Wolfgang Kieling

Zieh den Stecker raus, das Wasser kocht (1986)

In Amt und Würden (1985)

Stadttheater (1985)

Although the new head of the cultural department is trying his best and wants to spice up city life in terms of culture, neither the new musical nor a play bring the desired success at the City Theatre. ...

Nonstop Trouble with the Family (1985)

A series of murders eliminates the poverty-stricken heirs to a 10 million-dollar fortune while Didi Dodel, the unsuspecting main heir, blithely escapes the attempts on his life. After a wealthy miser dies and leaves his fortune to Didi and five others, the ...

Der Schiedsrichter (1985)

Grenzenloses Himmelblau (1985)

German TV comedy. ...

Das Geschenk (1984)

Out of Order (1984)

It's Friday evening. The lift repairman leaves the building and wants to finish his work on Monday. But he doesn't know there are four men in the building. They use the lift but stay in it about 100 meters from the floor. ...

Man Under Suspicion (1984)

Shots are suddenly fired at a rally. A young man is arrested from the crowd. During questioning, he claims to have acted alone in order to make a statement. His court-appointed lawyer, Landau, suspects that his client is not telling him the truth. He begin ...

Strafanzeige gegen Unbeteiligt (1983)

Satan ist auf Gottes Seite (1983)

A top-level meeting of the Eastern secret services is taking place in Prague. Martin, an agent who knows all the tricks of the trade, is tasked with obtaining the minutes of the conference for the West German intelligence service. And he does so via Zimra, ...

The Oppermanns (1983)

History of a Jewish family, the Oppermanns, in Berlin at the end of 1932, after Hitler has become the leader of Germany's strongest political party. ...

Der Trauschein (1983)

Mein Bruder und ich (1982)

O du fröhliche – Besinnliche Weihnachtsgeschichten (1981)

Der Spot oder Fast eine Karriere (1981)

This bizarre comedy demonstrates - as a convincing example - how TV-commercials may be produced, sacrificing extensive amounts of money, bottomless creativity and even human life without any respect right to the finish. ...

Der König und sein Narr (1981)

A Guru Comes (1980)

"A Guru Comes" - A failed opera singer rises to the leader of a new religious community. Satirical film about the new religious movements of the 1970s and 1980s. ...

Pension Schöller (1980)

..es ist die Liebe (1979)

Die Stühle des Herrn Szmil (1979)

Wo die Liebe hinfällt (1979)

The Fall (1979)

Film adaptation of the last part of Martin Walser's "Kristlein Trilogy": After the perpetually failing intellectual Anselm Kristlein had to make a living as a sales representative and advertising copywriter in "Halbzeit" and became a writer in "Das Einhorn ...

Der Geist der Mirabelle (1978)

Friedrich Schachmann wird verwaltet (1978)

Bei Westwind hört man keinen Schuß (1976)

Ketten (1976)

Margarete in Aix (1976)

Baby Hamilton oder Das kommt in den besten Familien vor (1975)

A baby is delivered to the Hamilton family, triggering a turbulent search for those responsible among six potential fathers. ...

Es fängt ganz harmlos an (1975)

See-Leben 1 (1975)

Listen to My Story (1974)

A young woman inherits a massive industrial empire that starts a feud with her relatives. ...

Der Macher oder Warten auf Godeau (1974)

Die Villa der Madame Vidac (1974)

Aus der Chronik der Familie Sawatzki (1974)

Van der Valk and the Rich (1973)

Dutch police officer Van der Valk is pulled away for a private investigation for a friend of the chief of police to find the missing junior manager. When he gets to know his woman, he is fascinated by the thought of running away with her. ...

Invitation to a Beheading (1973)

Cincinnatus C., a thirty-year-old teacher, has been found guilty of the crime "gnostical turpitude", and will be executed in twenty days' time. ...

Im Reservat (1973)

A gay man lives with a lonely old lady in a demolished house in Berlin. One day the old lady's daughter stands in front of the door and wants to bring her mother home. ...

Millowitsch - Theater: Week-End im Paradies (1973)

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 ...

Das letzte Paradies (1973)

The Refusal (1973)

The story of the last days of Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter (1907-43), who was executed by the Nazi regime because of his refusal to compromise with a perverse system. ...

Bremen Freedom (1972)

A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in front of a large screen on which coastal scenery is back projected. Geesche is a nineteenth-century woman who wants to have a mind of her own. She defies co ...

