Robert Dietl

I Am My Own Woman (1992)

The life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who survived the Nazi reign as a trans woman and helped start the German gay liberation movement. Documentary with some dramatized scenes. Two actors play the young and middle aged Charlotte and she plays herself ...

Der doppelte Nötzli (1990)

Josef Nötzli has swapped his job as an accountant for a chicken farm in Switzerland. He wants to be just as successful as his twin brother John, who he believes runs the Aurora Hotel in Berlin. In reality, however, John is one of the biggest underworld bo ...

Harry and Harriet (1990)

A quiet, offbeat German dramedy about self-reinvention and the messy ways we try to escape ourselves. When a middle-aged woman decides to shed her old life and adopt the name "Harry," her transformation unsettles family, friends, and lovers who can't quite ...

The Seventh Continent (1989)

Chronicles three years of a middle-class family seemingly caught up in their daily routines, troubled only by minor incidents. Behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence, however, they're planning something much more sinister. ...

Reunion (1989)

Attorney Henry Strauss grew up in Germany, but left the country with his Jewish family during the rise of the Third Reich. Still wondering about what happened to his boyhood friend Konradin Von Lohenburg, Strauss travels back to Germany for the first time ...

Fatherland (1986)

Persona Non Grata in his homeland, protest singer Klaus Drittemann must leave East Berlin, his wife and child and emigrate to West Berlin, where the representatives of an American record company are eagerly waiting for him. They plan to exploit his defecti ...

Käthe Kollwitz - Auf der Seite der Schwachen (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 ...

The Train Killer (1983)

Based on a true story, this film is a dramatization of the events that led to the destruction of one of the most famous trains in history, the Orient Express. ...

Five Days One Summer (1982)

A 1930s Scottish doctor goes climbing in the Alps with an infatuated niece he passes off as his wife. ...

Die Geschichte einer Vielgeliebten (1982)

Rosamunde is a suburban girl and works as a model in Vienna. The men around her are not only fascinated by her beauty. It's also her lust for life and her unassuming, spontaneous manner which knocks them out. Dr. Zoller, a journalist, as well as Silberer a ...

Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment (1980)

In 1912, in Austria, the painter Egon Schiele is sent to jail accused of pornography with the nymphet Tatjana in his erotic paints. His mate, the model Vally, gets help from a famous lawyer to release him. Then he leaves Vally, marries with another woman a ...

Operation Hydra (1980)

The film jumps between the 40s and the 70s in Germany. Fateful and foreshadowing it highlights the entanglement of the economic system with the activities of the Nazi party, the Holocaust and the attempts to come to terms with the stories of the past. A s ...

Der Gute (1980)

Egon Schiele (1980)

Biographical TV movie about controversial Austrian artist Egon Schiele. ...

Berggasse 19 (1979)

Film deals with the life and work of Sigmund Freud. ...

Diary of a Lover (1977)

A diary of a lonely 30 year old man who works as a butcher in a supermarket. The movie shows his daily life between the supermarket and his flat. His ability to communicate is limited. From time to time his mother visits him. But his relationship to her is ...

Alkeste - Die Bedeutung, Protektion zu haben (1970)

Adi (Admitos) is under the protection of Apollo, the son of a man with money and relationships. The two are in jail, suspected of murder, but without evidence. So they are released. Adi loves Claudia (Alkeste), the domestic partner of his arch enemy, who f ...

Berliner Antigone (1968)

The historical background to the story is the transfer of 269 executed women to the Berlin Anatomy Department in the years 1939-1945. The corpses were misused for experimental purposes. ...

Liselotte von der Pfalz (1966)

In a desperate bid to regain his fortune, the impoverished Elector of the Palatinate does everything in his power to arrange a marriage between his eldest daughter, Liselotte, and a wealthy nobleman—but to no avail, for with her tomboyish manner, the you ...

Das Märchen (1966)

Der Hochzeitsgast (1962)

A short comedy directed by Kurt Nachmann. ...

Alle meine Söhne (1961)

A German film adaptation of the 1946 American play All My Sons by Arthur Miller. ...

The High Life (1960)

Doris Putzke is fond of dating men in her quest to find the perfect one. In her brief relationships, she goes from one disillusionment to another, constantly deluding herself about the intentions of her lovers. ...