Stockbauer
Winter 1942: Like thousands of other German soldiers, Asch and Vierbein have ended up at the Eastern front. Although Vierbein finds a new friend in Kowalski, the squadron commander captain Witterer, a true army veteran, gives them a really hard time. Witterer’s pointless orders reflect the bad habits of many former superiors. And again, Vierbein has to bear the brunt.
В маленький немецкий городок приезжает знаменитый цирк Саши Обольского — укротителя диких зверей и непокорных женщин. Он вступает в этот заштатный городок с особым трепетом, ведь именно здесь проживает его многочисленная родня, от которой он удрал двадцать лет назад. Его приезд приурочен ко дню рождения старшего брата, Альберта Оберхольцера, городского садовника, поставляющего фигурки гипсовых гномиков в сады немецких бюргеров. У Альберта есть дочь, семнадцатилетняя Анна, которая учится в школе танцев и мечтает о столичной сцене. Анна сразу очаровывается своим дядей и тоже мечтает стать циркачкой…
Head waiter Leopold has been secretly in love with the hostess Josepha for a long time, but she only has eyes for Dr. Siedler, a guest in the White Horse Inn. Leopold tries to get Dr. Siedler interested in the daughter of Industrialist Giesecke, who would rather see his daughter married to Sigismund.
Heiner and his friend Florian go canoeing on the river Mosel. With them is Monika, Heiner's sister, as Heiner's wife hasn't got time to be with them. But as a joke, Heiner passes Monika off as his wife, and while Monika likes the conceit initially, it becomes a problem when she falls in love with Florian who however wants to remain loyal to his friend. Things get complicated when the trio meet Susanne and Tilo, another canoeing couple, and when finally Heiner's wife Nora arrives, too. Soon quite a bit of partner-swapping seems imminent...
Fischer Karsch
Two barge skippers fall in love with the same woman.
Portier
A wealthy man murders his wife, then marries a young woman who becomes suspicious of him.
Gast bei Bündner
In a mountain village a deranged alcoholic who routinely beats his wife and kids goes missing. Though everyone in the village is glad to see him gone, an investigation begins. Made at the end of the Nazi era and immediately shelved; not released until 1948.
Portier
During his trip to the city, a naïve man from the countryside falls victim to a thief who steals his wallet. Since all his personal documents were in it, he not only looses his money but also his identity. The thief turns out to be a cunning con man, who uses the papers for his criminal schemes. Soon enough, a warrant is issued, and eventually both men – the thief and the innocent guy – are arrested. But since all the red tape of the government causes even more confusion, the odyssey of the victim searching for his lost identity has just started.
Schaffner
Krösbacher
Nora and Stefan fall in love with one another after an accident takes place, but then end up losing sight of one another later on. Stefan ends up saving the life of young Christine and becomes her fiancée. Christine, however, is Nora’s daughter (can’t see where this is heading, huh?). When Christine finds out that mom and her hubby-to-be had a rather intimate history, she takes a boat ride on a stormy lake. But the prophecy of disaster associated with the bronze figure “Melusine” does not come to pass: Stefan looks for Christine, finds her in one piece and stays with her. Nora, for her part, decides incest might be a bad thing and gives up Stefan forever to go back to the man she divorced (hey, way to feel wanted!). For some reason, the Nazis didn’t like the plot’s moral message and banned it after its completion.
Portier
A grieving husband tries to uncover the truth behind his wife's suicide, leading him to discover a tragic tale of infidelity and redemption.
Gardrobier Wichmann
Sekretär
Maecenas
Theaterinspizient
Bürovorsteher Dohle
Bühnenportier
Caught at the window just before an air-raid warning (WWII) composer Paul tells how he met his wive Anni, a revue star and song writer, how he handled the courtship and the early years of his marriage, inspite of some professional conflicts - his operas were flops, while his wive had one success after the other - they finally found out how they could help each other.
Kommissionsmitglied
Главный герой фильма талантливый архитектор Андреас Шлютер. После создания памятников Великому курфюрсту и его сыну Фридриху III ему поручают руководить сооружением Берлинского Городского дворца. Но спустя несколько лет из-за интриг, закрученных конкурентом, Шлютера отстраняют от работы и сажают в тюрьму.
Kanzleisekretär Böckl
Lagerkoch
Fährmann
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.
After his stepbrother Jacob dies in an accident, farmer Matthias Ferner learns from Paula, Jacob's spouse of many years, that she and her two children will inherit the whole farm. She takes over command immediately, failing to realize that Matthias must feel like her servant. So he searches and destroys his brother's will and even swears perjury in court - but there's a witness he didn't count in.
A composer finds commercial success but has to confront difficulties in his private life.
