Gerhard Bienert

Familie Birnchen (1982)

Big and Little (1980)

Follows a woman, Lotte, who travels through Germany and seeks human connections, but is unsuccessful as every person she encounters is locked into his own world. Based on the play by Botho Strauß. ...

Herbstzeit (1979)

A retired head cashier, lonely after the death of his wife, lives in the hope of being able to move in with his son and his family after the latter builds a house. The son does not want to destroy his father's dream and conceals the fact that the family wi ...

Hunted (1979)

A story of ten years old Karl who is living in Berlin in the beginning of thirties. ...

Fleur Lafontaine (1978)

Berlin, 1948: Paralyzed and robbed of her memory, Fleur regains consciousness after a serious fall. The doctor treating her recognizes that her problem is of a psychological nature and encourages her to face up to her past. The daughter of a brothel owner ...

Sabine Wulff (1978)

Sabine Wulff is almost 18 when she is released from the juvenile detention center. She doesn't want to return to her unsupportive parents or to her former boyfriend Jimmy, who got her into trouble by persuading her to steal cigarettes. She instead chooses ...

You and Nothing and Berlin (1977)

A story about Ulrike, a ten year old girl who is looking for a new father with energy and determination. ...

The Flight (1977)

When Dr. Schmith's proposal for international research on infant mortality is rejected, he decides to leave East Germany and strikes a deal with an escape agency that promises him a leading position at a children's hospital in West Germany. But then the de ...

The Sorrows of Young Werther (1976)

The young and rebellious Werther is passionately, but hopelessly, in love with Lotte. Although he knows that she is married to somebody who can offer her a secure future, Werther tries to be near her. Lotte cannot decide between these two men. She eventual ...

Bird Waking Weather (1976)

Jette and Johannes have been living together for two years when Johannes suggests that they "legalize" their relationship. Jette loves him, but the proposal of marriage terrifies her. ...

Flowers for the Man in the Moon (1975)

Adam, Evchen, and Manni are looking at the moon through their home-made telescope. Evchen isn't interested, and dismisses the moon as a lump of cheese. Manni, who is a big fan of technology, sees satellites and a car driving over the moon's surface. But Ad ...

Eine Stunde Aufenthalt (1975)

A disruption on the Berlin S-Bahn: passengers have an involuntary one-hour layover at Frankfurter Allee S-Bahn station and use the time to take a closer look at their fellow passengers. Alice Räppel, a native Berliner with a heart and a snout, meets Egon ...

Susan, Dear Susan (1975)

Suse works as a truck driver on a major construction site. The young woman has a hard life behind her. She was foundling, was raised by farmers. Manne, the father of her child, wanted to escape from the GDR and is in prison. After he is released, Manne wan ...

Alwin auf der Landstraße (1974)

Ironically, at the beginning of the summer holidays, Alwins strict father has grounded him to get him to improve his spelling. Alwin feels like a prisoner and decides to run away heading to his grandparents in the Harz mountains nearly 200 kilometers away. ...

The Naked Man on the Sports Field (1974)

Kemmel, a sculptor with a troubled nature, wonders, as he approaches his fortieth birthday, whether he has created any truly significant work. ...

Das Geheimnis des Ödipus (1974)

July 1944: at a fascist front school in occupied Greece, Captain Weirauch, a civilian professor of classical Greek studies, gives a lecture on guilt and atonement in Sophocles' tragedy Oedipus the King. ...

Hallo, Taxi! (1974)

The story of a philanderer behind the wheel of a cab, who gets into a series of hilarious but also adventurous situations, was based on the actual experiences of Berlin cab drivers. It is an entertaining portrayal of how the main protagonist, Eddy, is to b ...

Ein idealer Gatte (1973)

The Devil's Elixirs (1973)

Young seminary student Franziskus has been ceremonially ordained. He wants to escape the harshness and injustice of the world and devote himself to the service of God in the quiet seclusion of a monastery. He is also hoping to forget the beautiful lady Aur ...

Der kaukasische Kreidekreis (1973)

Gartenparty (1972)

Die Bilder des Zeugen Schattmann (1972)

Based on the novel by Peter Edel: the fate of a young Jewish couple during the Nazi era, who, full of dreams and hopes, search for ways to escape the inhumane situation in Hitler's Germany. In their hopeless situation, they meet a man who leads them down a ...

