Rolf Ludwig Movies

Martin, the young protagonist of this hybrid documentary interspersed with staged scenes, is afraid of school, his father, and the future in general....

Russian soldier Grisha escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp in the spring of 1917. He is caught and is to be shot as a spy. This decision is...

Kathe Kollwitz was 47 years old, and already a well established artist in Germany and abroad when Peter, her youngest son, volunteered to join the...

Actor Ernst Stein, having abdicated from the stage in 1968 in protest of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, has long since retreated from the...

No one has any time for Moritz. And at school, things are not exactly the greatest either. Moritz runs away and moves into the inside of an...

What do grown-ups actually do at night? Little Kuno has been asking himself this question a lot lately. One day, the curious six-year-old decides to...

During construction work in a small town in Thuringia, the burial of an unidentified man in an SS uniform with gunshot wounds is discovered. Taking...

To justify their invasion of Poland at the start of WWII, Nazi high command hatches a secret plan: six Polish men from an SS training camp are sent...

Under political pressure, a West German radio station stages a radio play about a Russian invasion of West Germany. A handsome fee convinced the...

A morality tale from the time of the Saxon Kingdom. The von Siebenthal volunteer fire department has nothing to do. When their local pub is in a very...

A Saxon village in 1792: While the Prussians go against France, the haymaking takes place in the village and the resolute Marthe catches her daughter...

A conference is to be held once again to discuss the construction of a new dam, which Professor Paul Satie rejects. During a train journey, he...

A documentary and film essay about the artist scene in East Berlin during the 1950s.

The story of a Leipzig family from 1987 to the Monday demonstrations in 1989. After the death of her father, a high-ranking officer in the People's...

A humorous and satirical comedy, which places a man from the year 2222 one day in the (then) present day life in GDR, East Germany under Communist...

Three gangsters overpower a night watchman and try to break into a safe. Opening the door triggers an alarm and they flee through the window without...

It’s the spring of 1945 in a small resort town on the Baltic. Günter is 16 and firmly believes that the Germans will win the war. During...

Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well.

Film by Kurt Jung-Alsen.

Ten days in the life of socialist politician Clara Zetkin. In August 1932, she is summoned from Archangelskoje near Moskow to open the new...