Martin Hellberg
1905 - 1999
Das kleine und das große Glück
Martin Hellberg
Susanne Düllmann, Wilfried Ortmann
Швальк, новый начальник дорожно-строительной бригады, является смельчаком и привык к успеху — как на работе, так и у женщин. Но на этот раз не всё так гладко. Сначала ему было легко с бригадиром Эрикой, которая влюбилась в него, но на работе случился скандал. Его стремление выиграть соревнование привело к браку в работе. Эрика возмущена его эгоистичным поведением, и она также подозревает, что он ищет только любовного приключения с ней. Она отворачивается от него. Однако, Швальк признаёт свои ошибки и делает всё возможное, чтобы возместить ущерб — как на работе, так и в отношениях с Эрикой. Дорога будет сдана вовремя. И Эрика, и Швальк взаимно счастливы.
Das kleine und das große Glück
Wo Du hin gehst...
Martin Hellberg
Wolfgang Stumpf, Gisela Trowe
Berlin, 1936. Athletes and visitors from all over the world have come to the city to take part in the Olympic Games. Anti-Fascists use the opportunity to tell the foreign guests about the situation in Germany by distributing leaflets. Being cornered by the Gestapo, the wounded resistance fighter Jakob manages to go into hiding with the help of the Swiss doctor Thea. They fall in love with each other and when Jakob joins the International Brigades in Spain to fight against Franco, Thea follows him and becomes a dedicated fighter against Fascism. The enduring battle, however, keeps preventing them from becoming a real couple.
Wo Du hin gehst...
Thomas Müntzer – Ein Film deutscher Geschichte
Martin Hellberg
Wolfgang Stumpf, Margarete Taudte
In 1523, young Thomas Müntzer arrives with his wife Ottilie in the Thuringian village Allstedt to assume the rectorate. As a follower of Luther′s teachings, he finds in the Bible not only reasons for clerical, but also for secular reforms. But when Luther turns away from the rural population after a discord with Müntzer, it is Müntzer who becomes the peoples′ spokesman. He is forced to go to Southern Germany, where he convenes with revolting farmers. But his way leads him back to Thuringia. In 1525, he and Heinrich Pfeiffer form the centre of the Thuringian peasant uprising in Mühlhausen, but their success is diminished by the fact that peasants and craftsmen don′t seem to be able to work together. In Frankenhausen, Müntzer becomes the leader of a peasants′ army that is set to fighting the ruler′s army – and sustains a devastating loss. Müntzer is arrested and sentenced to death by decapitation for his insurgency.
Thomas Müntzer
Minna von Barnhelm oder Das Soldatenglück
Martin Hellberg
Marita Böhme, Otto Mellies
This film takes place during the Seven Years' War. The Prussian Major von Tellheim has become engaged to the Saxon noblewoman Minna von Barnhelm. After the war, the King - in an unwarranted move - deprives the major of his honor. Von Tellheim becomes impoverished and, filled with shame, breaks off his relationship to Minna. An innkeeper in Berlin, who is a police informer, makes the Major move to a shabby little attic because he cannot pay his debt. In the meantime, Minna has also arrived at the inn. She and her lady's maid Franziska are questioned and spied on by the nosy innkeeper. Minna has followed her beloved Tellheim and she now cunningly manages to elicit a new declaration of love from him...
Minna von Barnhelm oder Das Soldatenglück
Turlis Abenteuer
Walter Beck
Martin Flörchinger, Alfred Müller
The puppet boy Turli, who was only recently been carved from wood by the toymaker Kasimir, suddenly springs to life. Turli has nothing but nonsense on his mind and wreaks chaos everywhere he goes, although he is actually supposed to attend school.
Turlis Abenteuer
Lotte in Weimar
Egon Günther
Lilli Palmer, Martin Hellberg
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was the author of Werther, the romantic novel that was transformed into a play during Goethe's lifetime and which initiated the whole German romantic movement. The book's story tells of young love and suicide. In this East German film, based on a book by Thomas Mann, Lotte (Lilli Palmer) was the woman who served as the model for the heroine in the novel Werther. She comes to Goethe's hometown for a visit, and her experiences there eerily re-create episodes from the book. Goethe comes across as a pompous old bore, and his friends as pandering sycophants, in this very proper communist party-sponsored, anti-heroic movie.
Lotte in Weimar
