Otto Mellies
Birthday: 1931-01-19
Place of Birth: Stolp, Pomerania, Germany (now Slupsk, Pomorskie, Poland)
Biography: Otto Mellies was a German actor on stage, in film and television, and a voice actor. He was known for his performance of the title role of Lessing's Nathan the Wise on stage 325 times.
Movies
Entlassen auf Bewährung
After causing a deadly hit-and-run motorcycle accident, Conny Schenk spends two years in prison, whe...
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Superstau
Every year, many Germans are preparing to spend their vacations in the sunny south. And they all hav...
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Die klugen Dinge
A young couple from the present day is transported by magic to a distant fairy-tale world. There the...
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Driving School
In the GDR, purchasing a car was such a difficult process that many families applied for one years i...
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Mord am Meer
Hans Wolgast is executed with a shot in the head in the idyllic town of Husum to Mozart's Magic Flut...
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According to Plan
It's mom's birthday and her three daughters want to throw a big party. But everything turns out diff...
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Credo: Martin Luther - Wittenberg 1517
Using contemporary artistic representations in words and pictures, the documentary intends to create...
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Heimweh nach der Zukunft. Max Steenbeck erzählt
Documentary on physicist Max Steenbeck...
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Der Winter ist ein harter Mann
A young pioneer shows his little sister how to build birdhouses and feeders for the birds to make th...
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Das Staatsgeheimnis
Lars Schelling runs a sushi bar in Berlin that was financed by the mafia. They now want their money ...
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Folge einem Stern
A working-class son who became orphaned in the war is brought up by his foster father to become an u...
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Jugend ohne Gott
A teacher at a German high-school in the nineteen thirties has issues with his students who seem to ...
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Knocked Up
Kerstin is a successful department head of a tax consulting firm in Berlin. She is respected and fea...
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Back on Track
A former Olympic champion wants to compete in the Berlin Marathon one last time....
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Changing Skins
Inspired by West German terrorists, two pupils kidnap a teacher in East Germany....
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Public Enemies
Under the slogan of the arms race of the superpowers, which escalates in the Cuban Missile Crisis in...
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Stopped on Track
Frank and Simone have fulfilled a dream and live with their two children in a row house in the subur...
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Die letzte Begegnung
A German scientist drowns while on vacation in Bulgaria. The GDR state security authorities become i...
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Klassenkameraden
The criminalist Hannes Bergemann tries to blackmail the city where he spent his youth. After many ye...
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Minna von Barnhelm oder Das Soldatenglück
This film takes place during the Seven Years' War. The Prussian Major von Tellheim has become engage...
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Intrigue and Love
Ferdinand is an army major and son of President von Walter, while Luise Miller is the daughter of a ...
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Ein brauchbarer Mann
Young Uli Merkel is an engineer and inventor. He has a wife and child and is primarily interested in...
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Pension Boulanka
A murder has been committed in "Pension Boulanka", a famous guesthouse for artists and circus people...
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Hocus-Pocus Fidibus
In works like “Guide Dog Ruepel” (1962), Bärbl Bergmann was the first feature film director in the G...
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Die Gipfelstürmerin
Dr. Sonja Martin is a neurosurgeon at a large clinic in Leipzig. She loves her job. But she has bigg...
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Des Drachens grauer Atem
Professor Wilkers saw the trip to Thailand as a welcome change. But already in Bangkok, the starting...
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Verräter
Documentary on the former border patrol sergeant Klein. Klein deserted in 1961, defected to the enem...
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Berlin - Hauptstadt der DDR I
"I'm walking through my city...", sings a cheerful pop singer. She fervently praises the new metropo...
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In the Shadow of Karakorum
In 1954, a German-Austrian expedition led by Mathias Rebitsch set off for the difficult-to-access Ka...
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Natascha - Wettlauf mit dem Tod
When the seven-year-old daughter of an architect falls ill with a rare but curable form of cancer, t...
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Die Neue
Eva is a passionate teacher. After the death of her mother, she tries to find a new direction in lif...
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Trampen nach Norden
Gunnar, a bigmouth, hitchhikes from Berlin to Rostock with his brother's duffel bag. Right at the st...
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Einer muß die Leiche sein
A group of tourists from the GDR spend their holiday at the coast of Bulgaria. When making a trip to...
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Der Uranberg
1947: the Russians have uranium extracted from the newly founded SAG Wismut mine in the Ore Mountain...
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Mord in bester Familie
Wealthy sawmill owner Reinhard Lorenz has two daughters who compete for his love: The older Manuela ...
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The Girl and the Boy
Puberty drama about the first love of a 15 year old girl from Berlin....
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Sein letzter Fall
Private detective Fritsch from Munich had received a lucrative assignment: he was to obtain proof of...
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Ich, Thomas Müntzer, Sichel Gottes
1523. The Protestant theologian Thomas Müntzer is entrusted with the pastorate by the 'Allstedt Coun...
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The Faithful Robot
Single crime writer Tom Clempner receives a delivery of goods that he did not order. Out of the box ...
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The Beautiful Lurette
The beautiful and charming laundress Lurette is a well sought-after young woman in Ludwig XV’s Paris...
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Die Liebe und die Königin
In England in 1553, the marriage of Queen Mary Tudor to the Spanish crown prince Philip II is being ...
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Schulmeister Spitzbart
1831. A village schoolteacher Matthias Spitzbart dreams of the ideal school and writes a textbook on...
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Marta, Marta
East Berlin, late 1970s: Because she doesn't really have any particular career aspirations, Marta be...
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Der Kristallspiegel
In spring 1946, Warsaw historian Wojtek arrives in a Polish provincial town to study the Renaissance...
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Der Arzt von Bothenow
The son of a working-class man, Harry Brenner studied medicine at the ABF and quickly made a career ...
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Der Geisterseher
In 1787, Friedrich Schiller published his story about a prince who manipulates, seduces, and ultimat...
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Gefährliche Nähe und Du ahnst nichts
An ageing genetic scientist recognizes the curse of his own research....
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Risiko
On a West German Autobahn, Robert plummets from a bridge and is hospitalized. As he recovers, he fla...
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Simplon-Tunnel
A sociohistorical drama about the construction of the Simplon-tunnel: A conflict develops when Germa...
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Sommerliebe
Young, pretty Milli is passionate about winter sports, and of all things, she wins a vacation trip t...
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Goldene Zeiten - Feine Leute
Historical television comedy around Friedrich Alfred Krupp, whose connection to the imperial court a...
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Hiddensee - Unsere schöne Insel
A journey through a nature reserve in the GDR: the island of Hiddensee—with a special focus on the l...
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