09-06-1903
Birthday
Gemini
Zodiac Sign
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Genres
233
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Franz Theodor Schmitz
Also known as (male)
Hannover, Germany
Place of Birth
09-06-1903
Birthday
Gemini
Zodiac Sign
-
Genres
233
Total Films
Franz Theodor Schmitz
Also Known As (male)
Hannover, Germany
Place of Birth
actor
233 Works
producer
0 Works
director
24 Works
writer
3 Works
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Kleine Geschichten mit großen Tieren
Year:
1978
Lady Dracula
A beautiful blonde bitten by Count Dracula 100 years previously is unearthed in Vienna, and soon she goes on a killing spree.Year:
1977
Damals wie heute
Year:
1975
The Secret Carrier
Year:
1975
Tristan
Year:
1975
Im Hause des Kommerzienrates
Year:
1975
Hochzeitsnacht im Paradies
Year:
1974
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
"The Great Magician" - Max Reinhardt (1873-1943) was an Austrian theater and film director, director, theater producer and theater founder. With his Jedermann production on August 22, 1920, he founded the Salzburg Festival.Year:
1973
Orpheus in der Unterwelt
Year:
1973
So'n Theater
Year:
1973
Immer Ärger mit Hochwürden
A new highway, a new chairlift, the election of the new mayor and again a lot of alcohol.Year:
1972
Main Thing Holidays
Year:
1972
Betragen ungenügend!
A German comedy from 1972 directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb. Mommsen Gymnasium director Taft reminisces about his own time as a student.Year:
1972
Die tollen Tanten schlagen zu
Year:
1971
Ball at Savoy
Year:
1971
Wenn mein Schätzchen auf die Pauke haut
The composer Kristian Wernher is supposed to transport uranium-containing rock samples from Brazil to Austria, specifically to Lake Wörthersee, for his father, the head of “Internationale Berg AG”. Everything is carried out in the strictest secrecy, but soon two agents are after Kristian. But that is not his biggest problem. An unpleasant surprise awaits Kristian at the delivery point.Year:
1971
Hilfe, die Verwandten kommen
Year:
1971
Morgen fällt die Schule aus
Pepe Nietnagel's father has a valuable stamp collection stolen in Amsterdam. Street musician Pit recovers it. To show his gratitude, Pit is invited to Baden Baden and enters the Mommsen Gymnasium. There, he joins Pepe in his pranks.Year:
1971
Tante Trude aus Buxtehude
The down-and-out private detectives Rudi and Moritz join Karin and Gerda on the hunt for an inheritance million. According to the testator's will - Aunt Trude from Buxtehude - the money must be received by Gerda within a week.Year:
1971
Wer zuletzt lacht, lacht am besten
The days of the Schlosshotel Seefels appear to be numbered. Hotelier Theo Frobenius is forced to sell his hotel to group boss Mertens in the face of massive competition. Frobenius learns that Mertens wants to secretly inspect the hotel. In order to drive up the price, the hotelier wants to make him believe that the business is flourishing.Year:
1971
Die Feuerzangenbowle
The title refers to the Feuerzangenbowle punch consumed by a group of gentlemen in the opening scene. While they exchange nostalgic stories about their schooldays, the successful young writer Dr. Johannes Pfeiffer realizes he missed out on something because he was taught at home and never attended school. He decides to make up for it by masquerading as a student at a small-town high school. At the school, he quickly gains a reputation as a prankster. Together with his classmates, he torments his professors Crey, Bömmel, and Headmaster Knauer with adolescent mischief. His girlfriend Marion unsuccessfully tries to persuade him to give up his foolish charade. Eventually, he falls in love with the headmaster's daughter and discloses his identity after provoking the teachers into expelling him from school.Year:
1970
Wir hau'n die Pauker in die Pfanne
Principal Gottlieb Taft's twin brother Gotthold Taft partakes in the most recent prank by faking his death and promising a large inheritance to the Mommsen-Gymnasium and the principal. Of course, the inheritance is tied to many embarrassing conditions.Year:
1970
Christoph Kolumbus oder Die Entdeckung Amerikas
Year:
1970
Hurra, die Schule brennt
A new teacher, Dr. Dr. Bach, is transferred from his quiet village elementary school to the Mommsen Gymnasium, bringing along his nephew Jan. Bach's lackadaisical methods raise the suspicions of the other teachers.Year:
1969
Pepe, der Paukerschreck
Mommsen Gymnasium director Taft secretly places his nephew as a spy with the difficult class of Pepe Nietnagel. During the celebration for the 100th anniversary, a simulated fire forces the school to shut down for a week. The director's attempt to get a tough teacher assigned by the department of education results in the exact opposite because of Nietnagel's intervention.Year:
