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Angelika (1940)
Character: N/A
Once a celebrated opera singer, who sacrificed her career for her husband. Now she strives to become a successful painter. One day, the husband suffers a fatal accident while out horse riding. A short time later, Angelika shoots the art dealer Immerzeel. The court is unable to figure out the facts around the shooting, but assume that Immerzeel was her lover and sentence her to four years imprisonment for manslaughter.
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Ein Lied klagt an (1936)
Character: N/A
The story of a famous chamber singer, who finds in life every humiliation and intrigue he sings about on stage.
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Die Affäre Roedern (1944)
Character: Herr von Sponseck
Prussia, at the time of Frederick the Great. In his service is Major General Dietrich Edler von Roedern, a renowned fortress builder who pursues his work with fanatical zeal and seriousness. He is not in the mood for women or festivities. Although he is married to Elisabeth, a woman who has gradually become estranged from him due to his nature, this marriage only exists on paper. When Frederick II invites him to a soiree, Roedern meets the singer Maria Raven. The two feel connected from the very beginning, a fateful, invisible bond that seems to chain the two very different people together. For the first time, Dietrich von Roedern experiences something like passionate love.
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Der Gouverneur (1939)
Character: Stabsoffizier des Fahnenregiments
In an imaginary Scandinavian country, an ambitious radical buys an indebted estate in order to become a member of parliament as a local resident, which he ultimately succeeds in doing. Salvation in the party turmoil comes in the form of a military dictatorship under the determined Governor General Werkonen. The new member of parliament arranges for an assassination attempt on the general. However, the general is only slightly injured in the attack. The hired assassin now feels betrayed by his client and takes revenge by murdering him...
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Nach dem Gesetz (1919)
Character: Dr. Erich Waller - Her Son
The idealistic journalist Sonja Waler is making every effort to provide financial assistance for the young doctor Albert Holm’s new invention, which is predicted to be able to save thousands of lives. She comes into contact with a cynical loan shark who ends up falling victim to Sonja’s altruistic plan.
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Ein Ausgestoßener: 1. Teil (1913)
Character: Count de Greuze
Robert Lambard, son of a respected Parisian banker, seduces Marguerite Walser, the sister of Guy Walser, a diligent general manager employed by his father. At these times, especially in the upper social class, such an act is of course not without social consequences, and so Guy, after learning about this relationship, demands Lambard junior to marry his sister in order to restore her "soiled" honor . But he just laughs about it and brusquely rejects this request. Since Monsieur Walser puts the family honor and that of his sister above everything else, a heated argument ensues, in which Guy summarily kills the "despoiler of Marguerite's honor". Now Guy's life is destroyed too, because he is put on trial for this bloody act. There will be a convictionmanslaughter for ten years behind bars. This punishment is connected with a deportation. For seven years, Walser spent the life of a Bagno convict in nowhere, he was an outcast.
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Familie Schimek (1935)
Character: N/A
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.
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Kleine Residenz (1942)
Character: Major von Stadelfing
It’s 1910 and we’re in the duchy of Lauffenburg. Everybody is celebrating the 600th birthday of the local hero, Otto the Ironman, who in his time saved the duchy from annexation and beat the enemy so badly, that he fled ... well, that’s what it says in the history books, at least. Local gossip asserts, however, that Otto wasn’t even part of the battle and was spending his time having fun with a pretty girl. When one day a piece is introduced at the court theatre, which tells the heroic story of Otto, the director rejects the mediocre story.
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Gastspiel im Paradies (1938)
Character: N/A
Resolute Ellen takes over the operations of the Grand Hotel "Paradise" from her father and immediately goes into action to increase profits. The first thing she does is turn off the flow of money to a theatre her father was financially sponsoring. Then she throws the charming flirt Count Wetterstein out on his ass after not having paid his hotel bill for two weeks. The alleged count takes on a position as a waiter in the "Paradise" and as Ellen has, in the meantime, fallen for him, she puts him in a managerial position, where he can't so easily flirt with other women. But Wetterstein is being pursued both by the police and creditors and disappears in quick order once again.
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Drei Väter um Anna (1939)
Character: N/A
A cabaret singer entrusts her illegitimate daughter to a country doctor but doesn't say which of three friends of his is the father. Rumors are spread and relationships are strained until one man admits the truth.
