Klaus Pohl

Vienna during the fin de siecle. Farmer's daughter Anuschka has to sell the farm after her father's death to the rich but mean farmer's wife Nowarek...

A scientist discovers that there's gold on the moon. He builds a rocket to fly there, but there's too much rivalry among the crew to have a...

A long time ago, John Miller emigrated from Germany to America. Now he wants his daughter Elinor to get to know his old homeland and sends her off...

A series of stupid coincidences causes the young Munich painter Paul to convert his uncle's castle into a hotel for four weeks. But he can't...

An unattractive secretary is hired so the men in the office will focus on their work, but comic complications ensue.

After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professor's preoccupation with another...

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson look into reports that a huge, vicious hound has killed Lord Charles Baskerville and that Lord Henry Baskerville is...

Young Beatrice has trained as a dancer against her father's wishes. At the circus, she meets the famous tamer Ruda and falls in love with him. But...

Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his district and no one is able to do anything about it....

Biopic about the Rothschilds, a Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community during the Napoleonic era.

The daydreaming tailor Wenzel is fired from his job, because the fancy frock he was supposed to cut for the mayor, he instead made for himself. He is...

A biographical film of Otto von Bismarck, the Prime Minister of Prussia, and how he and his policies - including aggressive war - helped to unite...

A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with the aristocratic opera manager end in abrupt firing in spite of a...

Head waiter Leopold has been secretly in love with the hostess Josepha for a long time, but she only has eyes for Dr. Siedler, a guest in the White...

The quiet life of an extended family is shaken up when a circus comes into town.

Winter 1942: Like thousands of other German soldiers, Asch and Vierbein have ended up at the Eastern front. Although Vierbein finds a new friend in...

Austria, 1950s. Safety engineer Peter Dahle increasingly sees a personal enemy in the construction of the power station and the mountain of Kaprun....

In a mountain village a deranged alcoholic who routinely beats his wife and kids goes missing. Though everyone in the village is glad to see him...

Two barge skippers fall in love with the same woman.

A wealthy man murders his wife, then marries a young woman who becomes suspicious of him.

During his trip to the city, a naïve man from the countryside falls victim to a thief who steals his wallet. Since all his personal documents...

Nora and Stefan fall in love with one another after an accident takes place, but then end up losing sight of one another later on. Stefan ends up...

Heiner and his friend Florian go canoeing on the river Mosel. With them is Monika, Heiner's sister, as Heiner's wife hasn't got time to be with them....

When young Dr. Ophoven arrives at the village as the new doctor, he is not exactly welcome. His wife Anna helps to break the ice. Their happiness is...

A small, mountain town. The populace here has long lived off the artisanal production of axes. But due to a glut of cheap, factory goods, the...

A CEO in his mid-50s, an exemplary husband and father, finds himself in a mid-life crisis, when he gets to know a young fashion designer. His wife...

Edith Gedeye, the ward of Consul Schober, wants to meet and stay with Harald, her fiancee. On the morning of her intended departure from the house,...

With her daughter Anita, a young singer, the widow Marianne von der Halden undertakes a journey into the past. She wants to see her former admirers...

Tenor Peter Hansen is about to marry for the second time. Just minutes before his wedding to dancer and singer Kitty, he's still busy rehearsing for...

The composer Hans Helmer can really count his happy blessings: he is married to a wonderful woman, who also happens to be a celebrated operetta...

Movie adaptation of the Leoncavalo's famous opera. A troupe of traveling actors is being welcomed by villagers in Calabria in the summer of 1866.

A typical woman's fate at the turn of the century, from the first love mistake to the arranged marriage and further disappointments.

Caught at the window just before an air-raid warning (WWII) composer Paul tells how he met his wive Anni, a revue star and song writer, how he...

The very successful actress Lena Andres marries Dr. Paul Meinhardt. For his sake she gives up her acting career.

Historical drama portraying the life of German baroque architect Andreas Schlüter.

The young doctor Dr. Virginia Larsen fights in vain against malaria on an island in the Antilles. She finally receives support from Dr. Dos Passos....

Uncle Ludwig’s childless estate hinges on his nephews: Peter studies agriculture and is engaged to Inge, while Paul, a court assessor, loves...

Nixi has a vivid imagination and she makes extensive use of it. After parting from her longtime fiancée after an argument, she tells her...

The river level rises, the dam can no longer hold back the floodwaters – it breaks. Panic erupts, everyone tries to save at least some of their...

The young emperor Joseph II of Austria and Hungary is not interested in romance and marriage, and every time his mother makes arrangements for him to...

After his stepbrother Jacob dies in an accident, farmer Matthias Ferner learns from Paula, Jacob's spouse of many years, that she and her two...

