Eva Ebner

Unser Kindermädchen ist ein Millionär (2006)

Max Helmer, son of Paul Helmer, a great businessman, must now work for a while as domestic help to know better what is work and the value of money.He will help Elena and her children. ...

Making of: Das Geheimnis der schwarzen Koffer (2005)

Crew and cast members talk about the making of the 1962 film 'Das Geheimnis der schwarzen Koffer'. ...

Auf den Spuren Winnetous (2004)

After more than 40 years, this film takes Pierre Brice and Ralf Wolter back to the original locations of the legendary Karl May films. In impressive images, locations such as the Plitvice Lakes, the Mali Alan rock massif, the Zrmanja plateau, the Krka wate ...

Around the World in 80 Days (2004)

A bet pits a British inventor, a Chinese thief and a French artist on a worldwide adventure that they can circle the globe in 80 days. ...

The Trixxer (2004)

A mysterious serial killer is shocking the underworld. Scotland Yard is investigating the case. Clues lead the detectives to Blackwhite Castle. ...

Thank God I’m in the Film Business! (2003)

Eva Ebner is a Berliner who gives the appearance of being rather eccentric. She knows the film business inside out – regardless of whether she's work- ing behind the camera as an assistant director or in front of it as an actor. Her name is closely assoc ...

Die unheimlichen Briefe (2002)

Strange, rhymed advertisements in the TIMES unsettle three London gangsters - and rightly so, because soon the first of them are killed. The mysterious killer also catches a shady lawyer. Higgins and Lane find out that the key to the crimes is an unsolved ...

The Specimen (2002)

When, before the revolution, accidentally arrested, the philistine - a tsarist civil servant of high status - falls in deep, lethargic sleep. 20 years later he wakes up and finds himself in a post-revolutionary, still young Soviet Union. He is stunned. He ...

Die Markus Family (2001)

This film tells the story of Markus Anatol Weisse, who, astonishingly enough, became an artist, in spite of being only very partially sighted. Markus also builds strange machine-like beings and wishes that he himself were a biological robot, or cyborg. ...

Now or Never (2000)

Three elderly ladies, Carla, Lilli and Meta, who, after their hard earned holiday money is stolen by bank robbers, decide to steal from their local bank. Along the way their are romances, arguments and a few other unexpected surprises. ...

From Here to Vanity (2000)

Anyone who is keen to capture Berlin's most original characters on film is bound to end up at Sylvia Heidemann's door. Sylvia has saved up every penny of her reparation money to appear just once in her life on the silver screen like Greta Garbo. It just so ...

Paradise Is a Trap (1999)

After his company went bankrupt, hobby musician Erik toured furniture stores on behalf of a furniture company to advertise their products. A task that would be easy to accomplish if it weren't for the criminal brother who steals some furniture and promptly ...

Die Rättin (1997)

A drama directed by Martin Buchhorn based on the novel by Günter Grass. At the center of the film is artist Marcus Frank, who is informed by a talking rat about the imminent end of the world. Unfortunately, he does not take the signs of time seriously and ...

The sweetness of strangers (1997)

Once upon a time very much alike the twenties in Germany, a little town is frightened to death by an uncaught child murderer. Since somebody has to be blamed the townspeople turn against an inconspicious policeman, a family-man who becomes suspected of the ...

Der Blinde (1996)

An encounter with a blind man ends unexpectedly for Susan Howard. The supposedly helpless man stuns and kidnaps her. The case is handed over by the Home Secretary to Sir John, the head of Scotland Yard. He entrusts Chief Inspector Higgins and Superintenden ...

Abbuzze! Der Badesalz-Film (1996)

The film mainly consists of various, often grotesque episodes. There is also a frame story from which the episodes are derived. However, the connection between the frame story and the episodes is very weak. Many episodes revolve around surveillance and sec ...

Neurosia: Fifty Years of Perversity (1995)

Neurosia is the autobiography of the director Rosa von Praunheim. The movie begins with Rosa presenting his autobiography in a movie theater. Before the film begins, he is shot. But - his body gets lost. A female journalist from a TV station begins researc ...

