Directing
Karl-Heinz Deickert
Born 1931-05-19 · Pasewalk, Germany
Acting credits
6.2Lavish adaptation of Wilhelm Hauff′s fairy tale: Young charburner Peter Munk dreams of joining the upper class. He makes a deal with the sinister Holländer-Michel, who offers to trade Peter′s human heart for one made of stone. Once he has the "cold heart" in his body, Peter eventually strikes a fortune and enjoys great wealth, but at the same time, he becomes a bitter and emotionless man – and, having lost all traces of humanity, even murders his wife Lisbeth. Only then does Peter Munk finally realize what has become of him, and he decides to regain his real heart from Holländer-Michel.
Heart of Stone
1950
7.1The mechanic Behnke wants to join the Nazi party to secure a good living. However, after his Jewish neighbors have been taken away, he changes his views. Trying to remain "a non-political man," he withdraws from reality and becomes a Nazis laborer.
Rotation
1950
6.6Based on the records of the Nuremberg trial of the chemical giant IG Farben; a story about the collaboration between international corporations and Nazi scientists, whose research contributed to the death of millions. The chemist Dr. Hans Scholz lives through a tortuous political transformation and maturation process. Eventually, he adopts political neutrality and closes his eyes to the fact that the poison being produced in his factory is being used in the extermination camps. Standing before the judges at the Nuremberg trials, he must face the fact that he is implicated in the deaths of millions in the gas chambers of the concentration camps.
Council of the Gods
1950
6.1The brothers Theo and Gustav Benthin pull profits through smuggling in divided Germany: Theo in the West and Gustav in the East. The East German police catch on quickly, however, and Gustav is arrested. The small band of smugglers disperses, with Gustav’s chauffer Peter Naumann fleeing to the West and his sister choosing the East after struggling to find work and lodging in the West.
The Benthin Family
1950
8.0East German propaganda film about an American army base trying to take away land from a West German village.
The Condemned Village
1952
Behind the camera
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Die Prüfung
1973
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Feuerwanzen küß ich nicht
1985
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Anneliese ruft Krokodil
1967
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Der Mann am Strick
1970
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Nichts als die Wahrheit
1969
4.0A crafy, career thief, Phillip, double crosses his partner, Kurt, after a yacht robbery and flees to a small island where he strikes of a friendship with Maria, the owner of a local cantina.
The Amorous Virgin
1966
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Fernsehverweigerung
1973
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Die Flucht nach Ägypten
1969
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Friß, Pappi, friß!
1972