Aribert Wäscher

The Man Between

A British woman on a visit to post-war Berlin is caught up in an espionage ring smuggling secrets into and out...

The Flute Concert of Sans-souci

In 1756, a masked ball was officially celebrated in the Dresden Palais of the Saxon Minister Heinrich von Brühl...

The Berliner

Otto, a feckless Everyman, tries to adjust to the postwar travails of his defeated nation. Stymied by black-mar...

Rembrandt

Already a famous painter, Rembrandt van Rijn is commissioned to paint the Amsterdam Archers' Guild. But upon co...

The Sinister Wish

After losing almost all of his money, a young marquis discovers that among his few remaining possessions is a m...

Stronger Than Paragraphs

Renate Hubricht finds her uncle, the money broker Theodor Hubricht, murdered in his villa. That very night, the...

Joan of Arc

France in the 15th Century: The country is marked by the wars with England and internal power struggles. King C...

People Among Us

Gerhard Lamprecht sketches a cross-section of Germany's new post-war society, with its winners, social climbers...

Victor and Victoria

Aspiring singer Susanne takes over one night for her sick friend, a small-time female impersonator, and finds u...

Herzkönig

After drinking too much alcohol, King Michael XXXVII promptly forgets his own wedding date! To avoid a scandal,...

Women Are Better Diplomats

A seductive dancer (Marika Rökk) helps her uncle to fight against the closing of his casino. Through her femini...

Der Mann, dem man den Namen stahl

During his trip to the city, a naïve man from the countryside falls victim to a thief who steals his wallet. Si...

Clothes Make the Man

The daydreaming tailor Wenzel is fired from his job, because the fancy frock he was supposed to cut for the may...

The Buddenbrooks

Four-generation story-saga dealing with the decline of a middle-class Lübeck family. The first adaptation of a...

Tonight with Me

A very naive Viennese vinyl records saleswoman falls in love with a well-mannered young man. Due to a combinati...

The Island

A case of espionage in high society: To save the reputation of his county, a diplomat voluntarily takes his own...

Fresh Wind from Canada

A wholesome youth returns from Canada to the Fatherland, to rescue his father's business from a crooked account...

Amphitryon: Happiness from the Clouds

Lamenting Thebian women are waiting for the men to come back from war. God Jupiter is attracted to one of them:...

Stradivari

In 1914 a Hungarian officer inherits a Stradivarius which is believed to bring back luck to its owner. He and h...

Falstaff in Wien

In the Slums of Berlin

It was not just the children who were treated badly by the wealthy Weimar republic. Robert Kramer is released f...

Salonwagen E 417

In a transport museum, the items on display begin to tell their stories. Most interesting is the history of the...

Three Girls Around Schubert

Composer Franz Schubert becomes involved with a family with three daughters, falling in love with the two blond...

Mordsache Holm

A wrecked car is found on the Reichsautobahn between Hamburg and Bremen. Inside is a murdered woman. It soon be...

Capriccio

Lilian Harvey plays a young heiress in long-ago France named Madelon who is raised by her grandfather as a boy...

Attack on Baku

Azerbaijan, 1919. The British hope to secure control of the vast oil fields around Baku by launching a series o...

Zweierlei Moral

Giovanni de Medici: The Leader

Returned from exile where he accompanied his mother Caterina Sforza, Giovanni de 'Medici (1498-1526), becomes,...

Lowlands

In early 20th Century Europe, a dancer becomes the romantic bone of contention between two men, a humble shephe...

Lady Windermeres Fächer

Mrs. Erlynne, a mistress once expelled by London society, returns from America after years with the desire to r...

The Yellow Flag

An adventurer, Peter Diercksen, travels to South America to guide an expedition into the jungle. However, when...

Master of the World

A German scientist designs and builds a machine that will do dangerous work instead of placing humans in jeopar...

My Son the Minister

Sylvia has succeeded in making her son Robert a minister in the French Republic. His old servent, Gabriel, inte...

Bel Ami

Shortly after being demobilized, Georges Duroy becomes aware of his power over women in the arms of Rachel, a y...

Der grüne Kaiser

A pilot is suspected of murdering a fraudulent banker who vanished without a trace and is subsequently convicte...

Thunder, Lightning and Sunshine

Relations between Huckebein, a humble tailor, and Greizinger, a wealthy farmer, become strained after Greizinge...