
Production
Artur Brauner
Born 1918-08-01 · Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland
Artur “Atze” Brauner was a German film producer. Brauner and his family, who were of Jewish descent, were persecuted by the Nazis during the occupation of Poland. He managed to flee to the Soviet Union. In 1946, he founded CCC-Film, which he built into one of the most successful German production companies of the post-war period.
Acting credits
9.0Documentary feature about German actor Heinz Rühmann made shortly before his death in 1994.
Kleiner Mann ganz groß
1994
NRNo synopsis available yet.
René Deltgen – Der sanfte Rebell
2008
NRKlaus Kinski is one of the few German actors who has achieved international fame. He made headlines. And disappeared behind them. Kinski lived his parts 24/7. This film tells the story of a man who no longer could understand the difference or distinguish between fantasy and reality.
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
2000
7.3No synopsis available yet.
Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands
2004
6.0A documentary about German cinema from 1960 to 1990. It follows "Verfluchte Liebe deutscher Film."
Open Wounds – A Journey through German Genre Films
2017
Crew and cast members talk about the making of the 1962 film 'Das Geheimnis der schwarzen Koffer'.
Making of: Das Geheimnis der schwarzen Koffer
2005
NRIt was the largest mass shooting of the Second World War, and yet few people are aware of the Babyn Yar massacre. In September 1941, Germans shot 33,771 Jews on the edge of a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.
Babyn Yar - The Forgotten Massacre
2012
Featurette about the restauration of Der Schut and Durchs Wilde Kurdistan
Filmrestaurierung der Orient-Filme
2012
NRDocumentary about the current state of German cinema. Produced for German television.
...Geist und ein wenig Glück
1965
7.0The history of Germany's oldest independent family-owned film studio, now run by Brauner's daughter, Dr. Alice Brauner. The film traces the life of Brauner, who was born in Poland, shaped by German history, survived the Holocaust as a Jew, and became the most important film producer of his time in the country of the perpetrators.
Marina, Mabuse und Morituri
2017
9.0Short documentary on the making of Henry Levin's Genghis Khan, which filmed on location in Yugoslavia. The final film's epic battle scenes are contrasted with the mundane reality of life on a film set.
Hollywood in Deliblatska Pescara
1965
8.0An alternative history of the not-so-well-known West German genre cinema of the 1960s and 1970s.
Doomed Love: A Journey Through German Genre Films
2016
5.5In 1987, colour slides were found in a second hand book store in Vienna which turned out to be a collections of photographs taken in the Lodz ghetto by the Nazis' chief accountant. Walter Genewein boosted productivity in the ghetto while keeping costs down, a policy which led to the Lodz ghetto surviving much longer than any other in Poland. He recorded what he considered to be the subhuman aspect of the Jewish workers and he was concerned only with the technical quality of his photos. Director Dariusz Jabłoński's prize-winning film uses the photographs in a different way. He recreates for us the suffering of inmates, giving a compassionate picture of that it was like to be trapped in the ghetto. (Storyville)
Photographer
1998
10.0Berlin's Danny Bach, single and lead singer of a garage band, actually has something better to do than take care of his orphaned 14-year-old cousin from Kazakhstan. But the smart, charming Ekaterina will soon be part of the family. And it hits Danny hard when he learns that the girl is terminally ill. This funny and soulful Christmas film is a sensitive plea for “One World”: the possibility of understanding beyond national and cultural differences.
Lady of Kazakhstan
2000
Featurette about the filming of Durchs wilde Kurdistan and Der Schut
Karl May's Orient-Filme: Making-of
2012
Artur Brauner talks about his career.
Artur Brauner erzählt...
2017
Behind the camera
No synopsis available yet.
Spätsommer
1966
6.2Renegades trying to get the army to abandon their fort get the Indians addicted to whiskey, then convince them to attack and drive out the soldiers.
Old Shatterhand
1964
5.6While guiding a hunting party of clueless European aristocrats, cowboy Bosky Fulton leads them into hostile Apache territory. Becoming separated from the group, Countess Irina Lazaar experiences the first run-in with an Apache, which results in the tracker Shalako coming to her rescue. Despite Shalako's warning to leave the area immediately, the pampered foreigners fail to take him seriously, leaving them in grave danger.
Shalako
1968
5.9Young Jim Hawkins finds himself serving with pirate captain Long John Silver in search of a buccaneer's treasure, in this short adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale.
Treasure Island
1972
7.1An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city and conducts his own investigation, despite him and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer.
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
1970
5.7This is the story of the shy Mongol boy Temujin who,during the 13th century, becomes the fearless Mongol leader Genghis Khan that unites all Mongol tribes and conquers India,China,Persia,Korea and parts of Rusia,Europe and Middle-East.
Genghis Khan
1965
7.2A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth.
