Ernst-Erich Buder Movies
- 1986
This film by Doris Dorrie concerns two men who fight over one of their wives. Angelica (Sunny Mellis) is a fairly conventional housewife who is concerned about her marriage, because her husband Victor (Heiner Lauterbach) has been ignoring her. So Angelica calls in a remedy, her petite friend Lotte (Katharina Thalbach) to light some fire under Victor. Lotte has no problem in doing that, because she enjoys the result, but this time the fire turns into a conflagration that runs out of control. With Lotte taking off from the incendiary effects of her actions and Victor obsessed with chasing after her, Angelica's original problem is reversed, and now Lotte is suffering the consequences. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Heiner Lauterbach, Katharina Thalbach, (more)
- 1931
This film re-creates the WWI siege of the fortress of Douaumont, as undertaken by German officers Captain Hardt and Lieutenant Radke. Both Hardt and Radke play themselves in the film, as do the surviving soldiers who participated in the siege. Newsreel clips of the war are interspersed with newly shot location footage, and it's no contest: the "original" scenes are far more compelling than the staged sequences. Also, courageous though they were, Hardt and Radke were no actors, nor were the men who served under them. In striving for complete authenticity, director Heinz Paul robbed the film of its vitality. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1931
Student Sein (To be a Student) once again musically paints a picture of campus life that has precisely no connection with reality. The students of Wurzberg University spend most of their time singing, drinking and flirting mit der pretty frauleins. Things take a serious turn when the BMOC hero (Franz Baumann), the son of a wealthy man, falls in love with a poor girl. Separated by their stations in life, the boy and girl finally come together when the hero's bankrupt father commits suicide, putting him on the same economic level as the heroine. Though Franz Baumann was far too old to convince as an undergrad, his singing could not be faulted. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Fritz Alberti
