Wolfgang Staudte Movies

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

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

After the death of her husband, a woman becomes entangled in an extortion scheme

A soldier thinks about leaving the army for a woman. His friends try to stop him.

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

Wolfgang Staudte's first short film, which he produced in 1933 for Ethos-Film GmbH in Berlin. Staudte not only directed, but also wrote the script.

Movie based on the novel by Christel Broehl-Delhaes

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

Grete, the daughter of the widowed Cologne dog tax inspector Joseph Völz, once married a British occupying soldier and followed him to the...

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

Joseph Völz, a punctual, rule-bound tax officer from Cologne’s Bergisches Land, expects life to run like his orderly forms, until his...