Bankbuchhalter Huhn
Finanzrat
It's a movie about the story of The Brave Little Tailor
Gerichtsvollzieher
Dietz' relatives are horrified to discover that Dietz, the son of a wealthy merchant, is planning to marry an actress, who is known to appear in rather daring roles. Dietz finds a way to escape from a gathering over coffee, during which he's supposed to be introduced to "decent ladies". After all, his great love is waiting for him somewhere else.
Briefträger Pröckl
The relationship between Franziska and her partner Michael, a globetrotting photojournalist, remains strained due to their constant separation, until tragedy strikes, forcing Michael to come home and to make a decision about their future.
Vorstand
Музыканту предлагают работу в Вене в качестве режиссёра, но его разногласия с Марией, аристократической оперной дивой, заканчиваются внезапным увольнением, несмотря на взаимное влечение. Он быстро увлекается другим театром и прославится своими сценическими постановками и прекрасной постановкой оперетт, которые начинают свой золотой век с Сюппе и Штрауса.
В 1862 году Германия была разделена на 35 государств, входивших в конфедерацию под фактической властью императора Австрии Франца Иосифа. Король Пруссии Вильгельм I, желая восстановить независимость своего государства от власти династии Габсбургов, назначает на должность премьер-министра барона фон Бисмарка. Бисмарк распускает парламент, вводит цензуру в печати, проводит реформу армии. Как дипломат Бисмарк успешно ведет переговоры с Францией, Австрией и Россией. После перевооружения прусской армии Бисмарк начинает реализацию плана создания единой Германии «железом и кровью».
Straßenzeitungsverkäufer
Молодая оперная певица Карла любит талантливого композитора Микеле, который хочет добиться успеха в серьезной музыке и написал свою первую оперу «Возвращение Одиссея» для Карлы. Но Карла более успешна, чем он, и получает приглашение из Миланского театра La Scala. Через отношения ей удается найти постановщика для оперы Микеле. Но когда Микеле узнает, что постановщик действительно думает о его работе, он покидает Карлу. Через год Карла снова находит Микеле. Теперь он стал востребованным композитором, но безутешным, потому что он может быть успешным только с хитами. Его новое ревю "Музыка мечты", новая редакция его оперы, вот-вот состоится премьера. Затем Карла обеспечивает премьеру оригинальной оперы Микеле в Будапеште, где сама исполняет главную партию.
Granseder
On account of a bet, the painter Menzinger and his friend Schratt decide to travel the country as unemployed bums (no doubt, because there were so few unemployed and homeless people in Germany just a few years earlier). For two weeks, they wander around Germany; then they're confused with some robbers and they land in jail. How does it feel to imitate the homeless now, guys?
The daydreaming tailor Wenzel is fired from his job, because the fancy frock he was supposed to cut for the mayor, he instead made for himself. He is allowed, however, to take the frock, which he appropriated for himself and he puts it on as he leaves the shop. A puppeteer picks him up in his coach and addresses Wenzel as "Count". So is he received in Goldach, where people think he is Count Stroganoff, the ambassador to the Czar of Russia.
Gnomenhaftes Männchen
Этот фильм основан на реальной истории творческой группы Drei Codonas и рассказывает о необыкновенной жизни этих трёх цирковых артистов начала 20-го века. От похвалы их работы в первые годы до их трагического конца. Альфредо Кодона женился на акробатке Лилиан и теряет её, когда она попадает в аварию со смертельным исходом во время шоу в Копенгагене. Он снова женится, на этот раз на его партнерше Вере.
Biopic about the Rothschilds, a Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community during the Napoleonic era.
1940 German film.
Kranewitter
Dr.Jensen
Buchhändler
This is the war and everybody in Germany should beware : the enemy is listening. One family in particular had better be even more careful than the average citizen of the Reich : the Kettwigs. Indeed they own an armament factory and their engineers, technicians, workers and of course themselves belong to a highly sensitive sector. They are under the constant scrutiny of those who want to get hold of the secret weapons devised in the plant, notably of a wire which, when attached to a balloon, may become the most effective anti-aircraft ever. For sure, they should distrust everybody. Isn't Nolte, the waiter, an enemy agent? Should young Bernd Kettwig allow himself to be seduced by this pretty woman ? As for Bernd's secretary, is she right when she lets this handsome man woo her?
Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his district and no one is able to do anything about it. Every fourth child is already sick and the parents must helplessly watch as their young ones die. Now Koch is undertaking to find the cause of the tuberculosis --- something he has already been working on for years --- which has been causing this plague of illness. His work is made more difficult by envy; for example, that of his teacher, who was wounded defending his honor. But his greatest obstacle is the famous Berliner scientist and Reichstag deputy, Privy Councilor Rudolf Virchow: He is extraordinarily skeptical of Koch's theory, that the cause for tuberculosis is a bacteria.
