Günter Rüger Movies

On the eve of the German Peasants' War, the family of the young Christoph falls victim to an act of revenge by the knight Scharfenstein. The peasant...

The criminalist Hannes Bergemann tries to blackmail the city where he spent his youth. After many years returning to the familiar places of his...

One day, the happily married Karl Lehmann is asked by his single colleague, Mrs. Schmidt, for an unusual service: She wants a child. Lehmann is...

For thirty years, Karl Achilles has been working at the chemical collective in Bitterfeld. But now his last day as a master at the plant has come. He...

Gottfried and Markus are friends who have done everything together so far: School, vocational training with A-levels, time in the army. Markus'...

Comedy about the "Husarenstreich", the 1757 Berlin raid during the Seven Years' War.

This comedic musical tells the story of Gabi, a young hairdresser from the Baltic coast who desperately wants to be a jockey. One day, she packs her...

Johann Hull, a man with revolutionary charisma, comes to St. Barbara one day. He encourages the starving fishermen to fight to improve their living...

A Saturday evening dance in the village pub is interrupted when the barn of local farmer Paul Gäbler catches on fire. The farmer himself is soon...

Young construction worker Ralf Reider leaves his home village Katzsprung in the Rhön mountains during the "Berlin Initiative". In the capital,...

Based on a true story from 1936: Klara Baumann, a working-class woman, communist and mother, flees her German homeland for neighboring...

While studying in Moscow, the GDR resident Christiane falls in love with Hatem, a fellow student from Syria. The two become a couple and have a child...

Götz von Bredow's elk-leather trousers have their own special meaning: whoever wears them cannot come to any harm. Only they must not be washed....

Young Lena Kehl urgently wants to speak to the Berlin star reporter Meike Marndorfer, but is then driven to her death. Meike senses a story about old...

Three people from very different walks of life meet at a large construction site. Young, unmarried, self-confident construction manager Linda...

Even the military academy can't stop kind-hearted officer Gottfried Engelhardt from seeing the world through rose-colored glasses. Everything in the...

Berlin at the end of the 1940s. Anneliese Weyher is working as a switchboard operator. She is living with her aunt after losing her parents in the...

He could have had women, he could have climbed the ladder of his accountancy career, and he could have stood on the podium next to the highest in the...