Siegfried Lenz Movies

The end of a summer, a sleepy fishing port on the Baltic Sea and the beginning of a great feeling that must not be: Shortly before the start of the...

In a small North German village a drama played out during and shortly after the Second World War about duty versus individual conscience and morality.

A trio of robbers, two brothers and their twisted genius leader, invade a lightship, but don't reckon on the crew fighting back.

The naive 18 year old Dobrila leaves her little Serbian village to travel to Hamburg, Germany, where her boyfriend lives. The trip is not easy....

A corpse is washed up on the beach of the North Sea. The deceased is Alexander, husband of the beautiful Bettina. They have been coming to the island...

61-year-old Paul Hinrichs impersonates being 10 year younger in order to get a job as diver once again.

A flash of all the everyday and poetic that happens within a second in different places in our world, based on a prose ballad by Siegfried Lenz.

Uli and Nora share an intimate, late love. But Uli always avoids the decision to stand on the common relationship. One morning Uli suffers a stroke...

Anne Hoppe, who works as a meteorologist at the Maritime Weather Office in Hamburg, has been mourning her husband Harry for a year. This died on New...

Set against the backdrop of post-war Germany, the screen adaptation of Siegfried Lenz’s short story released in 1949 shows a snapshot in time...

The German lightship (permanently anchored floating 'lighthouse') Borkum Riff is about to be decommissioned. For his last tour of duty, Captain...

Three men plot to assassinate the dictator of their country, but their plan fails and one of them is captured and imprisoned. Even after considerable...