Heinrich (1977)

Summary: The life and struggles of the German writer Heinrich von Kleist.

Release Date: October 14, 1977

Genre: Biography

Director: Helma Sanders-Brahms

Writers: Helma Sanders-Brahms

, Heinrich von Kleist

Runtime: 2 h 05 min

Production: Regina Ziegler Filmproduktion, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)

Country: West Germany

Language: German

The Man Between (1953)

Summary: In post-WW2 Berlin, when travel to the East was still possible, the sister of a British officer from West Berlin is abducted by Communist agents and taken into the Soviet sector where her eventual rescue is arranged by a German sm...

Release Date: November 02, 1953

Genres: Drama, Crime, Film-Noir

Director: Carol Reed

Writers: Harry Kurnitz

, Walter Ebert

, Eric Linklater

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: London Film Productions, British Lion Film Corporation

Distributor: United Artists

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Paracelsus (1943)

Summary: Paracelsus is the story of the Renaissance era Swiss physician/alchemist/astrologer Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim.

Release Date: March 12, 1943

Genres: Drama, Biography

Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Writer: Kurt Heuser

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

Production: Bavaria Film, Bavaria-Filmkunst

Distributor: Trans World Attractions

Country: Germany

Language: German

The Rothschilds (1940)

Summary: Anti-semitic Nazi propaganda "biography" of the Rothschilds, a German Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community during the Napoleonic era.

Release Date: July 17, 1940

Genres: Drama, Biography

Director: Erich Waschneck