Franz Nicklisch

Kurt Hoffmann's film adaptation of Tucholsky's eponymous novella is situated in 1910s Berlin: The aspiring editor Wolf runs into Claire by chance. Both are attracted to one another, yet they are not entirely certain about their feelings. They embark on a trip to Rheinsberg to assure themselves about their sentiments. And indeed, the time spent in the romantic provincial town brings clarity to their situation.

Несметные сокровища загадочных Нибелунгов издревле привлекали доблестных рыцарей и отважных королей. И только неуязвимый Зигфрид - победитель дракона, сумел завладеть заветным кладом. Но эти несметные богатства не принесли счастья ни герою, ни его землям... Лишь алчность породили они в сердцах властителей-соседей. И вот, предательски поражённый копьём в спину, он пал от руки завистника короля. Но вдова Зигфрида - прекрасная Кримхильда, не пожелала оставить смерть возлюбленного не отмщённой! Её новый избранник, повелитель свирепых гуннов Аттила, готов уничтожить врагов своей несравненной и коварной супруги. Сколько доблестных витязей не вернётся из этой страшной битвы... И спустя многие века менестрели будут слагать песни о проклятии Нибелунгов, подвигах Зигфрида и мести Кримхильды!

German romance

The true story of a German agent sent to the USA in 1944 in order to stop the development of the atomic bomb.

Tobis studio short film by Peter Pewas that wasn't intended for theatrical release.

В этом фильме изображена жизнь великого немецкого драматурга, философа и поэта Фридриха Шиллера. В фильме рассказывается, среди прочего, о сложном периоде, который Шиллер пережил во время пребывания в военной академии, и о том, как этот период вдохновил его в последующей работе.

Paris, 1830: Jean-Gaspard Debureau performs on the stage and delights his audience with song, wit and charm. He is, however, very unpopular with King Charles X, who is the target of much of Debureau's scornful jests. That would be a somewhat tolerable situation if it weren't for the fact that Debureau has fallen for a countess, who happens to be the King's mistress.

Film by Huppertz.

Jozi's aunt runs an inn near the border and has a little side-job: she smuggles. Poor, naive Jozi doesn't know anything about it. Jozi falls in love with the young border patrol officer Hans and her feelings are amply returned. But Hans' supervisor suspects Jozi of smuggling and tries again and again to lead her into illegal temptation. Finally, Hans sees Jozi in a dance bar together with smugglers and believes, too, that she's one of their accomplices.

France in the 15th Century: The country is marked by the wars with England and internal power struggles. King Charles sees himself powerless against the state. As emerges from the people suddenly a young woman named Johanna, who claimed that the Archangel Gabriel to be appointed, to save France. First of all doubt the king in their words, but he remembers that the people through this "help of God" is gaining new courage. With the slogan "God and the Virgin!" pulls the revivified victorious army into battle against the English-Burgundian alliance. After Johanna King Charles is crowned at Reims, there breaks the plague over the country in. Now Johanna all the blame on the disaster: God would punish believe in the country for that a heretic; if Johanna were actual a holy, she would deal also with the plague. The waning faith weakens France, England is again on the rise. But Johanna is executed as a witch. Only years later annulled the verdict of the Holy and Johanna explained.

Film by Fred Sauer.

Film by Wendhausen.

A well scripted and captivating thriller about the owners of a small private bank in Berlin, squeezing money out of honest business firms, causing their bankruptcies, and then trying to smuggle the cash into Switzerland.

A Bavarian baron has invited his three illegitimate children to come on a visit. Suddenly, happiness can be seen in this house only recently cut off from the rest of the world. The baron is happy. When two of the children have to leave because of their duties back home, only the daughter stays behind, determined to cure the baron of his quirks.

Командир подводной лодки капитан-лейтенант Хельмут Лиерс (Рудольф Форстер) и его помощник обер-лейтенант Фипс Фредерикс (Фриц Геншов) находятся на побывке в родном городе, а когда снова уходят в море, оказывается, что оба они влюбились в одну и ту же девушку - дочь бургомистра Хельгу (Эльза Кнотт). Подводная лодка торпедирует и топит английский крейсер. Одержав эту победу, Лиерс впервые на радостях делится сердечными чувствами с Фредериксом, и тот, затаив в душе боль, молча осознаёт, что любимая им девушка предпочитает из них двоих Лиерса. Между тем подводная лодка торпедирует нейтральное на первый взгляд парусное судно, которое в конечном итоге оказывается английским кораблём-приманкой...

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

Vienna glove-sales-lady Christel falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander. Austrian Prince Metternich tries to use this and other pleasant diversions to keep him out of the negotiation conferences of the 1815 Vienna Congress.