Fritz Schmiedel

The story of the last days of Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter (1907-43), who was executed by the Nazi regime because of his refusal to compromise with a perverse system.

German telling of the Igor Gouzenko story

In 1959, in a small German village, the annual fair is set up. When a carousel is fixed firmly in the ground, a fair worker discovers a skeleton, a steel helmet, and a machine gun. The skeleton belongs to Robert Mertens, a plain soldier, who deserted in 1944 und flew to his home village. But when he arrived, no one wanted to help him, neither his former friends nor the minister, or even his own parents.

Second part of two of the saga of the troubled Buddenbrook family and their business in 19th century Germany.

First part of two of the saga of the troubled Buddenbrook family and their business in mid 19th century Germany.

Meant to be a diatribe against yellow journalism and current social ills, this weakly limned drama by Josef von Baky features a reporter who works for one of the tabloid papers. The reporter digs up dirt on the past life of a local hotel owner, and wanting to take full advantage of the muck, he strings out his revelations in a series of perjorative, damning articles on the man. The result of this campaign turns out to be much worse than simply ruining the hotel owner's reputation.

During the Second World War, Georges Masse undergoes a dangerous mission by taking secret documents from Tangiers to London.

2차 대전이 벌어지던 시기, 독일장교 베르너 폰 에브레낙은 나치에 점령당한 프랑스의 작은 마을에 주둔한다. 그가 머물던 집의 노인과 조카딸은 저항과 경멸의 의미로 그에게 어떠한 말도 건네지 않는다. 매일 저녁 베르너는 자신의 삶과 고향에 대한 이야기들로 그들과 대화를 하려 하지만 그들의 침묵은 쉽게 깨어지지 않는다.

A series of vignettes, in which Noel-Noel appears as the moderator, lecturer, commentator and leading actor, that examine the bores and pests of everyday life much like Pete Smith and Robert Benchley had done for years in American short subjects. Among those are the Practical Joker who will do anything for a laugh; the Party Entertainer who never stops singing; the Talkative Neigbor who forgets the time; the noisy neighbors who dance the tango all night; and women drivers, people who telephone at meal time, the friend you never saw before and amatuer medical experts. Much use of trick photography, montages, puppets and animation along with some adult Gallic wit and gentle satire.

Commander Gerard and his band of guerrillas have found the ideal hideout: a nursing home in the Alps where, along with the mentally ill, are also hiding a Jewish girl and a Swiss doctor who might be a spy for the Germans ...