Movies: Rolf Ripperger

  • 1966
    The Sons of Great Bear

    The Sons of Great Bear (1966)

    The Sons of Great Bear

    51966HD

    As American settlers encroach on the lands of the Lakota people, Tokei-ihto witnesses the murder of his father at the hands of Red Fox, who wanted information on where the tribe finds its gold. Two years later, at the height of the Great Sioux War, T...

    The Sons of Great Bear
  • 1972
    Tecumseh

    Tecumseh (1972)

    Tecumseh

    4.41972HD

    At the beginning of the 19th century, white settlers regularly make and break treaties with the Native American inhabitants to gain possession of vast hunting grounds at ludicrously low prices without any bloodshed. Harrison, Governor of Indiana, has...

    Tecumseh
  • 1971
    KLK Calling PTZ – The Red Orchestra

    KLK Calling PTZ – The Red Orchestra (1971)

    KLK Calling PTZ – The Red Orchestra

    9.51971HD

    East German film about the history of Red Orchestra, a real life German pro-Soviet spy ring created after the rise of Hitler that turned into a resistance movement led by a leftist Nazi officer, Harro Schulze-Boysen, and Arvid Harnack....

    KLK Calling PTZ – The Red Orchestra
  • 1971
    Hat Off When You Kiss

    Hat Off When You Kiss (1971)

    Hat Off When You Kiss

    01971HD

    Fred works as an engineer and a test driver at a car company. His girlfriend Petra is a car mechanic - actually an ideal combination. However, the old-fashioned Fred is less than thrilled about his girlfriend’s "male profession". In his opinion, the ...

    Hat Off When You Kiss
  • 1967
    The Banner of Kryvyi Rih

    The Banner of Kryvyi Rih (1967)

    The Banner of Kryvyi Rih

    01967HD

    In an act of friendship and solidarity between two mining towns in 1929, the locals of Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, give their flag as a gift to the locals of Bergstedt, Germany in this GDR propaganda film. This quickly takes on a symbolic meaning for the mi...

    The Banner of Kryvyi Rih
  • 1969
    White Wolves

    White Wolves (1969)

    White Wolves

    5.61969HD

    Farsighted Falcon, chief of the Lakota, seeks refuge in the Black Hills with his wife Blue Hair and two warriors, sole survivors of their tribe. When they are attacked by the outlaw Bashan, Falcon strikes out for the town of Tanglewood to take on Bas...

    White Wolves
  • 1960
    The Moorhound

    The Moorhound (1960)

    The Moorhound

    01960HD

    Two boys are helping the border guards to find a mysterious moor hound used by spies to transfer messages across the border....

    The Moorhound
  • 1956
    Mich dürstet

    Mich dürstet (1956)

    Mich dürstet

    01956HD

    Spain 1936: Despite the victory of the Popular Front, nothing has changed for the peasants; the grandees continue to oppress them. The poor peasant son Pablo fights back and encourages the others to demand their rights. The grandees flee. Students fr...

    Mich dürstet
  • 1958
    The Sailor’s Song

    The Sailor’s Song (1958)

    The Sailor’s Song

    6.51958HD

    A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of 1917, German and Russian soldiers start to solidarize with each other. By disarming the officers, machinist Henne Lonke and stoker Jens Kasten preven...

    The Sailor’s Song
  • 1959
    Simplon-Tunnel

    Simplon-Tunnel (1959)

    Simplon-Tunnel

    01959HD

    A sociohistorical drama about the construction of the Simplon-tunnel: A conflict develops when German workers want to strike and fight for better working conditions while Italian workers simply want to earn money and provide for their families....

    Simplon-Tunnel
  • 1970
    Tscheljuskin

    Tscheljuskin (1970)

    Tscheljuskin

    01970HD

    In the 1930s, the Soviet ship "Chelyuskin" embarked on an expedition to the Northern Ocean. But soon there is an accident in the ice and the team can save themselves on an ice floe. Two months, the over one hundred people have to persevere there unti...

    Tscheljuskin
  • 1957
    Lissy

    Lissy (1957)

    Lissy

    6.31957HD

    In 1930s Berlin, a woman’s life unravels as her unemployed husband succumbs to Nazi propaganda and joins the Storm Troopers, while her brother's anti-Nazi stance leads to his death, prompting her to confront her beliefs and make a risky choice....

    Lissy
  • 1967
    A Lord of Alexander Square

    A Lord of Alexander Square (1967)

    A Lord of Alexander Square

    6.51967HD

    Ewald Honig can't break his bad habit. Hardly has he crossed over into the GDR when the strapping, well-built man in his late fifties once again starts courting ladies with fraudulent intentions. His daughter Ina, burdened with the same genes, specia...

    A Lord of Alexander Square
  • 1957
    Berlin - Ecke Schönhauser...

    Berlin - Ecke Schönhauser... (1957)

    Berlin - Ecke Schönhauser...

    6.31957HD

    The corner Schönhauser Allee in East Berlin is the main meeting-point for a group of adolescents. Dieter is a construction worker who falls in love with Angela. She, in turn, spends time with the clique whenever her mother is occupied with her new lo...

    Berlin - Ecke Schönhauser...
  • 1954
    The Case of Dr Wagner

    The Case of Dr Wagner (1954)

    The Case of Dr Wagner

    01954HD

    Dr. Wagner is a scientist currently working on an experiment for the Asta plant in East Berlin. If the experiment is successful its a brilliant new invention. But Wagner is the target of sabotage, and all the decisive experiment fails. Wagner can not...

    The Case of Dr Wagner
  • 1973
    Die Hosen des Ritters von Bredow

    Die Hosen des Ritters von Bredow (1973)

    Die Hosen des Ritters von Bredow

    21973HD

    Götz von Bredow's elk-leather trousers have their own special meaning: whoever wears them cannot come to any harm. Only they must not be washed. The meticulous Mrs. Brigitte cleans them anyway - but they get lost because the squire Hans-Jürgen, who i...

    Die Hosen des Ritters von Bredow
  • 1957
    Sheriff Teddy

    Sheriff Teddy (1957)

    Sheriff Teddy

    6.31957HD

    A story about thirteen years old Kalle who is moving with the family from West Berlin to East....

    Sheriff Teddy
  • 1969
    Verdacht auf einen Toten

    Verdacht auf einen Toten (1969)

    Verdacht auf einen Toten

    01969HD

    Dr. Roth, a respected veterinarian and head of a state-owned stud farm, had accepted papers from a man for safekeeping when he was 16 years old, toward the end of the war. Years later, they are picked up. However, this act proves to be his undoing. B...

    Verdacht auf einen Toten
  • 1960
    Fahrt ins Blaue

    Fahrt ins Blaue (1960)

    Fahrt ins Blaue

    01960HD

    Günter has completed his electrical engineering degree and returns to Berlin. His old foreman and his wife welcome him and want to take a Sunday trip to Grünau, but he wants to visit a mechanical engineering exhibition that is only open that day. The...

    Fahrt ins Blaue
  • 1966
    Lebende Ware

    Lebende Ware (1966)

    Lebende Ware

    71966HD

    In 1944, SS-Obersturmbannführer Becher arrives in Budapest in order to obtain material for the Waffen-SS. At the same time, he starts to gather private property by offering an insidious choice to the corporation′s Jewish majority shareholder, Dr. Cho...

    Lebende Ware