Fritz Wendhausen

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. ...

Familienparade (1936)

Film by Wendhausen. ...

Artist Love (1935)

In 1887 in Munich, a rising artist paints a portrait of a dancer. The success of it during an exhibition leads to him being awarded a major commission in Rome, and he begins to move in high society. By the time he returns home he has almost forgotten about ...

Peer Gynt (1934)

Fun-loving Peer Gynt lives carefree on his parents' farm. Only his mother is a fixed point of reference; he doesn't think much of regular work and an orderly life. His mother's death brings him closer to the young Solveig, but he leaves her and his homelan ...

The Black Whale (1934)

Adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's 1931 play Fanny. ...

Kleiner Mann – was nun? (1933)

First adaptation of Hans Fallada's novel of the same name. ...

The child's first right (1932)

Goethe memorial film - 1. The career (1932)

Die Königin einer Nacht (1931)

A navy lieutenant contemplates suicide in his despair but then meets a beautiful stranger, who turns out to be a princess. ...

1914: The Last Days Before the War (1931)

The film focuses on the leadership of the Great Powers of Europe in the days leading up to the outbreak of the First World War. ...

Orders to Kill (1958)

A grounded American fighter pilot is switched to espionage on a special job in which he must kill a small-time Paris lawyer suspected of double-crossing France by selling out radio operators to the Nazis. ...

Desperate Moment (1953)

Story of a Dutchman's flight across post-war Germany trying to locate the man who alone can clear him of a false murder charge. ...

Odette (1950)

The film is based on the true story of Special Operations Executive French-born agent Odette Sansom, who was captured by the Germans in 1943, condemned to death and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp to be executed. However, against all odds she survi ...

Beware of Pity (1946)

A paraplegic baroness mistakes a man's pity for love - and tragedy ensues. ...

Tomorrow We Live (1943)

British World War II film set in occupied France, portraying the activities of members of the French Resistance and the Nazi tactic of taking and shooting innocent hostages in reprisal for acts of sabotage. The opening credits acknowledge "the official co- ...

Secret Mission (1942)

World War II drama in which a member of the French Resistance and three British agents undertake a hazardous mission to infiltrate a German HQ in search of vital information that could lead to the overthrow of the Nazis. ...

The First of the Few (1942)

This 1942 fictionalized biopic chronicles the true story of how two of the most remarkable men in aviation history - visionary Spitfire designer R.J. Mitchell and his test pilot Geoffrey Crisp - designed a streamlined monoplane that led to the development ...

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 ...