SiggiGötz-Entertainment #12: Der Kanon des deutschen Films (2007)
Published in: SigiGötz-Entertainment - Die zwölfte Fügung. (October 2007)
Missing: Der Mann aus dem Osten (Christoph Willems, 1990)
Missing: Der Mann aus dem Osten (Christoph Willems, 1990)
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- DirectorRobert WohlmuthStarsGisela WerbisekAlice HechyElse RevalFriends Max, Paul and Carl, though totally broke, establish a film production company and proceed to make a talkie picture, experiment with ideas and settle on a family picture, with chaotic but funny results.
- DirectorGéza von BolváryStarsWilli ForstTrude von MoloGustaf GründgensA painter working at the Louvre is struck by the Mona Lisa. When he meets a girl who he thinks resembles the painting and she wants him to become famous he has the idea of robbing the painting. Based on the 1911 real robbery.
- DirectorAnatole LitvakStarsLilian HarveyHarry LiedtkeFelix BressartAn American millionaire, who had always bad luck with women, bets that he can live without them for five years. But after four and a half years travling around on his yacht, he rescues a lady from drowning in the English Channel.
- DirectorFritz KortnerStarsMax PallenbergHeinz RühmannDolly HaasA small town bank official, entrusted with taking money to Vienna, spends some of it.On his return to admit his guilt he learns that his boss,the director, has run off with even more.
- DirectorKarl HartlStarsHans AlbersSybille SchmitzPaul HartmannUrged by famous airman Ellissen the Lennartz Company puts into reality the project proposed by his friend Droste: F.P.1, a huge floating platform in the Atlantic that makes long-distance flights viable. Ellissen is in love with company heiress Claire, but when he returns from his adventures to save the endangered F.P.1 he finds out that he has lost her to Droste.
- DirectorFriedrich HollaenderStarsLilian HarveyMady ChristiansConrad VeidtWhen the Marquis de Pontignac falls off his horse; he is seemingly brought back from death by the voice of a mysterious woman. He believes that his savior is the Empress of France when it is truly her hairdresser Juliette.
- DirectorHenry KosterStarsFranciska GaalFelix BressartFriedl CzepaA 17 year old girl, hustling money as a street musician after being evicted from her family home, is forced to disguise as a boy,is charged with a crime, and causes later confusion due to her double identity.
- DirectorDouglas SirkStarsErhard SiedelLina CarstensCharlott DaudertSimultaneously filmed in German and Dutch versions, about a baker who is able to take over a company that manufactures products used in baking.
- DirectorKurt GerronStarsS.Z. SakallErnst ArndtMara LoseffPaul loves actresses but avoids to get hitched. Businesswoman Katja manages to get a singing part on stage, this way attracting him to her. Deli employee Franz is mistaken for an actor and gets a leading part - with disastrous results.
- DirectorFritz SchulzStarsAlbert BassermannMichiko TanakaElsa BassermannA shy, awkward Japanese girl taking singing lessons in Vienna is courted by both an elderly composer who finds her inspiring and the composer's young nephew who is the orchestra conductor.
- DirectorFrank WisbarStarsSybille SchmitzAribert MogCarl de VogtA beautiful young drifter comes to a small village and battles Death itself to save the man she loves.
- DirectorRichard OswaldStarsJoseph SchmidtFelix BressartOtto WallburgTwo twin brothers working in a Vienna fair and who are both gifted for singing meet different luck both in love and their careers.
- DirectorReinhold SchünzelStarsAlbert MatterstockGusti HuberValerie von MartensThe story is one of the classic operetta stories with a young princess destined to marry a king whom her mother tries to enforce while the young woman tries to escape her fate.
- DirectorErich EngelStarsWinnie MarkusO.W. FischerSiegfried Breuer
- DirectorHelmut KäutnerStarsHans AlbersIlse WernerHans SöhnkerThe film tells the story of the blond "singing sailor" Hannes Kröger who works in a St. Pauli club on the Große Freiheit 7, and falls in love with a girl. But she prefers his rival Willem and Hannes returns to the sea.
