Directing

Rolf Thiele

Born March 7, 1918 · Prödlitz, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [ora in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic]

Died October 9, 1994 · aged 76

Rolf Thiele was a German filmmaker who worked as a director, writer, and producer. After studying philosophy and sociology, he entered the film industry following World War II and helped establish the production company Filmaufbau Göttingen. From the 1950s through the 1970s, he created a wide range of films, often combining sharp social observation with irony and wit, and he frequently collaborate…

Known For

The Death of a Double

The Death of a Double · 1967

The Death of a Double

The submissive assistant of an abnormal jeweler becomes the victim of a doppelganger who plans the perfect crime.

Auf Engel schießt man nicht

Auf Engel schießt man nicht · 1960

Auf Engel schießt man nicht

Women in Hospital

Women in Hospital · 1977

Women in Hospital

MovieDramaCrime

Schuman and Oberhoff are successful hospital doctors who treat pregnant women. However, their personal lives are a mess. Schuman has to deal with his drug-addicted wife Claudia, while Oberhoff deals with his teenage daughter's pregnancy.

Just a Gigolo

Just a Gigolo · 1978

After World War I, a war hero returns to Berlin to find that there's no place for him--he has no skills other than what he learned in the army, and can only find menial, low-paying jobs. He decides to become a gigolo to lonely rich women.

Morale 63

Morale 63 · 1963

MovieComedyDrama

The young Marion is arrested by the police for pimping, prostitution and indecent exposure. Reporter Axel Rottmann sense a lucrative story for his newspaper. He makes a deal with Marion, to tell her story.

Frisch, fromm, fröhlich, frei

Frisch, fromm, fröhlich, frei · 1970

Frisch, fromm, fröhlich, frei

They're Too Much

They're Too Much · 1965

They're Too Much

Three crooks come out of jail on probation and, taking advantage of the economic boom in Germany, they continue their shady business quite legally this time.

Slap in the Face

Slap in the Face · 1970

Slap in the Face

Dressed only with a muff, Eva - naked as God created her - reaches the conference room of the big bank to expose Terbanks' capitalists and bankers and to protest against capitalism and exploitation. But the naked woman from the "Red October" community slapped the wrong man and pursued tangible own interests in the form of inherited shares ...

Filmography

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The Death of a Double

The Death of a Double · 1967

The Death of a Double

The submissive assistant of an abnormal jeweler becomes the victim of a doppelganger who plans the perfect crime.

Director

Auf Engel schießt man nicht

Auf Engel schießt man nicht · 1960

Auf Engel schießt man nicht

Director

Women in Hospital

Women in Hospital · 1977

Women in Hospital

MovieDramaCrime

Schuman and Oberhoff are successful hospital doctors who treat pregnant women. However, their personal lives are a mess. Schuman has to deal with his drug-addicted wife Claudia, while Oberhoff deals with his teenage daughter's pregnancy.

Director

Just a Gigolo

Just a Gigolo · 1978

After World War I, a war hero returns to Berlin to find that there's no place for him--he has no skills other than what he learned in the army, and can only find menial, low-paying jobs. He decides to become a gigolo to lonely rich women.

Producer

Morale 63

Morale 63 · 1963

MovieComedyDrama

The young Marion is arrested by the police for pimping, prostitution and indecent exposure. Reporter Axel Rottmann sense a lucrative story for his newspaper. He makes a deal with Marion, to tell her story.

Director

Frisch, fromm, fröhlich, frei

Frisch, fromm, fröhlich, frei · 1970

Frisch, fromm, fröhlich, frei

Director

They're Too Much

They're Too Much · 1965

They're Too Much

Three crooks come out of jail on probation and, taking advantage of the economic boom in Germany, they continue their shady business quite legally this time.

Director

Slap in the Face

Slap in the Face · 1970

Slap in the Face

Dressed only with a muff, Eva - naked as God created her - reaches the conference room of the big bank to expose Terbanks' capitalists and bankers and to protest against capitalism and exploitation. But the naked woman from the "Red October" community slapped the wrong man and pursued tangible own interests in the form of inherited shares ...

