Friedrich Ettel

Familienanschluß (1941)

Old captain Barkhahn keeps on going bankrupt with all his business endeavors. He's made for the sea and not for the land. His newest idea is a family-run bed and breakfast with "Familienanschluß," and so Captain Bräuer moves in and quickly shows interest ...

Enemies (1940)

The focus of this wartime propaganda film from 1940 is the foreman Keith, who works at a Polish sawmill, not far from the German border. It is 1939 and the War is fast approaching. The Polish workers at the sawmill revolt and kill the mill's German owner, ...

Tee zu zweien (1939)

The Embarrassment Child (1938)

Winemaker Peter Vierkottel and his son Bartel love to talk about their wines, which Anna, Peter's wife, doesn't get off on, because she controls the family money. She wants order and to marry off her son to Binchen, the daughter of the gardener Jupp Sprie ...

My Heart Belongs to Thee (1938)

A famous American tenor, relaxing on a farm near Naples and singing for pleasure in the fields, is mistaken by a lady journalist as an unknown talent she has discovered.He plays along with her and even falls in love. ...

Nordlicht (1938)

Nights in Andalusia (1938)

When the dancer Carmen visits the bullfighter Antonio, who has stabbed a gypsy, in prison, she meets the dragoon brigadier José. The two immediately take a liking to each other, and from that day on, José often visits the café where Carmen dances. When ...

The Marriage Swindler (1938)

A confidence trickster is released from prison and travels to a village where he blackmails and tricks women out of their savings. ...

Drei tolle Tage (1936)

A cheerful film about the Cologne carnival. ...

The Valley of Love (1935)

Rather coarse, pre-War comedy about a Markgraf -- Heinrich XXVI -- who bathes in the springs of the Ammendorf to strengthen his potency. The town and its springs are especially well known for the many couples with lots of children, who, for tax reasons, l ...

One Too Many on Board (1935)

During a journey of the "Ceder", the Captain, von Moltmann, disappears. It looks like an accident, but it could also have been murder. Attorney Dr. Burger and superintendent Störensen discover quickly that two of the crewmen hated the Captain: Chief offic ...

Hermine and the Seven Upright Men (1935)

Seven men in peaceful Switzerland swear lifelong friendship while the rest of the world is at strife. A conflict arises when the daughter of one falls in love with the son of another. ...

Bashful Felix (1934)

The traveling salesman for a bathing suit company has trouble getting business until he meets a girl willing to take off her clothes and act as a model.Misunderstandings and complications ensue. ...

Police File 909 (1934)

A Japanese doctor, on a secret mission to Paris for his country, becomes romantically involved with a cabaret singer at a Parisian nightclub. His entire mission is put at risk when he kills a rival for her love, a French journalist and blackmailer. (This f ...

The Champion of Pontresina (1934)

Pontresina, Switzerland, at the beginning of the 20th century. A ski jumping competition is about to take place. ...

Die vier Musketiere (1934)

Gold (1934)

Using an atomic reactor, two scientists try to create gold. ...

There Is Only One Love (1933)

The chamber singer Sir Henry Godwin and the ballet master Blattner need a vacation. ...

Der Traum vom Rhein (1933)

A Certain Mr. Gran (1933)

An Italian engineer who had made a strategically important invention to ward off enemy aircraft is killed in a robbery. As the plans have presumably fallen into the hands of spies, secret service captain Bergall is given the task of recovering the papers. ...

Tugboat M 17 (1933)

Heinrich George plays Henner who lives with his wife and child on a tugboat, going on the river to Berlin. There he meets the attractive Gescha (Betty Amann), and a story of love, betrayal and sadness ensues. ...

Laughing Heirs (1933)

After the death of his uncle, the owner of the Rhine based Bockelmann Sparkling Wine, Peter turns up for the reading of the will. Justus Bockelmann, a producer of mineral water, is confident he will inherit the business, but 'for reasons of moral rectitude ...

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 ...

Trenck - Der Roman einer großen Liebe (1932)

A celebration of strong Prussian leadership during the reign of Frederick the Great. ...

A Tremendously Rich Man (1932)

A man swallows a diamond - and suddenly all people around him change their attitude towards him. ...

The Trunks of Mr. O.F. (1931)

In the very old-fashioned town of Ostend suddenly 13 suitcases are delivered to the Grand Hotel, with a note, that O.F. will be here soon and needs 6 rooms. This event, probably the biggest in 300 years, starts a small wave of modernisation, yet everybody ...

The Other Side (1931)

The First World War. The young, English Lieutenant Raleigh is sent to the company of a disillusioned Captain Stanhope. Stanhope is secretly engaged to Raleigh's sister and is intent on protecting his image of an exemplary officer. An attack on the German l ...

Panic in Chicago (1931)

Chicago gangsters use cunning and a series of false identities in a violent battle for dominance, all while attempting to dodge the police. ...