Adolf Winkelmann

Directing

Adolf Winkelmann

Born 1946-04-10 · Hallenberg, Germany

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Der Leibwächter poster
7.0

Film is about the undercover assignment of a BKA officer as the bodyguard of a drug baron. His job is to gather information to put a stop to the cartel. But unfortunately everything goes wrong, "The Bodyguard" is exposed and eliminated in Turkey. He survives, returns and wants to complete his mission despite betrayal within his own ranks.

Der Leibwächter

1989

Betrayed poster
9.0

A “film-noir” on double identity and role reversal. A man is looking for a woman to love. He finds her in a seedy bar and persuades her to marry him. The day she decides to flee… he kills her. To ward off suspicion, he moves in with the sister of the deceased.

Betrayed

1985

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Heinrich Viel

1969

On the Move poster
7.0

Atze, Lutz and Sulli have no work. Day after day, they idle away their time in a backyard. Atze has been fired from his job as a skilled worker at the hut, Lutz has just completed his apprenticeship and has not been taken on by his company, Sulli, who is Greek, is a foreigner and won't get an apprenticeship anyway. The neighbors are suspicious, their former colleagues mock them, doing nothing is boring and the three of them are fed up with it all. Atze, Lutz and Sulli steal a fully loaded furniture van and drive off. A short test drive turns into an adventure, an escape from reality, a piece of borrowed freedom. But those who run away are followed. The neighbors have always known about it, the police are on the lookout and the overzealous set out to catch the outsiders...

On the Move

1978

Super poster
6.3

The Earth shortly before its end. The houses in the cities are deserted, the streets smashed. The sky shimmers dark gray.

Super

1984

A Lot of Coal poster
6.1

Katlewski is in his early 20s and a miner from Recklinghausen. He no longer realizes his marriage to his wife and the prosperity they have achieved.

A Lot of Coal

1981

A Lot of Coal poster
6.1

Katlewski is in his early 20s and a miner from Recklinghausen. He no longer realizes his marriage to his wife and the prosperity they have achieved.

A Lot of Coal

1981

The Last Courier poster
5.3

When Vera Rohleder wants to meet her husband Bernhard at the airport where he should arrive from Moscow, she is not successful. Later she is told that Bernhard died in a tragic traffic accident. She flies over to Moscow to identify the corpse, but the dead man shown to her doesn't seem to be her husband. When she tries to find out what really happened she gets to meet Andrej Bubka, a Moscow militia officer, who also looks for her husband. Vera cannot believe what Bubka tells her about the reasons why her husband has disappeared.

The Last Courier

1996

Peng! Du bist tot! poster
6.2

American German teacher Andrea Flanegan and computer game developer Kai Westerburg become entangled in the mystery of a stolen computer chip and the computer murders that Westerburg's boss Herbert Wilhelm Peters is apparently carrying out with its help. The search for Peters turns into a wild chase in a society that considers computer murders unthinkable and also becomes an existential threat for Westerburg and Flanegan...

Peng! Du bist tot!

1987

Young Light poster
5.9

Julian is a 12-year-old boy whose family is just scraping by in the Ruhr industrial region of Germany in the early 1960s . When his mother and younger sister go away for a while, he is left mostly alone in the apartment while his father works in the coal mine. He has to confront the confusing world of adults and older boys and the older girl next door on his own. Finally events build up and threaten to tear the family apart.

Young Light

2016

Young Light poster
5.9

Julian is a 12-year-old boy whose family is just scraping by in the Ruhr industrial region of Germany in the early 1960s . When his mother and younger sister go away for a while, he is left mostly alone in the apartment while his father works in the coal mine. He has to confront the confusing world of adults and older boys and the older girl next door on his own. Finally events build up and threaten to tear the family apart.

Young Light

2016

Engelchen flieg poster
4.3

No synopsis available yet.

Engelchen flieg

2004

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Worin unsere Stärke besteht

1971

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Worin unsere Stärke besteht

1971

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Die Fresse

1969

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Die Fresse

1969

North Curve poster
5.6

Drinking, fighting, sex and soccer matches - on Saturday, the people in the Nordkurve have nothing but pleasure on their minds. It's all about lust at any price, fighting with all means, intrigue, deceit and blackmail. After all, the all-important game takes place in the afternoon and 40,000 people want to be there. Everyone is preparing for it in their own way, everyone wants to make the deal of a lifetime. Substitute player Niebitsch is eagerly awaiting his appearance. Player agent Roland F. Beyer is trying to pull off the really big deal. The club is on the brink of financial ruin. President Vischering only thinks about the invitation to appear on "Aktuelle Sportstudio". And Gottschalk begins to systematically get drunk. In the end it is clear: Herberger's wisdom "The game lasts 90 minutes" is wrong. The game lasts all day, every Saturday...

North Curve

1993

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Der Löwe

1969

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Streik bei Piper & Silz

1972

Waschen, Schneiden, Legen poster
7.0

Aged hairdresser Hans Anton Schatz still lives at home with his mother and works in the small-town salon around the corner. He adores the florist Melanie, but she is engaged to a wild Ruhr proletarian. Shortly before the wedding, she is overcome with panic and persuades Hans Anton to take a bus trip to Berlin. Hans Anton blossoms in the big city and falls in love with an extroverted TV presenter, whom he pursues all the way to her show.

Waschen, Schneiden, Legen

1999

Waschen, Schneiden, Legen poster
7.0

Aged hairdresser Hans Anton Schatz still lives at home with his mother and works in the small-town salon around the corner. He adores the florist Melanie, but she is engaged to a wild Ruhr proletarian. Shortly before the wedding, she is overcome with panic and persuades Hans Anton to take a bus trip to Berlin. Hans Anton blossoms in the big city and falls in love with an extroverted TV presenter, whom he pursues all the way to her show.

Waschen, Schneiden, Legen

1999

No artwork available
7.0

Adolf Winkelmann films his future mother-in-law, who is requested to talk about him, the film-maker, who is standing opposite her with the camera. Frau Schmidt talks about her initial prejudices against the long-haired, bespectacled artist and about the way she overcame them as she got to know him. Adolf Winkelmann said of his film: ‘Depiction of constancy of opinion and change of opinion after confrontation with the object of the opinion.’

Es spricht: Ruth Schmidt

1968

Adolf Winkelmann, Kassel, 9.12.1967, 11.54h poster
6.0

Adolf Winkelmann maneuvers through Kassel’s shopping district with a Bolex camera strapped to his body, filming himself and the attention he attracts.

Adolf Winkelmann, Kassel, 9.12.1967, 11.54h

1968

Adolf Winkelmann, Kassel, 9.12.1967, 11.54h poster
6.0

Adolf Winkelmann maneuvers through Kassel’s shopping district with a Bolex camera strapped to his body, filming himself and the attention he attracts.

Adolf Winkelmann, Kassel, 9.12.1967, 11.54h

1968