Jedermann (archive footage)
Based on archive holdings from nine decades, director Hannes Rossacher has created a complete Jedermann performance and thus a unique cultural-historical puzzle from Alexander Moissi to Nicholas Ofczarek. The success story of the phenomenon "Everyman" is told in an unprecedented way.
Carl Stromberg (archive footage) (uncredited)
Um documentário sobre os 10 mais eletrizantes momentos da franquia James Bond 007 em seus 40 anos de história. Nesta obra, estão os mais desafiantes momentos do agente, seus sinistros vilões e maravilhosas mulheres. Há também entrevistas com elenco e críticos, lembrando seus momentos favoritos. Apresentação de Roger Moore.
Hans Collin
Maître Legraine
This story starts in 1980 in Paris as the memories of Andrei Borodin, a Soviet agent, take the action back to 1943 during the Teheran meetings of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill. A high-ranking Nazi officer developed a plan to assassinate the three world leaders in order to undermine the Allied forces. He commissioned the German agent Max Richard to carry out his plan, but it failed miserably due to the quick action and thinking of Andrei. While in Teheran, Andrei met a French woman, Marie Louni, living in the city and they had a brief but intense affair. Nearly four decades later, the Nazi officer has been captured - but not for long. Freed by terrorists, the officer is hunting down the German agent who failed to carry out the planned assassinations. Max lives at Françoise, a young French woman, who hides him.
Count St. Alyre
Set in 1815, a young Englishman touring Europe encounters more than he bargained for. His pursuit of the beautiful Countess St. Alyre brings him into contact with the Marquis D'Armanville and other odd characters. A series of bizarre murders occur, bringing our hero to the borderland of nightmare.
UFO-Commander
A biologist has succeeded in growing a particularly energy-rich lettuce and now the whole world wants to get hold of the product.
Wilfrid
Martial Perrin is the president of a right-wing political party which is gearing itself up for a forthcoming election. When he learns that a notorious criminal named Kraus has escaped from prison, Perrin panics and goes into hiding. His deputy, Constant, hires Perrin’s cousin, Gilbert, an actor who is a perfect double of Perrin, to replace him. What Gilbert does no know is that the killer Kraus is bumping off the people who were implicated in the affair for which he was arrested, and that Perrin is next on his list.
Dr. Serafin
A neo-Nazi Doctor tries to make a superwoman of his daughter who has been specially fed, exercised & Conditioned since she was a child to run in the Olympics.
Sigmund Freud
General Hofmann
No final de maio de 1944, durante a retirada alemã na Frente Oriental, o capitão Stransky (Helmut Griem) ordena ao sargento Steiner (Richard Burton) que exploda um túnel ferroviário para impedir que as forças russas o usem. O pelotão de Steiner falha em sua missão ao se deparar com um tanque russo. Steiner então tira uma licença para Paris no momento em que os Aliados lançam sua invasão da Normandia.
Dr. Jan Diffring (archive footage) (as Curt Jurgens)
A cut-and-paste sexploitation movie in the vein of Al Adamson's other Stewardess movies using footage from the eurocrime thriller Der Arzt von St. Pauli (1968)
Prince
After World War I, a war hero returns to Berlin to find that there's no place for him--he has no skills other than what he learned in the army, and can only find menial, low-paying jobs. He decides to become a gigolo to lonely rich women.
Baron Marchant
An American intelligence agent travels to pre-Islamic Revolution Iran to try to thwart a power-mad European baron from using a stolen cruise missile to destroy an unspecific target in that country.
Karl Stromberg
James Bond e a bela agente soviética Anya Amasova juntam-se para investigar o desaparecimento de submarinos nucleares, aliados e russos. As pistas levam-nos ao bilionário Karl Stromberg. Depressa, Bond e Anya tornam-se a última esperança de conseguir acabar com um plano que irá levar o mundo a um holocausto nuclear.
Jeweler
Bored aristocratic Parisian couples begin affairs with each other which only brings trouble.
