Edgar Bessen

Weihnachten … ohne mich, mein Schatz! (2012)

When Ruprecht forgets his wife Johanna at the taxi stand and shows no regrets, the well-off architect's wife tries the uprising after 30 years of marriage. Although Christmas is just around the corner, she quickly moves into the apartment of the young taxi ...

Jud Süß – Ein Film als Verbrechen? (2001)

"The blood of millions of people hangs on this film" wrote the newspapers in 1949, when the trial of Veit Harlan began. Between 1940 and 1945, 20 million Germans saw his inflammatory film "Jud Süß". Is Harlan a "director of the devil", as the public pros ...

OA jagt Oberärztin (1999)

Der kleine Dachschaden (1998)

A wealthy couple in early retirement move into a bungalow in a park-like residential complex and are all set for a fulfilling retirement. Their happiness could be perfect if the workmen hadn't caused a tiny leak in the roof, which would require repeated re ...

Hundert Jahre Brecht (1998)

Ende einer Leidenschaft (1997)

Ein Vater sieht rot (1997)

Zwei Leben hat die Liebe (1996)

Shortly after Michael and Inga Lehnert and their kids Tommy and Tilly move into their new home in the countryside, Michael causes an accident in which the 20 years old Jule is seriously injured. Tormented by this Michael spends more and more time at the si ...

Angst hat eine kalte Hand (1996)

Nurse Hedi Zoll is overwhelmed and kidnapped in the parking lot of her clinic. After a week, she reports to the police intact, but she can't remember anything. Crime officer Kim Ossawald is the only one who believes the nurse. The track leads them to the t ...

Der gefälschte Sommer (1996)

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 ...

The State Chancellery (1989)

In the hybrid form of documentary and dramatized scenes, the Barschel affair, one of the major domestic political scandals of the 1980s, is reconstructed. While the documentary scenes are reminiscent of the familiar television images of the scandal, the fi ...

Ein Kuckuck im Nest (1988)

Ede und das Kind (1988)

Ohnsorg Theater - Vom Fischer und seiner Frau (1986)

Landluft (1981)

Kudenow oder An fremden Wassern weinen (1981)

Der Schatz des Priamos (1981)

Knobbes Knoten (1980)

Im Herzen des Hurrican (1980)

A moose has been spotted on the Elbe. It has strayed into Germany from the far north. Two city boys are after the animal. One of them just wants to photograph the moose, the other wants to kill it. Without knowing about each other at first, they travel all ...

Ohnsorg Theater - Mit Gefühl und Wellenschlag (1979)

Ohnsorg-Theater- Der Etappenhase (1978)

Ohnsorg Theater - Cowboys, Quiddjes und Matrosen (1978)

Ohnsorg Theater - Die Königin von Honolulu (1977)

In the sailors' pub "Die Königin von Honolulu" in Hamburg's St. Pauli district in 1910, the sailors are sitting grumpily and pestering their wages master, Krischon Honolulu, to finally get them a ship, as their coffers are at low tide. Then the sailor Sch ...

Ohnsorg-Theater - Die Venus von Müggensack (1977)

Since the "Venus" left him seven years ago, Karl Müggensack has gone through life on one horse. He does his hard work as a farmer and pig farmer, he is plagued by his intervertebral discs and his slovenly housekeeper. A sad case of being a bachelor. And t ...

Ohnsorg Theater - Mudder Mews (1977)

Ohnsorg Theater - Atschüß Tante Emma (1976)

Ohnsorg Theater - Wenn der Hahn kräht (1976)

The village tailor Witt has been burgled, and he himself has received a nasty blow to the head! The seriousness of the crime means that the gendarme in charge does not investigate the case alone - the new head of the district is eager to take over. The hea ...

Ohnsorg Theater - Frauen an Bord (1976)

The coastal skipper Hein Butendörp marries his Alma head over heels because there is a baby on the way. The parents of the girl from a "better family" are bitterly angry about this "improper" liaison: they had completely different plans for their pretty d ...

Ohnsorg Theater - Die Chefin (1976)

Ohnsorg Theater - Der Weiberhof (1975)

Having been disappointed by her first marriage, Annegret Klüver, the young widow of a farmer, is a long way from remarrying. Tina Petersen takes advantage of this: The experienced maid guards the young farmer's wife like a watchdog at every turn, especial ...

Ohnsorg Theater - Pott will heiraten (1975)

Schließfach 763 (1975)

Erik Hoopen's "Oversea Travel Agency" in Hamburg fronts an international gold‐smuggling ring. Couriers hide gold bars in special vests, exporting them to black markets in Cairo, Khartoum, Hong Kong, and Singapore and returning with suitcases of cash. Fie ...

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 ...

Ohnsorg-Theater - Der schönste Mann von der Reeperbahn (1974)

The nightclub "Zum Klabautermann" in St. Pauli is a cheerful place where people like to meet. Every evening, when the two bargemen wrap the guests in sailor's yarn as supposed sailors on a long voyage and Lotti, known as "Das laufende Glück", knits the cl ...

Supermarket (1974)

A drifting teen slips from petty crime into exploitation on the streets of Hamburg, courted by a self-serving journalist and a predatory pimp, before a doomed romance pushes him toward a desperate armed-robbery scheme he can't outrun. ...

Ohnsorg Theater - Michel und Micaela (1974)

Ohnsorg Theater - Vier Frauen um Kray (1973)

The grocer Karsten Kray, a widower in his prime, is being hunted: four women have set out to steer him into the harbor of a second marriage. His drinking companion Asmus Broihan, a coffee broker and bachelor with an in-depth knowledge of the establishments ...

