Ilse Trautschold

The emotional story of an adulterous relationship between a journalist and a teacher.

An African-American GI retires from the US Army in West Berlin to live with his (white) girlfriend, who already has a baby with another black man. After an argument with her family, she deserts him as well. Despite finding a job and a new place to live, he keeps running into racism, which also manifests itself in sexual intimidation.

Young lovers Kurt and Lydia spend their first vacation together in Sweden at the picturesque Gripsholm Castle. They enjoy their happy days outdoors and in the nature far away from all everyday troubles and have fun with Kurt′s old friend Karl who comes to visit them in their holiday home. But when Lydia′s beautiful friend Billie also joins them shortly after, Lydia senses that Kurt seems to be falling in love with Billie.

Director Wolfgang Staudte who left East Germany in 1953 to make movies in West Germany, takes a few swipes at the West German judicial system in this fairly effective courtroom drama about the murder of a four-month-old baby. Police almost immediately arrest the mother Ingrid who is the mistress of the father, a rich business VIP married to another woman. His position and wealth keep him insulated from suspicion. A hot-shot lawyer has to overcome the unaccountably biased perceptions of the police, the judge, the prosecutor and almost everyone else in the judicial system. The defence lawyer, driven to an extreme, knows he has to find the real killer or his client will be convicted.

Mother Wolffen, a washerwoman, is a woman of principle: A poor man must do what he must to get through life, only he mustn't get caught doing it. All sorts of crooked deals contribute to the improvement of the daily menu and the increase of household funds. When everyone is searching for pensioner Krueger's missing beaverskin coat, Mother Wolffen and her family are calmly enjoying fresh roast venison.

1883-й год. Горничная Мари, работающая в богатой буржуазной семье рожает внебрачную дочь от своего хозяина. Умирая от родовой горячки, она оставляет девочку, названную Гуште, свое бабушке. Та воспитывает правнучку, как может, но жизнь не оставляет подросшей девочке иного выбора, кроме как пойти по стопам своей матери. Гуште тоже становится горничной, но, к счастью, ей удается встретить молодого художника Пауля Шмидеке, вместе с которым ей предстоит вынести все тяготы и лишения.

After her husband dies, a German woman who gave up her infant for adoption to emigrate to America returns to Germany, discovering that her child is being raised by a married orchestra conductor.

F.P.1 is a huge airplane landing dock in the Atlantic where pilots making the transatlantic flight can stop. Yet a saboteur tries to sink the technical wonder in this classic German science fiction film from 1932. The film was also created with English and French speaking actors at the same time.

A group of German infantrymen of the First World War live out their lives in the trenches of France. They find brief entertainment and relief in a village behind the lines, but primarily terror fills their lives as the attacks on and from the French army ebb and flow. One of the men, Karl, goes home on leave only to discover the degradation forced on his family by wartime poverty. He returns to the lines in time to face an enormous attack by French tanks.

Чтобы увеличить семейный бюджет, продавщица газет матушка Краузе сдает свою единственную комнату подозрительному постояльцу, а сама вместе со взрослыми детьми Паулем и Эрной поселяется на кухне. Жилец вскоре приводит к себе проститутку с ребенком. Поскольку младшие Краузе поневоле встречаются с ним, они подпадают под его дурное влияние. Жилец соблазняет Эрну и подбивает Пауля, легкомысленно транжирившего материнские сбережения, возместить растрату воровством. Вместе с жильцом Пауль пытается ограбить ссудную лавку, но подоспевает полиция и приводит Пауля к матери. После того как его отправляют в тюрьму, разваливается весь мирок матушки Краузе. Взяв ребенка проститутки на руки, она спрашивает: «Что может дать жизнь этому малышу?» — затем открывает газ и отправляется в долгое путешествие за счастьем.