Willy Winterstein

An Austrian version of the famous farce Charley's Aunt. A man impersonates his own aunt.

Landlord Kohlhiesl has two twin daughters that nevertheless couldn't be more different: Liesel is beautiful, feminine, sophisticated, educated and in love with a fellow, Toni, from back home. The other daughter, Susi, is clumsy, masculine, never left home and wants nothing to do with men. Liesel would dearly love to marry Tony, but her father refuses to allow the wedding until her sister Susi has found a husband first...

Julia Martens is a wrongly convicted murderess who is released from prison after thirteen years. She begins a new career as a chanson singer and her now grown-up son, who has been told that his mother is dead, has no idea who Julia Martens really is. One day he is suspected of murder and Julia intervenes.

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.

Aspiring singer Susanne takes over for ham actor Viktor at a small cabaret in Berlin where he works a woman impersonator and per chance she's discovered by an agent, who thinks, that she really is a man. She becomes famous, but her situation becomes troublesome, when she falls in love with Robert.

A remake of the 1940 film of the same title. It was shot on location in Brazil with separate German and Italian versions.

Экранизация одноименной оперетты Карла Целлера. Адам и его невеста Кристель хотят пожениться, но у торговца птицами не хватает денег. Чтобы профинансировать свадьбу, Кристель находит ему работу у принца. Однако Адам совершенно неправильно понял этот жест: он убежден, что у Кристель роман с принцем. Взамен он неожиданно влюбляется в жену принца, которая переодевается крестьянкой Мари для того чтобы разобраться в слухах о неверности мужа...

The 1931 German film, Tanzerinnen Fur Sud-Amerika Gesucht, adapted in 1951 for US showings with editing, added sequences, some English subtitles and English voice-over narration in lieu of dubbing.

An unemployed engineer who does not want his fiancee to protect him has accidentally insulted his future boss, unknown and for no reason. From this meager idea, a stupidly rolled-out confusion with pop song in a Mexico bar develops.

Two young students, a man and a woman, rent the same appartment without knowing it. They have to arrange with their upcoming feelings, strange neighbours and poverty.

Ночной город манит огнями и предстоящим весельем, самым престижным местом, где можно скрасить досуг, является кабаре «У Габриэлы». Здесь правит бал Габриэла Донат — певица, которую знает вся Германия. Однажды звезда эстрады, собрав вещи и отдав долю акций кабаре своему партнеру, поспешно покидает город. Этот побег открывает давнюю тайну женщины: на самом деле она — Хельга Лоренц, бывшая супруга богатого промышленника, ушедшая от него к пианисту Чарли, и отлученная на многие годы от дочери Андре. Габриэла спешит в альпийскую деревню, где её родная дочь воспитывается у приёмной матери, с целью забрать девушку к себе домой, так как она достигла совершеннолетия и постановление суда, о запрете общения с матерью, потеряло силу. Но юная Андре не жаждет встречи и героине предстоит немало сделать, чтобы убедить дочь в своих истинных материнских чувствах...

A man's life breaks down in pursuit of material success.

Set in German-occupied France in 1944 where a female resistance operative and a German army officer fall in love.

Директор Баденского городского театра Фальке становится жертвой злого розыгрыша друзей, оставивших его на скамейке в парке, заверив что привезли его домой. Проснувшись утром Фальке хамит полицейскому и попадает в тюрьму. Там у него рождается план мести обидчикам. И начинается веселая череда переодеваний, мнимых измен, подозрений в неверности и прочих сугубо водевильных ситуаций…

After the operetta of the same name of Richard Heuberger in 1890-1914 all kinds of situation comic from happy-go-lucky Vienna of the turn of the century, the time of the first cars and the absurd bath costumes: Husbands in the Chambre Separee, her little dizziness and mistake plays, the tumultuous whirl of a grand ball... - A high-spirited comedy at considerable entertainment level.

