Werner Schumacher

Gefangen in Frankreich: Theodor Fontane im Krieg 1870/71 (1979)

Waffen für Amerika (1976)

Based on the play by Lion Feuchtwanger. ...

Zwei Finger einer Hand (1975)

Der Hellseher (1974)

Eigentlich hatte ich Angst... - Die Geschichte eines ungewöhnlichen Helden (1973)

Nicht Lob - noch Furcht. Graf Galen, Bischof von Münster (1972)

Ein Fall für Herrn Schmidt (1971)

Nachbarn (1970)

Auftrag: Mord! (1970)

The unscrupulous bar owner Otto Grolbek hires the masseur Janos Klewe to murder his landlady. He then wants to inherit her and get his hands on some urgently needed money. But things turn out differently than planned: Janos is killed during the attempted m ...

Sir Basil Zaharoff - Makler des Todes (1969)

Doppelagent George Blake (1969)

For ten years, the government official George Blake, recruited by the British secret service, also spies for the Soviet Union. Over 40 Western agents lost their lives behind the Iron Curtain as a result. In May 1961, Blake is sentenced to 42 years in priso ...

Friedrich Ebert und Gustav Stresemann, Schicksalsjahre der Republik (1969)

Kurz vor dem Sprung (1969)

Pole Poppenspäler (1968)

Theodor Storm's novella, now dramatized, deals with envy and hard-heartedness, but also with loyal friendship and affection. Generations love the story of Paul and Lisei, of the puppeteer Tendler and Kröpen-Lieschen. But above all, they love the actual "h ...

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' ...

Tragödie in einer Wohnwagenstadt (1967)

Superba is a trailer park surrounded by forest somewhere in the USA, twelve miles from the nearest town. The inhabitants are simple-minded, some of them primitive. When fifteen-year-old Dotty Fisher comes home distraught one day and says she was molested b ...

Old Shaky (1966)

Das Leben meines Bruders (1966)

Das Feuerzeichen (1965)

Thomas More (1964)

Nebeneinander (1964)

Tote ohne Begräbnis (1964)

Der erste Frühlingstag (1962)

The Liar (1961)

When the wife of Sebastian Schumann left her family, he told his little daughter that her mother has died, because he thought that this was the easiest way for her to accept that her mother is now gone. But this was only the beginning of a lot of lies he t ...

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 ...

Der Andere (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. ...

Grabenplatz 17 (1958)

Murder mystery about the disappearance of a boy who has leukaemia following the murder of his mother, which he witnessed. ...

Doctor Crippen Lives (1958)

Double murderer Dr. Crippen is using every means possible to search for a manuscript that he suspects is in the possession of the daughter of the man who was executed in his place. ...

Das Geld liegt auf der Straße (1958)

Das Herz von St. Pauli (1957)

Due to a lack of money, Hamburg pub owner Jonny Jensen brings two partners on board. As soon as the contract is finalized, the ex-sea bear is almost struck by a blow: the shady duo want to turn his quaint harbour bar "Herz von St. Pauli" into a demimonde p ...

Minna von Barnhelm (1957)

Charming lady (1955)

The Devil's General (1955)

The adaptation of the eponymous play by Carl Zuckmayer tells the story of renegade general Harras of the German Luftwaffe, who during WWII openly criticizes the Nazi regime. As a consequence, he is put under surveillance, and even imprisoned for a brief pe ...

Hin und her (1954)

Ein Mann aus einer großen Stadt (1954)