Maria Besendahl Movies

On August 13th, 1961 - the night that the Berlin Wall goes up - three people must make a decision that will change their lives forever.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kati Székely

A brave prince must seek the fabled singing, ringing tree in order to win the heart of a beautiful princess.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Christel Bodenstein

A young soldier discovers three chests of copper, silver and gold and an old tinder-box in the hollow of an old oak tree. He is now rich. But he...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Rolf Ludwig

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Albert Garbe

Film by Jindrich Polák.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jiří Lír

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leonhard Ritter

Several children find out what's the matter with a wreck offshore, which puts them into jeopardy.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Günther Rettschlag

Drama about an impoverished family, a widowed mother and her two sons, trying to get by.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Manja Behrens

Genre: History

Cast: Eva Kotthaus

Genre: Drama

Cast: Günther Simon

A young married couple - both of them actors - work in the divided city of Berlin. Agnes, the young woman, is on location in East Berlin, and Jochen,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yvonne Merin

In this German drama, Brock, a railroad inspector, witnesses a robbery at a train depot. He recognizes the thief, but turning the man in would mean...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Albert Hetterle

Leading chemist Hans Schramm is betrothed to Hanna, but falls in love with her younger sister Franka. The two attempt to repress their feelings, but...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Doris Abeßer

A story about a group of children in German town of Bahrenburg who are trying to build themselves a swimming pool.

Genre: Family

Cast: Paul Heidemann

17-year-old Traudel flees the orphanage she has to live in, in order to venture to Berlin.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eva-Maria Hagen

The little island of Laenneken is a place where time seems to stands still. Traditional customs and age-old power relations are still in place and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Otmar Richter

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ricarda Benndorf

The Rabbit Is Me was made in 1965 to encourage discussion of the democratization of East German society. In it, a young student has an affair with a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Angelika Waller

Schorsch and Franz are two rascals who are full of mischief and constantly tease both their teachers and their fellow pupils. Vera, the new...

Genre: Family

Cast: Susanne Pleger

The story of a resistance fighter in the Nazi era: Communist Hans Löning was arrested in 1933, imprisoned in a concentration camp and tortured....

Genre: History

Cast: Wilhelm Koch-Hooge

German teacher Miss Platzke starts working in a graduating class. Since she is young and inexperienced, the students soon consider her incapable of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ernst-Georg Schwill

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Herbert Richter

The captain of a ship of the merchant navy is always on the move because of his job – and has a different girlfriend in every harbour. But his...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Claus Jurichs

Singing sailor Hannes, who now entertains the crowd at St. Pauli's Hippodrome after years at sea, promises his dying brother that he will take care...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hans Albers

Claudia is a self-confident girl who spends time in a Young Pioneer camp and wants to prove that she can keep up with the boys in a scouting wide...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Heidi Teschner

Berlin in 1878: Corinna Schmidt, who was brought up in a petit-bourgeois, academic family, is romantically interested in Leopold Treibel, the son of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Trude Hesterberg

Dr. Gerd Thiessen, an experienced veterinarian, takes up a new job at a publicly owned manor. His research colleagues are less than thrilled about...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ursula Werner

For some time now, the residents of the placid little village of Sonnenthal talk only about one topic: Football! The ambitious mayor wants to promote...

Genre: Music

Cast: Chris Doerk

Genre: Family

Cast: Manfred Borges

Film by Helmut Schneider.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Sturm

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hans Klering

The successful shipowner Georg Behrendsen and his wife Irene are coming from South America to Germany for business. While negotiating in the home of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Heidemarie Hatheyer

Lifelong hard work for the count makes the servant Anton a cripple. Everybody calls him Crooked Anton. When, after the end of the war, the land of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raimund Schelcher

A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of 1917, German and Russian soldiers start to...

Genre: History

Cast: Günther Simon

After the second World War, Dresden has a lot of reconstructing to do. To get the cigarette factory he once worked for running again, Kalle has to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

This is the directorial debut of Artur Pohl and tells the story of war refugees as they try to settle in a small town in Germany.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Karl Hellmer

Genre: Drama

Cast: Karla Runkehl

GDR border guard Gunter Rist is a young man from humble homes. During a swimming competition he meets Penny, a professor’s daughter from a good...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jutta Hoffmann