Wolfgang Zilzer Movies

Based on the real life events of the 1927 Steglitzer Schülertragödie, in which several high school students planned murder-suicides.

An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.

An exploration of the misery of youth. A student, his friends, and the girl he loves all suffer due to the harsh and unforgiving nature of the adults...

An unmarried showgirl takes a handsome companion with her on a vacation, to the distress of others.

A girl posing as a knight's male valet is vamped by his fiancée

A story about domestic life in a typical working-class environment. Life and trials and how little situations have big consequences.

When Hamburg ship's mate Klaus Brandt catches a thief one night at the port, his downfall is pre-ordained. For the thief turns out to be a young,...

Leo, a holocaust survivor who suffers from total amnesia, comes to the U.S. and works as a hotel desk clerk. One night while a comedian who owns a...

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells of the Nazis' efforts to shut down an underground resistance newspaper in occupied Belgium.

Playwright Joseph Goebbels turns Nazi propagandist and loses his girlfriend to another man.

In this realistic, unsentimental portrait of Germany’s dire economic situation, a middle-aged payroll clerk loses his job due to technological...

a movie by Heinz Paul

A film about the pupils of a posh Berlin gymnasium in their final term, and their class teacher teaching them about humanism and tolerance, a lesson...

A silent adaptation of the novel by French writer Émile Zola. Thérèse Raquin was shot in a German studio and featured Gina Manes...

Illustrates both the powerlessness of the ordinary worker as well as an intimate portrait of the joys and sorrows of a small group of people in the...