Albrecht Becker

Generale - Anatomie der Marneschlacht (1977)

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 a ...

Geschäfte mit Plückhahn (1971)

A German TV-Drama. ...

Auftrag: Mord! (1970)

The unscrupulous bar owner Otto Grolbek hires the masseur Janos Klewe to murder his landlady. He then wants to inherit her and get his hands on some urgently needed money. But things turn out differently than planned: Janos is killed during the attempted m ...

Nationalkomitee Freies Deutschland (1968)

Der Fall Angelika (1966)

Homesick for St. Paul (1963)

A pop singer who has been successful on Broadway, is homesick and returns. ...

Stalingrad (1963)

The story of the Battle of Stalingrad from the perspective of a Panzer commander and an officer in a penal battalion. ...

Finden Sie, daß Constanze sich richtig verhält? (1962)

Geliebte Hochstaplerin (1961)

Roberto Bolle smuggles himself as a stowaway on an ocean liner that of Hamburg gen New York sets sail. On board is also his lover Barbara Shadwell, whom he wants to marry, but who, at the request of her mother, the syrup millionaire Ceila Shadwell, should ...

Ach Egon! (1961)

Pediatrician Waldemar Weber is at his wits' end. Of all days, his adopted son Egon—from his first marriage, whom Waldemar has always kept a secret from his young wife Henny—has announced he's coming to visit on their first wedding anniversary. Waldemar ...

Die schöne Lügnerin (1959)

In 1815 Vienna, a corsetmaker falls in love with a valet. ...

Clear the stage for Marika (1958)

A dance and music film tailored completely for Marika Rokk: After her divorce, the wife of a composer uses her wit and charm to engage Marika as a singer and dancer on the stage. This manages to give life once again to the extinguished love between her a ...

Wet Asphalt (1958)

In Berlin, when the journalist Greg Bachmann is released from prison six months before the end of his sentence, there is a driver named Jupp waiting for him. Soon he learns that the famous journalist Cesar Boyd was the responsible for the shorter sentence. ...

Tolle Nacht (1957)

Bandits of the Highway (1955)

The film is based on a true story, concerning a series of robberies on the highways of Germany. At the time of the actual events, there was a controversy over whether or not highway patrolmen should be given permission to use firearms against perpetrators. ...

The Devil's General (1955)

The adaptation of the eponymous play by Carl Zuckmayer tells the story of renegade general Harras of the German Luftwaffe, who during WWII openly criticizes the Nazi regime. As a consequence, he is put under surveillance, and even imprisoned for a brief pe ...

Columbus Discovers Kraehwinkel (1954)

Two GIs haven fallen in love with "Fräuleins", decide to stay in Germany and open a typically American drugstore in the center of the small town where their girlfriends live. ...

Liebe und Leid – Albrecht Becker (2005)

Documentary portrait of German production designer Albrecht Becker. ...

Albrecht Becker - Arsch Ficker, Faust Ficker (2004)

Albrecht Becker was one of the last people to have survived the enacted Nazi suppression of homosexuals, which started in 1933, with the implementation of Paragraph 175. Imprisoned in Nuremberg from 1935 to 1938, he then decides to enrol in the army. On th ...

Paragraph 175 (2000)

During the Nazi regime, there was widespread persecution of homosexual men, which started in 1871 with the Paragraph 175 of the German Penal Code. Thousands were murdered in concentration camps. This powerful and disturbing documentary, narrated by Rupert ...