Franz Grothe

Birth : 1908-09-17, Berlin, Germany

Death : 1982-09-12

Movies

Treffpunkt Herz
Gast
Madame Bovary
Original Music Composer
Glorious Times in the Spessart
Music
The countess is married, and the ghosts are still in the Spessart. Her husband becomes an astronaut and the story involved time travelling and space travelling starts.
Liselotte von der Pfalz
Music
Hocuspocus
Original Music Composer
Kurt Hoffmann's remake of his own 1953 movie based on the play by Curt Goetz.
Dr. med. Hiob Prätorius
Music
Heirate mich, Cherie
Original Music Composer
The House in Montevideo
Music
A respectable professor inherits a house and money in Montevideo from his wild sister, on the condition that he himself behaves in a disreputable way.
Meine Tochter und ich
Original Music Composer
Im sechsten Stock
Sound
Zwei unter Millionen
Original Music Composer
Heldinnen
Original Music Composer
A music comedy directed by Dietrich Haugk based on the play by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.
Eine Frau fürs ganze Leben
Original Music Composer
Sweetheart of the Gods
Original Music Composer
Biography of the famous German actress Renate Müller, who died in 1937 under unsettled circumstances; While doing her first movie for the UFA in Berlin, she meets the elderly secretary-general Dr. Simon and is impressed by his charm. Although her Nazi-friend Volker discourages her to befriend a Jew, they start dating. While she ascends to one of the most famous German actresses of her time, Simon is suffering more and more under the Nazi regime.
Ein Mann geht durch die Wand
Music
Mr. Buchsbaum, third class taxes employee, lives a peaceful life until the new chief immediately criticizes his work. His only confort is his stamps collection. Sadly, even this consolation and his peace are threatened by a new, charming, neighbour who teaches piano. Increasingly infuriated, he discovers accidentally one evening that he has the ability to go through walls. With this power, he decides to settle the scores, firstly with his boss who downgraded him.
Beautiful Adventure
Original Music Composer
The teacher Dorothee Durand, young and single, travels from England to the picturesque south of France to find the remaining remnants of her family. Her search takes her to Nimes, where she meets the likewise single Marius, a hotelier, who immediately falls in love with the beautiful woman. And so it turns out that after traveling through half of France, Dorothy not only finds her relatives, but also ...
Zwölf Mädchen und ein Mann
Original Music Composer
Liebe auf krummen Beinen
Original Music Composer
Der Engel, der seine Harfe versetzte
Original Music Composer
A comedy directed by Kurt Hoffmann.
The Priest and the Girl
Compositor
A priest falls in love with a rich man's daughter.
Arms and the Man
Music
1865: Swiss captain Bluntschli fights as mercenary in the war between Bulgaria and Serbia. When his group's attacked by a few Bulgarian troopers, he learns that he's got the wrong ammunition for his cannon and has to flee. His flight leads him right into the bedroom of his enemy's fiancée.
Aren't We Wonderful
Original Music Composer
Kurt Hoffmann′s satire concerning Germany′s development during the first half of the 20th century tells the story of two schoolmates - Hans and Bruno. They could not be more different. While Hans is ambitious and must always work hard for his career, it seems that the happy go lucky Bruno is carefree.
The Trapp Family in America
Original Music Composer
Hoch klingt der Radetzkymarsch
Compositor
Der schwarze Blitz
Original Music Composer
Michael Kirchner, nicknamed "The Black Lightning", is a passionate alpine skier. Now he must eliminate the tough opponent Herbert Tanner to be the representative of the national team.
Clear the stage for Marika
Music
A dance and music film tailored completely for Marika Rokk: After her divorce, the wife of a composer uses her wit and charm to engage Marika as a singer and dancer on the stage. This manages to give life once again to the extinguished love between her and her former husband.
The Spessart Inn
Original Music Composer
Countess Franziska "is kidnapped" by a band of robbers. However, her father is not willing to pay the ransom so Franziska changes sides.
A Piece of Heaven
Original Music Composer
Immer wenn der Tag beginnt
Original Music Composer
Die Heilige und ihr Narr
Music
Junger Mann, der alles kann
Original Music Composer
Goodbye, Francesca!
Original Music Composer
Königin Luise
Original Music Composer
The Trapp Family
Original Music Composer
"The Trapp Family" is a true story based on the popular novel by the Baroness Von Trapp of Austria. The film was made in 1961, a few years before the other film based on the Trapp Family's life was released - a little movie named "The Sound of Music".
Wenn wir alle Engel wären
Music
Die wilde Auguste
Original Music Composer
I Often Think of Piroschka
Original Music Composer
Andreas, a young German student comes to Hungary on an exchange programme. In the Hungarian village he falls in love with the stationmaster's daughter Piroschka and spends much of his time with her. They have an enchanting summer until Andreas gets an invitation to join another young woman at a nearby resort. Piroschka is jealous and follows him there, causing trouble. It takes a long time for Andreas and Piroschka to even talk to each other again. When Andreas has to leave Hungary at the end of his holiday, he is determined to return some day.
Mädchen ohne Grenzen
Original Music Composer
