Ellen Plessow Movies

Explores the ethics of a Berlin street during the Weimar era and the struggle for survival in a shady environment.

Directed by Martin Berger.

Reinhold Schünzel plays the rigid representative Traugott Bellmann, who publicly condemns the low morals of the night life. Although Belmann's...

Musical vehicle for up and coming Dolly Haas, as a would be actress with a would be composer boyfriend. She sings,at one point, that she has the walk...

Berlin 1849: The democrat Adolf Glasbrenner, known as Brennglas, publishes the political satire magazine "Phosphor" on a shoestring budget. He plans...

Post-war Germany: Like so many other women, Gerda Krause has lost her husband during the war and has to fend for herself and her two children. She...

The story of two women, one French and the other German, who fight for a child who has been mistakenly taken by the Germans after a bomb raid.

During the Thirty Years' War, Christine, an orphan, falls in love with the colonel Count Merian. In order to always be with him, she puts on men's...

The Prince of Guastalla falls in love with the young citizen Emilia Galotti, who is soon to marry Count Appiani. In order to win Emilia, the prince...

A story about a group of children in German town of Bahrenburg who are trying to build themselves a swimming pool.

Berlin in 1878: Corinna Schmidt, who was brought up in a petit-bourgeois, academic family, is romantically interested in Leopold Treibel, the son of...

While staying with her aunt at a fashionable spa, Else receives an unexpected telegram from her mother, begging her to save her father from...

When Prince Vain got his shirt fixed, he proclaims that he had slain two lizards in front of the tailor's house - "two in one strike". When the...