Erich Ponto Movies

During a performance of Calderón's "The Judge of Zalamea," a young actor encounters his famous older colleague, whose daughter committed...

Professor Lorenz is nominated for the highest accolade of his profession, and he smiles about his sons' juvenile mismanagement of private funds. Then...

Four graduates of an industrial design school team up and form a small business. The protagonist is so excited by the venture that she turns down the...

A wealthy man murders his wife, then marries a young woman who becomes suspicious of him.

Germany in the fall of 1918: Accompanied by the Archduke Karl Maria, Princess Henriette von Battenstein makes an inspection tour of hospitals. ...

Directed by Harald Braun and told from the perspective of Bertha von Suttner, the first female to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, The Alfred Nobel...

In the face of two world wars, Professor Prätorius, a philanthropist and a surgeon, wants to exterminate the one danger to mankind, the microbe...

A young man practices medicine without a licence.

The daydreaming tailor Wenzel is fired from his job, because the fancy frock he was supposed to cut for the mayor, he instead made for himself. He is...

A young man and woman meet on a bridge, both about to commit suicide by jumping into the river, and recount to each other their experiences.

Germany, 1914: The bourgeois austerity of the small, northern German town in which Ulyssa lives conflicts sharply with her desire to flirt with and...

Bettina Sanden, a solo dancer at the opera, falls ill with polio. The chances of a cure look rather slim.

Marooned on a rubber plantation in the East Indies, Leslie turns to Geoffrey for the love and diversion that she does not find with her husband.

A composer finds commercial success but has to confront difficulties in his private life.

By coincidence Magdalena gets hired for two jobs in the same company (one day, one night shift) and "invents" a sister to "explain" the situation to...

During the Biedermeier era, a young singer searches for her missing father. Remake of "Das Hofkonzert", 1936.