Siegfried Wischnewski

The Return of the Time Machine (1984)

The Time Machine is purchased from an antiques store by a physician from Berlin. Much of the script plays out in one room in the Berlin villa of Dr. Erasmus Beilowski. He and his well-educated friends have an intelligent discussion about the world and the ...

Funkeln im Auge (1984)

Das Gesicht auf der Wand (1983)

It is an eerie, cold evening, with the wind whistling through the trees. In a remote pub, a few people have gathered around a single candle and are telling each other scary stories. A man from the next table joins them and tells them about a mysterious app ...

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 ...

Shalom Pharao (1982)

An original animated film that tells the biblical story of Joseph and his brothers in a stimulating and humorous way by giving the characters Pontius Pilate and his wife and secretary the opportunity to repeatedly intervene in the narrative process by comm ...

Der Thronfolger (1980)

Nathan, der Weise (1979)

Es begann bei Tiffany (1979)

Die Quelle (1979)

A sailing boat takes package tourists in a party mood to various Spanish islands. One of them is desert-like, barren and barely habitable. Away from a small village stands an abandoned, dilapidated villa. It arouses the curiosity of Wolf, a young man in hi ...

Wunnigel (1978)

Rosenmontag ist kein Feiertag (1978)

Das Doppelleben des Wilfried E. (1978)

Lady Audleys Geheimnis (1978)

The Devil's Bed (1978)

A young engineer is supposed to do surveyings for a projected nuclear power station in an economically under-developed region and encounters strong opposition by the population. He realizes that the inhabitants are influenced by strange parapsychological o ...

Generale - Anatomie der Marneschlacht (1977)

The movie depicts the events from July until September of 1914 which led to the defeat of the German troops at the Marne. While Sebastian Haffner explains and comments on operations and decisions on the basis of situation maps, key scenes are depicted by a ...

Bei Westwind hört man keinen Schuß (1976)

Timon von Athen (1976)

Sladek oder Die schwarze Armee (1976)

Prozeß Medusa (1976)

Drama about the shipwreck of the frigate "Méduse" off the coast of Senegal. In France, the commander responsible, Chaumarey, is finally put on trial. ...

Strongman Ferdinand (1976)

The clownish security chief of a West German business is obsessed with protecting his factory from fancied and real breaches, especially from groups such as The Red Army Faction. Ferdinand's paranoia and methods can't be contained by his company. The sympa ...

Die Erzählungen Bjelkins (1976)

Das Schwert der Nibelungen (1976)

Flirt von gestern (1975)

Little Boy (1975)

Der tödliche Schlag (1975)

Die Stadt im Tal (1975)

Zwei himmlische Dickschädel (1974)

Immobilien (1973)

The supposedly naive owner of the castle, Louise Strothmann von Auerheim, advertises that the entire family estate is for sale. This not only attracts the attention of her money-hungry relatives, but also a whole host of potential buyers, from porn factory ...

Maestro der Revolution? (1971)

Miks Bumbullis (1971)

Seine Majestät Gustav Krause (1971)

Preußen über alles (1971)

Schmetterlinge weinen nicht (1970)

Cilly is too young for compromises. The man she loves is much older than her. Although he too is overwhelmed by his passion, he hesitates to burn all his bridges. When he is finally ready to end his marriage for this relationship, the conflicts between the ...

Friede den Hütten! Krieg den Palästen! (1970)

Der Portland-Ring (1970)

Maximilian von Mexiko (1970)

Sir Basil Zaharoff - Makler des Todes (1969)

Rotmord (1969)

Vom Teufel geholt (1969)

Die Katze (1968)

Der Senator (1968)

Affäre Dreyfuss (1968)

The disaster began in the late summer of 1894, when a French staff officer appeared at the military attaché of the German embassy in Paris. He offers important military information at very high prices. A cover letter for this case ends up in the attaché' ...

Der Sommer der 17. Puppe (1968)

The Long Day of Inspector Blomfield (1968)

Inspector Blomfield catches a thief who has a fatal accident while trying to escape in his car. A short time later, his drug-addicted brother Johnny enters the police station while Blomfield is investigating a murder and threatens to blow himself and every ...

Das Attentat - Schleicher: General der letzten Stunde (1967)

Der Teufel und der liebe Gott (1967)

Nathan der Weise (1967)

Dead Run (1967)

A thief gets hold of some top secret papers and is chased around Europe by the sinister Organisation. ...

Kapitän Brassbounds Bekehrung (1967)

Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy 2 (1967)

Now Brunhild knows by which treason she was won for king Gunther of Burgund by Siegfried of Xanthen, and has been revenged by his foul murder by Hagen, more bloody revenge is inevitable. Hagen steals the Nibelungen-treasure to sink it in the stream and man ...

Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy (1966)

Siegfried of Xanten snatches the Nibelung treasure from the king of the underworld and slays the dragon Fafnir, whose blood makes him invulnerable. Siegfried falls in love with Kriemhild, the sister of the Burgundian king. But only if Siegfried helps Gunth ...

Das Leben in meiner Hand (1966)

The Investigation (1966)

The Investigation (1965) is TV version of a play by German playwright Peter Weiss that depicts the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963–1965. ...

Melissa (1966)

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 ...

Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua (1964)

Romeo und Julia (1964)

Der Prozeß Carl von O. (1964)

In der Sache I. Robert Oppenheimer (1964)

Mauern (1963)

Der arme Bitos... oder Das Diner der Köpfe (1963)

The Squeaker (1963)

Scotland Yard investigates a series of murders where the victims have died by snake venom poisoning. ...

The Threepenny Opera (1963)

The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the beggars of Soho will disturb the upcoming coronation. ...

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 ...

Die Revolution entläßt ihre Kinder (1962)

Burschenherrlichkeit (1962)

Die Nashörner (1961)

The Last Witness (1960)

Director Wolfgang Staudte who left East Germany in 1953 to make movies in West Germany, takes a few swipes at the West German judicial system in this fairly effective courtroom drama about the murder of a four-month-old baby. Police almost immediately arre ...

Keiner ist wie der andere (1960)

Das Land der Verheißung (1960)

Jons und Erdme (1959)

Adaptation of Hermann Sudermann's novel about the troubled relationship between the strong willed Erdme and her irascible husband Jons in the Lithunian moors. ...