Senator Shelton
A couple of friends aspiring to join film land get mixed up in a robbery, ordered by a mafia boss who wants to seize the evidence he needs to blackmail an American politician.
Josef Popov
Man Engaging Giorgio
A provincial young man with aspirations of becoming a private investigator is approached by a stranger that promises 100 million lire if he provides evidence of the existence of Jesus Christ.
Fox
An aging gossip columnist, tired of the social life of the Roman Dolce-vita set, goes to New York with hopes of a literary career. He marries a nurse, but succumbs to his former mistress.
Dorsday
Albert Korz
Fanny Hobichler, a young promising actress, moves to Vienna in the 1920s in order to pursue her big break. She draws inspiration and seeks help from the popular stage actor Albert Kortz who once started out from the same provincial town as she did and was a close friend of her late father. Kortz, however, dreams of retiring as he is tired of his fame and having to deal with the short-tempered theatre director Jason. Together, they try to outwit Jason.
Cardinal Braschi
After attending esoterical studies with a wise man, Cagliostro, a mysterious Italian count, received the gift of supernatural powers. He started to travel all over Europe to heal the poor. But he is also a member of a pre-revolutionary lodge the aim of which is to give freedom to the populations of Europe. This cannot be tolerated by the 18th century's establishment and bought the Pope and the regal house of France try to eliminate him. So Cagliostro is locked up in a castle, while his wife is killed. But when in 1795 the door of his cell is opened there is nothing inside but a sword...
Generale Von Grotjahn
In this comedy, set during the Nazi occupation of France, Peter Sellers plays most major male parts, so he stars in nearly every scene, always bumbling in inspector Clouseau-style.
Self
"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.
Alvarez
Henry, a rich Londoner bored, shipwrecked in the Atlantic and ends up in San Francisco. The adventure has just begun. From the novel "Naufrage en eaux troubles" by François Ponthier.
Sebastian (segment 3 "This Trick'll Kill You")
Uma antologia de cinco histórias de horror compartilhadas por cinco homens presos no porão de um prédio de escritórios.
General
Grueningen
Interpol investigates the freelance killings of drug and porn peddlers.
German Consul to Switzerland
Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
Ronald Marvelling
Curd Jurgens as the betrayed husband is incredibly expressive and believable; Rosabla Neri, as the philandering Alexa, delivers her usual thoughtful performance and, in doing so, makes her potentially cardboard cut-out character multi-dimensional, and Juan Luis Galiardo, as Alexa'a heartthrob Pierre, also cares enough about his craft that he avoids the trappings of a potentially stereotypical character and, like Neri, makes him real and full of depth
Kapitän Markus Jolly
Hamburg ship captain Markus Jolly is hired to transport a vaccine to a Latin American port, but when the precious cargo is stolen by mobsters, he is falsely accused of engineering the theft.
Duncan Mowbray
Um satanista velho e moribundo organiza a transferência de sua alma para o corpo de um jovem pianista de concerto.
Carlos, Marquis de Cabral
Henri Emery
Serge Morgan is a killer working for the American Mafia. After performing a contract in New York for his employers, he takes the plane back to Paris and, during the flight, he gets to know Jane, the rich daughter of an ambassador. Once in Orly Airport he gets seriously wounded by the men of French drug kingpin Henri Emery. He manages to escape them though and takes refuge at Jane's. Passion sets in between the killer and the young lady. As of then, sex will be intertwined with blood and death. For better or worse...
Baron De Choisis
A car salesman journeys to France and encounters an apparently lonely woman. He immediately begins to successfully woo her only to learn that she is actually a baron's wife. Fortunately, the baron believes in open marriages and winds up hiring the Englishman to teach his son (from an earlier marriage) everything about automobiles. Meanwhile the car salesman finds himself falling seriously in love with the wife. The baron really doesn't mind as he himself is involved with another.
Baron
Based on the story "The Heroes of Yucca," The Invincible Six features a ragtag group of jewel thieves who become the unofficial guardians of a small Iranian village. When bandits attack the village, looking for the body of their former leader and his treasure map, the Invincible Six are there to save the day, wooing the local females and frustrating the new leader of the bandits.
