German biographical films

2016 film directed by Oliver Stone

Amen. is a 2002 historical war drama film directed and co-written by Costa-Gavras. Based on the play The Deputy by Rolf Hochhuth, the film examines the political and diplomatic relationship between the Vatican and Nazi Germany during World War II. It stars Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Mühe, Ion Caramitru, and Marcel Iureş. It was a co-production between French, German, and Romanian studios.

2012 film by Margarethe von Trotta

1919 film by Ernst Lubitsch

1956 West German film directed by Helmut Käutner

1920 film directed by Ernst Lubitsch

1954 film by Kurt Maetzig

1941 film by Hans Steinhoff, Herbert Maisch, Karl Anton

1968 film directed by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet

1955 film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst

2017 film directed by Marc Rothemund

2000 film by Andrew Bergman

2009 film by Margarethe von Trotta

1933 film by Willi Forst

1997 film by Joseph Vilsmaier

1971 film by Konrad Wolf

1956 film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner

1923 film directed by Heinz Goldberg

1936 film by Paul Wegener

2003 film by Dominique Rivaz

1981 film by Herbert Vesely

1995 film directed by Wim Wenders

1941 film by Herbert Selpin

1936 film by Luis Trenker

1929 film by Victor Tourjansky

1933 film by Franz Wenzler

2022 film directed by Andreas Dresen

2016 film by Radu Jude

1940 film by Wolfgang Liebeneiner

1921 German silent film by Richard Oswald

1922 film by Dimitri Buchowetzki

1918 film by Rudolf Meinert

1977 film by Theodor Kotulla

1991 film by Georg Brintrup

1949 film

1999 film by Rosa von Praunheim

1957 film

1940 film by Herbert Maisch

2012 film by Detlev Buck

1922 film by Willi Wolff

1914 film by William Wauer

2003 film by Mario Andreacchio

Fridericus is a 1937 German historical film directed by Johannes Meyer and starring Otto Gebühr, Hilde Körber and Lil Dagover. It is based on the life of Frederick II of Prussia. It was part of the popular cycle of Prussian films and was shot at the Halensee Studios in Berlin and on location in Brandenburg. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Otto Erdmann and Hans Sohnle.

1940 film by Carl Froelich

1920 film by Richard Oswald

2008 film by Helma Sanders-Brahms

1970 German film directed by Peter Lilienthal

1999 film directed by Charles Matton

2011 film by Eran Riklis

1933 German biographical film directed by Ludwig Berger

1958 film by Géza von Bolváry

1923 film by Márton Garas

1925 film by Ernst Wendt

1954 film by Paul Verhoeven

1926 film by Siegfried Dessauer

1958 film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner

1949 film by Wolfgang Schleif

Yorck is a 1931 German war film directed by Gustav Ucicky and starring Werner Krauss, Grete Mosheim and Rudolf Forster. It portrays the life of the Prussian General Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg, particularly his refusal to serve in Napoleon's army during the French Invasion of Russia in 1812. It was a Prussian film, one of a cycle of films made during the era that focused on Prussian history.

1923 film by Curt Goetz

1929 film by Richard Oswald