Maria Besendahl Movies

On August 13th, 1961 - the night that the Berlin Wall goes up - three people must make a decision that will change their lives forever.

A brave prince must seek the fabled singing, ringing tree in order to win the heart of a beautiful princess.

A young soldier discovers three chests of copper, silver and gold and an old tinder-box in the hollow of an old oak tree. He is now rich. But he squan...

Film by Jindrich Polák.

On a barren and stormy island, fishing families eke out a meager existence on what they can catch during summer, and what washes ashore during winter....

Several children find out what's the matter with a wreck offshore, which puts them into jeopardy.

Drama about an impoverished family, a widowed mother and her two sons, trying to get by.

A young married couple - both of them actors - work in the divided city of Berlin. Agnes, the young woman, is on location in East Berlin, and Jochen,...

Leading chemist Hans Schramm is betrothed to Hanna, but falls in love with her younger sister Franka. The two attempt to repress their feelings, but e...

Schorsch and Franz are two rascals who are full of mischief and constantly tease both their teachers and their fellow pupils. Vera, the new classmate,...

The story of a resistance fighter in the Nazi era: Communist Hans Löning was arrested in 1933, imprisoned in a concentration camp and tortured. The Ge...

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 ac...

17-year-old Traudel flees the orphanage she has to live in, in order to venture to Berlin.

The little island of Laenneken is a place where time seems to stands still. Traditional customs and age-old power relations are still in place and are...

The Rabbit Is Me was made in 1965 to encourage discussion of the democratization of East German society. In it, a young student has an affair with a j...

A story about a group of children in German town of Bahrenburg who are trying to build themselves a swimming pool.