Hilmar Thate

Hitlerkantate (2005)

Berlin during the Nazi reign: Young music student Ursula is a talented musician and a fervent admirer of the "Führer". When she is asked to assist renowned composer Broch, who was ordered to compose a cantata for Hitler′s 50th birthday, it first seems l ...

The Ninth Day (2004)

During WWII, head priest Henri Kremer is mysteriously freed from Dachau. He learns that he can return home to Luxembourg, for only nine days, during which he'll have to face a persuasive Gestapo chief who will put his faith to the test. ...

Zweikampf (2002)

Operation Rubikon (2002)

Krieger und Liebhaber (2000)

Underworld boss Caesar has a close male friendship with his personal chef Alfons. However, this is put to the test when Caesar wants to have his unfaithful wife Milena killed - and Alfons stands in his way. ...

Paths in the Night (1999)

Set against the backdrop of post-unification Germany, the film explores the breakdown of relations in a decaying social structure. ...

Schön ist’s im Labyrinth – George Grosz in Amerika (1992)

George Grosz, born on July 26th in Berlin, vicious draftsman and painter of the face of the ruling class, enfant terrible of the 1920s, accused of pornography and blasphemy, was one of the most popular visual artists of the Weimar Republic. Little is known ...

Hurenglück (1991)

Eva's interactions with men are polite but distant. Grosser, the director of the church choir, is in love with Eva, though he has no hope of a future with her, as she devotes all her care to her mentally disabled son, Oliver. One day, the pimp Hager pulls ...

Frei zum Abschuß (1989)

Die Hose (1985)

Dom Juan (1985)

Filmed for television, this production adapts Molière's Dom Juan (or The Feast with the Statue), following the final days of the libertine Dom Juan Tenorio as he seduces, deceives, and provokes those around him. His servant Sganarelle serves as a constant ...

Variation (1983)

The emotional story of an adulterous relationship between a journalist and a teacher. ...

Dingo (1983)

Veronika Voss (1982)

In Munich 1955, German film star Veronika Voss becomes a drug addict at the mercy of corrupt Dr. Marianne Katz, who keeps her supplied with morphine. After meeting sports writer Robert Krohn, Veronika begins to dream of a return to stardom. As the couple's ...

Die zweite Haut (1981)

A divorced woman tries to restart her life. ...

Angels of Iron (1981)

The subject of this historical drama is a splintering Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949. Played against the backdrop of social upheaval, the characters in the drama come to epitomize the best and worst of each pole of the political sphere. A 17-year-old ...

Don Juan, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 78 (1980)

In a backwater town, opera director Andrej Wischnewsky is supposed to put on a production of Mozart's "Don Giovanni". ...

Der Galgensteiger (1979)

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 ...

The Elective Affinities (1974)

Eduard and Charlotte live an isolated and idyllic life together. But soon Eduard feels that something is missing and he invites his friend Otto to come stay. Charlotte, meanwhile, decides that her foster daughter Ottilie should come live with them. Complex ...

Zement (1973)

Early 1921: a man is on his way home. Gleb Chumalov, regimental commander, worker and Hero of the Order of the Red Banner, returns to his home town from the Civil War. The victory over the enemies of the Russian people gives him the conviction that a new, ...

Optimistische Tragödie (1971)

During the October Revolution in 1917 the Bolshevik Party appointed a woman commissioner of the "Free Anarchist-Revolutionary Section". This regiment emerged from an anarchist division of the ship of the line "Imperator Paul I. ...

Seed Corn Should Not Be Ground – A Portrait of Käthe Kollwitz (1967)

Tetzlaff's documentary combines historic film footage and photographs with quotes from Kollwitz's diary and images of her sculptures and graphic works, including The Weavers' Revolt (1893-97), The Peasant War (1902-08), Woman with the Dead Child (1903) and ...

Die Tage der Commune (1966)

Victory and demise of the first proletarian dictatorship in the history of mankind, about the struggling, bleeding workers of Paris who enthusiastically defend their historical initiative. The little Cabet family from Rue Pigalle and their friends let the ...

Filmsommerliches (1966)

A feuilletonistic conversation with the movie audience about the question: How do you feel about going to the movies? In general - and especially in summer? What do people expect from movies these days and what criticism do they have on their minds? The in ...

Memento (1966)

A film about Jewish cemeteries in East Berlin, based on a screenplay by Günter Kunert, with text by Rabbi Martin Riesenburger. There are shots of gravestones and inscriptions – deported, murdered, perished; in Auschwitz or Theresienstadt. Commentary rem ...

Divided Heaven (1964)

After a breakdown, Rita returns to her childhood village in 1961. ...

Preludio 11 (1964)

Daniela – a single mother, whose boyfriend left for the US – believes wholeheartedly in Cuba's revolutionary new order. Meanwhile, in Florida, a plot is afoot. Under the command of an American officer, four Cubans ex-patriots and a Guatemalan land on t ...

Ein Mann und sein Schatten (1963)

At a farm-equipment plant, production lags at 89 % and a new, untested combine proves a "failure" in the fields. A promising redesign exists, crafted by a transplanted West German engineer, but he's mistrusted. Meanwhile, workers and the Party secretary bl ...

Unbändiges Spanien (1962)

Documentary film about the Spanish Civil War. ...

Die letzte Chance (1962)

It is a fateful moment: during one of his concerts, Jewish pianist Klaus Seiser discovers Gestapo officer Dr. Becker in the audience. He had imprisoned and harassed the young Seiser in 1943 because of a leaflet. Although the musician had managed to escape ...

Die Frau am Pranger (1962)

The Gleiwitz Case (1961)

To justify their invasion of Poland at the start of WWII, Nazi high command hatches a secret plan: six Polish men from an SS training camp are sent on a special mission to the town of Gleiwitz, to fake a Polish raid on Germany. The 'provoked' Germans will ...

Professor Mamlock (1961)

A Jewish chief of surgery in 1933 Germany remains blind to the rising Nazi threat, dismissing political dissent from his son and a patient, until his family faces increasing anti-Semitic persecution. ...

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 ...

People with Wings (1960)

This film continues the story of radio operator Ludwig Bartuschek from "The Sailor's Song". Near the end of the Weimar Republic, Bartuschek (Erwin Geschonneck) is working as a mechanic in the Sperber airplane plant. Director Dehringer offers him the opport ...

The Sailor's Song (1958)

A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of 1917, German and Russian soldiers start to solidarize with each other. By disarming the officers, machinist Henne Lonke and stoker Jens Kasten prevent the ...

Jahrgang 21 (1958)

At the beginning of the Second World War, Czech music student Honsik comes to Germany from Prague to join a "foreign worker company". After rescuing a boy from the rubble of a bombed-out house, he himself is seriously injured and taken to a hospital in Str ...

Robert Mayer, der Arzt aus Heilbronn (1955)

Biographical movie about Julius Robert Mayer (1814-1878), a surgeon and town doctor in Heilbronn, who studied heat for many years and was the first to correctly formulate the basic principles of the theory of mechanical heat and the principle of conservati ...

Once Is Never (1955)

A musician seeks a peaceful vacation in a Vogtland village but is soon overwhelmed by requests for a symphonic composition and a pop song for a local dance band, leaving him with no time to relax. ...