Wolfgang Staudte Movies

An unemployed engineer working as a driver at an oil company hears about a lost Inca treasure and goes in search of it.

A young woman from the Berlin slums gets her chance to move into a new suburban home with her boyfriend, when she wins a lottery.

The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime, the Adenauer era and...

An oily careerist for whom becoming the highest earner is not enough: now he also wants a title of nobility.

The story of the rise to power of King Frederick II (aka "Frederick the Great") of Prussia of his military campaigns to make Prussia a major power in...

Charlie, a very gifted, young acrobat, cannot find employment. A dancer and colleague, whom he trained, has gotten him a job as a stagehand at a...

In the crazy twenties, safecracker Orje is released from prison and, through the mediation of his friend Nelly, finds a job at the "Sparverein...

A man's life breaks down in pursuit of material success.

The dangerous violent criminal Willy Jensen flees from a prison in Hamburg and seeks shelter at his brother Heinz' apartment. Heinz, an honest...

Erik Hoopen’s “Oversea Travel Agency” in Hamburg fronts an international gold‐smuggling ring. Couriers hide gold bars in...

Shortly after the outbreak of World War I August 1914, Eastern Front. The Russian surprise attack on the northeasternmost part of the country causes...

Three Foreign Legionnaires - Luigi, Pat and Kurt - desert during the Algerian war because they have had enough of the inhumane war machine. But their...

Detective Heinz Ebelings car breaks down with a broken windshield and a defective fuel pump on the way to Frankfurt. On the way to the next village,...

The passionate seducer Robert has made all the preparations perfectly to spend a fun evening with Solange, the wife of his friend Fressinet.

A decent small-town citizen named Fridolin Biedermann travels to Berlin and wants to finally experience something. And he succeeds. First he falls...

tv-movie by Wolfgang Staudte

“Ciske de Rat” belongs to the Dickensean “little man’s hard life” model and tells a deceptively simple story about a...