Burghart Klaußner Movies

Walter is an unemployed architect, who is getting ready to go for an interview. But just as he is about to leave his flat, an eight-year-old boy,...

June 1940. The Wechrmacht appropriates the houses in which are living Pierre, his wife Magdeleine, their son Charles, their two servants Louise and...

2010 documentary film on the Armenian Genocide by the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. It is based on eyewitness...

Martin Lebeck, a young police officer, reluctantly accepts to be transferred from a tranquil small town back to his hometown of Hamburg.

A hijacker threatens to bring down a passenger plane to a crowded football stadium. Fighter pilot Lars Koch decides to shoot down the machine. The...

An ill man’s dying wish reunites four old friends.

Elli is a divorced bank cashier who could live in settled circumstances, if it were not for her character. She is a soft-hearted gentle person who...

A man returns to Cologne and remembers his time as an “Edelweiss Pirate” in the resistance against the Nazi regime in scenes of...

Painter Freddy lives with his wife and child on Lake Tegernsee and is working on his comeback until one day his life suddenly turns upside down: He...

The last years of Heinrich George's life are reconstructed with documentary footage and play scenes. His son Götz, named after Heinrich's...

There's Greta, a loud, impulsive, and erratic school secretary who's a notorious liar. And there's Alexander, a butcher, music lover, and closet...

A great mosaic, a labyrinth of scenes, dialogue splinters, interviews, portraits of people surrounding Hamlet and wanting to be part of his story.

For ten years Lena Drömer has been traveling to Tuscany alone for four weeks every November - at least that's what her husband, the Protestant...

Story concerns two friends, Freya and Irmtraut and their relationships with the same man, Traugott, who finds it impossible to choose between the two...

The family of Katharina Krohn is shocked when they learn that she is a member of a Swiss organization that helps people who have decided to leave...

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...

A struggeling TV documentarian's personal and professional life crumbles as he moves between the city and the countryside.

19-year-old NVA soldier, Alex Karow, is sent to the West German-East German border in May 1974, shortly after Willy Brandt's resignation and during...