Rainer Penkert

Spider's Web (1989)

Ulrich Mühe plays a German businessman who was born completely without scruples. This makes him an eminently suitable candidate for success in the chaotic years after World War I. The shameless man's story is contrasted with that of his polar opposite, a ...

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. ...

Sonntagsgeschichten (1976)

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

Taxi 4012 (1976)

Paper Tiger (1975)

A somewhat prim and proper Englishman is hired as the tutor to the son of the Japanese ambassador. His life changes when he and the boy are kidnapped by terrorists for political purposes. ...

Wie starb Dag Hammerskjöld? (1975)

Hausfrauen-Report 3 (1972)

On the street, students conduct surveys on the behavior of housewives. ...

What Have You Done to Solange? (1972)

After several Catholic school pupils are murdered, a teacher who is having an affair with one of his students becomes a suspect. When other gruesome murders start occurring shortly thereafter, the teacher suspects that he may be the cause of them. ...

Cardillac (1970)

The story of a gold smith who is so obsessed with his own craft that he murders his customers. ...

Madame and Her Niece (1969)

Michelle De Winter lives the good life, wining and dining with only the richest men who are fortunate to cross her path. Her daughter Yvette, whom Michelle insists on introducing as her 'niece', is a fashion model. She is saving herself for the right man, ...

Peter und Sabine (1968)

Three brothers and their affairs. ...

The Heathens of Kummerow (1967)

Kummerow, a village in North East Germany, around 1900: Mean-spirited miller Düker wants to drive cowherd Krischan out of the village. Being popular with the local children, Krischan can rely on the help of schoolboys Martin and Johannes and their friends ...

Casinoabend mit Damen (1967)

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 ...

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 ...

Niemandsland (1965)

Er kann's nicht lassen (1962)

Father Brown is only too happy to interfere with the work of the police in solving tricky criminal cases, usually with resounding success. That's why the clergyman is transferred to a sleepy island called Abbott's Rock. At first, nothing happens there, but ...

The Longest Day (1962)

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied ...

Geliebte Hochstaplerin (1961)

Roberto Bolle smuggles himself as a stowaway on an ocean liner that of Hamburg gen New York sets sail. On board is also his lover Barbara Shadwell, whom he wants to marry, but who, at the request of her mother, the syrup millionaire Ceila Shadwell, should ...

The Avenger (1960)

A maniac is loose in London, decapitating his victims and sending the heads to Scotland Yard. ...

Claudia (1960)

Captain Lechi (1960)

Kosmet in the fall of 1944. The Partisans have successfully liberated the town of Prizren from occupying Germans,and Ramiz Leshi, a brave and cunning KNOJ captain, has to liquidate the remainder of the local Quislings, called Balists. They are led by a rut ...

The Rest Is Silence (1959)

A "mufti" version of Hamlet, with young Hardy Krüger trying to prove that his uncle has killed his father. Direct references to the Shakespeare original abound, right down to the re-enactment of the crime for the benefit of the Uncle and the periodic appe ...

Nachtasyl (1959)

Aren't We Wonderful (1958)

Kurt Hoffmann′s satire concerning Germany′s development during the first half of the 20th century tells the story of two schoolmates - Hans and Bruno. They could not be more different. While Hans is ambitious and must always work hard for his career, i ...

Ein Amerikaner in Salzburg (1958)

Jungle Girl and the Slaver (1957)

The sequel to 1956's "Liane, Jungle Goddess" finds the title character still a jungle goddess, but captured by slave traders. ...

Der Etappenhase (1957)

Embajadores en el infierno (1956)

Four Spanish Blue Division soldiers captured after the German invasion of Soviet territory face a choice in forced labor camps: renounce their Spanish nationality for better conditions. While two accept, Captain Adrados leads a group resisting, labeling th ...

We Are All Necessary (1956)

After serving their sentence, three prisoners, a doctor, a civil servant and a thief, leave jail. During the train trip they do together to return home, they analyze their respective lives. The doctor has been required to perform an operation on a child ab ...

Furlough on Word of Honor (1955)

08/15 Part 2 (1955)

Winter 1942: Like thousands of other German soldiers, Asch and Vierbein have ended up at the Eastern front. Although Vierbein finds a new friend in Kowalski, the squadron commander captain Witterer, a true army veteran, gives them a really hard time. Witte ...

Beer under palm trees (1955)

08/15 (1954)

Life in the barracks, drill, harassment, and private Asch′s pranks are the ingredients of Hans Hellmut Kirst′s successful novel "08/15" (the number of an Army regulation). Shortly before the outbreak of World War II: Private Asch and gunner Vierbein be ...

Ein Herz spielt falsch (1953)

A man, in need of money and too lazy to work for a living, marries a plain but rich girl in the knowledge that she is ill and has not long to live. ...

Die Sehnsucht des Herzens (1951)

The Fallen Star (1950)

A woman with a troubled past connects with two refugees while working at a homeless camp after World War II. ...

The Cuckoos (1949)

Berlin, shortly after World War II. Five parentless siblings, led by the oldest sister Inge Kuckert, search for a place to stay and a basis of existence in the destroyed city. A bombed villa in the Grunewald seems to be the right "cuckoo's nest", but an al ...

Anonyme Briefe (1949)

Menschen in Gottes Hand (1948)

Film by Rolf Meyer. ...

Unser Fräulein Doktor (1940)