Werner Dissel
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1912-08-26
Locus Natus: Köln, Germany
Et ut: Вернер Диссель
Anatomy
Medical student Paula wins a place at an exclusive Heidelberg medical school. When the body of a young man she met on the train turns up on her...
release : 2000.02.03popularis : 13.631
Rotkäppchen
Little Red Riding-Hood lives together with her parents in a house on the edge of the forest. Her friends are a bunny, a squirrel and a bear. The...
release : 1962.07.12popularis : 0.935
Liberation: The Fire Bulge
The "Fiery Arc" tells of a grandiose battle on the Kursk Bulge in the summer of 1943. Here was the largest tank battle in the history of World War...
release : 1970.05.07popularis : 5.068
The Architects
The architect Daniel Brenner is in his late thirties when he receives his first challenging and lucrative commission: to design a cultural center for...
release : 1990.06.21popularis : 2.798
Jörg Ratgeb, Painter
On the eve of the German Peasants' Revolt, painter Joerg Ratgeb is occupied by a crisis of his own: finding a model for a Christ figure. He sets off...
release : 1978.05.24popularis : 0.976
Coming Out
Philipp, a closeted teacher, is dating a female colleague to keep up appearances. One night he stumbles into a gay bar and falls for a man....
release : 1989.11.09popularis : 7.033
Späte Ankunft
In 1896 the Berlin noble doctor Dr. Wilhelm Holtfreter takes over his well-to-do wife Mathilde and takes over the country doctor's office in the...
release : 1989.02.26popularis : 1.287
Farssmann oder Zu Fuß in die Sackgasse
He could have had women, he could have climbed the ladder of his accountancy career, and he could have stood on the podium next to the highest in the...
release : 1991.09.05popularis : 1.177
Der Hauptmann von Köln
Albert Hauptmann is an out of work waiter in Cologne who is often confused with a former Captain of the Nazi Army. Albert uses this to his advantage...
release : 1956.12.07popularis : 2.426
Alles Lüge
Erich Kasulke and Rudolf Portmann are comedian stars of the former GDR. When the Wall falls, so does their success. Portmann becomes a successful...
release : 1992.04.09popularis : 3.259
Black Panthers
Seventeen-year-old Martina has a paralyzing fear of heights, which prevents her from fulfilling her father’s wish that they perform a tightrope...
release : 1966.08.04popularis : 1.658
Les Misérables
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both...
release : 1958.03.11popularis : 12.838
Picknick im Schnee
Johannes Breutigam, a successful architect, is confronted with his real life on a New Year's Eve. His wife is cheating on him, his partner Losfeld...
release : 1999.01.13popularis : 1.397
Verlorene Landschaft
Elias, born at the end of the war, receives an anonymous phone call on his 47th birthday: his parents are dead. He is now a successful politician,...
release : 1992.10.31popularis : 0.623
Nachts schlafen die Ratten
A Little Boy in the ruins of World War II and the white lie of an old man - after a story by Wolfgang Borchert.
release : 1988.01.01popularis : 0.738
Kindheit
Alfons lives with his grandparents on a Silesian village farm at the end of WWII. He adores his grandmother, who runs everything after her husband...
release : 1987.08.25popularis : 1.354
Naked Among Wolves
Based on a true story of inmates at KZ Buchenwald that risked their lives to hide a small Jewish boy shortly before the liberation of the camp.
release : 1963.04.10popularis : 3.481
Albert Einstein
Two part movie about Einstein's escape from Germany in 1932 and his influence in the invention of the nuclear bomb in 1939.
release : 1990.10.21popularis : 6.237
Just Don't Think I'll Cry
High-school senior Peter considers the adults around him to be hypocritical, self-congratulatory, and immersed in the past. He gets suspended for...
release : 1965.10.25popularis : 3.634
Till Eulenspiegel
In medieval Germany, poor and witty Till Eulenspiegel fools and cheats citizens, churchmen, and landlords. Although in most cases he uses his wit for...
release : 1975.05.23popularis : 6.133
Pension Boulanka
A murder has been committed in "Pension Boulanka", a famous guesthouse for artists and circus people. Captain Bruckner is heading the investigating...