The Corpse Packs His Bags (1972)

A London slasher pack the suitcases of his victims before stabbing them to death in this adaptation of Edgar Wallace's 'Secret of the Black Suitcases. ...

Der Eisberg der Vorsehung (1972)

Der Angestellte (1972)

Rechtsprechung (1972)

The Ancestress (1971)

Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment (1971)

As a painter in the court of King Carlos IV, Goya has attained wealth and reputation. He believes in King and Church, yet he is also a Spaniard who dearly loves his people. This contradiction presents him with a dilemma. ...

Das Loch zur Welt (1970)

Kannibalen (1970)

Maiden, You Please Me (1969)

A Saxon village in 1792: While the Prussians go against France, the haymaking takes place in the village and the resolute Marthe catches her daughter Ev with the village blacksmith Ruprecht in the hay. ...

The Seventh Year (1969)

Dr. Barbara Heim, a heart surgeon, and Gunter Heim, a well-known actor, have been married for seven years. They have a six-year-old daughter. Both partners are totally taken up by their work which is physically and mentally demanding. So there is little ti ...

Amsterdam Affair (1968)

An Englishman in Holland gets involved in a murder case. It looks bad for him, but the wily Inspector Van Der Valk isn't convinced of his guilt. ...

Tevye and His Seven Daughters (1968)

Russia, 1905. Tuvia is the only Jew living in the village of Antevka. He is very poor but things change when, as a token of gratitude for a service rendered, he is given a cow and some food. Now, his wife, his seven daughters and himself have access to a b ...

The Zombie Walks (1968)

A serial killer who calls himself "The Laughing Corpse" dresses up in a skeleton costume and kills his victims with a poison-filled scorpion-shaped ring. ...

Operation San Pietro (1967)

Small time crook Napoleone falls into an unlikely gang made up of a gangster, called The Baron, and his two cohorts, Agonia and The Captain, where Napoleone takes them to Rome where they shack up with a shady used car dealer caled Il Cajella to help financ ...

House of 1,000 Dolls (1967)

When a vacationing couple in Tangiers runs into an old friend there, they discover that he is searching for his missing girlfriend who has been kidnapped by an international gang of white slavers. ...

Fliegender Sand (1967)

Dead Run (1967)

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

Ein Toter braucht kein Alibi (1967)

The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967)

Fu Manchu abducts a missionary doctor and forces him to surgically turn one of his hypnotized dacoits into a murderous doppelgänger of his arch-nemesis Inspector Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard as, part of a plan to become leader of the World's criminals ...

Pension Clausewitz (1967)

S.O.S. - Morro Castle (1966)

Standgericht (1966)

Das Abgründige in Herrn Gerstenberg (1966)

Torn Curtain (1966)

During the Cold War, an American scientist appears to defect to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the formula for a resin solution—but the plan goes awry when his fiancee, unaware of his motivation, follows him across the border. ...

Geschlossene Gesellschaft (1966)

Congress of Love (1966)

Vienna 1965. While visiting the Wax Museum a group of tourists stop in front of the figure of Prince Metternich. All of a sudden they find themselves brought back 150 years earlier during the Vienna Congress of 1814-1815. Before their eyes wide open, histo ...

Das Mädchen aus Mira (1966)

Exil (1965)

Duel at Sundown (1965)

During a cattle drive, Don McGow leaves the herd in charge of his younger brother and rides off. When the herd is reported stolen he blames himself and goes in search of the thieves. ...

Our Man in Jamaica (1965)

The FBI sends agents to Jamaica to investigate arms smuggling to revolutionaries in Santo Domingo. ...

The Bandits of the Rio Grande (1965)

Three female schoolteachers head down to a small village which has a small army detail. The village is raided for by bandits and the teachers are taken along to the bandits' camp. ...

Der Sündenbock (1965)

Hotel der toten Gäste (1965)

London crime reporter Barney Blair has an appointment in his office with Janosch Kovac, the hotel detective at the Hotel Atlanta in San Remo. The informant wants to sell Blair some explosive background material, but it doesn't get that far because the man ...

The House in Karp Lane (1965)

The film depicts the fate of the residents of an apartment block in Prague's Jewish quarter following the invasion by German troops in 1939. Among them is an elderly widow who had once disowned her son and now wishes to bring him to Brazil; there are also ...

Die Physiker (1964)

Polizeirevier Davidswache (1964)

A drama that illustrates a few days at a busy Hamburg police station. ...

Die Zeit der Schuldlosen (1964)

Three men plot to assassinate the dictator of their country, but their plan fails and one of them is captured and imprisoned. Even after considerable torture and interrogation, the revolutionary maintains his silence as to the names of his accomplices. Soo ...

