Das Motorschiff Franziska gehört dem Binnenschiffer Jakob Wilde. Beide sind nicht mehr die Jüngsten, aber Tag für Tag auf dem Rhein unterwegs. Außerdem sind noch Jakobs Sohn Paul, dessen Frau Aavje und die Kinder Niko und Christa an Bord. Das garantiert immer Leben auf dem alten Kahn...

1979 West German television series

Sequel of "The Sea Wolf". The writer van Weyden, who escaped from Captain Larsen's ship, follows the trail of his enemy for years in order to take revenge. He finds him as a man who has been mentally and physically destroyed by other criminals.

1958 film directed by Wolfgang Staudte

A decent small-town citizen named Fridolin Biedermann travels to Berlin and wants to finally experience something. And he succeeds. First he falls into the hands of a couple of crooks who rip him off terribly, and - back home - the law...

Bruno Stiegler, a boxing promoter with a disreputable past, returns from America to Berlin to make some big things again with his friends. Fatally, he is always preceded by some gentlemen from better circles who are developing amazing criminal activity in their old days. They are led by Oberlandesgerichtsrat a. D. Herbert Zänker, whom it still hisses, that he could bring in his term Bruno never behind bars.

In 1959, in a small German village, the annual fair is set up. When a carousel is fixed firmly in the ground, a fair worker discovers a skeleton, a steel helmet, and a machine gun. The skeleton belongs to Robert Mertens, a plain soldier, who deserted in 1944 und flew to his home village. But when he arrived, no one wanted to help him, neither his former friends nor the minister, or even his own parents.

A group of West German men on a stag party find themselves stranded in a Montenegrin village inhabited only by vengeful women since all their men were shot during the war.

Director Wolfgang Staudte who left East Germany in 1953 to make movies in West Germany, takes a few swipes at the West German judicial system in this fairly effective courtroom drama about the murder of a four-month-old baby. Police almost immediately arrest the mother Ingrid who is the mistress of the father, a rich business VIP married to another woman. His position and wealth keep him insulated from suspicion. A hot-shot lawyer has to overcome the unaccountably biased perceptions of the police, the judge, the prosecutor and almost everyone else in the judicial system. The defence lawyer, driven to an extreme, knows he has to find the real killer or his client will be convicted.

The mechanic Behnke wants to join the Nazi party to secure a good living. However, after his Jewish neighbors have been taken away, he changes his views. from IMDB user comment: Wolfgang Staudte fervently condemned the disinterested bourgeois who is not at all committed and hesitantly validates his standpoint. Rotation shows the dangers such an unbiased civilian is to compelled to confront.The film concentrates much on the past as key events are shown in a flashback.It showed how high unemployment in Germany resulted in Hitler's rise to power.Staudte has astutely shown a distressed Germany in which young Germans were trained by Nazis and everyone was taught to obey Hitler.Behnke recalls effectively all the difficult times he had to endure.He is happy to have a kid but can hardly imagine that his own child would betray him.Behnke was yearning for a serene Germany where his family would flourish.His generosity of spirit is revealed as he accepts his son without any feeling of hatred.After the war,Behnke family witnesses a sign of reconciliation as the father pardons his guilt-ridden son.

狄德利希·赫斯林是奈泽西小城造纸厂老板的儿子。他从小欺软怕硬，害怕权势，又追求权势。他爱在老师面前打小报告，以看到别人挨批评而高兴。上了寄宿学校后，他更多的接触到女孩。当他获得他的爱情后，却拒绝与之结婚，因为她还有另外一个追求者，因为被他认为不够纯洁。他也拿到了博士学位。但不是为了就职或进行学术研究，而是为了追求金钱势力。他父亲去世后，由他接替父亲当造纸厂的老板。他见风使舵，周旋于自由党人和社会民... 《臣仆》是亨利希·曼批判现实主义文学的代表作。导演试图通过影片作一次人的本性的揭露。通过巧妙的蒙太奇和画面的叠化，对“臣仆精神”进行了无情的讽刺。当表现狄德利希·赫斯林的奴性时，利用，利用了俯视镜头，把他低三下四跪近皇帝的样子缩成蛆虫般大小。表现他以势欺人时，又利用了仰视镜头，把他放大到巨人一般，将帝国时代奴颜卑膝，可鄙而危害社会的德国小市民的典型刻画地淋漓尽致，

A young domestic worker on a farm is used and abused by the men in her life.

After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds a traumatized ex-soldier living in her apartment in bombed out Berlin. Together the two try to move past their experiences during WWII.