- DirectorHans SchweikartStarsRudolf FernauErnst KarchowKurt Müller-GrafA dozen ladies expect marriage impostor Lanski to keep his promises. But he needs more money and decides to kill Mrs. von Droste who has changed her will in his favor. He covers his tracks but is seen by a neighbor who soon blackmails him.
- DirectorJosef von BákyStarsKarin HardtCarl WeryViktor StaalA hated and bully patriarch is murdered. The investigating judge falls in love and marries the daughter, and then she confesses to have killed. Did she? Or she was protecting some one?
- DirectorGeorg Wilhelm PabstStarsPaul HubschmidIlse WernerStefan SkodlerDr. Benn Wittich's obsession with his work pulls him apart from his girlfriend Cornelia who, resentful, marries industrialist Robert Roy. However, Benn cannot forget her.
- DirectorHarald BraunStarsLuise UllrichHans NielsenRené Deltgen
- DirectorKurt HoffmannStarsHans SöhnkerRichard HäusslerCarola Höhn
- DirectorRolf HansenStarsMaria SchellDieter BorscheHeidemarie HatheyerA doctor marries, out of pity, the invalid daughter of a wealthy industrialist.Though the doctor has helped to cure her, he expects she will not live much longer.
- DirectorArthur Maria RabenaltStarsHildegard KnefErich von StroheimTrude HesterbergA scientist creates a beautiful "perfect woman", but since she is artificial, she seems soul-less and with no sense of morality, she brings ruin to all around her.
- DirectorHans H. KönigStarsRuth NiehausHermann SchombergArmin DahlenIn a small German village in the middle of large moors, there is an old legend of a young woman having sunk in the wetland after being raped by a Swedish intruder of the Thirty Years' war. Now young Dorothee, falling in love with the architect Ludwig, is harassed by an obnoxious, rich farmer Eschmann. The brutal man is ready to do anything to get the maiden. The history is repeating itself, as Eschmann follows Dorothee to the moors after his crime.
- DirectorFrantisek CápStarsGordon HowardIrina GardenKurt MeiselBerlin shortly after World War II. An American lawyer is looking for the missing heir to a large fortune in the bombed-out city. He accidentally gets in the way of an unscrupulous counterfeiting gang and has to fear for his life.
- DirectorPeter PewasStarsHarald MareschFrances MartinChristian DoermerA sex craved serial murderer prowls the German autobahn while an inspector hunts him down.
- DirectorGustav MachatýStarsInge EggerPaul KlingerIngrid Simon
- DirectorHelmut KäutnerStarsErik SchumannEva KotthausGeorg ThomallaA border police officer helps a woman cross between West and East Germany with her son. Despite being increasingly united by love, the distance between them increases as border security tightens.
- DirectorRobert SiodmakStarsO.W. FischerHilde KrahlOliver GrimmAn actress makes her actor husband aware, shortly before her death in a car accident, that he may not be the real father of her son.The actor, feeling guilty for her death, turns to drink and then tries to kill himself.
- DirectorGerd OswaldStarsMario AdorfChristian WolffGert FröbeA motorcycle gang in post-war Germany wreaks havoc on a town, until one of their members begins to have second thoughts after a run-in with the police.
- DirectorGéza von RadványiStarsO.E. HasseEva BartokHannes MessemerAfter the battle of Stalingrad, battalions of German prisoners were taken to concentration camps. To the 5110/47 comes the military medical Fritz Böhler. He tries to improve the prisoners' conditions, sometimes risking his life.
- DirectorVictor TrivasStarsHorst FrankKarin KernkeHelmut SchmidA scientist invents a serum that keeps a dog's head alive after its body dies.
- DirectorFritz BöttgerStarsHarald MareschHelga FranckAlexander D'ArcySurvivors of a plane crash on a remote island find it is covered by spiders. When bitten, the survivors start turning into spiders!
- DirectorRudolf JugertHugo GrimaldiStarsBelinda LeeWalter RillaKarl LieffenInspired by the life and death of Rosemarie Nitribitt, a famous German call girl whose death caused a large scandal in the press.
