Horst Königstein

Directing

Horst Königstein

Born — Died

1945-07-26 — 2013-05-12

Place of birth

Bremen, Germany

Known for

Directing

Credits

25 titles

Horst Königstein was a German stage and screen director, writer and playwright.

Known for

Series credits

Behind the camera

Reichshauptstadt privat poster
8.0

Anna and Kurt spent their youth in Berlin, then the capital of the Greater German Reich. In the summer of 1938, they met on board the "Strength through Joy" cruise ship "Ozeana" during a trip to Norway. Kurt and Hanna fell in love and almost got married later, but the war broke them up. While Anna stayed in Berlin, Kurt was taken prisoner. Twenty years after the end of the war, the two met by chance in Düsseldorf and since then Kurt, who now lived in Canada, had come to Berlin from time to time. It was here that he proposed to Anna for the second time. As a preliminary answer, however, Anna had given him her diary from those days...

Reichshauptstadt privat

1987

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8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Propaganda

2004

Buddenbrooks poster
5.8

Mid-19th-century, Baltic Sea port city of Lubeck, Germany. Follows the fourth generation of the Buddenbrook mercantile family as Tony and Thomas reach the age of marriage. Fatefully impeded every step of the way, the Buddenbrooks struggle as economic hardship and personal defeats weigh down family relations.

Buddenbrooks

2008

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8.0

"The blood of millions of people hangs on this film" wrote the newspapers in 1949, when the trial of Veit Harlan began. Between 1940 and 1945, 20 million Germans saw his inflammatory film "Jud Süß". Is Harlan a "director of the devil", as the public prosecutor claims?

Jud Süß – Ein Film als Verbrechen?

2001

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8.5

A 17 year old tries to find his own identity in October 1958 while Elvis Presley begins his service as a G.I in Germany. He is torn between his parents' generation which was marked by war and the new "American way of life" which is particularly present in the town of Bremerhaven.

The Day Elvis Came to Bremerhaven

1979

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7.0

A theatre monologue in which a son visits his mother who suffers from Alzheimer's. While the son is talking to his mother's empty bed, the actor dresses up like her and has a conversation with the son. This play was remade as a regular feature film as Hersenschimmen (“ Mindshadows”), in 1988.

U Bent Mijn Moeder

1984

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4.0

Four stages in the life of the aging Joan Crawford. 1954: A beautiful woman of a “certain age” drives alone through the Californian desert, stays in a shabby motel. There she has anonymous sex with a car salesman. 1964: Crawford has success with horror films in which she transforms into a monster…

Spending Nights with Joan

1998

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4.0

Four stages in the life of the aging Joan Crawford. 1954: A beautiful woman of a “certain age” drives alone through the Californian desert, stays in a shabby motel. There she has anonymous sex with a car salesman. 1964: Crawford has success with horror films in which she transforms into a monster…

Spending Nights with Joan

1998

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NR

From 1928 to 1943, Haus Vaterland was a large restaurant and entertainment palace in Berlin on Potsdamer Platz, originally run by Kempinksi, with around one million visitors per year, which can be regarded as the forerunner of today's event gastronomy. In the guest rooms there were a variety of theme restaurants, including the Palmensaal, a dance hall, where in addition to musical and artistic events, demonstrations and variety programs. The visitors of Haus Vaterland were mainly tourists from outside Berlin.

Haus Vaterland

1983

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NR

From 1928 to 1943, Haus Vaterland was a large restaurant and entertainment palace in Berlin on Potsdamer Platz, originally run by Kempinksi, with around one million visitors per year, which can be regarded as the forerunner of today's event gastronomy. In the guest rooms there were a variety of theme restaurants, including the Palmensaal, a dance hall, where in addition to musical and artistic events, demonstrations and variety programs. The visitors of Haus Vaterland were mainly tourists from outside Berlin.

Haus Vaterland

1983

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3.7

No synopsis available yet.

Liane

1996

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8.0

1934, Hamburg. Adolf Hitler is about to visit the city. Hamburg's executioner falls ill, and is unable to deliver the sentence of four communists who are awaiting capital punishment in jail. Fearing that this would spoil Hitler's visit, SS leader Footh offers a local bankrupt butcher, Albert Teetjen, 2,000 Marks in order to carry out the verdict. The broke Teetjen agrees and follows suit. When his neighbors hear of the execution, they shun him. His wife cannot tolerate her husband's deed and puts an end to her life. Eventually, Teetjen also commits suicide.

The Axe of Wandsbek

1982

No artwork available
8.0

1934, Hamburg. Adolf Hitler is about to visit the city. Hamburg's executioner falls ill, and is unable to deliver the sentence of four communists who are awaiting capital punishment in jail. Fearing that this would spoil Hitler's visit, SS leader Footh offers a local bankrupt butcher, Albert Teetjen, 2,000 Marks in order to carry out the verdict. The broke Teetjen agrees and follows suit. When his neighbors hear of the execution, they shun him. His wife cannot tolerate her husband's deed and puts an end to her life. Eventually, Teetjen also commits suicide.

The Axe of Wandsbek

1982

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NR

Portrait of the former Finance Minister of Lower Saxony Birgit Breuel

Die Treuhänderin

2009

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NR

Portrait of the former Finance Minister of Lower Saxony Birgit Breuel

Die Treuhänderin

2009

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Unser Reigen

2006

Hard Days, Hard Nights poster
5.5

Hamburg 1960: The Liverpool band "Rick and the Rich Kids" and their manager, the young American Chris, arrive in the land of the economic miracle with high hopes.

Hard Days, Hard Nights

1990

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8.0

Political satire about the billion-euro loan to the GDR in 1983, which was arranged by Franz-Josef Strauß and Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski to save a bankrupt bank.

Dicke Freunde

1995

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10.0

A docu-drama about tetrachloro-dibenzo dioxin, later known as 'Sevesogift', sprayed on thousands of tons of vapor in Vietnam 'Agent Orange', and the involvement of the later Federal President, Richard Karl Weizsäcker, who was hiring manager when production was moved to another plant because of massive health problems of the workers, but claims to be unable to remember anything, in these crimes.

Hamburger Gift

1992

Treffpunkt im Unendlichen poster
9.0

"Meeting place at Infinity" - Combines interviews with family members, contemporary witnesses, experts and critics, text passages as well as photo and film material with staged film scenes. The result is a portrait of the writer, his family and his time.

Treffpunkt im Unendlichen

1984

Jetzt kommt die Flut: Liebe, Geld und Tod poster
10.0

"Now the tide is coming: love, money and death" - What is love? What would you do with DM 1 million? What are you afraid of? Six punks and six policemen answers.

Jetzt kommt die Flut: Liebe, Geld und Tod

1982