Werner Dissel Movies

This biographical film is set in 1937, with Fallada suffering the effects of living under a microscope. The film details his decline, as he is...

A drama directed by Ralph Bohn.

Everything changes for fifteen-year-old Heinz Stielke, a fanatical member of the Hitler Youth, when he learns that his father, who died as a war...

Re-enacted true story of successful assault by Nazis, posing as Poles, on a German border radio station so that Hitler could "justify" thereby his...

Albert Hauptmann is an out of work waiter in Cologne who is often confused with a former Captain of the Nazi Army. Albert uses this to his advantage...

The "Astoria", an English luxury liner, collides with a freighter shortly before the end of its voyage and threatens to sink. Captain Mitchell,...

High-school senior Peter considers the adults around him to be hypocritical, self-congratulatory, and immersed in the past. He gets suspended for...

The young orphan Helga is raised by her aunt after WW II. At the age of sixteen, she turns her back to go her own way. As a rambler, Helga wanders...

A Little Boy in the ruins of World War II and the white lie of an old man - after a story by Wolfgang Borchert.

Johann Paul Schroth is a 20-year-old barber's apprentice who breaks out of the barber-surgeon's trade. Schroth wants to realize his dream, which is...

At the end of the 1950s, the production of optics in the German Democratic Republic has reached top quality and instigates interest in the West. When...

Ella Conradi, a dedicated journalist from Germany, is in Jerusalem to report about the trial against the Nazi criminal Eichmann. Disgusted by the...

In 1955, Michael Vierkant, a Jew who had emigrated during the Nazi era, returns from abroad to the Federal Republic of Germany to obtain the...

The widowed registrar Robert Zimmermann reconciles divorcing couples and finds happiness in love once again.

Four directors - four styles - four episodes, all relating the events of a single night which has entered the history books: August 12-13, 1961....

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

The young sailor Felix Striebel goes on vacation to a village and visits the fresh grave of "Mother Magda".

Johannes Breutigam, a successful architect, is confronted with his real life on a New Year's Eve. His wife is cheating on him, his partner Losfeld...