It's a movie about the story of The Brave Little Tailor

A composer finds commercial success but has to confront difficulties in his private life.

Clarissa is promoted to department head of Feerenbach's bank. He and bank clerk Lutz both love her. When she falls for Lutz she soon is led to...

The relationship between Franziska and her partner Michael, a globetrotting photojournalist, remains strained due to their constant separation, until...

Paul Schleemueller is the town clerk of Schonbach, but secretly, he is counting on becoming the municipality's mayor one day. However, Paul's real...

Counterfeit money is discovered near the Bodensee. The investigators for the "Reichszentrale für Falschmünzerei" get wind of it and open up...

Dietz' relatives are horrified to discover that Dietz, the son of a wealthy merchant, is planning to marry an actress, who is known to appear in...

The young opera singer Carla is in love with the talented young composer Michele, who wants to make it big with classical music and writes his first...

During the Seven Years' War, Prussian Major von Tellheim sacrifices his own fortune to save a Saxon estate from being plundered. After the war ends...

On account of a bet, the painter Menzinger and his friend Schratt decide to travel the country as unemployed bums (no doubt, because there were so...

This is the war and everybody in Germany should beware : the enemy is listening. One family in particular had better be even more careful than the...

Biography of the life of the circus performer Alfredo Codona.

It's been said, that Dr. Kugler is always ready with some gossip about the missteps and bad habits of young girls. His daughter Lisa, however, is no...

In his will, the eccentric Feinsipp leaves his porter Piesicke his race horse "Amalia", to his driver his car, and to his cook Marie -- as well as to...

Once a celebrated opera singer, who sacrificed her career for her husband. Now she strives to become a successful painter. One day, the husband...

A respectable woman in her 50s inherits a local night club from her husband in a divorce settlement, provided that she shows up there every night at...

In 1848, the freedom-loving Hungarian people, led by Ludwig Kossuth, rose up against the hated rule of the Austrian Habsburg dynasty. In its...

During the Prohibition the US government has been just as successful at stopping drinking as they have been in the War on Drugs. Customs Officer Arne...

The cashier, Jürgen Borb, has already worked for 10 years at Dadag in Hamburg and is an example for customer service and company loyalty. His...

In Stockholm a young female law student investigates a series of jewel thefts that have been baffling the police.

When a female violinist joins an otherwise all-male musical quartet, the other members struggle to cope.

A love story between officer von Warp coming from a wealthy family and salesgirl Therese. When the social rules of the time would force the officer...

In a cosmopolitan city vaudeville theatre, meeting place of the most successful artistes, the art shooter gets in suspicion to have committed a...

The famous actress Paula Corvey loves the young racer Werner Bruck. One day, Paula's 18-year old daughter returns unexpectedly to her mother. She was...

The writer Viktor Borg is always in arrears with his manuscripts, much to the annoyance of his publisher, editor and friend Otto. Without further...

The Impossible Mister Pitt is a 1938 German adventure crime film directed by and starring Harry Piel. It also features Willi Schur, Leopold von...

At the behest of the financially strapped Duke, his nephew, Crown Prince Rudolf, is to marry someone of suitable rank. But Rudolf has no interest...

Karl Kramer is a waiter in a beach hotel on the Baltic Sea. But he has completely different plans in mind for the future. Before he marries Grete...

After the events of Der Tiger von Eschnapur, Maharadscha Chandra is ready to execute his well-planned vengeance, in which German architect Peter...

On the eve of the Russian Revolution, a performance of "Tosca" is taking place at the opera house. The artists and staff are too engrossed in their...

Before the First World War, Dr. Hans Stockmann had a practice in a small town. His powerhungry brother is the mayor of Bad Trimburg, which has...

Two mysterious events, both surrounding valuable diamonds, occur a decade and an ocean apart. Can a jeweler's assistant uncover the truth?

Christof Peleikis is a seasoned sailor who once served as a helmsman on many ships. Since having a wife and child, he works as a fisherman and lives...

Old Meiseken, a gingerbread baker, has been dead for three years, but his bosses don’t know that. They’ve been paying him his pension...

Henriette Lange lives only for the theater in Berlin around 1900. Her grandfather, however, has no understanding for this. He is a prompter and knows...

Michael Lutz and his fiancée Barbara want to spend their vacation on a quiet island in the Danube, hoping to finally have some time to...

On their way to a boxing competition in Buenos Aires, the criminal investigator Harry Winkler from Berlin and Conny Steven of Scotland Yard, meet in...

The clever Zacharias Bräsig is a good friend to all and tries to help out, where he can. Bräsig also meddles in the relationships of young...

