Hilmar Thate Movies
- 1981

Angels of Iron
Angels of Iron5.81981HD
The subject of this historical drama is a splintering Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949. Played against the backdrop of social upheaval, the...
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- 1999

Paths in the Night
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Set against the backdrop of post-unification Germany, the film explores the breakdown of relations in a decaying social structure.
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- 1967

Seed Corn Should Not Be Ground – A Portrait of Käthe Kollwitz
Seed Corn Should Not Be Ground – A Portrait of Käthe Kollwitz01967HD
Tetzlaff's documentary combines historic film footage and photographs with quotes from Kollwitz's diary and images of her sculptures and graphic...
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- 1963

Ein Mann und sein Schatten
Ein Mann und sein Schatten01963HD
At a farm-equipment plant, production lags at 89 % and a new, untested combine proves a “failure” in the fields. A promising redesign...
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- 1973

Zement
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Early 1921: a man is on his way home. Gleb Chumalov, regimental commander, worker and Hero of the Order of the Red Banner, returns to his home town...
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- 2002

Operation Rubikon
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- 1961

The Gleiwitz Case
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To justify their invasion of Poland at the start of WWII, Nazi high command hatches a secret plan: six Polish men from an SS training camp are sent...
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- 1958

The Sailor's Song
The Sailor's Song6.51958HD
A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of 1917, German and Russian soldiers start to...
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- 1960

People with Wings
People with Wings51960HD
This film continues the story of radio operator Ludwig Bartuschek from “The Sailor’s Song”. Near the end of the Weimar Republic,...
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- 1958

Jahrgang 21
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At the beginning of the Second World War, Czech music student Honsik comes to Germany from Prague to join a "foreign worker company". After rescuing...
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- 1978

Fleur Lafontaine
Fleur Lafontaine01978HD
Berlin, 1948: Paralyzed and robbed of her memory, Fleur regains consciousness after a serious fall. The doctor treating her recognizes that her...
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- 1974

The Elective Affinities
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Eduard and Charlotte live an isolated and idyllic life together. But soon Eduard feels that something is missing and he invites his friend Otto to...
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- 1961

Mother Courage and Her Children
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During the Thirty Years' War, the camp-follower Anna Fierling, called "Mother Courage", travels the length and breadth of Europe with her covered...
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- 1980

Don Juan, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 78
Don Juan, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 7801980HD
In a backwater town, opera director Andrej Wischnewsky is supposed to put on a production of Mozart's "Don Giovanni".
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- 1983

Variation
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The emotional story of an adulterous relationship between a journalist and a teacher.
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- 1962

Die letzte Chance
Die letzte Chance01962HD
It is a fateful moment: during one of his concerts, Jewish pianist Klaus Seiser discovers Gestapo officer Dr. Becker in the audience. He had...
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- 1997

Berlin - Moskau
Berlin - Moskau01997HD
By coincidence, a couple who have just fallen in love are targeted by the Russian mafia, who have made a deal with a shady Berlin businessman and a...
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- 1955

Robert Mayer, der Arzt aus Heilbronn
Robert Mayer, der Arzt aus Heilbronn01955HD
Biographical movie about Julius Robert Mayer (1814-1878), a surgeon and town doctor in Heilbronn, who studied heat for many years and was the first...
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- 1992

Schön ist’s im Labyrinth – George Grosz in Amerika
Schön ist’s im Labyrinth – George Grosz in Amerika01992HD
George Grosz, born on July 26th in Berlin, vicious draftsman and painter of the face of the ruling class, enfant terrible of the 1920s, accused of...
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- 1966

Die Tage der Commune
Die Tage der Commune01966HD
Victory and demise of the first proletarian dictatorship in the history of mankind, about the struggling, bleeding workers of Paris who...
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