Jo Baier
Total Credits at Criticker: 10 (Director), 8 (Writer)
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Stauffenberg (2004) - TV Movie
In 1944, a group of high command officers plot an attempt against Hitler, and one of the leaders of the conspiracy, Stauffenberg (Sebastian Koch), goes to a meeting with the Fuhrer in charge of exploding the place. However, Hitler survives and the officers are executed. This unsuccessful operation was called "Valkyrie Operation", and this realistic movie discloses this true event. (imdb)
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Schiefweg (1986) - TV Movie
Pictures from the childhood of the poet Emerenz Meier, born 1847 in Schiefweg in the Bavarian forest, died 1928 in Chicago, Illinois. (imdb)
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Wambo (2001) - TV Movie
Feature Film about the murder of the famous Bavarian actor Walter Sedlmayer. (imdb)
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Verlorenes Land (2002) - TV Movie
Bavaria after World War II: the young countrywoman Maria falls in love with Jean-Pierre, a former French prisoner of war, while the rest of the family still believes in the return of her husband Hans from Russia. Nevertheless, everybody accepts the relationship, but suddenly Hans, now totally haggard and uncaring, comes back. The desperate situation drives Maria to an extreme... (imdb)
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Schwabenkinder (2003) - TV Movie
A man returning to his parents years after having been sent away as a child-laborer tells his lifetime story to his dying father. (imdb)
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Nicht alle waren Mörder (2006) - TV Movie
Based on the childhood memories of actor Michael Degen, the movie deals with the everyday struggle to survive as a Jewish boy in Nazi Germany. As his father had died in 1940 after being released from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Michael and his mother fear to be deported themselves. They manage to live in Berlin with false names and faked papers, hidden by several, often broken, people... (imdb)
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Das Letzte Stück Himmel (2007) - TV Movie
Jo Baier's drama focuses on a lively photographer, who wants to show his suicidal brother the beautiful sides of life and love. While Anno works as a successful photographer in Munich, his brother Julian thinks about committing suicide by jumping from a railway bridge in Wuppertal. As Anno wants to keep him from realizing his plan, he tries to prove Julian that life can be beautiful. (imdb)
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A wide-ranging, energetic period piece tracing the rise of the Protestant Henry of Navarre as he goes from battlefield warrior to France's beloved King Henri IV. Director Jo Baier's epic is a classically entertaining adventure, albeit one with more than a little bloodshed and frequent bawdy sexual interludes. In late 16th-century France, Catholics and Protestant Huguenots were at war. (imdb)
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In the last days of his life the journalist and writer Tiziano Terzani talks to his son about his life. (imdb)
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