Movies: Wolfgang Wahl

First part of two of the saga of the troubled Buddenbrook family and their business in mid 19th century Germany....

Scotland Yard investigates a series of murders where the victims have died by snake venom poisoning....

A TV special about the christmas celebrations of the most popular TV characters in the ZDF at that time....

Life in the barracks, drill, harassment, and private Asch′s pranks are the ingredients of Hans Hellmut Kirst′s successful novel "08/15" (the number of an Army regulation). Shortly before the outbreak of World War II: Private Asch and gunner Vierbein ...

Murder mystery about the disappearance of a boy who has leukaemia following the murder of his mother, which he witnessed....

Four young German naval cadets begin their military service in 1940; only one of them will survive....

Werner von Basil, a Austrian intellectual, was captured by the Nazis in 1938. They want to break him to confess smuggling. Without any mental sustenance, the only thing left to keep his mind busy is an old tactics book for chess....

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April 1945. Because he stole two bars of chocolate, the soldier Rudi is sentenced to death by the court-martial judge Dr. Schramm. Rudi manages to escape from the firing squad at the last minute, and since the end of the war has been making a meager ...

Based on a book by Vicki Baum, all of the action takes place in one day in a luxury hotel in Berlin. Grusinkaya is a ballerina staying at the hotel, other guests include Baron von Gaigern a sophisticated thief, Otto Klingelein a dying man, Preysing a...

The von Trapp family are struggling to survive in America, where their performances of European church music are not popular with the audiences. Only when they start performing more upbeat Austrian folk songs and even some American numbers do they be...

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