Walter Plathe Movies

Hamburg-based photographer Kim Wenrich returns to her hometown of Nebra to give a statement to the police. Her father, Paul, is suspected of murder:...

A pair of mismatched cops stumble onto a major protection racket involving a seedy restaurant.

This elaborate two-part television film features a section from the life of communist worker leader Ernst Thälmann. It begins with the bloody...

One day, the happily married Karl Lehmann is asked by his single colleague, Mrs. Schmidt, for an unusual service: She wants a child. Lehmann is...

Even the military academy can't stop kind-hearted officer Gottfried Engelhardt from seeing the world through rose-colored glasses. Everything in the...

Fritz Schmenkel, a farm worker and soldier in the fascist Wehrmacht, deserts in Belarus in 1941. He wants to survive, makes his way to Russian...

Hella and Günter want to have a baby, but it doesn't work out. With a few beers in the crown, Günter has the idea that saves the day: why...

Willi, a dropout from Berlin, hitchhikes to the south of France with his buddy Paul Gottlieb. There he sets out to find a certain Pierre, whom he...

The young Friedrich Freiherr von Kuhlbanz died almost 300 years ago, but he is cursed beyond death. "I will not rot in my grave if I have committed...

October 1918: Karl Liebknecht is released from prison and Berlin workers celebrate his release. Although WWI is almost over, the German Kaiserreich...

Based on a novella by Bertolt Brecht.

In 1903, Jan Anskath and his half-brother Martin are living in Rajgorod at the border between Russia and Prussia – Jan on the Russian, Martin...

Ekke and Karsten are newcomers to the shipyard. Paddy claims to have heard it on Rügen radio. But the two did not fall on their heads, even if...

After his company goes bankrupt, a man goes into the forest to die.

In 1806 Berlin, the salon of the beautiful Frau von Carayon and her daughter Victoire, who is suffering from illness, is a magnet for some of the...