Johannes Heesters

Große Klappe, großes Herz (2018)

Who is the funniest Berliner? Helga Hahnemann or Edith Hancke, Brigitte Mira or Cindy from Marzahn? rbb television is looking for the Berliner with the biggest mouth and the even bigger heart. Who will be number 1? To this day, they inspire TV audiences wi ...

Ten - Sin for Salvation (2011)

Hannes stands at the gates of heaven and has only one chance to return to Earth to his sick daughter: he must win a bet against Peterson (St. Peter). To do so, Hannes must break all ten commandments within 30 minutes in Munich's worst bar! Will he succeed? ...

1½ Ritter - Auf der Suche nach der hinreißenden Herzelinde (2008)

The story of Lanze who is in love with the princess. One day the princess is kidnapped by the Dark Knight and Lanze starts his journey to rescue her. But he is not alone because Erdal, a turk, joins him on his journey. ...

Filmlegenden. Deutsch (2005)

A parade of well-known actors and directors from Germany ...

Johannes Heesters: Eine Legende wird 100 (2003)

Ein gesegnetes Alter (1998)

TV version of Curth Flatow's stage play starring Johannes Heesters and his wife Simone Rethel. ...

Bevor der letzte Vorhang fällt (1996)

A documentary about the life of the 93 years old actor Johannes Heesters who doesn't want to leave the stage. ...

Die schönsten Geschichten mit Johannes Heesters (1995)

Altes Herz wird nochmal jung (1991)

A movie with three episodes starring Johannes Heesters. ...

Ich knüpfte manche zarte Bande (1985)

Otto - The Movie (1985)

East Friesian Otto moves to the big city Hamburg. There he gets into trouble with a loan shark and needs to find a way to impress his love interest Silvia. ...

Die schöne Wilhelmine (1984)

Sonny Boys (1982)

Liebe bleibt nicht ohne Schmerzen (1980)

Four contemplative stories about problems with love: "Profitability" is about money, "The Smile" is about coping with a difficult situation, an "Experiment with Alf" is supposed to save a marriage, and in "Paternity" a lawyer and her husband are committed ...

Die Alten kommen (1980)

Memories of Berlin: The Twilight of Weimar Culture (1976)

The film tells the cultural story of Berlin during the Weimar Republic through interviews with a number of persons who were involved in literature, film, art, and music during the period. It includes interviews with Christopher Isherwood, Louise Brooks, Lo ...

Treffpunkt Herz (1975)

Hochzeitsnacht im Paradies (1974)

Die Welt des Robert Stolz (1973)

Paganini (1973)

Operetta concerning the love affair of Niccolò Paganini, the violinist, and Élisa Bonaparte, the younger sister of Napoleon. ...

Gastspiele (1971)

Wenn die kleinen Veilchen blüh'n (1968)

Leider lauter Lügen (1965)

Er soll dein Herr sein (1963)

Mein Bruder Jacques (1962)

Nicht zuhören, meine Damen! (1962)

Junge Leute brauchen Liebe (1961)

The pretty young seamstress Annie works in the home of the famous Viennese fashion czar Charles Fürst. Hoping to one day win Her Majesty, as Fürst is known, Annie rejects all advances from jazz trumpeter Axel. Her efforts are vindicated when she mistaken ...

Nocturno im Grand Hotel (1959)

Die unvollkommene Ehe (1959)

Divorce lawyer Dr. Winifred Lert tries to convince her daughter Susi of the futility of marriage. But Susi has long since married herself. Susi also wants to use trickery to bring her parents back together. ...

Visit Out of the Blue (1959)

The multi-millionaire John Underhower travels from New York to Bavaria, where he's bought a castle. The reason? He wants to prove there's ghosts in the old building. John represents himself as a poor circus performer to his unsuspecting cousin Hyronimus ...

Frau im besten Mannesalter (1959)

Clear the stage for Marika (1958)

A dance and music film tailored completely for Marika Rokk: After her divorce, the wife of a composer uses her wit and charm to engage Marika as a singer and dancer on the stage. This manages to give life once again to the extinguished love between her a ...

Von allen geliebt (1957)

Viktor und Viktoria (1957)

Aspiring singer Susanne takes over for ham actor Viktor at a small cabaret in Berlin where he works a woman impersonator and per chance she's discovered by an agent, who thinks, that she really is a man. She becomes famous, but her situation becomes troubl ...

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 ...

Opernball (1956)

.. und wer küsst mich? (1956)

Adventure in Rio (1955)

A remake of the 1940 film of the same title. It was shot on location in Brazil with separate German and Italian versions. ...

Bel Ami (1955)

In the 1880s, Georges Duroy, back from the Colonies, arrives in Paris with the firm intention of conquering the capital through his power of seduction, his selfishness and cynicism. Entering into journalism through the back door he will soon rise to the to ...

Gestatten, mein Name ist Cox (1955)

Hab’ ich nur Deine Liebe (1953)

The Girl on The Roof (1953)

A comedy of manners, the film centers on virtuous actress Patty O'Neill, who meets playboy architect Donald Gresham on the observation deck of the Empire State Building and accepts his invitation to join him for drinks and dinner in his apartment. There sh ...

