Wolfgang Staudte Movies

tv-movie by Wolfgang Staudte

Film by Thiele.

A decent small-town citizen named Fridolin Biedermann travels to Berlin and wants to finally experience something. And he succeeds. First he falls...

“Ciske de Rat” belongs to the Dickensean “little man’s hard life” model and tells a deceptively simple story about a...

A man's life breaks down in pursuit of material success.

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 unemployed engineer working as a driver at an oil company hears about a lost Inca treasure and goes in search of it.

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

People from all over the world spend their summer holidays at the Black Sea. German Walter and his girlfriend Gisela check in at the hotel as...

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

A soldier thinks about leaving the army for a woman. His friends try to stop him.

A player on a soccer team, where everyone matches together just perfectly, has fallen out of a championship tournament due to illness; which leads to...

Movie based on the novel by Christel Broehl-Delhaes

Grete, the daughter of the widowed Cologne dog tax inspector Joseph Völz, once married a British occupying soldier and followed him to the...

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The stories' setup: a bunch of passive weaklings being dominated by two strong and ambitious women who fight for the same man.