Helga, a stewardess, meet a passenger, Eric, during a flight to Athens. They fall in love, but he is married. Later Helga is involved in a flight crash. One of the severely injured passengers is Eric's wife Maria.
Drei Mädels vom Rhein
Original Music Composer
Rosen im Herbst
Music
Ave Maria
Music
Karin Twerdy used to be an opera singer but now, in order to pay for her daughter Daniela's education in a religious school, she performs in a shady nightclub. Industrialist Dietrich Gontard, the father of Karin's school friend Christa, falls for her. But when he learns the truth about her he is outraged and rejects her. At a loss and not to stand in the way of Daniela's future, Karin chooses to disappear...
Hokuspokus
Original Music Composer
They Call It Love
Music
Fanfaren der Ehe
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Vater braucht eine Frau
Original Music Composer
A widowed father advertises for a new maid, but his children secretly seek a woman to be his new wife.
The House in Montevideo
Music
Observing staunch moral attitudes, professor Traugott Nägler, his wife Marianne, and their swarm of children life a happy and idyllic life in a small town. But when their oldest daughter Atlanta inherits a house in Montevideo that belonged to the deceased sister of the professor, the family′s life is about to change dramatically.
Fanfares of Love
Music
Two out of work musicians put on drag to get work in an all girl band. Inevitable comical romantic complications ensue.
Furioso
Original Music Composer
About the power of love and that love is such a strong force that humans are willing to commit the most ruthless acts to achieve it. And the one who loses in the game of love, can die as a result of it. This is how love is, according to "Furioso".
Chased by the Devil
Music
A doctor discovers a new medical cure with dangerous side effects, and takes the drug himself to test its limitations.
Frauenarzt Dr. Prätorius
Music
In the face of two world wars, Professor Prätorius, a philanthropist and a surgeon, wants to exterminate the one danger to mankind, the microbe of stupidity, as he states in a spontaneous lecture to his male and female students. When he tries to help a pregnant girl he gets involved more and more in her life and is forced to marry her.
Kätchen für alles
Music
Derby
Music
Nichts als Zufälle
Music
The Woman of My Dreams
Music
Blonde goddess Marika Rökk plays Julia Koster, a ravishing red-headed musical revue star and her opening number, "At Night It Isn't Right To Be Alone", playing to a packed theater, is both an eye-popper and a jaw-dropper.
Hab’ mich lieb!
Music
Tanz mit dem Kaiser
Music
The young emperor Joseph II of Austria and Hungary is not interested in romance and marriage, and every time his mother makes arrangements for him to meet eligible young ladies, he escapes under some pretense. This time he is off on a 'tour of inspection' with his trusted friend von Kleber. Things become complicated when von Kleber, pretending to be the emperor so as to protect the real Joseph from discovery, falls in love with Christine, the landlady of their lodgings. And when Christine later writes to the emperor, her letter is read by the mother of the real emperor, as keen as ever to see him getting married, and so the lady is invited to the imperial court.
Women Are Better Diplomats
Music
A seductive dancer (Marika Rökk) helps her uncle to fight against the closing of his casino. Through her feminine charm she achieves diplomatic success.
Alarm auf Station III
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Napoleon Is to Blame for Everything
Music
English Lord Arthur Cavershoot is a passionate Napoleon scholar who badly neglects his wife Josephine for his obsession with the French emperor. When the cranky historian travels to a Napoleon conference in Paris, his smart spouse secretly follows him. Unnoticed by her, the city of love threatens to spark a romance between Arthur and a chorus girl.
Diskretion – Ehrensache
Music
Die fromme Lüge
Music
The stand-alone opera singer Carmen Casini dare not admit to her adult son, the spoiled race car driver Cecil, that she ruined her voice on a stormy day at the racetrack and that her career is thus at an end. Meanwhile, Cecil has fallen in love with the pretty Colette … without suspecting that her father, the wealthy Bartell, was a former lover of his mother and that he’s Cecil’s daddy. Thus, both Carmen and Bartell try to prevent the unfolding love-relationship between brother and sister, because this ain’t the Ozarks, you know! Only after the unhappy Cecil tries to commit suicide after an argument with his mother do Carmen and Bartell realize they still love one another. Suicide attempt be damned; let’s go out on a date! A movie that screams “Fun for the whole family.”
Waltz Melodies
Compositor
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.
The Love of the Maharaja
Music
Peter, Paul and Nanette
Music
So Ended a Great Love
Compositor
The political advisor to the French emperor Napoleon, and the Austrian emperor Franz I, arrange a marriage between Napoleon and the Austrian archduchess Marie-Luise in order to prevent another war.
Zwischen zwei Herzen
Original Music Composer
Don't Be Afraid of Love
Music
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.
Dream Castle
Music
A film actress falls for an extra on her set, he turns out to be a prince.
Waltz War
Music
Die Herren vom Maxim
Music Director
Gilgi: One of Us
Music
A young woman born illegitimately comes to terms with the challenge of getting married.
The Last Company
Original Music Composer
13 German soldiers have to fight off a French regiment.