Günther Rittau

Laslo Benedek interrupted his thriving Hollywood career to return to Europe as director of the German Kinder, Mutter und ein General (Children, Mother and the General). The film is set in Berlin during the last days of WW II. Desperate for manpower, Hitler has ordered that all able-bodied teenaged boys --some as young as 15 -- be drafted into the army. Frau Asmussen (Hilde Krahl) is one of five mothers who learn to their horror that their boys have been slated to be cannon fodder on behalf of the Third Reich. Asmussen and the other mothers head directly to the front to plead with the German generals for the lives of their sons. Not directly an indictment of Germany's involvement in (or incitement of) the recent war, Kinder, Mutter und ein General stresses the futility and heartbreak of all wars everywhere.

The successful shipowner Georg Behrendsen and his wife Irene are coming from South America to Germany for business. While negotiating in the home of senator Kersten, the senator's son Wilhelm (Werner Fuetterer) is taking care of Irene Behrendsen. The two fall in love with each other and decide to marry after Irene's divorce from her husband. But the old senator forces his son to decide whether to marry Irene or to become head of the shipping company. Not to break the family tradition, Wilhelm decides against the marriage. Irene, full of hatred against the senator, goes back to her husband. 25 years later. The senator is still head of the shipping company, because Wilhelm was killed in the war. He concentrates his love now on his daughter Victoria and he can't refuse any wish of her. Some day she tells him that she has been falling in love with a young german guy from overseas called Peter Behrendsen, not knowing that he is the son of the women who hates the senator the most.

This Nazi propaganda film follows the exploits of a German submarine as it prowls the North Atlantic.

Tom Finberg and Nick Dorland, two highly competent divers working for the Caribbian Oil Company, have been the best friends in the world since the day they met. But this wonderful friendship is endangered by their falling in love with the same young woman, Juana, the young owner of a hacienda. Worse, following a misunderstanding, generated by the belle's scheming uncle, Pedro de Alvarado, the two men fall out with each other. But when Tom is trapped under the surface of the burning ocean, Nick finally comes to his rescue.

The young Suzy is a nightclub hostess in a cabaret in which Frehel is the star. Because one night she gets propositions from a rich widower who would like to have her as his girlfriend, Suzy wishes to leave this place, where she has no future, for a better one. Abandoned by her protector, a young hoodlum named Robert, she gets the occasion to get away from it. She decides to go on vacation on the Riviera and stay at the Chateau des Cedres, the former residence of a noble family that has been transformed into a bourgeois guest house by the baroness Saint-Leu. Shy and elegant, in her modest suit, Suzy stays there under the name of Suzanne Michelet and soon makes new friends among the young people of very wealthy families.

After an emergency plane landing in the desert, the actress Barbara gets to know the industrialist Thomas. After they are rescued, the two live at Thomas' place in Berlin. Although she confesses her love for him, Thomas asks his brother Werner to look after Barbara, as he feels he is too consumed by work and doesn't wish to be bound to anyone. Only after a fight with his brother does Thomas realize how much in love with Barbara he really is; but by that time, she has left him. For years, Thomas searches in vain for her until one day he meets her in New York ... where she is now married.

외인부대 하사관이며, 수려한 외모로 수많은 여성들의 마음을 쥐락펴락하는 호색한 루시앙이 지중해 휴양 도시 칸에서 아름다운 마들렌을 만난다. 루시앙에게서 돈을 빌려 도박을 하던 마들렌은 모든 돈을 잃고, 루시앙의 곁에서도 떠나 버리는데, 루시앙은 이미 그녀를 깊이 사랑하고 있었다. 몇 년 후, 전역한 루시앙은 파리에서 허름한 카페를 운영하는데, 그는 여전히 마들렌을 잊지 못하고 있다. 동명 소설을 바탕으로 한 짜임새 있는 멜로드라마로, 데뷔 후 다큐멘터리, 장편, 단편 등 다양한 작업을 이어 왔던 그레미용에게 큰 상업적 성공을 안겨 준 작품이다. (ⓒ TF1(France)/(재)영화의전당)

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.

Using an atomic reactor, two scientists try to create gold.

F.P.1 is a huge airplane landing dock in the Atlantic where pilots making the transatlantic flight can stop. Yet a saboteur tries to sink the technical wonder in this classic German science fiction film from 1932. The film was also created with English and French speaking actors at the same time.

Two window cleaners help a girl who is trying to get to Hollywood.

