Eberhard Fechner
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Eberhard Fechner.
Born: October 21, 1926
Place of Birth: Liegnitz, Silesia, Germany [now Legnica, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]
Known For
Ödipussi
Paul Winkelmann is the CEO of a successful business in Hamburg that he took over after the death of his father eight years ago. But he is still strongly dominated by his 78 year old mother who cares for him as a child, and who cannot understand why he took an apartment on his own after all these years. The real "problem" starts when Paul gets to know psychologist Margarethe Tietze whose relationship to her parents is also not so easy after all.
Nachrede auf Klara Heydebreck
Documentary research on the traces of a female pensioner, who committed suicide in Berlin in winter 1968.
Preis der Freiheit
24 hours on the border between East and West Germany. In an outlying West Berlin district, police officers chat about their personal lives, take care of petty offence and at most, warn the odd rubbernecker away from the border to the “Soviet zone”. Meanwhile their East German counterparts are under enormous pressure. The day begins with disciplinary action after one of the border guards was found sleeping on duty. The supervisors demand utmost vigilance and a solid ideological bent, and suspicion and mistrust are the rule within the ranks of these soldiers of the National People’s Army (NVA). Unnoticed by the soldiers, four East Berlin students are preparing to flee to the west. But in the morning mists, only their accomplice, an NVA private, succeeds …
Grabbe's Last Summer
Depiction of the short life of the influential, troubled playwright Christian Dietrich Grabbe. Impoverished and suffering from illness, Grabbe returns to his hometown of Detmold in 1823 seeking peace and reconciliation. His final days are marked by rapidly deteriorating health, an intense struggle with alcohol, and complex, strained relationships with his sister and friends who attempt to care for him.
Walerjan Wrobel's Homesickness
The story of Walerjan Wrobel, who was taken from occupied Poland to Germany for forced labor in 1941.
The Harvest of My Lai
Filmmaker Marcel Ophuls investigates the massacre of My Lai by U.S. soldiers.
Farmers, Politics and Bombs
The tax officials Thiel and Kalübbe try to confiscate two oxen, but are prevented from doing so by protesting farmers led by the community leader Reimers. The assistant editor Tredup, who takes photos of the incident, is also in the thick of things.
Filmography
as Pfarrer
as Dr. Giesebrecht
as Piderit
as Oberinspektor Fritz Frerksen
as Narrator (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Pierott