Directing

Niklaus Schilling

Born — Died

1944-04-23 — 2016-05-06

Place of birth

Basel, Switzerland

Known for

Directing

Credits

21 titles

Known for

Rheingold poster
7.0

A mature, rich and bored woman called Elisabeth is taking a ride with the “Rheingold”, a first-class high-speed train of the seventies along the river Rhine. In the train she is meeting her old school mate and lover who is working as a waiter and falls in love with him again. Her husband, a busy politician, realizes what’s going on and tries to catch the train to face his wife and her lover in a fatal showdown.

Rheingold

1978

The Lite Trap poster
4.7

Germany, 1981. State Security Service agent Harald Love is sent on a secret mission from the GDR to the Federal Republic, to verify an informant with the code name "Heinz" who is suspected to be a double agent. A job that may change his life forever...

The Lite Trap

1982

No artwork available
10.0

Two women meet in a train.

Dormire

1985

Die Vertreibung aus dem Paradies poster
4.7

Part satire, part drama, this movie tells the story of Anton Paulisch (Herb Andress), who has been living and working as an actor in Rome. When he hears that his mother is mortally ill, he returns to Munich to be at her bedside, but doesn't quite make it. He and sister Astrid (Elke Haltaufderheide) rediscover their friendship, though, as they go through a number of crises. Meanwhile, Anton makes an effort to find work in Munich, and runs headlong into the silliness and pretensions of the "New German Cinema" movement.

Die Vertreibung aus dem Paradies

1977

No artwork available
4.3

The world was turned upside down on November 9, 1989. Not only does the Berlin Wall fall, but the German-German border in the Werra Valley is also rolled down...

Deutschfieber

1992

No artwork available
4.8

Life on the border to the GDR is as dreary as the "Werra-Post". To increase circulation, Willi Busch, reporter and heir to the local paper, takes action: sometimes he demolishes telephone boxes, sometimes he fantasizes a child into a prophetess who talks to sheep. Only when he fakes a dead man's past as an informer does Willi's paper corpses suddenly become real...

Der Willi-Busch-Report

1980

Behind the camera

Rheingold poster
7.0

A mature, rich and bored woman called Elisabeth is taking a ride with the “Rheingold”, a first-class high-speed train of the seventies along the river Rhine. In the train she is meeting her old school mate and lover who is working as a waiter and falls in love with him again. Her husband, a busy politician, realizes what’s going on and tries to catch the train to face his wife and her lover in a fatal showdown.

Rheingold

1978

Rheingold poster
7.0

A mature, rich and bored woman called Elisabeth is taking a ride with the “Rheingold”, a first-class high-speed train of the seventies along the river Rhine. In the train she is meeting her old school mate and lover who is working as a waiter and falls in love with him again. Her husband, a busy politician, realizes what’s going on and tries to catch the train to face his wife and her lover in a fatal showdown.

Rheingold

1978

The Lite Trap poster
4.7

Germany, 1981. State Security Service agent Harald Love is sent on a secret mission from the GDR to the Federal Republic, to verify an informant with the code name "Heinz" who is suspected to be a double agent. A job that may change his life forever...

The Lite Trap

1982

The Lite Trap poster
4.7

Germany, 1981. State Security Service agent Harald Love is sent on a secret mission from the GDR to the Federal Republic, to verify an informant with the code name "Heinz" who is suspected to be a double agent. A job that may change his life forever...

The Lite Trap

1982

No artwork available
10.0

Two women meet in a train.

Dormire

1985

No artwork available
10.0

Two women meet in a train.

Dormire

1985

Die Vertreibung aus dem Paradies poster
4.7

Part satire, part drama, this movie tells the story of Anton Paulisch (Herb Andress), who has been living and working as an actor in Rome. When he hears that his mother is mortally ill, he returns to Munich to be at her bedside, but doesn't quite make it. He and sister Astrid (Elke Haltaufderheide) rediscover their friendship, though, as they go through a number of crises. Meanwhile, Anton makes an effort to find work in Munich, and runs headlong into the silliness and pretensions of the "New German Cinema" movement.

Die Vertreibung aus dem Paradies

1977

No artwork available
4.3

The world was turned upside down on November 9, 1989. Not only does the Berlin Wall fall, but the German-German border in the Werra Valley is also rolled down...

Deutschfieber

1992

No artwork available
4.3

The world was turned upside down on November 9, 1989. Not only does the Berlin Wall fall, but the German-German border in the Werra Valley is also rolled down...

Deutschfieber

1992

No artwork available
4.8

Life on the border to the GDR is as dreary as the "Werra-Post". To increase circulation, Willi Busch, reporter and heir to the local paper, takes action: sometimes he demolishes telephone boxes, sometimes he fantasizes a child into a prophetess who talks to sheep. Only when he fakes a dead man's past as an informer does Willi's paper corpses suddenly become real...

Der Willi-Busch-Report

1980

No artwork available
4.8

Life on the border to the GDR is as dreary as the "Werra-Post". To increase circulation, Willi Busch, reporter and heir to the local paper, takes action: sometimes he demolishes telephone boxes, sometimes he fantasizes a child into a prophetess who talks to sheep. Only when he fakes a dead man's past as an informer does Willi's paper corpses suddenly become real...

Der Willi-Busch-Report

1980

No artwork available
10.0

In 1995, a young computer specialist is working on the development of "reality-based simulation programs," which he uses to "extrapolate" the face of a criminal who kidnapped him and his sister 20 years ago and killed his sister. When he meets a young makeup artist who is searching for her missing father, it becomes clear that they are both looking for the same man.

Der Atem

1989

Die Frau ohne Körper und der Projektionist poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Frau ohne Körper und der Projektionist

1984

Nightshade poster
5.5

A man wants to buy a house in Lower Saxony where he meets a mysterious woman.

Nightshade

1972

Nightshade poster
5.5

A man wants to buy a house in Lower Saxony where he meets a mysterious woman.

Nightshade

1972

No artwork available
7.0

A fictional "film diary" recounts the hunt for the "Blinde Kuh" (Blind Cow), a lost experimental setup by the Nazi "Fernseh-Gruppe" (Television Group), whose television technology was in the testing phase during World War II.

Die blinde Kuh

1996

No artwork available
7.0

A fictional "film diary" recounts the hunt for the "Blinde Kuh" (Blind Cow), a lost experimental setup by the Nazi "Fernseh-Gruppe" (Television Group), whose television technology was in the testing phase during World War II.

Die blinde Kuh

1996

No artwork available
9.0

Mockumentary about an incident involving huge amounts of light and energy.

Zeichen und Wunder

1982

No artwork available
9.0

Mockumentary about an incident involving huge amounts of light and energy.

Zeichen und Wunder

1982

No artwork available
8.0

Documentary about an artist.

Unter 4 Augen

1986

No artwork available
8.0

Documentary about an artist.

Unter 4 Augen

1986