Ernst Waldow

Snow White and the Seven Jugglers (1962)

Norbert Lang inherits a hotel and has to deal with a multitude of problems at the end of the year. There's the pushy singer who wants to get closer to him than he'd like. The staff quickly takes off after arguments. When the heating starts acting up, he ha ...

Dicke Luft (1962)

Sabine und die hundert Männer (1960)

The Haunted Castle (1960)

The ghosts of thieves help a beautiful young countess save her inherited castle from modern developers in this comic horror/musical. ...

The Last Pedestrian (1960)

Heinz Erhardt wanders through the Black Forest as a photographer for a magazine. On the train he meets a young girl who from now on does not leave his side. ...

Bumerang (1960)

The paths of three men cross for a short time in post-war Berlin. Robert and Willy are unattached and unemployed, Georg has joined them from Hamburg, he has a family and occasionally does something crooked. That's what the three of them are up to together: ...

Der lustige Krieg des Hauptmann Pedro (1959)

An Angel on Wheels (1959)

Heralded racing driver Pierre Chaillot has never noticed the pretty young flight attendant who dotes on him adoringly. But when his fiancée's infidelity drives him to the brink of suicide, Pierre's guardian angel takes the form of this stewardess to urge ...

Peter schießt den Vogel ab (1959)

Peter schießt den Vogel ab is a German film comedy first released in 1959. ...

Der Haustyrann (1959)

Cafe owner Paul Perlacher is a real pig: not only are his daughter and sister Trude embarrassed constantly by his disgusting behavior, but his tenants are subjected to every legal trick under the Sun to get them to move out. Nevertheless, Amalie Hartning's ...

Schlag auf Schlag (1959)

No overview found. ...

Der Maulkorb (1958)

Out of outrage, the usually proper prosecutor Treskow, after a night of heavy drinking, adorns the statue of the local ruler with a muzzle. The next morning, he can't remember a thing due to his intoxication. In the meantime, his act has been discovered an ...

Ihr 106. Geburtstag (1958)

...und abends in die Scala (1958)

The chorus girl Caterina Duval gets the chance of her life when hired as stand-in of a famous star. On the opening night Catarina is singing, dancing and stepping into the hearts of the audience. ...

Jägerblut (1957)

Young forester Sixt is wounded one night. Smuggling in the mountains is the reason. By day, the brothers Benno and Simon Schaidler are respectable citizens - by night, they are smugglers and poachers. They daredevilly pursue their nocturnal "craft". Howeve ...

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 ...

Die fidelen Detektive (1957)

Two retired Bavarian traffic police officers and a Berlin detective work together to track down jewelry thieves. ...

The Big Chance (1957)

Heidelberg teenagers make jazz music. ...

Vater, unser bestes Stück (1957)

Zwei Herzen voller Seligkeit (1957)

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Frauen sind für die Liebe da (1957)

A German film comedy ...

August the Thug (1957)

Manöverball (1956)

Zwei Bayern in St. Pauli (1956)

The local council of the Bavarian village of Mooskirchen has ambitious plans for the small town. Mooskirchen is to become a tourist destination, but this requires money, because at the moment there is not even an access road to the highway, let alone such ...

Du bist Musik (1956)

Kitty and the Great Big World (1956)

The young Kitty is drawn into the world of international politics by chance. ...

Heute heiratet mein Mann (1956)

The talkative dentist Dr. Agartz lets the drill whir and tries to entertain his patient Thesi Petersen with the latest society gossip: the famous Hamburg architect Robert Petersen is about to remarry. The new girl's name is Karin Nielsen and she comes "fro ...

Tausend Melodien (1956)

Ein tolles Hotel (1956)

Regine (1956)

Martin Lundt, heir to his family's industrial business, falls for and, against his family's wishes, weds the family maid, Régine. Soon thereafter, rumors begin to circulate about Régine's faithfulness and being to haunt Martin. ...

Alibi (1955)

An industrialist's wife was killed and now her lover is accused of murder. ...

