Ottokar Runze

Newenas weite Reise (2001)

The Volcano (1999)

A singer flees from Nazi Germany, travels to Paris and befriends a young writer, his lover and a professor. ...

Two in a Boat (1999)

Three children and their Grandpa are on a kayak-outdoor trip in the middle of nowhere, when their Grandpa suffers a heart attack in the wilderness - to rescue themselves and their Grandpa the children have to help themselves and fight their way back to civ ...

Hundert Jahre Brecht (1998)

Karakum - Ein Abenteuer in der Wüste (1994)

Robert, a 13-year-old German boy, sets out to try and find his father, who's in Turkmenistan. On his arrival there he meets up with a local boy who agrees to help him, but they are abandoned by their adult guides and must fend for themselves. ...

Goldstaub (1993)

Kerstin, daughter of a Stasi officer, escaped East Berlin life but is pulled back when her father secretly manipulates her career. After the Wall falls, she and former West programmer Reginald use forged documents and hidden cash to build new identities an ...

Linda (1991)

A confident and attractive woman takes on the challenge of her life. Energetic and resourceful, she ensures that her bankrupt husband is freed from his debts; at the same time, she realizes her dream of making her first film. ...

Die Hallo-Sisters (1990)

A run-down former radio producer persuades two quarrelsome 1950s stars to try their comeback on nationwide television... ...

Der veruntreute Himmel (1990)

Farewell to False Paradise (1989)

Ironies abound in this extremely sad melodrama about Elif, a Turkish immigrant in Germany who has been sent to prison for murdering her abusive husband. At the time of her imprisonment, she has never ventured outside the Turkish community, and even there h ...

Plakate erzählen Geschichte (1989)

Martha Jellneck (1988)

72 years old Martha Jellneck lives alone in a small apartment in Hamburg. Since she's hampered in walking, she never leaves her home. Her only contacts to the outside world are the young social worker Thomas and a neighbor boy who walks her dog. When Thoma ...

Nein, ich gebe niemals auf! (1985)

Conrad: The Factory-Made Boy (1983)

Mrs Bartolotti doesn't really like children. She is therefore completely taken aback when she receives a son in the post: Konrad. Konrad is actually delivered in a tin! He is dreadfully tidy and almost perfect and Mrs Bartolotti is very chaotic. She actual ...

Non Stop Trouble with Spies (1983)

The harmless Berlin taxi driver Herbert Boeckmann has a bad day: Three mysterious gentlemen put the corpse of Boris Stravinsky, a Russian economist, into the car. Unsuspecting Herbert brings the "passenger" to East Berlin. There Boeckmann falls into the cl ...

Feine Gesellschaft – Beschränkte Haftung (1982)

When a squatted house in Hamburg is evicted, Else, a well-known vagrant, also has to look for a new place to live. Having separated from her family at a very early age and bequeathed part of her fortune to poor orphans in India, she makes her way to her si ...

"Erscheinungsform Mensch": Adolf Eichmann (1981)

Documentary brings the time of the Holocaust to life and provides insight into the mind of the organizer of this crime: Adolf Eichmann. The documentary contrasts Eichmann's statements and memories - documented in the original soundtrack - directly with tho ...

Stern ohne Himmel (1980)

Spring 1945, the "Greater German Reich" is crumbling in the face of imminent military defeat. In Brandenburg, not far from Berlin, four 15-year-old teenagers have discovered a food depot that has been buried by war debris. They discover a cellar full of ha ...

Der Mörder (1979)

The Standard (1977)

During the final days of the First World War, Officer Menis does his duty in defending the battle flag of the defeated Austro-Hungarian empire, while his fellow troops, a motley gang recruited from several different countries not loyal to the royal family, ...

A Lost Life (1976)

In this docudrama, police in the countryside near Berlin attempt to trick a confession out of a Polish guest worker for the 1927 murder of an eight-year-old girl. ...

Knife in the Back (1975)

At night, a violent confrontation between a pimp and a Greek guest worker takes place on Hamburg's Reeperbahn, resulting in the latter's death. In the subsequent trial before a jury, contradictory statements make it difficult to decide whether this was an ...

Gerettetes Venedig (1974)

Documentary short by Ottokar Runze. ...

In the Name of the People (1974)

In this German film, inmates guilty of a prison murder are put on trial before a court consisting of other inmates. The trial is given the full formal treatment it might receive in a civilian setting. The key point in this film is that these are the actual ...

Der Lord von Barmbeck (1974)

The film is based on the memoirs of Hamburg burglar Julius Adolf Petersen (1882-1933), who became famous as "Lord of Barmbeck". Petersen owed his status as a folk hero to the fact that he did not use any physical violence during his raids and only stole fr ...

Viola and Sebastian (1972)

Modernized version of Twelfth Night set in the high living, pot smoking environment of a pop group in the seventies. ...

Das Geld liegt auf der Bank (1971)

Leiche gesucht (1971)

Scheidung auf englisch (1970)

Intimità proibita di una giovane sposa (1970)

Das ozeanische Fest (1964)

The Strange Countess (1961)

Strange fortune hunters are behind a girl's murder in this Edgar Wallace tale. ...

Stefanie (1958)

Stefanie is flirting with an architect from Rio who could be her dad. ...

Confess, Dr. Corda (1958)

A doctor goes to meet a beautiful girl at a park bench near a wooded area. When he arrives, he finds her battered body lying next to a stream! He then finds himself to be the prime suspect. Who's the killer? ...

Die Frühreifen (1957)

Inge works in a department store as a saleswoman in the women's fashion department. She suffers from the cramped conditions in her parents' house, where they save money because her choleric father, a miner, dreams of owning his own house in the country. Sh ...

Sing! Inge, Sing! (2011)

In Germany, jazz had a voice: Inge Brandenburg. This is the story of a woman in the 1950s and 1960s, when there was no place in Germany for self-assured women with international aspirations, a dramatic performance style and an emancipated attitude to love. ...

Nein, ich gebe niemals auf! (1985)

"Erscheinungsform Mensch": Adolf Eichmann (1981)

Documentary brings the time of the Holocaust to life and provides insight into the mind of the organizer of this crime: Adolf Eichmann. The documentary contrasts Eichmann's statements and memories - documented in the original soundtrack - directly with tho ...

King Thrushbeard (1954)

The Benthin Family (1950)

The brothers Theo and Gustav Benthin pull profits through smuggling in divided Germany: Theo in the West and Gustav in the East. The East German police catch on quickly, however, and Gustav is arrested. The small band of smugglers disperses, with Gustav's ...

City in the Fog (1950)

In the Danish port city of Belgesund, the caretaker of a private high school has fallen victim to murder. Detective Thomsen takes on the case and finds that behind the clean facade there are abysses. He has five suspects in mind: the teacher Berling, who i ...