Herwart Grosse Movies

In May 1945, returning soldier Michael Duda finds his hometown Weißenthal unoccupied. He meets escaped camp prisoner Arno Laube, who leads the...

Everything started with a forbidden apple. The independent and intellectual man is responsible for continuous progress. But when profit-greedy people...

A Jewish chief of surgery in 1933 Germany remains blind to the rising Nazi threat, dismissing political dissent from his son and a patient, until his...

Soldier Ignaz Wolz returns from WWI with an immeasurable hatred of capitalist war profiteers. He decides to start his own revolution, but tries to...

This film takes place during the Seven Years' War. The Prussian Major von Tellheim has become engaged to the Saxon noblewoman Minna von Barnhelm....

Portrait of Hans Globke, jurist at the ministry of interior during the Third Reich and co-author of an official commentary to the Nuremberg Laws of...

Dr. Gisa Tonius, a physicist in her thirties who has a nearly adult stepdaughter, cherishes the desire to have her own child. Suddenly, a big...

The film tells the story of the smelter brigade of a steel mill whose members are connected by a strong comradeship. Among the workers are, for...

A pianist from Poland visits a town in West Germany and starts to remember details about her life during the war.

Just as a large payroll transport operation for a major company is being carried out by several employees of London's Celtic Bank, shots suddenly...

After a long period as a prisoner of war, Joachim Ott returns home to find that his wife is now living with another man.

Comedy about the "Husarenstreich", the 1757 Berlin raid during the Seven Years' War.

The film centres around the young woman Erika, desperately seeking for love and escape from the depression of the times, drifting, and in the end...

The Federal Republic of Germany. Journalist Rohmann, seriously injured in a car accident, is dying in hospital. Before his death, he bequeaths his...

A wild story set in eighteenth-century Prussia. Alexander can do everything that a real devil of a fellow must be able to do: ride, shoot, love and...

A murder has been committed in "Pension Boulanka", a famous guesthouse for artists and circus people. Captain Bruckner is heading the investigating...

Private detective Fritsch from Munich had received a lucrative assignment: he was to obtain proof of inheritance for a Mr. Seligmann from Canada;...

1944: Geneviève and René live in occupied Paris. They love each other, and the young woman looks fearfully at René's activities...

An idealistic teacher is shocked to discover her pupils are already cynical and opportunistic. Her colleague soon grows resentful when she uses new...