Maria Besendahl Movies

For some time now, the residents of the placid little village of Sonnenthal talk only about one topic: Football! The ambitious mayor wants to promote...

Lifelong hard work for the count makes the servant Anton a cripple. Everybody calls him Crooked Anton. When, after the end of the war, the land of...

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...

Film by Helmut Schneider.

A young married couple - both of them actors - work in the divided city of Berlin. Agnes, the young woman, is on location in East Berlin, and Jochen,...

The little island of Laenneken is a place where time seems to stands still. Traditional customs and age-old power relations are still in place and...

Several children find out what's the matter with a wreck offshore, which puts them into jeopardy.

A story about a group of children in German town of Bahrenburg who are trying to build themselves a swimming pool.

Drama about an impoverished family, a widowed mother and her two sons, trying to get by.

Leading chemist Hans Schramm is betrothed to Hanna, but falls in love with her younger sister Franka. The two attempt to repress their feelings, but...

17-year-old Traudel flees the orphanage she has to live in, in order to venture to Berlin.

The story of a resistance fighter in the Nazi era: Communist Hans Löning was arrested in 1933, imprisoned in a concentration camp and tortured....

Claudia is a self-confident girl who spends time in a Young Pioneer camp and wants to prove that she can keep up with the boys in a scouting wide...

This is the directorial debut of Artur Pohl and tells the story of war refugees as they try to settle in a small town in Germany.

Dr. Gerd Thiessen, an experienced veterinarian, takes up a new job at a publicly owned manor. His research colleagues are less than thrilled about...