
Martin Rickelt
1915 - 2004Der Untertan
Wolfgang Staudte
Werner Peters, Paul Esser
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 powers-that-be if he wants to wield power himself. His life motto now runs: bow to those at the top and tread on those below. In this way, he always succeeds: as a student in a duel-fighting student fraternity and as a businessman in a paper factory. He cajoles the obese district administrative president Von Wulkow and wins his favor. He slanders his financial rivals and hatches a plot with the social democrats in the town council. On his honeymoon with his rich wife Guste, he finally finds a chance to do his beloved Kaiser a favor. And when a memorial to the Kaiser is unveiled in the town where Diederich lives and works, he delivers the address. He stands behind the lectern in the pouring rain, saluting his Kaiser. The crowd is dispersed. Everything is laid in ruins...
The Kaiser's Lackey
Die letzte Heuer
Ernst W. Fiedler
Hans Klering, Inge Keller
1934 год. Кочегар немецкого судна Гайни Голлер, находясь в греческом порту Патры, обращается к германском консулу за помощью, чтобы ему помогли переправиться в Германию в связи с болезнью. Консул посчитал Гайни неблагонадёжным, и отправляет вместе с направлением на корабль телеграмму в гестапо. По прибытии в Бремерхафен, Голлера арестовывают. Его товарищи похищают консула и требуют его обмена на Гайни, который должен состояться в Марселе. Гестапо соглашается на обмен, заручаясь поддержкой французской полиции, в надежде захвата похитителей. Но благодаря совместным усилиям всех докеров и моряков Марсельского порта, Фердинанду с друзьями удаётся перехитрить полицию и освободить Гайни.
Die letzte Heuer
The Mystery of Piskov
Karl Peter Biltz
Hellmut Lange, Hannelore Elsner
Piskov, any idyllic small town in 1969. One day there is an incident that causes a sensation in press, radio and television, but leaves the citizens of Piskov completely cold. All clocks stop and time stops! A being from the future, more precisely from the year 523 to Gagarin, lands in the small town! The skeptical inhabitants ignore the incident completly. Two journalists (Hellmut Lange and Hannelore Elsner) try to get to the bottom of things and ask various witnesses about the mysterious events...
The Mystery of Piskov
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Gerhard Lamprecht
Claus Holm, Yvonne Merin
Anne Treibel owns a small house that is home to four women and one man, Martin, a badly injured war veteran. All the women are interested in Martin, but he knows that only Anne truly loves him. When Helga asks him to get a surgery that could save his life, he does it for Anne. Fortunately, the attention of the other three amorous women is diverted when three suitable men happen to show up!
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