Movies: Joe Stöckel

The huntsman of a Bavarian monastery falls in love with a beautiful girl and convinces the provost to make his steward delay her brother's feudal due arrears....

The double standards of a social class, which pontificates with big words what is proper and improper in the world of morality, while in its heart thinks very differently and acts accordingly....

Karl Valentin and Liesl Karlstadt have actually prepared themselves for a relaxing evening at home, but then the housekeeper enters and gives them two theater tickets for a performance of "Faust". As time is of the essence, a hectic rush ensues: At d...

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A young country girl breaks up the engagement with her fiancé and moves to the city to live with her lover. The new man will give her some unpleasant surprises....

Alois Wimpflinger is the mayor of a village located in the Bavarian Alps. This grumpy but kind-hearted man is happily married to Wally and the happy father of Stefan, himself happily engaged to a charming village girl. All this sounds too idyllic to ...

Film by Reiber....

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A comedy about the rivalry between two men from rather different parts of Germany, Bavaria and Prussia, a rivalry which extends from business to a rifle range when they compete in shooting....

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Historical adventure comedy film about the beer-brewing mendicant brothers in the mid-18 Century Bavaria, who have to defend themselves against the arrogance of roaming hordes of Pandours: poorly equipped and ill-disciplined irregular troops....

Film by Seitz....

Hans, a young journeyman violin maker, meets and falls in love with Christel. But he has to go to Milan for a year. Before he leaves, the two get engaged. Christel's mother, who is against the union, intercepts Hans' letters from Italy....

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Tenor Mario Monti is searching for his wife Bianca's daughter, who is believed to be dead. Before Mario, Bianca was married to Carlo Scarpia, Mario's patron. When Carlo discovered that his wife and Mario were having an affair, he left them both and, ...

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Maria lives with her grandfather in a secluded fishing hut on Lake Constance where they barely survive on what the fishing grounds provide. The daughters from next door make things worse by scaring away the fish with their motorboat. But Hans, the so...

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