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Krieg im dritten Stock (1973)
Character: Polizist
One night, a letter carrier appears in the bedroom of Mr. and Mrs. Blaha, who don't know what hit them. Mr. Blaha is told to acknowledge receipt. The contents of the letter tell him to go home and await further instructions. Suddenly, the doctor appears in Blaha's apartment on the third floor, claiming that he has also been called up for an "exercise". Blaha's confusion grows. He gradually learns that his apartment is to be "conquered" by the wine merchant Müller, who thinks Blaha wants to murder him. The absurdity reaches its climax when Müller turns up heavily armed in Blaha's apartment - an attack that Blaha doesn't understand until his last breath...
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Hürdenlauf (1969)
Character: Lorenz Wehrle
Film about a working-class boy who fails at secondary school.
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Moffengriet - Liebe tut, was sie will (1990)
Character: Vater Verspohl
The Netherlands, 1940. At the age of 16, Tiny is already being asked to do all the work in the house and shop. After the Germans invaded the Netherlands, she fell in love with the German Bernd Verspohl at a dance. From then on she was called Moffengriet, the derogatory name for women in the Netherlands who got involved with German soldiers. Young happiness is overshadowed by the tragic events of the time.
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Wallenstein (1987)
Character: Bürgermeister von Eger
Wallenstein is adaptation of the drama by Friedrich Schiller. Set midway through the religious conflicts that ravaged war-torn Europe in the 17th century, the 18th-century German dramatist Friedrich Schiller wrote 3 plays that chronicle the final year and downfall of the celebrated Bohemian leader Albrecht Wallenstein, duke of Friedland (1583-1634), and explores the factors contributing to his demise.
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Der Strick um den Hals (1975)
Character: Blangin
The country estate of Count Claudieuse is located near Paris. One night in 1871, it goes up in flames. Two shots are fired, the count is critically injured, and the countess and her children escape the flames with the help of the feeble-minded Cocoleu. Cocoleu accuses Jacques von Beaucoran from the neighboring estate of being the perpetrator. Jacques protests his innocence.
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Der Banditendoktor (1957)
Character: Polizeichef
Bandits force a cotton farmer to treat a young man who has been shot. Though the farmer has only basic medical experience he saves the boy's life. The bandits declare the farmer their doctor and he even teaches them to read and write.
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Stellenweise Glatteis (1975)
Character: Fritz Kollmann
Karl Maiwald, a Dortmund auto mechanic, struggles amid neighbor disputes and family tension. Discovering his company’s clandestine bugging, he exposes management, expecting union backing. Yet the union’s hidden ownership of the firm stuns him, as he realizes the very workers leading protests are its members.
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Der schwarze Obelisk (1988)
Character: Riesenfeld
In 1923, Ludwig Bodmer, a young man returning from the war, works in the gravestone company of his comrade Georg Kroll during the period of inflation. Business is going well, but inflation robs them of their profits and people suffer under the circumstances of the time. The "lost generation" in particular, the survivors of the First World War, of which Ludwig is one, struggles to find a place in society.
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Viele kamen vorbei (1956)
Character: Herr Morath
Attempted murder told from three perspectives: that of the offender, the (prospective) victim and the investigating officer.
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