Kommissar Canisius
West German crime film directed by Rolf Olsen and starring Curd Jürgens, Andrea Rau and Corny Collins. It is set in the red-light district of St. Pauli in Hamburg.
Thomas Nathan Terbanks
Dressed only with a muff, Eva - naked as God created her - reaches the conference room of the big bank to expose Terbanks' capitalists and bankers and to protest against capitalism and exploitation. But the naked woman from the "Red October" community slapped the wrong man and pursued tangible own interests in the form of inherited shares ...
Konrad Johannsen
General Lohring
In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great offensive against Yugoslav Partisans in Western Bosnia. The only way out for Partisan forces and thousands of refugees was the bridge on the river Neretva.
Baron von Richter
A mais extraordinária batalha aérea da história, transformada num clássico filme de guerra.
Em 1940, durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, a RAF - Real Força Aérea britânica entra numa luta desesperada contra a Luftwaffe para impedir uma possível invasão das forças alemãs ao território inglês. Os soldados se engajam numa luta aérea pelo controle dos céus, e o que está em jogo é a sobrevivência da Inglaterra.
Hannes Teversen
A crime movie directed by Rolf Olsen.
General Von Reilow
A British Colonel is angry with his superiors after his entire platoon is slaughtered by the Germans in what he saw as a suicide mission. So for his next mission, he takes along a platoon a convicted criminals - to prepare the Normandy beaches for the D-Day landings. Wartime drama from Italy, starring Jack Palance, Wolfgang Preiss and Curd Jurgens.
General von Pinck
Em busca de uma grande reportagem, uma jovem jornalista (Diana Rigg) põe em polvorosa uma organização de assassinos profissionais, envolvendo-se com o charmoso chefe da gangue (Oliver Reed).
Dr. Jan Diffring
A good doctor is out to stop his evil doctor brother from blackmailing his patients.
Il Maggiore
A secret agent is sent to the Middle East to destroy a gang of assassins.
Kardinal
General Edwin von Keist
Set near the end of World War II in the Netherlands, Dirty Heroes concerns a group of ex-convicts recruited into the U.S. Army to recover Dutch jewels originally stolen by the Nazis as well as confiscated Allied plans
Carl van Kesser
International spies Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) travel around the globe in an effort to track down a secret formula that was divided into four parts and left by a dying scientist with his four of five daughters, all of whom live in different countries. His widow, Amanda, is murdered at the beginning by the counter-spies of the organization THRUSH. Evil THRUSH agent Randolph also wants the formula, and is aided by his karate-chopping henchmen.
Le Baron Edouard de Santis
Tulipe, is an old man who lives alone in an old railway carriage in the Argentueil region of Paris. His main passions are gardening and oil painting, but he also has a secret source of income. His godson discovers that Tulipe is actually a master forger, producing perfect copies of 10 franc notes. His godson’s girlfriend sees this as an opportunity to get very rich – but she must persuade Tulipe to forge 500 franc notes. Assuming Tulipe’s agreement, his godson and his girlfriend buy an expensive new car and luxury villa in provincial France – but there is a cruel turn of fate in store for them when Tulipe strikes up a friendship with a millionaire playboy.
Gérard van Looch / Giant
A secret agent is charged with preventing a crime syndicate's plot to assassinate a young heiress.
Zar Alexander I. von Russland
Vienna 1965. While visiting the Wax Museum a group of tourists stop in front of the figure of Prince Metternich. All of a sudden they find themselves brought back 150 years earlier during the Vienna Congress of 1814-1815. Before their eyes wide open, history is in the making. Gathered around the Tsar of Russia, Alexander I, the Kings of Bavaria, Würtemberg, Prussia and Denmark, are persuaded they are building the future Europe whereas they are being manipulated by foxy Chancellor Metternich, he himself under the thumb of cynical Count Talleyrand, the French representative. All those considerations come second though to partying and social life, which is all these aristocrats really want out of this congress.
