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...nur ein Komödiant (1935)
Character: Gräfin Karola von Roedenau
A moving actor at the rococo era shows the power-hungry-crude minister of a small state prince in the barriers, while he makes use of his resemblance to the sovereign and slips in his role. - Double role for Rudolf Forster who plays his figures very much chilly.
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Ehe im Schatten (1947)
Character: Greta Koch
Set during the rise of the Nazi regime, Elisabeth Maurer and Hans Wieland enjoy successful careers as actors in Berlin. Confident in her career, Elisabeth, who is Jewish, ignores the advice of a colleague to leave Germany in the face of increasing anti-Semitism. Believing that he can protect her if she becomes his wife, Hans convinces Elisabeth to marry him. In the following years, as Hans's career thrives, Elisabeth awaits the end of the Nazi terror which bars her from public life. When the situation worsens in 1938 with the Kristallnacht pogrom, Elisabeth decides to leave the country, but Hans, who still believes he can protect her, convinces her to stay with him.
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Der Weg ins Freie (1941)
Character: Melanie
In Vienna, during the 1848 Revolution, opera singer Antonia Corvelli marries Detlev von Blossin, a rich landowner. But, as she refuses to give up her career, her infuriated husband returns to Pomerania without her. After falling into the clutches of the cruel and wicked count Stefan Oginski, whose lover she unfortunately becomes, Antonia has no other choice but to pass for dead in order to escape him. She then returns to Italy where she joins small theater companies under various aliases. Until one day she is overtaken by her fate...
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Die gläserne Kugel (1937)
Character: Frau Nina Sylten
A woman steals money from her banker husband but her lover, a baron, is jailed.He escapes and under a new identity is a circus daredevil but she threatens him and his new sweetheart.
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Traumulus (1936)
Character: Lydia Link
This film is a fascinating showcase for Emil Janning's theatrical play. He's a gentle school teacher who believes in his boys and is easily fooled about all things, while the other town officials want him dismissed. Curiously it's very hard to see what the film is exactly aiming for. Disaster strikes and the lax prof proves to be too far removed of the real problems of the world, on the other hand his enemies are shown in the most unsympathetic, satirical way denouncing the militaristic, bourgeois ideology of the Kaiserreich.
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Es flüstert die Liebe (1935)
Character: Madame Cochard
To escape dreary country life, a count travels to Italy with a friend every year. Instead of the alleged purchase of horses, the reason he gives to his mother as to why he needs to travel to Italy, he spends his time chasing after the ladies.
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Mit den Augen einer Frau (1942)
Character: Cora Solani
A typical woman's fate at the turn of the century, from the first love mistake to the arranged marriage and further disappointments.
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Mária növér (1937)
Character: Klári Halmay, widow of a German impresario
The title character in Maria Nover (Sister Maria) is played by Eva Szorenyi. A convent-bred lass on the verge of taking her final vows, Maria falls in love with a handsome artist, portrayed by popular operatic baritone Sandor Sved. Due to a silly misunderstanding, she walks out on Sved and marries his best friend Paul Javor. The frustrated suitor quits the art world to become a world-famous concert singer. Years later, he returns to reclaim Maria, only to find that she's not only still a wife, but also a mother and a dedicated nurse. Gracefully bowing out of her life, the Pagliacci-like Sved continues his singing career to assuage his broken heart.
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Prater (1936)
Character: Valerie Hochstedt
A sideshow performer flees to the Danube after a misunderstanding with a deceitful gambler and finds refuge with two Bohemian men, one of whom is a handsome painter she falls for.
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Heilige oder Dirne (1929)
Character: N/A
The wealthy Frenchman Raoul lives with his mother and his cousin Therese in a magnificent villa on the Riviera. Therese is deeply in love with her relative, but he seems to reciprocate only "brotherly" affection. One day, a visitor arrives: the lustful Lydia, a friend of Therese's, known as a man-eating and amoral woman. It isn't long before Raoul, the master of the house, falls completely under the spell of the blonde siren from abroad, and the two become engaged and eventually married.
