Johanna Hofer

Drei Schwestern (1986)

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 ...

Possession (1981)

A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incid ...

Kortnergeschichten (1980)

Documentary about director Fritz Korner ...

Big and Little (1980)

Follows a woman, Lotte, who travels through Germany and seeks human connections, but is unsuccessful as every person she encounters is locked into his own world. Based on the play by Botho Strauß. ...

Hedda Gabler (1978)

Rückfälle (1977)

After rehab, Manfred Burger seems to have got his alcohol addiction under control and is trying to reorganize his life. Although he is now sober, he soon realizes that society cannot cope with his illness: His relationship with his wife Eva is on its last ...

Auf dem Chimborazo (1977)

The Memory of Justice (1976)

This exceptional, disturbing, and thought-provoking two-part documentary compares the atrocities committed by the Nazis as revealed during the Nuremberg trials to those committed by the French in Algeria and those done by the Americans in Vietnam. The four ...

I Only Want You to Love Me (1976)

Peter grew up during the economic miracle, bereft of parental care and love. Learning early on that interpersonal relationships are based on the principles of exchange or purchase, he abides by these rules and gives generous presents to his family and his ...

Seniorenschweiz (1976)

Im Hause des Kommerzienrates (1975)

The Pedestrian (1973)

When a German businessman causes a car accident with deadly consequences, the papers start digging into his past to find scandals. What they find causes him to reevaluate his own past during WW2 when he was in Greece. ...

Im Reservat (1973)

A gay man lives with a lonely old lady in a demolished house in Berlin. One day the old lady's daughter stands in front of the door and wants to bring her mother home. ...

Altersheim (1972)

Nach Damaskus (1966)

Maria Stuart (1963)

Mord im Dom (1962)

Waldhausstraße 20 (1960)

Dubrovsky (1959)

Vladimir Dubrovsky returns from St. Petersburg to his family estate, where he finds his father dying and learns that all his lands and serfs have been fraudulently taken by the owner of a neighboring estate. Having organized a detachment of peasants who re ...

A Song Goes Round the World (1958)

A biopic of the singer and film actor Joseph Schmidt. The title is a reference to his best-known song and a 1933 film of the same title in which he starred. ...

Die Alkestiade (1958)

A Farewell to Arms (1957)

An English nurse and an American soldier on the Italian front during World War I fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them test their romance to the limit. ...

The Big Chance (1957)

Heidelberg teenagers make jazz music. ...

Before Sundown (1956)

Based on a play by Gerhardt Hauptmann, the film details a bittersweet May-December romance between ageing Mathias Clausen and young, beautiful Inken Peters. ...

Toxi (1952)

This German slice-of-life drama is based on a very real postwar dilemma. At the time the film was made, there were over 3000 children living in Germany who'd been fathered by African American GIs. Referred to as "mischlings," these children were often trea ...

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. ...

The Last Illusion (1949)

Professor Mauthner, after many years of exile (having emigrated in 1933 to the USA), returns to Germany in 1948. He can in fact return to his teaching post, but the rejection and petty intrigues of his reactionary colleagues and students make his work almo ...

Hotel Berlin (1945)

An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany as the Third Reich falls. ...

Hitler's Madman (1943)

In 1942, a young paratrooper in the RAF returns to Czechoslovakia to encourage his fellow countrymen to sabotage the German war effort. ...

Above Suspicion (1943)

Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe. ...