- DirectorKurt HoffmannStarsNana OstenHenry VahlUllrich Haupt
- DirectorHorst HächlerStarsMaria SchellCliff RobertsonCameron MitchellAfter five years of war, Clements, a professional seaman, has no ambitions other than to live in peace and carry out his activity. Having settled down in the archipelago of the Aegean Sea, he has founded a small sponge fishing company in an idyllic place and foresees an optimistic future. Unfortunately, he soon finds himself caught in a crossfire...
- DirectorGottfried ReinhardtStarsKirk DouglasBarbara RüttingChristine KaufmannFour American soldiers stationed near a German village face death in the rape of a local girl, and are defended by outside counsel Major Steve Garrett.
- DirectorFrank WisbarStarsHarriet AnderssonMaria SebaldtCarl Lange
- DirectorFerdinand KhittlStarsFriedrich JoloffErnst MarbeckWilfried SchröpferFeature-documentary "pointing up a thousand facets of this world and probing to determine what may lie beneath the surface".
- DirectorWolfgang SchleifStarsKlaus KinskiBrigitte GrothumMarina PetrovaA serial killer is on the run, after escaping a mental institution. He befriends a woman and her child, but the urge to strangle women with red necklaces still haunts him.
- DirectorWill TremperStarsKarin HübnerLouise MartiniHarald LeipnitzA thick fog force the travelers to persevere on the ground for many hours at Berlin-Tempelhof airport. Among them is a businessman who is facing ruin and not shy away, throwing his girlfriend to another man's neck in order to save himself.
- DirectorRolf HädrichStarsJosé FerrerSean FlynnNicole CourcelCold War drama about an East German man trying to escape to the West via a U.S. military train passing through the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany.
- DirectorHugo FregoneseStarsLex BarkerPierre BriceDaliah LaviRenegades trying to get the army to abandon their fort get the Indians addicted to whiskey, then convince them to attack and drive out the soldiers.
- DirectorRolf ThieleStarsMichael MaienElena NathanailGerd BaltusLieutenant Beckerath is invited by Captain Kunz von Arnstatt to tea with his family. There, Count Sibling Siegmund and Sieglinde provoke him, but that does not stop him from holding Sieglinde's hand.
- DirectorFrank VogelStarsPeter ReusseAnne-Kathrein KretzschmarHans Hardt-HardtloffHigh-school senior Peter considers the adults around him to be hypocritical, self-congratulatory, and immersed in the past. He gets suspended for writing an essay that his teachers consider to be a challenge to the state. Just Don't Think I'll Cry became one of twelve films and film projects-almost an entire year's production-that were banned in 1965-1966 due to their alleged anti-socialist aspects. Although scenes and dialogs were altered and the end was reshot twice, officials condemned this title as "particularly harmful." In 1989, cinematographer Ost restored the original version, and this and most of the other banned films were finally screened in January 1990. Belatedly, they were acclaimed as masterpieces of critical realism.
- DirectorEddy SallerStarsHerbert FuxHermann LaforetHanns ObonyaA man kills women because he was not loved by his mother and in his puberty he was dismissed by girls as sexually unattractive. And whenever he meets women now, he just cannot control himself.
- DirectorGeorg TresslerStarsMaria EmoSieghardt RuppHugo GottschlichA woman (Maria Emo) cares for her older husband (Hugo Gottschlich) who makes his living smuggling things across the Tyrolian Mountains. The police know the husband is up to no good but have been unable to catch him in the act. A young policeman (Sieghardt Rupp) is assigned in hopes of cracking the case, and the wife falls in love with the cop. When the husband discovers the two are in love, he picks up a knife and goes to fight the policeman for the woman he loves.
- DirectorFranz-Josef SpiekerStarsHerbert FuxChantal CachinBernd HerzsprungGeorg, the head of an advertising company, finds Kim living in a wooden house surrounded by bogs and woods. Kim is hired to ride through Munich on his horse, poses with models outside the Feldherrnhalle. He is featured in a film an is extensively covered by the newspapers. A nun fleeing through the woods to escape from the roaring Kim, lands in a bog and is only rescued by Kim and his team after Georg has saved the rescue on film. The rescue is first glorified on a record, the record is a best-seller and Kim becomes a star...
- DirectorJesús FrancoStarsJanine ReynaudJack TaylorAdrian HovenA performer at an S&M nightclub begins to lose her grip on reality, and is plunged into a nightmarish mental landscape.
