Rudolf Wessely

Schokolade für den Chef (2008)

The wealthy industrialist Ernst Schmitt has to take a step back for health reasons. But first he wants to arrange his succession, as he doesn't trust the manager of his chocolate factory. Without further ado, he pretends that his chauffeur is his millionai ...

Emilia – Familienbande (2005)

Jedermann (2005)

Just Get Married! (2003)

Die Stimmen (2003)

Gripsholm (2000)

Kurt and Lydia are planning a relaxed vacation at the Gripsholm castle in Sweden . What Lydia does not know is that for Kurt, a well-known publicist, the journey is actually a flight from encroaching fascism and a direct threat from the Nazis. ...

Deutschlandspiel (2000)

Cymbelin (2000)

Die Nichte und der Tod (1999)

Seal of Confessions (1998)

Following a man's confession of the murder of a prostitute and the arrest of an innocent man, a Catholic priest finds himself in a profound moral dilemma because he is bound by the seal of confession. In order to help the wrongfully arrested man, the pries ...

The Harmonists (1997)

Comedian Harmonists tells the story of a famous, German male sextet, five vocals and piano, the "Comedian Harmonists", from the day they meet first in 1927 to the day in 1934, when they become banned by the upcoming Nazis, because three of them are Jewish. ...

The Judgement (1997)

The Jewish antiques dealer Siegfried Rabinovicz is on his way from New York to Hamburg where he is about to testify as the principal witness in a murder case. During a stop-over, an airport hostess talks him into giving up his seat on the connecting flight ...

The Unfish (1997)

Sophie "inherits" her uncle's preserved whale and finds out that whoever sleeps in the whale's belly with her will be granted one wish, causing chaos and hatred in the village. ...

Klinik des Grauens (1992)

The Neighbour (1992)

Set in an old suburb of Vienna traversed by the local railway line and full of old dilapidated houses. In this district, and old man lives and when his neighbour dies and new tenants move in his existence is transformed. ...

Follow Me (1989)

A poetic attempt to show the state of mind of people critical of the regime in Prague who vacillate between their love of their homeland and their desire to emigrate, illustrated by the example of a philosophy professor who has to work as a gravedigger and ...

The Diary of Dr. Döblinger (1986)

Based on the many observations made during his extremely interesting and far from dull life, Dr. Döblinger relates four episodes in which he wants to give us a picture of the loneliness and incomprehensibility of mankind. ...

Wahnfried (1986)

Lake Lucerne in 1868: a passionate and forbidden affair flares up between the gifted composer Richard Wagner and the much younger Cosima von Bülow - the aristocrat is already married and the mother of four children. Contrary to all conventions, the two pu ...

Geblendeter Augenblick - Anton Weberns Tod (1986)

Dear Karl (1984)

A coming-of-age drama about an unhappy teenager who is repressed by his conservative and ambitious family. ...

Jedermann (1983)

Drama based on Hugo von Hofmannsthal's work. ...

The Excluded (1982)

Die Ausgesperrten revolves around an unlikely group of 4 youths in Vienna who band together, each for different reasons, to mug people. Two are fraternal twins, the third a blue-collar worker, the fourth the privileged daughter of wealthy parents who "need ...

Student Gerber (1981)

Kurt Gerber is attending his final class and gets into trouble with the math professor, a frustrated self-assured petty bourgeois sadist. The duel ends in catastrophe. ...

The Tailor from Ulm (1978)

The true story of the Bavarian Tailor Albrecht Berblinger who, after a strange encounter with a balloon starts building a flying machine. Although not an engineer by profession, he never gives up. No matter how many obstacles are put in his way nor how man ...

Dear Fatherland Be at Peace (1976)

1964 in Berlin, not long after the raise of the wall that separated the city: ex-prisoner Bruno is chosen by the eastern secret agency to be sent west with a special order. However as soon as he's crossed the border, he reports to the police. He claims his ...

Das Leben des schizophrenen Dichters Alexander März (1975)

A schizophrenic patient is is wasting away in a mental institution, until a young doctor encourages him to write poetry. The resulting masterpieces are however not able to stop the man from suicide. ...

The Hunting Party (1974)

The bark-beetle has invaded the big forest of the general, just as a fatal illness has into the body of its owner. The general is suffering from eye cataract, preventing him from seeing the symptoms of the trees' decline, just as he is unable to see his ow ...

Wenn ihr wollt, ist es kein Märchen (1973)

Der Mann auf meinem Rücken (1972)

Kannibalen (1970)

Friede den Hütten! Krieg den Palästen! (1970)

Was kam denn da ins Haus? (1970)

Juno und der Pfau (1969)

Goldmacher Tausend (1969)

Kaddish for the Living (1969)

The film tells the story of Peri, a concentration camp survivor who lives in Tel Aviv and sets out in search of his former fellow sufferer Bach. ...

Tragödie auf der Jagd (1968)

Millionen für Penny (1967)

Bartleby (1963)

Beatrice und Juana (1963)

Guten Tag, lieber Tag (1961)

Engineer Strebel′s apprentices think of nothing else but music and dancing, although they should really concentrate on their marks. Consequently, Strebel is anything but delighted with his pupil. To top it all, a TV show becomes interested in a performan ...

Spuk in Villa Sonnenschein (1959)

Das Stacheltier - Der Wintermantel (1954)

A little man wants to order a warm coat from a fabric he has brought with him to a tailor's workshop in winter. He is laughed at and told that orders for this type of garment are only accepted in the summer - after all, they work to a schedule. When the cu ...

Das Stacheltier – Eine Liebesgeschichte (1953)

The writer Franz Schmidt reads to two editors from his new romance novel. The two criticize the lack of a problematic portrayal of the joyful life of youth, the role of women and the collective "welding together". He is asked to revise the work again. In h ...

Schatten über den Inseln (1952)

On the Faroe Islands, people eke out a meagre existence by catching birds. Merchant Brause pays them little and does a good business. This comes under threat when Dr. Sten Horn suspects that the dangerous annual plague, which kills dozens of inhabitants, i ...