Verwandte und Bekannte (1971)

Using the example of three generations of a Hamburg working class family, the rise of the working class from the founding of the Wilhelmin Empire to the First World War, over the time of the Weimar Republic and National Socialism to the destruction of the ...

Denn ich sah eine neue Erde (1970)

Four-part television film about the theologian Thomas Müntzer, who became a revolutionary and opponent of Luther during the Peasant War in 1525. December 1520: Martin Luther publicly burns the papal certificate threatening him with excommunication. The p ...

Effi Briest (1970)

In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house that she believes has a ghost. ...

Androcles and the Lion (1969)

Rome at the time of the persecution of Christians: Androclus, a poor tailor, frees a lion in the forest from terrible pain caused by a thorn in his paw. The two meet again by chance when the devout Christian is about to be thrown to wild animals in the are ...

We Are Getting Divorced (1968)

Monika and Johannes are married. With increasing frequency, their son Manni becomes the focus of their arguments. Since the two cannot agree to a compromise, they decide to break up. The ten-year-old Manni is supposed to spend four weeks with Monika follow ...

Wedding Night In The Drizzle (1967)

This comedic musical tells the story of Gabi, a young hairdresser from the Baltic coast who desperately wants to be a jockey. One day, she packs her bags, drives to Hoppegarten, and is soundly rejected by the head coach. Gabi doesn't want to give up, and i ...

Ohne Paß in fremden Betten (1965)

Czech tourist Jelinek decides to take a ride on the "Ferris wheel" in Berlin, and as a result he lags behind the train and is left without his belongings and documents. ...

Much Ado About Nothing (1964)

Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well. ...

Mother Courage and Her Children (1961)

During the Thirty Years' War, the camp-follower Anna Fierling, called "Mother Courage", travels the length and breadth of Europe with her covered wagon. She does not care if it's Catholics or Protestants she trades with as long as business thrives. She los ...

Die heute über 40 sind (1960)

Film by Kurt Jung-Alsen. ...

Alwin der Letzte (1960)

Alwin Schmieder, his brother August and friend Otto were the only ones in the village to refuse to join the LPG. They continue to toil on their own, and everything in the Schmieder household has gone haywire since Alwin became a widower. At least he needs ...

The Opportunists (1960)

The machinations of an ex-officer and a servant who want to get their hands on a fortune. ...

Love's Confusion (1959)

The film tells the love story of two young couples. According to their social ranks, construction worker Edy is dating employee Siegi, while medical student Dieter is dating art school student Sonja. Rather unintentionally, they exchange partners. During a ...

Reportage 57 (1959)

The film centers on the story of newlyweds Inga and Heinz. Heinz works in the western sector of Berlin. A gang of crooks involved in various shady dealings tries to draw Heinz into their dark affairs. However, after accidentally learning about the "activit ...

Klotz am Bein (1958)

The construction of five houses for a workers' housing cooperative has been delayed due to a shortage of workers. It is winter and it is foreseeable that the houses will be completed in the fall at the latest. However, this takes too long for the young ele ...

Der Prozeß wird vertagt (1958)

In 1955, Michael Vierkant, a Jew who had emigrated during the Nazi era, returns from abroad to the Federal Republic of Germany to obtain the conviction of Korn, the former informer responsible for the murder of his sister. Korn is back in office; Michael's ...

Ein Mädchen von 16 ½ (1958)

The young orphan Helga is raised by her aunt after WW II. At the age of sixteen, she turns her back to go her own way. As a rambler, Helga wanders through the night streets of Berlin and has brief acquaintances. ...

Emilia Galotti (1958)

The Prince of Guastalla falls in love with the young citizen Emilia Galotti, who is soon to marry Count Appiani. In order to win Emilia, the prince tries to send the count on an "honorable" journey on his behalf with the help of his chamberlain Marinelli. ...

Les Misérables (1958)

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France. ...

Die Schönste (1957)

13-year old Thomas Berndorf, the son of the rich business man Alexander Berndorf, becomes friends with Hannes Wille, whose father works as foreman. They get to know each because Hannes sometimes is allowed to polish Berndorf′s Mercedes 300. They make a b ...

Polonia-Express (1957)

Railway employee Fritz Marr is not regarded well by his superiors. It is the year 1920, and trains regularly pass the railway hub of Erfurt to the East to secretly transport weapons for the fight against the young Soviet Union. Marr knows about this and wa ...

