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Erwin Geschonneck (December 27, 1906 – March 12, 2008) was a German actor. His biggest success occurred in the German Democratic Republic, where he was considered one of the most famous actors of the time.
Total trailers found: 62
27 May 1979
Normal everyday life in an apartment building on Plantagenstraße in East Berlin is disrupted when a truck pulls up with the new tenants' furniture.
02 September 1965
Germany in May 1945: the war is over, men are returning home and a new life begins in the villages. After 12 years in a concentration camp, the "Red Shoemaker" also returns to his home village.
24 December 1981
Eight-year-old Christian lives with his grandparents after the death of his mother. When his grandmother falls ill, grandfather Meschka wants to take the boy to live with his aunt at the Baltic Sea.
27 November 1959
Two young building workers are more interested in girls than their work; complications ensue at home.
26 March 1972
A socialist story of "atoms for peace" and compulsory labor in an East German uranium mine under Soviet control.
13 March 1953
The film "Die Unbesiegbaren" covers an episode in German history, in which the Bismarck government tried to mitigate the rise of the social-democrat movement.
17 January 1964
Two doctors, a German and a Czech brain surgeon, meet in a Berlin hospital, unaware of how fatefully they are linked by events from a dark past.
11 September 1958
Bornholm island in 1880, where quarry worker Johan Jönsson lives a miserable life with his wife and children.
16 January 1975
The thirty year old bee is a daredevil, everything seems to work for him. But suddenly a tragic event tears him out of his carelessness.
24 August 1960
This film continues the story of radio operator Ludwig Bartuschek from “The Sailor’s Song”. Near the end of the Weimar Republic, Bartuschek (Erwin Geschonneck) is working as a mechanic in the Sperber airplane plant.
13 November 1980
In a small village in West Prussia in the 1870s, Germans, Poles, Gypsies and Jews live together as neighbors.
11 May 1951
Hamburg, Germany 1934: An executioner is needed. Teetjen makes the biggest mistake of his life. Because his butcher shop is facing bankruptcy, he agrees to execute a group of political prisoners for the Nazis.
10 April 1963
Based on a true story of inmates at KZ Buchenwald that risked their lives to hide a small Jewish boy shortly before the liberation of the camp.
21 October 1949
Mother Wolffen, a washerwoman, is a woman of principle: A poor man must do what he must to get through life, only he mustn't get caught doing it.
03 November 1960
It is the year 1936 and the Spanish Civil War is raging. When the German commander of an international brigade is badly wounded he gives his five comrades a message which he divides up and secretes into in five cartridges.
15 May 1952
On the Faroe Islands, people eke out a meagre existence by catching birds. Merchant Brause pays them little and does a good business.
08 July 1977
Tambari - it's a name of an old boat which children of a small village on a Baltic sea shore got from an old fisherman Luden.
22 December 1974
A Jewish ghetto in the east of Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making slow by steady progress towards central Europe.
07 November 1956
In the 16th century, as Flanders is invaded by the Spanish, Till the Mischievous uses stratagems to enter the service of Ferdinand Alvare de Toledo, Duke of Alba, and from there organize resistance against the invaders.
07 December 1956
Albert Hauptmann is an out of work waiter in Cologne who is often confused with a former Captain of the Nazi Army.
25 November 1949
A young man and woman meet on a bridge, both about to commit suicide by jumping into the river, and recount to each other their experiences.
09 February 1957
Lifelong hard work for the count makes the servant Anton a cripple. Everybody calls him Crooked Anton.
11 February 1949
Set in German-occupied France in 1944 where a female resistance operative and a German army officer fall in love.
23 July 1948
The fate of a pianist who returns from the Second World War with a wound to his right hand.
27 December 1963
After the second World War, Dresden has a lot of reconstructing to do. To get the cigarette factory he once worked for running again, Kalle has to travel to Wittenberg - the only place where carbide can be found.
22 January 1987
Grandpa Lörke is preparing for a contemplative, quiet Christmas Eve. But nothing comes of it, because his daughter Anne informs him that his 17-year-old granddaughter has disappeared.
26 August 1954
Two boys from West Berlin, Klaus and Max, live in poverty. They dream of a career in boxing and save every penny in order to buy boxing gloves for training.
14 May 1932
Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines describing steadily-rising unemployment figures.