- DirectorJoachim HaslerStarsChris DoerkFrank SchöbelRegine AlbrechtIn this East German teen musical, a group of girls are planning to take their summer vacation together on the Baltic coast. When a loud and obnoxious group of boys intrudes on their holiday, the girls are horrified to learn that the boys have the same vacations plans as them. The two groups quarrel with each other and compete over a number of things, but gradually an attraction starts to form.
- DirectorRoland KlickStarsAlexander KekuléSieghardt RuppEdith VolkmannThe life of a family living in a German suburb.
- DirectorRudolf LubowskiStarsAlois Maria GianiKai FischerKonrad DankThe mysterious murders of women keeps a city in fear.
- DirectorAlfred VohrerStarsJoachim FuchsbergerKonrad GeorgHorst TappertAt a boarding school for boys in Northern Germany, one student named Kurrat vanishes one night without informing anybody after having had a fight with one of the teachers. Soon, the Police under the command of Inspector Klevenow learns of Kurrat's ambivalent, at times rebellious personality and that he was admired by many of his fellow students, jealously despised by some and strongly disliked by a few of the teachers. The interrogations reveal that Kurrat could either be dead or actually playing a macabre joke. Has somebody been too jealous, vengeful, disappointed or betrayed? Has someone killed Kurrat and plunged his body into the near sea? When Stallmann, a teacher with whom Kurrat was rumored to have had an affair, and Kurrat's father are found dead, the mystery grows. And when Kurrat finally and unexpectedly reappears alive, things get even more enigmatic. The solution of the mystery lasts back a long time into the past...
- DirectorMichael ArmstrongAdrian HovenStarsHerbert LomUdo KierOlivera KatarinaIn 1700s Austria, a witch-hunter's apprentice has doubts about the righteousness of witch-hunting when he witnesses the brutality, the injustice, the falsehood, the torture and the arbitrary killing that go with the job.
- DirectorRoger FritzStarsHelga AndersKlaus LöwitschArthur BraussBest pals Werner and Mike meet lovely young Alice and take her to a gravel pit for a nightly swim. But fun turns into gravity, friends into rivals and adventure into brutal violence.
- DirectorHellmuth CostardStarsChristoph HemmerlingThe daily routine of a housewife is described in detail.
- DirectorMay SpilsStarsWerner EnkeGila von WeitershausenHenry van LyckCharly flew home and now lives with his buddy Harry, who lives in a sort of commune of potential department store founders.
- DirectorErwin C. DietrichPeter BaumgartnerJack HillStarsIngrid SteegerRolf EdenVivian WeissA beautiful blonde hooks up with a rock star, and after a night of sex and drugs, he leaves. She, though, has fallen madly in love with him, and sets out with her girlfriend across Europe to track him down. On the way, however, she gets mixed up with everyone from a gang of nasty bikers to a ring of devil worshipers.
- DirectorMatthias WeissStarsThomas WolfgangThomas, Wolfgang and others are "dealers" and work in West Germany. They drive to their customers. In between they smoke and take trips.
- DirectorZbynek BrynychStarsSusanne UhlenJan KoesterEllen UmlaufMunich at night: Robert Susmeit, a 16-year-old teenager who is jealously obsessed with his mother Hilde, traces her and her latest lover at a mundane apartment building where he kills the man in the heat of the moment at a swimming pool. His fatal outburst is secretly witnessed by Moni Dingeldey, a girl of the same age as his. Fascinated by the shaken and devastated strange boy who she hopes to be a soul-mate, she hides Robert in her mother's apartment. Meanwhile, a crowd of policemen and reporters frantically comb through the building in search a murderer whose identity is known only to Robert's parents who are searching as well...
- DirectorZbynek BrynychStarsAnne-Marie KusterAmadeus AugustHanne WiederZbynek Brynych's forgotten masterpiece "Oh Happy Day" is best described as coming-of-age-psychedelia.
- DirectorHans-Jürgen SyberbergStarsAlice OttawaMichael KönigCarla EgererThis surrealistic experimental film finds the son of a young nobleman staying with hash-smoking hippies in a seamy section of Munich. He falls for a hippie girl who is involved in shaking down the young man's parents for money.