Agent in Kopenhagen
Sternengucker
В 1848 году свободолюбивый венгерский народ, возглавляемый Людвигом Кошутом, восстал против ненавистного владычества австрийской династии Габсбургов. В своей захватнической политике австрийская монархия издавна опиралась на венгерских феодалов, предававших интересы своего народа. Гнев восставших был обращён против австрийских поработителей и их венгерских сторонников. На фоне этих исторических событий показана личная судьба венгерской патриотки Марии Илоны.
Schreibstengel
The cashier, Jürgen Borb, has already worked for 10 years at Dadag in Hamburg and is an example for customer service and company loyalty. His professionalism are matched by the trust of his employers, who, while relating to him in an acceptable manner professionally, desire no closer contact with him outside of the workplace. When Borb suddenly disappears one day, Dadag's directors and Borb's colleagues are surprised. They become even more surprised when they soon discover that Borb has embezzled well over a million marks from the firm. His stepsister, Mette, doesn't believe that her stepbrother is an embezzler. In the meantime, she has fallen in love with a criminal investigator, who, she believes, is simply exploiting her affections to get to Borb. Then one day, the criminal investigator finds a body in the cellar of a house Borb rented under a false name and this man created a phony ID card for Borb, identifying him as a resident of a South American country.
Gauner Collin
Gerichtsdiener
Taxifahrer
A love story between officer von Warp coming from a wealthy family and salesgirl Therese. When the social rules of the time would force the officer to resign from service in order to marry Therese the situation becomes tense.
Varietéarzt
In a cosmopolitan city vaudeville theatre, meeting place of the most successful artistes, the art shooter gets in suspicion to have committed a murderous poster on his jealous partner. - Not particularly successful mixture of vaudeville theatre numbers, artiste's destiny and crime film tension, on an average produced and played. A production rotated in Budapest with the popular dancer La Jana.
Tetrazzini
Parker
Inder
После событий первого фильма «Эшнапурский тигр» Магараджа Чандра готов выполнить свою хорошо спланированную месть, в которой немецкому архитектору Петру Фюрбрингеру, его невесте Ирен и его помощнику придется сражаться за свою жизнь во время восстания, учинённого предателем Принцем Рамигани.
Before the First World War, Dr. Hans Stockmann had a practice in a small town. His powerhungry brother is the mayor of Bad Trimburg, which has developed into a respectable resort. Dr. Stockmann is called in to become the town’s chief physician. He considers the sanitary conditions to be intolerable and insists on a clean-up. His ambitious brother and all those who, till now, have profited well from the corner cutting, are, of course, against that for financial reasons. The doctor is condemned from all sides and the conflict escalates.
Inspizient
Old Meiseken, a gingerbread baker, has been dead for three years, but his bosses don’t know that. They’ve been paying him his pension all this time, unaware that his former landlords have been cashing the checks. When, one day, the assistant head of the bakery, Tony, pays a visit to Meiseken’s place to get a hold of an old recipe, someone’s got to play the part of Meiseken! The fraud blows up in the landlords’ faces; but in the end, Tony gets the recipe book and even a new bride.
Inspizient
Notar
Баскервилли прокляты. Согласно легенде, каждому наследнику этой старой семьи обещана страшная смерть, которых пожирает чудовищная и призрачная собака. Сэр Чарльз Баскервиль жил в страхе. Он умер в страхе. Следы гигантских лап, обнаружены рядом с его трупом, и вызывают тревогу у его друга, доктора Мортимера, и толкают его, чтобы он обратился к известному детективу на Бейкер-стрит, 221б, в Лондоне.
Kröglmayer
Nachtwächter
The clever Zacharias Bräsig is a good friend to all and tries to help out, where he can. Bräsig also meddles in the relationships of young people, so that by the end of the film, there's a double marriage.
Ein Sekretär
Graf Donnerschlag auf Riesenfels
Wächter
Polizeiagent
Erkki Collin is a hunted man. The Czar’s soldiers have been close on the heels of the leader of the rebellious Finns, who have been fighting the Russian occupiers since the end of the 18th Century. His flight leads him to the chambers of the dancer Marina Feodorowna, in whose house a party is taking place at that very moment. Marina discovers the intruder, hides him from his pursuers and soon falls in love with him. But hiding Erkki forever is not an option; so she presents him as her music teacher. The swindle fails and Prince Governor Abarow, who’s long had a thing for Marina, discovers the real identity of the man, but doesn’t have him arrested.
Film by Randolf.
Schöffe
A farm boy betrothed to a socialite falls in love with his maid - an impoverished girl from the marsh.
