Günther Ballier Movies

Before he became cult director Douglas Sirk, Detlef Sierck cut his teeth on such lavish European star vehicles as Das Hofkonzert (The Court Concert)....

Young Beatrice has trained as a dancer against her father's wishes. At the circus, she meets the famous tamer Ruda and falls in love with him. But...

Azerbaijan, 1919. The British hope to secure control of the vast oil fields around Baku by launching a series of terrorist attacks on them. Hans...

A struggling composer gets one of his pieces into a film program and his wife captures the lead part in the production as well.

Railway employee Fritz Marr is not regarded well by his superiors. It is the year 1920, and trains regularly pass the railway hub of Erfurt to the...

The film tells the love story of two young couples. According to their social ranks, construction worker Edy is dating employee Siegi, while medical...

Post-war Germany: Like so many other women, Gerda Krause has lost her husband during the war and has to fend for herself and her two children. She...

An interfering mother plans husbands for her three daughters as they come of marriageable age. However she pays no attention to her daughters own...

Sabine Heitmann, the young boss for the shipping company Heitmann, has become friends with Michael, the First Officer and Helmsman of the ship, the...

A horse trader from Berlin, once a farmer in Southwest Africa, manages to drive his children out of the house and anger his wife. After serious...

A son learns his father has been tricked by two schemers into investing in a fake boxing training camp.

A retired rail official and his wife Amalie purchase a disused railroad wagon to convert it into a villa in the countryside. One day, Amalie...

France at the time of the Restoration. The young country gentleman Rastignac comes to Paris to study. He takes up residence in a poor boarding house,...

Zlarin is a small fishing village on the Dalmatian coast. Every inhabitant has to work hard, as the once-high coral prices have plummeted. Vukovich,...

The important German wood sculptor Tilman Riemenschneider (born around 1460) is considered to be artistically and socially established. He was a...

Barbara's family is poor and she needs to come up with a way to pay the gas bill. At her job in a cinema she listens to the conversation of a...

Despite the way her businessman husband treats her like a slave, a woman abandons a brief flirtation with a young Austrian aristocrat, to show the...

In spring 1957 Budapest, former lovers Sándor and Mónika reunite after 16 years at a street‐corner café. Their...

A Prussian commander disobeys orders and goes to find a British envoy who can negotiate a pact with Austria to help fight off Napoleon in 1806.

Winemaker Peter Vierkottel and his son Bartel love to talk about their wines, which Anna, Peter's wife, doesn't get off on, because she controls the...