Siegfried Wischnewski

Herbie Melbourne is a poor schlemiel who is inadvertently caught between the Devil and the deep blue sea in this German farce about a cab driver assigned to bring a "comrade" back to the East German side of the Berlin wall, a passenger who is dead to the world, permanently, when he arrives. Herbie the cabbie is recruited by the KGB and East German Intelligence to help them discover who murdered the man in his back seat. After arriving on the West German side of the divide, Herbie is then recruited by the CIA and West German Intelligence to become a counterspy, for double what the other side is paying him. As Herbie seems to have no viable way out of this mess, he goes to a therapist for help. Reaching into her bag of tricks, she gives Herbie a small bottle he can sniff when in need of self-confidence, an act guaranteed to put him on top of any situation. Now Herbie is a cabbie, a KGB agent, a CIA agent, and a bottle sniffer -- and he is falling in love with his gorgeous therapist.

A young engineer is supposed to do surveyings for a projected nuclear power station in an economically under-developed region and encounters strong opposition by the population. He realizes that the inhabitants are influenced by strange parapsychological occurences released by an elderly man, who also seems to dominate Walpurga, a young woman the engineer falls in love with.

The movie depicts the events from July until September of 1914 which led to the defeat of the German troops at the Marne. While Sebastian Haffner explains and comments on operations and decisions on the basis of situation maps, key scenes are depicted by actors. A main focus is thereby placed by Haffner onto the controversial mission of lieutenant-colonel Richard Hentsch who is said to have, during a war patrol to the various army high commands, contributed to the abortion of the operations significantly.

a TV-Movie by Wolfgang Staudte

The clownish security chief of a West German business is obsessed with protecting his factory from fancied and real breaches, especially from groups such as The Red Army Faction. Ferdinand's paranoia and methods can't be contained by his company. The sympathetically-drawn Ferdinand's ludicrous actions recall those of the cynical, disastrous axis between fascism and big business in 1930's Europe: satire of the rise of private security.

The tax officials Thiel and Kalübbe try to confiscate two oxen, but are prevented from doing so by protesting farmers led by the community leader Reimers. The assistant editor Tredup, who takes photos of the incident, is also in the thick of things.

Несметные сокровища загадочных Нибелунгов издревле привлекали доблестных рыцарей и отважных королей. И только неуязвимый Зигфрид - победитель дракона, сумел завладеть заветным кладом. Но эти несметные богатства не принесли счастья ни герою, ни его землям... Лишь алчность породили они в сердцах властителей-соседей. И вот, предательски поражённый копьём в спину, он пал от руки завистника короля. Но вдова Зигфрида - прекрасная Кримхильда, не пожелала оставить смерть возлюбленного не отмщённой! Её новый избранник, повелитель свирепых гуннов Аттила, готов уничтожить врагов своей несравненной и коварной супруги. Сколько доблестных витязей не вернётся из этой страшной битвы... И спустя многие века менестрели будут слагать песни о проклятии Нибелунгов, подвигах Зигфрида и мести Кримхильды!

A thief gets hold of some top secret papers and is chased around Europe by the sinister Organisation.

Несметные сокровища загадочных Нибелунгов издревле привлекали доблестных рыцарей и отважных королей. И только неуязвимый Зигфрид - победитель дракона, сумел завладеть заветным кладом. Но эти несметные богатства не принесли счастья ни герою, ни его землям... Лишь алчность породили они в сердцах властителей-соседей. И вот, предательски поражённый копьём в спину, он пал от руки завистника короля. Но вдова Зигфрида - прекрасная Кримхильда, не пожелала оставить смерть возлюбленного не отмщённой! Её новый избранник, повелитель свирепых гуннов Аттила, готов уничтожить врагов своей несравненной и коварной супруги. Сколько доблестных витязей не вернётся из этой страшной битвы... И спустя многие века менестрели будут слагать песни о проклятии Нибелунгов, подвигах Зигфрида и мести Кримхильды!

Scotland Yard investigates a series of murders where the victims have died by snake venom poisoning.

The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the beggars of Soho will disturb the upcoming coronation.

И снова в приходе отца Брауна происходит внезапный случай смерти. Отец Браун не может смотреть на бездействие полиции и начинает расследование…

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.

Adaptation of Hermann Sudermann's novel about the troubled relationship between the strong willed Erdme and her irascible husband Jons in the Lithunian moors.