Christine Kaufmann

Feuerblume - Die zwei Leben der Marisa Mell (2023)

Who was Marisa Mell? The personae Marisa Mell and Marlies Theres Moitzi, the famous Graz actress' real name, are juxtaposed in the documentary Feuerblume several companions, such as Christine Kaufmann, and her friend Erika Pluhar, remember the actress. The ...

Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn (2014)

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder. ...

Stille (2013)

Harry Cliewer, a famous television journalist, is at the height of his career. His daring interview with a top banker becomes a scandal and a ratings hit. At the same time, his son Alex publishes his novel: a reckoning with his father. In it, he describes ...

Fahr zur Hölle (2011)

Liebesticket nach Hause (2008)

33-year-old Jackie has a real problem: Frederik Forster, the son of a rich and powerful Munich publishing family, has proposed to her - much to the displeasure of his mother Marianne - and Jackie has happily agreed. Now she just has to persuade her husband ...

Romy Schneider: A Woman in Three Notes (2008)

Documentary portrait of the actress Romy Schneider, in which director Frederick Baker tries to form an overall picture from the facets of image, myth, real life and screen persona. ...

Filmlegenden. Deutsch (2005)

A parade of well-known actors and directors from Germany ...

Club der Träume - Türkei, Marmaris (2003)

Haider lebt - 1. April 2021 (2002)

Vienna in 2021. Europe is divided into American sectors. The currency is being converted from the euro to the dollar. Johnny Bush (the son of American peacekeeper George Bush) is the Chancellor of Austria. English becomes the primary language; dialects are ...

Höllische Nachbarn - Nur Frauen sind schlimmer (2000)

Die Schläfer (1998)

Claire suffers from memory loss, but is constantly tormented by fragmentary memories. The search for the truth leads the psychiatric patient to the Baltic Sea island of Tradum. Claire firmly believes that she will discover her lost identity there. The inha ...

Höllische Nachbarn (1998)

Caipiranha - Vorsicht, bissiger Nachbar! (1998)

The Wolters have lived with the Grabowskis as neighbors for 10 years. But everything suddenly comes to an end. A real war breaks out between the families over an absolutely trivial matter. ...

Weihnachten mit Willy Wuff II - Eine Mama für Lieschen (1995)

Christmas is just around the corner, but Lieschen has nothing to look forward to. Unless a miracle happens, she will once again spend the festive season with her sister Mechthild in the orphanage. Lieschen's heart's desire: Christmas Eve in the bosom of a ...

Weihnachten mit Willy Wuff (1994)

The shaggy poodle-bobtail mix Willy Wuff rescues two small puppies and ends up with them involuntarily in a mountain hut. Thomas also wants to spend Christmas there with his wife Hilde, his future wife Geli and his seven-year-old son Michael. The constant ...

The Knickerbocker Gang: The Talking Grave (1994)

What are the Knickerbocker Band doing at midnight in the cemetery? Is a spirit really speaking form the sinister grave? Why does Melissa, daughter of the dead sorcerer, receive threats? Has it all to do with the mysterious legacy of the magician? ...

Birkenhof & Lerchenau (1994)

Das Double (1993)

Hard to Be a God (1990)

Another planet in the period of medieval times. An employee of the institute of experimental history from Earth, who is send under the name of noble don Rumata of Estor as a spy with a mission to contact the local resident of the institute, arrives in the ...

Russian Adventure. Peter Fleischmann is Filming "Hard to Be a God" (1990)

The Story Teller (1989)

In this mystery/thriller based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith, Nico Thomkins (Udo Schenk), a writer, and his wife Helen (Anke Sevenich) are in the habit of playing games with one another. Even while they are breaking up, they are sufficiently in tune wit ...

Julius Caesar (1988)

Jealous conspirators convince Caesar's friend Brutus to join their assassination plot against Caesar. To stop Caesar from gaining too much power, Brutus and the conspirators kill him on the Ides of March. ...

Bagdad Cafe (1987)

A German woman named Jasmin stumbles upon a dilapidated motel/diner in the middle of nowhere. Her unusual appearance and demeanor are at first suspicious to Brenda, the exasperated owner who has difficulty making ends meet. But when an unlikely magic spark ...

Pankow ’95 (1983)

Futuristic view of life in Pankow, East Berlin. The GDR has turned into a madhouse with serious economic problems. ...