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Menschen im Feuer (1931)
Character: N/A
Harry Peltzer, who is passionate about his job as a firefighter, and his superior, fire chief Paul Körner, are the best of friends. This changes the day they both meet Nelly, a young, blonde cashier at a vending machine buffet, on whom both men immediately set their eyes. As Harry has a much better chance with Nelly, Paul's friendship with him soon turns into bitter antagonism, if not outright enmity.
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Es lebe die Liebe (1944)
Character: Kitty
A romantic skirmish between an intrusive operetta tenor from the Berlin Theater and a revue diva in Barcelona, who later encounters him, initially unrecognized, as a ballet dancer and, after they marry, plays the role of a housewife to cure him of his arrogance and flightiness. He himself is no stranger to deception, but their joint stage finale is not far off.
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Kleiner Mann - ganz groß (1938)
Character: Frau Direktor Tschoppe
Peter Kolle, a low-level clerk, and his wife Sabine have a happy marriage, but Peter lacks the necessary funds. Therefore, he secretly works on his invention at a friend's house at night. When his wife finds out, she angrily leaves their apartment and travels to Berlin to see her brother Alphons, to whom Peter had promised at their wedding that he would give up on the invention and to whom he had therefore given all the paperwork. Soon, they both long for each other again: Sabine travels home, Peter to Berlin. And eventually, they meet.
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Frühlingsluft (1938)
Character: Vera Naldi
At the behest of the financially strapped Duke, his nephew, Crown Prince Rudolf, is to marry someone of suitable rank. But Rudolf has no interest whatsoever in his uncle's plans and works under his commoner's name as an engineer in a car factory. Then a certain Count Rasumirski appears before the Duke and explains that the famous operetta diva Vera Naldi is actually a Russian princess who knows nothing of her origins. They hatch a plan to marry Rudolf off to her. But at the theater, Rudolf falls not for the singer, but for the secretary. Instead, Rudolf's other uncle begins to take an interest in Vera. Then, however, it turns out that Rasumirski is an imposter and Vera is not a princess at all...
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Die Liebe des Maharadscha (1936)
Character: Daisy Atkins
At a hotel in San Remo, a maharaja living in exile thinks he sees the reincarnation of his dead wife in the pianist Mira and thinks the best way to deal with it is to hit up on the poor girl. Mira, however, has a thing for the violinist Stefan and doesn’t quite know how to deal with the maharaja’s insistence that she become his fiancée. In the end, Mira returns to Stefan and the maharaja returns to his country after his exile is lifted.
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Scheidungsreise (1938)
Character: Ly Tomaczek - Privatdetektivin
On their wedding night, the very night Dr. Delius and his wife Marianne had been so eagerly anticipating, a heated argument erupted between the newlyweds. Marianne's loyal dachshund took its protective instincts a little too seriously, constantly thwarting every attempt Delius made to get closer. This led to a fierce debate, culminating in the couple's immediate decision to file for divorce.
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Die schwache Stunde (1943)
Character: Marions Mutter Leonore
Marion Austerlitz is a stubborn person, much to the chagrin of her husband, Dr. Fritz Austerlitz. There's constantly some kind of excitement going on in their house: this time, Marion takes in a barking dog, much against the wishes of her husband; that time she's harrasses the old servant; then countless traffic tickets from the police come in the mail; or high bills for extravagant huts are delivered by the mailman. Finally, Fritz blows a fuse. In the presence of his friend, Professor Endres, and Marion's mother, a big fight breaks out between the couple.
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Herz geht vor Anker (1940)
Character: Rita Reitzenberg
Sailor Fritz corresponds with several women so he won't have to look for girls when on shore leave. All are keen to marry him, and he is busy fending them off while determining that it is Lotte whom he truly loves.
