Movies: Klaus Piontek

  • 1995
    The Promise

    The Promise (1995)

    The Promise

    6.51995HD

    East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany. The attempt is successful, except for Konrad, who remains behind. From then on, and for the next 28 years, K...

    The Promise
  • 1979
    Hospital of the Transfiguration

    Hospital of the Transfiguration (1979)

    Hospital of the Transfiguration

    6.21979HD

    Shortly after the beginning of World War 2 a young idealist doctor is employed in a psychiatric hospital, where his notions of proper care for the patients are challenged by staff and the German occupation....

    Hospital of the Transfiguration
  • 1976
    The Sorrows of Young Werther

    The Sorrows of Young Werther (1976)

    The Sorrows of Young Werther

    5.11976HD

    The young and rebellious Werther is passionately, but hopelessly, in love with Lotte. Although he knows that she is married to somebody who can offer her a secure future, Werther tries to be near her. Lotte cannot decide between these two men. She ev...

    The Sorrows of Young Werther
  • 1965
    King Thrushbeard

    King Thrushbeard (1965)

    King Thrushbeard

    5.71965HD

    A fairy-tale about a beautiful but very haughty princess Anna who cruelly mocks each of her suitors. Finally she is forced by the king to marry a beggar. The poor life, hard work and love teach the princess a lesson and turn her into a loving and kin...

    King Thrushbeard
  • 1989
    Schulmeister Spitzbart

    Schulmeister Spitzbart (1989)

    Schulmeister Spitzbart

    01989HD

    1831. A village schoolteacher Matthias Spitzbart dreams of the ideal school and writes a textbook on the perfect educational institution. When he becomes principal of a grammar school by chance, he puts his ideas into practice. His almost missionary-...

    Schulmeister Spitzbart
  • 1972
    The Little Prince

    The Little Prince (1972)

    The Little Prince

    4.51972HD

    Adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's novella for East German television, produced in 1965/66, not shown until 1972....

    The Little Prince
  • 1980
    All My Girls

    All My Girls (1980)

    All My Girls

    81980HD

    Ralf Paeschke is a film student who has to make a documentary film about a group of women working in a lamp factory. There is brazen Susie, mischievous Kerstin, lonely Anita, single Ella, withdrawn Gertrud and the imposing forewoman. When Kerstin is ...

    All My Girls
  • 1987
    Die erste Reihe

    Die erste Reihe (1987)

    Die erste Reihe

    01987HD

    Berlin in the 1930s - Adolf Hitler comes to power, communists and social democrats are persecuted, books are burned and Jewish citizens are ostracized. The outwardly shiny façade of Berlin, the capital of the Reich, reveals nothing of the unequal str...

    Die erste Reihe
  • 1980
    Godfather Death

    Godfather Death (1980)

    Godfather Death

    41980HD

    Once upon a time, there was a poor farmer who had thirteen children. Since the farmer was so poor, there was never anything left for the youngest of the family. Therefore, the farmer chose Death as the godfather of his son, Jörg, because all people a...

    Godfather Death
  • 1965
    Lot's Wife

    Lot's Wife (1965)

    Lot's Wife

    01965HD

    The marriage of Katrin and Richard Lot has become a routine. She has a career and he, as a Marine officer, comes home only once every fourteen days. The children greet him with joy, but she greets him only with anxiety because their marriage is missi...

    Lot's Wife
  • 1983
    The Turning Point

    The Turning Point (1983)

    The Turning Point

    5.21983HD

    In the fall of 1945, nineteen year-old Mark Niebuhr, is accused of murder and is jailed as a prisoner of war in Warsaw, Poland. He maintains his claim of innocence throughout long periods of solitary confinement. When Mark is placed among a group of ...

    The Turning Point
  • 1968
    Die Toten bleiben jung

    Die Toten bleiben jung (1968)

    Die Toten bleiben jung

    01968HD

    A depiction of class conflicts in Germany between 1918 and 1945. The Spartacist Erwin is shot by officers in 1918, and his pregant working-class bride Marie begins a new relationship with social democrat Geschke. Erwin's son Hans grows up to be a com...

    Die Toten bleiben jung
  • 1973
    Erziehung vor Verdun

    Erziehung vor Verdun (1973)

    Erziehung vor Verdun

    01973HD

    The armouring soldier and writer Werner Bertin is ordered to the Western Front to France during the First World War. The use before Verdun - with all the horrors of war in the period 1916/1917 - brings a fundamental change of consciousness for the ac...

    Erziehung vor Verdun
  • 1969
    The Seventh Year

    The Seventh Year (1969)

    The Seventh Year

    01969HD

    Dr. Barbara Heim, a heart surgeon, and Gunter Heim, a well-known actor, have been married for seven years. They have a six-year-old daughter. Both partners are totally taken up by their work which is physically and mentally demanding. So there is lit...

    The Seventh Year
  • 1982
    Sabine Kleist, Aged Seven

    Sabine Kleist, Aged Seven (1982)

    Sabine Kleist, Aged Seven

    5.11982HD

    Little Sabine has spent her childhood in an orphanage after her parents died in a car accident. When one of the women in charge at the orphanage, Edith, leaves to have a baby, Sabine runs away, because Edith was the only adult there she could trust. ...

    Sabine Kleist, Aged Seven
  • 1991
    Jugend ohne Gott

    Jugend ohne Gott (1991)

    Jugend ohne Gott

    61991HD

    A teacher at a German high-school in the nineteen thirties has issues with his students who seem to be getting less human and more convinced of Nazi ideals as time goes on....

    Jugend ohne Gott
  • 1973
    Das zweite Leben des Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Platow

    Das zweite Leben des Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Platow (1973)

    Das zweite Leben des Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Platow

    5.71973HD

    Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Platow worked for the railways his entire working life. He took up service at the small station of Luege 34 years ago. Now, the line is to be electrified and Platow, who cannot cope with the new technology, has to work on a se...

    Das zweite Leben des Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Platow
  • 1966
    Irrlicht und Feuer

    Irrlicht und Feuer (1966)

    Irrlicht und Feuer

    01966HD

    Jürgen Fohrmann works as a hauer underground. In the course of the coal crisis, his mine closes - he loses the work. In this mood, his wife's prosperity thinking gets on his nerves - his marriage threatens to break. The dismissed coal buddy applys, f...

    Irrlicht und Feuer
  • 1978
    Ursula

    Ursula (1978)

    Ursula

    5.41978HD

    Switzerland 1523. The mercenary Hansli Gyr returns with his soldiers from Italy to his home in the Oberland. They have fought for the Pope and now find a religious upheaval in Switzerland....

    Ursula
  • 1977
    Die Schwestern des Lichts

    Die Schwestern des Lichts (1977)

    Die Schwestern des Lichts

    01977HD

    The nine sisters of light want to make the world a more beautiful and cheerful place and sing their song as they work. This enrages the Son of Darkness. He darkens the sun so that eternal night may reign, but the sisters want to free the sun....

    Die Schwestern des Lichts