1969
Königin einer Nacht
Year:
1969
Was Ihr wollt
Year:
1968
Zum Teufel mit der Penne
Pepe Notnagel (who inexplicably had his name changed from the first movie's Nietnagel) and his classmates scheme to get around doing any actual school work by cheating or sending their teachers to the sanatorium. A Swiss documentary film maker disguises himself as his brother in law, who got a position as an exchange teacher, to aid his project of making a movie about the current youth.Year:
1968
Wenn die kleinen Veilchen blüh'n
Year:
1968
Zur Hölle mit den Paukern
Pepe Nietnagel and his fellow students of the Mommsen school come up with all kinds of ideas to get out of doing any actual school work. This includes simulating suicides, setting off the air-raid sirens and abusing the school director's new broadcasting system. They succeed in sending their teacher to a sanatorium and get a replacement that turns out to not be so bad after all.Year:
1968
Der Vogelhändler
Year:
1968
The Heathens of Kummerow
Kummerow, a village in North East Germany, around 1900: Mean-spirited miller Düker wants to drive cowherd Krischan out of the village. Being popular with the local children, Krischan can rely on the help of schoolboys Martin and Johannes and their friends, who try to prevent the miller's plans by playing pranks on him.Year:
1967
Das große Glück
Year:
1967
Die fromme Helene
Year:
1965
Don Juan oder Die Liebe zur Geometrie
Year:
1965
Kolportage
Year:
1964
Tonio Kröger
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.Year:
1964
Minna von Barnhelm
Year:
1964
The Model Boy
Year:
1963
Berlin-Melodie
Year:
1963
Schule der Gattinnen
Year:
1962
Die Physiker
Year:
1962
Bei Pichler stimmt die Kasse nicht
Year:
1961
Die Kassette
Year:
1961
The Devil May Well Laugh
Three bums get played by the devil.Year:
1960
Eine Frau fürs ganze Leben
Year:
1960
Sie können's mir glauben
Year:
1960
Pension Schöller
Year:
1960
Without Trumpet or Drum
Summer 1870. Following the French defeat at Sedan. Léon, a soldier in a detachment isolated in the Ardennes forest, is sent in search of water. When he discovers the most peaceful of rivers, he decides to undress and bathe in it. At bend of the river he catches sight of another naked swimmer. It's a Prussian! Both men start bickering a bit: aren't they supposed to be arch enemies? But they soon fraternize. Unfortunately the patrol has not vanished in the haze and they hear it coming. Each man gets hold of his uniform and runs away in two opposite directions. The only trouble is that Fritz the Prussian has donned the French uniform and Leon the Prussian one!Year:
1959
Der Löwe von Babylon
In the ruins of Nim Bis Rub, in Babylon, is a band of smugglers den. There goes Nemsi Kara Ben and his faithful friend. One night, while camping, they surprise three smugglers and, after a hard-fought struggle, manage to reduce them and take possession of the rings that are their trademark. Then they go to Baghdad and there, a character who wears a ring of smugglers, which has seen Kara's, confuses him with one of the band.Year:
1959
Die Nacht vor der Premiere
Year:
1959
Die gute Sieben
Year:
1959
Eine Reise ins Glück
Year:
1958
Die Sklavenkarawane
The dreaded slave hunter Abu el Mot attacks the caravan and abducts the travelers, including Kara Ben Nemsi, his faithful companion Hadschi Halef Omar, the quirky scholar Ignaz Pfotenhauer and the English explorer Sir David Lindsay. Kara Ben Nemsi manages to escape with Hadschi Halef. To get help, they set off on a long journey full of impassable adventures...Year:
1958
A Song Goes Round the World
A biopic of the singer and film actor Joseph Schmidt. The title is a reference to his best-known song and a 1933 film of the same title in which he starred.Year:
1958
Trees Are Blooming in Vienna
Year:
1958
Almenrausch und Edelweiß
Year:
1957
Drei Mann auf einem Pferd
Year:
1957
Egon der Frauenheld
Year:
1957
Mit Rosen fängt die Liebe an
Year:
1957
Familie Schimek
Year:
1957
Die Unschuld vom Lande
Theater director Werner Sturm was amazed when he arrived in the Bavarian market town of Oberwinkel on a vacation and came across all kinds of disguised characters: knights and maids, squires and heralds were running around, and children were shooting arrows through the air with their bowsYear:
1957
Vater macht Karriere
Year:
1957
August the Thug
Year:
1957
Die Beine von Dolores
Year:
1957
Wo die Lerche singt
Year:
1956
Der Mustergatte
Year:
1956
Meine Tante, deine Tante
Year:
1956
Opernball
Year:
1956
Das Liebesleben des schönen Franz
Year:
1956
Ein tolles Hotel
Year:
1956
.. und wer küsst mich?
