Reinhold Schünzel

German Film Award

Notorious

In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the Americ...

Film Emigration from Nazi Germany

Based on extensive interviews, shot on 16mm in a series of static long takes, Filmemigration aus Nazideutschlan...

Dragonwyck

A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to...

Hangmen Also Die!

During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the...

The Hitler Gang

The Hitler Gang adopts the style of a gangster film as it charts Adolf Hitler’s rise from small-time politico t...

The 3 Penny Opera

In London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum without the knowl...

The Man in Half Moon Street

A British doctor and painter must kill for the glands he needs to stop the aging process.

Berlin Express

In post-war Europe, a diverse group of passengers aboard a U.S. Army train to bombed-out Frankfurt becomes invo...

Eerie Tales

A demon, a reaper, and the ghost of a prostitute read gothic short stories and act them out.

Madame DuBarry

The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolu...

Different from the Others

Conrad Veidt plays a famous musician who is blackmailed for being gay. Eventually he stands trial and is convic...

Golden Earrings

A British colonel escapes from the Gestapo to the Black Forest and poses as a Gypsy's mate.

Die Erzkokette

The Vicious Circle

In Hungary, a rich baron discovers that there are extensive oil deposits underneath nearby properties owned by...

1914: The Last Days Before the War

The film focuses on the leadership of the Great Powers of Europe in the days leading up to the outbreak of the...

Meines Vaters Pferde, 1. Teil: Lena und Nicoline

After World War II, Jürgen Godeysen ends up in a hospital, wounded and traumatized. There, the young Nicoline r...

Hostages

After the mysterious disappearance of a German soldier from a Prague cafe, the staff and customers are held cap...

The Ball

The daughter of a nouveau riche family, invited to an upper class ball meant to launch her in society, rejects...

Lilli

The Imaginary Baron

The film follows the comic (mis)adventures of a poor street musician, who is roped into posing as an eccentric...

Hallo Caesar!

Juggler and con-artist Caesar comes to Karlsbad, where he hopes to trick the renowned Vaudeville manager Willar...

The Story of a Maid

A young naive country girl moves to Berlin to become a maid for the dubious family of Baron von Birthal.

Es werde Licht! 4. Teil: Sündige Mütter

The Ballet Girl

The new artistic director Dr. Fersen is appointed at the princely court theater in Dillingen. He is not only at...

Lady Hamilton

The married Lady Emma Hamilton has an ill fated romance with Admiral Horatio Nelson.

Catherine the Great

The film was an epic portrayal of the life of Catherine the Great of Russia.

Around the World in 80 Days

Wealthy Englishman Phileas Fogg bets his friends that he can travel around the world in 80 days.

The Last Payment

A beautiful woman of the Latin Quarter, marries a rich cattle owner Pedro Maurez from South America to live in...

Prostitution II

About a deceptive bourgeois couple that blends their acquaintances into their dubious business.

Wahnsinn

A banker, after a prophetic meeting with a Gypsy fortune teller, becomes delusional as he searches for a trunk...

Countess Kitchenmaid

Henny Porten plays the dual role of a rather indecorous Countess and her kitchen maid Karoline Blum, an amateur...

Heaven on Earth

Reinhold Schünzel plays the rigid representative Traugott Bellmann, who publicly condemns the low morals of the...

Der Gefangene - Sklaven des XX. Jahrhunderts

Die Banditen von Asnières

Rags and Silk

At the center of this social satire is the wealthy and bored couple Irene and Erik. When Erik meets Hilde, who...