German Period Drama
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- DirectorHermine HuntgeburthStarsJulia JentschHeike WarmuthMirko LangAmbitious German imperial hussars veteran baron Geert von Instetten takes office as coastal district administrator, hoping to e promoted to the colonies. His childhood love, Luise, married local estate owner von Briest and now arranges for their daughter, Effie, to wed the baron, rather then her beloved cousin Dagobert. In his creepy home, built and filled with exotica by an ocean captain whose Chinese servant is said to haunt it, Effie believes to meet ghosts. She starts an affair with married, swagger major von Crampas.
- DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsHanna SchygullaWolfgang SchenckUlli LommelIn the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost, in a small isolated Baltic town. She soon bears a daughter, Annie, and hires the lapsed Catholic Roswitha to look after her. Effi is lonely when her husband is away on business, so she spends time riding and walking along the shore with Major Crampas. Instetten is promoted to Ministerial Councillor and the family moves to Berlin, where Effi enjoys the social life. Six years later, the Baron is given letters from Crampas to Effi that convince him that they had an affair. He feels obliged to challenge Crampas to a duel and banish Effi from the house.
- DirectorHans W. GeissendörferStarsWerner EichhornRod SteigerMarie-France PisierHans Castorp, fresh from university and about to become a civil engineer, comes to the Sanatorium Berghof in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin Joachim, an army officer, who is recovering there from tuberculosis. Intending to remain at the Berghof for three weeks, Hans is gradually contaminated by the morbid atmosphere pervading the place. Wishing very much to be considered a patient like the others, he achieves his ends and stays in the sanatorium for ...seven years. During this time, he has enough time to take part in the furious philosophical debates pitting against each other Settembrini, a secular humanist, and Naphta, a totalitarian Jesuit. And to fall in love with the beautiful but enigmatic Clawdia Chauchat. When he is finally discharged in 1914 - along with all the other patients - it is only to plunge into the horrors of World War I.
- DirectorMichael HanekeStarsChristian FriedelErnst JacobiLeonie BeneschStrange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?
- StarsRichy MüllerMerab NinidzeMarc HosemannThe Berlin banker's daughter Ruth marries an impoverished baron in 1913 and turns his dilapidated estate into a flourishing cherry farm.
- DirectorIstván SzabóStarsKlaus Maria BrandauerErland JosephsonIldikó BánságiA man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of empathy and of clairvoyance, such that could aid suicidal patients. After the war, with one friend as his manager and another as his lover, Schneider changes his name to Eric Jan Hanussen and goes to Berlin, as a hypnotist and clairvoyant performing in halls and theaters. He always speaks the truth, which brings him to the attention of powerful Nazis. He predicts their rise (good propaganda for them) and their violence (not so good). He's in pain and at risk. What is Hanussen's future?
- DirectorIstván SzabóStarsKlaus Maria BrandauerIldikó BánságiKrystyna JandaIn early-1930s Germany, a passionate stage actor faces a dilemma: renounce his apolitical stance and comply with the Reich's doctrine, or face oblivion. But, Faustian bargains never end well. What is the price of success?
- StarsIris BerbenBenjamin SadlerValerie KochThe story of Alfried Krupp and his family and of the Krupp company, which has been preeminent in German industry. The family company was a key supplier of weapons and material to the Nazi regime during WWII.
- StarsJosefine PreußHeino FerchMarie BäumerThe mini-series follows the construction and history of the famous Adlon hotel in Berlin, as seen through the eyes of Sonja Schadt, the youngest member of the wealthy fictional Schadt family who are friends with the Adlons.
- CreatorAnnette HessStarsSonja GerhardtClaudia MichelsenMaria EhrichGenerations clash when the feisty daughter of a dance studio owner defies her mother's wishes and embraces the fight for gender equality in 1950s Berlin.
- DirectorJoseph VilsmaierStarsMichael DegenFranziska PetriSuzanne von BorsodyIn 1933 Nuremberg, Leo Katzenberger is a successful Jewish businessman and a devoted family man. As the climate in Germany grows increasingly dangerous, bombshell Irene moves to the neighborhood and everything changes.
- DirectorMax FärberböckStarsNina HossEvgeniy SidikhinIrm HermannA woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II.
- DirectorCarlo RolaStarsBen BeckerJürgen VogelHenry HübchenTwo working-class German brothers (Ben Becker, Jürgen Vogel) rise to fame as Berlin's most infamous burglars.
- DirectorKai WesselStarsHeike MakatschDan StevensMonica BleibtreuA biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.
- DirectorTorsten C. FischerStarsJessica SchwarzThomas KretschmannGuillaume DelormeA biography of Austrian actress Romy Schneider.
- StarsJohn Moulder-BrownMareike CarrièreDaphne WagnerConfessions of impostor Felix Krull.
- DirectorBob FosseStarsLiza MinnelliMichael YorkHelmut GriemA female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.
- DirectorAlf BrustellinBernhard SinkelStarsAdelheid ArndtKaki HunterAntonia ReininghausThe three daughters of the Dessau merchant Sellmann move in 1936 with their father to Prague, where he accepted a position as director of the Böhmische Landesbank. For the three different women begins a new life, which accompanies the film over a period of ten years. The Second world war will soon begin.
- DirectorWolf GremmStarsPeter SattmannErika PluharMalte ThorstenAn equally despotic, ostentatious, and lavishly-living sovereign indiscriminately drives innocent peasant sons directly from the fields where they are working to sell them for a mercenary bounty to America.
- DirectorVolker SchlöndorffStarsDavid BennentMario AdorfAngela WinklerIn 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
- DirectorMarco KreuzpaintnerStarsDavid KrossChristian RedlDaniel BrühlA boy learns the black arts from an evil sorcerer.
- DirectorÉric RohmerStarsEdith CleverBruno GanzEdda SeippelA German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.
- DirectorHans-Jürgen SyberbergStarsEdith CleverEdith Clever recites the complete text of The Marquise of O. by Heinrich von Kleist.