Erich Ponto

The Star of Africa (1957)

Biographic movie of the German fighter ace, who was killed in a plane crash after over 150 kills in North Africa. ...

The Zurich Engagement (1957)

Juliane Thomas is an ambitious but unemployed young writer. After breaking up with her lover she works at a dentist friend to make ends meet. One day she instantly falls in love with one of the patients (Jean Berner) and promptly writes a movie script abou ...

The Girl and the Legend (1957)

London, in 1730. Charly, Jim and Ben work hard, with the brave Maud, in a cotton mill to earn a few shillings. They all dream of the wonderful island told by Daniel Defoe. The latter lives in a miserable room. He is disgraced and rejected by his son Tom, a ...

Made in Germany – Ein Leben für Zeiss (1957)

Wenn wir alle Engel wären (1956)

German Comedy film from 1956, with Marianne Koch and Dieter Borsche after the novel by Heinrich Spoerl. After a alcohol-fated night, wakes up librarian Christian next to a strange woman. So his wife Elizabeth must during his absence, advances to resist. In ...

Ballerina (1956)

Bettina Sanden, a solo dancer at the opera, falls ill with polio. The chances of a cure look rather slim. ...

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 Golden Plague (1954)

At the end of the war a disillusioned German exile returns home only to fall into the dark world of black market goods and drug trafficking. ...

Keine Angst vor Schwiegermüttern (1954)

The Flying Classroom (1954)

The third form of a boarding school and the students of a neighboring school do not get along. Each side dreams up the craziest pranks to defeat the other. And when one day the high school students go as far as stealing the Gymnasium students' essays and e ...

...und ewig bleibt die Liebe (1954)

The Life of Surgeon Sauerbruch (1954)

Young Olga Ahrendt almost succeeded in attempting suicide. She had thrown herself in front of a tram out of desperation about her miserable life, a desperation she shared with many in the post-war period. Fortunately, Privy Councillor Sauerbruch is at the ...

Hokuspokus (1953)

A murder trial becomes a farce when a widow tries to convince the district attorney that she didn't drown her husband, with the help of an eccentric lawyer. ...

Not Afraid of Big Animals (1953)

Emil, a technical draftsman, is hardworking, always helpful, and somewhat shy. Because of these traits, he is often taken advantage of by those around him. Now Emil is set to inherit a supposedly large fortune. His landlady's brother wants to marry him off ...

Tobias Knopp, Adventure of a Bachelor (1953)

The wealthy man Tobias Knopp becomes ever more lonely and quirky over the years. He had let himself go, his girth increased significantly, and his hair fell out. Over that, he waited too long for the right woman and stayed a bachelor involuntarily. But now ...

Die große Versuchung (1952)

A young man practices medicine without a licence. ...

Der weißblaue Löwe (1952)

Monks, Girls and Pandours (1952)

Historical adventure comedy film about the beer-brewing mendicant brothers in the mid-18 Century Bavaria, who have to defend themselves against the arrogance of roaming hordes of Pandours: poorly equipped and ill-disciplined irregular troops. ...

Haus des Lebens (1952)

No Greater Love (1952)

Directed by Harald Braun and told from the perspective of Bertha von Suttner, the first female to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, The Alfred Nobel Story - No Greater Love chronicles the life of scientist, inventor, and businessman Alfred Nobel. Nobel built ...

Primanerinnen (1951)

Was das Herz befiehlt (1951)

Zwischen Herz und Gewissen (1951)

Frauenarzt Dr. Prätorius (1950)

In the face of two world wars, Professor Prätorius, a philanthropist and a surgeon, wants to exterminate the one danger to mankind, the microbe of stupidity, as he states in a spontaneous lecture to his male and female students. When he tries to help a pr ...

Geliebter Lügner (1950)

The young fashion illustrator Jeanette meets the chief engineer Rudolf Siebert at an artists' festival in Schwabing, but thinks he is the talented but poor painter Braubach, whom she admires and would like to support. The spoiled Siebert is happy to put up ...

Hans im Glück (1949)

The plot closely follows the Grimm fairy tale. Hans, a hard-working miller's apprentice, sets off on a journey to discover the big, wide world. As a reward for his work, his master gives him a lump of gold to take with him. On his journey home, he encounte ...

