Otto Mellies Movies

The beautiful and charming laundress Lurette is a well sought-after young woman in Ludwig XV’s Paris. Her heart is already taken, however, and...

Wealthy sawmill owner Reinhard Lorenz has two daughters who compete for his love: The older Manuela runs the company, supported by her lover, the...

A group of tourists from the GDR spend their holiday at the coast of Bulgaria. When making a trip to a small fisher house, they have to stay they...

In the GDR, purchasing a car was such a difficult process that many families applied for one years in advance. For example, Gisela secretly orders a...

Dr. Sonja Martin is a neurosurgeon at a large clinic in Leipzig. She loves her job. But she has bigger plans: She wants to become a clinic director....

When the seven-year-old daughter of an architect falls ill with a rare but curable form of cancer, the family wants to give the child the best...

A sociohistorical drama about the construction of the Simplon-tunnel: A conflict develops when German workers want to strike and fight for better...

Historical television comedy around Friedrich Alfred Krupp, whose connection to the imperial court and the influence of Kaiser Wilhelm II. to the...

Private detective Fritsch from Munich had received a lucrative assignment: he was to obtain proof of inheritance for a Mr. Seligmann from Canada;...

Under the slogan of the arms race of the superpowers, which escalates in the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and brings the world to the brink of...

A teacher at a German high-school in the nineteen thirties has issues with his students who seem to be getting less human and more convinced of Nazi...

A working-class son who became orphaned in the war is brought up by his foster father to become an upright citizen. Now, after graduating from a...

A journey through a nature reserve in the GDR: the island of Hiddensee—with a special focus on the landscape, flora, and fauna.

An ageing genetic scientist recognizes the curse of his own research.

A murder has been committed in "Pension Boulanka", a famous guesthouse for artists and circus people. Captain Bruckner is heading the investigating...

The criminalist Hannes Bergemann tries to blackmail the city where he spent his youth. After many years returning to the familiar places of his...

Using contemporary artistic representations in words and pictures, the documentary intends to create an overall view of the historical significance...

Young Uli Merkel is an engineer and inventor. He has a wife and child and is primarily interested in his career. One day, he receives a strange...