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Unordnung und frühes Leid (1977)
Character: Gerda Cornelius, seine Frau
After the First World War, history professor Abel Cornelius wants to distance himself from his previously published political views. This could go well, were it not for the student Max Hergesell, who provokes the professor to such an extent that he has to defend and justify himself, especially as he really has no taste for the current social changes. When the professor's older children arrange a party, Max Hergesell also turns up, much to Cornelius' surprise. To make matters worse, the student gains the sympathy of Cornelius' beloved baby Lorchen, who only wants to be put to bed by Max...
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Das Wispern im Berg der Dinge (1997)
Character: Self
Dominik Graf, now a leading filmmaker, revisits his late father Robert Graf’s acting career (1956–1966), during which Robert appeared in 20 features and 25 TV dramas by directors like Hoffmann, Staudte, Siodmak, Sturges, and Comencini. Through archival clips and personal reflections, Dominik “meets” his father and confronts the West German society and film industry of that era, where scripted narratives often outweighed real life.
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Taiga (1958)
Character: Hanna Dietrich
A German doctor who is a prisoner of war inspires her compatriots in a Siberian labor camp to regain their courage and confidence in life.
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Dorothea Angermann (1959)
Character: Dorothea Angermann
Dorothea Angermann the daughter of a clergyman is accused of the murder of her husband, a brutal man that she was obliged to marry because she was pregnant and he was the father of the baby.
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Das weite Land (1970)
Character: Genia Hofreiter
Hofreiter, who has a relationship with Natter's wife Adele, confronts Natter after the latter launches a newspaper advertisement linking the suicide of an admirer of Hofreiter's wife to Hofreiter himself. In his tried and tested manner, Hofreiter challenges his vis-a-vis to a duel, but contrary to all etiquette, Natter refuses and exposes Hofreiter's system of vain notions of honor by confronting him with "genuine feeling". Natter: "I am hopelessly in love with my wife. That happens, dear Hofreiter. Nothing helps. That's just the way it is." His revenge is of a different nature, because he gets out of Hofreiter's narcissistic game and disavows his deceptive maneuvers and strategies of shifting blame.
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Geliebte Feindin (1955)
Character: Violante Gore
The wife of the English consul in British-occupied Egypt at the turn of the century falls in love with a French foreign legionnaire, and her husband takes advantage of this to spy on secret plans for an uprising instigated by the French. An action by the French in the desert is then bloodily suppressed by the English. The legionnaire survives, but he cannot forgive the woman who loves him for the fact that many of his comrades have died as a result of her betrayal.
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Das Haus in Montevideo (1963)
Character: Marianne Nägler
A respectable professor inherits a house and money in Montevideo from his wild sister, on the condition that he himself behaves in a disreputable way.
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Dreizehn unter einem Hut (1950)
Character: Evelyne Winterthur
A girl from a wealthy industrial family falls in love with a car mechanic. He is not interested in her, so she follows him and his friends on a group tour and goes to great lengths to finally win his affections.
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Die ideale Frau (1959)
Character: Fanny Becker
A woman as mayor is quite unusual in Germany in the 1950s, but Dr. Fanny Becker is a lawyer with experience in local politics, which is why she gets elected mayor of Rosenburg.
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Muss man sich gleich scheiden lassen? (1953)
Character: Garda von Doerr
Everything seems perfect in the lives of Andreas and Garda. They have a happy marriage and up-and-coming talent Andreas is constantly striving to reach the top of his sport. But their happiness is suddenly clouded when the racing driver suffers a serious accident at the Nürburgring. He is sent to Switzerland to recover. There, however, a second shadow looms over the couple's idyll, this time in the form of the beautiful, rich Argentinian widow Joan de Portago. When Garda finds out about her husband's flirtations, she becomes jealous and begins to fake an affair of her own in return. When Joan's old admirer Dr. Albys joins the triangle, the web of love becomes increasingly tangled.