release : 1964.12.03popularis : 1.905
Heroin
This East German movie was co-produced with studios in Hungary and Yugoslavia, with many interesting location shots (border checkpoint to West...
release : 1968.03.14popularis : 1.059
Ulzana
This rather unconventional Western movie is set in the middle of the 19th century in Arizona. The film portrays an Indian tribe, the Mimbreno...
release : 1974.05.16popularis : 5.751
Beethoven – Tage aus einem Leben
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...
release : 1976.10.14popularis : 3.441
As Long as There’s Life in Me
This is part one of a two-part biopic about Karl Liebknecht. In 1914, Germany is arming itself for war. Karl Liebknecht, left-wing revolutionary...
release : 1965.09.09popularis : 2.752
Zejście do piekła
Etnographers travelling through the Amazon jungle find an enclosed colony ran by former Nazi Germany officials.
release : 1966.12.02popularis : 1.648
Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow
This five part epic war drama gives a dramatized detailed account of Soviet Union's war against Nazi Germany during world war two. Each of the five...
release : 1970.10.21popularis : 8.064
Jetzt und in der Stunde meines Todes
Ella Conradi, a dedicated journalist from Germany, is in Jerusalem to report about the trial against the Nazi criminal Eichmann. Disgusted by the...
release : 1963.11.15popularis : 1.691
Johannes Kepler
Europe, 1620: The well-known astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler, who teaches as a professor in Linz, receives the message that his mother...
release : 1974.11.15popularis : 1.236
Man against Man
Robert and Michael meet on their return from captivity. They discover that they are both married to the same woman: After Robert was pronounced dead,...
release : 1975.12.21popularis : 0.8
Der Traum vom Elch
The nurses and friends Anna and Annette grow desperate over men and love. At the hospital, Anna has fallen in love with Markus, whom she lovingly...
release : 1986.12.04popularis : 1.935
Stielke, Heinz, Fifteen...
Everything changes for fifteen-year-old Heinz Stielke, a fanatical member of the Hitler Youth, when he learns that his father, who died as a war...
release : 1987.02.12popularis : 1.534
Fallada: The Last Chapter
This biographical film is set in 1937, with Fallada suffering the effects of living under a microscope. The film details his decline, as he is...
release : 1988.05.11popularis : 1.529
Verwirrung der Liebe
The film tells the love story of two young couples. According to their social ranks, construction worker Edy is dating employee Siegi, while medical...
release : 1959.10.08popularis : 2.745
Die Liebe und der Co-Pilot
Co-pilot Horst Schubert is a braggart and a true Don Juan. Thus, he tells young Ilse that he is in fact an "aircraft commander". This assertion...
release : 1961.01.27popularis : 0.83
Geschichten jener Nacht
Four directors - four styles - four episodes, all relating the events of a single night which has entered the history books: August 12-13, 1961....
release : 1967.06.07popularis : 1.047
Ein Mädchen von 16 ½
The young orphan Helga is raised by her aunt after WW II. At the age of sixteen, she turns her back to go her own way. As a rambler, Helga wanders...
release : 1958.05.15popularis : 0.851
The Opportunists
The machinations of an ex-officer and a servant who want to get their hands on a fortune.
release : 1960.04.08popularis : 0.729
Lebende Ware
In 1944, SS-Obersturmbannführer Becher arrives in Budapest in order to obtain material for the Waffen-SS. At the same time, he starts to gather...
release : 1966.06.10popularis : 1.487
Pułapka
Shortly after World War 2 a conflict between cousins, a Polish major and a former SS soldier arises on the Recovered Territories.
release : 1971.03.26popularis : 1.03
Jede Woche Hochzeitstag
The widowed registrar Robert Zimmermann reconciles divorcing couples and finds happiness in love once again.
release : 1976.01.04popularis : 0.519
The Gleiwitz Case
Re-enacted true story of successful assault by Nazis, posing as Poles, on a German border radio station so that Hitler could "justify" thereby his...
release : 1961.08.23popularis : 1.596
Ware für Katalonien
At the end of the 1950s, the production of optics in the German Democratic Republic has reached top quality and instigates interest in the West. When...
release : 1959.03.06popularis : 1.254