Year:
1956
Die Wirtin zur Goldenen Krone
Year:
1955
Wenn die Alpenrosen blüh'n
Year:
1955
Wie werde ich Filmstar
Year:
1955
Heidi und Peter
Heidi lives with Alp-Öhi n the Swiss Alps in the summer, where she helps Peter tend the goats. In winter, she stays in the village and attends school. One day, a letter arrives from Heidi's German friend, Klara Sesemann, announcing her visit. Klara indeed appears the next summer along with her grandmother and the prim governess Miss Rottenmeyer. Klara is quickly convinced to stay with Heidi, but Peter becomes resentful that Heidi now spends so little time with him...Year:
1955
Räubergeschichte
Year:
1954
Hurra - ein Junge!
Year:
1953
Secretly Still and Quiet
Year:
1953
The Daughter of the Regiment
Year:
1953
Die vertagte Hochzeitsnacht
Year:
1953
Heute nacht passiert’s
Year:
1953
Heidi
Heidi, a young orphan girl living with her aunt in Frankfurt, is forced to move to the Swiss Alps to live with her ornery grandfather. At first, he resents her presence, but, after a short while, Heidi manages to pierce his gruff exterior, and the two become close. She also befriends a young shepherd named Peter. After three years, Heidi's aunt arrives and demands Heidi's return to Frankfurt.Year:
1952
You Only Live Once
Remake of the 1931 film The Man in Search of His Murderer.Year:
1952
Schäm' dich, Brigitte!
Year:
1952
The Thief of Bagdad
Fatma has quite the talent for getting herself into trouble and escaping with her head intact. But when she's caught rifling through Caliph Omar's possessions, she finds herself in serious trouble. News of a theft makes the rounds and now the caliph's men are after her. Fortunately, she's able to find refuge with a sheikh, who isn't quite so thorough in checking his possessions. And it's thanks to him, that Fatma is able to get away with her newly acquired goods.Year:
1952
Hilfe, ich bin unsichtbar
Year:
1951
The Midnight Venus
An inventive small-town tailor rises to international success with his daring and unusual designs.Year:
1951
Hin und her
Year:
1951
Through Thick and Thin
Theo Müller and his family inherit a vintage car that turns out to have a wayward mind of its own, fixing the family troubles and some romances with a series of guardian angel and/or matchmaking shenanigans.Year:
1951
Glück muß man haben
Year:
1950
Jetzt schlägt's 13
Year:
1950
Der Theodor im Fußballtor
Year:
1950
Schuß um Mitternacht
Kathrin von Hagen runs an extremely successful guesthouse in the stylish Löwenberg Castle. Kathrin also has a passion that she pursues with dedication: writing. She would love to see her latest crime play on stage, but the publisher Thomas Brand, who is currently a guest in her hotel, doesn't think much of the work. Some of Kathrin's friends decide to help her by performing a key scene in the play on site and thereby prove to Brand that the play has dramatic potential. No sooner said than done: the castle's library is chosen as the performance venue and quietly decorated to create an atmospheric atmosphere...Year:
1950
Um eine Nasenlänge
Year:
1949
Nichts als Zufälle
Year:
1949
Liebesheirat
Year:
1949
Philine
Year:
1949
Hazugság nélkül
Year:
1946
Renee XIV
Year:
1946
It All Started So Gaily
Clemens and Bobi, two legation secretaries, are sent on a delicate mission by their minister: it concerns a red portfolio with secret papers, which the minister stuck under a bed mattress and forgot about when he met someone on a rendezvous. And to make things more difficult, the horny minister can't remember which room he left it in. After several incidents in different hotel rooms, neither secretary has found a thing. There's not a trace of the portfolio; but Clemens is more interested in Annette, the young lady in one of the hotel beds, than in the portfolio. He forgets his mission and can think only of her. Boni, in the meantime, has found his way into a room, where Olivia is staying and sees a red, leather folder there. But the woman throws him out in short order.Year:
1944
Das Lied der Nachtigall
Year:
1944
Johann
Year:
1943
Tolle Nacht
Year:
1943
Liebeskomödie
Year:
1943
Sieben Jahre Glück
Year:
1942
Vienna Blood
Young Count Georg Wolkersheim is sent to the Congress of Vienna to represent the interests of his country, Reuss-Schleiz-Greiz. Tensions arise between the count, his wife Melanie, and their two chamberlains, and when the four attend a court ball, Melanie leaves Georg, assumes the identity of a famous actress, and attracts the affections of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria.Year:
1942
Sonntagskinder
Year:
1941
Was geschah in dieser Nacht?
