Sigfrit Steiner

Duet for One (1986)

When Stephanie, a famous violinist, contracts multiple sclerosis her life begins to fall apart. Her career ends, her husband leaves her for another woman and her favorite pupil leave the country. Unable to bear all this loss, Stephanie attempts suicide. ...

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 ...

The Woman with the Carbuncle Stones (1985)

Blaubart (1984)

An internist is accused of murdering the sixth of his seven wives. During the court hearing, numerous statements, especially those made by his former wives, confront him with his past. Finally acquitted, the doctor loses himself in feelings of deepest guil ...

Der Snob (1984)

An oily careerist for whom becoming the highest earner is not enough: now he also wants a title of nobility. ...

Josef Süß Oppenheimer (1984)

A Love in Germany (1983)

In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an affair his mother had with a young Polish prisoner of war, how the auth ...

Embers (1983)

Francois Korb is an arms manufacturer who sold both to the Germans and the Allied forces. Korb's home life is less than ideal, since his wife is having an affair with his brother, and his young son is inseparable from a teddy bear. To remedy the son's situ ...

The Black Spider (1983)

Based on the story by Jeremas Gotthelf, this horror film direct by Mark M. Rissi features the hallucinations of a woman after a drug raid gone. ...

Der tote Onkel (1982)

Joseph von Träubesser is a scion of a wealthy aristocratic family. He's not satisfied with idle bliss but is ambitious and tries to become a good painter. His family and especially his nephew Leonid, who could be taken for his twin, think he's cracked. F ...

Imperative (1982)

Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi once more explores the dilemma of intellectualism at the expense of humanity in 1982's Imperative. The story concerns math professor Robert Powell, who feels that there is something lacking in his ever-so-precise life. Wha ...

Preußische Nacht (1981)

Don Quichottes Kinder (1981)

Der Mond is nur a nackerte Kugel (1981)

Die Leidenschaftlichen (1981)

A remarkable approach to Goethe's novel "The Sorrows of Young Werther": on the one hand, a film adaptation that strives to remain faithful to the work and its words; on the other hand, an examination of Goethe's authentic story, his experiences that inspir ...

Kaiserhofstraße 12 (1980)

Nathan, der Weise (1979)

Bread and Stones (1979)

A small farmer's struggle for survival against the odds. ...

The Frozen Heart (1979)

A tramp tries to trick the community into paying for the funeral of his fellow tramp who was found frozen to death. ...

Als Hitler das rosa Kaninchen stahl (1978)

Anna is a Jewish girl in Germany. When the Nazis come to power in the 1930s, her family has to flee the country without being able to bring any of their belongings. Even young Anna's pink toy rabbit has been confiscated along with the family's other posses ...

Wunnigel (1978)

Brass Target (1978)

General George S. Patton died in a car accident in 1945. But was his death actually a murder. Is he targeted by Nazis angered by Germany's defeat? Or by Russians who knew that Patton had argued in favor of invading the Soviet Union towards the end of the ...

Geschlossene Gesellschaft (1978)

Three couples want to spend a short break together. Some have a traffic accident, the others are prevented professionally. So the designer Robert and the youth helper Ellen are forced to spend the days in a remote farmhouse alone with her young son. The pr ...

Die Macht der Finsternis (1978)

Schulzeit (1977)

Heinrich (1977)

The life and struggles of the German writer Heinrich von Kleist. ...

Eine Jugendliebe (1977)

Every year, 17-year-old Wolfgang from Hesse spends his summer vacation with his grandfather in Fischerhude in Schleswig-Holstein. In the north, he always meets his childhood sweetheart Nanni, whom he wants to marry soon. But the two of them are not destine ...

Waldrausch (1977)

No overview found. ...

Die plötzliche Einsamkeit des Konrad Steiner (1976)

The Zurich social welfare office sends a young worker to look after a 75 year old man thinking about suicide: His wife is suddenly paralyzed and his dwelling and work place change hands, forcing him to deal with relocating as well. ...

Krock & Co. (1976)

Berner police sergeant Studer celebrates his daughter's wedding at the inn of an old friend. When a murder occurs outside the restaurant late at night, he takes charge of the investigation. Strong debut performance by Hans Heinz Moser in the role of Glause ...

Filmriss (1975)

Fluchtgefahr (1974)

The 23-year-old Bruno accidentally clashes with society, the judicial and the police. Once he has exceeded the legal limits, he is stuck to the wrong side of the law. ...