28 September 1975
Who hasn't dreamed the sweet dream of the land of milk and honey, where roast pigeons fly into your mouth? But even the fairy tale makes it clear that such effortless indulgence is unhealthy because it makes you unproductive and unfit for life.
11 December 1979
A retired head cashier, lonely after the death of his wife, lives in the hope of being able to move in with his son and his family after the latter builds a house.
24 October 1985
Survivors of the concentration camp Dachau are recounting their limited cultural activities they had access to due to smuggling.
08 December 1950
Lavish adaptation of Wilhelm Hauff′s fairy tale: Young charburner Peter Munk dreams of joining the upper class.
23 December 1978
Six years old Dirk wants to be a train driver, just like his grandfather. He is seriously impressed with all of the exciting rides through the desert and the mountains, of which the old man told.
20 September 1988
Pensioner Erich Zarling loves two things: his daughter Ulrike and his dog sports club, of which he is chairman.
01 August 1974
A funny adventures of a two young boys who are trying to rebuild the ship called "Emma" for their friend - the old captain.
19 September 1978
A flamboyant comedy about love, work and money—revealing that the "planned" economy produced some unconventional entrepreneurial methods.
09 April 1982
Benno (Torsten Rennert), a bright boy from Berlin, is not really a problem case, although his parents have enough trouble with him.
12 September 1982
1982: East German actor Erwin Gregorek travels to Hamburg to shoot screen tests for a film about the sinking of the ocean-liner Cap Arcona in 1945 - a catastrophe he himself survived as a concentration camp prisoner.
13 May 1976
Europe in 1793. For years, England and France have been at war with each other. Now, France sends three men to the British colony of Jamaica to organize a slave revolt.
19 July 1979
A senior professor is kidnapped in the park by residents of a veterans home. Once there, he is asked to invent a "rejuvenating machine" to restore their youth.
03 March 1967
Ewald Honig can't break his bad habit. Hardly has he crossed over into the GDR when the strapping, well-built man in his late fifties once again starts courting ladies with fraudulent intentions.
21 January 1977
The late summer of 1918. Paul, Willi and Heinrich from an age-old German town are good friends, although there is a great deal that divides them.
30 June 1966
Berlin in the 1960s. Olaf and Horst are two young metalworkers, who provoke their older colleagues with critiques of the antiquated equipment and lack of materials.
14 February 1985
In the village of Medela, the village elder Fritz Schmal is buried with great sympathy. Beforehand, Till goes with his father to his property to check on the stork on its new nest.
20 November 1975
For thirty years, Karl Achilles has been working at the chemical collective in Bitterfeld. But now his last day as a master at the plant has come.
12 May 1967
Two narrators read the letters of unknown people and tell about the fate of individuals, their work, love and life.
12 October 1962
It was supposed to be a cozy Christmas evening with the family. Labor Director Walter Lörke was particularly looking forward to it.
13 June 1947
A car tells its story and the story of its seven owners during the years of the Third Reich.
19 July 1958
The land in poor Hassan's Central Asian homeland is stony and lacks water. Every day, he gazes longingly at the well in the garden of the rich merchant Machmud, which is full to the brim.
02 July 1959
Kurt, an apprentice in a fish combine, is an ambitious loner. He wants to show what a good sailor he is at a regatta, but fails because of his recklessness and the storm.
30 October 1979
In 1960, farmer Walter Wagemühl learns from the West that his life is coming to an end. In order to pass the farm into loyal hands, he sends his adopted daughter Catharina to the East to marry his prudent nephew Ewald.
25 April 1996
On May 3, 1945, with Hitler already dead and Hamburg and Berlin having surrendered, the Royal Air Force launched its last major air raid.
26 October 1967
In an act of friendship and solidarity between two mining towns in 1929, the locals of Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, give their flag as a gift to the locals of Bergstedt, Germany in this GDR propaganda film.
13 December 1970
Little Matti and his friends are restoring the old abandoned fire truck .
02 May 1975
A detailed reconstruction of the censorship case against the landmark Weimar-era communist film, Kuhle Wampe, or Who Owns the World? (1932).
19 September 1979
Prague 1913: The family of newspaper publisher Alexander Reither, traditionally reunited for a New Year's dinner, moves along convoluted and secretive paths in everyday life.
