Wolfgang Staudte Movies

Drama about the shipwreck of the frigate "Méduse" off the coast of Senegal. In France, the commander responsible, Chaumarey, is finally put on...

tv-movie by Wolfgang Staudte

In 1959, in a small German village, the annual fair is set up. When a carousel is fixed firmly in the ground, a fair worker discovers a skeleton, a...

A decent small-town citizen named Fridolin Biedermann travels to Berlin and wants to finally experience something. And he succeeds. First he falls...

A Czarist refugee, separated from her husband, gets a job as a nightclub singer in Vienna and has to decide later if she wants to rejoin him.

Renate Hubricht finds her uncle, the money broker Theodor Hubricht, murdered in his villa. That very night, the banker Lorik is arrested, who was...

Joseph Völz, a punctual, rule-bound tax officer from Cologne’s Bergisches Land, expects life to run like his orderly forms, until his...

A wrecked car is found on the Reichsautobahn between Hamburg and Bremen. Inside is a murdered woman. It soon becomes clear that the woman is the...

Movie based on the novel by Christel Broehl-Delhaes

The story of the rise to power of King Frederick II (aka "Frederick the Great") of Prussia of his military campaigns to make Prussia a major power in...

Young Percy Averhoff returns to Hamburg after a five-year stay abroad and finds that his parents have already found a bride for him. The young man...

Just for fun and to prove to the daughter of the castle lord how courageous they are, three young men agree to each spend one night in the "blue...

Grete, the daughter of the widowed Cologne dog tax inspector Joseph Völz, once married a British occupying soldier and followed him to the...

Animals start to mysteriously die in a zoo in Hamburg. Is somebody poisoning the animals and with what purpose?

Wolfgang Staudte's first short film, which he produced in 1933 for Ethos-Film GmbH in Berlin. Staudte not only directed, but also wrote the script.