Rival window cleaners Willy I and Willy 2 befriend Jou-Jou, an aspiring dancer, who has been tricked out of money by a con-man posing as an American movie mogul, and together they turn an old railway carriage into a "Villa Hollywood" for her.

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."

Lilian Harvey plays Eva, a young girl taking some time in a health spa and spending her evenings in the town's vaudeville theatre enamoured by a heavily made-up clown called Quick. Quick takes a shine to her and tries to woo her without make-up and masquerading as the theatre's manager. Unable to resolve her feelings for Quick and the theatre manager, Eva is angered when she finally learns that they are one and the same.

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

Two inspiration sources appear clearly: contemporary American gangster movies and Alfred Döblin’s novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929).

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.

An emancipated Princess, who has just returned home to her court in the Balkans from England, goes in disguise to a servants’ bal and falls in love with an alleged caterer, who turns out next day to be a lieutenant of the guard. Without letting on to her masquerade, she makes sure he climbs the ranks quickly. At the same time, she tries to thwart her engagement to an unpopular prince.

Simultaneously made French version of "Einbrecher": A wealthy old husband looks for the successor for his young wife.A devious gentleman burglar is one possibility he toys with.

The young wife of a rich old husband is prevented of a fling by a gentleman-burglar, who falls in love to her.

Also known as Darling of the Gods, this was Emil Jannings' second talkie appearance. Jannings stars as famed operatic singer Albert Winkelmann, who is greeted with cheers, applause and romantic propositions whenever he performs in his native Vienna. But when he embarks on a tour of South America, tragedy strikes. The sweltering climate causes Winkelmann to lose his voice on stage, a disaster met with hoots and cat-calls. Dispirited he returns to Europe, where he soon learns that no one is aware of what happened in South America. Intending to retire so as not to be exposed to further humiliation, Winkelmann is goaded back on stage -- where, miraculously, his gorgeous voice returns.

임마누엘 라트 박사는 근엄하고 고지식한 전형적인 독일교수이다. 학문과 제자교육을 삶의 전부로 알고 살아가던 그는 제자들이 밤에 술집에 몰래 다닌다는 사실을 전해듣고 '푸른 천사'라는 술집을 찾게 된다. 제자들을 찾아 헤매던 교수는 술집에서 공연을 하고 있는 서커스단의 가수 롤라를 우연히 만나게 된다. 다음날 다시 제자들을 찾기 위해 술집을 찾아간 교수는 섹시하고 매력적인 롤라의 노래하는 모습을 보고 반하여 밤새 술을 마시고 취하게 되는데, 다음날 아침 일어나보니 뜻밖에 롤라가 아침을 준비하고 있다. 평생을 철저하게 생활해 온 교수는 갑작스런 과음으로 늦잠을 자는 바람에 학교에 늦고 만다. 학교에 도착한 라트교수는 학생들의 빈정거림과 교장이 롤라에 대해 험담하는 것을 참지 못하고 "내 아내가 된 여자에게 함부로 이야기하지 말라"고 화를 낸다. 그리고 그는 롤라를 찾아가 청혼을 하는데...

A young maid from the country looses her job as maid in k.u.k. Budapest, when she stays out too long with her beau, a soldier, who's saving money to buy a horse to open a transport company. After being unemployed for quite a while and her rent is long overdue, the landlady offers her a better job in a nightclub. Meanwhile the soldiers family has decided that her son should marry the daughter of a rich farmer. The soldier finds out about his girl friends profession, and accepts after struggling with himself the match his parents have made. At the day of his engagement his girl friend comes to his hometown with enough money to buy a horse, which leads to a conflict between her, the fiancee, her family, himself and his parents.

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.

Following World War I, after a long imprisonment, two German prisoner-of-war soldiers escape from a Siberian lead-mine. Karl manages to reach Germany before Richard, and is sheltered by Anna, wife of Richard. While Richard is still on his homeward trek, Karl and Anna fall in love. And then Richard comes home.

풍요로운 삶을 누리는 지상세계의 프레더는 어느날 마리아를 통해 지하 세계의 비참한 생활상을 알게된다. 프레더는 그의 아버지 프레드슨에게 노동자들의 삶을 개선해 줄 것을 요청하지만 거절당한다. 한편 마리아가 주도하는 지하 세계의 집회를 목격한 프레드슨은 로트왕에게 마리아와 똑같은 로봇을 만들어 지하세계의 노동자들을 교란할 것을 명령하는데...

