Edith Schultze-Westrum

Union der festen Hand (1979)

Erik Reger's roman à clef examines the development of the Rhineland industrial region from 1918 to 1928, using the Risch-Zander steelworks as a case study: Strikes, the Emperor's visit, revolution, workers' and soldiers' councils, the occupation of the Ru ...

Wie Rauch und Staub (1979)

Sonntagsgeschichten (1976)

The film explores intimate, often quiet stories, focusing on the interactions and relationships of its characters in a typical Sunday afternoon style. ...

Alle Menschen werden Brüder (1973)

The unsuccessful writer Ritchie can't stand his brother, a criminal businessman. When both fall in love with the beautiful Lilian, a dangerous game of revenge begins. ...

Der Amateur (1972)

Der Tag der Tauben (1970)

Kidnap-Die Entführung des Lindbergh-Babys (1968)

In 1932, this crime moved the whole world. Colonel Lindbergh, the immensely popular Atlantic flight pioneer, had his son kidnapped and killed, although the parents met all the blackmailers' demands. A manhunt unparalleled in the history of the police remai ...

Der Sog (1968)

Die Mission (1967)

Summer 1938: renowned Viennese surgeon Professor von Benda is summoned by Gauleiter Seyss-Inquart to attend the Evian Conference on Jewish refugees. Disguised as a loyal Nazi physician, von Benda's "mission" is to propose that participating nations purchas ...

Die Letzten (1967)

Der Fall Jeanne d'Arc (1966)

Die Welt des Wassers (1966)

Yerma (1965)

Yerma wants a child but with her dispassionate husband has failed to conceive. On the other hand, Victor courts her but the sense of caste and honor prevent from surrendering to him. ...

Der Spielverderber - Das kurze, verstörte Leben des Kaspar Hauser (1965)

In 1828 a man called Kaspar Hauser appears in Nuremberg, barely able to speak and walk. He is admitted to the house of a professor, who among other things explores Kaspar's unusual characteristics and deals with his education. ...

The House in Karp Lane (1965)

The film depicts the fate of the residents of an apartment block in Prague's Jewish quarter following the invasion by German troops in 1939. Among them is an elderly widow who had once disowned her son and now wishes to bring him to Brazil; there are also ...

Dr. med. Hiob Prätorius (1965)

Dr. med. Job Prätorius enjoys great popularity among patients, doctors and students alike thanks to his kindness and philanthropy. Only his colleague Prof. Speiter begrudges him his success. When his patient Maria Violetta wants to commit suicide because ...

Lydia muss sterben (1964)

Ein Frauenarzt klagt an (1964)

Legende einer Liebe (1964)

Aktion T 4 (1964)

Dann geh zu Thorp (1964)

Feuer lodern überall (1963)

Randbezirk (1963)

Seduction by the Sea (1963)

A young women is hired by a woman to seduce her son and convince him to return to home from his self-induced exile. ...

Das Unbrauchbare an Anna Winters (1963)

Die erste Lehre (1963)

Die Glocken von London (1962)

Die Försterchristel (1962)

Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962)

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson embark on a search for Cleopatra's ancient necklace, which has been stolen. ...

Die Soldaten (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. ...

Everyone Dies Alone (1962)

In wartime Berlin, a factory foreman, Otto Quangel and his wife, Anna learn that their only son, Paul, has been killed in action in France. In their grief, the couple decide to take action against the Nazi regime. They create their own form of resistance, ...

Mord im Dom (1962)

Die Stunde, die du glücklich bist (1961)

Via Mala (1961)

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

Familienpapiere (1961)

Weit ist der Weg (1960)

Soldatensender Calais (1960)

Der Schlagbaum (1960)

The Bridge (1959)

A group of German boys are ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning months of the second world war. Truckloads of defeated, cynical Wehrmacht soldiers flee the approaching American troops, but the boys, full of enthusiasm f ...

Dorothea Angermann (1959)

Dorothea Angermann the daughter of a clergyman is accused of the murder of her husband, a brutal man that she was obliged to marry because she was pregnant and he was the father of the baby. ...

