Joachim Hess
Director · 1925 – 1992 · Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Joachim Hess was a German theater and film director who also appeared as an actor.
Movies7
Movie10.0ComedyDoktor Murkes gesammelte Nachrufe
1965 · 1 votes
Movie7.5ComedyDoktor Murkes gesammeltes Schweigen
1964 · 2 votes
Movie6.8DramaThrillerA German scientist murders his fiancée during World War II when he learns that she has been selling the results of his secret research to the enemy.
Movie6.8DramaWarThe adaptation of the eponymous play by Carl Zuckmayer tells the story of renegade general Harras of the German Luftwaffe, who during WWII openly criticizes the Nazi regime. As a consequence, he is put under surveillance, and even imprisoned for a brief period of time. Still remaining outspoken, Harras realizes the horrific dimensions of this hopeless and injust war waged by Germany.
Movie9.0CrimeMurder mystery about the disappearance of a boy who has leukaemia following the murder of his mother, which he witnessed.
Grabenplatz 17
1958 · 3 votes
Movie7.3HistoryRomance1802: The adventurous life story of Hans Bückler, known as “Schinderhannes”, who fights against the French occupying forces and large landowners who exploit poor farmers in the Hunsrück region during the Napoleonic Wars.
Der Schinderhannes
1958 · 12 votes
Movie8.0MusicHistoryThis opera revolves around the demonic collective possession suffered by the Ursuline nuns in the convent of Loudun in 1634. The story concentrates on the handsome but doomed Urbain Grandier who fights against fanaticism and evil.