Elisabeth Bergner

BBC Play of the Month

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NDR Talk Show

German Film Award

Heut' abend

Centre Play

Anthology series of half hour plays produced in BBC's Television Centre's studios.

Zeugen des Jahrhunderts

Das Profil

Cry of the Banshee

In seventeenth century England Lord Whitman wages unending war on what he sees as the ever-present scourge of w...

Paris Calling

Marianne Jannetier, a well-to-do Parisian, engaged to Andre Benoit, a high-ranking government official, flees t...

As You Like It

Film version of Shakespeare's comedy of a young woman who disguises herself as a man to win the attention of th...

The Rise of Catherine the Great

The woman who will become Catherine the Great marries into the Russian royal family when she weds Grand Duke Pe...

Strogoff

A captain in the Czar's army encounters danger and romance while carrying a secret message across 19th-century...

Fräulein Else

While staying with her aunt at a fashionable spa, Else receives an unexpected telegram from her mother, begging...

Dreaming Lips

Dreaming Lips was lovingly assembled by filmmaker Paul Czinner as an "ideal" vehicle for his popular actress wi...

The Pedestrian

When a German businessman causes a car accident with deadly consequences, the papers start digging into his pas...

Lady Juan

A Spanish nobleman raises his only daughter as a boy, similarly to Greta Garbo in Queen Christina (1933). In ad...

The Happy Years of the Thorwalds

The Thorwald family is well-off and contented when a tragedy strikes: the father is killed in an accident. Miss...

Stolen Life

Adapted from the best-selling novel by K. J. Benes, A Stolen Life serves as a tour de force for German actress...

Ariane

Ariane was Hungarian director Paul Czinner's first talking picture. Starring in the title role is Czinner's cha...

The House on the Hill

A court had to decide what to do about Ellen, an elderly lady living on her own in a deteriorating rented prope...

Feine Gesellschaft – Beschränkte Haftung

When a squatted house in Hamburg is evicted, Else, a well-known vagrant, also has to look for a new place to li...

Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt

"The Great Magician" - Max Reinhardt (1873-1943) was an Austrian theater and film director, director, theater p...

Love

Based on Honore de Balzac’s story of Madame de Langeais. Costume drama about the infamous loves of the countess.

Husbands or Lovers

A wife, bored by her overweight slob of a husband, gives in to the temptation of a slickly seductive poet.

Memories of Berlin: The Twilight of Weimar Culture

The film tells the cultural story of Berlin during the Weimar Republic through interviews with a number of pers...

Nachtdienst

A young doctor from Yugoslavia takes care of a rich baroness, who in carefully devised ways, attempts to destro...

Der Pfingstausflug

A melancholic enjoyable journey by an old couple who escape the dreary everyday life of a Berlin retirement hom...

Escape Me Never

Romantic quadrangle involving two brothers, one a burgeoning ballet composer; a willful heiress; and a waif.

Der Evangelimann

Mathias, the evangelist, is in love with Martha. Johannes, Mathias brother tries to interfere. When Mathias and...

Impetuous Youth

Girl dressed up as a boy falls in love with a painter.

Dreaming Lips

The young Gaby is happily married to the musician Peter but cannot ignore the impression that his friend Michae...

Der Garten

Wenn ich dich nicht hätte