The setting is Lugano (Switzerland), where an apparently very important world conference takes place. The film tells the story of the young Kitty (Hannelore Schroth), who works as a manicurist at the Eden Hotel, and who in the course of events gets to know both a young journalist (Christian Gollong) and the English minister of economics (Fritz Odemar). A lot of wild mix-ups, comic situations, a love story and occasional singing ensue, and in the end most of the VIPs have gained their share of laughter… There’s also a great performance by Paul Hörbiger as the hotel porter. For a 1939 film made in Germany, “Kitty” is remarkably irreverent and satirical about politics.

Молодая женщина Ева теряет память после аварии и не знает, кто она такая. Ее лечащий врач предлагает ей работу в качестве ассистента. Вместе они ищут лекарство от малярии. Однако в её сумочке был обнаружен револьвер, поэтому ею заинтересовалась полиция. Ева подозревается в умышленном намерении найти укрытие у доктора. В этот момент она встречается со своим мужем, и её память возвращается. Её муж убивал, чтобы добыть наркотики. Орудием убийства был её револьвер. Теперь её муж планирует убить доктора и забрать его деньги и ценности. К тому времени доктор полюбил Еву…

Англичанин Генри Викхам отправляется в Бразилию за семенами каучуковых деревьев — у этой страны монополия на производство каучука, и больше нигде в мире каучуковые деревья не произрастают. Контрабанда же каучуковых семян карается смертной казнью…

For three difficult orphans living by her aunt the former employee of the family searches a new premouth; he releases with it a result of tumultuous involvements. - Humble-entertaining mistake farce, completely fitted on Hans Moser.

A farm boy betrothed to a socialite falls in love with his maid - an impoverished girl from the marsh.

Douglas Sirk's first feature film.

Aimless Bohemians are encouraged to find their salvation in Arbeit (Work) in this propagandistic Nazi era German production.

Ruritanian power struggle with opera singing.

In the year 1810, the Tyrol is suffering under French occupation. A servant, who believes himself oppressed and disenfranchised by the peasants, dreams of being allowed to play Christ in the yearly Passion Play. Instead, he is forced to play Judas and soon the lines of reality blur: he betrays the location of Andreas Hofer, hidden by the farmers, breaks under the weight of his guilt and suffers Judas' fate.

The Baltic captain Terje Wiggen works as a pilot on the island of Muhu. When the mate of the ship “Carola” calls in sick, he jumps at the chance of reviving his life as a sailor. WWI breaks soon after the departure. By and by the ship’s company gets worn down by dead calm. On account of the plague-ridden captain, Wiggen disposes of the contaminated water reserve. Discontent among the crew rises until they take the sole lifeboat and leave their mate behind. Wiggen unsuccessfully tries to bring the ship under control. At the last minute he is rescued off the Japanese coast. At his return he promises to never leave his wife and child again. But the German Imperial Navy begins to blockade the waterways of the island. Wiggen paddles to Sweden with the intention of smuggling provisions for his family. On his way back he is detained by a German captain. After five years of imprisonment he returns to Muhu once more. Wiggen is hellbent on vengeance. (Deutsche Kinemathek)

Madeleine Carroll stars as a vampish actress who comes between a happily married couple, in this light-hearted melodrama from Miles Mander.

In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, Major Esterhazy. When investigations begin into the dubious evidence used in the trial, an institutional coverup begins, aided by fears of army disgrace and anti-Semitic paranoia against Dreyfus. But a determined group, headed by prominent author Émile Zola, leads a mounting public call to reopen the Dreyfus case.

Struggle for the Matterhorn (German: Der Kampf ums Matterhorn) is a 1928 German-Swiss silent drama film co-directed by Mario Bonnard and Nunzio Malasomma and starring Luis Trenker, Marcella Albani, and Alexandra Schmitt. The film is part of the popular cycle of mountain films of the 1920s and 1930s. Art direction was by Heinrich Richter. Based on a novel by Carl Haensel, the film depicts the battle between British and Italian climbers to be the first to climb the Matterhorn. Trenker later remade the film as The Challenge in 1938.

A 35 mm print is held by Filmarchiv Austria.