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Königliche Hoheit (1953)
Character: Imma Spoelman
An American heiress in Europe falls in love with a German prince, but he is required to marry someone else for reasons of state convenience.
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Liebling der Götter (1960)
Character: Renate Müller
Biography of the famous German actress Renate Müller, who died in 1937 under unsettled circumstances; While doing her first movie for the UFA in Berlin, she meets the elderly secretary-general Dr. Simon and is impressed by his charm. Although her Nazi-friend Volker discourages her to befriend a Jew, they start dating. While she ascends to one of the most famous German actresses of her time, Simon is suffering more and more under the Nazi regime.
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Bildnis einer Unbekannten (1954)
Character: Nicole
Keller, a painter, while at the ballet is impressed with the beauty of Nicole and sketches her head on the body of a nude model. When it is shown, it causes embarrassment to Nicole's husband, Walter, a diplomat whose career is threatened.
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Der Traum von Lieschen Müller (1961)
Character: Autograph hunter
Lieschen Müller is in her mid-20s, works a dull office job and fancies the handsome waiter from the diner down the street, wishing for a more exciting life. In a vivid, lucid dream she happens upon a gigantic fortune, allowing her to live out her wildest fantasies. Quickly, however, she realizes that that's not what makes her happy.
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Ein Herz spielt falsch (1953)
Character: Sibylla Zander
A man, in need of money and too lazy to work for a living, marries a plain but rich girl in the knowledge that she is ill and has not long to live.
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Immer wenn der Tag beginnt (1957)
Character: Dr. Hanna Burkhardt
Dr. Hanna Burkhardt is a teacher by vocation: she is not only interested in teaching the pupils the subject matter, she also wants to be a human support and help them when necessary. The school authorities don't like this at all; in their eyes, she has failed several times. Her last chance is the ninth grade of a grammar school. At first, she has no access to the pupils. Only with Martin, a spoiled but lonely child of divorce, does Hanna develop a genuine relationship of trust. The rest of the class, however, remains dismissive until the day Hans, leader of the class jazz band, dies. His last wish was for the band to play at his grave, which the principal does everything in his power to prevent. Hanna, however, manages to get the class to play at the boy's grave - the ice is broken. Martin's diary, which is found in the school and in which the pupil confesses his love for her, almost becomes the teacher's undoing.
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Die Trapp-Familie in Amerika (1958)
Character: Baronin von Trapp
The von Trapp family are struggling to survive in America, where their performances of European church music are not popular with the audiences. Only when they start performing more upbeat Austrian folk songs and even some American numbers do they become a success and finally find security and a new home.
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Die Rote (1962)
Character: Franziska Lukas
Bored with her marriage, Franziska decides to travel to Venice.
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Und Jimmy ging zum Regenbogen (1971)
Character: Valerie Steinfeld
The son of an Argentine chemist travels to Vienna, to solve the murder of his father. Step by step, he realizes that his father was internationally entangled in secret service machinations and chemical weapon sales, and ends up in mortal danger himself. Meanwhile, he also realizes that there is no connection between his father's murderess and those dubious activities. Her motive for killing him goes back much futher, to a court hearing during the Third Reich...
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Die Trapp-Familie (1956)
Character: Baronin Maria von Trapp
"The Trapp Family" is 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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Ich seh, Ich seh (2015)
Character: Baronin von Trapp
In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether this woman is actually who she says she is.
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Ein Alibi zerbricht (1963)
Character: Dr. Maria Rohn
Lawyer Maria Rohn takes on the case of Martin Siebeck. The truck driver allegedly ran over a man on the highway. Siebeck denies the crime and states that two people threw the victim in front of his truck at full speed. The more Maria Rohn looks into the case, the more she notices inconsistencies. Her husband Günther is also behaving more and more strangely. It seems that he was also involved in the accident...
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Vater braucht eine Frau (1952)
Character: Susanne Meissner
A widowed father advertises for a new maid, but his children secretly seek a woman to be his new wife.
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