Year:
1941
Frau Luna
Berlin's theatre crowd is excited about the new operetta "Frau Luna". But for the head of the city's vice police, who was invited to the dress rehearsal, the costumes for the ladies onstage are a bit too revealing. He demands the show be cancelled as offensive. The president of the Thusneldenbund has taken it upon himself to alert everyone about the growth of immorality in the capital. The theatre director Knopp has come up with an idea to convince these "fine" gentlemen to let the operetta go onstage again: He intends to win over the friendship of the moral police and then nothing will stand in the way of "Frau Luna" once more being performed.Year:
1941
Dreimal Hochzeit
Year:
1941
Hauptsache glücklich!
Year:
1941
Sieben Jahre Pech
Year:
1940
Rosen in Tirol
Year:
1940
Herz – modern möbliert
Year:
1940
Das Fräulein von Barnhelm
Year:
1940
Was wird hier gespielt?
Year:
1940
Ihr Privatsekretär
Year:
1940
Unfaithful Eckehart
An exchanged suitcase and a burglary with an actress give occasions to whirl a family with daughters-in-law and brides hard in a mess. Old mistake comedy according to pattern.Year:
1940
Rote Mühle
Year:
1940
Opera Ball
After the operetta of the same name of Richard Heuberger in 1890-1914 all kinds of situation comic from happy-go-lucky Vienna of the turn of the century, the time of the first cars and the absurd bath costumes: Husbands in the Chambre Separee, her little dizziness and mistake plays, the tumultuous whirl of a grand ball... - A high-spirited comedy at considerable entertainment level.Year:
1939
Hochzeitsreise zu dritt
Year:
1939
Marguerite : 3
Year:
1939
Das Abenteuer geht weiter
A popular stage tenor can't stay away from his female admirers until his wife threatens to divorce him.Year:
1939
Drunter und drüber
Year:
1939
Marionette
Year:
1939
Tanz auf dem Vulkan
Paris, 1830: Jean-Gaspard Debureau performs on the stage and delights his audience with song, wit and charm. He is, however, very unpopular with King Charles X, who is the target of much of Debureau's scornful jests. That would be a somewhat tolerable situation if it weren't for the fact that Debureau has fallen for a countess, who happens to be the King's mistress.Year:
1938
Dir gehört mein Herz
1938 German-Italian film.Year:
1938
Der Optimist
Year:
1938
Diskretion – Ehrensache
Year:
1938
The Stars Shine
German all-star musical from 1938 that was a big commercial success.Year:
1938
The Restless Girls
Four orphaned friends move after the Abitur, supported by the janitor of her school, together in a flat and look for work to be able to finance her study. Two make the acquaintance of a frivolous young baron. One shoots in her outrage at him, nevertheless, is acquitted in court. - Stereotyped Jung's girl's cheap sensationalism, broken up by popular comic. Hans Moser stands out by his delightful character comic. The last in Austria produced film before the invasion of the armed forces ('Wehrmacht').Year:
1938
The Indian Tomb
After the events of Der Tiger von Eschnapur, Maharadscha Chandra is ready to execute his well-planned vengeance, in which German architect Peter Fürbringer, his fiancée Irene and his assistant will have to fight for their lives amidst a revolt fueled by traitor Prinz Ramigani.Year:
1938
Waltz Melodies
The big revue star Marietta falls in love and gives up the stage career. The theatre stands before the bankruptcy. Only when her husband has convinced himself that she will remain loyal to him, Marietta may go on working. Revue film according to pattern: a lot of music, sturdy situation comic and popular stars.Year:
1938
The Tiger of Eschnapur
Year:
1938
Die Austernlilli
The Parisian restaurant "At the Oyster King's" is looking for a new waitress, whose job would be to crack open oysters with a newfangled oyster cracker (how exciting!). But who would have thought that this newfound invention would lead to so much turmoil (they're French, aren't they?)?! Through a mix-up, Lilli Dupont gets the job. But Lilli is no waitress, but rather a talented singer, waiting in vain for an engagement. She takes the job and soon every male visitor is laying at her feet. So that Lilli doesn't constantly have to fight off all the horny men, the cashier Aristide spreads the rumor that Lilli is actually the daughter of the millionaire van Muhlen, to whom the "Oyster King" belongs (daughter of a millionaire?!? Oh yes, of course: that will dissuade potential suitors!).Year:
1937
Fremdenheim Filoda
Year:
1937
Unentschuldigte Stunde
When the schoolgirl Kate defends her friend, she is expelled from school. To conceal the incident from her parents, she positions herself ill. Promptly she falls in love with the treating doctor who cures her sudden illness not only, but marries his patient also immediately. But Kate soon bores the life of a doctor's wife. So she decides to secretly catch her high school.Year:
1937
Die verschwundene Frau
An official justice assistant supposes behind a letter which falls to him by chance in the hands, a crime and gets going with his crimi-sleuthing energy an unclear confusion.Year:
1937
Heiratsinstitut Ida & Co.
