List of German films of the 1970s
This is a list of the most notable films produced in Cinema of Germany in the 1970s.
For an alphabetical list of articles on West German films see Category:West German films. For East German films made during the decade see List of East German films.
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| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1+1=3 [de] | Heidi Genée | Adelheid Arndt, Dominik Graf, Christoph Quest | Comedy | a.k.a. One Plus One Equals Three |
| Americathon | Neal Israel | John Ritter | Comedy | American production with West German money |
| Arabian Nights | Klaus Lemke | Cleo Kretschmer, Wolfgang Fierek | Comedy | |
| Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts | Rosa von Praunheim | Documentary | ||
| Belle | Wolfgang Storch | Udo Vioff | Thriller | a.k.a. Bellas Tod a.k.a. La Mort de Belle |
| Beware of Schwarzenbeck | May Spils | Werner Enke, Sabine von Maydell, Benno Hoffmann | Comedy | |
| Blauer Himmel, den ich nur ahne | Stephan Rinser | Jörg Hube | Biography | |
| Bloodline | Terence Young | Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, James Mason, Romy Schneider, Omar Sharif, Gert Fröbe, Irene Papas | Thriller | American-West German co-production |
| Bored Teenagers | Wolfgang Büld | Ian Moorse, Monika Greser, Steve "Roadent" Connolly, The Adverts | Music | |
| Breakthrough | Andrew V. McLaglen | Richard Burton, Robert Mitchum, Rod Steiger, Curd Jürgens, Helmut Griem | War | |
| Cola, Candy, Chocolate | Sigi Rothemund | Olivia Pascal, Ursula Buchfellner | Sex comedy | |
| Cold Homeland | W. Werner Schaefer, Peter F. Steinbach | Nikolaus Cohnen, Dietlinde Turban, Margit Carstensen, Rudolf Schündler | Drama | |
| David | Peter Lilienthal | Mario Fischel, Valter Taub, Irena Vrkljan, Eva Mattes | Drama | Won the Golden Bear at Berlin |
| The Day Elvis Came to Bremerhaven | Peter F. Bringmann | Wolfgang Drygalla, Petra Bigaj, Michael Shelley | Drama | |
| Das Ding | Uli Edel | Wayne Laryea, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Stephan Schwartz, Steve "Roadent" Connolly, Caroline Chaniolleau, Ulla Jacobsson | Crime | |
| Drei Freundinnen | Konrad Sabrautzky | Karin Baal, Brigitte Janner, Kyra Mladeck, Gerd Baltus, Arthur Brauss | Drama | |
| The End of the Rainbow | Uwe Frießner | Thomas Kufahl | Drama | |
| Es begann bei Tiffany | Wolfgang Becker | Rutger Hauer, Siegfried Wischnewski, Katerina Jacob, Hans Clarin, Heinz Schubert, Diether Krebs | Crime comedy | |
| Esch: The Anarchist | Rainer Boldt | Hans Peter Korff | Drama | a.k.a. The Sleepwalkers: The Anarchist |
| The Fall | Alf Brustellin | Franz Buchrieser, Hannelore Elsner, Wolfgang Kieling, Eva Maria Meineke, Carl Duering | Drama | |
| The First Polka | Klaus Emmerich | Maria Schell, Erland Josephson | Drama, War | Entered into the 29th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Fleisch | Rainer Erler | Jutta Speidel, Wolf Roth, Herbert Herrmann, Charlotte Kerr | Thriller | a.k.a. Spare Parts |
| Die Fluchtlinie | Klaus Müller-Laue, Herbert Rimbach | Michaela May, Matthias Ponnier, Marina de Graaf | Drama | |
| Flugversuche | Rainer Wolffhardt | Adelheid Arndt, Ulrich Pfeffer | Drama | |
| Frontiers of Darkness | Wolf Gremm | Günter Lamprecht, Antje Hagen | Drama | a.k.a. Die Schattengrenze |
| Gefangen in Frankreich: Theodor Fontane im Krieg 1870/71 | Theo Mezger | Hans Caninenberg, Karl-Heinz von Hassel, Werner Schumacher, Benno Sterzenbach | War | |
