Ilse Fürstenberg

Unternehmer (1970)

The Fire Tongs Bowl (1970)

A successful author, who was educated by private teachers in his home instead of being sent to school with other boys, realizes he missed out on a lot fun in his younger years. He decides to make up for this and attends school classes disguised as a pupil. ...

When Sweet Moonlight Is Sleeping in the Hills (1969)

Based on a book by Eric Malpass and directed by Kurt Hoffmann, the film focuses on the everyday life of a German family perceived through the eyes of its youngest member — six-year-old Gaylord. ...

Berliner Blockade (1968)

Kubinke (1966)

Das Fahrrad (1965)

Überstunden (1965)

Der Doktor (1964)

Two Among Millions (1961)

Just before the Berlin Wall is built, a young East German worker tries his personal and professional luck as a barkeep in West Berlin. A realistic love story set during Germany's post-war economic miracle, which here does not fulfil its bright promises. ...

Hinter der Tür (1960)

Die Gaunerkomödie (1960)

Der Nobelpreis (1959)

Notes from a Gynecologist's Diary (1959)

After a carnival celebration, young Erika Hansen is offered a lift by two young men in a car. The men become abusive. Erika rushes out of the car and is seriously injured. She is brought to a gynecoligal clinic for an acute operation. ...

Romarei, the Girl with the Green Eyes (1958)

Clairvoyant gifted Romarei (Carola Kayser) manages to save her childhood friend Lorenz Ophofen from what would have been a fatal accident. Prang, a greedy widow, decides to gain some money by using that gift of her daughter by adoption, Romarei, and she se ...

Ein weißer Elefant (1958)

Die Frühreifen (1957)

Inge works in a department store as a saleswoman in the women's fashion department. She suffers from the cramped conditions in her parents' house, where they save money because her choleric father, a miner, dreams of owning his own house in the country. Sh ...

Und das am Montagmorgen (1957)

The Captain from Kopenick (1956)

A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is jailed for fifteen years. Upon his release, he wants to get a permit to get a job and start anew, but finds that without a job he can't get a permit, and without a permit he can't g ...

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. ...

Canaris (1954)

Admiral Canaris is chief of the intelligence service of Nazi Germany. His department is quite successful and Hitler grants him all the money he wants for new developments. Still he's a thorn in the side of the Nazi chiefs, since he's not as unscrupulous as ...

Vati macht Dummheiten (1953)

Die Prinzessin und der Schweinehirt (1953)

Staatsanwältin Corda (1953)

Sündige Grenze (1951)

Film about young smugglers. ...

The Law of Love (1949)

Berlin, 1805: The brave Lieutenant Hofstede fell stormily in love with the charming singer Madeleine. Although Madeleine works in a very dubious establishment and thereby embroiled her lover in a scandal. ...

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 ...

Port of Freedom (1944)

Singing sailor Hannes, who now entertains the crowd at St. Pauli's Hippodrome after years at sea, promises his dying brother that he will take care of his ex-girlfriend Gisa. Taking Gisa to Hamburg to live with him, Hannes quickly falls in love with her, b ...

A Beautiful Day (1944)

Three soldiers on very short home leave visit Berlin. One isn't from there and runs around with his guide book being perplexed by all the things that are different now. Another visits his wife and his baby. The third enters a romance due to a mistaken iden ...

I'll Carry You in My Arms (1943)

After five years, the marriage of chemist Dr. Herbert has become so routine, that his wife Karin sees no other choice but to leave her husband, even if she still loves him. She retreats to her parents' place and takes a job in her father's factory, while ...

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. ...

An Old Heart Becomes Young Again (1943)

All throughout his entire life, Friedrich Wilhelm Hoffmann let his career run roughshod over his personal life. He had no wife, because he was married instead to his chocolate factory. Now he's old and gray, and his relatives, who are greedily waiting fo ...

Du gehörst zu mir (1943)

Professor Dr. Burkhardt is a much celebrated surgeon. Obsessed with his career, he is always available when an unexpected operation comes up. That his personal life is suffering because of this obsession is something the successful doctor doesn't notice. ...

Ein Zug fährt ab (1942)

The Great Love (1942)

The attractive Oberleutnant Paul Wendlandt is stationed in North Africa as a fighter pilot. While in Berlin to deliver a report he is given a day's leave, and on the stage of the cabaret theatre "Skala" sees the popular Danish singer Hanna Holberg. For Pau ...