Up – Down (1994)

Comedy drama about one of life's perennial losers who finally strikes it lucky with a beautiful woman, but not before experiencing the usual seemingly endless pitfalls. ...

Der Menschenfresser (1994)

A crime writer on a train to Berlin shares her compartment with a mysterious man who claims to be a cannibal. Initially intrigued, she tries to humorously dismiss his claim while her imagination sparks a new novel featuring Detective Rosa Roth, who investi ...

Anna annA (1993)

Anna, a creative schoolgirl, accidentally clones herself by hiding inside a mysterious talking copier in the teacher's room. Suddenly confronted by two identical Annas, a whirlwind of misunderstandings and mischievous antics ensues at home and school. Thro ...

Never Sleep Again (1992)

After attending a wedding on a steamboat traveling down the river Spree, three friends from Hamburg become stranded in a newly reunified Berlin. They begin a restless odyssey through the wastelands of a metropolis wavering between an unpredictable future a ...

Meeting Venus (1991)

Celebrated Swedish opera star Karin Anderson is slated to appear in an internationally-telecast production of Tannhauser. Ms. Anderson balks at the notion of working with obscure Hungarian conductor Zoltan Szanto. The much-anticipated production may never ...

Leporello oder Ich habe gern gewunken (1989)

Experimental short film ...

Manöver (1989)

Germany in the 50ies: A love story between an eastern spy and a western secretary who detects him (and her love) ... ...

The Girlfriend (1989)

Since childhood, Raquel and Maria have been close friends. Now all grown-up, Raquel has fulfilled her dream of becoming an actress, while Maria has married a handyman, given birth to three children and runs the family household. In the wake of the Argentin ...

The Passenger – Welcome to Germany (1988)

An American filmmaker travels to modern day Berlin to make a film based on a real-life incident from 1942 in which 13 Jewish prisoners from a concentration camp were promised freedom if they appeared in a German propaganda film. Unfortunately, the Germans ...

Linie 1 (1988)

Film version of the musical by the same name: Sunnie, a girl from the province, comes to Berlin to meet rock star Johnnie who had given her his address after a concert. On the subway to Kreuzberg, Sunnie becomes acquainted with a couple of strange people, ...

Freak Orlando (1981)

Five more-or-less distinct sections, all featuring "Freak" Orlando, a woman played by the late Magdalena Montezuma, who appears in various guises and deformities throughout. ...

In the Country of My Parents (1981)

"Had it not been for Hitler, I would have been born a German-Jewish child, more German than Jewish, in a small village in the South of Germany. But as it happened, I was born in Argentina, my mothertongue is Spanish. I came to Germany 17 years ago." It is ...

Tears of Blood (1972)

A story of love between French student Alain and German high school student Christine. ...

Love Is Only a Word (1971)

The 21-year-old student Oliver Mansfeld attends a boarding school in Frankfurt. There he meets the married banker's wife Verena. A passionate affair develops between them, which does not remain undiscovered by Verena's husband for long. ...

The Zombie Walks (1968)

A serial killer who calls himself "The Laughing Corpse" dresses up in a skeleton costume and kills his victims with a poison-filled scorpion-shaped ring. ...

Long Legs, Long Fingers (1966)

Baron Holberg, who looks back with pride on a long family tradition as hotel thieves, is horrified when his daughter Doris falls in love with the lawyer Robert Hammond, of all people, rather than choosing the art thief Sammy, as he would wish. Under the pr ...

The Squeaker (1963)

Scotland Yard investigates a series of murders where the victims have died by snake venom poisoning. ...

The Door with Seven Locks (1962)

A rich man bequeaths seven keys to seven of his friends, but only one will unlock the door to untold wealth. ...

