Heinz Engelmann Movies
A young man from Germany (Klaus Grunberg) leaves home and travels to Paris. Hooking up with a group of hippies, he is enamored by an American girl (Mimsy Farmer) he meets at a party. The two leave for an island off the coast of Spain and become lovers. He becomes aware she is a heroin user and warns her about the drawbacks of narcotics. The American girl allows him to sleep with her girlfriend and try heroin. After an LSD trip, the girl leaves him and he takes too much of the hallucinogenic drug. Pink Floyd provides the music for this film that decries the excesses of the counterculture. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Mimsy Farmer, Klaus Grunberg, (more)
- 1964
This color documentary depicts the 1963 Winter Olympic Games as they took place in the beautiful town of Innsbruck, Austria. At the foot of the Tirolese Mountains, director Theo Hoermann captures usual winter athletic events and blends them with various aspects of Austrian culture such as yodeling and local folk tales. The film is geared to the Austrian audience rather than for international consumers and was Austria's official entry at the 1964 Berlin Film Festival. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide
- 1958
This WW II drama chronicles the adventures of a German U-boat commander who launches a successful attack on a battleship in a Scottish bay and becomes a hero. Unfortunately, the British fight back and sink his submarine. The hero is then captured by the English. Their ship is then sunk by a different German U-boat which is in turn sunk by a British bomber. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1955
Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti (aka Herr Puntila and his Chauffeur Matti and Puntilla and His Hired Man) is based on the same-named play by Bertoldt Brecht. Curt Bois, best remembered as the oily pickpocket in Casablanca, stars as Puntila, a nasty Finnish landlord who turns into a nice guy whenever he's drunk (shades of Chaplin's City Lights). Puntila's chauffeur Matti (Heinz Engelman) shares several ribald adventures with his master, and at one point finds himself engaged to Puntila's nubile daughter Eva (Maria Emo). Brecht's merciless satire of class distinctions isn't quite as pungent as in the original, but audiences will get the point. Herr Puntila und sein Knect Matti was adapted for the screen by Vladimir Pozner (yes, that Vladimir Pozner!) ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Curt Bois, Heinz Engelmann, (more)