The Swing (1983)

Based on Annette Kolb's autobiographical novel of the same name, THE SWING is a lavish, breathless reconstruction of life in Munich towards the end of the 19th century. The deceptively simple story centers around the Lautenschlags, a Bavarian-French Cathol ...

Ziemlich weit weg (1983)

A struggeling TV documentarian's personal and professional life crumbles as he moves between the city and the countryside. ...

The Roaring Fifties (1983)

The Second World War is over and now begins in post-war Germany, the reconstruction. Jakob Formann sees his chance here and begins a rapid rise as an entrepreneur. ...

Inflation im Paradies (1983)

Four-part episodic film about the everyday lives of young people. The focus is on a café as a communication point for various cliques. ...

The Gold of Love (1983)

Young Patricia wanders through a Viennese night full of lust for love, visions of drugs and violence, gleaming frenzy and dark alleys. ...

The Excluded (1982)

Die Ausgesperrten revolves around an unlikely group of 4 youths in Vienna who band together, each for different reasons, to mug people. Two are fraternal twins, the third a blue-collar worker, the fourth the privileged daughter of wealthy parents who "need ...

Day of the Idiots (1981)

A woman experiences psychic disintegration and ends up in a psychiatric hospital. ...

Lola (1981)

Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building com ...

Lili Marleen (1981)

The story of a German singer named Willie, who while working in Switzerland, falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert, whose family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Robert's family is skeptical of Willie, thinking she could be a Nazi as s ...

Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment (1980)

In 1912, in Austria, the painter Egon Schiele is sent to jail accused of pornography with the nymphet Tatjana in his erotic paints. His mate, the model Vally, gets help from a famous lawyer to release him. Then he leaves Vally, marries with another woman a ...

Rings of Fear (1978)

Angela Russo, a sixteen-year-old girl, is found dead in a river, having been fatally violated with a large blunt instrument. Inspector Di Salvo is assigned to the case and focuses his investigations on St. Theresa's, the exclusive school where Angela boar ...

Die Ängste des Dr. Schenk (1978)

Das Männerquartett (1978)

Gold Flakes (1976)

Werner Schroeter's rhapsody of excess leaps from 1949 Cuba to contemporary France to points in between, while its feverishly shifting visual style evokes and parodies everything from kitschy Mexican telenovelas to silent French art films. ...

Blackmail Chase (1976)

A couple of friends aspiring to join film land get mixed up in a robbery, ordered by a mafia boss who wants to seize the evidence he needs to blackmail an American politician. ...

Bent or Broken (1975)

A darkly comedic exploration of personal struggle and societal pressure, we follow the story of a middle-aged man named Max, who is trapped in a life of monotony and frustration. After a series of unexpected events, Max finds himself in increasingly absurd ...

Joan's Dream (1975)

With the ascetic grandeur of Carl Th. Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc, Schroeter evokes the visions of Saint Joan, partly through unused footage of Darling and Caven pantomiming in his 1972 film The Death of Maria Malibran. ...

Zum Abschied Chrysanthemen (1974)

Willow Springs (1973)

Living together in an isolated house, three women go to murderous lengths to keep strangers out of their private retreat. ...

Immobilien (1973)

The supposedly naive owner of the castle, Louise Strothmann von Auerheim, advertises that the entire family estate is for sale. This not only attracts the attention of her money-hungry relatives, but also a whole host of potential buyers, from porn factory ...

The Death of Maria Malibran (1972)

A series of tableaux illustrating the life and death of a celebrated 19th century German opera singer. ...

Gestrickte Spuren (1971)

Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971)

In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play "Murders in the Rue Morgue" with his wife Madeleine Charron, who has dreadful nightmares. When there are several murders by acid ...

Bend Sinister (1970)

In a fictitious European city known as Padukgrad, where a government arises following the rise of a philosophy known as "Ekwilism", which discourages the idea of anyone being different from anyone else, and promotes the state as the prominent good in socie ...

Love Birds (1969)

Two couples live their erotic fantasies out until one of the women is murdered. ...

Tender Sharks (1967)

While an admiral's son is hunted by secret agents, his sister plays his part on a warship. ...

Wild and Wonderful (1964)

Cognac, a pampered poodle and popular star on French television, creates marital problems for his pretty owner Giselle when he becomes jealous of her new husband. ...

