Wolfgang Staudte Movies

A man's life breaks down in pursuit of material success.

tv-movie by Wolfgang Staudte

The Thorwald family is well-off and contented when a tragedy strikes: the father is killed in an accident. Miss Thorwald takes over the raising of...

Tom Finberg and Nick Dorland, two highly competent divers working for the Caribbian Oil Company, have been the best friends in the world since the...

“Ciske de Rat” belongs to the Dickensean “little man’s hard life” model and tells a deceptively simple story about a...

The mechanic Behnke wants to join the Nazi party to secure a good living. However, after his Jewish neighbors have been taken away, he changes his...

A WWI veteran comes home and with a scientist's help opens an artificial silk factory later used for clothing. Crooked international profiteers ,a...

Film by Thiele.

A recent rediscovery, master cinematographer Schüfftan’s only film as a director is a free-spirited, fast-paced ode to being young, free,...

A player on a soccer team, where everyone matches together just perfectly, has fallen out of a championship tournament due to illness; which leads to...