Unternehmen Schlafsack (1955)

During the closing stages of the Second World War, a bureaucratic mistake leads to a German officer being reassigned from the dangerous Eastern Front to Berlin and a new non-existent unit. ...

Das fröhliche Dorf (1955)

Drei Tage Mittelarrest (1955)

The mayor of a small garrison town is constantly at odds with the local battalion commander. This does not sit well with the mayor's wife at all, as she wants to marry her daughter off to a soldier. Things escalate when the mayor's cook becomes pregnant by ...

Der Himmel ist nie ausverkauft (1955)

Vatertag (1955)

Ihre große Prüfung (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. ...

Ein toller Tag (1954)

Shot in 1944, finished and released in 1954. ...

Fireworks (1954)

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

The Little Czar (1954)

Sonja, a little ballerina at the Grand Theater, is secretly in love with the handsome tenor Luis Mariano. One night, she hurts her feet while dancing and under the influence of a sedative falls asleep and starts dreaming. She is Sonja Ilyanova now, a young ...

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 ...

Theft of the Sabines (1954)

Fräulein vom Amt (1954)

Die Kaiserin von China (1953)

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. ...

A Musical War of Love (1953)

Der keusche Josef (1953)

Mask in Blue (1953)

Roses Bloom on the Moorland (1952)

In a small German village in the middle of large moors, there is an old legend of a young woman having sunk in the wetland after being raped by a Swedish intruder of the Thirty Years' war. Now young Dorothee, falling in love with the architect Ludwig, is h ...

Heimatglocken (1952)

The story takes place in the early 1950s in the small village of Oberschönau in the Bavarian Alps. The teacher's daughter Maria and the young farmer Mathias want to get married soon. But a serious blow of fate puts a stop to the couple's plans: the huntin ...

I Can't Marry Everyone (1952)

Don't Ask My Heart (1952)

Toxi (1952)

This German slice-of-life drama is based on a very real postwar dilemma. At the time the film was made, there were over 3000 children living in Germany who'd been fathered by African American GIs. Referred to as "mischlings," these children were often trea ...

Der blaue Stern des Südens (1952)

Heimat, deine Sterne (1951)

Primanerinnen (1951)

The Heath Is Green (1951)

After the end of World War II Lüder Lüdersen, the former owner of a feudal estate in the East, and his daughter Helga arrive as refugees in the Lüneburg Heath. While living a seemingly happy life on the estate of his cousin, Lüdersen hides a dark secre ...

Die verschleierte Maja (1951)

Professor Nachtfalter (1951)

Skandal in der Botschaft (1950)

The Black Forest Girl (1950)

The painter Hans Hauser falls head over heels in love with the "Black Forest girl" Bärbele Riederle. He travels to her home village and soon the two realize that they are made for each other. ...

Die wunderschöne Galathee (1950)

Insolent and in Love (1950)

Penniless Peter Schild looks for work when arrived in Germany. Working as a private eye he has to observe a young lady who is willing to marry an unemployed actor against the will of her parents. ...

Eine Nacht im Séparée (1950)

Wie sagen wir's unsern Kindern (1949)

Schicksal aus zweiter Hand (1949)

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

Diese Nacht vergess ich nie (1949)

The Blum Affair (1948)

Dr. Blum, a Jewish manufacturer, is falsely accused of a murder. Even when the real killer's identity becomes evident, the state prosecutor refuses to accept Blum's innocence. ...

Intimitäten (1948)

Peter Korff isn't a famous actor yet, but he is young, handsome, adventurous – and once again hopelessly in love. The object of his affection is named Erika and works as a model at the fashion salon "Yvette." Although the pretty young woman claims to be ...

The Wedding Hotel (1944)

A group of artists and journalists enjoy a series of romantic entanglements in a country hotel. An author, Vera von Eichberg "of whom no photo exists," has mentioned the hotel in her work, boosting its notoriety. When another female guest arrives, everyone ...

Seinerzeit zu meiner Zeit (1944)

Inge Peters has a guilty conscience. She told her mother, that she'd be going to the weekend house at the lake with her friend Barbara, but in reality, the horny girl is taking Peter with her. She's afraid, that if mom finds out, she's gonna lecture her ...

