Günter Kunert Movies

In August of 1914, amidst the public ecstasy surrounding the impending war, Hans Gastl, the young son of a Munich bürger, makes a decision: he...

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...

In this German drama, Brock, a railroad inspector, witnesses a robbery at a train depot. He recognizes the thief, but turning the man in would mean...

The writer Franz Schmidt reads to two editors from his new romance novel. The two criticize the lack of a problematic portrayal of the joyful life of...

The Time Machine is purchased from an antiques store by a physician from Berlin. Much of the script plays out in one room in the Berlin villa of Dr....

At the end of the 19th century, German archaeologist Professor Bohmann is searching for the remains of the legendary island Atlantis. But he is not...

What to do if you are stuck as a police officer in a boring small town, no decent crimes happen and you should actually make the big career at the...

A film about Jewish cemeteries in East Berlin, based on a screenplay by Günter Kunert, with text by Rabbi Martin Riesenburger. There are shots...

The young lady Lisa Gau probably took her own life at Seilergasse 8 in Rostock, at least that's what it looks like. Captain Schirding, who has been...

A film about the experiences of a cab driver who drives a young, heavily pregnant woman who has collapsed in a store to hospital. The encounters...

Follows the writer Günter Kunert on his return to West Berlin after his emigration from the GDR.

On an open‐air stage, a small town’s Pioneers enact King Midas’s tale: granted by Bacchus the power to turn everything he touches...

Engineer Strebel′s apprentices think of nothing else but music and dancing, although they should really concentrate on their marks....

East German documentary about the Ravensbrück concentration camp.

A man escapes and kills a guardian. Musical.

Constructed from still photos and inspired by the essay of the same name by Günter Kunert.

Günter Kunert explores the small town Bernau near Berlin and its history.