Hilmar Thate Movies

  • 1981
    Angels of Iron

    Angels of Iron

    Angels of Iron

    5.81981HD

    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...

    Angels of Iron
  • 1999
    Paths in the Night

    Paths in the Night

    Paths in the Night

    6.81999HD

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

    Paths in the Night
  • 1967
    Seed Corn Should Not Be Ground – A Portrait of Käthe Kollwitz

    Seed Corn Should Not Be Ground – A Portrait of Käthe Kollwitz

    Seed Corn Should Not Be Ground – A Portrait of Käthe Kollwitz

    01967HD

    Tetzlaff's documentary combines historic film footage and photographs with quotes from Kollwitz's diary and images of her sculptures and graphic...

    Seed Corn Should Not Be Ground – A Portrait of Käthe Kollwitz
  • 1963
    Ein Mann und sein Schatten

    Ein Mann und sein Schatten

    Ein Mann und sein Schatten

    01963HD

    At a farm-equipment plant, production lags at 89 % and a new, untested combine proves a “failure” in the fields. A promising redesign...

    Ein Mann und sein Schatten
  • 1973
    Zement

    Zement

    Zement

    01973HD

    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...

    Zement
  • 2002
    Operation Rubikon

    Operation Rubikon

    Operation Rubikon

    02002HD

    Operation Rubikon
  • 1961
    The Gleiwitz Case

    The Gleiwitz Case

    The Gleiwitz Case

    6.61961HD

    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...

    The Gleiwitz Case
  • 1958
    The Sailor's Song

    The Sailor's Song

    The Sailor's Song

    6.51958HD

    A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of 1917, German and Russian soldiers start to...

    The Sailor's Song
  • 1960
    People with Wings

    People with Wings

    People with Wings

    51960HD

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

    People with Wings
  • 1958
    Jahrgang 21

    Jahrgang 21

    Jahrgang 21

    61958HD

    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...

    Jahrgang 21
  • 1978
    Fleur Lafontaine

    Fleur Lafontaine

    Fleur Lafontaine

    01978HD

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

    Fleur Lafontaine
  • 1974
    The Elective Affinities

    The Elective Affinities

    The Elective Affinities

    21974HD

    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...

    The Elective Affinities
  • 1961
    Mother Courage and Her Children

    Mother Courage and Her Children

    Mother Courage and Her Children

    71961HD

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

    Mother Courage and Her Children
  • 1980
    Don Juan, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 78

    Don Juan, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 78

    Don Juan, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 78

    01980HD

    In a backwater town, opera director Andrej Wischnewsky is supposed to put on a production of Mozart's "Don Giovanni".

    Don Juan, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 78
  • 1983
    Variation

    Variation

    Variation

    61983HD

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

    Variation
  • 1962
    Die letzte Chance

    Die letzte Chance

    Die letzte Chance

    01962HD

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

    Die letzte Chance
  • 1997
    Berlin - Moskau

    Berlin - Moskau

    Berlin - Moskau

    01997HD

    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...

    Berlin - Moskau
  • 1955
    Robert Mayer, der Arzt aus Heilbronn

    Robert Mayer, der Arzt aus Heilbronn

    Robert Mayer, der Arzt aus Heilbronn

    01955HD

    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...

    Robert Mayer, der Arzt aus Heilbronn
  • 1992
    Schön ist’s im Labyrinth – George Grosz in Amerika

    Schön ist’s im Labyrinth – George Grosz in Amerika

    Schön ist’s im Labyrinth – George Grosz in Amerika

    01992HD

    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...

    Schön ist’s im Labyrinth – George Grosz in Amerika
  • 1966
    Die Tage der Commune

    Die Tage der Commune

    Die Tage der Commune

    01966HD

    Victory and demise of the first proletarian dictatorship in the history of mankind, about the struggling, bleeding workers of Paris who...

    Die Tage der Commune