Walter Sedlmayr

At the behest of his father, the young Karl Valentin is to complete a carpentry apprenticeship. When the father gets into a financial mess by a strict creditor, the boy works with growing success as a comedian to support his parents financiall

Corinna witnesses how three guys chase and shoot a man in front of her lonesome house. As only witness, they force her to come with them and care for the guy's wound. But she manages to flee shortly after and takes Blondi to a doctor. He tells her his story, how he used to smuggle drugs, but one day fled with a suitcase full of money. Corinna inexplicably falls in love with him and decides to accompany him on his further flight. But the villains are close behind them.

After the death of the owner of the house Lina Braake is living in, the house is accrued to the bank. During the complete refurbishment of the building, the 81-year old woman is thrown out of her flat and is put in an old people′s home. There she meets 84-year old Gustaf. Together, the lively seniors come up with a plan to trick the bank with a smart credit fraud and take their revenge. They need the money to buy a country house on Sardinia and leave Germany for good. Although their coup proves to be successful, the bank soon finds Lina. But due to her old age she cannot be tried anymore.

Фокс Биберкопф простой, неотесанный, добрый и наивный гомосексуалист, подрабатывающий в цирке как «живая голова». Он одержим идеей выиграть много денег в лотерею и действительно выигрывает огромную сумму в 500 тыс. марок. В тот же день Фокс знакомится с Ойгеном Хиссом, гомосексуалистом совсем из другой среды. Его новый знакомый и его друзья разбираются в классической музыке, винах, умеют вести себя за столом, читают книги и хорошо одеваются. Фоксу, естественно, не место в таком обществе и приспособиться к нему он не может, но, когда у человека есть деньги, на очень многое закрывают глаза. Фокс и Ойген становятся любовниками, а через какое-то время утонченный и безукоризненно воспитанный сын владельца большой типографии, переживающей финансовые трудности, начинает тянуть деньги из своего доверчивого сожителя с ловкостью, какая не снилась и самым коварным дамам.

An anxious teacher (played, as is the lead role in all his films, by the director) sits in a beer garden on the hill of the Andechs monastery. While flies drown in his mug of beer, he confronts a life of failure: the wife he ignored, the child he neglected, the teaching duties he has shirked, and his doomed efforts at winning tenure from school officials. Only a dream from the past-the memory of a former liaison with a film star with whom he shared "the Andechs feeling, a feeling that we are not alone" - provides sustenance. Despite an unexpected series of events, longing in Achternbusch's world ultimately remains stronger than fulfilment and thirst better than beer.

The forester Auer is found killed on Sunday in the forest, and the police begins a feverish search for the culprit. Only pastor Gruber already knows who it is. It is Hannes Reyer, son of the richest farmer in the region, who has confessed the act of murder to him. Gruber, however, is bound to his obligation to secrecy. But when the young Ernst Nortinger is arrested under suspicion for murder, he knows what he has to do and relinquishes his priestship in order to report Hannes to the police. But things don’t get so far, as Hannes dies in an accident during an altercation with the priest. Nonetheless, Gruber does not return to his office. In quiescence, he wants to find out whether he still can handle the burden of the priesthood. Senior pastor Bachmayer however is convinced that he will return.

Что делать, если шестидесятилетнюю немецкую вдову привлекает марокканец, лет на тридцать моложе ее? А если это любовь? А может, просто «встретились два одиночества»?

This grim German psychological drama unveils the process by which an innocent man can be so damaged by interactions with the criminal justice system that the smallest incident can trigger a murderous fury. Matthias (Matthias Eysen) is already a misfit and has trouble meeting society's expectations. When he is picked up by the police for a minor crime, the brutal indifference with which he is treated wounds him in ways which are not healed by his being found innocent and being released.

Theodor Hierneis oder Wie man ehem. Hofkoch wird consists of a monologue performed by Walter Sedlmayr, who plays Theodor Hierneis, the chef at the court of Ludwig II of Bavaria. The screenplay was written by Syberberg and Sedlmayr and is based on the memoirs of Hierneis. The film received the Deutscher Filmpreis for Best Non-Narrative Film and Best Actor.

Theodor Hierneis oder Wie man ehem. Hofkoch wird consists of a monologue performed by Walter Sedlmayr, who plays Theodor Hierneis, the chef at the court of Ludwig II of Bavaria. The screenplay was written by Syberberg and Sedlmayr and is based on the memoirs of Hierneis. The film received the Deutscher Filmpreis for Best Non-Narrative Film and Best Actor.