Dave O'Connor
Richard Whitney
Stefan von Cramer
An episodic film, telling four erotic tales: Angela isn't sexually satisfied by her husband, so she simulates sleep-walking to visit her neighbor across the street every night; when his bathtub runs over, shy Peter gets to meet his sensuous neighbor Lolita; at a high-school reunion his former students pull a prank on Prof. Hellberg and make him believe he cheated on his wife while being drunk; Sybill has a good time during a break at the opera with the famous conductor Cramer.
(archive footage)
A short film containing a collection of clips from various Hollywood movies.
Cornelius
James Burke (Peter O'Toole) é o primeiro oficial de um navio a vapor que durante um furacão, covardemente abandona o navio deixando seus passageiros para morrer afogados. Desonrado, Lord Jim procura uma forma de consertar seu erro - não somente perante os olhos da comissão da marinha inglesa, como também para si próprio. Assim, ele recebe a dura missão de entregar um carregamento de dinamite para uma tribo de nativos em algum lugar inexplorado do oriente e acaba se unindo aos nativos em sua luta contra O General (Eli Wallach), um brutal e rude opressor. Em sua jornada de aventuras, ele se encontra com Brown (James Mason), um pirata educado e cavalheiro que tem um plano misterioso o qual irá colocá-lo num confronto com seu verdadeiro destino. Agora, Lord Jim terá que aprender a diferença entre um herói e um covarde, uma verdade que é impiedosa e sem fuga.
Kurt Lehnert
Three crooks come out of jail on probation and, taking advantage of the economic boom in Germany, they continue their shady business quite legally this time.
Hubert Marek
A professor of astronomy helping on a missile development program. An old friend of his is a Russian chess champion. The Russian is working with shady businessman Marek and they plan to kidnap the professor and make it look as though he has defected to the Soviet Union.
Eric Crawford
An industrialist's wife tries to remember the shocking sight that made her blind.
Ludwig Goetz
Filme Francês.
Hans Willke
Hugo Falsen
An old castle in Sweden, inhabited by a family of 18th century dressing eccentrics, holds secrets, deception, and rumors of murder.
Paul Beckman
American engineer Steve Corey comes to Mexico to work at one of the mining projects owned by Katherine Beckman and her half-brother Paul. He meets Katherine, and the man he is replacing, Bill Maxton, tells him that Katherine is his for the asking..."all you have to do is touch her---she goes off like fireworks. There were plenty of guys before me, and there'll be plenty after me." Steve finds Katherine as advertised but he falls in love with her. Once he sees that the romance is for real, brother Paul is more than a little displeased at this turn of events and brings back one of Katherine's earlier flames, Gus Cole, to tempt Katherine away from Steve.
Gen. Tellheim
Na Áustria da segunda guerra mundial, Alois Podhajsky precisa proteger seus queridos cavalos garanhões da raça Lipizzan e providenciar que eles estejam em mãos seguras. Mas Patton, um adorador de cavalos, pode ajudá-lo... se puder ver os garanhões se apresentarem.
Macheath, genannt Mackie Messer
The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the beggars of Soho will disturb the upcoming coronation.
Mr. Edmond
Mr. Edmond is a middle-aged playboy, living by his wits on the Riviera. Among the women with whom Edmond dallies are three gorgeous ladies.
Maj. Gen. Gunther Blumentritt
O maior ataque que o mundo já viu, acontecido no dia 6 de junho, ficou conhecido como o Dia D e desbancou o domínio nazista na Europa. A ofensiva, que envolveu mais de 3 milhões de homens, foi uma das mais ousadas e sangrentas estratégias militares da era moderna e marcou o início do fim da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Vencedor dos Oscar de Fotografia em Preto e Branco e Efeitos Especiais, foi indicado ainda à outras três categorias: Filme, Montagem e Direção de Arte em Preto e Branco.
