Hanns Zischler Movies

A darkly comedic exploration of personal struggle and societal pressure, we follow the story of a middle-aged man named Max, who is trapped in a life...

It was one of the great crimes of the Second World War: from 1941 to 1944, a total of 872 days, the siege and starvation of Leningrad by the German...

Generosity, weakness for expensive pleasures and ruin is a combination that does not bode well. Johann Friedrich von Allmen was a man with a taste...

A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.

An issue of the magazine Kino 81, designed for the film department of WDR by staff of FILMKRITIK

Carola and Dieter Martin have been married for 25 years. After Dieter dies in a car accident, Carola finds out that he was gay and had been in a...

Diagnosis burnout: The successful career woman Toni Lehmstedt can be referred to a psychiatric clinic after a physical breakdown. Urs Egger's free...

The extravagant funeral for a suddenly deceased family man is attended not only by his bizarre relatives, but also by a frozen pilot from World War I...

Luise modestly but happily runs a small travel agency with her husband Matthias. Matthias goes on a travel tour to distant Kazakhstan. Luise becomes...

Marie (Marlene Jobert) is a pretty female physician who attracts the strong romantic interest of two brothers during World War I in this uninspired...

A disaster-movie made in Germany.

This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German...

In Germany, an old man attacks another old man and is arrested. The attacker refuses to speak. A female lawyer is appointed to him. She discovers...

A man is raping women after having met them through ads on public noticeboards. At first this seems like an easy crime to solve for Martin Beck and...

The whole world in one film: Robert, a young Dane, is shanghaied in Marseille, and via Acapulco he is abducted into the South Pacific. There he kills...