Ernst Schröder

Das Babylon Komplott (1993)

Chris Lang, a journalist from Vienna, can't believe the sinister thing he has uncovered: is a certain Schatz organizing large-scale arms trafficking and supplying components for a superweapon to Iraq? While Chris searches for answers to these questions, it ...

Neptun und Isolde (1992)

Rochade (1992)

At the centre of Peter Patzak's existentialist film noir stands the hopeless struggle against the arms mafia in Czechoslovakia and its connections with Austria after the fall of the iron curtain. ...

A Song for Europe (1985)

Steven Dyer, an executive working for a giant multinational drugs company, decides to report his employer for breaches of Common Market trading regulations. One night in Basle, Switzerland, he leaves his home to post a letter, the start of a nightmare jour ...

Mrs. Harris - Freund mit Rolls Royce (1984)

Er-Götz-liches (1984)

Episodic film based on four plays ('Der Hund im Hirn', 'Lohengrin', 'Der Mörder', and 'Minna Magdalena') by Curt Goetz, each with Carl-Heinz Schroth in the leading role. ...

Die Rede des Odysseus (1984)

Experimental short film ...

Ihr 106. Geburtstag (1979)

Die Eingeschlossenen (1978)

Kleine Geschichten mit großen Tieren (1978)

The Odessa File (1974)

Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out to hunt down an SS Captain and former concentration camp commander. In doing so he discovers that, despite allegations of war crimes, the former commander has be ...

Silverson (1974)

Der zerbrochene Krug (1974)

Jedermann (1970)

Waterloo (1969)

Demetrius (1969)

Die Flucht nach Holland (1967)

Die echten Sedemunds (1965)

Heidi (1965)

After her mother's death, the five year old orphan Heidi is brought by her aunt to her grumpy grandfather Alp, who leads a hermit life in the beautiful Swiss mountains. Heidi's natural cheerfulness quickly brings renewed joy in grandfather Alps life. Heidi ...

Angelique: The Road to Versailles (1965)

Angelique is saved by the king of the cutthroats when she is endangered in the streets of Paris. After her hero is killed, she has many amorous affairs and becomes a successful businesswoman. ...

Angelique (1964)

In 17th-century France, beautiful country maiden Angélique marries wealthy neighbor Jeoffray de Peyrac out of convenience, but eventually, she falls in love with him. So when Jeoffray is arrested and then vanishes, she bravely sets out to find him. This i ...

Andorra (1964)

In Andorra on St. George's Eve, Jewish foster‐son Andri loves Barblin, unaware she's his half‐sister. Amid rising anti‐Semitism and family secrets, he's falsely accused of violence, tried in a "Judenschau," and executed. His father's suicide and Barb ...

The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse (1964)

The evil Dr. Mabuse develops a death ray with which he threatens the world. ...

The Visit (1964)

Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a multi-millionaire for a visit. The town lays out the red carpet expecting big thing ...

Nylon Noose (1963)

A company's stockholders hold their meeting at a lonely mansion. A mad doctor conducting experiments in the mansion starts to strangle them one at a time with a nylon noose. The survivors must figure out a way to stop him. ...

The Longest Day (1962)

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied ...

The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)

Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany. ...

Der rote Hahn (1962)

Der Biberpelz (1962)

Leben des Galilei (1962)

Biographie und Liebe (1961)

1913 (1961)

Abendstunde im Spätherbst (1960)

Mein Schulfreund (1960)

In the midst of World War II, postman Ludwig Fuchs writes a letter to his former school friend Field Marshal Hermann Göring, urging him to work for peace. He is declared mentally incompetent. After the war, he struggles to shake off the stigma of alleged ...

The High Life (1960)

Doris Putzke is fond of dating men in her quest to find the perfect one. In her brief relationships, she goes from one disillusionment to another, constantly deluding herself about the intentions of her lovers. ...

Punishment Battalion (1960)

The film focuses on life in a World War II German penal battalion camp somewhere in Russia. The convicts include a heroic doctor unjustly convicted of avoiding military service, an officer who retreated against orders, and common criminals. It shows their ...

Marili (1959)

Robert Orban, a successful playwright, working on his country house on a new piece ...

