Rainer Geis

Movies

Student Gerber
Producer
Kurt Gerber is attending his final class and gets into trouble with the math professor, a frustrated self-assured petty bourgeois sadist. The duel ends in catastrophe.
Elfer Gespräche
Director
Die Kollektion
Director
Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten
Director
The story has an old donkey resolving to break away from the unbearable hardships of working for a fat miller (Alfred Pongratz). By and by, he recruits three more unsatisfied animals and convinces them to accompany him on his way to Bremen where they want to become musicians. Fighting off some robbers in a forest house then becomes an important part of the story.
Kleines Zelt und große Liebe
Director
Children, Mother, and the General
Assistant Director
Laslo Benedek interrupted his thriving Hollywood career to return to Europe as director of the German Kinder, Mutter und ein General (Children, Mother and the General). The film is set in Berlin during the last days of WW II. Desperate for manpower, Hitler has ordered that all able-bodied teenaged boys --some as young as 15 -- be drafted into the army. Frau Asmussen (Hilde Krahl) is one of five mothers who learn to their horror that their boys have been slated to be cannon fodder on behalf of the Third Reich. Asmussen and the other mothers head directly to the front to plead with the German generals for the lives of their sons. Not directly an indictment of Germany's involvement in (or incitement of) the recent war, Kinder, Mutter und ein General stresses the futility and heartbreak of all wars everywhere.
Schule für Eheglück
Director
A lighthearted comedy about a couple that tries to keep their struggling marriage together.
Königliche Hoheit
Assistant Director
An American heiress in Europe falls in love with a German prince, but he is required to marry someone else for reasons of state convenience.
Nachtwache
Assistant Director