Walter Bockmayer

Directing

Walter Bockmayer

Born — Died

1948-07-04 — 2014-10-07

Place of birth

Fehrbach, Germany

Known for

Directing

Credits

52 titles

Walter Bockmayer (4 July 1948 – 7 October 2014) was a German film director, screenwriter and actor. He directed seven films between 1975 and 1988. His 1978 film Flaming Hearts was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival. He found a new home with the Scala Theater in Cologne, where the first stage play Ich möch zu Foß noh Kölle jonn was performed in 2003. Bockmayer's new plays were performed annually in the theater, which had a capacity of 260 people. He relocated famous operas such as Carmen (1995) or La traviata (1998) to the setting of the Klapperhof in Cologne or to a massage parlor. He died of lung cancer in 2014. Description above from the Wikipedia article Walter Bock…

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Bei Bio

1983

In a Year with 13 Moons poster
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Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergone a sex change for a romantic interest who has abandoned her, and she now must struggle to reconcile her past life with her present identity.

In a Year with 13 Moons

1978

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Talk 2000

1997

Flaming Hearts poster
5.8

When Peter Huber the proprietor of a Bavarian corner newsstand, wins a free trip to New York City in a magazine contest, he is overjoyed. Filled with romantic ideas from the movies, his actual encounter with the gritty realities of the Big Apple are sobering. Nonetheless, he is in for the adventure of his life. First, he meets Karola Faber, the German wife of a U.S. G.I. who has found life in the States not all it's cracked up to be: she has left her husband and makes her living through prostitution. Peter and Karola visit the local German emigré community's Oktoberfest, and win the festival's King and Queen crown. Their prize is a cow, which accompanies them on their further journeys in New York City.

Flaming Hearts

1978

Kiez poster
4.5

Set in Hamburg's “Hell's Kitchen,” a waterfront milieu of gangsters, pimps, dealers and prostitutes, the story follows the attempts of an ex-seaman first to insinuate himself into the scene, and then to extricate himself from it. He becomes a small-time pimp, sending his naive girlfriend out onto the streets thinking she is financing their middle-class future. When he becomes involved with an old pal, Nil, he increases his criminal portfolio. But when he steals Nil's girlfriend and things heat up, he leaves for his sister's middle-class home in Berlin, where his attempts to fit in are doomed from the start. Returning to Hamburg, he starts a rapid decline that delivers him into the waiting arms of Nil, whose revenge is merciless.

Kiez

1983

Im Himmel ist die Hölle los poster
5.3

Teenage girl idolises television game show host, and gets a chance to be his assistant.

Im Himmel ist die Hölle los

1984

Film credits

1970s · 7 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera

Flaming Hearts poster
5.8

When Peter Huber the proprietor of a Bavarian corner newsstand, wins a free trip to New York City in a magazine contest, he is overjoyed. Filled with romantic ideas from the movies, his actual encounter with the gritty realities of the Big Apple are sobering. Nonetheless, he is in for the adventure of his life. First, he meets Karola Faber, the German wife of a U.S. G.I. who has found life in the States not all it's cracked up to be: she has left her husband and makes her living through prostitution. Peter and Karola visit the local German emigré community's Oktoberfest, and win the festival's King and Queen crown. Their prize is a cow, which accompanies them on their further journeys in New York City.

Flaming Hearts

1978

Flaming Hearts poster
5.8

When Peter Huber the proprietor of a Bavarian corner newsstand, wins a free trip to New York City in a magazine contest, he is overjoyed. Filled with romantic ideas from the movies, his actual encounter with the gritty realities of the Big Apple are sobering. Nonetheless, he is in for the adventure of his life. First, he meets Karola Faber, the German wife of a U.S. G.I. who has found life in the States not all it's cracked up to be: she has left her husband and makes her living through prostitution. Peter and Karola visit the local German emigré community's Oktoberfest, and win the festival's King and Queen crown. Their prize is a cow, which accompanies them on their further journeys in New York City.

Flaming Hearts

1978

Kiez poster
4.5

Set in Hamburg's “Hell's Kitchen,” a waterfront milieu of gangsters, pimps, dealers and prostitutes, the story follows the attempts of an ex-seaman first to insinuate himself into the scene, and then to extricate himself from it. He becomes a small-time pimp, sending his naive girlfriend out onto the streets thinking she is financing their middle-class future. When he becomes involved with an old pal, Nil, he increases his criminal portfolio. But when he steals Nil's girlfriend and things heat up, he leaves for his sister's middle-class home in Berlin, where his attempts to fit in are doomed from the start. Returning to Hamburg, he starts a rapid decline that delivers him into the waiting arms of Nil, whose revenge is merciless.

