Gerhart Hauptmann Movies

The perfect body as an object of cult worship. Based on the mass sports and body worship movement of the 1920s, the film propagates physical training...

A young domestic worker on a farm is used and abused by the men in her life.

The film tells the tragic fate of railroad guard Thiel at the end of the 19th century. Thiel, who spends his days in the dull, monotonous fulfillment...

Mother Wolffen, a washerwoman, is a woman of principle: A poor man must do what he must to get through life, only he mustn't get caught doing it. All...

An adaptation of the Gerhart Hauptmann play of the same name. A young farmer's daughter is used and abused by the men in her life.

The emaciated weavers deliver their homework to the factory owner Dreißiger and receive their wages, on which they cannot live and cannot die....

Lorenz Lubota is a city clerk with no direction in life. One day on his way to work he is run over by a woman driving a chariot and he is immediately...

Soon after World War II, a pregnant Polish refugee, Pauline, wanders Berlin looking for the boyfriend who abandoned her. She has no option but to...

Overwhelmed by personal and professional problems, biologist Friedrich von Kammacher decides to travel abroad in order to regain the joy of living....

Der Herrscher (The Sovereign) was based on Before Sunset, a play by Gerhart Hauptmann. The great Emil Jannings stars as Mathias Clausen, a self-made...

After his first wife dies, the driver of a cart marries his ambitious and shrewish maid who brings him nothing but trouble.

A young woman is abused or abandoned by the men in her life.

A staging of the play of the same name at the State Academic Maly Theater of the USSR.

Dorothea Angermann the daughter of a clergyman is accused of the murder of her husband, a brutal man that she was obliged to marry because she was...

Die Ratten was produced by actress and singer Grete Ly. Her company, Grete Ly-Film, made five films between 1919 and 1921. Die Ratten, which is based...