, safecracker Orje is released from prison and, through the mediation of his friend Nelly, finds a job at the "Sparverein...

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

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

Detective Heinz Ebelings car breaks down with a broken windshield and a defective fuel pump on the way to Frankfurt. On the way to the next village,...

Charlie, a very gifted, young acrobat, cannot find employment. A dancer and colleague, whom he trained, has gotten him a job as a stagehand at a...

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

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...

Tom Finberg and Nick Dorland, two highly competent divers working for the Caribbian Oil Company, have been the best friends in the world since the...