| Die Geisterbehörde | Wilm ten Haaf | Erik Ode, Herbert Fleischmann, Michael Hinz, Barbara Schöne | Comedy | |
| Goetz von Berlichingen of the Iron Hand | Wolfgang Liebeneiner, Harald Reinl | Raimund Harmstorf, Michèle Mercier, Klausjürgen Wussow | Historical | |
| Grandison | Achim Kurz | Marlène Jobert, Jean Rochefort, Helmut Qualtinger | Drama | West German-French co-production |
| The Hamburg Syndrome | Peter Fleischmann | Helmut Griem, Fernando Arrabal, Carline Seiser, Tilo Prückner, Ulrich Wildgruber | Disaster | West German-French co-production[83][84] |
| It Can Only Get Worse | Helmut Dietl | Towje Kleiner | Comedy | Short edited version of the TV series Der ganz normale Wahnsinn |
| Jenseits von Schweden | Carlheinz Caspari | Karl Walter Diess, Christian Berkel | Drama | |
| Kotte | Horst Flick | Jürgen Prochnow | Drama | |
| Last Love | Ingemo Engström | Angela Winkler, Rüdiger Vogler | Drama | |
| The Last Years of Childhood | Norbert Kückelmann | Gerhard Gundel | Drama | |
| Lena Rais | Christian Rischert | Krista Stadler, Tilo Prückner, Kai Fischer | Drama | |
| Lucky Star | Hans-Jürgen Tögel | Katharina Böhm, Günther Maria Halmer, Hannelore Schroth, Joachim Hansen, Jacques Herlin | Family | |
| The Marriage of Maria Braun | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Löwitsch, Ivan Desny, George Byrd | Drama | First in the BRD Trilogy |
| Mihail, câine de circ | Sergiu Nicolaescu | Karl Michael Vogler | Adventure | a.k.a. Michael, Brother of Jerry. Romanian-West German co-production |
| Milo Milo | Nikos Perakis | Veruschka von Lehndorff, Mario Adorf, Andréa Ferréol, Andreas Katsulas, Julien Guiomar, Antonio Fargas, Joe Higgins | Comedy | West German-Greek co-production |
| Missile X – Geheimauftrag Neutronenbombe | Leslie H. Martinson | Peter Graves, Curd Jürgens, John Carradine, Karin Schubert | Spy thriller | a.k.a. Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident a.k.a. The Tehran Incident. American-Italian-Spanish-West German-Iranian co-production |
| Monarch | Manfred Stelzer | Diethard Wendtland | Documentary | |
| Die Münze | Werner Schlechte | Gustl Bayrhammer | Crime comedy | a.k.a. The Mint |
| The Murderer | Ottokar Runze | Gerhard Olschewski | Drama | |
| Das Nest | Gedeon Kovács | Franz Xaver Kroetz, Lisa Fitz | Drama | |
| The Night with Chandler | Hans Noever | Rio Reiser, Agnes Dünneisen, Thomas Schücke | Crime | |
| Nosferatu the Vampyre | Werner Herzog | Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz, Roland Topor | Horror | West German-French co-production |
| The Patriotic Woman | Alexander Kluge | Hannelore Hoger | Drama | a.k.a. The Female Patriot a.k.a. The Patriot |
| Phantasten | Peter Beauvais | Manfred Krug, Michael Degen, Günter Strack, Sabine Sinjen | Drama | |
| Putting Things Straight | Georg Brintrup | Gisela Stein, Hanns Zischler | Biography | |
| Revolution in Frankfurt | Fritz Umgelter | Günter Strack, Richard Münch | History | |
| Schluchtenflitzer | Rüdiger Nüchtern | Hans Kollmannsberger, Hans Brenner, Ruth Drexel | Drama | |
| Der Schuft, der den Münchhausen schrieb | Rudolf Nussgruber | Lutz Hochstraate, Ferdy Mayne | Biography | |
| She's 19 and Ready | Franz Josef Gottlieb | Sabine Wollin, Ekkehardt Belle, Claus Obalski | Sex comedy | |
| Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness | Margarethe von Trotta | Jutta Lampe, Gudrun Gabriel, Jessica Früh, Heinz Bennent, Konstantin Wecker, Agnes Fink | Drama | |
| Some Kind of Saint | Klaus Lemke | Cleo Kretschmer, Wolfgang Fierek | Comedy | |
