Wolfgang Staudte

Destination Death

A group of West German men on a stag party find themselves stranded in a Montenegrin village inhabit…

Das Lamm

The Threepenny Opera

The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, …

Die Rebellion

The Happy Years of the Thorwalds

The Thorwald family is well-off and contented when a tragedy strikes: the father is killed in an acc…

The Last Witness

Director Wolfgang Staudte who left East Germany in 1953 to make movies in West Germany, takes a few …

The Fair

In 1959, in a small German village, the annual fair is set up. When a carousel is fixed firmly in th…

Roses for the Prosecutor

April 1945. Because he stole two bars of chocolate, the soldier Rudi is sentenced to death by the co…

Der Maulkorb