Movies: Mathias Wieman

This is a German version of Thornton Wilder's play, Our Town....

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A Nordic revolutionary's plans to murder the president go awry when he falls in love with the man's daughter....

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Due to an intrigue spun by his grandmother and two cousins, the engagement between the officer Hans and his fiancée Traute breaks up. His fiancée is said to have been unfaithful during his 4-week absence on official business. The fabricated rumors al...

In Vienna of 1913 a young woman coming from vaudeville theatre circles stands before the wedding with a construction draftsman; this must move to the military and sends his bride on the country, so that she cannot be enticed to the stage. However, sh...

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Baron Siebenzell employs the young forest ranger Thomas Sebald, to stop the bold poachers he's plagued with in his beautiful mountain forests. Most of the men in the village reject and ridicule Thomas because of his job. Nevertheless he falls in love...

The "call of the gods" is the religious faith that is deeply rooted among 300 million people of India, from the Himalayan mountain dwellers to the bathers of the Ganges River, and as shown in huge processions in the modern cities....

The trials and tribulations of love in a school community in the still young Federal Republic of Germany....

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In exploring sex offenses, particularly against children, this film reveals the inner workings of the Zurich police and INTERPOL as they pursue persons accused of voyeurism, rape, fetishism, sadism, and masochism. After the criminals are arrested and...

Else Riedel (Lissy Arna), locked out by her authoritarian father, seeks refuge with her boyfriend Hans. Complications threaten when Hans's roommate Max falls in love with her, but the situation is resolved: the three remain friends, and decide to for...

The farmer Christen, his wife Änneli, their sons Resli and Christeli, and their daughter Annelisi live together harmoniously on the Liebiwyl farm. The harmony is disrupted when Christen allows himself to be persuaded by the deceitful village clerk to...

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The sole thing giving hope to a German flyer downed over France in the Great War, as he longs for his return home, is the love from a young woman....

A musical film based on biographical facts about Clara Wieck's love for composer Robert Schumann (1810-1856), her marriage against her will, Schumann's triumph, and his tragic end due to mental illness. The film is beautiful and entertaining, full of...

A group of 413 women answer an ad looking for British women to sail to and marry miners in Australia. One does not survive the voyage, and conflict arises over who will have to remain unmarried....