Lissy (1957)

In 1930s Berlin, a woman's life unravels as her unemployed husband succumbs to Nazi propaganda and joins the Storm Troopers, while her brother's anti-Nazi stance leads to his death, prompting her to confront her beliefs and make a risky choice. ...

Die Millionen der Yvette (1956)

French milliner Yvette has a small fashion salon in Düsseldorf. The young gentlemen of society fall at her feet, but she is not accepted into their circles. That's why her former lover Maurice Daurignac manages to persuade her to pull off a big coup to ge ...

Thomas Müntzer (1956)

In 1523, young Thomas Müntzer arrives with his wife Ottilie in the Thuringian village Allstedt to assume the rectorate. As a follower of Luther′s teachings, he finds in the Bible not only reasons for clerical, but also for secular reforms. But when Luth ...

Vor Gott und den Menschen (1955)

Ein Polterabend (1955)

Berlin 1849: The democrat Adolf Glasbrenner, known as Brennglas, publishes the political satire magazine "Phosphor" on a shoestring budget. He plans to marry his lover, the actress Adele Peroni. But the plan comes to a standstill when Adele is to make a gu ...

Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class (1954)

This film is the first of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. In early November 1918, Ernst Thälmann is an unwilling soldier serving on the western front. As the revolutionary move ...

Die Unbesiegbaren (1953)

The film "Die Unbesiegbaren" covers an episode in German history, in which the Bismarck government tried to mitigate the rise of the social-democrat movement. ...

The Night of the Twelfth (1949)

A dozen ladies expect marriage impostor Lanski to keep his promises. But he needs more money and decides to kill Mrs. von Droste who has changed her will in his favor. He covers his tracks but is seen by a neighbor who soon blackmails him. ...

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. ...

Leuchtende Schatten (1945)

Ich vertraue Dir meine Frau an (1943)

Peter, a bachelor, must Ellinor, the wife of his friend Robert, to watch, thus with his Secretary, travelling can. Because Ellinor has sworn her husband to cheat, he should go. From the take Care of is now a grotesque guarding, confusion and piquant situat ...

Her Other Self (1941)

By coincidence Magdalena gets hired for two jobs in the same company (one day, one night shift) and "invents" a sister to "explain" the situation to an engineer who falls for one of the "sisters" while hating the other. ...

Krach im Vorderhaus (1941)

It can hardly be said that things are peaceful in the Berlin apartment building where the film's story takes place. There are constant clashes between the residents – and sometimes that's quite literal: for example, when the widow Bock hid some explosive ...

Alarm (1941)

Das Mädchen von Fanö (1941)

The two Danish fishermen Frerk and Ipke battle a severe storm off the coast of Fanø harbor. They finally manage to reach land, where they want to recover from the rigors of the journey before heading home to distant Hooge. ...

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. ...

The Young Lady of Barnhelm (1940)

During the Seven Years' War, Prussian Major von Tellheim sacrifices his own fortune to save a Saxon estate from being plundered. After the war ends he is discharged and left penniless when the government suspects his noble deed was actually due to a bribe. ...

Rote Mühle (1940)

A respectable woman in her 50s inherits a local night club from her husband in a divorce settlement, provided that she shows up there every night at 10:00pm for a month. In spite of eny and provocation, she manages to meet the terms. ...

The Desert Song (1939)

When the famous singer Grace Collins got off the plane that had flown her a remote place in Northen Africa little did she know she would meet love and adventure there. If she came there, it was to visit Sir Collins, her stepfather. Falling in love was not ...

Gold in New Frisco (1939)

In the small town of New Frisco in Alberta, Canada, a stranger named Norton arrives, checks into the most expensive hotel room, and begins courting a saleswoman named Doris. Without revealing anything further to the residents, he starts tinkering with a pi ...

Flucht ins Dunkel (1939)

Parkstrasse 13 (1939)

The beautiful Evelyne Schratt, who has many admirerers, and whose two husbands both died under mysterious circumstances, is giving a reception. When one of her admirers is found stabbed to death in a room upstairs, the police detains everyone in the house ...

Aufruhr in Damaskus (1939)

Das Leben kann so schön sein (1938)

The young marriage of the insurance agent Hannes and his wife Nora is being worn down by financial difficulties and overcrowded living conditions. Hannes is unable to sell enough policies and life becomes ever worse for the two. Nora attempts to earn som ...

