Martin Benrath Movies

A German Platoon is explored through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After half of their number is wiped out and they're placed...

Schtonk! is a farce of the actual events of 1983, when Germany's Stern magazine published, with great fanfare, 60 volumes of the alleged diaries of...

A German living in India during World War II is blackmailed by the English to impersonate an SS officer on board a cargo ship leaving Japan for...

During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of Germany's Nazi government....

Made during Bergman's tax-related exile in Germany, the film continues the story of Katarina and Peter Egermann, the feuding, childless, professional...

In the late 1970s the German secret service fights against RAF terrorism and searches for constitutional enemies in the public service. Teacher...

A naive girl's love for Switzerland is put to the test in this satiric comedy. Irina is a woman from Russia who all her life has always been...

In this war drama, three Nazi survivors are rescued after their battleship sank. Initially they are given heroes' accolades for their courage, but...

A black comedy about the dream of freedom and the difficulty of obtaining this: While Molly (Eva Mattes), Elisabeth (Katja Flint) and Maria (Ornella...

Germany in the Thirties. A movie teller realizes that his profession is not longer needed. Silent movies are not produced any longer. Telling stories...

Follows two wealthy families in Germany during the first half of the 20th century. One of them is German, the other one Jewish.