Johannes Heesters

A short directed by Stefan Hering.

Жил-был король со своей дочерью Херцелиндой. При принцессе был рыцарь-телохранитель Ланце. Она его любила, и он ее тоже любил, но не мог ей в этом признаться. Но в один прекрасный день принцессу похищает Черный рыцарь, и храбрый Ланце отправляется на ее поиски, а в помощь ему подряжается псевдо-рыцарь — трусливый турок. С тех пор и начинаются злоключения Полтора рыцаря.

TV version of Curth Flatow's stage play starring Johannes Heesters and his wife Simone Rethel.

A documentary about the life of the 93 years old actor Johannes Heesters who doesn't want to leave the stage.

A movie with three episodes starring Johannes Heesters.

East Friesian Otto moves to the big city Hamburg. There he gets into trouble with a loan shark and needs to find a way to impress his love interest Silvia.

The film tells the cultural story of Berlin during the Weimar Republic through interviews with a number of persons who were involved in literature, film, art, and music during the period. It includes interviews with Christopher Isherwood, Louise Brooks, Lotte Eisner, Elisabeth Bergner, Francis Lederer, Carl Zuckmayer, Gregor Piatigorsky, Claudio Arrau, Rudolf Kolisch, Mischa Spoliansky, Herbert Bayer, Mrs. Walter Gropius, and Arthur Koestler.

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.

По одноименному роману Ги де Мопассана. О головокружительной карьере молодого человека, преуспевающего в обществе благодаря своей наглости, ловкости и полнейшей беспринципности.

A comedy of manners, the film centers on virtuous actress Patty O'Neill, who meets playboy architect Donald Gresham on the observation deck of the Empire State Building and accepts his invitation to join him for drinks and dinner in his apartment. There she meets Donald's upstairs neighbors, his ex-fiancée Cynthia and her father, roguish David Slader. Both men are determined to bed the young woman, but they quickly discover Patty is more interested in engaging in spirited discussions about the pressing moral and sexual issues of the day than surrendering her virginity to either one of them. After resisting their amorous advances throughout the night, Patty leaves and returns to the Empire State Building, where Donald finds her and proposes marriage.

Два состоятельных кутилы (в самом расцвете сил) увлекаются одной и той же молодой женщиной, однако она осаживает их, заявляя, что планирует расстаться с девственностью только после свадьбы. Оба мужчины пытаются найти способ добиться желаемого, не доводя дело до свадьбы.

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.

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…

Clemens and Bobi, two legation secretaries, are sent on a delicate mission by their minister: it concerns a red portfolio with secret papers, which the minister stuck under a bed mattress and forgot about when he met someone on a rendezvous. And to make things more difficult, the horny minister can't remember which room he left it in. After several incidents in different hotel rooms, neither secretary has found a thing. There's not a trace of the portfolio; but Clemens is more interested in Annette, the young lady in one of the hotel beds, than in the portfolio. He forgets his mission and can think only of her. Boni, in the meantime, has found his way into a room, where Olivia is staying and sees a red, leather folder there. But the woman throws him out in short order.

A young woman moves to Berlin to work as a press photographer.

Melodrama about an actress falling in love with a man who wants her to give up her job.

The two stars of an upcoming operetta performance quarrel constantly. but they also fall in love with each other.

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?

A young woman works for two different men, both of whom fall in love with her. In the mornings she is secretary for a popular author and in the afternoons for a singer. Which of them will she settle for?

Because his future wife abandoned him shortly before the wedding, an old baron has decided that he doesn't want any women near him anymore. The daughter of the flaky woman decides to take it upon herself to get the baron and her mother back together again and dresses up as a gypsy boy to use music from "his" violin to soften the baron's heart ...

Французская балерина Жанин, одаренная чечеточница, мечтает о музыкальной карьере в Париже. Но сначала она хочет отомстить графу Рене, заступившемуся за ее лучшую подругу Шарлотту. Джанин хочет, чтобы он влюбился в нее и впоследствии разочаровал его. На балу-маскараде, на котором Джанин притворяется маркизой, происходит их первая встреча. Джанин очень разочарована в «хорошем джентльмене», но не подозревает, что этот джентльмен тоже делает вид. Человек, которого она считает графом Рене, — это Пьер, композитор и пианист. И граф Рене, и Пьер рассчитывают получить взаимную выгоду, изменив свою личность. Рене хочет прогуляться и совершить завоевания инкогнито, а Пьер надеется на встречу с влиятельным музыкальным издателем Памионом.

A popular stage tenor can't stay away from his female admirers until his wife threatens to divorce him.

An operetta directed by Herbert Maisch.

Before he became cult director Douglas Sirk, Detlef Sierck cut his teeth on such lavish European star vehicles as Das Hofkonzert (The Court Concert). Marta Eggerth is cast as Christine, a young singer who aspires to find out who her father was. Her odyssey brings her to the court of a mythical kingdom, where she is romanced by handsome lieutenant Walter (Johannes Heesters). He is warned not to lose his heart to a "commoner," but all turns out all right when King Serenissimus (Otto Tressler) turns out to be Christine's long-lost daddy. Hofkonzert was designed as a comeback for Marta Eggerth, whose star had eclipsed by the mid-1930s.

Польша. В 1704 году в занятом саксонцами Кракове введены новые порядки и комендантский час. Но ясный, жизнерадостный город нельзя победить. Всюду звенит музыка, люди танцуют и веселятся, не признавая новый режим. Среди этого небезопасного веселья встречаются «нищий студент Симон», который на самом деле является герцогом Польши и польская графиня Бронислава. Молодые люди находят свою большую любовь, пройдя через опасности, заговоры и интриги.

Familial disputes surrounding a traditional business. Grandfather Sonndorfer allies himself with his grandson Otto, in order to bring his arrogant son Max on the right path. Between the fronts is Emmerich Liebling, the intriguing messenger.

Several generations of Mullers go to war with each other over their family business, the main branch of which is about to go belly-up.

In 1930s Amsterdam, greengrocer Bet is involved in illicit affairs with businessman Van Santen. To tighten bonds even further, Bet arranges a marriage between her handsome daughter Jans and the businessman's wacky son Hannes. Jans, however, is in love with tough sailor Ko. Based on the succesful Dutch stage musical by Herman Bouber.

After years of touring abroad with his "Cirque Hollandais", Hendrik van Dalen returns to Holland, hoping that his brother will lend him financial support. Since the death of his wife, things have gone from bad to worse with Hendrik, who drowns his sorrow in drink. Moreover, he has set his heart on the circus-equestrienne, who pretends to love him but is having an affair with the company's wrestler. By encouraging Hendrik to drink, they hope to get their hands on his possessions. Hendrik's daughter sees through their designs and, with the aid of the clown Louisot, tries to foil their plans.