Hans Grimm

Ferien vom Ich (1963)

Ship's doctor Dr. Schumacher dreams of a sanatorium where one can truly escape from all one's obligations. ...

Songs Ring Out on Lake Maggiore (1963)

After his wife's accidental death, the once successful pop singer Eric Kersten and his son Peter retired to Lake Maggiore. He spends his time painting pictures that he sells to tourists. One day he meets the pretty Eva, who looks very much like his late wi ...

Wenn die Musik spielt am Wörthersee (1962)

Isola Bella (1961)

Consul daughter Anne Stülcken wants to take her fiancee undetected under the magnifying glass and therefore slips in her father's villa in the role of a maid. ...

Do Not Send Your Wife to Italy (1960)

Manuela, Lizzie and Sabine are annoyed by their husbands. So they decide to go to Italy where they hope to meet some nice men. ...

Ja, so ein Mädchen mit sechzehn (1959)

Der schwarze Blitz (1958)

Michael Kirchner, nicknamed "The Black Lightning", is a passionate alpine skier. Now he must eliminate the tough opponent Herbert Tanner to be the representative of the national team. ...

Kleiner Mann - ganz groß (1957)

His grandpa gives the orphan boy Robbie a foal that they call "little brother". The boy loves the animal and wants to train it as a racing horse - but then his grandpa dies. Robbie's sister isn't old enough to care for themselves, so they get a guardian wh ...

Mein Vater, der Schauspieler (1956)

Because Diva Christine believes that her husband is cheating on her, she hurtles away and dies. Only the little son prevents the widower from committing suicide. ...

If the Father and the Son (1955)

After Clown Teddy lost his son, he lost his gift for laughter. He opened a joke shop and lives above the shop. His landlady has had a foster son since birth, and Teddy decides to raise the child, who always believed that Teddy was his father. When the moth ...

Fanfaren der Ehe (1953)

Two in a Big City (1942)

A German soldier on leave in Berlin goes looking for his pen pal who he has never met called Gisela. He meets instead a woman with the same name and falls in love with her. ...

Uncle Krüger (1941)

An anti-British propaganda film from Nazi Germany which depicts the life of the South African politician Paul Kruger and his eventual defeat by the British during the Boer War. ...

Versprich mir nichts! (1937)

Maler Pratt, an artist, refuses to sell his paintings as he thinks that they still need improvement before being publicly exhibited, but his wife Monika thinks differently and sells them because she thinks they are good...and they need the money. As he onl ...

The Sovereign (1937)

Der Herrscher (The Sovereign) was based on Before Sunset, a play by Gerhart Hauptmann. The great Emil Jannings stars as Mathias Clausen, a self-made businessman who is forced to do a great deal of soul-searching when his wife unexpectedly dies. Determining ...

Liebelei (1933)

Vienna in the beginning of the twentieth century. Cavalry Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer is about to end his affair with Baroness Eggerdorff when he meets the young Christine, the daughter of an opera violinist. Baron Eggerdorff however soon hears of his past ...

Five from the Jazzband (1932)

By pure chance, Jessie and his four jazz musicians are hired to play at the cabaret theatre "Trocadero". Unfortunately, she knows nothing about music and it doesn't help that all four musicians are in love with her. Jessie doesn't reciprocate their feeli ...

The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time (1985)

A poignant film essay about 'superfluous people' facing up to a moment of crisis in their lives. ...

Mental Cruelty (1962)

On a summer morning, the opening of the trial in the Zurich District Court is scheduled for 8 a.m. The case of Marlene Faber and Nick Merk's divorce is being heard on the grounds of "mental cruelty." The couple is waiting outside the courtroom for their di ...

Democrat Läppli (1961)

Theophil Läppli is a swiss patriot, who after a trip to Greece tries to recover the democratic roots of Switzerland. With much enthusiasm and idealism he's discovering, that corruption and greed are wide spread in his beloved country. This is the second m ...

Taxichauffeur Bänz (1957)

Oscar Bänz is a solid, middle-class taxi driver and widower. He loves his daughter Irma with all his heart. In order to provide for her, he has not remarried. Irma, a quiet, intelligent young woman, is studying medicine. To finance her education, Bänz re ...

De Hotelportier (1941)

A wealthy man buys a hotel that is not very profitable. To check that everything is in order, he gets himself hired as a hotel porter without revealing his identity. ...