Year:
1937
Gefährliches Spiel
The formerly wealthy Baron Carl Erich von Wenden is desperate. His debts are out of control and he is forced to give up everything he owns. Since he doesn’t want to burden his daughter Rosy with all of this, he tells her he’ll take a pleasure trip with her … in truth, however, he has to work as an assistant waiter in the evenings, while Rosy stays in the hotel. He constantly fears his daughter will discover the truth; and this is a shame he cannot bear.Year:
1937
Premiere
As Fraulein Leander prepares for opening night, her life is thrown into turmoil by a variety of romantic misadventures. But she manages to show up on stage at the appointed time, scoring a huge success.Year:
1937
The Man Who is Talked About
The Man Who is Talked About is the overly agreeable Toni Mathis (Heinz Ruhmann), a gent constitutionally incapable of saying the word "no" (or "nein," this being a German picture). Though he'd rather breeze through life without responsibilities or obligations, Toni agrees to study zoology in college because his uncle (Hans Moser) wants him to. Alas, despite the Herculean efforts by Toni's servant Hassler (Theo Lingen) to prepare his master for his final exams, Toni forgets to show up for the finals and is expelled post-haste. In desperation, his uncle arranges for Toni to get married, and once again our hero just can't say no. Trouble is, he falls in love with trapeze artist Bianca (Gusti Huber), whose father won't let her marry anyone except another entertainer. Undaunted, Toni studies a book on show business and tries out for the vaudeville stage, and the picture isn't even halfway over yet!Year:
1937
The Charm of La Bohème
René and his two artist friends lead a meager but careless life in a Parisian small apartment, their main worry being to avoid the housekeeper. Whenever they get some money they call more friends in and celebrate. This is how he meets beautiful but fragile Denise, who wants to be a singer as himself, and they fall in love. Yet when she finds out her real condition she takes a drastic decision which will determine their fates. La Bohème arias, and more.Year:
1937
My Life Is at Stake
The Berlin lawyer Dr. Lessner (Karl Ludwig Diehl) is involved in a murder case. His wife, movie star Christa (Kitty Jantzen), allegedly had an affair with singer Juan Navarro (Harry Hardt), who was found dead in front of Dr. Lessners house. Christa is arrested ...Year:
1936
Die Leute mit dem Sonnenstich
Year:
1936
Ein Hochzeitstraum
Year:
1936
All for Veronica
Year:
1936
Der verkannte Lebemann
Year:
1936
Opernring
An ordinary Viennese taxi driver, Toni Kowalski, wanders into a diner, where a singing competition is taking place, and decides to take part in it. He is recognized as a maverick, the owner of an amazing voice, and is awarded the victory in the competition. Toni is patronized by an influential socialite.Year:
1936
The Czar's Courier
A Czarist courier has to get across the Siberia frontier, threatened by Tartar invaders and a treacherous Russian helping them. Strogoff encounters several colorful characters along the way. German language version of the French film Michel Strogoff, adapting the novel by Jules Verne.Year:
1936
Die Entführung
Year:
1936
Wer zuletzt küßt...
