Joachim Hess Movies

A fairground in a small town in northern Germany: a young woman named Margret Winter enjoys herself there with a friend. She has 900 D-Mark in her...

The Knüppels are in trouble with their underage daughter, who has discovered love too early. She has a child with Frank Dreier. But the young...

Wagner's communal drama on film.

Every year, rich people and celebrities gather for the race week in Baden-Baden - and with them the most valuable jewelry and the finest diamonds....

Alban Berg's disturbing opera masterfully translated into film.

Director Rolf Liebermann’s 1968 filmed-for-TV production of Carl Maria von Weber’s opera, with the Hamburg State Opera performing an...

A tsar and a carpenter switch places amid great laughs and endearing love.

In the late 1960s Rolf Liebermann, the legendary intendant of the Hamburg State Opera, had the visionary idea of presenting a number of operas in...