Manfred Meurer

Snowdrops Bloom in September (1974)

This feature film describes the labor dispute of a piecework crew in a large German industrial company and its workforce against the background of the "September strikes" in Germany. ...

Liebe Mutter, mir geht es gut (1972)

The unemployed machinist Alfred "Scheff" Schefczyk moves from Württemberg to West Berlin full of hope, where he finds a job as a transporter. There, however, he despairs at the seemingly insurmountable dependency structures and the lack of solidarity amon ...

Kassensturz (1971)

Berlin Affair (1970)

Spy suspense drama set in 1960's Berlin. Intrigue and double-cross lead Killian on a twisting path through love and loss. ...

Bend Sinister (1970)

In a fictitious European city known as Padukgrad, where a government arises following the rise of a philosophy known as "Ekwilism", which discourages the idea of anyone being different from anyone else, and promotes the state as the prominent good in socie ...

Der Senator (1968)

Die schwarze Hand (1966)

The Black Market of Love (1966)

The young women who board a liner in the port of Genoa have no idea that they are being watched, nor what actually awaits them. Harald, who had recruited them for the trip with false promises, watches unnoticed, but cannot enjoy his success, because there ...

Kubinke (1966)

The Sinister Monk (1965)

A hooded serial killer finds a novel way to murder his victims--he lashes them to death with a whip. The police try to track him down before any more murders occur. ...

Das Fahrrad (1965)

Freispruch für Old Shatterhand (1965)

On April 12, 1910, before the magistrate's court in Berlin-Charlottenburg: The defamation suit brought by Karl May, creator of Winnetou and Old Shatterhand, against editor Rudolf Lebius is being heard. Lebius had called May a "born criminal" and brought hi ...

Legende einer Liebe (1964)

Room 13 (1964)

A serial-killer is murdering the ladies of a night club. Detective Gray is seeking for the killer but can only find a lot of gangsters. And the killer is about to act again... ...

Die Wölfe (1963)

Two Among Millions (1961)

Just before the Berlin Wall is built, a young East German worker tries his personal and professional luck as a barkeep in West Berlin. A realistic love story set during Germany's post-war economic miracle, which here does not fulfil its bright promises. ...

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 ...

Bumerang (1960)

The paths of three men cross for a short time in post-war Berlin. Robert and Willy are unattached and unemployed, Georg has joined them from Hamburg, he has a family and occasionally does something crooked. That's what the three of them are up to together: ...

Paradies der Matrosen (1959)

Scala – total verrückt (1958)

The Restless Night (1958)

1958: during the Russian campaign, a military priest is called upon to assist Private Baranowski, who has been sentenced to death for desertion, on his last night. It is also the last night before the departure for Stalingrad, which the soldiers know means ...

Spy for Germany (1956)

The true story of a German agent sent to the USA in 1944 in order to stop the development of the atomic bomb. ...

Was die Schwalbe sang (1956)

After high school the lover's Ursula and Gerhard paths part: she stays in the small town, while he attends university in Hamburg to become a composer. While she remains faithful to their love, he forgets more and more about her when he becomes successful a ...

The Rats (1955)

Soon after World War II, a pregnant Polish refugee, Pauline, wanders Berlin looking for the boyfriend who abandoned her. She has no option but to sell her child to another woman, Anna. After the birth, Pauline decides she wants the baby back. ...

Between Hamburg and Haiti (1940)

A successful German overseas merchant with a plantation in Haiti is looking for a suitable wife in Hamburg and comes across a barmaid from the Reeperbahn with an illegitimate child. He wants to marry her, but she does not follow him out of nobility. In sea ...

Ein Mann auf Abwegen (1940)

Swedish industrial magnate Percival, known as Percy Patterson, has suddenly disappeared after a business meeting with his partner Sully. ...

Twelve Minutes After Midnight (1939)

In Stockholm a young female law student investigates a series of jewel thefts that have been baffling the police. ...

Sergeant Berry (1938)

Sergeant Hans Albers, the terror of Chicago gangsters, is transferred South of the border to deal with bandidos. ...

Cat Walk (1937)

A son, in defending Prussia circa 1814 under the thumb of Napoleon, washes away the disgrace of his aristocrat father who had collaborated with the French and caused the deaths of countrymen. ...

Gabriele eins, zwei, drei (1937)

Gabriele Bordersen, a woman from a good home, wants to see what real life is like among the common folk. With her stewardess Fanny Flint and the tour guide Simikry, she goes off to visit a sailors' bar. Fanny and Gabriele change clothes, which allows the s ...

Such Great Foolishness (1937)

The young Styrian woman Therese Brandl desperately wants to work in the theater and therefore travels by train to Vienna to pursue artistic training. The scholarship granted by the elderly Countess Hoyer is intended to guarantee her financial independence. ...

Strong Hearts in the Storm (1937)

On the eve of the Russian Revolution, a performance of "Tosca" is taking place at the opera house. The artists and staff are too engrossed in their work to notice the unrest in the streets. The leading roles are played by Marina Marta and René Areno, who ...

I Was Jack Mortimer (1935)

The jealous star conductor Montemayor knows that his beautiful younger wife, Winifred, is cheating on him with an American named Jack Mortimer. After the concert rehearsal, he takes a taxi to the train station, sees Mortimer and shoots him at an intersecti ...

Light Cavalry (1935)

Rosika, a girl from Genoa, fled her innkeeper stepfather after he tried to abuse her. She finds refuge - and a job as well - in a traveling circus. Cherubini, the owner of the big top, falls in love with the lovely young woman and makes her the star of the ...