Date of birth: 1924-03-25
Place of birth: Satow, Deutschland
Known for: Acting
Also known as:

1987-05-14
A story spanning three generations, from 1871 to 1945. When Gustav Wengler, a farmer’s son, returns

1978-05-21
Every year in the spring the pupils of the 8th grade in the GDR receive the 'Jugendweihe' and are ad

1979-09-19
The film tells the story of the smelter brigade of a steel mill whose members are connected by a str

1982-04-16
Berlin in the 60s. The construction of the Berlin Wall not only divides the city, but also separates

1983-01-01

1976-09-24
A commercial artist with a lisp chooses silence, unexpectedly propelling his career. His perceived i

1986-02-07
This elaborate two-part television film features a section from the life of communist worker leader

1984-03-18
1950, the extensive network of sewers beneath the city of Berlin. This cesspool underworld, whose se

1964-02-27
Stasi agent Alexander Berg has to uncover a plot of sabotage.
1977-03-11
The former athlete Barbara follows her husband to the province and attempts to masters her new life,

1969-07-11
In 1596, the Dutchman Willem Barents sets sail on a long voyage with two ships to find a north-easte

1986-01-16
1942. The members of the Voß family, mother, two daughters, a daughter-in-law, and a son-in-law, are

1988-09-25
In a king's kingdom there is a forest so dangerous that every man who goes into it is never heard fr

1981-03-22
Johann Paul Schroth is a 20-year-old barber's apprentice who breaks out of the barber-surgeon's trad

1978-09-19
A flamboyant comedy about love, work and money—revealing that the "planned" economy produced some un

1987-03-26
A teenager is found murdered, and the examining doctor recognizes her son's knife. The film works it

1979-08-30
The 18-year-old construction worker Schultzendorf, known as Schulle, sets off for Berlin from his ho

1984-10-03
Ten days in the life of socialist politician Clara Zetkin. In August 1932, she is summoned from Arch

1979-06-27
Mechanic Hannes Blaschke and his wife Maxi, who works as a bus driver, have just become happy parent

1979-05-17
Scenes from an East German marriage. A young couple, Sonya and Jens, are very much in love; they get

1972-01-13
October 1918: Karl Liebknecht is released from prison and Berlin workers celebrate his release. Alth

1971-02-18
The deputy editor-in-chief of an SPD newspaper in West Germany, Karl Waldner, recognizes the former

1981-05-14
Old Otto Gratzick is a porter at DEFA and a great admirer of Asta Nielsen. When the famous actor Her

1979-03-29
When he reaches age 18, Peter is released from the children's home where he grew up, but this does n
1991-09-05
He could have had women, he could have climbed the ladder of his accountancy career, and he could ha

1987-02-12
Fifteen-year-old Heinz Stielke is a Hitler Youth fanatic who is devastated to learn a hidden truth a
1983-09-01
The puppet player Sebastian Fußberg moves through the country at the end of the fifties. Despite his

1985-02-21
One day, the happily married Karl Lehmann is asked by his single colleague, Mrs. Schmidt, for an unu

1988-05-11
This biographical film is set in 1937, with Fallada suffering the effects of living under a microsco

1991-11-13
To gain lands from the prince of Saxony, a group of orphans seeks Mozart, in order to obtain the ver

1990-01-25
Seven-year-old Kati is glad that despite her spastic disability she is allowed to attend a normal sc

1971-03-13
When Angelika moves to Leipzig, she is forced to rent a room at Mrs. Häublein’s for a start, since h

1990-04-16
Shortly before his retirement, Gustav Wanzka wants to return to his beloved profession as a teacher

1995-09-05
The once clairvoyant party secretary Mattes is now mayor and has recently even been surrounded by a

1992-10-29
It is shortly after the fall of the Wall and Kadir is released from an East Berlin psychiatric clini