Joachim Hess Movies

A German scientist murders his fiancée during World War II when he learns that she has been selling the results of his secret research to the...

In a totalitarian society of the future, in which the government controls all facets of the media, a homicide detective investigates a string of...

The world’s only psychedelic children’s opera about an alien invasion.

1802: The adventurous life story of Hans Bückler, known as “Schinderhannes”, who fights against the French occupying forces and...

This opera revolves around the demonic collective possession suffered by the Ursuline nuns in the convent of Loudun in 1634. The story concentrates...

An industrial plant gets into difficulties. The factory owner then decides to sell the company and makes all the employees redundant. How do the...

Murder mystery about the disappearance of a boy who has leukaemia following the murder of his mother, which he witnessed.

Wagner's communal drama on film.

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...

Film version of Richard Strauss's one-act opera, Elektra.

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

Alban Berg's disturbing opera masterfully translated into film.