Heinz Schubert

A 7 hour examination of the Hitler phenomenon which swept pre-Nazi Germany

Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to handle his defection and asks for one of their agents, Harry Palmer, to smuggle him out of East Germany. (imdb)

When Emil travels by bus to Berlin to visit his grandmother and his cousin, his money is stolen by a crook who specializes in digging tunnels. Emil must get the money back as it is for his grandmother. While following the thief, Emil runs into Gustav, an enterprising young boy who gathers up all his friends to help Emil find the money... (imdb)

This movie chronicles the relationship between a famed yet depressive hairdresser and the suicidal plumber who becomes his "adopted" son after he rescues him from a canal. Georges is the hairdresser who gained notoriety as a hairdresser to stars such as Grace Kelly, and Ava Gardner. Gus, after being mistreated in love, decides to end it all by jumping into a canal. Georges tries to save him and the soggy twosome become bosom buddies. (Allmovie)

A well-off couple adopt a 16-year-old boy from an orphanage in West Berlin, but their attempts to help him assimilate into his new surroundings fail. The repressive tolerance of the well-educated adoptive parents is just too much for the mischievous young boy... (Mubi)

Alfred Tetzlaff is a narrow-minded, reactionary patriarch who lives with his naive wife Else, their daughter Rita and her husband Michael, who emigrated from communist East Germany.

A painter mistakenly receives Conrad, a perfect, factory-made child who arrives in a tin can and never does anything wrong. She grows to love him and now the factory wants Conrad returned. Conrad, with the help of his new friends must try to escape the clutches of the factory men.

The great Bellheim is a four-part German television film by Dieter Wedel. (imdb)