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Gewitterflug zu Claudia (1937)
Character: Ein Flugkapitän in Hannover
Lufthansa captain Hans Droste is friends with English pilot William Crossley, who saved his life during the war. Having just landed in Berlin, Hans receives a telegram from his friend urgently asking him to fly to London and check on his dying uncle, Sir Reginald Crossley. Sir Reginald has only one wish: he wants to right a past wrong and asks Hans to find a girl to whom he wants to bequeath a third of his fortune.
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Die versunkene Flotte (1926)
Character: N/A
The film portrays the Imperial German Navy during the First World War, particularly the Battle of Jutland and is based on a novel by Helmut Lorenz.
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Der Verteidiger hat das Wort (1944)
Character: N/A
Jordan, a famous criminal lawyer, will only represent clients, of whose innocence he is convinced (must be financially not-too-well-off). One day, his future son-in-law, the jeweler Fabian, is arrested on suspicion of murder on the day before his wedding. He is said to have murdered his ex-wife, the dancer Ria Norady. The conductor Gillmore found her dead in her dressing room shortly after a visit from Fabian. Gisela Jordan asks her father to defend him. After speaking to Fabian, the lawyer is convinced he's innocent. But since there is no proof of this, he decides to go and try and find the real murderer himself.
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Weihnachtsglocken 1914 (1914)
Character: N/A
Two young men serving at the front. One comes from a good family, the other's family is poor. But the sister of the middle-class son falls in love with his poor comrade when he returns home for Christmas.
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Ein Ausgestoßener, 2. Teil: Der ewige Friede (1915)
Character: Count de Greuze
Guy Walser killed the unscrupulous seducer of his sister Marguerite and had to spend several years as a Bagnos convict for this bloody deed . His past is like a brand on his social existence that he can never shake off. He married Lucienne and they had a lovely daughter, Lilly. Despite all the wealth that Guy has worked for, he remains an outcast who, as the title suggests, seeks nothing more than eternal peace for himself.
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War es der im 3. Stock? (1939)
Character: Harder, Kriminalrat
Olga, a woman of the demimonde, is shot in her apartment. The bullet was deflected by something, otherwise it would have killed Olga. Witnesses heard a noise at 2 p.m. that sounded like a gunshot. Detective Heidenreich investigates and discovers that the perpetrator must have been one of the tenants in the building. He realizes that many people are suspects.
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Dreizehn Mann und eine Kanone (1938)
Character: N/A
World War I, Eastern Front. A special battery consisting of thirteen soldiers and one cannon successfully holds back the enemy. But then the position of the gun is betrayed to the Russians and the cannon is destroyed. Each of the thirteen men is now suspected of being the traitor.
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Jud Süß (1940)
Character: N/A
Nazi historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer.
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Berliner Ballade (1948)
Character: N/A
Otto, a feckless Everyman, tries to adjust to the postwar travails of his defeated nation. Stymied by black-market profiteers and government bureaucrats, Otto begins fantasizing about a happier life at the end of that ever-elusive rainbow.
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Sieben Ohrfeigen (1937)
Character: N/A
William MacPhab loses seven-pounds in the stock market and decides to slap the man who was responsible for the stock manipulation that caused him to lose his money. Astor Terbanks, the stock-market manipulator is surprised the next day when he gets soundly slapped by MacPhab, and the latter promises to deliver one more a day for the next six days. Terbank's daughter, Daisy, is amused by the procedure and is attracted to MacPhab.
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Sensationsprozess Casilla (1939)
Character: Polizeiinspektor vor Gericht
They meet on the plane from Dakar to Casablanca: the well-known American defense lawyer Vandegrift, his daughter Jessie and the arrested Peter Roland, who allegedly kidnapped and murdered the famous film child Binnie Casilla in Stockford in 1928. Vandegrift, convinced of Roland's innocence, decides to represent the man at his upcoming sensational trial. But just as public opinion is increasingly questioning Roland's guilt, he testifies under pressure from prosecutor Adams. Now only Binnie herself can save the young man, but the search for her has so far been in vain...
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Die Rothschilds (1940)
Character: N/A
Biopic about the Rothschilds, a Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community during the Napoleonic era.
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Waldwinter (1956)
Character: Diener Baumann
A noble family that fled Silesia during World War II sets out to build a new life in the Bavarian Forest, but their efforts are threatened by the heir’s worldly ambitions—until he comes to realize his true calling and finds his true love.
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