Bericht von den Inseln (1964)

König Richard III. (1964)

Der Traum des Eroberers (1964)

Die Teufelsspur (1964)

Hedda Gabler (1963)

Dantons Tod (1963)

Der Belagerungszustand (1963)

A comet drops from the sky and causes a stir in Cadiz, Spain. A nihilistic drunk called Nada announces that very bad things are imminent. A herald gives orders that it is punishable to mention the comet. ...

Mirandolina (1963)

Heute kündigt mir mein Mann (1963)

Montserrat (1962)

Frau Cheneys Ende (1962)

Mord im Dom (1962)

Wallenstein (1962)

Der rote Hahn (1962)

Murder Party (1961)

Klaus murders women. After killing another girl, Klaus is spotted by his friend Kersten as he leaves his latest victim's house. Kersten gives him a ride and Klaus begins to plot the man's death. He's a witness, after all. Nobody else can say Klaus was the ...

Zahlungsaufschub (1961)

Die Sendung der Lysistrata (1961)

Persuaded by Lysistrata, the women of Athens agree to withdraw all sexual favours from the men until the men agree to end to war with Sparta. ...

Agatha, let the murdering be! (1960)

A black comedy about a female author of crime novels who becomes a victim of a macabre hoax. ...

Doctor Without Scruples (1959)

A renowned physician falls under scrutiny when it's discovered his assistant is a former Nazi. ...

Der Mann, der nicht nein sagen konnte (1958)

A man takes in three a dog and three runaway girls. ...

Der Parasit (1957)

Duped Till Doomsday (1957)

East Germany's contribution to the 1957 Cannes Film Festival was the wartime melodrama Betrogen bis zum Juengsten Tag. Had the film been released in the U.S., the title would probably have translated to Duped Till the Last. The film condemns the Nazi minds ...

Damals in Paris (1956)

1944: Geneviève and René live in occupied Paris. They love each other, and the young woman looks fearfully at René's activities in the Resistance. She wants to stay out of it, and sometimes there are arguments about it. After one such argument, René go ...

Recovery (1956)

The authorities expect the case of Friedel Walter, alias "Dr. Mueller," to be a straightforward one: he was working as a doctor without proper credentials under a false name. But Mehlin, the man in charge of his case, knows that there is more to the story. ...

Jenny und der Herr im Frack (1941)

In this intricately plotted crime comedy, Johannes Heesters plays the worldly insurance detective Peter Holm, who is determined to apprehend jewel thief Robert Makaroff. To this end, Holm travels to Copenhagen, where the Hungarian actress Lilly Hegedüsch ...

Krach im Vorderhaus (1941)

It can hardly be said that things are peaceful in the Berlin apartment building where the film's story takes place. There are constant clashes between the residents – and sometimes that's quite literal: for example, when the widow Bock hid some explosive ...

Falstaff in Wien (1940)

Seitensprünge (1940)

A diligent office worker and a cheeky sales representative are tasked by their boss with reserving a first-class hotel room with a bathroom for a visiting Hamburg exporter and his wife. A misunderstanding leads to non-stop confusion, because the office wor ...

The Journey to Tilsit (1939)

A villager is tempted by a sophisticated city woman and almost kills his wife in a boating accident. ...

Women for Golden Hill (1938)

Women are being sent to an all male settlement. The marriages are planned in advance, but not everything goes according to plan. ...

Altes Herz geht auf die Reise (1938)

The underage Rosemarie is still too young to run her inherited farm by herself; but she's more than aware that her foster father and the farm's administrator, the farmer Schlieker, is constantly skimming from the farm's finances to line his own pocket. To ...

Heimweh (1937)

Christof Peleikis is a seasoned sailor who once served as a helmsman on many ships. Since having a wife and child, he works as a fisherman and lives in a small village. When a ship gets into trouble off the coast one day, Christof rushes to its aid. He man ...

The Kreutzer Sonata (1937)

Adaptation of Tolstoy story in which a female pianist is the center of a struggle between her husband and his violinist cousin ,a struggle that leads to a tragic conclusion. ...

Maria, die Magd (1936)

An actress and her lawyer husband are so busy that their maid becomes the real mother to their six year old boy and at one point causes consternation by taking the child away to her home village. ...

The Merry Wives (1936)

When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of Window wives: Mistress Ford and Mistress Page. When they put their heads together and compare missives, they plan a practical joke or two to teach the knig ...