Ellen Plessow Movies

Explores the ethics of a Berlin street during the Weimar era and the struggle for survival in a shady environment.

Post-war Germany: Like so many other women, Gerda Krause has lost her husband during the war and has to fend for herself and her two children. She...

The story of two women, one French and the other German, who fight for a child who has been mistakenly taken by the Germans after a bomb raid.

Berlin in 1878: Corinna Schmidt, who was brought up in a petit-bourgeois, academic family, is romantically interested in Leopold Treibel, the son of...

A story about a group of children in German town of Bahrenburg who are trying to build themselves a swimming pool.

In a transport museum, the items on display begin to tell their stories. Most interesting is the history of the Pullman car. In the beginning, it...

A banker who had fallen out with his family stipulated in his will that his fortune should only pass to the person in possession of the five keys he...