Erich Ponto Movies

World War I, Eastern Front. A special battery consisting of thirteen soldiers and one cannon successfully holds back the enemy. But then the position...

This is the war and everybody in Germany should beware : the enemy is listening. One family in particular had better be even more careful than the...

A wealthy man murders his wife, then marries a young woman who becomes suspicious of him.

At the end of the war a disillusioned German exile returns home only to fall into the dark world of black market goods and drug trafficking.

Professor Lorenz is nominated for the highest accolade of his profession, and he smiles about his sons' juvenile mismanagement of private funds. Then...

Berlin, the end of the 19th Century: The pretty sisters Gabriele and Ulrike Wilkens have both completed their ballet training with honors. But only...

A retired rail official and his wife Amalie purchase a disused railroad wagon to convert it into a villa in the countryside. One day, Amalie...

Germany, 1914: The bourgeois austerity of the small, northern German town in which Ulyssa lives conflicts sharply with her desire to flirt with and...

The wealthy man Tobias Knopp becomes ever more lonely and quirky over the years. He had let himself go, his girth increased significantly, and his...

Germany in the fall of 1918: Accompanied by the Archduke Karl Maria, Princess Henriette von Battenstein makes an inspection tour of hospitals. ...

Four graduates of an industrial design school team up and form a small business. The protagonist is so excited by the venture that she turns down the...

A screenwriter comes up with a story about an affair between a maid and her employer.

Directed by Harald Braun and told from the perspective of Bertha von Suttner, the first female to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, The Alfred Nobel...

During the Napoleonic occupation of the German states in 1812, a tailor by the name of Anton Wibbel is sentenced to sit in jail for insulting the...

A young man and woman meet on a bridge, both about to commit suicide by jumping into the river, and recount to each other their experiences.

A murder trial becomes a farce when a widow tries to convince the district attorney that she didn't drown her husband, with the help of an eccentric...

Bettina Sanden, a solo dancer at the opera, falls ill with polio. The chances of a cure look rather slim.