Otto Mächtlinger

The Lenz Papers (1986)

Four-part german limited serial about the baden revolution in 1848 and 1849. ...

Tanner (1986)

During the WW2, a Swiss mountain farmer, refuses to follow the government policy to increase self-sufficiency with produce. In his opinion, the steep mountain pastures are not suited for agriculture. Most of the villagers agree. However some begin to cult ...

Der Besuch der alten Dame (1982)

As a teenager, Carla Zachanassian had a child with a man named Serge Miller. When he refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. Now, many years later, she is a multimillionaire and returns to the town of her childhood, where she is welcomed with ope ...

Das Haus im Park (1981)

Auf Schusters Rappen (1981)

Trilogie des Wiedersehens (1979)

The Frozen Heart (1979)

A tramp tries to trick the community into paying for the funeral of his fellow tramp who was found frozen to death. ...

Summer Guests (1976)

A group of people from the wealthy middle class in engage in quasi intellectual quarrels and discussions trying to find some meaning in their comfortable and indolent life. Adaptation of the play by Maxim Gorky. ...

The Wollands (1973)

Horst Wolland is a welder in Berlin who tries to move up the career ladder to better provide for his family. He is on the verge of being promoted when the working conditions worsen, triggering a strike. Wolland stays out of it, but he also refuses to tell ...

The Mystery of Piskov (1969)

Piskov, any idyllic small town in 1969. One day there is an incident that causes a sensation in press, radio and television, but leaves the citizens of Piskov completely cold. All clocks stop and time stops! A being from the future, more precisely from the ...

Kapitän Karagöz (1963)

Zwischen Montag und Samstag (1961)

Rübezahl - Master of the Mountains (1957)

For 999 years, the mountain spirit Rübezahl has lived deep underground in the Giant Mountains. No one has seen him since. But when he learns that people no longer believe in him and that greed and injustice reign supreme, the lord of the mountains descend ...