Ballettmeister
Der alte Raschke
Baron von Goret is an impoverished landowner, whose estate is about to go into receivership. And so, for that reason, he wishes to marry off his son Hermann with his well-off girlfriend Helga. But Hermann is in love with the farmer’s daughter Dorothea. He leaves his father’s estate with her and makes his way to Berlin to make a name for himself. He’s not successful in this and, so as not to stand in his way, Dorothea leaves him. Hermann’s aunt brings him back to his father’s estate, where, depressed over losing Dorothea, works tirelessly to clear the estate of all its debts.
Kameramann
XVII век. Отец Cандора фон Баринкай однажды спрятал сокровище где-то в лесу. Свиновод Зупан знает об этом сокровище и хочет, чтобы Баринкай женился на его дочери Арсене, с целью заставить его заключить союз между их двумя семьями. Но когда Баринкай встречает цыганку Ципру, которая также слышала о сокровищах, цыгане видят в Баринкае своего нового лидера. Получив фальшивый титул «Цыганский барон», он теперь имеет право на дворянский титул и жениться на Арсене. Но затем он встречает Саффи, цыганку, которая оказывается дочерью последнего турецкого паши...
'Love and the First Railway' is what this movie's title would mean in English. This is one of those films that depicts fictional characters participating in an historic incident. The actual first railway was built in England, of course. But according to this movie, the first railway (in Germany, at least) was built from Berlin to Potsdam, in 1838. I haven't the faintest idea if that's correct, but the people who made this movie do seem to take a great deal of interest in historical accuracy, so I'll take their word for it. Anyway, a title at the beginning establishes that this movie is set in 1838.
Balmats Vater
«Вечный сон» (название фильма в переводе с немецкого оригинала, под названием «На вершине Монблана» кинолента демонстрировалась в СССР) — немецкая альпинистская драма 1934 года о первом восхождении на Монблан. Городок Шамони на востоке Франции, конец 18 века: Жак Бальма, как и многие фермеры, мечтает взобраться на вершину Монблана. Когда король Савойи обещает в награду золото за первое восхождение, Жак осмеливается подняться.
Stöppke
A German scientist designs and builds a machine that will do dangerous work instead of placing humans in jeopardy. But the machine itself turns out to have disastrous effects on the people involved.
Schneider
Clown August
Der Händler-Thomas
1933 German film.
Regisseur
Film by Reiber.
Agent
1933 German film.
После того, как детектив подвергся нападению бандитов и был помещен в приют профессора Баума, он наблюдает за тем, как профессор увлечён другим пациентом, преступным гением - доктором Мабузе. Когда обнаруживается, что записи Мабузе связаны с целым рядом недавних преступлений, комиссар Ломанн пытается определить, как Мабузе общается с преступниками и несмотря на противоречивые сведения о местонахождении доктора, раз и навсегда схватить его.
The accounting department of an insurance company is looking for a new secretary. To prevent a repeat of the eternal love affairs between the employees, the head of personnel -- no doubt taking advantage of the not-yet-existent anti-discrimination laws -- is seeking the ugliest troll of a woman he can find to do the office typing. And he believes he's found her in the nondescript Lotte. But the bookkeeper Fritz is deeply offended by such mean, discriminatory practices. He decides he's going to correct the boss' disgusting behaviour by going one better: to prove that even ugly people deserve to reproduce, he's going to hit up on Lotte. And obviously, this leads to all sorts of problems and funny situations...
Theaterdiener
When Albers takes his drug-addicted opera star sister Gerda to a sanitarium, they both become targets of slimy dope peddler Peter Lorre, who fears that Gerda will blow the whistle on him. Lorre kidnaps the woman, leading Albers on a frantic chase.
Dr. Schneider
A series of stupid coincidences causes the young Munich painter Paul to convert his uncle's castle into a hotel for four weeks. But he can't complain: business is good and he has plenty of guests. For exmple, there's Theo Muller with his revue troupe. For reasons of "sound", Muller calls himself "Miller", which, of course, causes more confusion. His daughter, the beautiful Evelyn, is confused with Mabel Miller, who has come to the hotel on a mission for her filthy rich father ... namely, to estimate the worth of the castle.
Pappritz
Film version of the operatta by Emmerich Kalman: Victor has won 10 000 Mark with his ceiling painting. In the local pub, he celebrates his triumph. Countess Alexandra happens to drop into the pub, too and is thought to be a model by the sponsor of the prize, Count Meredith. Victor soon has to save her from an embarassing misunderstanding. The two men insult each other and Victor loses his prize.
Friseurgehilfe
Georg Manfeldt
Ученый Георг Манфельдт выдвигает теорию, что на спутнике Земли находятся крупные залежи золота, но осмеян коллегами и вынужден влачить жалкое существование. Однако, вскоре к нему приходит незнакомец с предложением выкупить его материалы по этой работе. После этого следует цепь странных и загадочных событий.
Otto
A young woman is abused or abandoned by the men in her life.
