Hannes Messemer

Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge (1990)

Abandoned by his father, he was a reform school kid with nothing going for him and a giant chip on his shoulder. He joined the Marines but never stayed far from trouble. Then he discovered acting — and the woman who would be with him for most of his mete ...

Langusten (1989)

Paulchen (1985)

Das zerbrochene Haus (1985)

Die Dame und die Unterwelt (1984)

August der Starke (1984)

The Oppermanns (1983)

History of a Jewish family, the Oppermanns, in Berlin at the end of 1932, after Hitler has become the leader of Germany's strongest political party. ...

Frau Jenny Treibel (1982)

Jenny Bürstenbinder has climbed the social ladder by marrying Kommerzienrat Treibel. The professor's daughter Corinna Schmidt plans to do the same and woos Treibel's son Leopold with charm and wit. But Jenny Treibel lacks an adequate dowry. ...

Der kleine Bruder (1982)

Fleeting Acquaintances (1982)

Collin (1981)

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Die Hinrichtung (1981)

Kennwort Schmetterling (1981)

Die Ursache (1980)

Liebe bleibt nicht ohne Schmerzen (1980)

Four contemplative stories about problems with love: "Profitability" is about money, "The Smile" is about coping with a difficult situation, an "Experiment with Alf" is supposed to save a marriage, and in "Paternity" a lawyer and her husband are committed ...

Die Paulskirche (1980)

Union der festen Hand (1979)

Erik Reger's roman à clef examines the development of the Rhineland industrial region from 1918 to 1928, using the Risch-Zander steelworks as a case study: Strikes, the Emperor's visit, revolution, workers' and soldiers' councils, the occupation of the Ru ...

Ein Hut von ganz spezieller Art (1978)

Onkel Silas (1977)

Generale - Anatomie der Marneschlacht (1977)

The movie depicts the events from July until September of 1914 which led to the defeat of the German troops at the Marne. While Sebastian Haffner explains and comments on operations and decisions on the basis of situation maps, key scenes are depicted by a ...

Die Fastnachtsbeichte (1976)

Das Fräulein von Scuderi (1976)

Oblomows Liebe (1976)

Der tödliche Schlag (1975)

The Odessa File (1974)

Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out to hunt down an SS Captain and former concentration camp commander. In doing so he discovers that, despite allegations of war crimes, the former commander has be ...

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 ...

Ein Fall für Goron (1973)

Paris, 1888. With the help of forensic medicine, a sensational criminal case is uncovered. The chief of the Paris Sûreté, Inspector Goron, with the help of Lyon University Professor Lacassagne, is able to solve a capital crime that seemed unsolvable acco ...

Alle lieben Célimare (1973)

Der 21. Juli (1972)

Aus Mangel an Beweisen (1971)

Mit sich allein (1970)

Die Verschwörung (1969)

Bericht einer Offensive (1969)

Das Trauerspiel von Julius Caesar (1969)

König Richard II (1968)

Das Attentat - L.D. Trotzki (1967)

Bericht eines Feiglings (1967)

Pavel is sent to Germany to spy. ...

Is Paris Burning? (1966)

Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, en ...

Flieger Ross (1966)

The Defector (1966)

An American scientist is sent by the CIA to East Germany to retrieve a secret microfilm from a Soviet scientist interested in defecting to the West but the Stasi secret police's surveillance complicates matters. ...

Once a Greek (1966)

An extravagant comedy with Heinz Rühmann. ...

Alle mal herhören, auch die, die schwerhören..! (1966)

Congress of Love (1966)

Vienna 1965. While visiting the Wax Museum a group of tourists stop in front of the figure of Prince Metternich. All of a sudden they find themselves brought back 150 years earlier during the Vienna Congress of 1814-1815. Before their eyes wide open, histo ...

Die Räuber (1966)

Through an intrigue, Franz Moor manages to have Karl, his brother, disinherited and disowned. He then founds a band of robbers and becomes their captain. Franz wants to win over Karl's fiancée Amalia and fakes Karl's death, and later the death of his fath ...

Plädoyer für einen Rebellen (1965)

Ninotschka (1965)

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Der arme Mann Luther (1965)

Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua (1964)

Der trojanische Krieg findet nicht statt (1964)

Bericht von den Inseln (1964)

Mission to Venice (1964)

An American polo player in Paris gets roped into intrigue when he's asked to find a family friend whom has gone missing. ...

The Great Escape (1963)

The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the mos ...

Reporter (1963)

Amphitryon 38 (1963)

Die Legende vom heiligen Trinker (1963)

Liebe im September (1962)

Er ging an meiner Seite (1961)

Der Transport (1961)

March, 1945: The insecure and hesitant reserve lieutenant Felix Bleck receives orders to lead a transport of 40 prisoners to the Western Front, where the men are to be burned up in a punishment battalion. On the way there, Bleck realizes the inhuman futili ...

Auf Engel schießt man nicht (1960)

Die rote Hand (1960)

Die Brücke des Schicksals (1960)

Escape by Night (1960)

In Nazi-occupied Rome, a beautiful bootlegger, to the chagrin of her lover, gives sanctuary to three escaped POWs: an American pilot, a Russian sergeant and a British major. ...

Schatten der Helden (1960)

The High Life (1960)

Doris Putzke is fond of dating men in her quest to find the perfect one. In her brief relationships, she goes from one disillusionment to another, constantly deluding herself about the intentions of her lovers. ...

Ein Tag, der nie zu Ende geht (1959)

General Della Rovere (1959)

In WWII-Italy, the Gestapo blackmails a con man to impersonate a dead partisan commander in order to extract information from his fellow inmates. ...

Babette Goes to War (1959)

Beautiful housekeeper Babette travels to England after the Nazis invade France. There, British intelligence devise a plan for Babette to sneak back home, where she could use her feminine charm on key Nazi officer Schulz, gleaning valuable information for E ...

People in the Net (1959)

Espionage thriller about a married couple caught in the middle of dueling spy organisations. ...

Twelve Hours by the Clock (1959)

Three criminals escape from a French prison and hide in a coastal village where they have to wait for 12 hours until the boat that is supposed to take them to freedom arrives. ...

Taiga (1958)

A German doctor who is a prisoner of war inspires her compatriots in a Siberian labor camp to regain their courage and confidence in life. ...

The Doctor of Stalingrad (1958)

Dr. Fritz Böhler is a prisoner of war doctor in the Soviet POW camp 5110/47 near Stalingrad. Despite the harshest conditions, he tries to help his fellow prisoners with the simplest means. But when his assistant Dr. Schultheiss falls in love with the Russ ...

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 Glass Tower (1957)

Katja Fleming has given up her job as an actress and married the business man Robert Fleming. But the cold that surrounds her in her modern, luxurious high-rise makes her lonely. Then she meets the author John Lawrence, who wants to convince her to perfo ...

The Devil Strikes at Night (1957)

Hamburg, Germany, 1944, during World War II. A serial killer terrorizes the city. When it seems clear that the local police are unable to catch him, forces as dark and terrible as the criminal himself become involved in the case. ...

Die Kraft und die Herrlichkeit (1957)

The Sins of Rose Bernd (1957)

A young domestic worker on a farm is used and abused by the men in her life. ...

Herzlich willkommen? (1956)