The Black Chapel (1959)

1933 in Germany. The rise of Nazism fears war and some officers, concerned the fate that hostilities would reserve to their country, organize an anti-Nazi group. They send a reporter, Golder, to communicate the plan of the German offensive allies. ...

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 ...

As Long as the Heart Still Beats (1958)

Der eiserne Gustav (1958)

Gustav Hartmann is in trouble. Because of the new taxis he doesn't get many passengers in his horse-drawn carriage. To prove what he and his horse are capable of, he starts a trip from Berlin to Paris. ...

Stresemann (1957)

Anastasia: the Czar's Last Daughter (1956)

In 1920, an unknown 24-year-old woman was fished out of Berlin's Landwehr kanal after a suicide attempt. Since she has no papers and no answers to any questions, they soon assign them to the insane asylum Dallendorf. A co-patient believes she recognizes th ...

Kitty and the Great Big World (1956)

The young Kitty is drawn into the world of international politics by chance. ...

Ohne Dich wird es Nacht (1956)

Dr. Kessler, a lawyer in poor health, actually just wanted to take a dose of morphine to get fit for his court appearance. But the necessity turns into an addiction. It is only when Kessler falls in love that he goes into rehab. However, it is not long bef ...

Nacht der Entscheidung (1956)

A Belgian industrial magnate returns home after spending ten years in Siberia. There he learns that he has since been declared dead and that his wife has remarried. ...

Du mein stilles Tal (1955)

Elisabeth, wife of a landowner, has kept from her husband for twenty years that their daughter is not his. Rather, she is the result of an affair with a musician she was dating shortly before their marriage. Now this man, by now a famous concert pianist, e ...

Der Hauptmann und sein Held (1955)

The Plot to Assassinate Hitler (1955)

A disillusioned Wehrmacht officer named Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944. ...

Liebe ohne Illusion (1955)

Ihre große Prüfung (1954)

Cavalry Captain Wronski (1954)

A Polish officer works undercover in 1930s Berlin to discover Nazi Germany's plans against his homeland. ...

Das ideale Brautpaar (1954)

The Man Between (1953)

A British woman on a visit to post-war Berlin is caught up in an espionage ring smuggling secrets into and out of the Eastern Bloc. ...

Tagebuch einer Verliebten (1953)

In South Tirol, shortly after ww-ii: Paul and Barbara Holzmann and their son Charlie own a small gasoline station. At their wedding anniversary, of all days, Barbara finds proof that Paul may again have cheated on her. At first she believes his explanation ...

Die große Versuchung (1952)

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

Under the Thousand Lanterns (1952)

This German drama tells the story of a musician who is killed and leaves his work unfinished. His apprentice is cleared of the murder and turns out to be the real composer. ...

Gift im Zoo (1952)

Animals start to mysteriously die in a zoo in Hamburg. Is somebody poisoning the animals and with what purpose? ...

Sündige Grenze (1951)

Film about young smugglers. ...

The Last Illusion (1949)

Professor Mauthner, after many years of exile (having emigrated in 1933 to the USA), returns to Germany in 1948. He can in fact return to his teaching post, but the rejection and petty intrigues of his reactionary colleagues and students make his work almo ...

Die Degenhardts (1944)

A stuffy old civil servant is forced to retire during World War II, but when his son, a Navy submariner, is lost at sea and his city is heavily bombed by English bombers, his old patriotism is re-awakened and he determines to be of use to his country once ...

Der große Schatten (1942)

During a performance of Calderón's "The Judge of Zalamea," a young actor encounters his famous older colleague, whose daughter committed suicide years ago after he seduced and abandoned her. The older man finds the strength to reconcile when he is convinc ...

Uncle Krüger (1941)

An anti-British propaganda film from Nazi Germany which depicts the life of the South African politician Paul Kruger and his eventual defeat by the British during the Boer War. ...

Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius (1940)

The young Schiller, whose heart and soul are writing and poetry, is forced into the military academy (the pride and joy of the Duke of Württemberg). Schiller is disgusted by the everyday routine of the military, always back and forth between breeding and ...

Fahrt ins Leben (1940)

The four sailing school cadets Gerhard, Fritz, Kurt, and Christian are close friends; there's hardly anything they don't do together. But when the charming Gerhard begins a romance with Charlotte, his comrade Christian's childhood sweetheart, a shadow fall ...

Yvonne, Prinzessin von Burgund (1971)