Else Knott

Condemned to Sin (1964)

After World War II, a lot of people, who lived in the eastern parts of the Third Reich had to be relocated. One of them is Hugo Starosta (Martin Held) with his family. They live in a fortress. Hugo is unemployed, his children don't seem to like school, but ...

Black Gravel (1961)

Tensions rise when a U.S. military base is built in a small village in post-war Germany. ...

Peterchens Mondfahrt (1959)

The story of Little Peter and his sister Anneli, who help a May beetle named Mr. Zoomzeman (German: Herr Summsemann) to retrieve his missing sixth leg from the Moon. After a fantastic and dangerous overnight adventure they recover the leg and are returned ...

The Swindlers (1959)

Mario is in Hannover to work as a miner but after losing his job he decides to go back to Italy. When Totonno steals his passport to avoid the police and later on he offers him a new job as "magliaro" (cloth seller), Mario changes his mind and decides to f ...

Herr Hesselbach und die Firma (1956)

Das Horoskop der Familie Hesselbach (1956)

The Hesselbach Family on Vacation (1955)

In their second feature film, the famous Hessian radio comedy family Hesselbach goes on a vacation trip. ...

Dawn (1933)

Released three days after Adolf Hitler became Reichskanzler, it was the first film to have its screening in Nazi Germany. It became a symbol of the new times touted by the Nazi regime. The title (literally "morning-red") is the German term for the reddish ...