Love '47 (1949)

A young man and woman meet on a bridge, both about to commit suicide by jumping into the river, and recount to each other their experiences. ...

Schicksal aus zweiter Hand (1949)

A man's life breaks down in pursuit of material success. ...

The Third Man (1949)

In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harr ...

Palace Scandal (1949)

During the Biedermeier era, a young singer searches for her missing father. Remake of "Das Hofkonzert", 1936. ...

Verspieltes Leben (1949)

Germany, 1914: The bourgeois austerity of the small, northern German town in which Ulyssa lives conflicts sharply with her desire to flirt with and be ensnared by charming, young men. That she's married is irrelevant; it's a marriage which exists only on ...

Die kupferne Hochzeit (1948)

Three young couples who are friends get married on the same day and promise to celebrate their copper wedding anniversary together in seven years. But seven years is a long time, and all three marriages are now in crisis. However, a heartfelt letter from t ...

The Lost Face (1948)

A clearly confused girl is found wandering around Stuttgart and can't be understood, because she's speaking in a foreign language. The police take her to some doctors, who eventually believe they're dealing with a Tibetan. Doctor von Aldenhoff takes the st ...

Film Without Title (1948)

A screenwriter comes up with a story about an affair between a maid and her employer. ...

Between Yesterday and Tomorrow (1947)

A group of people gathers back in the post-war ruins of a luxurious Munich hotel they inhabited at one point or another years before; each trying to cope with the tragic consequences of the war and their own actions. ...

In the Evening After the Opera (1945)

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

The Molander Case (1945)

Der Scheiterhaufen (1945)

The Angel and the Lyre (1944)

Achim and Vera are friends and live an uncomplicated and happy life .... that is, until they get into their first serious argument on how they should spend New Year's Eve. Vera wants to celebrate with friends, while Achim wants to go off to a lonely mounta ...

Philharmonic (1944)

Alexander Schonath is an exceptionally gifted musician who plays first violin in a philharmonic orchestra. But when the orchestra runs into financial difficulties, Alexander is the first to leave and join a dance band – the other musicians, especially hi ...

Der Meisterdetektiv (1944)

The Punch Bowl (1944)

Writer Johannes Pfeiffer who goes undercover as a student in a high school after his friends told him that he missed out on a great life experience since he was home schooled. ...

The Two Sisters (1943)

Berlin, the end of the 19th Century: The pretty sisters Gabriele and Ulrike Wilkens have both completed their ballet training with honors. But only Gabriele is really dedicated to the art; Ulrike, on the other hand, is more the domestic type. She dreams ...

Ein glücklicher Mensch (1943)

Professor Lorenz is nominated for the highest accolade of his profession, and he smiles about his sons' juvenile mismanagement of private funds. Then he learns that one of them has forged the professor's signature on several IOUs. ...

Diesel (1943)

A German wartime biography of Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the Diesel engine. The movie links the importance of the engine to the war by starting the movie with newsreel clips of German Navy U-boats in action. ...

12 Minuten UFA (1943)

An insight into the work at the UFA-Studios. ...

Der große Schatten (1942)

During a performance of Calderón's "The Judge of Zalamea," a young actor encounters his famous older colleague, whose daughter committed suicide years ago after he seduced and abandoned her. The older man finds the strength to reconcile when he is convinc ...

Attack on Baku (1942)

Azerbaijan, 1919. The British hope to secure control of the vast oil fields around Baku by launching a series of terrorist attacks on them. Hans Romberg, a German who is working as a security officer, battles with the British chief agent Captain Forbes and ...

Der Fall Rainer (1942)

Germany in the fall of 1918: Accompanied by the Archduke Karl Maria, Princess Henriette von Battenstein makes an inspection tour of hospitals. During these inspections, she meets Lieutenant Rainer, the former conductor of the State Opera. When she later ...

The Night in Venice (1942)

The marriage of the celebrated operetta diva Vilma and the chamber singer Peter has come to an end. Peter, however, is intent on winning back his now ex-wife. So he's come up with the idea of a guest performance in Venice, where the two will both appear. ...

Her Other Self (1941)

By coincidence Magdalena gets hired for two jobs in the same company (one day, one night shift) and "invents" a sister to "explain" the situation to an engineer who falls for one of the "sisters" while hating the other. ...