When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of Window wives: Mistress Ford and Mistress Page....

Erkki Collin is a hunted man. The Czar’s soldiers have been close on the heels of the leader of the rebellious Finns, who have been fighting...

At the last performance of the Barszony Circus in Hamburg, the Indian lion-tamer Sikkim Khan is attacked by a tiger and is badly wounded. That he got...

A farm boy betrothed to a socialite falls in love with his maid - an impoverished girl from the marsh.

In 1887 in Munich, a rising artist paints a portrait of a dancer. The success of it during an exhibition leads to him being awarded a major...

Baron von Goret is an impoverished landowner, whose estate is about to go into receivership. And so, for that reason, he wishes to marry off his son...

Identities are changed in the Austrian countryside. A simple woman does this to test the affections of a store manager, he too changes character...

In 1914 a Hungarian officer inherits a Stradivarius which is believed to bring back luck to its owner. He and his Italian fiancée are...

Make Me Happy (German: Mach' mich glücklich) is a 1935 German musical comedy film directed by Arthur Robison and starring Julia Serda, Albert...

Sándor Barinkay joins the gypsies en route to his home village hiding his real identity as an Hungarian nobleman, whose parents were sent to...

'Love and the First Railway' is what this movie's title would mean in English. This is one of those films that depicts fictional characters...

At the end of the 18th century, the wealthy French scholar Saussure comes to a small Alpine village and offers 1,000 pieces of gold to anyone who can...

Returning after three years at sea, a young sailor finds his boyhood sweetheart is now engaged to his old friend::a challenge to their comradeship.

A German scientist designs and builds a machine that will do dangerous work instead of placing humans in jeopardy. But the machine itself turns out...

In Dresden's classical music world, female students learn from an opinionated conductor and a pompous dance instructor.When their work isn't...

The story of Hannele, an unhappy girl who is beaten by her stepfather and tries to commit suicide.

Elisabeth is subject of a girl's boarding school run by the nuns. The village idiot Michele adores her and is particularly drawn to her organ...

Görk, the hardworking son of a heathland farmer, meets Nelly, the daughter of a traveling merchant, by chance and falls in love at first sight....

Film by Reiber.

A banker goes bankrupt and flees to the countryside where a family of peasants cheers him up.

A modernist lady sculptor seeks a model for a statue to be put in front of a Berlin hospital, and finds him in the form of a London policeman-boxer....

For centuries, the water supply of a mountain village has depended on an endangered, wooden water pipe. The young engineer Josi blows a channel in...

When Albers takes his drug-addicted opera star sister Gerda to a sanitarium, they both become targets of slimy dope peddler Peter Lorre, who fears...

Film version of the operetta by Emmerich Kalman. Victor has won 10 000 Mark with his ceiling painting. In the local pub, he celebrates his triumph....

A young woman is abused or abandoned by the men in her life.

A grieving husband tries to uncover the truth behind his wife's suicide, leading him to discover a tragic tale of infidelity and redemption.

They meet on the plane from Dakar to Casablanca: the well-known American defense lawyer Vandegrift, his daughter Jessie and the arrested Peter...

The story of the Renaissance-era Swiss physician, alchemist and astrologer Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, better known to...

In a harbor bazaar of the Pacific town of Kona, the young sailor Kiwe is offered a mysterious bottle, which supposedly gives her owner power and...

Rather coarse, pre-War comedy about a Markgraf -- Heinrich XXVI -- who bathes in the springs of the Ammendorf to strengthen his potency. The town...

Relations between Huckebein, a humble tailor, and Greizinger, a wealthy farmer, become strained after Greizinger breaks off the romance between his...

Because the soulful county doctor in a small spa town in the mountains has interfered with the business of selling "healing waters", he incurs the...

The young Styrian woman Therese Brandl desperately wants to work in the theater and therefore travels by train to Vienna to pursue artistic training....

The stand-alone opera singer Carmen Casini dare not admit to her adult son, the spoiled race car driver Cecil, that she ruined her voice on a stormy...

An entire neighborhood is in an uproar because the Maier family is keeping their prize-winning rooster, Otto, on the balcony of their apartment. And...

In an imaginary Scandinavian country, an ambitious radical buys an indebted estate in order to become a member of parliament as a local resident,...

The film is set during the Italian Renaissance in the 14th century. Petruccio lives in Ferrara with his wife, Fiametta. Initially, he works as a...

When Bartos, the director of the Odeon variety theater, cancels an artist at short notice, he hires the Terrys out of necessity, whose parents were...

Berlin's theatre crowd is excited about the new operetta "Frau Luna". But for the head of the city's vice police, who was invited to the dress...