Edgar Bessen Movies

A drifting teen slips from petty crime into exploitation on the streets of Hamburg, courted by a self-serving journalist and a predatory pimp, before...

When Ruprecht forgets his wife Johanna at the taxi stand and shows no regrets, the well-off architect's wife tries the uprising after 30 years of...

24 hours on the border between East and West Germany. In an outlying West Berlin district, police officers chat about their personal lives, take care...

Born into a well-off family, Franz Blum had led a carefree youth until, some time after graduating from high school, he was arrested by the police....

Shortly after Michael and Inga Lehnert and their kids Tommy and Tilly move into their new home in the countryside, Michael causes an accident in...

In the hybrid form of documentary and dramatized scenes, the Barschel affair, one of the major domestic political scandals of the 1980s, is...

Nurse Hedi Zoll is overwhelmed and kidnapped in the parking lot of her clinic. After a week, she reports to the police intact, but she can't remember...

The nightclub "Zum Klabautermann" in St. Pauli is a cheerful place where people like to meet. Every evening, when the two bargemen wrap the guests in...

With his human nature and good-natured character, Police Master Johannes Wilke has everything under control. For this reason, he can afford to enjoy...

In the sailors' pub "Die Königin von Honolulu" in Hamburg's St. Pauli district in 1910, the sailors are sitting grumpily and pestering their...

A moose has been spotted on the Elbe. It has strayed into Germany from the far north. Two city boys are after the animal. One of them just wants to...

The TV documentation reconstructs the incidents between May and November 1989 from the point of view of the Politburo of the GDR (German Democratic...