Erich Ponto Movies

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...

The plot closely follows the Grimm fairy tale. Hans, a hard-working miller's apprentice, sets off on a journey to discover the big, wide world. As a...

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.

The French ballet girl Janine, a gifted tap-dancer, dreams of a musical career in Paris. But first she wants to take revenge on Count René who...

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

A group of people gathers back in the post-war ruins of a luxurious Munich hotel they inhabited at one point or another years before; each trying to...

A British attorney working on a small island wants to return home to London, but first has to solve a mysterious crime.

In this film, the wife of a renowned doctor becomes ill with multiple sclerosis. Trying to spare her beloved husband the ordeal, the woman turns to a...

By coincidence Magdalena gets hired for two jobs in the same company (one day, one night shift) and "invents" a sister to "explain" the situation to...

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...

During a performance of Calderón's "The Judge of Zalamea," a young actor encounters his famous older colleague, whose daughter committed...

In the face of two world wars, Professor Prätorius, a philanthropist and a surgeon, wants to exterminate the one danger to mankind, the microbe...

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

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.

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