A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in front of a large screen on which coastal scenery is back projected. Geesche is a nineteenth century woman who wants to have a mind of her own. She defies convention and will do anything to achieve her freedom from oppression by her family and friends. (synopsis written by Will Gilbert)

A divorced woman in her thirties fights a losing battle in Munich to attain belated self-fulfillment. The die is cast in a briskly impersonal society geared to male dominance and early training for career women.

Трагедия одиночки, оказавшегося лишним в обществе «всеобщего благоденствия» Эпохи Экономического чуда. Ханс Эпп несколько лет провел вдали от родины в иностранном легионе, и вот вернулся назад. «Уж лучше бы тебе не возвращаться!» — злобно шипит мать, встречая сына на пороге дома. И Ханс уходит, устраивается на работу в полицию, обзаводится семьей, потом становится продавцом овощей в разъездном магазинчике. Жену он не любит, она платит ему тем же. Возлюбленная Ханса слишком горда, чтобы связать жизнь с уличным торговцем. Одна из стычек с женой завершается тяжелейшим инфарктом. Разочаровавшись в жизни, герой решается на самоубийство. Исподволь, но настойчиво каждый участник действия подталкивает его к этому решению. И только сестра Анна пытается оказать ему моральную поддержку, но не может предотвратить его роковую кончину.

Inspired by the real life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from Bavaria, in the late XIX Century. Mathias stole from the riches to give to the poor, becoming a hero for the rural people, and a popular social rebel. He was chased by the police until his unfortunate sentence.

В 20-х годах в маленький немецкий городок приезжают военные строители. Солдаты (которых жители города называют «пионеры») скучают и пьют. Женщины ищут их любви…

Ханна считает себя эмансипированной женщиной, но вместе с тем мечтает о браке и семье. Ее жених, Майкл, еще не созрел для семейной жизни и мечтает об экспедиции в Перу. Объединив усилия с другом Гунтером, они находят финансирование поездке, но Ханна готова даже на убийство, чтобы не отпустить любимого. В конце концов, она признает поражение, и Майкл уезжает навстречу приключениям.

Черный Монах в кожаной куртке задается вопросом, может ли маленькая группа людей сделать пролетарскую революцию. Он вспоминает, как один средневековый пастух поднял восстание против церкви и землевладельцев, сообщив людям, что Дева Мария в видениях просит его об этом. Черный Монах делает вывод, что его революция будет иметь больший успех, если он переоденет свою подругу Джоанну Девой Марией.

Volker Schlöndorff transposes Bertolt Brecht’s late-expressionist work to latter-day 1969. Poet and anarchist Baal lives in an attic and reads his poems to cab drivers. At first feted and later rejected by bourgeois society, Baal roams through forests and along motorways, greedy for schnapps, cigarettes, women and men: ‘You have to let out the beast, let him out into the sunlight.’ After impregnating a young actress he soon comes to regard her as a millstone round his neck. He stabs a friend to death and dies alone. ‘You are useless, mangy and wild, you beast, you crawl through the lowest boughs of the tree.’

The story of the Trotta family during the rise and fall of the Austrian-Hungary empire. Based upon the novel by Joseph Roth.

Munich in the summer of 1899. In his insatiable greed for money, influence and enjoyment of life, the Marquis von Keith defies any moral law. Two women are obedient to him.

A crime comedy directed by Walter Sedlmayr.

A crime comedy directed by Walter Sedlmayr.

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

Espionage thriller about a married couple caught in the middle of dueling spy organisations.

Dorothea Angermann the daughter of a clergyman is accused of the murder of her husband, a brutal man that she was obliged to marry because she was pregnant and he was the father of the baby.

...Небольшой старинный городок Западной Германии взбудоражен необычным происшествием - кражей на почте мешка с письмами. Особенно взволнованы семеро наиболее уважаемых жителей городка, которые доверили почте некоторые свои темные делишки и тайные, тщательно скрываемые пороки. Остроумно построенный сюжет заставляет с интересом следить за саморазоблачением тех, кто старательно прикидывался праведником.

The rich and jung American Susanne falls in love with the Student Hans-Joachim. Set in the romantic Heidelberg.