Eberhard Esche Movies

With excerpts from Goethe's diary, sketches and engravings, this film follows Goethe's Italian Journey through Rome, Naples and Pompeii.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Eberhard Esche

A documentary crew follows the December 1978 “big repair” at the Bernburg (Saale) cement works, normally shut only for maintenance, where...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Eberhard Esche

A farmer receives land from the king and discovers a buried golden mortar. He decides to give it to the king out of gratitude, but his clever...

Genre: Family

Cast: Cox Habbema

Bad planning and shortages prevail on an East German construction site. Foreman Hannes Balla uses unconventional methods to overcome the problems....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Manfred Krug

The film describes the activity of an ABV of the People's Police in its section in East Berlin. A mixture of “positive” characters from...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jürgen Zartmann

The "Concordia" trading company in Würzburg is a secret headquarters of the MID, a secret service agency of the US Army. For years, espionage,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alfred Müller

The evil and powerful King Magus brutally subjugates the people of his kingdom. Anyone who does not want to submit is turned into an animal and...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Klaus Piontek

After a breakdown, Rita returns to her childhood village in 1961. As she recovers, she remembers the past two years: her love for the chemist...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lissy Tempelhof

Hans Fallada tells in his published after the war novel "The drinker" the story of the agricultural wholesaler Erwin Sommer, who flees from his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Harald Juhnke

Berlin, 1948: Paralyzed and robbed of her memory, Fleur regains consciousness after a serious fall. The doctor treating her recognizes that her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Angelica Domröse

In a small village in West Prussia in the 1870s, Germans, Poles, Gypsies and Jews live together as neighbors. One night Johann, a German mill-owner,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

The former athlete Barbara follows her husband to the province and attempts to masters her new life, even after her separation from him.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cox Habbema

Germany in the 18th century. Two brothers rebel against the narrow confines of the small state and feudal despotism. However, Franz and Karl Moor...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kurt Steingraf

Adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's novella for East German television, produced in 1965/66, not shown until 1972.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Christel Bodenstein

With an open mind and the meticulousness of a scientist, Professor Tarantoga meets his strange guest, who has made contact with him from a...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Eberhard Esche

In an effort to rekindle their romance, Barbara and Ralph rent a secluded farmhouse in Yorkshire for Christmas.

Genre: Family

Cast: Christine Reinhart

A romantic fairy tale about love.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Christoph Schiller

In the spring of 1969, a young man from a small town arrives at the partner company in Berlin, where he falls in love with red-haired Rita. A love...

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Cast: Jutta Hoffmann

Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Platow worked for the railways his entire working life. He took up service at the small station of Luege 34 years ago. Now,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fritz Marquardt

East German film about the history of Red Orchestra, a real life German pro-Soviet spy ring created after the rise of Hitler that turned into a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Horst Drinda

In medieval Germany, poor and witty Till Eulenspiegel fools and cheats citizens, churchmen, and landlords. Although in most cases he uses his wit for...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Winfried Glatzeder

Uwe Polzin, a highly talented biologist publicly stands the defence of his doctorate and this crucial day prompts him to look back on his life so...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eberhard Esche

At the beginning of the 1960s, a German turns up on behalf of the NATO in the British village of Rocksmouth. NATO wants to establish a naval base in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Johannes Arpe

Vienna, 1813-1819: Beethoven (played by Donatas Banionis) is at the peak of his fame. Orchestras all over the world play his music, but he lives...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Donatas Banionis

Photo model Monika Stange is found murdered in her apartment in a major West German city. Detectives Bentheim and Laube find rough diamonds hidden in...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Eberhard Esche

The film chronicles the last ten years in the life of Nobel Peace Prize recipient Carl von Ossietzky (1889-1938).

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hans-Peter Minetti

Helmut Kamp, the construction brigade leader, a man no longer young, life immediately confronted several difficult and woeful problems. The birth of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Günther Simon

East German documentary short about Somalia in 1976.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Eberhard Esche

Four directors - four styles - four episodes, all relating the events of a single night which has entered the history books: August 12-13, 1961....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hans Hardt-Hardtloff

Anna, the witch girl, has one short leg and one long leg and is therefore only called the hobble witch. Anna trains until she is far superior to all...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Eberhard Esche

On a forest road in the Brandenburg March, village teacher Potsch accidentally encounters the distinguished Professor Menzel, who got stuck there in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hermann Beyer

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Eberhard Esche

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eberhard Esche

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reimar Johannes Baur