Walter Bockmayer
Director · 1948 – 2014 · Fehrbach, Germany
Walter Bockmayer (4 July 1948 – 7 October 2014) was a German film director, screenwriter and actor. He directed seven films between 1975 and 1988. His 1978 film Flaming Hearts was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival. He found a new home with the Scala Theater in Cologne, where the first stage play Ich möch zu Foß noh Kölle jonn was performed in 2003. Bockmayer's new plays were performed annually in the theater, which had a capacity of 260 people. He relocated famous operas such as Carmen (1995) or La traviata (1998) to the setting of the Klapperhof in Cologne or to a massage parlor. He died of lung cancer in 2014. Description above from the Wikipedia article Walter Bockmayer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies9
Movie6.6DramaElvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergone a sex change for a romantic interest who has abandoned her, and she now must struggle to reconcile her past life with her present identity.
Movie5.3ComedyTeenage girl idolises television game show host, and gets a chance to be his assistant.
Im Himmel ist die Hölle los
1984 · 7 votes
Movie7.0ComedyGeierwally, who earned her name through a bitter fight with a bird of prey, refuses to marry Vinzenz, the heir apparent assigned to her by her father, and lives a secluded life in a mountain hut. Her love for Bärenjosef seems hopeless, especially since he knows nothing of Wally's love. She becomes increasingly isolated, becomes the laughing stock of the village, and misunderstandings arise because Bärenjosef's sister Afra is mistakenly regarded as his “girlfriend.” Wally then decides that she would rather have Josef dead than not at all...
Geierwally
1988 · 7 votes
- MovieDrama
Drama by Walter Bockmayer.
Gay West
1974
- MovieComedy
Movie by Walter Bockmayer about Bette Davis and Greta Garbo.
- MovieComedy
Marianne and Dorothea, the honest daughters of the brave Mrs. Gewöhnlich, who are disappointed with life, find themselves in delicate situations in which the unscrupulous mechanic Otto Rohrfrei unscrupulously exploits them and plunges them into misfortune. Finally tired of constant oppression by men, both call for solidarity and a women's protest march. Nevertheless, a criminal act occurs, and the committed representatives of the female sex end up where their freedom of movement is severely restricted... but is that the end?
- Movie8.0Drama
Parody of German schlager stars of the 60s.
Salzstangen-Geflüster
1975 · 1 votes
- MovieDrama
Drama by Walter Bockmayer.
La Traviata
1974
- MovieDrama
Drama by Walter Bockmayer.
Carmen
1972
