Movies: Eberhard Esche
- 1966
Trace of Stones (1966)
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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...
- 1971
KLK Calling PTZ – The Red Orchestra (1971)
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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....
- 1964
Divided Heaven (1964)
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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...
- 1980
Levin's Mill (1980)
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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...
- 1973
Das zweite Leben des Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Platow (1973)
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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...
- 1975
Till Eulenspiegel (1975)
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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 ...
- 1976
Beethoven – Tage aus einem Leben (1976)
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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...
- 1978
Scharnhorst (1978)
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- 1969
The Farmer's Clever Daughter (1969)
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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...
- 1982
Exploring the Brandenburg Marche (1982)
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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...
- 1973
Ripe Cherries (1973)
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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...
- 1967
Geschichten jener Nacht (1967)
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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,...
- 1974
Der Leutnant vom Schwanenkietz (1974)
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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...
- 1970
Denn ich sah eine neue Erde (1970)
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- 1967
Die Räuber (1967)
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- 1968
Mord am Montag (1968)
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- 2002
Charlotte Link: Das Haus der Schwestern (2002)
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- 1978
Fleur Lafontaine (1978)
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- 1971
Anlauf (1971)
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- 1977
The Incorrigible Barbara (1977)
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The former athlete Barbara follows her husband to the province and attempts to masters her new life, even after her separation from him....