Comrades (1941)

King Frederick II and his leading advisors hesitate too long in the eyes of some officers, so Major von Schill decides to strike out on his own. He hoped that his brave move would be the catalyst for the great war of liberation. But von Schill's troops wer ...

Annelie (1941)

On New Year′s Eve 1871 Annelie is born – 15 minutes too late, since her parents had calculated her birth to be exactly at midnight. These 15 minutes will again and again become the girl′s fate. ...

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 ...

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 ...

D III 88 (1939)

Across German screens at the outbreak of WWII streaks "DIII88: The New German Air Force Attacks", an aeronautic and maritime spectacle glorifying Hermann Goring's Luftwaffe and the spirit of the newly arisen Germany. Once war became imminent, Joseph Goebbe ...

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 ...

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 ...

Salonwagen E 417 (1939)

In a transport museum, the items on display begin to tell their stories. Most interesting is the history of the Pullman car. In the beginning, it served as transport for a princely family; then became the headquarters car for the military high command; a ...

Im Namen des Volkes (1939)

Nanon (1938)

An operetta directed by Herbert Maisch. ...

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. ...

Skandal um den Hahn (1938)

An entire neighborhood is in an uproar because the Maier family is keeping their prize-winning rooster, Otto, on the balcony of their apartment. And now, every morning, the rooster is waking up the entire street with its dawn greeting. Thus, the neighbor ...

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 ...

The Merry Widow's Ball (1936)

In this slapstick comedy, two women who own rival beauty parlors in a small town squabble with each other. ...

Dissatisfied Woman (1936)

Lisa's marriage is all in all quite happy; unfortunately, her husband never listens to her when it comes to buying new things. To change this situation, she fakes a loss of memory and pretends not to know who her husband is. When he calls the young psychia ...

Mädchen in Weiß (1936)

A student at St. Petersburg Smolny Institute wants to follow in her mother's footsteps in opera but her fiance,an imperious count, objects.Another student whose boyfriend is a grand duke accuses her of stealing jewelry. ...

All for Veronica (1936)

Veronika, a saleswoman at the Tutzinger department store, is in love with Paul, who also works there as a salesman. During a weekend trip in the car, the colleagues grow closer, but Veronika also gets into serious trouble. To cover up a tear in her dress, ...

Kater Lampe (1936)

In the central mountains, an American lady trying to manufacture snowshoes assists a struggling German toy maker,whose cat becomes a symbol for what binds together the lives of such village folk. ...

Trouble Backstairs (1935)

Frisians in Peril (1935)

Soviet authorities are making life as difficult as possible for a village of Volga Germans, most of whose ancestors originated in the Frisian Islands, with taxes and other oppression. ...

Lady Windermeres Fächer (1935)

Mrs. Erlynne, a mistress once expelled by London society, returns from America after years with the desire to regain a foothold in these circles. ...

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 ...

Vergiß mein nicht (1935)

Tenor Enzo Curti, a widower with a young child, falls in love with a secretary from New York. Liselotte has experienced disappointment in her first love, Helmut, an ocean liner officer. She marries Enzo Curti, but later, when she meets Helmut again, she ex ...

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. ...

Glückspilze (1935)

The holidays are over and the students of the Schiller high school in Baldenburg. The new term will wake up with the chorale , my heart, and sing before Director Bartmann reads a deed of gift from Manfred Werner from Bahia in Brazil . ...

Jede Frau hat ein Geheimnis (1934)

The Csardas Princess (1934)

Sylva Varescu is an operetta singer performing Kálmán's Die Czardasfürstin through Europe with great success. Before going to Vienna she meets handsome Prinz Weylerstein and they fall in love. Offered a contract for America, she doubts until she finds o ...

The Assumption of Hannele (1934)

The story of Hannele, an unhappy girl who is beaten by her stepfather and tries to commit suicide. ...

The Testament of Cornelius Gulden (1932)

No overview found. ...

The Living Dead (1932)

A crazed scientist murders his wife, walls her up, then flees. A reporter sets out to track him down. Remake of Unheimliche Geschichten (Richard Oswald, 1919). ...

Girls to Marry (1932)

Three brothers lead the life of bachelors and their rent is overdue. The landlord who also happens to be a matchmaker tries to marry off the oldest brother to a rich girl. ...

The Captain from Köpenick (1931)

Based on the true story of a cobbler who bought a second-hand captain's uniform, assumed command of a troop of guardsmen, declared the town of Köpenick under military law, arrested the mayor and confiscated the town treasury. ...