Friedrich Maurer

Die Prüfung (1973)

Wenn ihr wollt, ist es kein Märchen (1973)

Nachricht aus Colebrook (1971)

Die Herberge (1970)

Christoph Kolumbus oder Die Entdeckung Amerikas (1970)

Christopher Columbus's crazy idea of traveling to India can only be realized because the Spanish treasury is empty and Queen Isabella, who rules the country, is charmed by the charming, profit-seeking son of a poor weaver. With the ulterior motive of becom ...

Tartuffe oder Der Betrüger (1970)

Attentat auf den Mächtigen (1969)

Wie es euch gefällt (1968)

The Castle (1968)

A man comes to a small village to begin his new job as an attendant at the nearby castle. But everybody in the village claims that he surely must be mistaken, there is no need for an attendant at the castle. ...

Die schwarze Sonne (1968)

In Lemgo 89 (1967)

Das Gold von Bayern (1967)

Ivar Kreuger der Zündholzkönig (1967)

In the 1920s, Swedish engineer and industrial magnate Ivar Kreuger was one of the richest and most powerful men in the world. At the height of his success, the match manufacturer owned 260 factories and was the boss of 75,000 employees. He juggled dizzying ...

Woyzeck (1966)

Conan Doyle und der Fall Edalji (1966)

Geschlossene Gesellschaft (1966)

Die Schelme im Paradies (1965)

Nun singen sie wieder (1965)

Bernhard Lichtenberg (1965)

Leocadia (1964)

Destination Death (1964)

A group of West German men on a stag party find themselves stranded in a Montenegrin village inhabited only by vengeful women since all their men were shot during the war. ...

Lady Lobsters Bräutigam (1963)

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Maria Stuart (1963)

König Ödipus (1963)

Warten auf Godot (1963)

Die Soldaten (1962)

Der Schlaf der Gerechten (1962)

Wer einmal aus dem Blechnapf frisst (1962)

After serving five years Willi soon learns that his new life is another kind of prison since no one trusts an ex-convict. His uphill struggle for a job and shattered hopes of a normal existence grind him down to utter despair. ...

Mord im Dom (1962)

Brennpunkt (1961)

Lawrence Neman is a well-heeled New York average citizen. One day when he needs glasses, his appearance takes on a trait that corresponds to the widespread notions of Jewish physiognomy. As a result, Newman is soon treated and harassed as a Jew, feeling th ...

Abendstunde im Spätherbst (1960)

Der Nobelpreis (1959)

As Long as the Heart Still Beats (1958)

Die Bürger von Calais (1958)

Escape from Sahara (1958)

Three Foreign Legionnaires - Luigi, Pat and Kurt - desert during the Algerian war because they have had enough of the inhumane war machine. But their comrade Robert intercepts them and decides to have them court-martialed. On their way to Algiers, they pic ...

The Star of Africa (1957)

Biographic movie of the German fighter ace, who was killed in a plane crash after over 150 kills in North Africa. ...

The Night of the Storm (1957)

Despised by her husband and son after an affair, Marianne moves in with her lover, an unsuccessful painter, until she is purified. ...

Spy for Germany (1956)

The true story of a German agent sent to the USA in 1944 in order to stop the development of the atomic bomb. ...

Was die Schwalbe sang (1956)

After high school the lover's Ursula and Gerhard paths part: she stays in the small town, while he attends university in Hamburg to become a composer. While she remains faithful to their love, he forgets more and more about her when he becomes successful a ...

Alibi (1955)

An industrialist's wife was killed and now her lover is accused of murder. ...

Der Biberpelz (1955)

The Grapes Are Ripe (1952)

Karriere in Paris (1952)

France at the time of the Restoration. The young country gentleman Rastignac comes to Paris to study. He takes up residence in a poor boarding house, where his father Goriot, who has been excluded by his daughters, also lives. The penniless Rastignac is an ...

The Kaiser's Lackey (1951)

Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that he has to offer his services to the powers-that-be if he wants to wield power himself. His life motto now runs: bow to those at the top and tread on those ...

The Sonnenbrucks (1951)

Professor Sonnenbruck is a scientist who is not particularly interested in politics. Even the meeting in 1943 with his former assistant Peters does not change him. He does not betray Peters, who has escaped from a concentration camp, but that is already en ...

Heart of Stone (1950)

Lavish adaptation of Wilhelm Hauff′s fairy tale: Young charburner Peter Munk dreams of joining the upper class. He makes a deal with the sinister Holländer-Michel, who offers to trade Peter′s human heart for one made of stone. Once he has the "cold he ...

Semmelweis – Retter der Mütter (1950)

In the middle of the 19th century, almost one in three women who gave birth died of puerperal fever. The Hungarian doctor Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis also observed these terrible occurrences in his clinic in Vienna. He came to the conclusion that it was prima ...

The Blum Affair (1948)

Dr. Blum, a Jewish manufacturer, is falsely accused of a murder. Even when the real killer's identity becomes evident, the state prosecutor refuses to accept Blum's innocence. ...

An Old Heart Becomes Young Again (1943)

All throughout his entire life, Friedrich Wilhelm Hoffmann let his career run roughshod over his personal life. He had no wife, because he was married instead to his chocolate factory. Now he's old and gray, and his relatives, who are greedily waiting fo ...

The Dismissal (1942)

German chancellor Otto von Bismarck promises the dying emperor Wilhelm I. to be loyal to his grandson. But the gap between young Kaiser Wilhelm II. and old Bismarck is rapidly widening. It soon appears that an era is coming to an end. ...

The Sinister Wish (1939)

After losing almost all of his money, a young marquis discovers that among his few remaining possessions is a magical piece of leather which is capable of fulfilling any wish. However, every use of it will make it less effective and furthermore will shorte ...