Herbert Ballmann

A.D.A.M. (1988)

Anthropologist Tobias Schmidt-Eberbach is about to get married. However, a find of a prehistoric skull on his wedding day messes up his plans. So does hitchhiker Uschi Mueller who he picks up merely by accident. ...

Die Klette (1986)

Käthe Kollwitz - Auf der Seite der Schwachen (1985)

Girl in a Boot (1985)

An East Berlin woman falls in love with a Swiss cook. ...

Die zweite Frau (1983)

Die Gartenlaube (1982)

Schwindelig vor Geld und Liebe (1977)

Der schwarze Storch (1976)

Tristan (1975)

Im Hause des Kommerzienrates (1975)

Im Schillingshof (1973)

Das Geheimnis der alten Mamsell (1972)

Eine Handvoll Brennesseln (1972)

Frau Jenny Treibel (1972)

Set in Berlin in the eighties of the 19th century. The focus is on the upper-class family of Kommerzienrat Treibel and the family of Professor Schmidt, who live in modest circumstances. For the former, outward appearances, possessions and the resulting soc ...

Tchao (1971)

Drei Tage bis Allerseelen (1970)

Interview mit Herbert K. (1970)

Attentat auf den Mächtigen (1969)

Helgalein (1969)

As a naive blonde from the countryside, Helgalein comes into conflict with the insignia of the sexual revolution. ...

Eva - Der große Frauenreport (1968)

Sexual education film. ...

Hochspannung (1967)

Schöne Grüße von Adelheid (1962)

Ein Sommertag macht keine Liebe (1961)

During a weekend spent on the island Hiddensee, the snobbish high school student Jan, who has just been expelled from school, meets Christine. Christine is impressed with his bragging attitude although he just uses it to hide his insecurity and his remorse ...

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 ...

Tinko (1957)

After 1945, land reform forces Old Kraske to become an agricultural worker, but he continues to work on his own, flatly refusing to join any collective farming activities. He desperately wants a large-scale farm like Kimpel's in order to pass it on to his ...

Das Traumschiff (1956)

The two half-orphans Reni and Rolf are 13 and 10 years old and they live with their grandmother in Berlin. Their father has died during the war, their mother works at a Baltic Sea port. Here she meets a captain who wants to marry her. When their mother tel ...

The Devil from Mill Mountain (1955)

This film is set in a medieval mill town in the Harz mountains. The greedy and brutal millman and his accomplices, the castle steward and the mayor, set fire to a forest mill that the farmers used for processing their grain. Without their mill, the farmers ...

The Mysterious Wreck (1954)

Several children find out what's the matter with a wreck offshore, which puts them into jeopardy. ...

Blue Bandanas in the Summer Wind (1952)

Summer holidays of young pioneers and the report of the pioneer meeting in Dresden in August 1952. ...

Wilhelm Pieck - Das Leben unseres Präsidenten (1952)

Basing his work on documentary material, Andrew Thorndike tells the life story of Wilhelm Pieck: from young worker to fighter for the German working class, and from enemy of national-socialism to the first president of the German Democratic Republic. ...

Friendship Triumphs (1951)

Film about the third 'Weltfestspiele der Jugend und Studenten für den Frieden' in East Berlin, 1951. West Germany is represented as a degenerate country which has been occupied by the Americans and is still inclined to fascism. We see the construction of ...

Die schwarze Hand (1966)

Der Beste (1963)