Gerhard Lau Movies

Hatifa is tired of her difficult fate and escapes from the place of her enslavement, a quarry in the desert. There she wanders around in freedom, but...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Gisela Büttner

Factory workers Yvonne and Evchen have their nose full of married men who appeal to them again and again in their home for a short adventure. In...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Borgelt

In Frankfurt am Main, a red sports car crashes into a wall and bursts into flames along with the driver. Erika Bongert, the owner, was not in the car...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Barbara Brylska

Berlin in the early 1930s. Bello is an unemployed young man who loves the underage Frieda. In order to earn a living for both of them, Frieda goes on...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peer-Uwe Teska

A day before the beginning of the Second World War, a young resident of Bydgoszcz falls in love with a German teenager.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jerzy Matałowski

It is the time before the First World War - in a fishing village on the Baltic Sea coast, the unusual love story of the young, ambitious lawyer...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Christine Schorn

In a remote Prussian village, the shepherd Krischan with his fantastic stories is the attraction point for the children. One day they experience...

Genre: Family

Cast: Jan Rohde

On a barren and stormy island, fishing families eke out a meager existence on what they can catch during summer, and what washes ashore during...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leonhard Ritter

For her husband, who has become famous as an actor, Angelika is the go-to girl. For years, she stands in his shadow. The only things they do together...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Angelica Domröse

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hellena Büttner

Ulf would do anything to win Biggi's heart. Because he wants to impress her, he decides to join the sailing club. Despite the mockery of his friends,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Katrin Martin

Dr. Zacharias is an experienced and demanding woman. She sees her daughter Manuela as the continuation and fulfillment of her own life. She wants her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Irma Münch

Russian soldier Grisha escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp in the spring of 1917. He is caught and is to be shot as a spy. This decision is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Josef Karlík

Major Bert Harkus takes over the artillery regiment in Jesnack after graduating from the military academy. The troop proudly presents itself during...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Manfred Zetzsche

Magdalena and Michael have loved each other since they were children. But when the Nazis come to power, Michael rebels against the regime and is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Annekathrin Bürger

This film is the first of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. In early...

Genre: History

Cast: Günther Simon

August 1961. The former Foreign Legionnaire, King, has collected a gang of hooligans, with whom he creates mischief in the GDR. After some careless...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ulrich Thein

In 1920, Michael, the son of a German laboring man, decides to travel to Russia. As "red horseman" he wants to support the socialist revolution and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Burkhard Mann

15-year old Klaus Kambor, called Kurbel, is living in a village in Lusatia and already thinks of himself as an adult. He can hold a lot of rhubarb...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ralf Schlösser

Bornholm island in 1880, where quarry worker Johan Jönsson lives a miserable life with his wife and children. He hopes to escape his poverty by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

Professor Heger's son was shot by the Gestapo during the war. Dr. Bram was also responsible for his death. After the war, working in Heger's clinic,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Johannes Arpe

In 1960, farmer Walter Wagemühl learns from the West that his life is coming to an end. In order to pass the farm into loyal hands, he sends his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rudolf Ulrich

Boatman Ahrens from Hamburg has a sense of justice when it comes to finding a missing girl. He goes down illegal paths when he breaks into someone...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Werner Toelcke

Genre: Crime

Cast: Werner Toelcke

Unknown assailants threaten the life of British scientist Dr. Ronald Fergusson. Only by chance does the attempt to shoot him in the street fail....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Werner Toelcke

East Berlin, early 1970s: the funny, somewhat eccentric repair mechanic Roland and the cashier Christel quickly become a couple. After some back and...

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Cast: Madeleine Lierck

Antwerp at the end of the 16th century. For the second time, the city falls into the hands of the plundering and murdering Spaniards. Jan and Myga...

Genre: History

Cast: Dietrich Körner