Charles Brauer

Hommage an Manfred Krug (2019)

The Last Supper (2019)

On the day Hitler assumes power, the German-Jewish Glickstein family come together for dinner. Most of them—like many Germans at the time—do not take the Nazis seriously. When Leah announces her plans to emigrate to Palestine, her family talks her down ...

Katie Fforde: Mama allein zu Haus (2018)

Der Bulle und das Landei - Goldrausch (2016)

Shortly before the celebration of his 95th birthday, Karl Wolter is murdered. Instead of ending their accidental marriage for good on the long-awaited divorce date, Killmer and Kati Biever take up the investigation. The suspects in their case are rather ec ...

As from Afar (2013)

The Israeli historian Tom Segev writes about Simon Wiesenthal's strangest relationship: his friendship with Albert Speer. Speer who was the third Reich's chief architect and one of Hitler's closest friends took responsibility and showed remorse for the Naz ...

Nur mit euch! (2013)

Since the separation of his wife Katja, the architect Florian only sees his two daughters Anna and Sophie every other weekend. While he is looking for a solution to intensify the contact with the children, the doctor Katja tries to get the double burden of ...

Im Fluss des Lebens (2011)

On the day of her greatest honor, the well-known Berlin author Agnes Berg receives the shocking news of the accidental death of her daughter Johanna and her husband. The loss hits her particularly hard: Agnes has been at odds with Johanna since she followe ...

Echte Wiener 2 - Die Deppat'n und die Gspritzt'n (2010)

The Sackbauer family unexpectedly inherits a villa with a large garden in a cottage district in Lower Austria. The villa itself is in acceptable condition, but the garden is less so. Mundl quickly sets about sprucing it up with garden gnomes, lanterns, and ...

Wer zu lieben wagt (2010)

Maria Berger is an attorney who lives alone and delivered to her work since her divorce. One day her sister Clara tells her that she is going to marry a young lyricist of songs from Thailand. Maria tries to dissuade her sister, but she is so in love with h ...

Echte Wiener - Die Sackbauer-Saga (2008)

It's 30 years later and the Sackbauers have estranged themselves from everyone; only mother "Toni" tries to re-establish the old happy family. ...

Hilfe, meine Schwester kommt (2008)

Luisa Wagner is a successful event manager. At the same time she also manages to look after her two children, Krista and Jakob, the housework, her husband Michael and her father. When Luisa's twin sister Jenny also turns up and hardly lifts a finger to hel ...

Utta Danella - Das Geheimnis unserer Liebe (2008)

Liebe ist das schönste Geschenk (2007)

After much hesitation, the doctor, who fell in love, Peter Hauser finally managed to make his girlfriend Stella a marriage proposal. But when the two want to surprise his father Heinrich with the good news, the one holds much greater surprise ready: On hol ...

Der See der Träume (2006)

Her daughter has just gone abroad for a school year when Anna's husband Rolf tells her that he wants a divorce. Anna, surprised and desperate, seeks refuge with her father Hannes. In her idyllic hometown, she meets her childhood sweetheart Nick again, whos ...

Rosamunde Pilcher: Über den Wolken (2005)

Liebe ist die beste Medizin (2004)

On the news of his father's death, the successful city doctor Dr. Peter Haller to the funeral in his hometown. What he does not suspect: His father, also a respected doctor, has only faked his demise! With this trick he wants to persuade Peter, who had tur ...

Lotti auf der Flucht (2003)

In Vienna, Lotti Portuné, a widow embassy councillor, sees a report on television in which she recognizes her childhood sweetheart Ernst, a skipper on the Elbe. He is still sailing the Elbe on the barge named 'Lotti' in her honor. Lotti doesn't think twic ...

Unser Papa, das Genie (2002)

Chaos reigns in the Stern family's new home. Dad Julius may be a brilliant physicist, but he is no good at day-to-day management - which is increasingly upsetting his wife Ulrike, who is overburdened with her job and raising the children. Little things lik ...

Als Großvater Rita Hayworth liebte (2001)

The story of a family that is forced to flee the ČSSR in 1969 and seeks a new home in Germany. ...

Die Angst in meinem Herzen (1999)

Das Phantom von Bonn (1997)

Willi und die Windzors (1996)

The British parliament has decided to get rid of the royal family. All of them have to leave the county and so they move to Germany, where they want to live by their distant relatives, the Bettenberg family. But these are not amused about their snobbish vi ...

Wer zu spät kommt – Das Politbüro erlebt die deutsche Revolution (1990)

The TV documentation reconstructs the incidents between May and November 1989 from the point of view of the Politburo of the GDR (German Democratic Republic). The incidents include the fraud of local elections, the opening of Hungary's borders towards Aust ...

Der Atem (1989)

In 1995, a young computer specialist is working on the development of "reality-based simulation programs," which he uses to "extrapolate" the face of a criminal who kidnapped him and his sister 20 years ago and killed his sister. When he meets a young make ...

Tiger, Löwe, Panther (1989)

The three friends Pat, Nicoletta and Sissy are in their 30s and actually lead very decent lives. But that alone does not satisfy them: Like cats of prey, they are on the hunt for happiness, which they seek in relationships with the opposite sex. ...

