Movies: Peter Sturm

  • 1968
    Liberation: The Fire Bulge

    Liberation: The Fire Bulge (1968)

    Liberation: The Fire Bulge

    7.41968HD

    The "Fiery Arc" tells of a grandiose battle on the Kursk Bulge in the summer of 1943. Here was the largest tank battle in the history of World War II. Along with the personal fate of the heroes, the film shows battle scenes, the activities of headqua...

    Liberation: The Fire Bulge
  • 1965
    As Long as There’s Life in Me

    As Long as There’s Life in Me (1965)

    As Long as There’s Life in Me

    101965HD

    This is part one of a two-part biopic about Karl Liebknecht. In 1914, Germany is arming itself for war. Karl Liebknecht, left-wing revolutionary Social Democrat, workers’ leader and a virulent antimilitarist, is one among 110 SPD members of Parliamen...

    As Long as There’s Life in Me
  • 1975
    Jacob the Liar

    Jacob the Liar (1975)

    Jacob the Liar

    7.11975HD

    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. In order to keep his companion in misfortune, Mischa, ...

    Jacob the Liar
  • 1969
    Liberation: The Break Through

    Liberation: The Break Through (1969)

    Liberation: The Break Through

    7.11969HD

    A grandiose military film epic, which does not know analogues in world cinema: the history of the Great Patriotic War from the Battle of the Kursk Bulge to the installation of the Banner of Victory over the Reichstag - "Liberation"....

    Liberation: The Break Through
  • 1960
    Naked Among Wolves

    Naked Among Wolves (1960)

    Naked Among Wolves

    01960HD

    1945: Buchenwald concentration camp shortly before liberation: Polish inmate Janowski rescues a small child hidden in a suitcase. A child in the world of death means hope and danger at the same time. When his fellow inmates and members of the secret ...

    Naked Among Wolves
  • 1963
    Naked Among Wolves

    Naked Among Wolves (1963)

    Naked Among Wolves

    6.41963HD

    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....

    Naked Among Wolves
  • 1965
    Karla

    Karla (1965)

    Karla

    6.51965HD

    An idealistic teacher is shocked to discover her pupils are already cynical and opportunistic. Her colleague soon grows resentful when she uses new and challenging techniques to help her students overcome obstacles....

    Karla
  • 1981
    Die Stunde der Töchter

    Die Stunde der Töchter (1981)

    Die Stunde der Töchter

    11981HD

    A life-threatening heart attack confines Richard Roth to the hospital bed. There, Richard, who is in his late fifties, asks himself what will remain of him and his life. What happened to his four daughters? Do they take after him? How have they devel...

    Die Stunde der Töchter
  • 1981
    Die Kolonie

    Die Kolonie (1981)

    Die Kolonie

    01981HD

    South America at the beginning of the 1980s. A man is on the run from a group of armed pursuers. He does not manage to escape and is shot down mercilessly. Young Maria witnesses the cruel event and asks her friend, the journalist Oswaldo, to find out...

    Die Kolonie
  • 1961
    Professor Mamlock

    Professor Mamlock (1961)

    Professor Mamlock

    7.11961HD

    A Jewish chief of surgery in 1933 Germany remains blind to the rising Nazi threat, dismissing political dissent from his son and a patient, until his family faces increasing anti-Semitic persecution....

    Professor Mamlock
  • 1962
    Auf der Sonnenseite

    Auf der Sonnenseite (1962)

    Auf der Sonnenseite

    01962HD

    The story of the steel melter Martin Hoff, whose factory delegates him to a drama school, corresponds to the real life of the actor Manfred Krug. Like his (film) hero, Krug works as a steel melter, does artwork, sings and acts, and is sent to drama s...

    Auf der Sonnenseite
  • 1959
    Ware für Katalonien

    Ware für Katalonien (1959)

    Ware für Katalonien

    51959HD

    At the end of the 1950s, the production of optics in the German Democratic Republic has reached top quality and instigates interest in the West. When national demand rises strongly and at the same time the export to South America heavily decreases, t...

    Ware für Katalonien
  • 1966
    Lebende Ware

    Lebende Ware (1966)

    Lebende Ware

    71966HD

    In 1944, SS-Obersturmbannführer Becher arrives in Budapest in order to obtain material for the Waffen-SS. At the same time, he starts to gather private property by offering an insidious choice to the corporation′s Jewish majority shareholder, Dr. Cho...

    Lebende Ware
  • 1963
    Reserved for the Death

    Reserved for the Death (1963)

    Reserved for the Death

    01963HD

    Former East German engineer Erich Becker had been lured to West Germany by promises of a high reward. Now residing in Stockholm, he is recalled to serve as a spy in the East. He is to convince Dr. Jadenburg to flee from the GDR with the help of his d...

    Reserved for the Death
  • 1959
    An Old Love

    An Old Love (1959)

    An Old Love

    01959HD

    Frieda and August Walkowiak celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary. However, the marriage has been in crisis for some time. August wants to spend his old age in peace, while Frieda has no intention of giving up her position as LPG chairman. The pro...

    An Old Love
  • 1960
    Sommerwege

    Sommerwege (1960)

    Sommerwege

    71960HD

    In the late summer of 1958, party secretary Ernst Wollni is sent from Berlin to the village of Schwarzwalde to help set up an agricultural cooperative. In the village he meets his childhood friend Fritz Grimmberger again. Their friendship is put to t...

    Sommerwege
  • 1960
    The Moorhound

    The Moorhound (1960)

    The Moorhound

    01960HD

    Two boys are helping the border guards to find a mysterious moor hound used by spies to transfer messages across the border....

    The Moorhound
  • 1981
    Chirurgus Johann Paul Schroth

    Chirurgus Johann Paul Schroth (1981)

    Chirurgus Johann Paul Schroth

    01981HD

    Johann Paul Schroth is a 20-year-old barber's apprentice who breaks out of the barber-surgeon's trade. Schroth wants to realize his dream, which is to put aside the beard knife and use the scalpel in such a way that people are healed and not tortured...

    Chirurgus Johann Paul Schroth
  • 1968
    Heroin

    Heroin (1968)

    Heroin

    5.71968HD

    This East German movie was co-produced with studios in Hungary and Yugoslavia, with many interesting location shots (border checkpoint to West Berlin, the Gellert bath in Budapest, and more). The plot is about French drug dealers, who obtain heroin s...

    Heroin
  • 1983
    The Flying Trunk

    The Flying Trunk (1983)

    The Flying Trunk

    01983HD

    A young merchant's son spends his entire fortune to be able to throw lavish parties with his cronies. All he has left in the end is an old magic suitcase that can be used to fly....

    The Flying Trunk