Europa Europa
1990
6.1The supposedly dead and buried Mabuse returns to his criminal activities, as his longtime foe Police Inspector Lohmann, a dauntless girl reporter, and an American - who may be an FBI agent, or maybe a Chicago mobster - investigate a series of gruesome murders connected to a maximum security prison and involving a minister who has written a book called "The Anatomy Of The Devil".
The Return of Dr. Mabuse
1961
5.7An erotic horror tale about a vixen vampiress seducing and killing women to appease her insatiable thirst for female blood.
Vampyros Lesbos
1971
5.7No synopsis available yet.
Liebe, Jazz und Übermut
1957
6.1Seetha and Harold Berger are rescued from the desert by a caravan and brought to a small village. However, the greedy owner of the house where they are lodged betrays the law of hospitality and reveals their location to Prince Ramigani. The couple tries to escape but is hunted and captured by Ramigani and his men. Meanwhile Irene Rhode and her husband Walter Rhode suspect that Maharaja Chandra is not telling the truth about Harold's destiny. The conspirator Ramigani forces Seetha to accept to get married with Chandra to provoke the wrath of the priests and get the alliance of Prince Padhu and his army. In the meantime, Harold succeeds in escaping from the dungeon and seeks out Seetha to save her.
The Indian Tomb
1959
6.1John Thornton, is a fearless man who's after more than gold; he wants to do what's right. Thornton works for the U.S. mail and is the only person daring and smart enough to figure out how to travel the deadly 600 miles from Skagway to Dawson, Alaska in the icy winter. His incredibly dog Buck is by his side and part of how he survives.
The Call of the Wild
1972
4.5The adventures of Baron Münchhausen jr. in Africa.
Münchhausen in Afrika
1958
6.1A new student, Manuela, enters a strict girls' boarding school after her mother’s death, where she finds comfort in a kind teacher, stirring complex emotions within her.
Girls in Uniform
1958
6.5An army gold shipment and its escort vanish in the Ozarks, prompting accusations of theft and desertion but frontiersman Old Shatterhand and Apache chief Winnetou help solve the mystery of the missing army gold.
The Valley of Death
1968
6.2Max Baumstein is a reputable businessman who founded an international organization fighting against violations of human rights. Why would he commit an act that apparently negates the principles he has striven for so long to uphold? As he is tried for first-degree murder for killing a Paraguayan ambassador in cold blood, he reveals a secret about himself that he kept hidden from his wife Lina. His act is the conclusion of a struggle that started many decades earlier in his childhood...
The Passerby
1982
7.0In 1930s Italy, a wealthy Jewish family tries to maintain their privileged lifestyle, hosting friends for tennis and parties at their villa. As anti-Semitism intensifies under Fascism, they must ultimately face the horrors of the Holocaust.
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
1970
6.4Siegfried of Xanten snatches the Nibelung treasure from the king of the underworld and slays the dragon Fafnir, whose blood makes him invulnerable. Siegfried falls in love with Kriemhild, the sister of the Burgundian king. But only if Siegfried helps Gunther marry Brunhild will he be allowed to marry Kriemhild. He fulfills this condition, but the two women bring ruin upon Xanten and Burgundy...
Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy
1966
7.2A group of people are imprisoned in a rail car bound from Berlin to a concentration camp in 1945.
The Last Train
2006
5.3Angela Russo, a sixteen-year-old girl, is found dead in a river, having been fatally violated with a large blunt instrument. Inspector Di Salvo is assigned to the case and focuses his investigations on St. Theresa's, the exclusive school where Angela boarded. Three of the murdered girl's classmates, Franca, Paola and Virginia (who call themselves "The Inseparables"), receive threatening poems from an individual using the name "Nemesis." Bizarre "accidents" start to befall the girls: Franca is injured when someone causes her horse to bolt and Virginia nearly breaks her neck on marbles left at the top of a staircase. But Di Salvo is determined to find the killer, even if it means using unorthodox methods. He is aided by Angela Russo's little sister Emily, whose helpful clues lead to a boutique owned by a dubious character and a vice ring where "rich influential men pay well for teenage favours..."
Rings of Fear
1978
7.5A young Viennese policeman can not free himself from his mistress and is also extorted over his illegal arms business.
Shattered Dreams
1976
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Auf Wiedersehen
1961
8.0In 1939, Charlotte Salomon leaves Berlin to seek refuge at her grandparents' villa in the south of France. A little later, war breaks out, and Charlotte must, besides forgetting all she left behind, deal with her grandmother's depression, and her mother's suicide. To fight despair, Charlotte starts to paint, producing over one thousand images. "Is my life real, or is it theater?" This is the title she gives her body of work, which highlights her former life in Berlin. She finds herself though her art, but in 1943 is deported to Germany and Auschwitz.
Charlotte
1981
6.8A reporter is murdered while driving to his job. The Police are contacted by a clairvoyant who saw the death in a vision, but some dark force is preventing him from seeing the man behind the crime...
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
1960