Wilhelm Borchert

Everyone Dies Alone (1976)

When they start losing family members and neighbors due to WWII and the Nazi government's policies, a quiet married couple becomes disillusioned and begins spreading leaflets against the government - a crime punishable by death. ...

Die Schatzgräbergeschichte (1970)

Company commander Bicorne, loser at Waterloo, inherits a house and a little money in Andilly-les-Prés. ...

Eli (1970)

German TV-movie that includes poems by Nelly Sachs. ...

Willkommen in Altamont (1965)

Nun singen sie wieder (1965)

Das Feuerzeichen (1965)

Wallenstein (1962)

Who Are You, Mr. Sorge? (1961)

French docu-drama which chronicles the chain of events that lead to the hanging of German-journalist Richard Sorge, who was executed in 1944 after he was found supplying classified information to the Russians. ...

Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever? (1959)

In the winter of 1943, against the background of battle scenes, a young German Lieutenant who increasingly distrusts the inhuman Nazi ideology struggles with the concept of war. ...

You Can No Longer Remain Silent (1955)

A Nordic fishermen's village surrounded by the raging sea. This is were fisherman Haldor (Wilhelm Borchert) is living. His marriage with the proud Salvör (Heidemarie Hatheyer) is going to be impend. While on the sea in a storm, he is being cast upon an is ...

Master Over Life and Death (1955)

Barbara is married to Georg Bertram, a professor of medicine who once saved her father's life. Things go awry for the couple when she gives birth to a mentally defective child. For Georg, coldly clinical, euthanizing the infant is the only way out. He is a ...

The Life of Surgeon Sauerbruch (1954)

Young Olga Ahrendt almost succeeded in attempting suicide. She had thrown herself in front of a tram out of desperation about her miserable life, a desperation she shared with many in the post-war period. Fortunately, Privy Councillor Sauerbruch is at the ...

Schicksal aus zweiter Hand (1949)

A man's life breaks down in pursuit of material success. ...

Und wieder 48 (1948)

In 1948, students from Berlin University take part in the filming of a movie about the 1848 revolution as extras. A dispute arises between Else and Heinz, who tends to dismiss the revolution as a comical affair. Two fiercely opposing camps form at the univ ...

The Murderers Are Among Us (1946)

After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds a traumatized ex-soldier living in her apartment in bombed out Berlin. Together the two try to move past their experiences during WWII. ...

Der ewige Klang (1943)

1943 German film. ...

Wenn du noch eine Heimat hast (1942)

The river level rises, the dam can no longer hold back the floodwaters – it breaks. Panic erupts, everyone tries to save at least some of their belongings from the rising waters. Those who manage it flee to the farm of old dike captain Doorn. His sons, P ...

U-Boat, Course West! (1941)

This Nazi propaganda film follows the exploits of a German submarine as it prowls the North Atlantic. ...