Pour le Mérite (1938)

This Nazi propaganda film chronicles the rise of the German Air Force ("Luftwaffe") from World War I until Adolf Hitler took power in 1933. ...

Mordsache Holm (1938)

A wrecked car is found on the Reichsautobahn between Hamburg and Bremen. Inside is a murdered woman. It soon becomes clear that the woman is the dancer Grazielle Holm. The investigators are certain: it was murder! But unfortunately there are far too many s ...

Musketier Meier III (1938)

The Marriage Swindler (1938)

A confidence trickster is released from prison and travels to a village where he blackmails and tricks women out of their savings. ...

The Indian Tomb (1938)

After the events of Der Tiger von Eschnapur, Maharadscha Chandra is ready to execute his well-planned vengeance, in which German architect Peter Fürbringer, his fiancée Irene and his assistant will have to fight for their lives amidst a revolt fueled by ...

Altes Herz geht auf die Reise (1938)

The underage Rosemarie is still too young to run her inherited farm by herself; but she's more than aware that her foster father and the farm's administrator, the farmer Schlieker, is constantly skimming from the farm's finances to line his own pocket. To ...

Gewitterflug zu Claudia (1937)

Lufthansa captain Hans Droste is friends with English pilot William Crossley, who saved his life during the war. Having just landed in Berlin, Hans receives a telegram from his friend urgently asking him to fly to London and check on his dying uncle, Sir R ...

The Man Who is Talked About (1937)

The Man Who is Talked About is the overly agreeable Toni Mathis (Heinz Ruhmann), a gent constitutionally incapable of saying the word "no" (or "nein," this being a German picture). Though he'd rather breeze through life without responsibilities or obligati ...

Thunder, Lightning and Sunshine (1936)

Relations between Huckebein, a humble tailor, and Greizinger, a wealthy farmer, become strained after Greizinger breaks off the romance between his son, Franzl, and Huckenbein's daughter, Evi. However, after a situation with a 100 mark note taken from a pa ...

Back in the Country (1936)

A man supposed to be dead returns from the US to save his family land, resist a rival's attempt to frame him for a shooting, deal with an odious banker, and make sure the heroine finds the right husband. ...

Annemarie. Die Geschichte einer jungen Liebe (1936)

In Annemarie Brinkmann's small German village all the young men are recruited to the front in WWI. When her boyfriend Klaus Renken gets the call they spend their last romantic night together. Time goes by but one day when the pastor announces the names of ...

The Beggar Student (1936)

To take a revenge on countess Laura, who slapped him at his proposal, the Governor of the occupied Poland gets her fall in love with a poor student, and exposes him during wedding banquet. ...

Die große und die kleine Welt (1936)

The taxi driver Fritz gets to know the millionaire-heiress Iris and marries her against the wishes of her family. They live together in a small apartment and are very happy. But Fritz wants to offer Iris more and thus finds a position as a laborer in a l ...

Ferryman Maria (1936)

A beautiful young drifter comes to a small village and battles Death itself to save the man she loves. ...

Black Roses (1935)

Erkki Collin is a hunted man. The Czar's soldiers have been close on the heels of the leader of the rebellious Finns, who have been fighting the Russian occupiers since the end of the 18th Century. His flight leads him to the chambers of the dancer Marin ...

Trouble Backstairs (1935)

Hangmen, Women, and Soldiers (1935)

Nazi propaganda film with Hans Albers starring in a dual role as a daring German airman and a Russian general, two cousins who find themselves facing each other in bitter enmity after the end of World War I. ...

Liebesleute (1935)

Baron von Goret is an impoverished landowner, whose estate is about to go into receivership. And so, for that reason, he wishes to marry off his son Hermann with his well-off girlfriend Helga. But Hermann is in love with the farmer's daughter Dorothea. ...

Amphitryon: Happiness from the Clouds (1935)

Lamenting Thebian women are waiting for the men to come back from war. God Jupiter is attracted to one of them: Alkmene. He goes to earth and tries to seduce her as himself: an old man. Failing in this, he disguises himself as Amphitryon (Alkemene's husban ...

Everything for a Woman (1935)

A British industrialist offers a job to a German who kindly rescued him when they were pilots on opposite sides of the Great War, but his wife becomes attracted to the foreigner. Complications ensue. ...

Top Sergeant Schwenke (1935)

A pretty girl helps a popular Berlin policeman solve the murders of a woman he knew and the crooked banker the victim worked for. ...

