Joachim Hess

Le retour de heidi (2011)

Mensch, Berni (1983)

Kamikaze '89 (1982)

In a futuristic, totalitarian society wherein the government controls all facets of the media, a homicide detective investigates a string of bombings and uncovers more than he bargained for. ...

Watussi (1977)

Das letzte Testament (1974)

Bismarck von hinten oder Wir schließen nie (1974)

The Knüppels are in trouble with their underage daughter, who has discovered love too early. She has a child with Frank Dreier. But the young people have long since come to an agreement. ...

Diamantenparty (1973)

Every year, rich people and celebrities gather for the race week in Baden-Baden - and with them the most valuable jewelry and the finest diamonds. This comes in handy for philanderer Konni. His extravagant wife Franziska has a lover and wants to divorce hi ...

Orpheus in der Unterwelt (1973)

Wozzeck (1972)

Alban Berg's disturbing opera masterfully translated into film. ...

Herr Soldan hat keine Vergangenheit (1972)

Bernd, a 13-year-old paralyzed boy, has met a man, Mr. Soldan, who has taken him out in his wheelchair a few times. Bernd has problems because of his physical helplessness: his friends play soccer, are free, carefree and he is confined to his wheelchair. S ...

Sparks in Neu-Grönland (1971)

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1970)

Wagner's communal drama on film. ...

Zar und Zimmermann (1969)

A tsar and a carpenter switch places amid great laughs and endearing love. ...

Help, Help, the Globolinks! (1969)

The world's only psychedelic children's opera about an alien invasion. ...

Der vierte Platz (1969)

Weber: Der Freischütz (1968)

Director Rolf Liebermann's 1968 filmed-for-TV production of Carl Maria von Weber's opera, with the Hamburg State Opera performing an adapted stage version. Soloists include Bernhard Minetti, Toni Blankenheim and Arlene Saunders. The conductor is Leopold Lu ...

Elektra (1968)

Film version of Richard Strauss's one-act opera, Elektra. ...

Der Vogelhändler (1968)

Fidelio (1968)

In the late 1960s Rolf Liebermann, the legendary intendant of the Hamburg State Opera, had the visionary idea of presenting a number of operas in filmed versions, among the first ever done in color, to be shown on German television. This is the historic r ...

Bäume sterben aufrecht (1967)

Schwarzer Peter - Märchenoper für kleine und große Leute (1966)

Königliches Abenteuer (1966)

Der Fall Hau (1966)

In einer fremden Stadt (1963)

Abenteuer in Norfolk (1961)

Adieu, Prinzessin (1961)

Der zerbrochene Krug (1959)

Der Tod auf dem Rummelplatz (1958)

A fairground in a small town in northern Germany: a young woman named Margret Winter enjoys herself there with a friend. She has 900 D-Mark in her pocket, which she should pay in for her superior. Paul Lohmann, one of three clowns, addresses the two ladies ...

The Devil's General (1955)

The adaptation of the eponymous play by Carl Zuckmayer tells the story of renegade general Harras of the German Luftwaffe, who during WWII openly criticizes the Nazi regime. As a consequence, he is put under surveillance, and even imprisoned for a brief pe ...

Secrets of the City (1955)

An industrial plant gets into difficulties. The factory owner then decides to sell the company and makes all the employees redundant. How do the dismissed employees deal with the new situation? ...

The Devils of Loudun (1969)

This opera revolves around the demonic collective possession suffered by the Ursuline nuns in the convent of Loudun in 1634. The story concentrates on the handsome but doomed Urbain Grandier who fights against fanaticism and evil. ...

Doktor Murkes gesammelte Nachrufe (1965)

Doktor Murkes gesammeltes Schweigen (1964)

Der Schinderhannes (1958)

1802: The adventurous life story of Hans Bückler, known as "Schinderhannes", who fights against the French occupying forces and large landowners who exploit poor farmers in the Hunsrück region during the Napoleonic Wars. ...

Grabenplatz 17 (1958)

Murder mystery about the disappearance of a boy who has leukaemia following the murder of his mother, which he witnessed. ...

The Devil's General (1955)

The adaptation of the eponymous play by Carl Zuckmayer tells the story of renegade general Harras of the German Luftwaffe, who during WWII openly criticizes the Nazi regime. As a consequence, he is put under surveillance, and even imprisoned for a brief pe ...

The Lost One (1951)

A German scientist murders his fiancée during World War II when he learns that she has been selling the results of his secret research to the enemy. ...