Ottokar Runze Movies

When a squatted house in Hamburg is evicted, Else, a well-known vagrant, also has to look for a new place to live. Having separated from her family...

Inge works in a department store as a saleswoman in the women's fashion department. She suffers from the cramped conditions in her parents' house,...

In this German film, inmates guilty of a prison murder are put on trial before a court consisting of other inmates. The trial is given the full...

During the final days of the First World War, Officer Menis does his duty in defending the battle flag of the defeated Austro-Hungarian empire, while...

Stefanie is flirting with an architect from Rio who could be her dad.

Ironies abound in this extremely sad melodrama about Elif, a Turkish immigrant in Germany who has been sent to prison for murdering her abusive...

The harmless Berlin taxi driver Herbert Boeckmann has a bad day: Three mysterious gentlemen put the corpse of Boris Stravinsky, a Russian economist,...

Documentary short by Ottokar Runze.

A run-down former radio producer persuades two quarrelsome 1950s stars to try their comeback on nationwide television...

A confident and attractive woman takes on the challenge of her life. Energetic and resourceful, she ensures that her bankrupt husband is freed from...

The film is based on the memoirs of Hamburg burglar Julius Adolf Petersen (1882-1933), who became famous as "Lord of Barmbeck". Petersen owed his...

Modernized version of Twelfth Night set in the high living, pot smoking environment of a pop group in the seventies.

A train with all the passengers disappears in the subway. Sometimes the sound of a passing train can be heard in the tunnels, but no one sees it. A...

In the Danish port city of Belgesund, the caretaker of a private high school has fallen victim to murder. Detective Thomsen takes on the case and...

Spring 1945, the "Greater German Reich" is crumbling in the face of imminent military defeat. In Brandenburg, not far from Berlin, four 15-year-old...

Robert, a 13-year-old German boy, sets out to try and find his father, who's in Turkmenistan. On his arrival there he meets up with a local boy who...