Erich Ponto Movies

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...

Achim and Vera are friends and live an uncomplicated and happy life .... that is, until they get into their first serious argument on how they should...

An author, a businessman, a shipowner and a publisher form a business venture, which will supposedly exploit a huge find of lobsters on the island of...

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

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...

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...

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 marriage of the celebrated operetta diva Vilma and the chamber singer Peter has come to an end. Peter, however, is intent on winning back his...

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.

During the Biedermeier era, a young singer searches for her missing father. Remake of "Das Hofkonzert", 1936.

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...

During the Seven Years' War, Prussian Major von Tellheim sacrifices his own fortune to save a Saxon estate from being plundered. After the war ends...

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

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