Martin Benrath

Natascha (2000)

Zwei Asse und ein König (2000)

Beresina (1999)

A naive girl's love for Switzerland is put to the test in this satiric comedy. Irina is a woman from Russia who all her life has always been fascinated by Switzerland and longs to live there some day, though her notion of Swiss life has more to do with Hei ...

Die Zauberfrau (1999)

Alle für die Mafia (1998)

Italy gives sponsors the choice between banishment and prison. Mario Adorf decides to go into exile. ...

Der Campus (1998)

A married university professor ends his explosive affair with a female student who then accuses him of sexual harassment. A satire with plenty of situation comedy about a misstep with consequences! ...

Widows (1998)

A black comedy about the dream of freedom and the difficulty of obtaining this: While Molly (Eva Mattes), Elisabeth (Katja Flint) and Maria (Ornella Muti) are great friends, but at the same time completely different. Molly is a difficult stressed housewife ...

Eine Herzensangelegenheit (1997)

Beim nächsten Kuß knall ich ihn nieder (1996)

Reinhold Schünzel is one of the most sought-after actors and directors of cinema of the Weimar Republic. When the National Socialists come to power in 1933, he just releases his legendary gender comedy "Viktor and Victoria". Despite his Jewish faith, Schà ...

The Film Narrator (1993)

Germany in the Thirties. A movie teller realizes that his profession is not longer needed. Silent movies are not produced any longer. Telling stories is the only thing the man was ever good in, so he does not know what to do now. As political circumstances ...

Stalingrad (1993)

A German Platoon is explored through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After half of their number is wiped out and they're placed under the command of a sadistic captain, the platoon lieutenant leads his men to desert. The platoon members at ...

Schtonk! (1992)

Schtonk! is a farce of the actual events of 1983, when Germany's Stern magazine published, with great fanfare, 60 volumes of the alleged diaries of Adolf Hitler – which two weeks later turned out to be entirely fake. Fritz Knobel (based on real-life for ...

Success (1991)

For fans of history, this glimpse of Munich society in the 1920s will be a much-treasured event. The story revolves around an art-gallery manager who puts on a show featuring the scandalous works of a woman artist who committed suicide. He is unjustly accu ...

Der Tod kam als Freund (1991)

A large chemical company in southern Germany is experiencing strange glitches in its data processing. A hacker has infiltrated the computer system and, for example, ordered 9,999 rhesus monkeys instead of 100, or had 500 marks transferred to all the secret ...

Fathers and Sons (1986)

Follows two wealthy families in Germany during the first half of the 20th century. One of them is German, the other one Jewish. ...

The White Rose (1982)

During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of Germany's Nazi government. The students form a resistance cell which they name the "White Rose" after a newsletter that is secretly di ...

Sein Doppelgänger (1982)

From the Life of the Marionettes (1980)

An account of the events before and after a murder committed by a disturbed businessman in a strained marriage, and what led him to perform such a shocking act. ...

Put on Ice (1980)

In the late 1970s the German secret service fights against RAF terrorism and searches for constitutional enemies in the public service. Teacher Brasch implicates secret service agent Körner and the government in the suicide of a young teen. As a result Br ...

Als Hitler das rosa Kaninchen stahl (1978)

Anna is a Jewish girl in Germany. When the Nazis come to power in the 1930s, her family has to flee the country without being able to bring any of their belongings. Even young Anna's pink toy rabbit has been confiscated along with the family's other posses ...

Glücksucher (1977)

Sonntagsgeschichten (1976)

The film explores intimate, often quiet stories, focusing on the interactions and relationships of its characters in a typical Sunday afternoon style. ...

Berlinger (1975)

A fictional, non-chronological account of the life of the scientist, adventurer and industrialist Lukas Berlinger. The key dates and central events include Berlinger's birth in 1914, his friendship with Johannes Roeder, who was the same age, his marriage t ...

Don Juan in der Hölle (1975)

In heaven there is faith, and love. Only in hell there is justice. Everyone here gets the part that suits them best. Therefore, hell is the place for eternal pleasures. ...

Nie wieder Mary (1974)

Narrenspiegel (1971)

Duke Henry XI of Liegnitz, a "drunkard" and "glutton", slaps his wife Sophia in the face because she calls his mistress a whore. When the Duchess then flees to her brother, the Margrave of Ansbach, Henry fears that the population and his brother will take ...