| A Sunday in October | András Kovács | Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ferenc Bács, Marianna Moór, Lajos Őze, Martin Lüttge | War | Hungarian-West German co-production |
| Tally Brown, New York | Rosa von Praunheim | Tally Brown | Documentary | |
| Das tausendunderste Jahr | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Alexander Gittinger, Harald Dewald, Cornelia Meinhardt, Regine Vergeen, Rainer Basedow | War | |
| The Tell-Tale Heart | Karl Heinz Kramberg | Hans Clarin, Ferdy Mayne | Horror | |
| The Third Generation | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Eddie Constantine, Hanna Schygulla, Volker Spengler, Margit Carstensen, Hark Bohm, Günther Kaufmann, Bulle Ogier, Udo Kier | Black comedy | |
| Ticket of No Return | Ulrike Ottinger | Tabea Blumenschein, Christine Lutze, Magdalena Montezuma | Drama | a.k.a. Bildnis einer Trinkerin |
| The Tin Drum | Volker Schlöndorff | David Bennent, Charles Aznavour, Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, Daniel Olbrychski, Katharina Thalbach | Drama, War | West German-French co-production. Based on the book by Günter Grass |
| Tödlicher Ausgang | Stanislav Barabáš | Rolf Becker, Günter Lamprecht, Gila von Weitershausen, Karin Anselm, Richard Münch, Paul Dahlke | Thriller | a.k.a. Nur über Meiners Leiche |
| Der Tote bin ich | Alexander von Eschwege | Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Anne Bennent | Mystery | |
| Trennung – Die Geschichte der Anna Wildermuth | Peter Beauvais | Sabine Sinjen, Peter Seum, Pierre Franckh | Drama | |
| Union der festen Hand | Claus Peter Witt | Dieter Laser, Eva Mattes, Hannes Messemer, Edith Schultze-Westrum | Drama | |
| Uns reicht das nicht | Jürgen Flimm | Herbert Grönemeyer, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Anna Henkel, Marita Breuer | Drama | |
| Victoria | Bo Widerberg | Michaela Jolin, Stephan Schwartz, Hans Christian Blech, Christiane Hörbiger | Drama | Swedish-West German co-production |
| Ways in the Night | Krzysztof Zanussi | Mathieu Carrière, Maja Komorowska, Horst Frank | Drama, War | |
| The Willi Busch Report | Niklaus Schilling | Tilo Prückner | Drama | Entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival |
| Womanlight | Costa-Gavras | Yves Montand, Romy Schneider, Lila Kedrova, Heinz Bennent | Drama | French-Italian-West German co-production |
| Woyzeck | Werner Herzog | Klaus Kinski, Eva Mattes | Classic literature | Based on the story by Georg Büchner |
| Zuhaus unter Fremden | Peter Keglevic | Herbert Grönemeyer, Aysun Bademsoy | Drama |
Notes
- Erickson, Hal. "The American Soldier". Allmovie. Retrieved October 21, 2012.
- "Der AMERIKANISCHE SOLDAT". British Film Institute. London. Archived from the original on February 7, 2009. Retrieved October 21, 2012.
- "Satan der Rache". Filmportal.de. Retrieved October 29, 2012.
- Firsching, Robert. "The Bird with the Crystal Plumage". Allmovie. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
- "Das Geheimnis der schwarzen Handschuhe". Filmportal.de. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
- Erickson, Hal. "Chariots of the Gods". Allmovie. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
- "Erinnerungen an die Zukunft". Filmportal.de. Retrieved 6 November 2019.
- "Der Mann mit der Torpedohaut" (in German). Filmportal.de. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
- "Komm nach Wien, ich zeig Dir was!". Filmportal.de. Retrieved 6 November 2019.
- Erlewine, Iotis. "Companeros (1970)". Allmovie. Retrieved October 29, 2012.
