Walter Sedlmayr

Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night...

Corinna witnesses how three guys chase and shoot a man in front of her lonesome house. As only witness, they force her to come with them and care for...

In a small town a bag with delicate letters disappears. Many of the residents are worried about their written messages. A clever sculptor uses the...

The forester Auer is found killed on a Sunday in the forest, and the police begins a feverish search for the culprit. Only pastor Gruber already...

At the behest of his father, the young Karl Valentin is to complete a carpentry apprenticeship. When the father gets into a financial mess by a...

Therese Hübner, owner of the “Linde”, is desperately trying to protect her long-established business from being taken over by the...

A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in front of a large screen on which coastal scenery...

Second part of two of the saga of the troubled Buddenbrook family and their business in 19th century Germany.

After the death of the owner of the house Lina Braake is living in, the house is accrued to the bank. During the complete refurbishment of the...

Hans is a street fruit peddler and born-loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After...

The rich and jung American Susanne falls in love with the Student Hans-Joachim. Set in the romantic Heidelberg.

Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket. The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to...

Berta, a naive young maid, searches for love when the army engineers come to town to build a bridge.

Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel's...

The nine-year-old orphan Therese has recently moved in with a family of gardeners. She continues to take loving care of her former foster mother,...

Theodor Hierneis oder Wie man ehem. Hofkoch wird consists of a monologue performed by Walter Sedlmayr, who plays Theodor Hierneis, the chef at the...

The story of the Trotta family during the rise and fall of the Austrian-Hungary empire. Based upon the novel by Joseph Roth.

Dorothea Angermann the daughter of a clergyman is accused of the murder of her husband, a brutal man that she was obliged to marry because she was...

Inspired by the real life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from Bavaria, in the late XIX Century. Mathias stole...

Baal explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.

Espionage thriller about a married couple caught in the middle of dueling spy organisations.

Erotic entanglements among farmers, citizens and local politicians in a Bavarian village at the turn of the century.

Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. While he wants to...

This grim German psychological drama unveils the process by which an innocent man can be so damaged by interactions with the criminal justice system...

Munich in the summer of 1899. In his insatiable greed for money, influence and enjoyment of life, the Marquis von Keith defies any moral law. Two...

A divorced woman in her thirties fights a losing battle in Munich to attain belated self-fulfillment. The die is cast in a briskly impersonal society...

An anxious teacher (played, as is the lead role in all his films, by the director) sits in a beer garden on the hill of the Andechs monastery. While...