Ottokar Runze Movies

At night, a violent confrontation between a pimp and a Greek guest worker takes place on Hamburg's Reeperbahn, resulting in the latter's death. In...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

Documentary brings the time of the Holocaust to life and provides insight into the mind of the organizer of this crime: Adolf Eichmann. The...

A singer flees from Nazi Germany, travels to Paris and befriends a young writer, his lover and a professor.

The Hanseatic City of Hamburg is documented without narration.

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...

Documentary short by Ottokar Runze.

By coincidence, a couple who have just fallen in love are targeted by the Russian mafia, who have made a deal with a shady Berlin businessman and a...

The brothers Theo and Gustav Benthin pull profits through smuggling in divided Germany: Theo in the West and Gustav in the East. The East German...

Mrs Bartolotti doesn’t really like children. She is therefore completely taken aback when she receives a son in the post: Konrad. Konrad is...

Three children and their Grandpa are on a kayak-outdoor trip in the middle of nowhere, when their Grandpa suffers a heart attack in the wilderness -...