Wolfgang Staudte Filmes

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

Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that he has to offer his services to the...

'The Rest Is Silence, a German-made attempt to update Shakespeare, is one of the best and least self-conscious of this minor genre. As indicated by...

Director Wolfgang Staudte who left East Germany in 1953 to make movies in West Germany, takes a few swipes at the West German judicial system in this...

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

A young domestic worker on a farm is used and abused by the men in her life.

A group of West German men on a stag party find themselves stranded in a Montenegrin village inhabited only by vengeful women since all their men...

The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime, the Adenauer era and...

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

Just for fun and to prove to the daughter of the castle lord how courageous they are, three young men agree to each spend one night in the "blue...

The mechanic Behnke wants to join the Nazi party to secure a good living. However, after his Jewish neighbors have been taken away, he changes his...

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

The story of the rise to power of King Frederick II (aka "Frederick the Great") of Prussia of his military campaigns to make Prussia a major power in...

The dangerous violent criminal Willy Jensen flees from a prison in Hamburg and seeks shelter at his brother Heinz' apartment. Heinz, an honest...

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...

The passionate seducer Robert has made all the preparations perfectly to spend a fun evening with Solange, the wife of his friend Fressinet.

Three Foreign Legionnaires - Luigi, Pat and Kurt - desert during the Algerian war because they have had enough of the inhumane war machine. But their...