On the occasion of a charity ball in Vienna a kiss of a famous actress should be auctioned. Misunderstandings between the manager of the film star, a record producer and a student lead too all kinds of mistakes, during which a student is mistaken for a prince in disguise and almost breaks his hapiness. - Quickly and expertly produced mistake comedy with a lot of singing desposits and an at than popular comedian line-up, which offers amusing surface entertainment.Year:
1936
Till Eulenspiegel, der unsterbliche Spötter
Year:
1936
The White Horse Inn
Im weißen Rößl (English title: White Horse Inn or The White Horse Inn) is an operetta or musical comedy by Ralph Benatzky and Robert Stolz in collaboration with a number of other composers and writers, set in the picturesque Salzkammergut region of Upper Austria. It is about the head waiter of the White Horse Inn in St. Wolfgang who is desperately in love with the owner of the inn, a resolute young woman who at first only has eyes for one of her regular guests.Year:
1935
Der Ammenkönig
Rather coarse, pre-War comedy about a Markgraf -- Heinrich XXVI -- who bathes in the springs of the Ammendorf to strengthen his potency. The town and its springs are especially well known for the many couples with lots of children, who, for tax reasons, live there unmarried. The town smithy and bully provides his vitality to ensure the countess has an heir for the throne.Year:
1935
Das Einmaleins der Liebe
Identities are changed in the Austrian countryside. A simple woman does this to test the affections of a store manager, he too changes character several times and there are other locals who do this as well.Year:
1935
Ich liebe alle Frauen
Famous 1930's tenor Jan Kiepura doubles as a singing shop-assistant who stands in for a famous but lazy singer, mixing up each others love-lives in the process.Year:
1935
Held einer Nacht
Year:
1935
Der Schlafwagenkontrolleur
Year:
1935
Ein falscher Fuffziger
Year:
1935
Winter Night's Dream
The wintry mountainscapes of Bavaria provide the backdrop for this airy German comedy. The story is set in motion when young clerk Boenecke (Richard Romanowsky) accidentally delivers a check to the wrong bank. Boenecke's boss Schumann (Walter Steinbeck) suspects the clerk of embezzlement -- especially since our hero has taken off on an extended Alpine vacation with his sweetheart Hilde (Magda Schneider). Before this comic chain reaction can be straightened out, hero and heroine have become entangled with a gang of female pickpockets. Essentially a "moonlight and strudel" confection, Winterachtstraum was perfect escapist entertainment for Magda Schneider's legions of fans.Year:
1935
Die Katz' im Sack
Year:
1935
Petersburger Nächte
Year:
1935
Heaven on Earth
A poor composer who should buy a property for his ambitious father-in-law finances with the money, nevertheless, an opera. Together with his friend who must play a husband to his strict rich aunt, he makes to himself a fun from the mistakes which cause her feints.Year:
1935
Ich sehne mich nach dir
Year:
1934
Ihr größter Erfolg
Year:
1934
Ich heirate meine Frau
Year:
1934
Her Highness the Saleswoman
Year:
1934
Spring Parade
This Hungarian musical comedy (English title: Spring Parade) was produced by Joseph Pasternak, who later remade the picture in Hollywood as a Deanna Durbin vehicle. The original 1934 version stars Franciska Gaal as a Hungarian serving girl who heads to Vienna to visit a relative. Stopping over at an outdoor carnival, Gaal is told by a fortune teller that she will enjoy a happy marriage with a handsome and wealthy stranger. Later on, she finds herself at a fancy dress ball, where a good-looking aristocrat, assuming that our heroine is a countess masquerading as a peasant, falls in love with her. Delighted that the fortune-teller's prophecy seems to be coming true, Gaal finds herself in a dilemma when she falls in love with poverty-stricken soldier Wolf Albach Retty. But things turn out OK when Retty, the regimental drummer, composes a hit song which brings him fame and fortune, thereby neatly fulfilling that prophecy.Year:
1934
The Prodigal Son
Story of the trials and tribulations of a German who emigrates to the US during the Great Depression.Year:
1934
Liebe dumme Mama
Year:
1934
A Waltz for You
Ruritanian power struggle with opera singing.Year:
1934
Schön ist es, verliebt zu sein
Year:
1934
Paganini
Year:
1934
Herr oder Diener?
