Camilla Spira

Wenn ich sonntags in mein Kino geh'... (1992)

A documentary about the 75th birhday of the UFA film studios directed by Hans-Christoph Blumenberg. ...

Kante (1977)

Heinrich Zille (1977)

Ein Tisch zu viert (1977)

Erben ist menschlich (1977)

Finito l'amor (1972)

Kabale und Liebe (1967)

Socialaristokraten (1966)

The Rise and Fall of the Magazine "Der Sozialaristokrat". ...

Romulus der Große (1965)

Piccadilly Zero Hour 12 (1963)

Mike Hilton served eight years in prison for being innocent. When he is released from prison early, he wants revenge on the men who were responsible. But the ex-commissioner in charge at the time, Jack Bellamy, has given in to drunkenness. And Mike's lawye ...

Mamselle Nitouche (1963)

Mauern (1963)

Affäre Blum (1962)

The action takes place in a central German town in the 1920s. A Jewish factory owner is accused of murdering his accountant. The German nationalist investigating judge, who is determined to have a Jewish perpetrator, still sees Blum as the perpetrator even ...

Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt (1962)

A mother is sentenced to one year in prison for matchmaking her underage daughter with her adult boyfriend. ...

Vertauschtes Leben (1961)

The mistake of two infants on a night of bombing during World War II plunged their families into grief and conflict 18 years later, when both girls were marriageable. ...

Der Czardas-König (1959)

Film biography about the youthful years of the composer Emmerich Kálmán. ...

Roses for the Prosecutor (1959)

April 1945. Because he stole two bars of chocolate, the soldier Rudi is sentenced to death by the court-martial judge Dr. Schramm. Rudi manages to escape from the firing squad at the last minute, and since the end of the war has been making a meager living ...

Freddy, die Gitarre und das Meer (1959)

Sailor Freddy entertains the guests at "Uncle Max's" with songs on the guitar. This earns him more than just a few tips. The waitress Susi falls in love with the honest guy with the strong voice. Journalist Katja, who is strolling through St. Pauli with he ...

Vater, Mutter und neun Kinder (1958)

Friedrich Schiller, a respected baker in Einbeck, enjoys a seemingly idyllic life with his wife and nine children. As he approaches his silver wedding anniversary, he nearly succumbs to a fleeting liaison with a spirited woman named Lollo. Though the episo ...

Nachtschwester Ingeborg (1958)

Ingeborg starts her new job at the hospital. Her boss is the venerable Professor Burger, a famous heart surgeon who devotes himself entirely to his work. His son, womanizer Manfred, is an assistant doctor on the same ward. After an affair between Ingeborg ...

Das Herz von St. Pauli (1957)

Due to a lack of money, Hamburg pub owner Jonny Jensen brings two partners on board. As soon as the contract is finalized, the ex-sea bear is almost struck by a blow: the shady duo want to turn his quaint harbour bar "Herz von St. Pauli" into a demimonde p ...

Der tolle Bomberg (1957)

No overview found. ...

Made in Germany – Ein Leben für Zeiss (1957)

Fuhrmann Henschel (1956)

The simple and good-natured coachman Henschel has a sick wife and a deceitful maid who looks after the household. The wife makes him promise never to marry the maid. But after his wife's death, Henschel succumbs to the temptation of the maid. ...

Liebe (1956)

Anna falls madly in love with an Italian violinist, who instead marries her sister Monika. ...

Two Blue Eyes (1955)

Sky Without Stars (1955)

Anna is a factory worker in East Germany, but her five-year-old son Jochen lives with his grandparents in the West. Anna wants him to live with her, so she abducts him. Along the way she meets Carl, who helps her cross the border, and they fall in love. ...

The Last Man (1955)

Old Karl Knesebeck has long been head waiter and rules his waiters with an iron fist at the hotel. When the business passes into the hands of the heirs after the owner's death, he's in a difficult position. The unscrupulous Alwin makes advances toward Nidd ...

The Devil's General (1955)

The adaptation of the eponymous play by Carl Zuckmayer tells the story of renegade general Harras of the German Luftwaffe, who during WWII openly criticizes the Nazi regime. As a consequence, he is put under surveillance, and even imprisoned for a brief pe ...

Roman eines Frauenarztes (1954)

Emil and the Detectives (1954)

Emil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with no money. It is up to him and a group of children to save the day. ...

The Grapes Are Ripe (1952)

Pension Schöller (1952)

Drei Tage Angst (1952)

The Merry Wives of Windsor (1950)

For the corpulent nobleman Sir John Falstaff, the inn in the small English town of Windsor is the best of all places. Here he can indulge in excessive dining and intemperate drinking, as well as swagger and boast about his adventures, particularly those of ...

Epilogue (1950)

The reporter Peter Zabel stumbles upon the sinking of the luxury yacht Orplid in Hamburg on August 14, 1949. The ship went down with a wedding party run by artists on a pleasure trip from Hamburg to Scotland . In spite of good weather and no technical prob ...

Semmelweis – Retter der Mütter (1950)

In the middle of the 19th century, almost one in three women who gave birth died of puerperal fever. The Hungarian doctor Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis also observed these terrible occurrences in his clinic in Vienna. He came to the conclusion that it was prima ...

Girls in Gingham (1949)

A moving saga focusing on the women in a family that spans three generations and almost 70 years of German history, from the Wilhelmine period through the end of WWII. This film shows that it takes a combination of hard work, political consciousness and fa ...

Hoheit tanzt Walzer (1935)

The young musician and composer Josef lives with Beethoven's music copyist in Grinzing. In the evenings, he plays for dances in the Prater, often his own melodies, although he doesn't make much effort to spread them, as they're almost all waltzes, a dance ...

Der Judas von Tirol (1933)

In the year 1810, the Tyrol is suffering under French occupation. A servant, who believes himself oppressed and disenfranchised by the peasants, dreams of being allowed to play Christ in the yearly Passion Play. Instead, he is forced to play Judas and so ...

Die Nacht im Forsthaus (1933)

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)

After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professor's preoccupation with another patient, the criminal genius Dr. Mabuse the hypnotist. When Mabuse's notes are found to be connected with a rash o ...

Sprung in den Abgrund (1933)

Dawn (1933)

Released three days after Adolf Hitler became Reichskanzler, it was the first film to have its screening in Nazi Germany. It became a symbol of the new times touted by the Nazi regime. The title (literally "morning-red") is the German term for the reddish ...

Haunted People (1932)

Widowed carpenter Vincenz Olivier lives with his 8-year-old son Boubou in a small French town. But on the day he is supposed to marry the mayor′s daughter, Louise, his dark past catches up with him: Ten years ago, Vincenz – whose real name is Leon Bern ...

The Heath Is Green (1932)

A forest ranger, after spending years tracking down a poacher, is taken aback to learn the man is the father of his beloved. ...

Schill's eleven officers (1932)

Skandal in der Parkstraße (1932)

The handsomest man in the state (1932)

My Leopold (1931)

The Carnival Fairy (1931)

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. Countess Alexandra happens to drop into the pub too, and is thought to be a model by the sponsor of the p ...