Ottokar Runze Movies

The film is based on the memoirs of Hamburg burglar Julius Adolf Petersen (1882-1933), who became famous as "Lord of Barmbeck". Petersen owed his...

Spring 1945, the "Greater German Reich" is crumbling in the face of imminent military defeat. In Brandenburg, not far from Berlin, four 15-year-old...

In this German film, inmates guilty of a prison murder are put on trial before a court consisting of other inmates. The trial is given the full...

Mrs Bartolotti doesn’t really like children. She is therefore completely taken aback when she receives a son in the post: Konrad. Konrad is...

A singer flees from Nazi Germany, travels to Paris and befriends a young writer, his lover and a professor.

Ironies abound in this extremely sad melodrama about Elif, a Turkish immigrant in Germany who has been sent to prison for murdering her abusive...

When a squatted house in Hamburg is evicted, Else, a well-known vagrant, also has to look for a new place to live. Having separated from her family...

During the final days of the First World War, Officer Menis does his duty in defending the battle flag of the defeated Austro-Hungarian empire, while...

A train with all the passengers disappears in the subway. Sometimes the sound of a passing train can be heard in the tunnels, but no one sees it. A...

The harmless Berlin taxi driver Herbert Boeckmann has a bad day: Three mysterious gentlemen put the corpse of Boris Stravinsky, a Russian economist,...

Inge works in a department store as a saleswoman in the women's fashion department. She suffers from the cramped conditions in her parents' house,...

Robert, a 13-year-old German boy, sets out to try and find his father, who's in Turkmenistan. On his arrival there he meets up with a local boy who...

A run-down former radio producer persuades two quarrelsome 1950s stars to try their comeback on nationwide television...

Modernized version of Twelfth Night set in the high living, pot smoking environment of a pop group in the seventies.

The brothers Theo and Gustav Benthin pull profits through smuggling in divided Germany: Theo in the West and Gustav in the East. The East German...