Walter Janssen

German Film Award

Destiny

As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and is sequestered behin...

The Gallery of the Great Detectives

This is a 7-part German crime series by Peter A. Horn. In self-contained and unconnected episodes, the great de...

Slim Callaghan greift ein

Decision Before Dawn

WWII is entering its last phase: Germany is in ruins, but does not yield. The US army lacks crucial knowledge a...

Krimi-Quiz - Amateure als Kriminalisten

Unsere große Schwester

Three orphaned siblings run their household together: Karin is already an adult and takes care of her two broth...

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...

Whom the Gods Love

In the first of Hartl's two Mozart biographies, Hans Holt plays the robust and dashing composer who, in keeping...

Something for Everyone

In post-war Austria, an opportunistic young man begins working as a footman to a widowed countess and uses his...

Diesel

A German wartime biography of Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the Diesel engine. The movie links the importance of t...

The Carnival Fairy

Film version of the operetta by Emmerich Kalman. Victor has won 10 000 Mark with his ceiling painting. In the l...

Masquerade in Vienna

After a masked carnival ball, Gerda Harrandt, wife of the surgeon Carl Ludwig Harrandt, allows the fashionable...

Episode

Vienna, 1922. Due to a sudden financial tragedy, a young woman begins accepting checks from an older, rich gent...

Peter the Great

Peter the Great, having become Tsar of Russia, using his shipbuilding knowledge acquired in a foreign country t...

The Love of a Queen

In 1766, the young English princess Caroline Mathilde is sent to Denmark to marry the King Christian VII. The m...

Two Women

The famous actress Paula Corvey loves the young racer Werner Bruck. One day, Paula's 18-year old daughter retur...

The Devil Strikes at Night

Hamburg, Germany, 1944, during World War II. A serial killer terrorizes the city. When it seems clear that the...

Old Heidelberg

At his uncle’s behest, the young Karl-Heinrich, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Karlsburg, is sent to Heidelberg to s...

Street Serenade

While on tour somewhere in Italy, a famous German pop singer loses his voice. All tickets for the concerts have...

Geld fällt vom Himmel

Leopold Pasemann, owner of an auto parts factory, is looking for an heir. Since he has no children of his own,...

Geheimnis einer Ehe

Tina Camphausen has three children, Christian, Schwänchen and Musi, who has grown up for 15 years without a fat...

The Old and The Young King

The story of the stormy relationship between King Friedrich Wilhelm and his son, who later became known as King...

The Queen of Spades

The Queen of Spades or Pique Dame is a 1927 German silent drama film directed by Aleksandr Razumnyj and starrin...

All for Veronica

Veronika, a saleswoman at the Tutzinger department store, is in love with Paul, who also works there as a sales...

The Great Passion

This is a real curiosity; at best a reasonable film, but also a charming little gem. There is a story (in the l...

What Belongs to Darkness

What Belongs to Darkness (German: Die Finsternis und ihr Eigentum) is a 1922 German silent drama film directed...

Die schwache Stunde

Marion Austerlitz is a stubborn person, much to the chagrin of her husband, Dr. Fritz Austerlitz. There's const...

The Whirlwind of Passion

Blanche Benton is out on her morning ride with horse and carriage, when an automobile shows up and scares the h...

You Only You

The two stars of an upcoming operetta performance quarrel constantly. but they also fall in love with each othe...

Fridericus

In 18th century Europe, King Friedrich II of Prussia leads his army through the seven-years-war with neighborin...

The House of Lies

Adaptation of Ibsen's play Vildanden.

The Mosquito

A female spy accepts a bid by an arms dealer in order to find out if wife is unfaithful to him.

The concert

A concert pianist, the romantic idol of many women, is seduced away from his wife. The seductress's husband tak...

Attack on Baku

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

The Anthem of Leuthen

The story of the rise to power of King Frederick II (aka "Frederick the Great") of Prussia of his military camp...