The Enchanted Day (1944)

This film tells the unusually sensitive story of two women who try to cope with men, one a pragmatic gold digger type, not unsympathetic though, the other a dreamer who falls in love with a man in a magic moment ... or so she thinks. ...

Glück unterwegs (1944)

1944 film. ...

Nora (1944)

The film is an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House. ...

A Man with Principles? (1943)

The day before chemist Dr. Hans Wynhold leaves for a six months business trip to Africa, he meets chemistry student Christa Weiden. They spend the evening together in St. Pauli and fall in love. She doesn't tell him that she'll start the next day at the ch ...

Circus Renz (1943)

A circus film made as a deliberately escapist release at a time when the Second World War was starting to turn against Germany and its allies. ...

Die Jungfern vom Bischofsberg (1943)

1943 German film. ...

Beloved Darling (1943)

When a wife reads a love letter addressed to her husband, written by an unknown female, all hell breaks lose. ...

Mask in Blue (1943)

Gifted amateur dancer gets her big break on the Berlin Stage in this wartime romantic comedy. ...

Wenn die Sonne wieder scheint (1943)

The Termoehlens belong to the old farming class in Flanders. Their estate does well and their flax is the best far and wide. And as is the custom, old Termoehlen is like a ruler over his family, the servants and the maidens. Even his son Ludwig, who has ...

Doctor Crippen (1942)

The popular trapeze artist Cora is married to the respected doctor Frank Crippen. After a party at the Crippens' house, Cora suddenly disappears. Apparently, she traveled to Brazil alone overnight. However, a friend of the couple is skeptical and calls the ...

Wedding in Barenhof (1942)

Lothar von Pütz and Roswitha von Krakow fall in love and only then discover that their fathers are bitter enemies. When Lothar's father dies, a close friend of his father's, Baron Maximilian von Hanckel, takes the boy under his wing and tries to make peac ...

Krach im Vorderhaus (1941)

It can hardly be said that things are peaceful in the Berlin apartment building where the film's story takes place. There are constant clashes between the residents – and sometimes that's quite literal: for example, when the widow Bock hid some explosive ...

Unser kleiner Junge (1941)

The printing worker Lena suffers a lot from the teasing of her colleagues, because no one really knows who the child she expects is from. The alleged father, sailor Ole Thomsen, is on his way. When he comes back, doubts also prevail over him, and he sits d ...

Für die Katz' (1940)

He who loves, torments himself: This turn of phrase works for the big farmer Gerd Tapken and his landlady Katrin Geerken. For more than 30 years, the two have fought at every opportunity, although they secretly love one another. But things seem to have ...

Der Sündenbock (1940)

Alles Schwindel (1940)

After living in the tropics for five years, Peter Asfeld returns to Amsterdam and wants to marry his childhood friend Julia Vermehren. However, his future father-in-law has read in the horoscope that Peter will one day commit a theft and demands that he do ...

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 ...

Seitensprünge (1940)

A diligent office worker and a cheeky sales representative are tasked by their boss with reserving a first-class hotel room with a bathroom for a visiting Hamburg exporter and his wife. A misunderstanding leads to non-stop confusion, because the office wor ...

Der Stammbaum des Dr. Pistorius (1939)

Streit um den Knaben Jo (1939)

German film. ...

Who's Kissing Madeleine? (1939)

Pierre Pasqual has just about everything his heart desires: in his career as a commercial pilot, he is well known and successful; he has wealth and a beautiful wife. The only thing is, that because of his career, Pierre is frequently away and the thought ...

The Grouch (1939)

No overview found. ...

Die Stimme aus dem Äther (1939)

Brigitte von Gersdorf became an actress against her parents' wishes. At drama school, she and her friend Erika are now waiting for their big break. ...

Ich bin gleich wieder da (1939)

Undergraduate Nik just wanted to get cigarettes when he is pulled into a series of events over the course of one night. Also during this night he meets three interesting women - whom will he end up with? ...

