Gertrud Brendler Movies

After years of drifting around, Willi Palko arrives in the lignite mining area. He was not only looking for a new job, but also wanted to finally...

Erich Kubak is an excavator operator at the lignite plant. A technical weakness in the excavator, which repeatedly leads to production downtime, is...

The devil is bored in hell and organizes an unbearable concert that even disturbs his grandmother. She sends him to earth to fetch Gretel to relieve...

The young architect Hannelore becomes part of the all-male brigade Fröhlich whose members are supposed to build houses at the Strausberger Platz...

The devil sits grumpily in hell. His grandmother advises him to take a woman. He is reluctant at first, but suddenly decides on Gretel because she...

A tailor drives his three sons out of the house because he believes they have maliciously starved his beloved goat. The sons prove themselves abroad...

A small town in southern Germany. A party of students, mountain scenery and Asya - a wild, flighty strange girl who frightened N. N., the hero of the...

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...

Based on an authentic case from the 1920s. The head country constable Heinz Lippert arrests the Polish farm worker Jakubowski on suspicion of...

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...

Lifelong hard work for the count makes the servant Anton a cripple. Everybody calls him Crooked Anton. When, after the end of the war, the land of...

A Saxon village in 1792: While the Prussians go against France, the haymaking takes place in the village and the resolute Marthe catches her daughter...

In the mid-1950s, mayor Zwischenzahl is killed on the day of his inauguration in a West German town. The killer is Ruth Bodenheim, a Jewish woman,...

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...

The young medical student Klaus Bach has married the love of his life, Irene, and lives with her and their eternally screaming offspring in a small...

A flamboyant comedy about love, work and money—revealing that the "planned" economy produced some unconventional entrepreneurial methods.

Irene and Klaus Bach are happily married. But living closely together with Klaus' parents causes a few problems. Added to this is jealousy of his...