Year:
1934
…heute abend bei mir
Year:
1934
Das Blumenmädchen vom Grand-Hotel
Year:
1934
My Heart Calls You
An opera company tries to get an engagement.Year:
1934
Csibi, der Fratz
Year:
1934
Ein Mädel wirbelt durch die Welt
Year:
1934
Der Doppelgänger
Year:
1934
I Don't Know You and I Love You
Year:
1934
Konjunkturritter
Year:
1934
Die Finanzen des Großherzogs
Year:
1934
Der Jäger aus Kurpfalz
Year:
1933
Don't Be Afraid of Love
The unemployed secretary Käte applies a job by mistake in the piano factory of the entrepreneur Helmut Hofert. He does not really have any need for an additional secretary at the moment, but Käte is very attractive.Year:
1933
Das Lied vom Glück
Year:
1933
Das Lied vom Glück
Year:
1933
Die Goldgrube
Short film about an arrogant waiter.Year:
1933
Zwei im Sonnenschein
Year:
1933
Höllentempo
Year:
1933
Kleines Mädel, großes Glück
Year:
1933
Gutgehendes Geschäft zu verkaufen…
Short film about a fortune teller.Year:
1933
Waltz War
The quarrel between the waltz king Joseph Lanner and his still unknown violinist Johann Strauss. It comes to a break. Strauss is engaged in London and has his first successes there. Thanks to the initially unfortunate intervention of Lanner's daughter, a reconciliation is finally achieved.Year:
1933
An Invisible Man Goes Through the City
A taxi driver, (Piel), finds an odd contraption on the back seat that renders him invisible, but his friend steals the device to rob a bank. An inventive comedy.Year:
1933
Kleiner Mann – was nun?
First adaptation of Hans Fallada's novel of the same name.Year:
1933
Liebe muss verstanden sein
The stenotypist Margit is supposed to take 3,000 Marks to the bank for her boss, Mr. Plaumann, but she lazes away the time window-shopping, and eventually stands before a closed door. She follows Plaumann to Dresden, where he, believing the money is deposited in a bank as a down payment, wants to purchase a newfangled remote control from the inventor Lambach. Since Plaumann’s car breaks down on the road, Margit arrives before him and rests in the seemingly empty hotel room which later turns out to be Lambach’s. Meanwhile, Lambach himself is being spied on by the jealous cousin of his fiancée, who can’t wait to catch him in the act…Year:
1933
Wie werde ich energisch?
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1933
Flucht nach Nizza
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1933
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professor's preoccupation with another patient, the criminal genius Dr. Mabuse the hypnotist. When Mabuse's notes are found to be connected with a rash of recent crimes, Commissioner Lohmann must determine how Mabuse is communicating with the criminals, despite conflicting reports on the doctor's whereabouts, and capture him for good.Year:
1933
Gipfelstürmer
Film by Wenzler.Year:
1933
Die kleine Schwindlerin
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1933
...und wer küßt mich?
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1933
Marion, das gehört sich nicht
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1933
Der große Bluff
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1933
Eine Stadt steht kopf
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1933
A Girl You Don't Forget
A GIRL YOU DON'T FORGET can be thought of as a backstage musical that treats the whole world as backstage. Melodies seem to be buzzing through the air, available to anyone in the right state of mind. Willi Forst always is, and he is also an actor who can transform any space into a stage. Fritz Kortner, one of the defining personalities of the German theatre scene of the 1920s, makes the most of his star’s talent in an intricately constructed romantic comedy that believes in the truth of artifice. Forst plays Paul Hartwig, a wannabe actor who is reduced to selling books in the cold streets of Berlin. While pursuing his big break, he meets Lisa Brandes (Dolly Haas), another victim of the global financial crisis who has just learned a new trick: cheating horny old men out of their money by selling promises she does not intend to keep. Dedicated theatre man Paul decides to win her over by putting on an act, but a misplaced slap leads to unintended consequences. - Lukas FoersterYear:
1933
Married by the Stork
A modernist lady sculptor seeks a model for a statue to be put in front of a Berlin hospital, and finds him in the form of a London policeman-boxer. She's also interested in having a child.Year:
1932
Spell of the Looking Glass
A thief hides a large sum of money he has stolen, behind a looking glass.Year:
1932
Nur ein Viertelstündchen
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1932
The Tsar's Diamond
A Russian lady singer in Germany falls for a countryman working in a car factory there, who unknown to her is really a grand Duke. an attempt to steal the famous Orloff diamond adds to the complications.Year:
1932
The Testament of Cornelius Gulden
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1932
Frederica
Based on Franz Lehar's operetta, about the first woman whom the great German writer Goethe fell in love with.Year:
1932
Zigeuner der Nacht
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1932
Mein Name ist Lampe
A mix-up results in a normal man becoming a dentist.Year:
1932
Modern dowry
Dan Douglas is a typical Scottish. When his niece Evelyne marries engineer Fred Keller aboard the ship to Scotland, he gives her a pearl necklace as dowry, but it's false. The newlyweds face their differences when the necklace gets lost.Year:
1932
A Mad Idea
A series of stupid coincidences causes the young Munich painter Paul to convert his uncle's castle into a hotel for four weeks. But he can't complain: business is good and he has plenty of guests. For exmple, there's Theo Muller with his revue troupe. For reasons of "sound", Muller calls himself "Miller", which, of course, causes more confusion. His daughter, the beautiful Evelyn, is confused with Mabel Miller, who has come to the hotel on a mission for her filthy rich father ... namely, to estimate the worth of the castle.Year:
1932
The Countess of Monte Cristo
The two aspiring actresses Jeanette and Mimi are waiting for their big chance. But the real breakthrough is slow in coming. Jeanette especially desperately needs a big success, since her friend, the journalist Stephan, is about to lose his job. When the two have their chance to take a ride in a posh car during a shooting, Jeanette slams on the throttle and the two friends take off. Their aimless journey takes them to a fashionable winter sports’ hotel, where Jeanette reserves a name under “The Countess of Monte Christo”. Everything’s going dandy; no one suspects a thing. That is, until two impostors, Rumowski and “The Baron” take residence in the same hotel.Year:
1932
The Ladies Diplomat
Diplomat Fürst Windischberg is known for spending too much time with women, receiving frequent reprimands and even a threat to be sent to Afrika. In Berlin he meets chorus girl Hella, who tells her companions she is his current flirt.Year:
1932
Zwei himmelblaue Augen
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1932
A Man's a Man
About a civilian who is press-ganged into a machine-gunner's squadron and transformed into the perfect soldier.Year:
1931
Into the Blue
A recent rediscovery, master cinematographer Schüfftan’s only film as a director is a free-spirited, fast-paced ode to being young, free, hopeful... and completely broke.Year:
1931
My Wife, the Adventuress
A mousy bank clerk is married to an ambitious woman.Year:
1931
No More Love
An American millionaire, who had always bad luck with women, bets that he can live without them for five years. But after four and a half years traveling around on his yacht, he rescues a lady from drowning in the English Channel.Year:
1931
M
In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.Year:
1931
The Firm Weds
Remake of a silent Lubitsch: A country girl right out of high school graduates to a place in her aunt's Leipzig garment business, then to a more glamorous such store in Berlin, and finally into a palace.Year:
1931
The Flute Concert of Sans-souci
In 1756, a masked ball was officially celebrated in the Dresden Palais of the Saxon Minister Heinrich von Brühl. Unofficially, however, talks are taking place with the envoys of Austria, Russia and France with the aim of conspiring against the Prussian King Frederick II. The Prussian envoy, Major von Lindeneck, succeeded in bringing a copy of the concluded secret treaty to the Prussian king. Friedrich consults with his generals, who urge caution. Friedrich is stunned by the reaction and now develops a counter-plan. To do this, he sends von Lindeneck back to Dresden. However, the latter is not very enthusiastic about this, as he thinks he has reason to doubt his wife Blanche's marital fidelity, and he now has to leave her alone.Year:
1930
Two Ties
Opera style film in which a crook offers to change ties with a waiter, so he can escape. The waiter ends up getting involved with a rich American lady who takes him to Florida.Year:
1930
Dolly is making a career
Musical vehicle for up and coming Dolly Haas, as a would be actress with a would be composer boyfriend. She sings,at one point, that she has the walk of (Lilian) Harvey, the mouth of Garbo and the legs of Dietrich.Year:
1930
The Great Passion
This is a real curiosity; at best a reasonable film, but also a charming little gem. There is a story (in the line of "A Star is Born"), but this merely serves as an excuse, as it is more importantly a kind of moving encyclopedia of about 35 stars making their debut in a talkie (although some of them had already made one talkie), of the technical sound possibilities and of film making. Besides all that, it is entertaining and sometimes hilarious and it has fine one-liners that split my side. The film is also remarkable for making mock of typical German film genres (like the overly sweet romances involving the military), of too heavy acting and of film making in general. I have to mention this one: a short, hysterically funny parody of "Der blaue Engel". What this film in fact says is: do not take any film too seriously. (J. Steed)Year:
1930