Grand Hotel (1959)

Based on a book by Vicki Baum, all of the action takes place in one day in a luxury hotel in Berlin. Grusinkaya is a ballerina staying at the hotel, other guests include Baron von Gaigern a sophisticated thief, Otto Klingelein a dying man, Preysing a busin ...

Life Is Like a Cucumber (1990)

A trip through Lotti's horny life -- everything from her Aryan lover and her stay in a concentration camp while he is killed for their forbidden love -- is a fascinating look at this remarkable woman through the eyes and viewfinder of Rosa von Praunheim. ...

Von Zwölf bis Mittag (1986)

A squatter is remanded in custody for trespassing. In a long conversation, her mother manages to irritate the investigating detective so much that the daughter is able to escape (for the time being). ...

Rosa Luxemburg (1986)

Polish socialist and Marxist Rosa Luxemburg works tirelessly in the service of revolution in early 20th century Poland and Germany. While Luxemburg campaigns for her beliefs, she is repeatedly imprisoned as she forms the Spartacist League offering a new vi ...

Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press (1984)

The final installment in Ulrike Ottinger's Berlin Trilogy (following TICKET OF NO RETURN and FREAK ORLANDO) casts Delphine Seyrig as the nefarious Fritz Lang supervillain Dr. Mabuse, here the head of a powerful media empire that seeks to create headlines b ...

Freak Orlando (1981)

Five more-or-less distinct sections, all featuring "Freak" Orlando, a woman played by the late Magdalena Montezuma, who appears in various guises and deformities throughout. ...

The Spy Who Never Was (1976)

A diabolical tale of romance, murder, and mistaken identity as a treacherous terrorist organization hunts an enemy agent with the intention of killing him, but instead they set their sights on the wrong man. Left in the wake of their mistaken pursuit is a ...

Hard Women (1975)

Rough-and-ready vice detective Perrak has to follow a 1000 leads during the investigation of a trans murder case. In a profoundly mysterious massage parlor he meets industrialist wife Claire Imhoff, who knows more about the crime than she wants to admit. ...

To the Bitter End (1975)

15 years ago Paul Jordan was a star in Hollywood musicals. But then he retired from showbiz and married the rich Joan. Now, after being dependent on his wife's money for many years, he's sick of it and wants to work again. A romantic affair with his stepda ...

White King (1975)

The daughter of a poor mountain farmer becomes pregnant by a young nobleman. Because he does not want to marry her, she commits suicide. Her brother Ferdl then wants to confront the count. A brawl ensues. Ferdl has to flee into the mountains, where he fall ...

Stellenweise Glatteis (1975)

Karl Maiwald, a Dortmund auto mechanic, struggles amid neighbor disputes and family tension. Discovering his company's clandestine bugging, he exposes management, expecting union backing. Yet the union's hidden ownership of the firm stuns him, as he realiz ...

Die Stadt im Tal (1975)

Wer stirbt schon gerne unter Palmen (1974)

The wealthy plantation owner Pinaud is brutally murdered in Ceylon. His attractive German wife Anne is suspected of the crime and arrested by Inspector Cerdan. He is ordered to take her to Colombo. But the plane on the way there gets caught in a heavy stor ...

Drei Männer im Schnee (1974)

This film adaptation of Erich Kästner's book is about a millionaire who wants to travel to a hotel under a false name and test how "normal people" are treated. ...

Gott schützt die Liebenden (1973)

Engineer Paul Holland returns from a trip. His girlfriend Sybille has disappeared from their apartment without leaving a note. He searches for her and finds himself in the middle of a manhunt for an international drug ring. ...

Tears of Blood (1972)

A story of love between French student Alain and German high school student Christine. ...

Love Is Only a Word (1971)

The 21-year-old student Oliver Mansfeld attends a boarding school in Frankfurt. There he meets the married banker's wife Verena. A passionate affair develops between them, which does not remain undiscovered by Verena's husband for long. ...

And Jimmy Went to the Rainbow's Foot (1971)

The son of an Argentine chemist travels to Vienna, to solve the murder of his father. Step by step, he realizes that his father was internationally entangled in secret service machinations and chemical weapon sales, and ends up in mortal danger himself. Me ...