- DirectorKlaus LemkeStarsHans-Jürgen ModschiedlerGerd KruskopfMichael-Thomas KrannichIn Hamburg, a rocker biker gang helps a kid avenge his brother who was murdered by a rival gang, a mortal enemy of rocker gangs.
- DirectorFranz MarischkaStarsMichel JacotAnne GrafGunter WallaceHeiner works in a mine, drinks beer, and goes to bed with other women, except from his wife, because of his baby son and the neighbours downstairs. But she does not feel like giving up all the fun for so long.
- DirectorRudolf ThomeStarsRoger FritzKarin ThomePeter MolandA former bank clerk conceived a one-man robbery at the bank he worked. He had before established an alibi for himself pretending and declaring him legally dead. further complications ensues when he rejoins his estranged wife.
- DirectorUlrich SchamoniStarsUlrich SchamoniAnna Henkel-GrönemeyerJürgen BarzAfter his top hats family business went bankrupt, Hanno Giessen (Ulrich Schamoni), now a former industrialist, lives the life of a privateer in his little villa in Berlin. In order to record his uneventful life for posterity, he hires a film crew. Giessen makes leisure his principle of life and indulges in the art of idleness, cultivating his passion for collecting useless stuff (enamel signs, advertising images and porcelain rabbits of all origins) and wasting his time with a (mostly naked) young girl, Anna (Anna Henkel), a runaway with no plans for the future.
- DirectorUlli LommelStarsKatharina HerbergMarianne SockJosef MoosholzerTwo prostitutes cause unrest in a small Bavarian town. Ulli Lommel's ultimate sex comedy.
- DirectorLothar LambertWolfram ZobusStarsLouis AntoniusClaudja BarryArnold BauerAn African-American GI goes to Berlin and faces prejudice.
- DirectorJürgen GoslarStarsChristopher LeeJames FaulknerHorst FrankA colonial police officer in Rhodesia hunts down the albino terrorist who raped and murdered his fiancée.
- DirectorGerd OswaldStarsMaurice RonetSuzy KendallSusanne Uhlen15 years ago Paul Jordan was a star in Hollywood musicals. But then he retired from show-biz, married the rich Joan. Now, after being dependent on his wife's money for many years, he's sick of it and wants to work again. A romantic affair with his stepdaughter Shirley gives him the guts to ask for a role. His former agent gets him one, but it's with a small company in Vienna, Austria. The stress worsens his alcoholism - the tablets he takes to hide the effects lead him to hallucinations. When his wife and girlfriend appear at the same time, he's no longer capable of handling the situation.
- DirectorSohrab Shahid SalessStarsKlaus SalgeIngeborg ZiemendorfRobert DietlA lonely 30 year old man works as a butcher at a supermarket. His ability to communicate is limited. His girlfriend has left him after a fight. From time to time his mother visits him.
- DirectorWim WendersStarsRüdiger VoglerHanns ZischlerLisa KreuzerA traveling projection-equipment mechanic works in Western Germany along the East-German border, visiting worn-out theatres. He meets with a depressed young man whose marriage has just broken up, and the two decide to travel together.
- DirectorRoald KollerStarsRio ReiserKristina van EyckMelwin 'Candy' CanadyAbout a 19-year-old fellow named Hans Michael Westerfeld, self-styled Johnny West, who wants to become an American-style rock star. To this end, he works as a roadie, one of the crew that takes care of the equipment during the German tour of the black American singing group called the Manhattans.
- DirectorKlaus LemkeStarsCleo KretschmerPietro GiardiniPeter KienbergerMaria is in her mid 20s and lives with her father, a widowed little greengrocer, in Haidhausen.
- DirectorSigi RothemundStarsStéphane HillelOlivia PascalClaus ObalskiTwo buddies head off for a summer holiday, but one of them has to take his sister along. She cramps their style when it comes to picking up chicks. However, they manage to have some fun.
- DirectorJohannes FlütschManfred StelzerStarsDiethard WendtlandIlse BahrsPaul GauselmannThe film takes a look at a professional gambler, who very successfully specialized on the German version of the slot machine.
