Theodor Fontane Trailers
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Theodor Fontane was a German novelist and poet, regarded by many as the most important 19th-century German-language realist writer.
Most Popular Theodor Fontane Trailers
Total trailers found: 32
Unterm Birnbaum Trailer (1973)
16 November 1973
Abel Hradscheck, the owner of an inn in the Oderbruch country, faces financial ruin. For this state of affairs, Ursula, his wife and former actress, is by no means free of blame.
Effi Briest Trailer (2009)
09 February 2009
Following her parents' wishes, spirited seventeen-year-old Effi Briest marries Baron von Innstetten – a former admirer of her mother – who is twenty years Effi's senior.
Effi Briest Trailer (1970)
07 March 1970
In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house that she believes has a ghost.
Unterm Birnbaum Trailer (2019)
30 September 2019
After the death of their child, the Hradschek couple consoled themselves with gambling and shopping orgies.
Stine Trailer (1967)
28 June 1967
Pauline Pittelkow, a widow in her prime, lives in Berlin with her daughter Olga and her younger, still unmarried sister Stine.
Die Poggenpuhls Trailer (1984)
23 May 1984
The long-established aristocratic von Poggenpuhl family has seen better days. Towards the end of the 19th century, the major's widow and her children have long since eked out a poor existence characterized by a lack of money.
Franziska Trailer (1985)
07 April 1985
Factory wife Jenny Treibel plans to engage her youngest, softened and weak son Leopold to teacher's daughter Corinna Schmidt.
Effi Briest Trailer (1974)
20 June 1974
When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated Baltic town and a house that she fears is haunted.
Frau Jenny Treibel Trailer (1982)
14 December 1982
Jenny Bürstenbinder has climbed the social ladder by marrying Kommerzienrat Treibel. The professor's daughter Corinna Schmidt plans to do the same and woos Treibel's son Leopold with charm and wit.
Mathilde Möhring Trailer (1968)
18 February 1968
Berlin, around 1900. Art student Hugo Großmann takes his work lightly and his pleasure seriously! A friend’s warnings do no good.
Schach von Wuthenow Trailer (1977)
16 July 1977
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 officers of the elite regiment based here, such as the cavalry captain von Schach, but it also attracts the writer von Bülow and his publisher Sander.
Rosen im Herbst Trailer (1955)
28 September 1955
Prussia in the late 19th century: Eighteen-year-old Effi Briest, the daughter of a middle-class family, marries District Administrator Geert von Innstetten.
Der Schritt vom Wege Trailer (1939)
09 February 1939
Theodor Fontane's novel about a young girl who as a teenager marries a stiff bureaucrat, has a love affair out of boredom and loneliness and has to suffer the consequences years later should be well known.
Frau Jenny Treibel Trailer (1972)
01 January 1972
Set in Berlin in the eighties of the 19th century. The focus is on the upper-class family of Kommerzienrat Treibel and the family of Professor Schmidt, who live in modest circumstances.
Grete Minde Trailer (1977)
18 August 1977
Grete Minde, based on the novel by Theodor Fontane, tells the story of a girl trapped in the turbulent religious and social prejudices of 17th-century Sweden.
Corinna Schmidt Trailer (1951)
18 October 1951
Berlin in 1878: Corinna Schmidt, who was brought up in a petit-bourgeois, academic family, is romantically interested in Leopold Treibel, the son of the lordly councillor of commerce Jenny Treibel – although Corinna is also deeply in love with her cousin Marcel.
Ball at the Metropol Trailer (1937)
26 January 1937
At a ball at the Metropol, the married Margit gives a harmless kiss to a one-time friend from her childhood and cousin, Eberhard.
Mein Herz gehört Dir Trailer (1950)
09 June 1950
Adaptation of Theodor Fontane's novel Mathilde Möhring.
Melanie van der Straaten Trailer (1982)
30 April 1982
Melanie van der Straaten has the courage to separate from her wealthy, unloved husband and settle down with a new partner, defying all societal restrictions, in humble living circumstances.
