Else Elster

Fritze Bollmann wollte angeln (1943)

Brandenburg an der Havel, 2nd half of the 19th Century: the barber Fritz Bollmann is running his old-fashion barbershop and is well known, while another barber Jean Blank is more modern and haute-couture, who sees him as a huge competitor. When Bollmann wa ...

Liebe ist zollfrei (1941)

Süss, the Jew (1940)

Nazi historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer. ...

Wenn Männer verreisen (1940)

Ludwig Gruber, the director of a spa café, is a good man. Now and again, he makes little adventure-trips to Berlin to find business for his company. The women he is traveling with have an accident on the highway. Gruber is traveling incognito as "Mr. R ...

Weltrekord im Seitensprung (1940)

It's bowling night again in Dingelfingen am Rhein. Hotel owner Kiesewitz has set a new record in bowling and is crowned the winner. Now he is to represent the club at the Oktoberfest in Munich. But at home he makes life difficult for everyone, especially h ...

Unfaithful Eckehart (1940)

An exchanged suitcase and a burglary with an actress give occasions to whirl a family with daughters-in-law and brides hard in a mess. Old mistake comedy according to pattern. ...

Hallo Janine (1939)

The French ballet girl Janine, a gifted tap-dancer, dreams of a musical career in Paris. But first she wants to take revenge on Count René who stood up her best friend Charlotte. Janine wants him to fall in love with her and disappoint him afterwards. At ...

War es der im 3. Stock? (1939)

Olga, a woman of the demimonde, is shot in her apartment. The bullet was deflected by something, otherwise it would have killed Olga. Witnesses heard a noise at 2 p.m. that sounded like a gunshot. Detective Heidenreich investigates and discovers that the p ...

The Optimist (1938)

A moron buys a worthless piece of land, which a swindler passed off as an oil field. ...

Skandal um den Hahn (1938)

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 now, every morning, the rooster is waking up the entire street with its dawn greeting. Thus, the neighbor ...

The Stars Shine (1938)

German all-star musical from 1938 that was a big commercial success. ...

Cat Walk (1937)

A son, in defending Prussia circa 1814 under the thumb of Napoleon, washes away the disgrace of his aristocrat father who had collaborated with the French and caused the deaths of countrymen. ...

Violet of Potsdam Square (1936)

In a poor Berlin neighborhood, a horse used in the WWI cavalry is threatened with slaughter so two sinister types can make some money .But a flower seller, her grandfather, and some other nice people try to save the honorable steed. ...

Three Girls Around Schubert (1936)

Composer Franz Schubert becomes involved with a family with three daughters, falling in love with the two blonds, first one, then the other; but will he notice the quiet brunet third daughter, who has fallen madly in love with him? ...

Die letzte Fahrt der Santa Margareta (1936)

Film by Zoch. ...

Königstiger (1935)

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 away with his life at all is due to the quick action of the circus director's daughter, Tamara, who shoots ...

Mach mich glücklich (1935)

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

In Sachen Timpe (1934)

Film by Carl Heinz Wolff. ...

Seine erste Liebe (1933)

A young actress places a misleading newspaper ad: "Hans, come back! Am so lonely and unhappy!" As a result, she is besieged by a crowd of unmarried cavaliers, all pretending to be her Hans. ...

Drei Kaiserjäger (1933)

Muß man sich gleich scheiden lassen (1933)

Wedding at Lake Wolfgang (1933)

An actress from the big city encourages the proprietor of a resort inn in the Austrian Tyrol to try his luck on the stage in Berlin. ...

Wenn am Sonntagabend die Dorfmusik spielt (1933)

Flucht nach Nizza (1933)

The Secret of the Blue Room (1932)

Just for fun and to prove to the daughter of the castle lord how courageous they are, three young men agree to each spend one night in the "blue room" of the castle. Years ago two people lost their lives in this room under most mysterious circumstances. Ev ...

Frederica (1932)

Based on Franz Lehar's operetta, about the first woman whom the great German writer Goethe fell in love with. ...

Tod über Shanghai (1932)

Aunt Gussi Commands (1932)

Three daughters of a tax officer, brought up by a maiden aunt, become engaged to three military men assigned to their small town. ...

Number Three Cavalryman (1932)

A town's business begins to suffer, when a military outfit is confined to quarters for three weeks because they have been harassing the local women. ...

Mrs. Lehmann's Daughters (1932)

A sweet secret (1931)

Mrs. Hansi Aichinger owns a flourishing fashion house in Berlin in which she employs her two married daughters Hermine and Dora, her sons-in-law and also her youngest, still unmarried daughter Liesel. Only her husband, Professor Hugo Aichinger, doesn't nee ...

Weekend in Paradise (1931)

Victoria and Her Hussar (1931)

Viktoria is a Hungarian countess who believes her Hussar captain husband was killed in World War I. She marries an American and resettles at the American consulate in Tokyo. Her first husband reappears, alive; and the American generously releases Viktoria ...

Carefree Choral Society (1931)