Hildegard Knef Movies

Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilliantly assembled this film about the life and...

Based on years of research into the mass rapes committed by the Red Army at the end of the Second World War. In the second part of the documentary...

After Henny's father loses his job at her ex-fiancee's shipyard because of Henny's affair with Sigi, he begins to panic about how to make a living...

While perusing a police photo, Hilde - an investigative reporter - recognizes a bracelet that she once owned while living in her native Romania. She...

Caterina finds out that her husband Peter Tzar of Russia, is plotting to kill her. She sets Count Orlov free from prison, Peter's sworn enemy,...

Emily, a child, stays with her bourgeois grandparents during frequent periods when her mother makes films. Isabelle wraps a picture, flies to her...

An American pilot assists the Portuguese colonial police who are battling a gang of criminals involved in drug smuggling from Lisbon to Mozambique to...

Meant to be a diatribe against yellow journalism and current social ills, this weakly limned drama by Josef von Baky features a reporter who works...

Vincent Vivant agrees to Stephan the spy's proposal: he is to cross the border with a mysterious suitcase.

Hildegard Knef: legendary German film diva. An actress whose personality is as complex as the characters she has played. She is by turns irritable,...

After the death of her wealthy but lonely husband, wealthy but lonely hotel owner Maria Alsbacher falls in love with a charming bandleader and singer...

Based on years of research into the mass rapes committed by the Red Army at the end of the Second World War. In the first part of the documentary...

60 years ago, pianist Julie Bernstein was involved in an accident while her sister Gloria was taking a risky car ride. Her hands have been mutilated...

Film adaptation of Werner Keller's bestselling non-fiction book, which attempts to show in a "less spectacular way than the original" that...

A documentary about the 75th birhday of the UFA film studios directed by Hans-Christoph Blumenberg.

A screenwriter comes up with a story about an affair between a maid and her employer.

On May 17, 1946, Deutsche-Film AG (DEFA) was founded in Potsdam-Babelsberg. Until 1990, DEFA produced nearly 700 feature films, 750 animation films,...