Gert Westphal

Max Ophüls - Den schönen guten Waren (1990)

Employees remember the director Max Ophüls, who was forced to emigrate in 1933 - his fifth film "Liebelei" was a great success in cinemas. After an odyssey through France, Italy, the Netherlands and the USA, he returned to work in France and Germany in th ...

Hitler: A Career (1977)

A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of mass psychology and how the desperate crowd can be deceived and shepherded to the slaughterhouse. ...

Der Fall Liebknecht-Luxemburg (1969)

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

10 Percent (1966)

Even thieves have a lobby! And they defend their clientele, especially since their very existence is at risk. The safety precautions in safes and in banks are becoming ever stricter, making the working conditions for burglars and thieving magpies more and ...

The Last Man (1955)

Old Karl Knesebeck has long been head waiter and rules his waiters with an iron fist at the hotel. When the business passes into the hands of the heirs after the owner's death, he's in a difficult position. The unscrupulous Alwin makes advances toward Nidd ...

Der Scheingemahl (1974)

Leutnant Nant (1965)

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 ...