Elke Haltaufderheide Movies
- 1989
This 1989 film is set several years in the future, in 1995. In the story, Jens Lohkamp (Ian Morse), a computer whiz, is trying to use his computer on an old photograph of a woman's long-lost father to see what he would look like in the present and, with the updated image, help her find him. While he is working on it, he realizes it is a picture of the man he saw kidnapping his sister many years before. The missing man becomes aware that his identity is known, and he attempts to deal with the situation. However, this particular computer whiz has access to more than just the current appearance of the killer. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Charles Brauer, Karina Fallenstein, (more)
- 1985
This uneven thriller starts with a young pianist barely catching a train, and then since she is without money, a friendly woman buys her ticket for her. Inge (Sabina Trooger) is an enterprising journalist for the tabloids, and after she buys the ticket to Munich for Claudia (Sunnyi Melles), the two share a drink of cognac in their compartment. Claudia rips away a section of the day's paper which mentions that a pianist is being sought in connection with her husband's murder, and Inge starts to doze off without yet realizing that her cognac was laced with a barbiturate. When she comes to, Inge eventually gets Claudia to tell her story -- that she is innocent of any wrongdoing -- and is convinced enough to start helping Claudia out of her dilemma. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sunnyi Melles, Sabina Trooger, (more)
- 1984
In an interesting tale of romantic obsession, an introverted young projectionist catches some love-making going on in one corner of the dark movie theater where he works, and recognizes the woman involved as a popular television newscaster he adores. He manages to steal the key to her apartment from her purse, and later lets himself in. This is the first step that leads to a love affair between the two, but soon he becomes fixated on the woman - spying on her, needing to control the relationship totally. His attitude is a disaster waiting to happen. Writer, director, and editor Niklaus Schilling shot this drama with a video camera and then transferred the tape to celluloid film in the laboratory, perhaps adding a little "TV verité" to the end product, but also creating a lot of graininess in the process. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Gerhard Acktun, Isolde Barth, (more)
- 1982
In this mix of mythology (radiant light beams outward from the "European Patent Office" as the brilliant thinking that animates the content of the patent files finds a literal expression) and pure camp (television bloopers are created), the foibles of live television in Germany are sent up, including the less-than-trenchent observations of so-called television journalists. To add a little verisimilitude to the proceedings, the director, writer, and photographer Niklaus Schilling first shot his footage with a video camera, and then filmed it off a monitor - creating that pixel-dappled surface of flickering light that viewers will instantly identify as "television." ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Elke Haltaufderheide, Niklaus Schilling, (more)
- 1982
In a Germany still divided between East and West, the glow of western gilt-edged security, and the pizzazz of fashion, cars, and computers create a "light trap" that lures East Germans into fantasizing about a better life. When a spy from East Germany goes through the motions of picking up his contact in Munich, he is led into her double life in an opulent villa, with an attractive and lusty daughter. As detectives and the police come in and out of the scenario, it becomes difficult to know who has been caught in the "light trap" and who might be a double agent -- or not. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Armin Mueller-Stahl, Beatrice Kessler, (more)
- 1978
The strains of Richard Wagner's operatic music and the tale of Lorelei, which an old man is telling his granddaughter, set the tone for this tense and highly symbolic crime thriller, which takes place on board the TEE Rheingold train travelling from Germany to Basel, Switzerland. The murderer, a highly sympathetic character, commits his fatal deed under high stress, which only increases when, after exiting the train, he realizes that he left incriminating evidence onboard. Now he must race in an automobile across Germany and attempt to reboard the train to recover the evidence before the killing is discovered. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Rudiger Kirschstein, Elke Haltaufderheide, (more)
- 1977
Part satire, part drama, this movie tells the story of Anton Paulisch (Herb Andress), who has been living and working as an actor in Rome. When he hears that his mother is mortally ill, he returns to Munich to be at her bedside, but doesn't quite make it. He and sister Astrid (Elke Haltaufderheide) rediscover their friendship, though, as they go through a number of crises. Meanwhile, Anton makes an effort to find work in Munich, and runs headlong into the silliness and pretensions of the "New German Cinema" movement. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Herb Andress, Elke Haltaufderheide, (more)