Carlo's Father
Salvatori pays a visit to his old ma who is bedridden in a gloomy old people’s home. He promises her that pretty soon he’ll be rich and they’ll live together in their house. The young man is hired as a catering assistant in a desirable mansion, but the owner of the place is dying. The wife and the daughter are trying to regain the old man’s love and affection while the son is busy gathering his friends for a feast.
Michel Strogoff
In this adaptation of the Jules Verne novel, the Czarina asks an intrepid colonel to protect her nephew as he fights an invasion in 19th century Russia.
Cliff MacHardy
Director
Gustav Adolf
Gustl Leubelfing, daughter of the mayor of Nuremberg adores the king of the Swedes. So she happily substitutes her brother as Gustav Adolf's page instead of marrying her fiancée Roland. Of course she has to hide that she's a woman, especially when they go into war against Wallenstein.
Werner von Basil
Werner von Basil (a Austrian intellectual) was captured by the Nazi in 1938. The want to break him to confess smuggling. Without any mental sustenance, the only thing left to keep his mind busy is an old tactics book for chess.
Wernher von Braun
The life story of the famed rocket scientist Dr. Werner von Braun, one of the most brilliant and controversial figures of the space age. Dr. von Braun literally pioneered man's adventure into space through his rocket experiments; his was the brain behind the V-2 rockets which blasted London in World War II; his was also the brain which led America into the development and the launching of space satellites.
Czar Alexander II
O Czar Alexandre II conhece uma jovem estudante, Kátia. Ele percebe que a ama e tenta mandá-la embora, mas acabam se vendo novamente e se tornam amantes. Com a ajuda de Kátia, Alexandre prepara uma constituição liberal, mas essas reformas o tornam inimigo dos súditos mais privilegiados.
Mark Bertram Conrad
Mark Conrad, a habitual drunk and troublemaker with a shady past, is expelled by Hong Kong police after one too many bar fights. He's sent to Macao on the Fa Tsan, a ferry owned by Captain Hart. Conrad's papers are out of order and Macao refuses him entry. Unable to go ashore, Conrad is a permanent passenger on the ferry with Hart, who detests him. It's all one long, lazy voyage for Conrad until one fateful trip when an encounter with a typhoon and pirates forces Conrad to choose between an aimless drifter's life and becoming a man again.
Professor Immanuel Rath
Remake of Josef von Sternberg's 1930 classic.
Eric Muller
Plotters decide to scuttle a ship for the insurance money, but things go wrong.
Johann 'Schinderhannes' Bückler
Capt. Lin Nan
Toda sua vida a inglesa Gladys Aylward sabia que a China era o lugar onde ela pertencia. Não qualificada para ser enviado para lá como missionária, Gladys trabalha como doméstica para ganhar o dinheiro necessário para custear a viagem à uma pobre aldeia remota chinesa. Lá, ela finalmente vive uma vida plena e feliz. tocando uma pousada, atuando como "Inspetora de Pés", aconselhando o mandarim local e até mesmo ganhando o coração do mestiço Capitão Lin Nan. Mas Gladys descobre seu verdadeiro destino, quando o país é invadido pelo Japão e as crianças chinesas precisam dela para salvarem suas vidas. Baseado em uma história verdadeira.
Colonel Prokoszny
Jacobowsky (Danny Kaye), um refugiado judeu, foge dos nazistas com o Coronel Prokoszny (Curd Jürgens), um aristocrático e anti-semita oficial polonês, que está tentando levar uns documentos para a Inglaterra. Ao longo da história Jurgens aprende a gostar de Kaye, apesar de sua disputa pela mesma mulher, e juntos eles tentam despistar seus perseguidores.
Preston Mitchell
On a stormy night, young woman asks another guest at party to rescue her from her lecherous boss and take her to the train station. When her rescuer suggests that she stop at his place to get out of her wet clothes, she dashes from his car. The door she knocks on for help is the home of a retired actor and there she spends the rest of the night. He makes no passes and next morning she discovers young man who drove her from party is a next door neighbor, before long the two men are competing for her affections.