Hauser's Memory (1970)

A scientist is persuaded by the government to inject himself with the brain fluid of a dying colleague in order to preserve missile-defense secrets. However, he finds that he is now torn between his own wife and that of his dead colleague, who was a Nazi s ...

School of Fear (1969)

A teenager named Kurrat mysteriously disappears from a German boys' school. Then a teacher is found dead; the mystery grows. ...

The College Girl Murders (1967)

Police try to track down a hooded serial killer who murders his victims with a combination of acid and poison gas. ...

Flaming Frontier (1965)

Old Surehand and his faithful old friend Old Wabble are on the trail of a cold-blooded killer with the nickname 'The General'. The brother of Old Surehand was murdered by him. On the way Old Surehand and Old Wabble are involved in the running conflict betw ...

Again the Ringer (1965)

Arthur Milton aka Der Hexer (The Magician/Ringer) must return to London after his calling card was left at the scene of a murder he did not commit. ...

Frontier Hellcat (1964)

Outlaws disguised as Indians commit crimes against settlers but Winnetou and Old Surehand are determined to unmask the bandits and keep the peace. ...

The Mysterious Magician (1964)

The sister of a famous, but as yet uncaught, criminal named "The Hexer" is murdered. Inspector Higgins of Scotland Yard believes that "The Hexer" will surface to take his revenge on his sister's killers, and plans to set a trap to finally capture him. Howe ...

Mark of the Tortoise (1964)

English millionaire Sir Cyrus Bradley is being blackmailed by "The Tortoise" Crime Syndicate. He is to pay £ 100,000.00 Pounds to stay alive and not be murdered. After his refusal to pay the money, he is quickly killed. ...

An Alibi for Death (1963)

Lawyer Maria Rohn takes on the case of Martin Siebeck. The truck driver allegedly ran over a man on the highway. Siebeck denies the crime and states that two people threw the victim in front of his truck at full speed. The more Maria Rohn looks into the ca ...

The Curse of the Yellow Snake (1963)

A Chinese cult bent on taking over the world uses an idol called The Golden Reptile that they believe can give them the power to achieve their goal. ...

Unser Haus in Kamerun (1961)

A young man living in Africa is send to Hamburg by his parents to learn about business. There, he falls in love with the mistress of a friend. ...

Und sowas nennt sich Leben (1961)

A large German city at the beginning of the 1960s. This is where the well-to-do Berger family lives. Outwardly a bourgeois idyll, but behind the scenes the family is in turmoil. The relationship between father and son in particular is extremely tense. Mart ...

And That on Monday Morning (1959)

Intended as a light farce this comedy by Luigi Commencini is a little plodding in its story about a bank manager who has had it with his buttoned-down, boring job. One Monday he can no longer face the tedium of both his work and his life and so he stays ho ...

The Indian Tomb (1959)

Seetha and Harold Berger are rescued from the desert by a caravan and brought to a small village. However, the greedy owner of the house where they are lodged betrays the law of hospitality and reveals their location to Prince Ramigani. The couple tries to ...

The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959)

In Eschnapur, a German architect saves the life of the Maharajah's favorite temple dancer and becomes Maharajah's friend but their friendship is tested when the architect and the dancer fall in-love, triggering the Maharajah's vengeful ire. ...

Meine 99 Bräute (1958)

Nicki Montag is considered a true Casanova in the Munich suburbs. However, this is obviously not only down to him, but also to the numerous women who are only too happy to fall for his advances. With the help of his work-shy friend Jonny, Nicki beguiles on ...

A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)

A German soldier home on leave falls in love with a girl, then returns to World War II. ...

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. ...

Wet Asphalt (1958)

In Berlin, when the journalist Greg Bachmann is released from prison six months before the end of his sentence, there is a driver named Jupp waiting for him. Soon he learns that the famous journalist Cesar Boyd was the responsible for the shorter sentence. ...