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Die Gattin (1943)
Character: Helene
Puck Niklas (Jenny Jugo) loves her husband Peter even though her brother thinks he's a no-good. She's very charming and a bit crazy and does everything to help him get an engagement as an architect. Opportunity comes knocking in the form of factory owner Walter Baumann (Willy Fritsch) who sees through her trickery but at the same time charmed by her, he gives her Peter the job. Soon Walter finds out
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Der Herr ohne Wohnung (1934)
Character: Käthe, seine Frau
Plastic surgeon Professor Mangold sends assistant Fred to pick up a patient at the train station. Fred brings the wrong woman, losing his job and his fiancee in the chaotic aftermath while the professor and his wife separate.
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Die schwebende Jungfrau (1931)
Character: Else Brandt
In this theatrical adaptation, a well meaning eccentric tries to patch up a rift between his niece and her fiancé.
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Diesel (1943)
Character: Frau von Lorrenz
A German wartime biography of Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the Diesel engine. The movie links the importance of the engine to the war by starting the movie with newsreel clips of German Navy U-boats in action.
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Castelli in aria (1939)
Character: La cantante
A wardrobe mistress at a Vienna theatre wins a competition, receiving as her prize a luxury tour round Italy. On the train she meets an impoverished young Italian who pretends to be a prince.
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Die Christel von der Post (1956)
Character: Anni Klewinski
Postwoman Christel is engaged to detective Horst. When the dashing star trumpeter Mecky arrives in town, her love begins to waver. Christel must make a decision at the big postal parade.
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Stärker als Paragraphen (1936)
Character: Frau Lörik
Renate Hubricht finds her uncle, the money broker Theodor Hubricht, murdered in his villa. That very night, the banker Lorik is arrested, who was last seen in Hubricht’s house. Renate, who doesn’t wish to live alone in the eerie estate lodges with the lawyer Dr. Birk. She doesn’t tell him, that her lover, the musician Robert Wendland, had an argument with her uncle on the evening of the murder. When Lorik is sentenced to 10 years prison, Renate is thrown into a quandary. She believes she’s protecting the real culprit with her silence.
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Wenn Frauen schweigen (1937)
Character: Mira Mirella - Schauspielerin
Curt serenades his wife Charlott from the garden without her recognizing him. When she later doesn't refer to the incident he assumes that she is falling for the 'unknown' suitor and deliberately puts a notorious womanizer on her trail.
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Mädchen in Weiß (1936)
Character: Natalia - eine Tänzerin
A student at St. Petersburg Smolny Institute wants to follow in her mother's footsteps in opera but her fiance,an imperious count, objects.Another student whose boyfriend is a grand duke accuses her of stealing jewelry.
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Tanz mit dem Kaiser (1941)
Character: Gräfin Daun
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.
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Maskerade (1934)
Character: Gerda
A risque drawing is published and threatens to compromise the model, a doctor's wife. Artist Heideneck protects her and invents a name. But the name exists, and this respectable lady is drawn into the artist's shady affairs.
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Morgen beginnt das Leben (1933)
Character: Marie
Musician Robert Sand is released from prison in April 1933, after serving five years for manslaughter. Disappointed not to find his wife Marie waiting for him outside the prison gates, he heads into the city. At the same time, Marie makes her way in the other direction. For one portentous day, they look for each other in the noisy city of Berlin. Doubt, mistrust, and jealousy begin to germinate in Robert’s mind.
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Jud Süß (1940)
Character: Herzogin von Württemberg
Nazi historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer.
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Die Trapp-Familie (1956)
Character: Baroness Mathilde
A true story based on the popular novel by the Baroness Von Trapp of Austria. The film was made in 1956, some years before the other film based on the Trapp Family's life was released - a little movie named "The Sound of Music".
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Münchhausen (1943)
Character: Louise La Tour
Legendary, immortal nobleman Baron Munchausen regales a lovestruck woman with tales of his amazing adventures.
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Charleys Tante (1956)
Character: Frau Generalkonsul
Otto Dernburg is forced by circumstances to dress up as a middle-aged woman.
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Zu neuen Ufern (1937)
Character: Fanny Hoyer
A 19th-century London cabaret singer is deported to prison in Australia. Her crime? Taking the blame when her lover bounces checks.
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