Women for Golden Hill (1938)

Women are being sent to an all male settlement. The marriages are planned in advance, but not everything goes according to plan. ...

Die Frau am Scheidewege (1938)

Following the breakdown of her marriage to an artist, a female doctor goes back to her position at a hospital. ...

Little Sinner (1938)

In this love triangle, two comrades working at a Berlin auto repair place fall out over a waitress they both want. The only way Rudi can think of winning away Erika from Hanni is to badmouth her to his rival. ...

Großalarm (1938)

The newspaper delivery driver Paul falls in love with Lotte, who works in her mother's kiosk. One day, Paul helps a man in a black Mercedes, who's been in an accident. While helping him, a notebook has fallen out of the man's pocket, which Paul thinks is ...

Wie einst im Mai (1938)

1900: Much to the chagrin of Baron Uhlendorff in Schoneberg, the city of Berlin is expanding. But what is much worse is that his son George is in love with Traute, the daughter of the master carpenter Schradecke. So the son must leave for South America ...

Petermann ist dagegen (1938)

Experiences during a voyage with a KDF-steamer (Kraft Durch Freude = Power Through Joy, a nazi campaign that allowed working class people to make affordable holidays often on steamers).Grumpy old Petermann is a moaner, but during a KDF-tour on the "Der Deu ...

Pension Elise Nottebohm (1937)

An unknown curiosity even for experts, this is a film from the late work of the director of the classic films Mother Krause's Journey to Happiness (1929) and Berlin, Alexanderplatz (1931). Although the communist Philipp Jutzi readily switched sides to the ...

Hahn im Korb (1937)

a movie by Heinz Paul ...

Signal in der Nacht (1937)

German film (1937). ...

When Women Keep Silent (1937)

Curt serenades his wife Charlott from the garden without her recognizing him. When she later doesn't refer to the incident he assumes that she is falling for the 'unknown' suitor and deliberately puts a notorious womanizer on her trail. ...

The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes (1937)

Two dubious characters disguise themselves as Holmes and Watson to gain attention and end up chasing counterfeiters and stolen stamps. ...

Die göttliche Jette (1937)

Cheeky Jette is a typical Berlin girl. Together with her mother, she performs couplets in a Berlin suburb theatre every night. Then, a young Austrian baron, who is worshipping Jette, enables her to audition for Königstädtisches Theater. Although she at f ...

Togger (1937)

Duet (1937)

Opera singer Maria Seydlitz has just left her fiancé because he put her between the choice of husband or profession when she receives a telegram from New York: an unknown person hires her for a large fee at the theater Maria accepts the offer... The film ...

The Court Concert (1936)

Before he became cult director Douglas Sirk, Detlef Sierck cut his teeth on such lavish European star vehicles as Das Hofkonzert (The Court Concert). Marta Eggerth is cast as Christine, a young singer who aspires to find out who her father was. Her odyssey ...

Spiel an Bord (1936)

If We All Were Angels (1936)

Christian Kempenich, a pedantic law firm manager, attends a christening in Cologne, leading to a boozy night. He wakes up in a stranger's bed and is accused of stealing bed linen from the hotel. Meanwhile, his wife Hedwig had her own fling and wants to kee ...

Incognito (1936)

The bored heir to a soap factory is able through pure chance to work incognito in the 153rd branch of the business. While doing so, he falls in love with a beautiful customer, gets into a rivalry with a jealous worker and helps to expose a dishonest boss. ...

Boccaccio (1936)

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 scribe at the city court. Under the pseudonym Giovanni Boccaccio, he writes amorous tales that divide opinion w ...

When the Cock Crows (1936)

Early morning romantic excursions in a North German village under the thumb of a crusty old mayor. ...

Traumulus (1936)

This film is a fascinating showcase for Emil Janning's theatrical play. He's a gentle school teacher who believes in his boys and is easily fooled about all things, while the other town officials want him dismissed. Curiously it's very hard to see what th ...

Barcarole (1935)

A young reckless womaniser is trapped one night at his club into a bet with a Mexican that he will win his wife before morning. There will be a duel in any case: if he loses his bet the Mexican will fire first. ...