Leichte Muse (1941)

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

I Accuse (1941)

In this film, the wife of a renowned doctor becomes ill with multiple sclerosis. Trying to spare her beloved husband the ordeal, the woman turns to a family friend, Dr. Lang, to help end her life. When this doctor declines to help with the assisted suicide ...

Blutsbrüderschaft (1941)

On November 11, 1918, the last day of the First World War , Lieutenant Colonel Klaus Olden desperately tried to hold a lost post with his unit. The rescue appears in the form of pilot Jochen Wendler, who shows up with his plane and drops ammunition. When J ...

The Heart of a Queen (1940)

As the title "The Queen's Heart" suggests, this early German black and white version of Mary Queen of Scott's eventful reign and death focuses on her emotional perception rather lyrically, with some songs, mainly by her. ...

The Young Lady of Barnhelm (1940)

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 he is discharged and left penniless when the government suspects his noble deed was actually due to a bribe. ...

Clothes Make the Man (1940)

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 allowed, however, to take the frock, which he appropriated for himself and he puts it on as he leaves the ...

Wie konntest Du, Veronika! (1940)

Aus erster Ehe (1940)

Movie based on the novel by Christel Broehl-Delhaes ...

The Rothschilds (1940)

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

Der Feuerteufel (1940)

Achtung! Feind hört mit! (1940)

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 average citizen of the Reich : the Kettwigs. Indeed they own an armament factory and their engineers, technic ...

In letzter Minute (1939)

A retired rail official and his wife Amalie purchase a disused railroad wagon to convert it into a villa in the countryside. One day, Amalie discovers 25,000 Marks hidden behind a picture in the rail car. The money was put there by a Dutch couple, who tr ...

Wibbel the Tailor (1939)

During the Napoleonic occupation of the German states in 1812, a tailor by the name of Anton Wibbel is sentenced to sit in jail for insulting the Emperor. The tailor manages to get out of this by paying off a friend to go to prison in his place. But then, ...

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 ...

Thirteen Men and a Cannon (1938)

World War I, Eastern Front. A special battery consisting of thirteen soldiers and one cannon successfully holds back the enemy. But then the position of the gun is betrayed to the Russians and the cannon is destroyed. Each of the thirteen men is now suspec ...

The Four Companions (1938)

Four graduates of an industrial design school team up and form a small business. The protagonist is so excited by the venture that she turns down the proposal of her dashing instructor. Time passes and her three partners lose interest in the business for d ...

Am seidenen Faden (1938)

A WWI veteran comes home and with a scientist's help opens an artificial silk factory later used for clothing. Crooked international profiteers ,a lawyer and a banker, threaten the profitability of the concern and the workers' jobs. ...

The Mystery of Betty Bonn (1938)

A British attorney working on a small island wants to return home to London, but first has to solve a mysterious crime. ...

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1937)

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

The Final Chord (1936)

After her husband dies, a German woman who gave up her infant for adoption to emigrate to America returns to Germany, discovering that her child is being raised by a married orchestra conductor. ...

The Last Four on Santa Cruz (1936)

An author, a businessman, a shipowner and a publisher form a business venture, which will supposedly exploit a huge find of lobsters on the island of Santa Cruz. After a report in the newspaper, the business' stocks do well. But the partners quarrel with o ...

The King's Prisoner (1935)

A comedy loosely based on the life story of Johann Friedrich Böttger, the inventor of Meissen porcelain: In Berlin, the pharmacist Fritz Böttger gains a reputation for being able to make gold and is imprisoned on the orders of the Prussian king. Followin ...

Joan of Arc (1935)

France in the 15th Century: The country is marked by the wars with England and internal power struggles. King Charles sees himself powerless against the state. As emerges from the people suddenly a young woman named Johanna, who claimed that the Archangel ...

Love, Death and the Devil (1934)

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 wealth and should fulfill all his wishes. The required return is however high. From now on, the soul of the new ...

The Man Who Committed the Murder (1931)

The story is about Conrad Veidt as military attache in Turkey where he learns to know an English consul (Heinrich George) and his attractive wife who is treated badly. They begin an affair and soon the husband proves to be an obstacle that has to be dispos ...

Woman in the Jungle (1931)

Marooned on a rubber plantation in the East Indies, Leslie turns to Geoffrey for the love and diversion that she does not find with her husband. ...