The Two Seals (1934)

The mustached ruler of a mythical principality, learning that his people dislike his spending so much time going hunting, allows his twin brother to take his place. ...

Decoy (1934)

Viktor Schott, daredevil and womanizer, is charged by his father, a jeweler, to go to Istanbul and purchase a valuable emerald necklace from a rich Persian and to bring it back by ship to Marseille. A pair of criminals are watching him and attractive Deli ...

Her Highness the Saleswoman (1934)

Herr Kobin geht auf Abenteuer (1934)

Hard Luck Mary (1934)

A young woman from the Berlin slums gets her chance to move into a new suburban home with her boyfriend, when she wins a lottery. ...

Police Report (1934)

Director Burckhardt is found shot just after making the moves on Gisela Ostercamp, the wife of a business colleague. When the criminal investigator Haupt inspects items in the apartment of the dead man, he comes to the conclusiong that Gisela herself is t ...

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)

After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professor's preoccupation with another patient, the criminal genius Dr. Mabuse the hypnotist. When Mabuse's notes are found to be connected with a rash o ...

Sprung in den Abgrund (1933)

Ich will Dich Liebe lehren (1933)

Her Majesty Love (1933)

Fred von Wellingen is a wealthy industrialist, part of a large family-owned corporation. Fred has fallen for Lia, a comely bartender in the Berlin Cabaret. He proposes to her, much to the horror of his family, which considers Lia and her unsophisticated fa ...

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 ...

I by Day, You by Night (1932)

A nightclub waiter and a manicurist share the same room, she sleeps there by night and he by day. They've never meet , but they can't stand each other. Then they meet by chance, not knowing who's who and fall in love. ...

The Heath Is Green (1932)

A forest ranger, after spending years tracking down a poacher, is taken aback to learn the man is the father of his beloved. ...

The Living Dead (1932)

A crazed scientist murders his wife, walls her up, then flees. A reporter sets out to track him down. Remake of Unheimliche Geschichten (Richard Oswald, 1919). ...

The Man Without a Name (1932)

Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World? (1932)

Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines describing steadily-rising unemployment figures. This is followed by scenes of a young man looking for work in the city and the family discussing the unpai ...

Crime Reporter Holm (1932)

At a hotel in a resort town in the Bavarian Alps, a retired district attorney from Chicago is shot dead. Crime reporter Peter Holm is on the spot and joins in the murder investigation. ...

Five from the Jazzband (1932)

By pure chance, Jessie and his four jazz musicians are hired to play at the cabaret theatre "Trocadero". Unfortunately, she knows nothing about music and it doesn't help that all four musicians are in love with her. Jessie doesn't reciprocate their feeli ...

Rasputin, Demon of the Women (1932)

The demonic Rasputin is poisoned but survives to continue seducing in evil ways, in this historical thriller. ...

The Pride of Company Three (1932)

The adventures of smart soldier Gustav Diestelbeck include managing his superior officer, competing for the canteneer's daughter, evading punishment for discipline faults and hosting Prinz Willibald during his visit to the regiment. ...

The Captain from Köpenick (1931)

Based on the true story of a cobbler who bought a second-hand captain's uniform, assumed command of a troop of guardsmen, declared the town of Köpenick under military law, arrested the mayor and confiscated the town treasury. ...

Comradeship (1931)

At a mine on the shared edge of France and Germany, an underground explosion leads to the entrapment of a group of French miners. In an effort to save the trapped Frenchmen, German miners Wittkopp and Kasper take it upon themselves to traverse a crumbling ...

Reserve hat Ruh (1931)

Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf (1931)

Franz Biberkopf has served four years in prison. His return to normal life is not successful. ...

The Battle of Bademuende (1931)

Panic in Chicago (1931)

Chicago gangsters use cunning and a series of false identities in a violent battle for dominance, all while attempting to dodge the police. ...

Checkmate (1931)

M (1931)

In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seed ...

Inquest (1931)

When a prostitute is murdered in a cheap Berlin boarding house, an investigating judge suspects that the killer is her boyfriend, unaware that his own son and daughter are also mixed up in the case. ...

Feind im Blut (1931)

The Man in Search of His Murderer (1931)

A man in bad sorts hires a burglar to later kill him, then changes his mind when his fortunes turn and must find the contracted murderer before it is too late. ...

Feind im Blut (1931)