Kiez

1983

Geierwally poster
7.0

Geierwally, who earned her name through a bitter fight with a bird of prey, refuses to marry Vinzenz, the heir apparent assigned to her by her father, and lives a secluded life in a mountain hut. Her love for Bärenjosef seems hopeless, especially since he knows nothing of Wally's love. She becomes increasingly isolated, becomes the laughing stock of the village, and misunderstandings arise because Bärenjosef's sister Afra is mistakenly regarded as his “girlfriend.” Wally then decides that she would rather have Josef dead than not at all...

Geierwally

1988

Geierwally poster
7.0

Geierwally, who earned her name through a bitter fight with a bird of prey, refuses to marry Vinzenz, the heir apparent assigned to her by her father, and lives a secluded life in a mountain hut. Her love for Bärenjosef seems hopeless, especially since he knows nothing of Wally's love. She becomes increasingly isolated, becomes the laughing stock of the village, and misunderstandings arise because Bärenjosef's sister Afra is mistakenly regarded as his “girlfriend.” Wally then decides that she would rather have Josef dead than not at all...

Geierwally

1988

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Drama by Walter Bockmayer.

Gay West

1974

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Drama by Walter Bockmayer.

Gay West

1974

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Drama by Walter Bockmayer.

Gay West

1974

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10.0

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Victor

1979

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10.0

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Victor

1979

Jane is Jane Forever poster
10.0

An old lady named Jane, believes she is Tarzan's widow. She wears a leopard skin bathing suit under her black coat when she visits the zoo to talk to the animals, and keeps African mementos in her home. She also has pictures of famous screen incarnations of Tarzan, including Johnny Weissmuller, Lex Barker, etc. up on the walls of her flat, and longs to 'return' to Africa and visit 'Tarzan's tomb'.

Jane is Jane Forever

1977

Jane is Jane Forever poster
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An old lady named Jane, believes she is Tarzan's widow. She wears a leopard skin bathing suit under her black coat when she visits the zoo to talk to the animals, and keeps African mementos in her home. She also has pictures of famous screen incarnations of Tarzan, including Johnny Weissmuller, Lex Barker, etc. up on the walls of her flat, and longs to 'return' to Africa and visit 'Tarzan's tomb'.

Jane is Jane Forever

1977

Sissi - Beuteljahre einer Kaiserin poster
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With a heavily pregnant empress at the altar, a completely new history begins: the Bishop of Vienna declares the pregnant Sissi and Emperor Franz Joseph to be husband or wife. This is followed by the painless birth of the heir to the throne, his abduction to Hungary and the revelation of an astonishingly momentous love affair between the empress and Ludwig II.

Sissi - Beuteljahre einer Kaiserin

1989

Sissi - Beuteljahre einer Kaiserin poster
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With a heavily pregnant empress at the altar, a completely new history begins: the Bishop of Vienna declares the pregnant Sissi and Emperor Franz Joseph to be husband or wife. This is followed by the painless birth of the heir to the throne, his abduction to Hungary and the revelation of an astonishingly momentous love affair between the empress and Ludwig II.

Sissi - Beuteljahre einer Kaiserin

1989

Looping poster
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A small carnival is in dire financial straits. Their show is attracting fewer and fewer paying customers, as their "attractions" are ageing, out of shape and beset by internal feuds and bickering. One day a beautiful young woman shows up and suggests a way of attracting customers: put on a strip show, with her as the main attraction. Her act attracts customers in droves, but it turns out that the girl has her own agenda, and it isn't to help out the carnival.

Looping

1981

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Movie by Walter Bockmayer about Bette Davis and Greta Garbo.

Rivalinnen unter griechischer Sonne

1974

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Movie by Walter Bockmayer about Bette Davis and Greta Garbo.

Rivalinnen unter griechischer Sonne

1974

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The hero of this play, Liane Jokkemöller, runs a Cologne travel agency that specialises in adventure travels: her desk is sitting on elephant legs, the walls are papered with zebra stripes. The dernier cri are weekend safaris to Africa, including a photo-op with Tarzan and Jane. Gerhard and Christel Pfuscher, sexshop-owners from Bergheim, splash out and spend a small fortune on it. But then there is word of the jungle heroes getting run over by a herd of elephants, and the travel agency owner is in a fix. With her husband Harald, zookeeper in the monkey house, she travels to Africa to don the leopard fur herself for once. But at first, Liane must help Harald in return by riding the killer whale in the zoo’s aquarium. Finally, in the jungle, things are going crazy. Starzahn has to decide between two women, for cleaning lady Eloise Pütz is also in on it. A haunting of the jungle ghost, a frenzy of the instincts.

