Heinz-Dieter Knaup

Birth : 1929-10-06, Aschaffenburg, Germany

Movies

Todesengel
Dr.Bender
Der Kindermord
Richter
Dusk: 1950s East Berlin Bohemia
A documentary and film essay about the artist scene in East Berlin during the 1950s.
Jugend ohne Gott
A teacher at a German high-school in the nineteen thirties has issues with his students who seem to be getting less human and more convinced of Nazi ideals as time goes on.
Max Hoelz
Narrator (voice)
Documentary about German communist Max Hoelz (1889-1933).
Späte Ankunft
Vera – The Hard Way to Enlightenment
Oberst von Wedel
The Break
Escheritz
A story about massive robbery from the safe of German railways set in 1946.
Bear Ye One Another's Burden
Dr. Stülpmann
At the beginning of the 50s, two extremely disparate men meet in a private sanatorium for consumptives: an officer in the People's Police, Josef Heiliger; and a young Protestant curate, Hubertus Koschenz. On account of their consumption, they have to share a room. Initially, this is the only thing they have in common.
Boundaries of Time - Caspar David Friedrich
Professor von Vogelstein
A study of German 19th Century Romantic art through the writings and paintings of Carl David Friedrich and his fellow artist, Carl Gustav Carus.
Ernst Thälmann
Die Heiratsannonce
Jean Rivet
Variete
Georg Zelter
Zauber um Zinnober
Minister
Verlobung in Hullerbusch
Dr.Pfaff
Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti
Richter
Addio, piccola mia
Gerichtspräsident
Last years in the Life of german Dramatican Georg Büchner. Around the year 1830 he and his fellow students try to initiate a revolution in Germany, but they are not successful. Büchner has to leave the country and seeks exile in France and Switzerland, where he falls ill with typhus.
Happy End
Paul Nakamara
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Amtmann
The young and rebellious Werther is passionately, but hopelessly, in love with Lotte. Although he knows that she is married to somebody who can offer her a secure future, Werther tries to be near her. Lotte cannot decide between these two men. She eventually rejects Werther, who does not survive her decision.
Der erste Tag der Freiheit
Anselm
Ein Mann, der sterben muß
Cromwell
He, Du!
Horst Bach
Verschwörung
Baron Münchhausens Tochter
Farewell
In August of 1914, amidst the public ecstasy surrounding the impending war, Hans Gastl, the young son of a Munich bürger, makes a decision: he will not take part in this war. This resolution signifies a turning point in his life; a farewell to his class and his family.
Die Tage der Commune
Ranvier
Julia lebt
Bob Hasslinger
GDR border guard Gunter Rist is a young man from humble homes. During a swimming competition he meets Penny, a professor’s daughter from a good family, and they fall in love. However, their different social backgrounds get in the way of their happiness: Penny’s friends make it obvious that they are not willing to accept Gunter in their group. Although Penny takes Gunter’s side, she doubts if love can overcome all obstacles. In this state, she falls for the advances of her ex-boyfriend Bob and joins him on vacation. In the meantime, Gunter has an accident and is hospitalized. In the hospital, he meets the nurse Li who seems to be perfect for him.
Fog
Unterinspektor Stone
At the beginning of the 1960s, a German turns up on behalf of the NATO in the British village of Rocksmouth. NATO wants to establish a naval base in Rocksmouth, but first, the German envoy has to salvage an old ship wreck. In 1942, the "Princess of India" was supposed to bring children to safety in Canada but was sunk by a German submarine at departure. 58 people were killed, most of them children.
Wenn Du zu mir hältst
Fred Lenka
Five Days, Five Nights
Paul Naumann
Five Days, Five Nights (Fünf Tage, Fünf Nächte) takes place in Dresden in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. While Dresden is in ruins, over two thousand paintings by artists including Rembrandt, Raphael, Rubens, Giorgione, and Vermeer have disappeared from the city’s Old Masters Picture Gallery. Red Army captain Leonov and his soldiers have been ordered to recover the lost paintings. During the next five days, Dresden’s residents join the search for the collection. A secret Nazi document offers a first lead…
Ware für Katalonien
Leutnant Hasselbach
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 national demand rises strongly and at the same time the export to South America heavily decreases, the Volkspolizei - the GDR police force - starts to look into the case. Two seemingly unrelated cases are the starting point for the investigation by second lieutenant Schellenberg of the department for optics racketeering: An old woman who was arrested in the Berlin city railway for trying to smuggle a pair of binoculars to West Berlin, and a dead person in an area of allotments who was involved in obscure dealings with optical devices.
Wenn die Nacht kein Ende nimmt