Hans Hardt-Hardtloff Movies
- 1972

Hammer or Anvil
Hammer or Anvil71972HD
This is a political picture about the Bulgarian revolutionary Georgi Dimitrov. In 1933 during the Reichstag Fire Trial trumped-up charges of having...
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- 1972

The Zernik Murder Case
The Zernik Murder Case5.31972HD
After meeting the woman on the train Erwin Retzmann kills her in the forest.
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- 1969

Time to Live
Time to Live6.31969HD
The communist and resistance fighter Lorenz Reger, who after the war put all his efforts in the creation of a socialist German state, learns that he...
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- 1965

Tiefe Furchen
Tiefe Furchen61965HD
Germany in May 1945: the war is over, men are returning home and a new life begins in the villages. After 12 years in a concentration camp, the "Red...
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- 1964

Mir nach, Canaillen
Mir nach, Canaillen6.61964HD
A wild story set in eighteenth-century Prussia. Alexander can do everything that a real devil of a fellow must be able to do: ride, shoot, love and...
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- 1972

Despite It All!
Despite It All!7.21972HD
October 1918: Karl Liebknecht is released from prison and Berlin workers celebrate his release. Although WWI is almost over, the German Kaiserreich...
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- 1963

Julia lebt
Julia lebt81963HD
GDR border guard Gunter Rist is a young man from humble homes. During a swimming competition he meets Penny, a professor’s daughter from a good...
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- 1966

Die Mutter und das Schweigen
Die Mutter und das Schweigen71966HD
Based on a true story from 1936: Klara Baumann, a working-class woman, communist and mother, flees her German homeland for neighboring...
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- 1965

Entlassen auf Bewährung
Entlassen auf Bewährung7.81965HD
After causing a deadly hit-and-run motorcycle accident, Conny Schenk spends two years in prison, where he is able to complete a printing...
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- 1963

Ein Mann und sein Schatten
Ein Mann und sein Schatten01963HD
At a farm-equipment plant, production lags at 89 % and a new, untested combine proves a “failure” in the fields. A promising redesign...
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- 1965

The Best Years
The Best Years6.21965HD
In 1945, Ernst Machner returns home from the war in his mid-20s. Tuche would like him to weave for a living, but his comrades persuade him to become...
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- 1970

Folge einem Stern
Folge einem Stern71970HD
A working-class son who became orphaned in the war is brought up by his foster father to become an upright citizen. Now, after graduating from a...
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- 1959

Občan Brych
Občan Brych71959HD
František Brych, a principled lawyer, refuses to back the new Communist regime at his factory and grows increasingly alienated, even as his...
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- 1965

Lot's Wife
Lot's Wife101965HD
The marriage of Katrin and Richard Lot has become a routine. She has a career and he, as a Marine officer, comes home only once every fourteen days....
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- 1967

Geschichten jener Nacht
Geschichten jener Nacht6.71967HD
Four directors - four styles - four episodes, all relating the events of a single night which has entered the history books: August 12-13, 1961....
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- 1963

The Baldheaded Gang
The Baldheaded Gang6.21963HD
August 1961. The former Foreign Legionnaire, King, has collected a gang of hooligans, with whom he creates mischief in the GDR. After some careless...
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- 1963

Carbide and Sorrel
Carbide and Sorrel6.91963HD
After the second World War, Dresden has a lot of reconstructing to do. To get the cigarette factory he once worked for running again, Kalle has to...
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- 1967

Brot und Rosen
Brot und Rosen101967HD
At the VII Party Congress of the SED, a delegate tells a reporter his life story: 18-year-old returning soldier Georg Lendau ends up in a small...
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- 1973

Kronika žhavého léta
Kronika žhavého léta6.51973HD
A broadly drawn ideological epic set in the summer of 1947 in the borderlands of northern Bohemia: reactionary elements plot to undermine postwar...
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- 1963

Carl von Ossietzky
Carl von Ossietzky101963HD
The film chronicles the last ten years in the life of Nobel Peace Prize recipient Carl von Ossietzky (1889-1938).
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