Wolfgang Staudte Movies

A WWI veteran comes home and with a scientist's help opens an artificial silk factory later used for clothing. Crooked international profiteers ,a...

Just for fun and to prove to the daughter of the castle lord how courageous they are, three young men agree to each spend one night in the "blue...

A recent rediscovery, master cinematographer Schüfftan’s only film as a director is a free-spirited, fast-paced ode to being young, free,...

Shortly after the outbreak of World War I August 1914, Eastern Front. The Russian surprise attack on the northeasternmost part of the country causes...

The story of the rise to power of King Frederick II (aka "Frederick the Great") of Prussia of his military campaigns to make Prussia a major power in...

On a barren and stormy island, fishing families eke out a meager existence on what they can catch during summer, and what washes ashore during...

Sequel of "The Sea Wolf". The writer van Weyden, who escaped from Captain Larsen's ship, follows the trail of his enemy for years in order to take...

In the crazy twenties, safecracker Orje is released from prison and, through the mediation of his friend Nelly, finds a job at the "Sparverein...

Young Percy Averhoff returns to Hamburg after a five-year stay abroad and finds that his parents have already found a bride for him. The young man...

After a burn-out Karl spends time in his home region, the Black Forest. His car gets lost and is picked up by penniless magician Amadori who enjoys...

A top-level meeting of the Eastern secret services is taking place in Prague. Martin, an agent who knows all the tricks of the trade, is tasked with...

In 1959, in a small German village, the annual fair is set up. When a carousel is fixed firmly in the ground, a fair worker discovers a skeleton, a...

An oily careerist for whom becoming the highest earner is not enough: now he also wants a title of nobility.

tv-movie by Wolfgang Staudte

A young domestic worker on a farm is used and abused by the men in her life.

The mechanic Behnke wants to join the Nazi party to secure a good living. However, after his Jewish neighbors have been taken away, he changes his...

A Czarist refugee, separated from her husband, gets a job as a nightclub singer in Vienna and has to decide later if she wants to rejoin him.