Director

Das Liebeskarussell

Das Liebeskarussell · 1965

Das Liebeskarussell

An episodic film, telling four erotic tales: Angela isn't sexually satisfied by her husband, so she simulates sleep-walking to visit her neighbor across the street every night; when his bathtub runs over, shy Peter gets to meet his sensuous neighbor Lolita; at a high-school reunion his former students pull a prank on Prof. Hellberg and make him believe he cheated on his wife while being drunk; Sybill has a good time during a break at the opera with the famous conductor Cramer.

Director

Primanerinnen

Primanerinnen · 1951

Director

Rosemary

Rosemary · 1958

MovieDramaComedy

West Germany in '50s is becoming an economic superpower. In such climate, Rosemarie is just one of many enterpreneurs who wants her piece of new fortune. She uses her charms to bring members of West German industrial elite to her bed. There she finds business secrets and later sells them to French competition. However, when scandal errupts, Rosemarie would find that she can't beat the system.

Director

Mamitschka

Mamitschka · 1955

Director

Geliebtes Leben

Geliebtes Leben · 1953

Geliebtes Leben

Director

Sie

A young Hungarian press illustrator and an even younger French publisher's daughter live together in Paris for four years, in a loving but crisis-ridden relationship without a marriage certificate. Only after bitter experiences does true love set in, leading the couple to the registry office after all.

Director

The Love Keys

The Love Keys · 1971

The 17-year-old student Rosy (Heidi Hansen) wants to improve her pocket money: For a pledge of at least a hundred marks, she hands over a key to older men and allegedly her address. Lots of love-goers fall in on the trick. - Fluent comedy.

Director

Tonio Kröger

Tonio Kröger · 1964

This drama is taken from Thomas Mann's 1903 semi-autobiographical novel. Tonio (Jean Claude Brialy) is an aspiring writer and the son of a rigid aristocratic father and a music-loving mother. Wandering throughout Germany and Italy to "find himself," Tonio frequently remembers his childhood experiences in a series of flashbacks. The highlight of the film is the expert lensing by cinematographer Wolf Wirth. Erika Mann, the daughter of the late poet and author, collaborated with Ennio Flaiano on the screenplay.

Director

Witwer mit 5 Töchtern

Witwer mit 5 Töchtern · 1957

Witwer mit 5 Töchtern

Father Scherzer generally buries himself in the books of the castle library, which he is responsible for managing. He is a warm-hearted but somewhat overwhelmed father to his five daughters, ranging from a preschooler to two teenage girls to a successful press photographer who flirts with a dashing dentist. While he is trying to sell the castle to an overbearing American millionaire, the housekeeper quits, and the youth welfare office insists on discipline and order in the five-girl household.

Co-Producer

Grimm's Fairy Tales for Adults

Grimm's Fairy Tales for Adults · 1969

Grimm's Fairy Tales for Adults

In an erotic version of famous fairy tales, Snow White (Marie Liljedahl), Sleeping Beauty (Gaby Fuchs) and Cinderella (Eva Reuber-Staier) have sexy fun.

Director

Die Halbzarte

Die Halbzarte · 1959

Nicole is a young librarian who writes romantic poetry. A successful new erotic novel, gives her the idea to secretly write a daring play, only about sex.

Director

Lulu

MovieDramaCrime

A 14-year-old girl is caught while trying to pick a doctor's pocket. The doctor ends up taking her in and turning her into a sophisticated lady, whom he marries off to a wealthy man.

Director

Tempest in a Water Glass

Tempest in a Water Glass · 1960

Tempest in a Water Glass

Producer

The Sex Olimpics

The Sex Olimpics · 1972

The Sex Olimpics

In Greece at the time of antiquity. In the year 600 before Christ, the 45th Olympic Games are held, which are all in the sign of the old city-renown Sparta-Athens.

Director

Friederike von Barring

Friederike von Barring · 1956

Friederike von Barring

Director

The Ambassadress

The Ambassadress · 1960

The Ambassadress

Writer