Un homme se penche sur son passé (1958)

In 50s Canada, trapper Jacques Monge is a freedom-loving adventurer. But when he falls in love with Hannah, a farmer's daughter, he stirs up trouble within his family. ...

Schwester Bonaventura (1958)

Inspector Welling, the warden Miss Pierce and the convicted murderess Sarat Carn are on their way back to Norwich from London. They are returning from a court hearing at which Carn's appeal against the death sentence imposed on her was rejected... ...

Moral (1958)

Immer wenn der Tag beginnt (1957)

Dr. Hanna Burkhardt is a teacher by vocation: she is not only interested in teaching the pupils the subject matter, she also wants to be a human support and help them when necessary. The school authorities don't like this at all; in their eyes, she has fai ...

Sand, Love and Salt (1957)

Love story between a fisherman of the Adriatic coast and a young girl of the village. ...

Wo war David Preston? (1956)

Santa Lucia (1956)

Vergiß wenn Du kannst (1956)

Weil du arm bist, mußt du früher sterben (1956)

08/15 at Home (1955)

The third part of Paul May′s "08/15" trilogy based on the novel by Hans Hellmut Kirst takes place shortly before the end of World War II: In the spring of 1945, the German troops are practically defeated, and the battalion of Kowalski, major general von ...

Ein Weihnachtslied in Prosa (1955)

Der dunkle Stern (1955)

Fear (1954)

Irene Wagner, the wife of the prominent German scientist Professor Albert Wagner, had been having an affair with Erich Baumann. She does not disclose this to her husband, hoping to preserve his innocence and their "perfect marriage". This fills her with an ...

The Beginning Was Sin (1954)

Rosalie is young and pretty maid on the farm of the winemaker Jacob. She becomes pregnant with the servant Marko, who disappears with a gypsy singer, leaving Rosalie alone in her awkward situation. ...

The Life of Surgeon Sauerbruch (1954)

Young Olga Ahrendt almost succeeded in attempting suicide. She had thrown herself in front of a tram out of desperation about her miserable life, a desperation she shared with many in the post-war period. Fortunately, Privy Councillor Sauerbruch is at the ...

Liebe und Trompetenblasen (1954)

In a small residential town, the two soldiers Peter and Nicky try to win the affections of the artist Ninon from the court theater. Their admiration clashes with their duties as soldiers and they are grounded. Nevertheless, they look at their Ninon in the ...

Ich und Du (1953)

Dwarf Nose (1953)

12-year-old Jakob helps out at his mother's vegetable stand and also carries customers' purchased goods home. One day, an old woman with a long nose comes to the stand and claims that the herbs are bad and were better 50 years ago. Jakob is upset that she ...

Die große Versuchung (1952)

A young man practices medicine without a licence. ...

Haus des Lebens (1952)

Gefangene Seele (1952)

Das ewige Spiel (1951)

A woman between two men. Horror melodrama. ...

Chased by the Devil (1950)

A doctor discovers a new medical cure with dangerous side effects, and takes the drug himself to test its limitations. ...

Heimliches Rendezvous (1949)

A young teacher has to declare that she is unmarried in order to obtain a teaching license in the small town where her husband works as a teacher at the local grammar school. ...

Tragödie einer Leidenschaft (1949)

When she was a little girl, Liuba came to town with her widowed mother to live in the block of flats owned by her aunt Anna Iwanowna. The wealthy and cold-hearted Anna Iwanowna barely accepted them as tenants. And no sooner did Liuba's mother die than she ...

Verspieltes Leben (1949)

Germany, 1914: The bourgeois austerity of the small, northern German town in which Ulyssa lives conflicts sharply with her desire to flirt with and be ensnared by charming, young men. That she's married is irrelevant; it's a marriage which exists only on ...

Kiki (1932)

Kiki who has a walk-on part in a show, is in love with her director, who doesn't notice her at all. She settles into his home and causes him to break up with his lover, the star of the show; and finally manages to make him love her. ...