Erich Ponto Movies

A group of people gathers back in the post-war ruins of a luxurious Munich hotel they inhabited at one point or another years before; each trying to...

Directed by Harald Braun and told from the perspective of Bertha von Suttner, the first female to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, The Alfred Nobel...

Anna is a factory worker in East Germany, but her five-year-old son Jochen lives with his grandparents in the West. Anna wants him to live with her,...

Young Olga Ahrendt almost succeeded in attempting suicide. She had thrown herself in front of a tram out of desperation about her miserable life, a...

The marriage of the celebrated operetta diva Vilma and the chamber singer Peter has come to an end. Peter, however, is intent on winning back his...

During the Seven Years' War, Prussian Major von Tellheim sacrifices his own fortune to save a Saxon estate from being plundered. After the war ends...

In this film, the wife of a renowned doctor becomes ill with multiple sclerosis. Trying to spare her beloved husband the ordeal, the woman turns to a...

This is the war and everybody in Germany should beware : the enemy is listening. One family in particular had better be even more careful than the...

A young man and woman meet on a bridge, both about to commit suicide by jumping into the river, and recount to each other their experiences.

At the end of the war a disillusioned German exile returns home only to fall into the dark world of black market goods and drug trafficking.

Germany in the fall of 1918: Accompanied by the Archduke Karl Maria, Princess Henriette von Battenstein makes an inspection tour of hospitals. ...

Four graduates of an industrial design school team up and form a small business. The protagonist is so excited by the venture that she turns down the...

A screenwriter comes up with a story about an affair between a maid and her employer.

After her husband dies, a German woman who gave up her infant for adoption to emigrate to America returns to Germany, discovering that her child is...

By coincidence Magdalena gets hired for two jobs in the same company (one day, one night shift) and "invents" a sister to "explain" the situation to...

A murder trial becomes a farce when a widow tries to convince the district attorney that she didn't drown her husband, with the help of an eccentric...

During the Biedermeier era, a young singer searches for her missing father. Remake of "Das Hofkonzert", 1936.