Heinz Bennent

In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs. (imdb)

Ingmar Bergman's The Serpent's Egg follows a week in the life of Abel Rosenberg, an out-of-work American... (imdb)

A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife... (imdb)

Made during Bergman's tax-related exile in Germany, the film continues the story of Katarina and Peter EGermann... (imdb)

Katharina Blum is a young handsome German maid. She meets Ludwig, and they fall in love at once. They spend the night together... (imdb)

Michel (Yves Montand) has had to deal with the death of his wife, while Lydia (Romy Schneider) is mourning the loss of her daughter. Both Michel and Lydia are lonely, and they are attempting to start a relationship together, but neither has been able to purge themselves of their sorrows, which makes it difficult for them to live in the moment. (All Movie Guide)

The movie does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. (imdb)

The collaboration between Kluge, Schlöndorff, Aust, and Engstfeld resulted in a study of the nuclear arms race during the West German debate about accepting the deployment of U.S. Pershing missiles.

Sisters Maria and Anna live together. Maria is a most proficient executive secretary, encouraging Anna to finish her studies and start a career. Anna broods, threatens to quit university, takes pills, and keeps a diary. When Maria's relationship with Maurice, the son of her boss, starts to lead to love, Anna takes a selfish and drastic step that plummets Maria into solitude. (imdb)

based on the Franz Kafka story, this movie is about a man who one day wakes up and finds that he has turned into a giant insect

Love story spanning 60 years of the lives of Charlotte and Hugo. As a teenager before the war she is in love with him, but he marries her sister. They share some brief happy moments during the difficult post-war period, then they are separated for the longest time. They meet again as 80-year olds. (imdb)

Sébastien Grenier,a secret agent eliminates all his rivals in order to decipher who has killed some of his associates. (imdb)

The film follows a week in the lives of two journalists visiting a small Swiss village. Bernard Fontana (Mr. Volonte) is a quiet, somber, reflective television journalist, recently crippled in an accident, who is on location to do an interview with the help of his young assistant. Their subject is Prof. Henri Kremer (Heinz Bennent), an expert on world hunger, whose studies of that problem have brought him to the brink of utter despair. (movies.nytimes.com)

The aging writer Aurelio Morelli is disillusioned: although the critics like his books, they are barely read. He develops hatred on youth and their depraved morals. (imdb)

An old man describes encounters with people, his childhood memories, whims, and offers thoughts and reflections on his current situation. (imdb)

Bright little Niki is mentally and physically severely disabled after an accident. The so-far happy, well-off parents (he a neurologist, she an actress) face the challenge of their life. (Silvia Breuss)

About the Icelandic composer Jon Leifs (1899-1968) who spent much of his life in Germany before WWII. The film begins in the 1930s after he has married the daughter of an industrialist, Annie, who is also a concert pianist. This era was frustrating for Leifs because his works were seldom performed. (Ulf Kjell Gür)

In Genève, bookseller and publisher Axel Thorpe catches willful, rich 16-year old Sibylle Ashby shoplifting. She brags about her writing, so he challenges her to produce a book. She writes an erotic novel that Thorpe publishes anonymously, and it becomes a best seller. She also tries to capture the love of this 40-year old publisher. When he drops her for her older sister, should she seek revenge or recapture? In subplots, she gets along badly with her sister and her father, and she encourages her mother's affair with dad's sister. Axel has problems too besides the determined Sibylle: he must come to terms with the drowning death of his mother years ago. (imdb)

The story of a sexually enticing young dancer who rises up in society through her relationships with wealthy men, but later falls into poverty and prostitution, culminating in an encounter with Jack 'the Ripper'. (imdb)

The story of Napoleon Bonaparte's grandniece, the famous Princess Marie, her friendship and her work with Sigmund Freud. (imdb)

Arnold Samson, expert for an insurance company, is instructed by his boss to go to Spain. He must estimate the damage of a fire which has ravaged the scenery of a film during filming. Arriving on the spot, he meets a young woman at an inn, called Sarah, with whom he sympathizes. (imdb)