Movies by Karin Baal

Teenage Wolfpack

Teenage Wolfpack

The drama of a youthful triangle among gang leader Freddy, his brother Jan, and bad girl Cissy, in one of the first considerations of juvenile delinquency in post-war West Germany.

Der Eiserne Gustav

Der Eiserne Gustav

What Have You Done to Solange?

What Have You Done to Solange?

After several Catholic school pupils are murdered, a teacher who is having an affair with one of his students becomes a suspect. When other gruesome murders start occurring shortly thereafter, the teacher suspects that he may be the cause of them.

Das Herz von St. Pauli

Das Herz von St. Pauli

Jons und Erdme

Jons und Erdme

Adaptation of Hermann Sudermann's novel about the troubled relationship between the strong willed Erdme and her irascible husband Jons in the Lithunian moors.

Für immer verloren

Für immer verloren

The holiday in Turkey with husband Philip and their three children ends fatally for Sabine Winter: Customs finds heroin in her bag.

Lili Marleen

Lili Marleen

The story of a German singer named Willie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert whose family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Robert’s family is skeptical of Willie, thinking she could be a Nazi as she becomes famous for singing the song “Lili Marleen”.

Mission to Venice

Mission to Venice

An American polo player in Paris gets roped into intrigue when he's asked to find a family friend whom has gone missing.

The Terrible Threesome

The Terrible Threesome

Black comedy about a lucrative business. Grandmother, mother and daughter live together in a love-hate-relationship and run their business with divided responsibilities: via marriage ads they are looking for candidates. It’s the daughter that gets dressed and styled according to the new mission: no matter if vamp or tree-hugger she twists the men around her little finger until they clear their accounts from all the savings. The money ends up in coffee tins stored in grandma’s fridge. But where do the men end up when they discover the secret ...

Zwischen Schanghai und St. Pauli

Zwischen Schanghai und St. Pauli

The Monster of Blackwood Castle

The Monster of Blackwood Castle

Scotland Yard must discover why people are being murdered by a monstrous dog at Blackwood Castle.

Erika's Passions

Erika's Passions

Erika and Franziska haven't seen each other for 4 years. 10 years earlier they both felt that they had the same chances in life: both were young, attractive and imaginative. They overlooked what would, right from the outset, separate them: their very different emotional make-up, their different character. In a long nighttime discussion the friends try to clear up these differences - not without some glimmer of hope.

Deadly Game

Deadly Game

A hunting party arrives at a lodge in the Tatra mountains in Slovakia, where one woman in the party had “accidentally” shot and killed her first husband some time ago.

Karibisches Vergnügen

Karibisches Vergnügen

A young drawing teacher wins a dream trip to the West Indies in a competition. The journey takes her on a luxury ship to Jamaica and Haiti. The dances and music of the locals and the cities of Kingston and Port-au-Prince with their bustling markets form the backdrop to this little comedy of mistaken identity, in which an unattractive but precious necklace plays a confusing role.

Love Is Not an Argument

Love Is Not an Argument

The relationship of a married couple in their 40s is broken when the mother has an affair with her teenage daughter's boyfriend.

Lola

Lola

Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building commissioner, Lola launches an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything, and everyone, is for sale. Shot in childlike candy colors, Fassbinder’s homage to Josef von Sternberg’s classic The Blue Angel stands as a satiric tribute to capitalism.

Angels of Iron

Angels of Iron

The subject of this historical drama is a splintering Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949. Played against the backdrop of social upheaval, the characters in the drama come to epitomize the best and worst of each pole of the political sphere. A 17-year-old hoodlum by the name of Gladow works hand-in-glove with a local white-collar criminal to rob and pillage every day and night, defying capture. While he and his gang of thugs are terrorizing the people of Berlin, the Soviets are trying to make the blockade of their region of control impermea...

Doctor Without Scruples

Doctor Without Scruples

A renowned physician falls under scrutiny when it's discovered his assistant is a former Nazi.

Juke Box - Screams of Love

Juke Box - Screams of Love

After serving a conviction for fraud Mario tries to continue with his life and promises Marisa to marry her...