Franz Peter Wirth

Directing

Franz Peter Wirth

Born September 22, 1919 · München, Germany

Died October 17, 1999 · aged 80

No biography available.

Known For

Arms and the ManArms and the Man · 1958
Arms and the Man
6.61958
MovieComedyRomance
1865: Swiss captain Bluntschli fights as mercenary in the war between Bulgaria and Serbia. When his group's attacked by a few Bulgarian troopers, he learns that he's got the wrong ammunition for his cannon and has to flee. His flight leads him right into the bedroom of his enemy's fiancée.
Girl from Hong KongGirl from Hong Kong · 1961
Girl from Hong Kong
10.01961
MovieDrama
Unusual race relations melodrama from West Germany follows a German sailor who meets and weds a Chinese woman while on leave in Hong Kong, only to meet with disapproval from his family and friends when the couple returns to Europe.
Adieu, Mon AmiAdieu, Mon Ami · 1996
Adieu, Mon Ami
5.01996
MovieDrama
Germany, WWII: 10-year old Dagmar has just lost her beloved twin brother Doug and her family through a bomb attack. Together with a young girl who worked in the bakery of Dagmar's parents they escape to Bavaria and find shelter at some far relatives of Dagmar's family. The little girl just doesn't feel comfortable in the strange family but soon finds a good friend: Laurent, a 17-year old French alien employee. Laurent is tormented by August, the "head of the family", but cannot defend himself because as soon as he causes a conflict he will be sent into an approved school in France which is even worse. Dagmar and Laurent become very close and become almost like brother and sister, they are all they have and Dagmar even falls a bit in love with Laurent. One day August sees how Laurent hugs Dagmar, he provokes a conflict and at the end Laurent is sent back to France...
Mathias KneißlMathias Kneißl · 1971
Mathias Kneißl
6.51971
MovieDrama
Inspired by the real-life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from Bavaria, in the late XIX century. Mathias stole from the rich to give to the poor, becoming a hero for the rural people and a popular social rebel. He was chased by the police until his unfortunate sentence.
Tiefe WasserTiefe Wasser · 1983
Tiefe Wasser
3.41983
MovieDramaThriller
Ein Mann im schönsten AlterEin Mann im schönsten Alter · 1964
Ein Mann im schönsten Alter
4.01964
MovieDrama
Richard Mertens, a successful magazine editor with a cold, empty marriage to Lucy, seeks excitement through an affair with younger colleague Eva. Yet his need for status traps him in superficiality, undermining genuine connection. A legal battle with old friend Ferrow, won through perjury, reveals Mertens’s moral emptiness, shattering his relationship with Eva. Alone, he finds solace only in listening to bartender Brigitte.
People in the NetPeople in the Net · 1959
People in the Net
8.01959
MovieDramaCrime
Espionage thriller about a married couple caught in the middle of dueling spy organisations.
Oh Jonathan – oh Jonathan!Oh Jonathan – oh Jonathan! · 1973
Oh Jonathan – oh Jonathan!
6.01973
MovieComedy

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Adieu, Mon AmiAdieu, Mon Ami · 1996
Adieu, Mon Ami
5.01996
MovieDrama
Germany, WWII: 10-year old Dagmar has just lost her beloved twin brother Doug and her family through a bomb attack. Together with a young girl who worked in the bakery of Dagmar's parents they escape to Bavaria and find shelter at some far relatives of Dagmar's family. The little girl just doesn't feel comfortable in the strange family but soon finds a good friend: Laurent, a 17-year old French alien employee. Laurent is tormented by August, the "head of the family", but cannot defend himself because as soon as he causes a conflict he will be sent into an approved school in France which is even worse. Dagmar and Laurent become very close and become almost like brother and sister, they are all they have and Dagmar even falls a bit in love with Laurent. One day August sees how Laurent hugs Dagmar, he provokes a conflict and at the end Laurent is sent back to France...

Director

The Red ChapelThe Red Chapel · 1972
The Red Chapel
8.01972
SeriesWar & PoliticsDrama
Shortly before the outbreak of World War II: Leopold Trepper, a colonel in the Red Army, travels to Belgium under a false name and sets up a spy ring there. Together with his employees Viktor Sukulow-Gurewitsch, Johann Wenzel, Hillel Katz and Michail Makarow, he succeeds in establishing a spy network throughout Belgium and France in a very short time. With the help of his cover companies - a chain of raincoat shops and later the import-export company Simexco ”- Trepper can collect information from the economy and the Wehrmacht, about Atlantic Wall construction sites and railway lines, and send it to Moscow. The agents also get help from patriots who want to free their countries from the occupation by the Germans.

Director