Alfred Maack Movies

Captain Harms still suffers from the bomb attack on his ship. He can not put up with sitting on land, but is afraid of take to the sea. Slowly he is...

Otto, a feckless Everyman, tries to adjust to the postwar travails of his defeated nation. Stymied by black-market profiteers and government...

Erna, the daughter of a Hamburg coastal skipper, loses her fiancé to the sea. In her grief, she first flees to relatives, then takes her fate...

An industrialist's wife was killed and now her lover is accused of murder.

On a barren and stormy island, fishing families eke out a meager existence on what they can catch during summer, and what washes ashore during...

The story of Johann Friedrich Böttger, an apothecary’s apprentice and alchemist’s assistant. Fleeing from the Prussian King, he goes...

The girl Marianne inherited a motorboat called “Eintracht” from her parents and struggled to get her to drive it with her uncle. There is...

A confidence trickster is released from prison and travels to a village where he blackmails and tricks women out of their savings.

Set during the rise of the Nazi regime, Elisabeth Maurer and Hans Wieland enjoy successful careers as actors in Berlin. Confident in her career,...

Having been happily married for ten years, Gerda Wagner, devoted mother and housewife, suddenly gets it into her head that she would like a career as...

The stubborn old skipper Heinrich Borchert refuses to recognize the progress of the new era. Sailing for the DSU is out of the question for him. He...

A wealthy man murders his wife, then marries a young woman who becomes suspicious of him.

During the unloading of the freighter "Florida", West German dock workers discover napalm bombs instead of the specified precision machines - and a...

Director Brakke has good reason to be happy: he has just received the news that his son, Theo, won first place in the local boat race. To be sure,...

This film is set in a medieval mill town in the Harz mountains. The greedy and brutal millman and his accomplices, the castle steward and the mayor,...