Fred Düren
1928 - 2015
Robert Mayer, der Arzt aus Heilbronn
Helmut Spieß
Emil Stöhr, Gisela Uhlen
Биографический фильм о хирурге и городском враче в Хайльбронне Юлиусе Роберте Майере (1814-1878), который много лет изучал тепло и был первым, кто правильно сформулировал основные принципы теории механического тепла и принцип сохранения энергии. Конкурирующие прусские учёные смеются над ним, а его жизнь полна недоразумений и преследований. Фильм, посвящён памяти этого великого немецкого натуралиста, рассказывает о его судьбе, а также о его долгой и тщетной борьбе за признание результатов его научной работы.
Robert Mayer, der Arzt aus Heilbronn
Die Grünstein-Variante
Bernhard Wicki
Klaus Schwarzkopf, Fred Düren
The plot revolves around three men waiting to be deported in a prison. To escape the monotony, they form chess pieces from their bread rations, with which they then play against each other. Grünstein, a Polish Jew, proves to be a real talent, because although he is a beginner, he manages to defeat even the experienced player Lodeck, a German sailor, with his "Grünstein Variant".
Die Grünstein-Variante
Levin's Mill
Horst Seemann
Erwin Geschonneck, Katja Paryla
In a small village in West Prussia in the 1870s, Germans, Poles, Gypsies and Jews live together as neighbors. One night Johann, a German mill-owner, secretly opens the dam gates and floods the mill of his Jewish rival Levin. After his business is ruined and his calls for justice go unanswered, Levin leaves town.
Levin's Mill
Der Aufenthalt
Frank Beyer
Sylvester Groth, Fred Düren
In the fall of 1945, nineteen year-old Mark Niebuhr, is accused of murder and is jailed as a prisoner of war in Warsaw, Poland. He maintains his claim of innocence throughout long periods of solitary confinement. When Mark is placed among a group of Polish criminals, he becomes the target of their aggression. Later, Mark experiences true hell in a communal cell with fanatical German war criminals. Turning Point is based on actual events from Hermann Kant's novel of the same name.
The Turning Point
Guten Tag, lieber Tag
Gerhard Klingenberg
Rudolf Wessely, Margret Homeyer
Engineer Strebel′s apprentices think of nothing else but music and dancing, although they should really concentrate on their marks. Consequently, Strebel is anything but delighted with his pupil. To top it all, a TV show becomes interested in a performance by Strebel′s apprentices. To calm down their teacher, Jutta Fröhlich, who has already cast an eye on Strebel, makes him an offer: When they better their marks, Strebel would permit them to make a performance on television.
Guten Tag, lieber Tag
Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment
Konrad Wolf
Donatas Banionis, Olivera Katarina
As a painter in the court of King Carlos IV, Goya has attained wealth and reputation. He believes in King and Church, yet he is also a Spaniard who dearly loves his people. This contradiction presents him with a dilemma.
Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment
Sie nannten ihn Amigo
Heiner Carow
Ernst-Georg Schwill, Angelika Hurwicz
A refugee from a Nazi concentration camp is discovered by some boys in WWII Berlin. They provide him with food and help him to continue his flight. Later one of the boys, the son of a communist, is charged with theft, arrested and sent to a concentration camp.
They Called Him Amigo