Ohnsorg-Theater - Familienanschluß (1973)

Ohnsorg-Theater - Hoppla, nu kommt Hannes (1972)

Max Hölz. Ein deutsches Lehrstück (1972)

The film deals with the revolutionary actions of Max Hölz during the March battles in central Germany in 1921. ...

Ohnsorg Theater - Jonny der Dritte (1971)

Geschäfte mit Plückhahn (1971)

A German TV-Drama. ...

Ohnsorg Theater - Mein Mann der fährt zur See (1971)

The cozy harbor pub "Störtebeker" is run by the ship's cook Karl Brammer together with his wife Mary. One day Karl is caught in a small smuggling operation and is sent to prison for three months. Mary prefers to conceal the truth and tells him that her hu ...

Ohnsorg Theater - Das Verlegenheitskind (1971)

Liebling, sei nicht albern! (1970)

Ohnsorg Theater - Schmuggelbrüder (1970)

Ohnsorg Theater - Mensch sein muß der Mensch (1970)

With his human nature and good-natured character, Police Master Johannes Wilke has everything under control. For this reason, he can afford to enjoy a glass of schnapps and play chess on the phone while on duty. Both his colleague Benthin and Pastor Peters ...

Klein Erna auf dem Jungfernstieg (1969)

Little Erna is a cheeky Hamburg girl. She gets up to the greatest pranks with her boyfriend. That's why her mother sends her on vacation alone to her aunt. There, too, the little girl gets up to all sorts of mischief... ...

Ohnsorg Theater - Schneider Nörig (1969)

Frugality can be a virtue, but for Schneider Nörig this virtue seems to have turned into avarice. For him, pancakes with two kinds of jam are a reprehensible luxury. He prefers to put the money aside, or rather put it in his piggy bank. It is therefore no ...

Ohnsorg-Theater - Alte Liebe - Junges Leben (1969)

Ohnsorg-Theater- Die lieben Verwandten (1968)

Ohnsorg Theater - Die Kartenlegerin (1968)

Widow Lührs only receives a meagre pension and is therefore reliant on supplementary income, so she plays commercial cards without permission! One day, farmer Henck from Schandeloh appears at her house, who wants to scare his bossy wife with the help of t ...

Ohnsorg-Theater- Strandräuber (1968)

Ohnsorg Theater - Verteufelte Zeiten (1968)

In the post-war period, the young farmer Heiko Herkens secretly distils beet schnapps in a hidden alcove with his farmhand Jan Spinn, has fun with Fleet Helga, the gendarme's daughter, and enjoys his life after the war and imprisonment. The maid Taline, wh ...

Ohnsorg-Theater - Und oben wohnen Engels (1967)

Ohnsorg Theater - Söbenthein Sack Kaffee (1967)

Fisherman Hannes Högermann and his nephew Klaus have "salvaged" seventeen sacks of coffee from a stranded ship at night and stowed them in his cellar. Hermann Achner, who works for a coffee broker, is called in to get rid of the loot at a reasonable price ...

Ohnsorg-Theater - Der Winkeladvokat (1967)

Ohnsorg Theater - Peter Pink (1967)

Ohnsorg Theater - Tratsch im Treppenhaus (1966)

Meta Boldt misses nothing in the house of master butcher Tramsen. She is firmly convinced that unsustainable conditions would prevail and order would be lost if she did not keep the landlord constantly informed of all the news. Unfortunately, Meta Boldt ca ...

Ohnsorg Theater - Kein Auskommen mit dem Einkommen (1966)

The Bodendieks' pension is not enough for them. So the couple decide to rent it out. What they hadn't planned, however, was that they let out the good room twice - he to the young Lisa, she to Klaus, who is almost the same age. As business-minded as the Bo ...

Ohnsorg Theater - Die Königin von Honolulu (1966)

Ohnsorg Theater - Gastwirt Goebel (1966)

Ohnsorg Theater - Nichts gegen Frauen (1966)

Preis der Freiheit (1966)

24 hours on the border between East and West Germany. In an outlying West Berlin district, police officers chat about their personal lives, take care of petty offence and at most, warn the odd rubbernecker away from the border to the "Soviet zone". Meanwhi ...

Ohnsorg Theater - Das schlechte Gewissen (1965)

Ohnsorg Theater - Das Hörrohr (1964)

Wilhelmsburger Freitag (1964)

A day in the lives of a Hamburger couple Jan and Renate. A few days ago they moved to Wilhelmsburg. There they have to build a child's room, but they lack the money. ...

OhnsorgTheater - Die Kartenlegerin (1964)

Ohnsorg Theater - Mutter steht ihren Mann (1963)

Stalingrad (1963)

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

Ohnsorg Theater - Vater Philipp (1963)

Widow Brasse goes to great lengths to support her children and her elderly grandfather. Poverty and irritation are a constant state of affairs in the family, as there is not enough money to go around, even though Johanna Brasse washes clothes for strangers ...

Ohnsorg Theater - De dolle deern (1962)

Ohnsorg Theater - Brand-Stiftung (1962)

Ohnsorg Theater - Opa wird verkauft (1961)

A rich farmer learns that the grandfather of a poor farmer owns two houses. He therefore tries to buy his grandfather from the poor farmer. However, the grandfather is even more cunning than the inheritance hunter, and so everything ends well for the poor ...