Friedrich G. Beckhaus

Space Patrol (2003)

Orion commander Cliff Allister McLane, galactic war hero and unconventional daredevil in the service of the world government, is transferred with his crew to the space patrol. On top of that, Colonel Villa, head of the Galactic Security Service, provides h ...

Christo & Jeanne-Claude: Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin 1971-1995 (1996)

In 1971, Christo and Jeanne-Claude thought of wrapping the Reichstag. After endless meetings with Government officials, they were finally given permission to wrap the Reichstag in 1994. For 7 days, in June 1995, a steel framework was constructed, then a me ...

Ein Schweizer namens Nötzli (1988)

Josef Nötzli is a shy and somewhat awkward man. He has been working as an accountant in a chemical plant in West Berlin for 26 years. But Nötzli originally comes from Switzerland. Nötzli started out as an accountant and remained in this position. Due to ...

Aufrichtige Lügnerin (1988)

Aimée (1987)

Nessie, das verrückteste Monster der Welt (1985)

Young men from a car repair shop in Loch Ness, northern Scotland, use a sea monster imitation to rescue castle residents from murder attacks. This allows them the "real" Nessie - Monster into the enclosure. A simple-minded mixture of crime thriller, slapst ...

Vampires in Havana (1985)

Professor Von Dracula, a vampire scientist, leaves Transylvania for Cuba, where he invents "Vampisol," a potion that allows vampires to survive in sunlight. When the professor announces his intention to donate the formula free-of-charge to vampires all ove ...

Mrs. Harris - Freund mit Rolls Royce (1984)

The Wannsee Conference (1984)

A real time recreation of the 1942 Wannsee Conference, in which leading SS and Nazi Party officals gathered to discuss the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question". Led by SS-General Reinhard Heydrich, the Wannsee Conference was the starting point for the J ...

Die Friedenmacher (1984)

Non-Stop Trouble with my Double (1984)

A wealthy businessman and the owner of a rundown pub share one thing in common - they look like identical twins! When the businessman hears of a plot against him, he hires the pub owner as a decoy. However, the pub owner is accident prone and causes more t ...

A Love in Germany (1983)

In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an affair his mother had with a young Polish prisoner of war, how the auth ...

Edith's Diary (1983)

When Edith Howland's husband abandons her for a younger woman, leaving her with their alcoholic son and his senile uncle, she begins recording details of an imaginary, much more successful life where she has friends and grandchildren. However, this diversi ...

Leben im Winter (1982)

Der Mann im Pyjama (1981)

A man just wants to buy some cigarettes - but when he hurries out onto the street in his pyjamas to buy a pack from the vending machine, a chain of coincidences leads to the most adventurous night of his life. On his odyssey through Berlin at night, he wit ...

Stützen der Gesellschaft (1978)

Kleine Geschichten mit großen Tieren (1978)

Reinhard Heydrich - Manager des Terrors (1977)

Prozeß Medusa (1976)

Drama about the shipwreck of the frigate "Méduse" off the coast of Senegal. In France, the commander responsible, Chaumarey, is finally put on trial. ...

Waffen für Amerika (1976)

Based on the play by Lion Feuchtwanger. ...

Everyone Dies Alone (1976)

When they start losing family members and neighbors due to WWII and the Nazi government's policies, a quiet married couple becomes disillusioned and begins spreading leaflets against the government - a crime punishable by death. ...

Tausend Francs Belohnung (1974)

Steig ein und stirb (1973)

Germany, during the Weimar Republic. In November 1929, traveling salesman Kurt Erich Tetzner is buried at Leipzig's South Cemetery, with his widow in deep mourning. Just three days earlier, Tetzner had burned to death in his car in a mysterious accident ne ...

Der Edison von Schöneberg (1973)

Auf Befehl erschossen (1972)

The Sass brothers commit a bank robbery through a tunnel. ...

Mit dem Strom (1972)

Der Eisberg der Vorsehung (1972)

Ein Toter stoppt den 8 Uhr 10 (1972)

Edgar Koltz travels back to Germany from his vacation destination on Mallorca. Koltz, who is traveling under the false name Heinrich Hauser, wants to use the 48-hour break in his vacation to rob the Munich Commercial and Credit Bank. He is called out under ...

Der Fall Eleni Voulgari (1971)

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. ...