- DirectorChristian AndersStarsLaura GemserChristian AndersGabriele TintiThe daughter of a US Senator is drawn into a hippie called The Children of Light by the boyfriend of the cult's leader, a mysterious and beautiful Asian woman. The cult turns out to not be the free love community it presents itself as.
- DirectorClemens KlopfensteinRemo LegnazziStarsMax RüdlingerChristine LauterburgAdelheid BeyelerA Radio commentator in Zürich, Switzerland, breaks the bonds of his dreary existence for one night in the company of a young woman only to realise at daybreak that he lacks the courage to go through with it.
- DirectorRoger FritzStarsMichaela KargerDave BalkoHanno PöschlGirl goes to the bright lights of Frankfurt when her boyfriend goes into the army; the seamy side of life is not as attractive as she expected.
- DirectorHartmut Bitomsky
- DirectorWolfgang BüldStarsNenaMarkus MörlEnny GerberThe girl Tina is sick of her Bavarian hometown. She wants to go with Tino who has to leave the village alone for dubious reasons. Tina follows him with her friend Robby on his scooter.
- DirectorPeter F. BringmannStarsSascha DisselkampMaria KetikidouMichael KleinFour teenagers in the German Ruhr region try to succeed as a rock band in 1966. A girl tries to join them as a singer but is rejected by them.
- DirectorEckhart SchmidtStarsAlexandra CurtisAllegra CurtisMarie ColbinYoung Patricia wanders through a Viennese night full of lust for love, visions of drugs and violence, gleaming frenzy and dark alleys.
- DirectorHarun FarockiStarsRoland SchäferKatja RupéNina HogerIn this 'film-noir' on double identity and role reversal, a man is looking for a woman to love. He finds her in a seedy bar and persuades her to marry him. The day she decides to flee, he kills her. To ward off suspicion, he moves in with the sister of the deceased. Nobody notices the substitution, that his wife is now another. How easy to go from one love to another... But a friend of the dead woman starts asking questions.
- DirectorDominik GrafStarsGötz GeorgeGudrun LandgrebeJoachim KemmerTwo bank robbers hold the clerks hostage and demand 3 million German marks as ransom. What the police do not realise is that the true criminal mastermind watches them from outside the bank, anticipating every move.
- DirectorGeorg TresslerStarsPeter SimonischekGiovanni FrühAndy VoßAfter a delirious night of drinking, two herdsmen and a boy who are all alone in the alps with their cattle, create a primitive female doll. When their creation comes to life as a beautiful succubus, they have to fear for their lives.
- DirectorPetra HaffterStarsStéphane FerraraBeate JensenYves BeneytonWith the dangerous smoothness of a tiger stalking his prey, Peter (Stéphane Ferrara) has circled the au pair Michèle (Beate Jensen). She quickly succumbs to his fascinating charisma and experiences for the first time a hitherto unknown, tender security. "I'll kill you," says Peter, as gently as cold-bloodedly. A macabre joke or a serious warning?
- DirectorChristoph SchlingensiefHelge SchneiderStarsHelge SchneiderHelmut KörschgenAndreas KunzeDetective 00 Schneider has to return from retirement to catch a mad art collector.
- DirectorChristian PetzoldStarsEleonore WeisgerberNadeshda BrennickeUdo SchenkKarin's world is the suburbs. It sells low-cost cosmetics in the large area of Leverkusen. She lives in simple hotels - during the week, the company pays, on weekends she gets special conditions, because you have known them for years. She does not have a home. Karin works hard because she needs every penny to reach her goal: Paris. There she wants to live some day.
- DirectorTil SchweigerGranz HenmanStarsTil SchweigerKarina KrawczykBenno FürmannFour characters become involved in one dramatic story: Nico has a mission to drive a car containing a live bomb to a specified destination, park the car and escape as quickly as she can. Leo has become his client's target, having carried out a "contract" that unfortunately had already been cancelled. Fabian and Reza want to enjoy themselves without any money, bringing themselves into contact sooner or later with the police. Sooner or later all four will meet up in dramatic circumstances.
- DirectorKlaus WybornyStarsHanns ZischlerCorinna BelzRaphael Lenné
- DirectorKlaus LemkeStarsMichael DiekmannAnnika HerrKlaus Lemke