Dreht euch nicht um – der Golem geht rum (1971)

In the 23rd century, it is no longer necessary to work thanks to the latest technology. Convicts do the work that still needs to be done. The World Leisure Center uses a computer system to decide how people spend their free time. World citizen number DARK ...

Die Nacht von Lissabon (1971)

After fleeing from Nazi Germany, Josef and Helen Schwarz arrive in Portugal's capital in 1942, where a ship to America awaits them. But on the evening before the ship departs, Helen dies in the hotel. She had concealed the cancer from her husband so as not ...

Karpfs Karriere (1971)

What to do if you are stuck as a police officer in a boring small town, no decent crimes happen and you should actually make the big career at the instigation of your wife? In this lamentable situation is Heinrich Karpf. An unfine plan is supposed to bring ...

Krebsstation (1970)

Pavel Rusanov is admitted to an overcrowded cancer ward. ...

Erschwerte Möglichkeit der Konzentration (1970)

Der Fall Liebknecht-Luxemburg (1969)

Reconstruction of the murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg and the following farcical military court procedures. ...

Was Ihr wollt (1968)

Duke Orsino's unhappy love for Countess Olivia and the fate of the twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated by a shipwreck, based on Shakespeare's play, ...

Wie es euch gefällt (1968)

Dieser Platonow (1967)

Das Attentat - Heydrich in Prag (1967)

Based on historical events, the film tells the story of Operation Anthropoid which led to the assassination of the German SS leader Heydrich in Prague by Czech rebels led by Josef Gabcik and Jan Kubis. ...

Die Mitschuldigen (1967)

Der Panamaskandal (1967)

Die Mission (1967)

Summer 1938: renowned Viennese surgeon Professor von Benda is summoned by Gauleiter Seyss-Inquart to attend the Evian Conference on Jewish refugees. Disguised as a loyal Nazi physician, von Benda's "mission" is to propose that participating nations purchas ...

Ein Riß im Eis (1967)

Gespenster (1966)

Oberst Wennerström (1965)

Swedish military attaché Stig Wennerström comes into contact with the US secret service at a party. After a trip to Moscow, he provides the Americans with valuable information about Soviet jets. But Wennerström is playing a double game. Lieutenant Gener ...

Die Affäre (1965)

Morituri (1965)

A German living in India during World War II is blackmailed by the English to impersonate an SS officer on board a cargo ship leaving Japan for Germany carrying a large supply of rubber for tyres. His mission is to disable the scuttling charges so the capt ...

Bei Tag und Nacht (1964)

Nachtzug D 106 (1964)

'Please help me!' the young GDR refugee begs the passengers of the interzonal train 'D 106'. He has just jumped on the night train during an unforeseen stop - to get to the west as quickly as possible. He can't go back, and in less than an hour they reach ...

Minna von Barnhelm (1964)

Hedda Gabler (1963)

Kaum zu glauben (1962)

Wir sind noch einmal davongekommen (1961)

The Ideal Woman (1959)

A woman as mayor is quite unusual in Germany in the 1950s, but Dr. Fanny Becker is a lawyer with experience in local politics, which is why she gets elected mayor of Rosenburg. ...

Court Martial (1959)

In this war drama, three Nazi survivors are rescued after their battleship sank. Initially they are given heroes' accolades for their courage, but then it becomes apparent that these men actually jumped ship three hours before the boat sank. The men are tr ...

Die Frau des Fotografen (1958)

Die chinesische Mauer (1958)

Heidemelodie (1956)

Tausend Melodien (1956)

Der Engel mit dem Flammenschwert (1954)

Meines Vaters Pferde, 2. Teil: Seine dritte Frau (1954)

In the second part of the drama, the wounded Jürgen hears about the happy years his father Michael spent with his wife Bim at the "Fohlenhof." He learns how the war took everything from him and how Michael was nearly broken by the death of his beloved Bim ...

Meines Vaters Pferde, 1. Teil: Lena und Nicoline (1954)

After World War II, Jürgen Godeysen ends up in a hospital, wounded and traumatized. There, the young Nicoline reads to him from the diaries of his father, Michael. The entries chronicle his life and loves, from the moment he first encountered his first lo ...