Günther Jerschke

Rival gangsters from Chicago move to London and attempt to extort money from rich Britons.

It is about brawls, prostitution, a prison escapee, murder and manslaughter. The film wants to be documentary, the director himself appears as...

Summer in Germany, anno 1970. Italy is the number one destination. As every year, swarms of Teutonic tourists make their way to the Adriatic Sea....

A drama that illustrates a few days at a busy Hamburg police station.

Both Scotland Yard and an amateur American sleuth are tracking a master criminal known as The Frog. This moniker refers to the bulging-eyed mask worn...

A ring of counterfeiters is flooding the country with phony money, and suspicion falls upon a wealthy playboy who may--or may not--have amnesia.

This German drama tells the story of a musician who is killed and leaves his work unfinished. His apprentice is cleared of the murder and turns out...

Musician Peter Karmann, whose main profession is teaching Asian languages, goes on a grand tour of Africa with a ballet troupe. Unfortunately, the...

Househusband Heinz lives with his two brothers Otto and Eduard. When Heinz wins a luxury cruise in a pop song contest, Otto and Eduard don't want to...

1802: The adventurous life story of Hans Bückler, known as “Schinderhannes”, who fights against the French occupying forces and...

A drama that chronicles the heroic endeavors of POWs trapped within a Russian prison camp in 1950 and their attempts to escape.

High school student Fabian König is kicked out of school and starts a gang that specializes in theft. He falls in love with the orphan girl...

Double murderer Dr. Crippen is using every means possible to search for a manuscript that he suspects is in the possession of the daughter of the man...

Caustic satire on the state of mind and soul of the Czech bureaucracy.

A fairground in a small town in northern Germany: a young woman named Margret Winter enjoys herself there with a friend. She has 900 D-Mark in her...

The mayor of a small garrison town is constantly at odds with the local battalion commander. This does not sit well with the mayor’s wife at...

Sven Gjeholm is a writer of sex books. His wife finds this a bit odd, considering he's not really into sex. Since Sven can't get any peace to write...

After the death of her parents, Ria Rottmann is taken in by her friends, the Matern family. Patriarch Rolf Matern had once taken advantage of Ria's...

Jeanine, her husband Alexis and Renato are the stars of the Varieté Royal under the name “The 3 Loopings”. A blindfolded...

Bernard Noblet is a modest bank clerk with a passion for billiards. His fiancée Juliette, a schoolteacher, dreams of one day living the high...

Meant to be a diatribe against yellow journalism and current social ills, this weakly limned drama by Josef von Baky features a reporter who works...

tv-movie by Wolfgang Staudte

Reconstruction of the murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg and the following farcical military court procedures.

When the wife of Sebastian Schumann left her family, he told his little daughter that her mother has died, because he thought that this was the...

This German drama tells the story of a musician who is killed and leaves his work unfinished. His apprentice is cleared of the murder and turns out...

This Nazi propaganda film chronicles the rise of the German Air Force ("Luftwaffe") from World War I until Adolf Hitler took power in 1933.

Pierre is in Hamburg on a merchant ship with his friends Georges and Jean-Marie. While they are just looking for a good time in the twenty-four hours...

Der Kampf der Tertia (Fight of the Tertia) is the story of a group of tough but sensitive German schoolboys. Upon learning that a local catskin...

Determined Gerda Weber travels to the big city and locates at a girl's pension. She soon finds job as a secretary in a big business thanks to her...

Kummerow, a village in North East Germany, around 1900: Mean-spirited miller Düker wants to drive cowherd Krischan out of the village. Being...

Second part of two of the saga of the troubled Buddenbrook family and their business in 19th century Germany.

First part of two of the saga of the troubled Buddenbrook family and their business in mid 19th century Germany.

A disfigured killer with glazed-over white eyes is doing the dirty work so that an insurance agent-doctor can get the victims' insurance money.

Eberhard Dobermann is a widower and a policeman who loves to control the roads and let people pay fines. Even with his neighbour and friend Jutta...

Kim Philby is the best British professional spy. The only difference is that, as a leading official in the British secret service, he not only works...

Pierre is in Hamburg on a merchant ship with his friends Georges and Jean-Marie. While they are just looking for a good time in the twenty-four hours...

During the closing stages of the Second World War, a bureaucratic mistake leads to a German officer being reassigned from the dangerous Eastern Front...

Prosecutor Rathenau investigates a mysterious murder in a retirement home.

What happens when a mother and daughter fall in love with the same man? That’s what happens to 17-year-old Emma when she falls head over heels...