Max Pfeiffer

The Trombonist is a 1949 comedy film directed by Carl Boese and starring Paul Dahlke, Sabine Peters and Ludwig Körner.

A seductive dancer (Marika Rökk) helps her uncle to fight against the closing of his casino. Through her feminine charm she achieves diplomatic success.

William MacPhab loses seven-pounds in the stock market and decides to slap the man who was responsible for the stock manipulation that caused him to lose his money. Astor Terbanks, the stock-market manipulator is surprised the next day when he gets soundly slapped by MacPhab, and the latter promises to deliver one more a day for the next six days. Terbank's daughter, Daisy, is amused by the procedure and is attracted to MacPhab.

After completing work on the British musical Invitation to the Waltz, Lillian Harvey returned to her adopted country of Germany to star in the comedy-with-music Glueckskinder (Children of Fortune). Harvey plays Ann Garden, an unemployed actress who ends up in night court on a loitering charge. Here she meets Gil Taylor (Willy Fritsch), a struggling songwriter temporarily employed as a court reporter. Hoping to keep her out of jail, Gil impulsively tells the judge that he's engaged to Ann -- whereupon the judge, equally impulsively, marries the couple on the spot! After this inauspicious start, Ann and Gil embark upon a rocky (but tuneful) whirlwind romance.

To take a revenge on countess Laura, who slapped him at his proposal, the Governor of the occupied Poland gets her fall in love with a poor student, and exposes him during wedding banquet.

Baron Franz von Naydek is constantly being mistaken for Prince Woronzeff, since both look identical. One day, Woronzeff decides that this similarity might come in handy. Since he is very ill and can no longer deal with the intrigues of his relatives, he begs his friend Naydek to play the role of prince for a while. Naydek agrees and everything seems to be going splendidly. Woronzeff’s ex-nag Diane sees through the game, however, but says nothing, since she’s fallen for Naydek. He, in turn, has the hots for Nadja, Woronzeff’s daughter, long thought lost and who has now reappeared. The prince’s relatives fear for their inheritance and so refuse to acknowledge Nadja’s existence. In the interim, Woronzeff dies. Now Naydek is obliged to play the role for a much longer time than he bargained for.

A woman staying at a health spa (Lillian Harvey, goes to the theater every night to see "Quick" a comic performer, who wears clown make-up. She meets him off stage, without make-up and doesn't recognize him. He courts her, hoping she'll like him for himself but she maintains her crush on "Quick."

Fresh out of prison a small-time crook finds his girlfriend's dropped him, which sends him into a murderous rage.

The captain of a battleship of a small Balkan country is fed up with following strange orders from the country's queen.

Simultaneously made French version of "Ihre Hoheit Befiehlt": An officer, posing as a deli clerk, and a princess, posing as a manicurist, meet at a ball. The court especially the prime minister oppose a marriage, for political reasons.

One of the last great German Expressionist films of the silent era, Joe May’s Asphalt is a love story set in the traffic-strewn Berlin of the late 1920s. Starring the delectable Betty Amann in her most famous leading role, Asphalt is a luxuriously produced UFA classic where tragic liaisons and fatal encounters are shaped alongside the constant roar of traffic.

여행 중인 신혼 커플은 작은 마을에서 쉬어가기로 결정한다. 신부는 신비스러운 동굴을 발견하고 그곳에서 ‘죽음’을 만나게 된다. ‘죽음’은 그녀에게 세 명의 목숨을 살린다면 그녀의 남편의 목숨을 살려 주겠다고 하고, 그녀는 그와 함께 여행을 떠나게 된다. 미국 현대미술관(MOMA)이 보유한 35mm 프린트를 기본으로 툴루즈 시네마테크, 뮌헨영화박물관, 러시아 고스필모폰드, 체코영상자료원, 브뤼셀왕립아카이브의 필름을 참고로 디지털 복원되어, 올해 2월 베를린 국제영화제에서 월드 프리미어로 상영되었다. 개봉 당시 ‘충분히 독일적이지 않다는’ 이유로 독일에서는 외면되었으나 해외에서 성공하여 프리츠 랑 감독에게 국제적인 명성을 안겨준 영화이기도 하다. 주한독일문화원의 후원으로 초청된 독일 피아니스트 리하르트 지드호프의 연주로 상영된다. (2016 한국영상자료원 - 영화의 세계에 오신 것을 환영합니다)