Affäre Nachtfrost (1989)

Christian Rother – Bankier für Preußen (1987)

Prussia is on the brink of national bankruptcy. King Frederick William III unexpectedly appoints the tax official Christian Rother as President of the Royal Prussian Maritime Trade. ...

Rosa Luxemburg (1986)

Polish socialist and Marxist Rosa Luxemburg works tirelessly in the service of revolution in early 20th century Poland and Germany. While Luxemburg campaigns for her beliefs, she is repeatedly imprisoned as she forms the Spartacist League offering a new vi ...

Zerbrochene Brücken (1986)

On the Killer's Track (1985)

A man who has just become unemployed kills his closest relatives before he judges himself. ...

Wallenberg: A Hero's Story (1985)

The story of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat responsible for saving thousands of lives from the Nazi Holocaust. ...

Wodzeck (1984)

Franz Woyzeck, the protagonist of Georg Büchner's unfinished drama is incorporated in this adaption of a classic. The contemporary Franz Wodzeck lives in Germany's Ruhr industrial region. Wodzeck meanders back and forth between the monotony of working eac ...

Weltuntergang (1984)

Der Millionen-Coup (1984)

Die Frau ohne Körper und der Projektionist (1984)

Pharos of Chaos (1983)

A superb, moving and thrilling interview with American actor Sterling Hayden (1916-86), held in Besançon, France, on board a dilapidated barge, when he was 65 years old. An unparalleled portrait, in his own words and without any qualms, of a legendary Hol ...

Schlaflose Tage (1982)

Second Sight (1982)

A young woman who works in a bookstore has been terrified by nightmares about having committed suicide in a past lifetime, combined with a sense of déjà vu regarding a specific apartment building. When she meets a young man who works in an optical compan ...

Neon City (1982)

Episode movie about the no-future generation of the early 1980s. ...

Ein Zug nach Manhattan (1981)

1952 in a suburb of New York: the pious Leon Sternberger is a cantor in a small Jewish community. One morning, he realizes that he has lost his faith in God. There is simply too much misery and injustice in this world. His friend Schames Rosen advises him ...

Sierra Madre (1980)

Drei Freundinnen (1979)

Der kostbare Gast (1979)

Satire by Dominik Graf. An unsuspecting man is hired as a surrogate father. The income is good, the apartment is fully furnished, only the children's room is empty. A middle-class couple (Donata Höffner and "Tatort" detective Charles Brauer) desperately ...

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 ...

Prosperos Traum (1977)

Die Jungfrau von Orleans (1974)

The Brutalization of Franz Blum (1974)

Born into a well-off family, Franz Blum had led a carefree youth until, some time after graduating from high school, he was arrested by the police. For, involved by a gang of bad boys, the young man had taken part in a bank robbery. A "heroic deed" which e ...

Kein Grund zur Unruhe (1974)

Gewissensentscheidung (1972)

Doppelspiel in Paris (1972)

Maestro der Revolution? (1971)

Claus Graf Stauffenberg (1970)

Friedrich III. '...gestorben als Kaiser' (1970)

Die Räuber (1969)

Nennen Sie mich Alex (1969)

Affäre Dreyfuss (1968)

The disaster began in the late summer of 1894, when a French staff officer appeared at the military attaché of the German embassy in Paris. He offers important military information at very high prices. A cover letter for this case ends up in the attaché' ...

Über den Gehorsam. Szenen aus Deutschland, wo die Unterwerfung des eigenen Willens unter einen Fremden als Tugend gilt (1968)

Egmont (1967)

Geibelstraße 27 (1966)

Der Raub der Sabinerinnen (1965)

Die chinesische Mauer (1965)

A gigantic masked ball is held at the court of the Chinese emperor Hwang Ti. The builder of the wall surrounding the vast land The builder of the enormous wall surrounding the vast country celebrates his victory over his last enemies and does not shy away ...

Der eingebildete Kranke (1964)

The Canterville Ghost (1964)

The poor ghost of Sir Simon Canterville has been roaming his castle searching in vain for a brave descendant who will release him from the Canterville curse by performing a brave deed. An American family moves in and finds the ghost amusing, but a young gi ...

Don Gil von den grünen Hosen (1964)

Der Walzer der Toreros (1962)

Annoncentheater (1962)

Ein Außenseiter (1961)

The Man Who Sold Himself (1959)

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 ...

Ist Mama nicht fabelhaft? (1958)

Alibi (1955)

An industrialist's wife was killed and now her lover is accused of murder. ...

Ripening Youth (1955)

The trials and tribulations of love in a school community in the still young Federal Republic of Germany. ...

Fight of the Tertia (1952)

Der Kampf der Tertia (Fight of the Tertia) is the story of a group of tough but sensitive German schoolboys. Upon learning that a local catskin dealer intends to buy up all the local felines, the boys organize a boycott against the man. It's a uphill climb ...

Und wieder 48 (1948)

In 1948, students from Berlin University take part in the filming of a movie about the 1848 revolution as extras. A dispute arises between Else and Heinz, who tends to dismiss the revolution as a comical affair. Two fiercely opposing camps form at the univ ...

Somewhere in Berlin (1946)

After WWII, Berlin lies in ruins. For Gustav, Willi and their friends the rubble provides an adventurous, dangerous playground. Especially for Gustav, it helps pass the time, as he longs for his father's return from a POW camp. One day a stranger arrives, ...