The Pedestrian (1973)

When a German businessman causes a car accident with deadly consequences, the papers start digging into his past to find scandals. What they find causes him to reevaluate his own past during WW2 when he was in Greece. ...

Weights and Measures (1973)

Tells of the tribulations of a middle-aged official of the Austro-Hungarian Bureau of Weights and Measures in fighting the local shopkeepers and traders whose weights are frequently light. ...

Der 21. Juli (1972)

Cry of the Black Wolves (1972)

A fur hunter living as a hermit in the Alaskan mountains is mistakenly suspected of the murder of a gold prospector. The murdered man's sister hires a gunslinger to catch the hunter, but after a dramatic confrontation, the two men become friends. Adventure ...

Frohe Ostern (1972)

Der Fall (1972)

In this Swiss film noir a private investigator stumbles onto a case involving blackmail and an oversexed, under-aged girl. He finds the girl, and, tragically, becomes involved with her. ...

Im Namen der Freiheit (1972)

Das Herz aller Dinge (1971)

Iwanow (1971)

Klassenkampf (1971)

Elsa Brändström (1971)

Preußen über alles (1971)

Professor Sound und die Pille (1971)

Great excitement in the Principality of Allegretto. Professor Sound, owner of a sanatorium for musical instruments, has come up with a sensational invention: the music pill. Once swallowed, it transforms the worst sourpuss into a cheerful singing and danci ...

Die blinden Ameisen (1970)

General Oster – Verräter oder Patriot? (1970)

Claus Graf Stauffenberg (1970)

Der Mann am Strick (1970)

Prometheus aus der Seitengasse (1970)

Der Nagel (1970)

Der Tanz des Sergeanten Musgrave (1969)

Liebe gegen Paragraphen (1969)

Adrienne Mésurat (1969)

Das Missverständliche im Leben des Herrn Knöbel (1968)

Das imaginäre Leben des Straßenkehrers Auguste G. (1968)

Kraft des Gesetzes (1968)

Ein Schweigen vom Himmel (1968)

König Ödipus (1967)

Der Blinde (1967)

Bäume sterben aufrecht (1967)

Ohne festen Wohnsitz (1966)

Bethanien (1966)

Der Fall Jeanne d'Arc (1966)

Betty Blue (1966)

Der Ritter vom Mirakel (1966)

Jerry Cotton: The Trap Snaps Shut at Midnight (1966)

Third Jerry Cotton Adaption. A big shipment of Nitroglycerine, enough to make a shambles of New York, mysteriously vanishes! It's a race between agent Jerry Cotton and the underworld to see who can find the deadly explosive first. To complicate things furt ...

Mother Courage and Her Children - A chronicle from the Thirty Years' War (1965)

A recording of the 1939 play "Mother Courage and Her Children" for German TV. ...

Bernhard Lichtenberg (1965)

Des Meeres und der Liebe Wellen (1965)

Der seidene Schuh (1965)

Sie werden sterben, Sire (1964)

Lydia muss sterben (1964)

Die erste Legion (1964)

Wie ein Dieb in der Nacht (1964)

Die Teepuppe (1964)

Actis (1964)

Ein Mann im schönsten Alter (1964)

Richard Mertens, a successful magazine editor with a cold, empty marriage to Lucy, seeks excitement through an affair with younger colleague Eva. Yet his need for status traps him in superficiality, undermining genuine connection. A legal battle with old f ...

König Ödipus (1963)

Aufstand der Gehorsamen (1963)

Leb wohl, mein Traum (1963)

Little Lord Fauntleroy (1962)

Cedric "Ceddie" Errol lives with his mother in poor circumstances in New York. The bright child is popular everywhere he goes. The boy's best friends are the shopkeeper Mr. Hobbs and the shoeshine boy Dick. One day, Ceddie receives the news that he is to m ...

Snow White and the Seven Jugglers (1962)

Norbert Lang inherits a hotel and has to deal with a multitude of problems at the end of the year. There's the pushy singer who wants to get closer to him than he'd like. The staff quickly takes off after arguments. When the heating starts acting up, he ha ...

Verräterische Spuren (1962)

Die Falle (1961)

Bernadette Soubirous (1961)

The Devil May Well Laugh (1960)

Three bums get played by the devil. ...

Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (1960)

Die Friedhöfe (1960)

Ein Fingerhut voll Mut (1960)

Nachtasyl (1959)

Du gehörst mir (1959)

Der Schinderhannes (1958)

1802: The adventurous life story of Hans Bückler, known as "Schinderhannes", who fights against the French occupying forces and large landowners who exploit poor farmers in the Hunsrück region during the Napoleonic Wars. ...

Colombe (1958)

Der kaukasische Kreidekreis (1958)

It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958)

The search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession. ...

Der Richter und sein Henker (1957)

The old and sick detective superintendent Bärlach has to investigate the murder of his colleague Ulrich Schmied, who was murdered in the middle of the country road. ...

Taxichauffeur Bänz (1957)

Oscar Bänz is a solid, middle-class taxi driver and widower. He loves his daughter Irma with all his heart. In order to provide for her, he has not remarried. Irma, a quiet, intelligent young woman, is studying medicine. To finance her education, Bänz re ...

Oberstadtgass (1956)

Realist melodrama set in Zurich. In the old town district, people are concerned about Mäni, the child of a toilet attendant, who is growing up without a father. Postman Jucker appeals to the boy's conscience and protects him from unjustified accusations. ...

On Trial (1954)

Prosecutor Etzel discovers that his father has sentenced a man, Leonardo Maurizius, on mere presumptions. He then makes it a point of honor to trace the sources of the case to uncover the truth. ...

The Village (1953)

At the end of the Second World War, orphans of various nationalities come together at the Pestalozzi Children's Village in Trogen. When the order arrives from Poland that the Polish children must return to their country, it comes as a shock to 13-year-old ...

Palace Hotel (1952)

The paths of guests and employees cross at the Palace Hotel in St. Moritz: A chambermaid experiences financial difficulties. A guest has been robbed. A thief is caught. An assistant cook is promoted to waiter. And there's no shortage of love in this small ...

Land der Sehnsucht (1950)

Since the envisaged tour guide for a tourist crowd on the way to Italy is allegedly suddenly prevented, the secretary of the travel agency must unexpectedly step in and accompany the group on the bus. ...

Madness Rules (1947)

If any one man is responsible for the rejuvenation of the postwar Swiss film industry, that man was director Leopold Lindtberg. Matto Regiert (Madness Rules) was co-adapted for the screen by Lindtberg from a novel by Friedrich Glauser. Heinrich Gretler sta ...

The Last Chance (1945)

Escaping a Nazi prison train in war-torn Italy, an American and a British soldier set out for the Swiss border and find themselves leading a multi-national party of refugees for the Italian underground. ...

Menschen die vorüberziehen (1942)

The daughter of a traveling circus director falls in love with a young farmer and finds herself in a life-changing conflict. ...

Steibruch (1942)

A man in his fifties returns from America to his native village. Everyone knows that in the New World he served a lengthy prison sentence for manslaughter. He retreats to an isolated quarry in the woods he inherited. There he lives like a hermit, gruffly d ...

Das Menschlein Matthias (1941)

Matthias is the illegitimate son of a factory worker. He lives as an indentured child labourer at his dictatorial aunt's remote guesthouse. The only thing he knows in life are hard work and hard punches. After a sudden death, the unhappy boy finds the oppo ...

Sergeant Studer (1939)

A policeman is not convinced that the prime suspect in a murder case is realty guilty and so decides to reinvestigate the case, despite the lack of co-operation from locals. ...

Füsilier Wipf (1938)

A hairdresser is being recruited during World War I by the Swiss military where they turn this soft civilian into a 'real man'. ...

Policeman Waeckerli in Danger (1967)

A car crashes, an expensive drill goes missing, systematic theft occurs in the department store, a murder happens. Police officer Wäckerli has his hands full and eventually even finds himself in mortal danger. ...

Matura-Reise (1943)

The film follows a group of 14 Swiss girls during and after their final exams. It shows their little worries, joys, and conflicts during a time of transition from youth to adulthood. ...

Steibruch (1942)

A man in his fifties returns from America to his native village. Everyone knows that in the New World he served a lengthy prison sentence for manslaughter. He retreats to an isolated quarry in the woods he inherited. There he lives like a hermit, gruffly d ...

Das Menschlein Matthias (1941)

Matthias is the illegitimate son of a factory worker. He lives as an indentured child labourer at his dictatorial aunt's remote guesthouse. The only thing he knows in life are hard work and hard punches. After a sudden death, the unhappy boy finds the oppo ...