Flucht - Der Fall Münzenberg (1971)

Das Ding an sich und wie man es dreht (1971)

Paul Esbeck (1971)

Angels of Terror (1971)

An Australian woman arrives in London to search for her sister who she finds is involved with a heroin smuggling gang. The gang itself is under attack from an unknown rival, who is methodically assassinating them with a shot to the head. ...

Chopin-Express (1971)

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 ...

Das Freudenhaus (1971)

A former prostitute and a failed circus clown set up a brothel, but he becomes a scoundrel and ends up disappearing with 70000 DM. ...

Die vierzig Irrtümer des Herodes (1970)

Auftrag: Mord! (1970)

The unscrupulous bar owner Otto Grolbek hires the masseur Janos Klewe to murder his landlady. He then wants to inherit her and get his hands on some urgently needed money. But things turn out differently than planned: Janos is killed during the attempted m ...

Interview mit Herbert K. (1970)

Peenemünde (1970)

Claus Graf Stauffenberg (1970)

Friedrich III. '...gestorben als Kaiser' (1970)

Der Fall Sorge (1970)

Die Verschwörung (1969)

Sir Basil Zaharoff - Makler des Todes (1969)

Gnade für Timothy Evans (1969)

The case of Timothy Evans was the first major post-war miscarriage of justice to capture public attention. Of low intelligence, Evans was damned by his own, false confession that he had murdered his wife and daughter. The trial and rightful conviction of J ...

Im Auftrag der schwarzen Front (1969)

Van Gogh (1969)

Der Fall Liebknecht-Luxemburg (1969)

Reconstruction of the murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg and the following farcical military court procedures. ...

Der Senator (1968)

Kimper & Co. (1968)

Tragödie in einer Wohnwagenstadt (1967)

Superba is a trailer park surrounded by forest somewhere in the USA, twelve miles from the nearest town. The inhabitants are simple-minded, some of them primitive. When fifteen-year-old Dotty Fisher comes home distraught one day and says she was molested b ...

Der Röhm-Putsch (1967)

The documentary play reconstructs the backstory of the so-called "Röhm Putsch", during which a few hundred people got killed, depicts the intrigues between the Reichswehr (German army) and the SA, and draws an image of the character of Röhm who, prior to ...

Ein Mann, der nichts gewinnt (1967)

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 ...

Das Großstadtpony (1967)

Der Reichstagsbrandprozeß (1967)

Wer rettet unseren Ackerknecht? (1966)

Der Fall der Generale (1966)

Jerry Cotton: The Trap Snaps Shut at Midnight (1966)

Third Jerry Cotton Adaption. A big shipment of Nitroglycerine, enough to make a shambles of New York, mysteriously vanishes! It's a race between agent Jerry Cotton and the underworld to see who can find the deadly explosive first. To complicate things furt ...

Prairie-Saloon (1966)

Geld, Geld, Geld - 2 Milliarden gegen die Bank von England (1965)

Paris muß brennen! (1965)

Freispruch für Old Shatterhand (1965)

On April 12, 1910, before the magistrate's court in Berlin-Charlottenburg: The defamation suit brought by Karl May, creator of Winnetou and Old Shatterhand, against editor Rudolf Lebius is being heard. Lebius had called May a "born criminal" and brought hi ...

The Racetrack Murders (1964)

The son of a British racehorse owner conspires with a bookie to ruin the odds of his father's thoroughbred winning an important event. ...

Das Bild des Menschen. Gespräche einer letzten Nacht (1964)

Jenny und der Herr im Frack (1964)

Der Fall Jakubowski – Rekonstruktion eines Justizirrtums (1964)

Das Kriminalgericht (1963)

The Inn on the River (1962)

A serial killer named The Shark is terrorizing London by killing his victims with a speargun and then, dressed in a scruba-diver's wetsuit, using the city's sewer tunnels to make his getaway. ...

The Secret of the Red Orchid (1962)

Rival gangsters from Chicago move to London and attempt to extort money from rich Britons. ...

Faust (1960)

In 1957 Gustaf Gründgens staged a new production of Goethe's Faust in which he once again played Mephisto, a part he had played since 1932. The brilliant production was a huge success and ran for a couple of years. In 1959 Peter Gorski captured the perfor ...