Captain John Reiker
A Dutch slave captain, on a voyage to Cuba, faces a revolt fomented by a newly captured African slave, Tamango. The slaves capture the captain's mistress, forcing a showdown.
Kapitän von Stolberg
Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, o USS Haynes, um destroyer americano de escolta descobre um U-Boat (Submarino) alemão no Atlântico Sul. Um duelo mortal entre os dois começa, e o Capitão Murrell (Robert Mitchum) deve usar toda sua experiência para derrotar o Comandante alemão Von Stolberg (Curd Jürgens) igualmente experiente.
Alex
A doctor at a run-down psychiatric hospital is offered a large sum of money to shelter a new patient. Soon the place is full of suspicious and secretive characters, all apparently international secret agents trying to find out who and what the patient is.
Dr. Walter
In North Africa, an anguished husband tests the character of the doctor he believes is responsible for his wife’s death.
Major David Brand
During the second world war, two British officers, Brand and Leith, who have never seen combat are assigned a vital mission. Their relationship and the operation are complicated by the arrival of Brand's wife, who had a tryst with Leith years earlier.
Michel Strogoff
After the death of his wife and his son, Michael, an intrepid Russian imperial army officer, lost the joy of living. His family has been the victim of an attack by the commander Ogareff Tartar troops, operating in the eastern DRC. When Tsar commissioned him to cross the dangerous mission across Siberia to restore communications troops sabotaged by Ogareff, the young officer does not hesitate to accept.
Colonel Bernes
A radio operator for the British Army is captured in a Nazi-occupied Dutch city.
Eric Carradine
Na pequena comuna de Saint-Tropez, a sedutora órfã Juliette é o objeto de desejo de todos os homens. Ela provoca o milionário Eric e se sente atraída por Antoine. Para fugir do orfanato, ela aceita se casar com Michel, o irmão mais jovem de Antoine.
Dr. Robert Kessler
Director
Henrik Balder
Bate
Thomas Ritter
After leaving his overbearing wife for another woman, a composer is suspected of her murder when she is found dead.
Gert von Breithagen
Wolf Gerke
A good cast smooths over the rough spots of Les Heros sont Fatigues. The scene is the African republic of Liberia, which in this film proves to be a stopping-off point for a number of shady characters. Yves Montand plays a French ex-pilot who becomes involved in a scheme to smuggle stolen diamonds. His cohorts include a Nazi collaborator, a German refugee, and the white mistress of a prominent Liberian. A romance develops between the ex-pilot and the aforementioned mistress. Meanwhile, one of the conspirators (Curt Jurgens) has a last-minute attack of conscience, effectively queering the deal. The steamier romantic passages in Les Heros sont Fatigues had to be trimmed for American consumption.
Bruno Mechelke
After the fall and before the wall.
Walter
Gen. Harry Harras
Curt Jurgens stars as a courageous Luftwaffe officer. Jurgens loves the service, even though he barely tolerates the Hitler regime. Sickened by wartime Nazi atrocities, Jurgens renounces his government, and is imprisoned and tortured as a result. Once released, the general takes pity on a downtrodden Jewish family. This isolated act of kindness is a point in his favor when Jurgens stands before Satan himself for his final judgment. The Devil's General was based on an immensely successful postwar play by German author Carl Zuckmeyer.
Stefan Selby
A film comedy about two beautiful women, two marry-able girls and a man!
Paul Kahr
Told in flashback, the film recounts the events leading up to the killing of good-for-nothing Curt Jurgens. Warned by her friends and relatives that Jurgens is a bad job, impulsive Ina Kahr marries him anyway. His ceaseless philandering and abuse wears away at Ina to the point that she contemplates poisoning her husband...
Toni
Willi Kluge
Heinz Bender
Pat
Clemens Haberland
Rittmeister Graf Sarassow
Hans Kerstens
Peter Malmö
Toni Brandstetter
Capitano Herakles
It is the year 2000 and the World Global Union is in charge, although other countries are allowed to elect their own government leaders, as long as they support the Union. When Austria's newly-elected president, played by Josef Meinrad, makes his inauguration speech he declares Austria independence and issues an edict ending Austria's financial support for the Global Union.