Schlagerparade (1953)

The Divorcée (1953)

A Musical War of Love (1953)

The Moon Is Blue (1953)

Two aging playboys are both after the same attractive young woman, but she fends them off by claiming that she plans to remain a virgin until her wedding night. Both men determine to find a way around her objections. ...

The White Horse Inn (1952)

Head waiter Leopold has been secretly in love with the hostess Josepha for a long time, but she only has eyes for Dr. Siedler, a guest in the White Horse Inn. Leopold tries to get Dr. Siedler interested in the daughter of Industrialist Giesecke, who would ...

The Csardas Princess (1951)

Tanz ins Glück (1951)

Professor Nachtfalter (1951)

Hochzeitsnacht im Paradies (1950)

Wenn eine Frau liebt (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. ...

Liebe Freundin (1949)

Wiener Melodien (1948)

Die Fledermaus (1946)

Theater director Falke, dressed as a bat, ends up in prison after a merry carnival night. Director Frank only releases him after some time. Falke decides to take revenge on his friend Gabriel von Eisenstein, to whom he owes the whole affair. The annual mas ...

Renee XIV (1946)

It All Started So Gaily (1944)

Clemens and Bobi, two legation secretaries, are sent on a delicate mission by their minister: it concerns a red portfolio with secret papers, which the minister stuck under a bed mattress and forgot about when he met someone on a rendezvous. And to make ...

Glück bei Frauen (1944)

Es lebe die Liebe (1944)

A romantic skirmish between an intrusive operetta tenor from the Berlin Theater and a revue diva in Barcelona, who later encounters him, initially unrecognized, as a ballet dancer and, after they marry, plays the role of a housewife to cure him of his arro ...

Axel an der Himmelstür (1944)

Melody of a Great City (1943)

A young woman moves to Berlin to work as a press photographer. ...

Carnival of Love (1943)

Tenor Peter Hansen is about to marry for the second time. Just minutes before his wedding to dancer and singer Kitty, he's still busy rehearsing for a new revue directed by Melchior Oberländer. Kitty's uncle Meierhofer, a prompter at the theater, is urgin ...

Illusion (1941)

Melodrama about an actress falling in love with a man who wants her to give up her job. ...

Jenny und der Herr im Frack (1941)

In this intricately plotted crime comedy, Johannes Heesters plays the worldly insurance detective Peter Holm, who is determined to apprehend jewel thief Robert Makaroff. To this end, Holm travels to Copenhagen, where the Hungarian actress Lilly Hegedüsch ...

You Only You (1941)

The two stars of an upcoming operetta performance quarrel constantly. but they also fall in love with each other. ...

Rosen in Tirol (1940)

Prince Heinrich Dagobert has a weakness for the opposite sex, which his wife, Rosemarie, isn't exactly happy about. While the prince invites both men and women to his castle, Rosemarie tries to uncover her husband's true intentions incognito. There, she me ...

Die lustigen Vagabunden (1940)

On account of a bet, the painter Menzinger and his friend Schratt decide to travel the country as unemployed bums (no doubt, because there were so few unemployed and homeless people in Germany just a few years earlier). For two weeks, they wander around ...

Liebesschule (1940)

A young woman works for two different men, both of whom fall in love with her. In the mornings she is secretary for a popular author and in the afternoons for a singer. Which of them will she settle for? ...

My Aunt, Your Aunt (1939)

Because his future wife abandoned him shortly before the wedding, an old baron has decided that he doesn't want any women near him anymore. The daughter of the flaky woman decides to take it upon herself to get the baron and her mother back together agai ...

Hallo Janine (1939)

The French ballet girl Janine, a gifted tap-dancer, dreams of a musical career in Paris. But first she wants to take revenge on Count René who stood up her best friend Charlotte. Janine wants him to fall in love with her and disappoint him afterwards. At ...

Another Experience (1939)

A popular stage tenor can't stay away from his female admirers until his wife threatens to divorce him. ...

Nanon (1938)

An operetta directed by Herbert Maisch. ...

Gasparone (1937)

In the fantasy state of Olivia, the robber chief Gasparone is up to all sorts of mischief. But Prefect Nasoni is not only worried about him, his son Sindulfo is also causing him headaches. He is supposed to marry Countess Ambrat, but loves Ita, the niece o ...

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 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 ...

The Beggar Student (1936)

To take a revenge on countess Laura, who slapped him at his proposal, the Governor of the occupied Poland gets her fall in love with a poor student, and exposes him during wedding banquet. ...

Die Leuchter des Kaisers (1936)

Everything for the Company (1935)

Familial disputes surrounding a traditional business. Grandfather Sonndorfer allies himself with his grandson Otto, in order to bring his arrogant son Max on the right path. Between the fronts is Emmerich Liebling, the intriguing messenger. ...

The Four Müllers (1935)

Several generations of Mullers go to war with each other over their family business, the main branch of which is about to go belly-up. ...

Bleeke Bet (1934)

In 1930s Amsterdam, greengrocer Bet is involved in illicit affairs with businessman Van Santen. To tighten bonds even further, Bet arranges a marriage between her handsome daughter Jans and the businessman's wacky son Hannes. Jans, however, is in love with ...