Wolfgang Staudte

Escape from Sahara

Three Foreign Legionnaires - Luigi, Pat and Kurt - desert during the Algerian war because they have …

Rose Bernd

West Germany's entry in the 1957 Cannes Film Festival was this cinemadaptation of the Gerhardt Haupt…

Ciske the Rat

“Ciske de Rat” belongs to the Dickensean “little man’s hard life” model and tells a deceptively simp…

The Beacon

On a barren and stormy island, fishing families eke out a meager existence on what they can catch du…

The Story of Little Mook

An old man living in an oriental city tells the story of his life to a group of kids: He too was onc…

Gift im Zoo

Animals start to mysteriously die in a zoo in Hamburg. Is somebody poisoning the animals and with wh…

A Tale of Five Cities

An Englishman has been working in the US so long he now speaks with an American accent. He is drafte…

The Kaiser's Lackey

Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that…

Die Treppe