Tarzan - Wo die Datteln rappeln

1997

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The hero of this play, Liane Jokkemöller, runs a Cologne travel agency that specialises in adventure travels: her desk is sitting on elephant legs, the walls are papered with zebra stripes. The dernier cri are weekend safaris to Africa, including a photo-op with Tarzan and Jane. Gerhard and Christel Pfuscher, sexshop-owners from Bergheim, splash out and spend a small fortune on it. But then there is word of the jungle heroes getting run over by a herd of elephants, and the travel agency owner is in a fix. With her husband Harald, zookeeper in the monkey house, she travels to Africa to don the leopard fur herself for once. But at first, Liane must help Harald in return by riding the killer whale in the zoo’s aquarium. Finally, in the jungle, things are going crazy. Starzahn has to decide between two women, for cleaning lady Eloise Pütz is also in on it. A haunting of the jungle ghost, a frenzy of the instincts.

Tarzan - Wo die Datteln rappeln

1997

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Cleopatra flees to the wastelands of Africa, where she almost falls victim to cannibals. Afterwards, Leni Riefenstahl kidnaps the Egyptian and brings her to Berlin on Hitler's orders to make a film with her.

Cleopatra und der Fluch der Tempelhuren

1991

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Helene Jöckemüller drives her neighbors in the apartment building crazy.

Jebohnert op Kölsch

2009

Carmen - Die Königin vom Klapperhof poster
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The prostitute Carmen is struggling with sleazy lovers in the red light district of Cologne.

Carmen - Die Königin vom Klapperhof

1995

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Drama by Walter Bockmayer.

La Traviata

1974

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Drama by Walter Bockmayer.

La Traviata

1974

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Drama by Walter Bockmayer.

La Traviata

1974

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This time, The Sperm Bank Murderess of Gerolstein Castle takes the audience neither to Egypt nor to Babelsburg, but straight to the beautiful Eifel region, where bloodthirsty vampires live and men under pressure are helped quickly and unbureaucratically. Mother Elvira has a moronic, gay son who is finally to be fixed up. The victim: Petra Porn. In a cloak-and-dagger operation, mother and son set off for Bitburg, but end up in a cemetery where Count Otto von Gerolstein and his butler are up to mischief. The horny count gives Elvira a good vampire bite - and the dream of a part-time job in the blood bank is over. The lady is transferred to the sperm bank, where a master butcher falls in love with her.

Elvira - The Sperm Bank Murderess of Gerolstein Castle

1994

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Short by Walter Bockmayer

Nymphomanie

1970

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Short Super8 making of of Walter Bockmayer's CARMEN, shot by the director himself.

Bei den Dreharbeiten zu dem Film: Carmen

1972

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Marianne and Dorothea, the honest daughters of the brave Mrs. Gewöhnlich, who are disappointed with life, find themselves in delicate situations in which the unscrupulous mechanic Otto Rohrfrei unscrupulously exploits them and plunges them into misfortune. Finally tired of constant oppression by men, both call for solidarity and a women's protest march. Nevertheless, a criminal act occurs, and the committed representatives of the female sex end up where their freedom of movement is severely restricted... but is that the end?

Salzstangen-Geschrei

1976

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Marianne and Dorothea, the honest daughters of the brave Mrs. Gewöhnlich, who are disappointed with life, find themselves in delicate situations in which the unscrupulous mechanic Otto Rohrfrei unscrupulously exploits them and plunges them into misfortune. Finally tired of constant oppression by men, both call for solidarity and a women's protest march. Nevertheless, a criminal act occurs, and the committed representatives of the female sex end up where their freedom of movement is severely restricted... but is that the end?

Salzstangen-Geschrei

1976

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Drama by Walter Bockmayer.

Carmen

1972

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Drama by Walter Bockmayer.

Carmen

1972

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Drama by Walter Bockmayer.

Carmen

1972

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8.0

Parody of German schlager stars of the 60s.

Salzstangen-Geflüster

1975

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8.0

Parody of German schlager stars of the 60s.

Salzstangen-Geflüster

1975

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8.0

Parody of German schlager stars of the 60s.

Salzstangen-Geflüster

1975

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Short by Walter Bockmayer

Sie tanzten nur einen Sommer

1971

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Comedy by Walter Bockmayer.

Gisela Wygman

1973

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Comedy by Walter Bockmayer.

Gisela Wygman

1973

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Comedy by Walter Bockmayer.

Gisela Wygman

1973