Jan Fethke

Jan Fethke

Birth : 1903-02-26, Oppeln, Silesia, Germany [now Opole, Opolskie, Poland]

Death : 1980-12-16

Profile

Jan Fethke

Movies

The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
Idea
A reporter is murdered while driving to his job. The Police are contacted by a clairvoyant who saw the death in a vision, but some dark force is preventing him from seeing the man behind the crime...
First Spaceship on Venus
Writer
A mysterious magnetic spool found during a construction project is discovered to have originated from Venus. A rocket expedition to Venus is launched to discover the origin of the spool and the race that created it.
What Will My Wife Say to This?
Screenplay
Skarb kapitana Martensa
Scenario Writer
Irene, Go Home!
Director
A factory foreman discovers (to his discontent) that his housewife secretly takes driving lessons in order to get a job and send their son to kindergarten.
Sprawa do załatwienia
Director
Zaloga
Screenplay
Zaloga
Director
Border Street
Writer
The story of Polish and Jewish families living side by side in one Warsaw street. Everything changes once and for all with the Nazi invasion.
Bravo, kleiner Thomas
Director
1945 German film.
Przez łzy do szczęścia
Writer
Przez łzy do szczęścia
Director
The Golden Mask
Director
Magda, the butcher's daughter, against the wishes of her father becomes an actress in the theater "Golden Mask". Kicked out of the house she meets Count Xavier Runickie and soon they get married. Unfortunately, the marriage did not bring her happiness...
Black Diamonds
Scenario Writer
O czym sie nie mówi...
Writer
Florian
Writer
Zapomniana melodia
Writer
Zapomniana melodia
Director
Paweł & Gaweł
Writer
Two neighbours with similar names, Paweł and Gaweł, meet a violinist girl Violetta who pretends to be a child. When Paweł learns she's not a child anymore, he falls in love with her. And vice versa.
Robert and Bertrand
Writer
Robert and Bertrand covered accused of theft and are sent to prison where they meet Irena.
Hearts Aflame
Writer
A story about a group of high school graduates, their unbreakable bond and life and death friendship.
Papa się żeni
Writer
Papa się żeni (Daddy Gets Married) is a 1936 Polish comedy film directed by Michał Waszyński.
Leper
Writer
Stefcia Rudecka starts working as a governess in an aristocratic house. Waldemar, the young heir, falls in love with her but his well-off family is not eager to accept the woman he loves.
Jadzia
Screenplay
Both have the name Jadzia, besides the name they are also connected by a tennis racket. Jędruszewska is a champion of tennis courts, Maliczówna is an extremely charismatic owner of a sports store. Meanwhile, there is a fierce battle between two competing Warsaw companies selling sports equipment. The convergence of names and misunderstandings cause that the representative of the rival sports shop Jan Oksza confuses Jada. He tries to get the tennis champion to play their company's racket, but Jan takes Maliczówna for the champion. In the meantime, he acts as a sculptor, his friend. Among the gags and numerous misunderstandings between Jadzia Maliczówna and Jan Oksza germinate the feeling that eventually connects the two feuding companies.
Dwie Joasie
Scenario Writer
Mother Krause's Journey to Happiness
Screenplay
Mutter Krause, her daughter Erna and her son Paul live in a tenement in the poorer section of Berlin's Wedding district. Along with them lives "the Tenant", his soon-to-be bride Friede, who works as a prostitute, and her child whose name isn't revealed in the film. Mutter Krause is a quiet, long-suffering old woman who earns what little she can delivering newspapers. However, Paul is an alcoholic and spends all her money on drink. Mutter Krause can't pay back the money she owes the man whose newspapers she delivered and he accuses her of stealing and threatens her with arrest. Mutter Krause must then pawn her last valuable possession, a treasured memento of her late husband. Paul then breaks into the same pawn shop. He gets away but is later arrested. Meanwhile, Erna begins dating a young man with Communist views, who turns Erna to Communism and also helps her earn the money her mother needs by more honest means.
Harbour Drift
Writer
A pre-Depression slice of proletarian life from Weimar Germany, Harbour Drift is unusually interesting for its indifferent pessimism, rejecting even the minor rays of hope which permeate the other low-life ‘street films’ of the period. A sordid tale of poverty and greed set within a quayside milieu of crime and prostitution, the narrative centres on the quest for a sparkling pearl necklace stolen by a beggar under the gaze of a prostitute, who persuades her unemployed friend to steal it back, with tragic consequences. The story unfolds in flashback, without irony or a hint of redemption: life simply goes on. The film is remarkable for the innovative camerawork of Friedl Behn-Grund, which manipulates light and shadow to create a nightmarish atmosphere of fear and premonition.