풍요로운 삶을 누리는 지상세계의 프레더는 어느날 마리아를 통해 지하 세계의 비참한 생활상을 알게된다. 프레더는 그의 아버지 프레드슨에게 노동자들의 삶을 개선해 줄 것을 요청하지만 거절당한다. 한편 마리아가 주도하는 지하 세계의 집회를 목격한 프레드슨은 로트왕에게 마리아와 똑같은 로봇을 만들어 지하세계의 노동자들을 교란할 것을 명령하는데...

Eva lives in the sinister Tower with her father, a mad inventor, and her grandfather. The aviator Wilfred Durian and his lovely wife live nearby in the town. But Durian's famous flight across the Australian desert was not all it seems... and when his 'dead' partner Arved Holl is rescued by Eva and comes to claim his former fiancée's hand, the whole house of cards is about to come tumbling down. Meanwhile, Eva's own family history is not quite as she had always believed...

은발의 멋진 구렛나루 수염을 쓰다듬으며 금빛 단추의 제복을 뽐내는 한 호텔 도어맨이 있다. 그는 출퇴근을 할 때에도 항상 호텔 제복을 입고 다니며, 나이는 들었지만 자신이 아직도 상당히 매력적이고 힘도 센 괜찮은 남자라는 생각 한다. 그리고 도어맨으로서의 직업적 자긍심도 대단하다. 그러던 어느날 도어맨이 손님의 무거운 가방을 나르고 숨이 차 잠시 로비에서 쉬고 있는데, 이를 호텔 매니저가 목격한다. 이 일이 빌미가 되어 도어맨은 나이가 많다는 이유로 세면장에서 수건 수발을 드는 자리로 좌천당하게 된다. 그런데 그날이 하필이면 질녀의 결혼식 날이였다. 제복을 벗은 초라한 자신의 모습을 친척들에게 보여줄 수 없다고 생각한 도어맨은 제복을 몰래 훔쳐내 입고 결혼식에 참석한다. 결혼식을 마친 다음 날 이런 사실을 모르는 친척 아주머니가 도어맨에게 줄 도시락을 들고 호텔로 찾아가는데...

의 2부로 크림힐트가 훈족의 여왕이 되어 지그프리트의 복수를 하는 과정을 그리고 있다. 크림힐트는 지그프리트를 죽인 하겐과 브룬힐트 일족을 자기 성으로 끌어 들여 피 어린 복수전을 시작한다. 1922년부터 23년까지 9개월간 UFA의 바벨스부르크 스튜디오에서 제작된 이 영화는 당시 1,2부로 나누어 양일에 걸쳐 개봉되어 큰 성공을 거두었다. 이전작품과 다른 대작을 연출해야 했던 프리츠 랑 감독은 아내인 테아 폰 하르보와 촬영감독 칼 호프만, 예술감독 오토 훈테, 칼 폴브레히트와 독일 특유의 감성어린 웅장하고 비극적인 걸작을 만들었다. 상징주의와 독일 표현주의 양식이 드러난 이 영화는 에이젠슈타인의 에 영향을 끼쳤다고 한다.

네덜란드의 왕자 지그프리트는 군터 왕을 만나러 가던 중 거대한 용을 만난다. 용을 무찌른 지그프리트는 용의 피를 뒤집어 쓰고 불사신이 되고, 난쟁이의 도깨비 감투도 손에 넣는다. 이후 군터 왕을 만난 지그프리트는 그의 여동생 크림힐트와의 결혼을 요청하고, 군터는 자신이 아이슬랜드의 여왕 브룬힐트와 결혼할 수 있도록 도와주면 결혼을 허락하겠노라고 한다. 브룬힐트와 결혼하기 위해서는 그녀와의 대결에서 이겨야만 했는데, 군터는 지그프리트의 힘을 이용한 것이다. 대결에서 이긴 군터는 브룬힐트와 결혼하고 지그프리트와 크림힐트도 결혼하지만, 속임수로 자신을 이겼음을 알게 된 브룬힐트는 크게 분노하고 지그프리트를 죽일 음모를 꾸민다.

In a distant Teutonic village, people dance and drink merrily celebrating a wedding feast. However, an elderly man tells the villagers that the valley where they live wasn't always happy but sorrowful. This was due to the tyranny of the master of the mountains who ruled the valley despotically.