Frank-Otto Schenk Movies

Paul and Paula have had bad experiences with love: Paul is financially well off but has lost all affection for his wife, and Paula leads a...

This elaborate two-part television film shows a period in the life of the communist labor leader Ernst Thälmann. It begins with the bloody riots...

Eight-year-old Matthias dreams that he will someday become a pilot and his divorced parents will get back together. He waits yearningly for his ninth...

The communist and resistance fighter Lorenz Reger, who after the war put all his efforts in the creation of a socialist German state, learns that he...

May of 1945. Soviet soldiers conducting an operation to rescue the children in a small town in the territory of Germany.

A child abduction story ordered by a non-custodial uncle with the background of the East/West-German separation.

Every year in the spring the pupils of the 8th grade in the GDR receive the 'Jugendweihe' and are admitted to the circle of adults. This year, Tim is...

August 24, 1937: a day in the life of expressionist sculptor and author Ernst Barlach (Fred Düren). Barlach lives in the small town of...

The film describes the activity of an ABV of the People's Police in its section in East Berlin. A mixture of “positive” characters from...

This film musical is a romantic comedy of mistaken identities set at the 10th World Festival in Berlin. Alexej from Moscow meets and is attracted to...