Movies: Eberhard Esche

  • 1966
    Trace of Stones

    Trace of Stones (1966)

    Trace of Stones

    6.31966HD

    Bad planning and shortages prevail on an East German construction site. Foreman Hannes Balla uses unconventional methods to overcome the problems. New Socialist Unity Party secretary Werner Horrath is charged with bringing the rough-and-ready builder...

    Trace of Stones
  • 1971
    KLK Calling PTZ – The Red Orchestra

    KLK Calling PTZ – The Red Orchestra (1971)

    KLK Calling PTZ – The Red Orchestra

    01971HD

    East German film about the history of Red Orchestra, a real life German pro-Soviet spy ring created after the rise of Hitler that turned into a resistance movement led by a leftist Nazi officer, Harro Schulze-Boysen, and Arvid Harnack....

    KLK Calling PTZ – The Red Orchestra
  • 1964
    Divided Heaven

    Divided Heaven (1964)

    Divided Heaven

    6.41964HD

    After a breakdown, Rita returns to her childhood village in 1961. As she recovers, she remembers the past two years: her love for the chemist Manfred, ten years her senior; how his enthusiasm about his new chemical process turned to bitter disappoint...

    Divided Heaven
  • 1980
    Levin's Mill

    Levin's Mill (1980)

    Levin's Mill

    01980HD

    In a small village in West Prussia in the 1870s, Germans, Poles, Gypsies and Jews live together as neighbors. One night Johann, a German mill-owner, secretly opens the dam gates and floods the mill of his Jewish rival Levin. After his business is rui...

    Levin's Mill
  • 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
  • 1975
    Till Eulenspiegel

    Till Eulenspiegel (1975)

    Till Eulenspiegel

    61975HD

    In medieval Germany, poor and witty Till Eulenspiegel fools and cheats citizens, churchmen, and landlords. Although in most cases he uses his wit for personal well-being, he often helps the poor and weak. Eventually, he gains an influential but also ...

    Till Eulenspiegel
  • 1976
    Beethoven – Tage aus einem Leben

    Beethoven – Tage aus einem Leben (1976)

    Beethoven – Tage aus einem Leben

    51976HD

    Vienna, 1813-1819: Beethoven (played by Donatas Banionis) is at the peak of his fame. Orchestras all over the world play his music, but he lives modestly and is dependent upon private patrons. Nagged by his patronizing brothers, spied upon by officia...

    Beethoven – Tage aus einem Leben
  • 1978
    Scharnhorst

    Scharnhorst (1978)

    Scharnhorst

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    Scharnhorst
  • 1969
    The Farmer's Clever Daughter

    The Farmer's Clever Daughter (1969)

    The Farmer's Clever Daughter

    4.51969HD

    A farmer receives land from the king and discovers a buried golden mortar. He decides to give it to the king out of gratitude, but his clever daughter warns him that the king will surely want him to bring a corresponding pestle as well. When the king...

    The Farmer's Clever Daughter
  • 1982
    Exploring the Brandenburg Marche

    Exploring the Brandenburg Marche (1982)

    Exploring the Brandenburg Marche

    01982HD

    On a forest road in the Brandenburg March, village teacher Potsch accidentally encounters the distinguished Professor Menzel, who got stuck there in his car. In the conversation that ensues, Menzel and Pötsch quickly discover that they both are great...

    Exploring the Brandenburg Marche
  • 1973
    Ripe Cherries

    Ripe Cherries (1973)

    Ripe Cherries

    01973HD

    Helmut Kamp, the construction brigade leader, a man no longer young, life immediately confronted several difficult and woeful problems. The birth of a son, the tragic death of his wife, the relationship of his daughter Ingrid with Dr. Beißert coincid...

    Ripe Cherries
  • 1967
    Geschichten jener Nacht

    Geschichten jener Nacht (1967)

    Geschichten jener Nacht

    51967HD

    Four directors - four styles - four episodes, all relating the events of a single night which has entered the history books: August 12-13, 1961. There are thousands of complex narratives connected with the frontier drawn through the middle of Berlin,...

    Geschichten jener Nacht
  • 1974
    Der Leutnant vom Schwanenkietz

    Der Leutnant vom Schwanenkietz (1974)

    Der Leutnant vom Schwanenkietz

    01974HD

    The film describes the activity of an ABV of the People's Police in its section in East Berlin. A mixture of “positive” characters from the beginning, the extensively staged “owl”, who is introduced as a criminal and over the course of time, especial...

    Der Leutnant vom Schwanenkietz
  • 1970
    Denn ich sah eine neue Erde

    Denn ich sah eine neue Erde (1970)

    Denn ich sah eine neue Erde

    01970HD

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    Denn ich sah eine neue Erde
  • 1967
    Die Räuber

    Die Räuber (1967)

    Die Räuber

    01967HD

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    Die Räuber
  • 1968
    Mord am Montag

    Mord am Montag (1968)

    Mord am Montag

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    Mord am Montag
  • 2002
    Charlotte Link: Das Haus der Schwestern

    Charlotte Link: Das Haus der Schwestern (2002)

    Charlotte Link: Das Haus der Schwestern

    1.52002HD

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    Charlotte Link: Das Haus der Schwestern
  • 1978
    Fleur Lafontaine

    Fleur Lafontaine (1978)

    Fleur Lafontaine

    01978HD

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    Fleur Lafontaine
  • 1971
    Anlauf

    Anlauf (1971)

    Anlauf

    01971HD

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    Anlauf
  • 1977
    The Incorrigible Barbara

    The Incorrigible Barbara (1977)

    The Incorrigible Barbara

    01977HD

    The former athlete Barbara follows her husband to the province and attempts to masters her new life, even after her separation from him....

    The Incorrigible Barbara