Klaus Piontek Movies

In the spring of 1969, a young man from a small town arrives at the partner company in Berlin, where he falls in love with red-haired Rita. A love...

East German stop-motion animation version of the famous fairy tale, notable for its Beast appearing as an elephant.

A master thief returns home. There he is threatened with the gallows if he fails to solve the tasks set by the count. So he has to steal the count's...

The nine sisters of light want to make the world a more beautiful and cheerful place and sing their song as they work. This enrages the Son of...

Adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's novella for East German television, produced in 1965/66, not shown until 1972.

In the fall of 1945, nineteen year-old Mark Niebuhr, is accused of murder and is jailed as a prisoner of war in Warsaw, Poland. He maintains his...

A tale about the evil queen who gets swapped with a simple and nice woman.

Düse, a clever tinkerer, has built himself a toy rocket. Due to the clumsiness of his friend Moppel, an uncontrolled launch is triggered and the...

Riding outside, the princess and the court juggler Honorio discover a fire in the marketplace. Honorio kills a tiger that has escaped from the...

Dr. Barbara Heim, a heart surgeon, and Gunter Heim, a well-known actor, have been married for seven years. They have a six-year-old daughter. Both...

A small town in West Germany. Material for an exhibition with documents from the Nazi era was stolen from Herbert Geerts, only the negatives of the...

The leader of a group of young technicians tells us the story of the "Proxima Centauri Company", which may one day become reality. Four researchers...

In 1972 the funeral service is held for the deceased tycoon Friedrich Flick. It marks the beginning of the dismantling of a legend.