John Vandergold
Two drifters land a part in a movie, and are later mistaken for millionaires.
Axel Jolander
Writer
Kommissar
Director
Jean Langrand
Composer Jack Long
A formerly unsuccessful musician comes back to his homeland in Carinthia as a famous composer via Broadway and woos his widowed childhood sweetheart.
Architekt Reinhold
Prinz Bernardo
Sascha Borotraz
Lawrence Vinning
Dr. Kurt Walla
Felix Alberti, Kammersänger
Gunarson, Operntenor
Director
Dr. Winkler
Stefan Keller
Graf Lechenberg
Begun in Austria in 1944/45, finished and released in 1949, this is a biography of the minor Austrian composer Carl Michael Ziehrer, who overcomes hypersensitivity in competitive situations which leads initially to failures in both career and romance.
Heinz Wagner
A horror and heimatfilm directed by Hans Schott-Schöbinger.
Roland
George Miller
Clemens M. Weidenauer
Emperor Joseph II
Graf Leopold Traun
A long time-span of Austrian history (from the late 19th century to the years after world war II) is reflected in the ups and downs of a family of piano-makers in Vienna.
Self - film scenes (archive footage)
"Gems" - Embedded in a frame story, the film shows excerpts from 18 entertainment films of the time, among others, "The Gypsy Baron", "The Three Codonas", "La Habanera", "Viennese Blood", "Sophienlund", and "Mask in Blue".
Bandleader Hans Storch
Dr. Erich Thienwiebel
Wolfgang Schwab
Petersen
Bandini
Frauen sind keine Engel" was made on a moderate budget and has generally found not as much attention as that which has been rightfully accorded to his 'Viennese trilogy' made at about the same time. Please don't expect the outward splendour of some other Forst films, even though script, acting and direction leave nothing to be desired. However, like many of Forst's more important films this one not only provides great entertainment, but is also a thorough examination of the relation of fiction/art and reality.
Emperor Joseph II
Biography of Mozart
Volontär Drews
Karl Millöcker
Operetta (German: Operette) is a 1940 musical film directed by Willi Forst and starring Forst, Maria Holst and Dora Komar. The film was made by Wien-Film, a Vienna-based company set up after Austria had been incorporated into Greater Germany following the 1938 Anschluss. It is the first film in director Willi Forst's "Viennese Trilogy" followed by Vienna Blood (1942) and Viennese Girls (1945). The film portrays the life of Franz Jauner (1832–1900), a leading musical figure in the city. It is both an operetta film and a Wiener Film.
Peter Enderlein - Kapellmeisster
Prinz Heinrich Karl
In a transport museum, the items on display begin to tell their stories. Most interesting is the history of the Pullman car. In the beginning, it served as transport for a princely family; then became the headquarters car for the military high command; and then, most adventurous of all, it ended up with a circus. Converted to a bar, it finally had its day and was supposed to serve as a placard carrier. Luckily, the museum saved it from this sad fate.
Fritz, Gretes Verlobter
Die drei Attachés (uncredited)
Bobby Wells' 3. Freund
London 1846. Singer Gloria Vane has a resounding success at the Adelphi Theater. While she throws a brilliant party
Hans Wellenkamp
The body of an unknown beautiful woman is fished out of the river and leaves the policemen wondering what drove the girl to such a grisly fate. The film then flashes back to months before, showing the torrid love affair between a young cabaret singer and a rich playboy that ultimately results in tragedy for the girl.
Graf Erik Stjernenhö
Kaiser Franz Joseph von Österreich
A love story based in Munich in 1852: An Austrian officer belonging to the nobility has the mission of ensuring the young Kaiser Franz Joseph doesn’t endanger his future marriage to Princess Elisabeth by his acquaintanceship with the daughters of a coffee-house owner.
