Elisabeth Wendt

Warwick Davis and the Seven Dwarfs of Auschwitz (2013)

Actor Warwick Davis presents the story of the Owicz family and their ordeal during WWII. From a successful musical act to being tortuously experimented on by Josef Mengele in a concentration camp, this story might have been lost to history if it weren't fo ...

Die Fledermaus (1964)

Die Treppe (1950)

A movie by Wolfgang Staudte ...

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 Behind Bars (1949)

Due to complicity in a robbery raid the young Ursula comes to a detention center, in which the education is hard since she is considered a serious offender. In a joint outbreak, she gains the respect of the other girls. ...

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 ...

The Green Salon (1944)

For the old privy Frau Butow, the green salon in her comfortable Berlin apartment is both an untouchable relic from the past as well as a refuge from the cares of everyday life. Enthroned in her salon, she wishes to neither hear not see the changes the wo ...

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1939)

Die Hochzeitsreise (1939)

1939 German film by Karl Ritter. ...

The Fourth Did Not Show Up (1939)

Four school chums who meet yearly are missing their friend, who was working in a Stockholm bank and supposedly killed himself. But was it murder, instead? ...

Humans, Animals, Sensations (1938)

The artist Hansen and his wife have separated due to professional stubbornness, even though they love each other. The animals behave more sensibly: Hansen's trained monkeys bring the couple back together. People and animals work together to create a sensat ...

Mordsache Holm (1938)

A wrecked car is found on the Reichsautobahn between Hamburg and Bremen. Inside is a murdered woman. It soon becomes clear that the woman is the dancer Grazielle Holm. The investigators are certain: it was murder! But unfortunately there are far too many s ...

Mrs. Sylvelin (1938)

Despite the way her businessman husband treats her like a slave, a woman abandons a brief flirtation with a young Austrian aristocrat, to show the German traits of duty and obedience. ...

Sherlock Holmes: The Grey Lady (1937)

Jimmy Ward infiltrates a criminal gang, only to reveal at the last moment that he is, in fact, none other than an undercover Sherlock Holmes. ...

The Hour of Temptation (1936)

Irene is unhappy because her lawyer husband Dr. Leuttern never has time for her. Womanizer Mac Norris slyly benefits from her depression and lures her to his apartment. As she struggles to fend him off a shot is fired and Mac collapses. ...

A Strange Guest (1936)

The daughter of a wealthy art dealer is blackmailed, and then his former wife is found dead in a Paris hotel.One of the four suspects turns out to be actually a police detective. ...

The Assumption of Hannele (1934)

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

Mother and Child (1934)

Consul Petersen and his wife are desperate, because they lost their only child and can't have another. At the same time, the maid Anna is expecting a child, whose father, Jurgen, works in a sawmill. When both of them lose their jobs, they fear they won't ...

Lower Rhine Folks (1933)

Hans Steinherr will one day inherit the family steel-mill but prefers a living as a musician. He ends his relationship with ingenue peasant's daughter Hanne and ventures into the big city where he meets a famous singer. ...

Impossible Love (1932)

A deranged woman artist falls in love with a young sculptor. The impossible love ends tragically. ...

Sacred Waters (1932)

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 the rock. After initial resistance, the villagers are excited about it. The film was based on a novel by Jak ...

Comradeship (1931)

At a mine on the shared edge of France and Germany, an underground explosion leads to the entrapment of a group of French miners. In an effort to save the trapped Frenchmen, German miners Wittkopp and Kasper take it upon themselves to traverse a crumbling ...