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- Verlag, Hanser (1982). Dietrich Kuhlbrodt: Bernardo Bertoluccipages. pp. 238–239. ISBN 3-446-13164-7.
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- Erlewine, Iotis. "Die Feuerzangenbowle". Allmovie. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
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- Erlewine, Iotis. "Malatesta". Allmovie. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
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- "Pippi außer Rand und Band". Filmportal.de. Retrieved October 29, 2012.
- "La Venganza del Dr. Mabuse". British Film Institute. London. Archived from the original on May 27, 2009. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
- Kalat, David (2005). The Strange Case Of Dr. Mabuse: A Study Of The Twelve Films And Five Novels. McFarland. p. 299. ISBN 0786423374. Retrieved October 22, 2012.
- Erlewine, Iotis. "Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?". Allmovie. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
- Fountain, Clarke. "Apokal". Allmovie. Retrieved September 29, 2012.
- Fountain, Clarke. "Beware of a Holy Whore". Allmovie. Retrieved September 29, 2012.
- "Das Freudenhaus" (in German). Filmportal.de. Retrieved 6 November 2019.
- Firsching, Robert. "The Cat o' Nine Tails". Allmovie. Retrieved October 19, 2012.
- Rasmussen, Linda. "Daughters of Darkness". Allmovie. Retrieved October 19, 2012.
- Fountain, Clarke. "La Folie des Grandeurs". Allmovie. Retrieved October 19, 2012.
- "Fata Morgana". Filmportal.de. Retrieved October 27, 2012.
- Fountain, Clarke. "Wer Im Glashaus Liebt (Der Graben)". Allmovie. Retrieved September 29, 2012.
- Fountain, Clarke. "Land of Silence and Darkness". Allmovie. Retrieved September 29, 2012.
- "Land of Silence and Darkness". Allmovie. Retrieved December 23, 2012.
- D'Arminio, Aubrey Anne. "The Merchant of Four Seasons". Allmovie. Retrieved October 19, 2012.
- Fountain, Clarke. "Murmur of the Heart". Allmovie. Retrieved October 19, 2012.
- Fountain, Clarke. "Our Willi Is the Best". Allmovie. Retrieved September 29, 2012.
- Brennan, Sandra. "Return of Sabata". Allmovie. Retrieved October 19, 2012.
- "Sie tötete in Ekstase". filmportal.de. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
- Fountain, Clarke. "Trotta". Allmovie. Retrieved September 29, 2012.
- Fountain, Clarke. "The Vampire Happening". Allmovie. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
- Browning & Picart 2010, p. 183.
- Firsching, Robert. "Web of the Spider". Allmovie. Retrieved October 29, 2012.
- "Dracula im Schloß des Schreckens". Filmportal.de. Retrieved October 29, 2012.
- Fountain, Clarke. "Whity". Allmovie. Retrieved September 29, 2012.
- Williams, Karl. "Aguirre, the Wrath of God". Allmovie. Retrieved October 19, 2012.
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- Fountain, Clarke. "The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant". Allmovie. Retrieved October 19, 2012.
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- "Der unsichtbare Aufstand". Filmportal.de. Retrieved October 29, 2012.
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- Seibert, Perry. "Che?". Allmovie. Retrieved October 19, 2012.
- Firsching, Robert. "What Have You Done to Solange?". Allmovie. Retrieved October 21, 2012.
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- "Hausfrauen-Report international". filmportal.de. Retrieved October 29, 2012.
- "Hexen - geschändet und zu Tode gequält". Filmportal.de. Retrieved October 29, 2012.
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- "Alter Kahn und junge Liebe". filmportal.de. Retrieved October 29, 2012.
- "Der scharlachrote Buchstabe". Filmportal.de. Retrieved October 29, 2012.
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- "Der Reise nach wien" [Trip to Vienna]. Allmovie. Retrieved October 29, 2012.
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- Erickson, Hal. "Alice in den Städten" [Alice in the Cities]. Allmovie. Retrieved October 30, 2012.
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- Fountain, Clarke. "Im Namen des Volkes". Allmovie. Retrieved October 30, 2012.
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External links
- German film at the Internet Movie Database (maintains separate lists for West Germany and East Germany)
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