Friedrich Gnaß Movies

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...

A sympathetic bandit chief supports the cause of freedom in Naples against the Bourbon King Ferdinand.

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

13-year old Thomas Berndorf, the son of the rich business man Alexander Berndorf, becomes friends with Hannes Wille, whose father works as foreman....

A nightclub waiter and a manicurist share the same room, she sleeps there by night and he by day. They've never meet , but they can't stand each...

Illustrates both the powerlessness of the ordinary worker as well as an intimate portrait of the joys and sorrows of a small group of people in the...

The demonic Rasputin is poisoned but survives to continue seducing in evil ways, in this historical thriller.

East German propaganda film about an American army base trying to take away land from a West German village.

A moving saga focusing on the women in a family that spans three generations and almost 70 years of German history, from the Wilhelmine period...

A musician seeks a peaceful vacation in a Vogtland village but is soon overwhelmed by requests for a symphonic composition and a pop song for a local...

A story about a family after the Second World War. The petty bourgeois cashier Karl Weber of Berlin observes from a distance how his son Ernst...

A sordid tale of poverty and greed set within a quayside milieu of crime and prostitution, the narrative centres on the quest for a sparkling pearl...