Walo Lueoend Movies
- 1984
In this standard, stereotypical, youth-oriented film, Mona (Claudia Demarmels) has just received the awful news that she has to move out of her apartment because her landlady plans on turning it over to her son -- and so the impossible quest for an affordable place begins. As Mona goes from door to door looking for her ideal new home, she encounters one adventure after another -- and unconsciously or not, seems headed toward a knight in shining armor and another good apartment all in one package. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- August Zirner, Rolf Zacher, (more)
- 1983
In this, the third, remake of Gotthelf's classic horror story, a woman offers the soul of her unborn baby in exchange for Satan's intervention in a situation that threatens her village. Unlike it's two predecessors, this version is told without operatic embellishment and is framed by the modern-day story of a drug-addicted woman who has a strange drug-induced dream about the woman in village. In the dream, the threat comes in the form of the ruthless knight who brutalizes and terrorizes all the villagers. The woman reneges on the bargain by having the babe immediately baptized after it is born. Satan gets his revenge by sending a murderous black spider into town. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Beatrice Kessler, Walo Lueoend, (more)
- 1983
Director and also lead actor Rolf Lyssy has created a comic treatment of a serious subject, without detracting from the truth or from the subject itself - which is the difficulty in getting financed for worthy film projects. The fictional director Teddy Baer wins an Oscar for Best Foreign Film, only to find that while everyone is more than happy to exploit his new-found fame, no one is willing to back his next film project, period. After hitting a brick wall enough times, Baer cracks up himself and enters a psychiatric clinic for treatment. When he gets out of the clinic he decides to make a new film about a director who has just won an Oscar and cannot get funding. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Rolf Lyssy, Renata Schroeter, (more)
- 1983
Director Bernard Safarik based this straightforward story on his own experiences, and on Czech writer Jaroslav Vejvoda's stories about the difficulties of Eastern European refugees -- both in obtaining a visa and later adjusting to life in a new country with a different socio-economic system. The film focuses on a Czech artist bent on leaving Prague for Switzerland, showing that his visions of a new life and how to reach it are routinely shattered by the everyday reality of finding asylum. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Pavel Landovsky
- 1982
A rendition of the classic tale of Tristan and Isolde, this drama revolves around the dilemma of a medieval knight who is forced to choose between the love of a woman and the love of his country. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide
Based on a true story, this film tells of an unlikely love affair. While in prison, Martin (Jürgen Prochnow) falls in love with the son of one of his guards. After he leaves prison, he becomes a professional actor. When the young man runs away from home to join him, he is captured and placed in a juvenile correction home. Society's attempts to straighten the boy out nearly kill him and leave unnecessary physical and mental scars which he will bear for life. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jürgen Prochnow, Werner Schwuchow, (more)
- 1962
Though director Fritz Lang, who started the "Dr. Mabuse" ball rolling back in 1922, had washed his hands of the series in the early 1960s, the Mabuse films kept popping up throughout the decade. This one stars Lex Barker as a New York detective investigating the criminal activities of the supposedly deceased evil genius Mabuse (Wolfgang Preiss). The bad doctor wants to get his paws on "Operation X", a serum that makes people invisible. Karin Dor, playing the daughter of the facially disfigured inventor of Operation X, is kidnaped by Mabuse and becomes a human bargaining chip. The Invisible Dr. Mabuse (original German title: Die Unsichtbaren Krallen des Dr. Mabuse) was released in some markets as The Invisible Horror. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