Taras Bulba (1962)

Ukraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a Cossack leader, must choose between his love for his family and his folk and his passion for a Polish woman. ...

90 Minuten nach Mitternacht (1962)

Escape from East Berlin (1962)

East Berlin, shortly after the construction of the Berlin Wall. Kurt Schröder and his family dig a tunnel to escape to West Berlin as they struggle to overcome the obstacles blocking their underground path to freedom. ...

The Swordsman of Siena (1962)

A 16th-century Spanish overlord hires Thomas Stanswood (Stuart Granger) to protect his, less than eager, fiancee (Sylva Koscina) from rebels. Thomas finds himself drawn to both the fiancee and the rebels side. ...

Toller Hecht auf krummer Tour (1961)

A Man Named Rocca (1961)

Roberto goes to Marseilles to give a hand to his friend Xavier, wrongly imprisoned following a frame-up organized by his associate Villanova. Roberto sets out to seduce Villanova's mistress, but when Villanova is killed, Roberto ends up leader of the band. ...

Town Without Pity (1961)

Four American soldiers stationed near a German village face death in the rape of a local girl and are defended by outside counsel Major Steve Grant. ...

Via Mala (1961)

A godless sawmill owner makes his family's life so hellish that he has to be killed. ...

Constantine and the Cross (1961)

Constantine is fighting against Barbarians with his father when he is called to Rome. In his way to Rome, he falls in an ambush planned by Maxence, who wants to become emperor. ...

The Last Pedestrian (1960)

Heinz Erhardt wanders through the Black Forest as a photographer for a magazine. On the train he meets a young girl who from now on does not leave his side. ...

Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today (1960)

A boy and a girl fall in love but their fathers take a strong dislike to each other, clashing repeatedly during the preparations for the upcoming marriage. ...

Un trono para Cristy (1960)

The Last Days of Pompeii (1959)

Glaucus, a demobilized centurion returns home to Pompeii to find his father murdered by a gang of black-hooded Christian robbers that terrorizes the city and he decides to investigate the matter while the nearby volcano threatens to erupt. ...

Winter Holidays (1959)

Alberto Moretti arrives in Cortina D'Ampezzo, with daughter Marcella,who has just won a TV contest, the prize of which is a free stay in a luxury hotel. ...

Alle lieben Peter (1959)

First Love (1959)

Ugo meets the 18-year-old Renata in the hostel where she is staying. He falls in love with and leaves with her for several romantic places until the money ends. Ugo will try to get the girl engaged on a local TV station, but Renata falls in love with a man ...

Embezzled Heaven (1958)

Die singenden Engel von Tirol (1958)

Girls in Uniform (1958)

A new student, Manuela, enters a strict girls' boarding school after her mother's death, where she finds comfort in a kind teacher, stirring complex emotions within her. ...

Witwer mit 5 Töchtern (1957)

Father Scherzer generally buries himself in the books of the castle library, which he is responsible for managing. He is a warm-hearted but somewhat overwhelmed father to his five daughters, ranging from a preschooler to two teenage girls to a successful p ...

Die Winzerin von Langenlois (1957)

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Die Stimme der Sehnsucht (1956)

Ein Herz schlägt für Erika (1956)

Wenn die Alpenrosen blüh'n (1955)

Salto Mortale (1954)

After some initial difficulties, the daughter of a circus director who died in an accident follows in her father's footsteps and takes over the business. ...

Der schweigende Engel (1954)

The deaf-mute little girl Angelika is a talented dancer and is trained by a ballet mistress so that she gets the leading role in an opera despite the intrigues of a rival. Angelika's brother gets out of prison and wants to build an honest life for himself, ...

Rosen-Resli (1954)

The nine-year-old orphan Therese has recently moved in with a family of gardeners. She continues to take loving care of her former foster mother, from whom she had to leave when she fell ill with a heart condition. With the help of old Jacob, the girl mana ...

Der Klosterjäger (1953)

The huntsman of a Bavarian monastery falls in love with a beautiful girl and convinces the provost to make his steward delay her brother's feudal due arrears. ...

Staatsanwältin Corda (1953)

The White Horse Inn (1952)

Head waiter Leopold has been secretly in love with the hostess Josepha for a long time, but she only has eyes for Dr. Siedler, a guest in the White Horse Inn. Leopold tries to get Dr. Siedler interested in the daughter of Industrialist Giesecke, who would ...