Joachim Hess Movies

In a totalitarian society of the future, in which the government controls all facets of the media, a homicide detective investigates a string of...

A German scientist murders his fiancée during World War II when he learns that she has been selling the results of his secret research to the...

1802: The adventurous life story of Hans Bückler, known as “Schinderhannes”, who fights against the French occupying forces and...

This opera revolves around the demonic collective possession suffered by the Ursuline nuns in the convent of Loudun in 1634. The story concentrates...

An industrial plant gets into difficulties. The factory owner then decides to sell the company and makes all the employees redundant. How do the...

Every year, rich people and celebrities gather for the race week in Baden-Baden - and with them the most valuable jewelry and the finest diamonds....

The Knüppels are in trouble with their underage daughter, who has discovered love too early. She has a child with Frank Dreier. But the young...

Alban Berg's disturbing opera masterfully translated into film.

In the late 1960s Rolf Liebermann, the legendary intendant of the Hamburg State Opera, had the visionary idea of presenting a number of operas in...

Murder mystery about the disappearance of a boy who has leukaemia following the murder of his mother, which he witnessed.

Director Rolf Liebermann’s 1968 filmed-for-TV production of Carl Maria von Weber’s opera, with the Hamburg State Opera performing an...

Wagner's communal drama on film.