Karl Dannemann

Zwischen Herz und Gewissen (1951)

The Roedern Affair (1944)

Prussia, at the time of Frederick the Great. In his service is Major General Dietrich Edler von Roedern, a renowned fortress builder who pursues his work with fanatical zeal and seriousness. He is not in the mood for women or festivities. Although he is ma ...

Junge Adler (1944)

Director Brakke has good reason to be happy: he has just received the news that his son, Theo, won first place in the local boat race. To be sure, he had forbidden his son to take part in the competition, because the son's grades in school are substandar ...

A Beautiful DayGER (1944)

An attempt to mimic the artistic success of Urlaub auf Ehrenwort and zwei in einer großen Stadt though it's neither romantically nor in a patriotic way as involving. Three soldiers on very short home leave visit Berlin. One isn't from there and runs arou ...

Die goldene Spinne (1943)

Die unheimliche Wandlung des Alex Roscher (1943)

Helena's mirror, a valuable piece of jewelry, has been stolen from a museum in Bremen and is to be smuggled across the Alps to the border. Alex Roscher, the border guard, catches the smugglers but gets caught up in a shootout. ...

My Summer Companion (1943)

The pianist Angelika Rink is exhausted from her chasing after success and is looking for peace and quiet in her hometown. Here, she sees her childhood friend Dr. Manfred Claudius again, who is running a country clinic with a lot of idealism. They both st ...

Rembrandt (1942)

Already a famous painter, Rembrandt van Rijn is commissioned to paint the Amsterdam Archers' Guild. But upon completion of the picture, the men of the guild feel duped, because they don't consider themselves flatteringly depicted in the painting. They th ...

Wedding in Barenhof (1942)

Lothar von Pütz and Roswitha von Krakow fall in love and only then discover that their fathers are bitter enemies. When Lothar's father dies, a close friend of his father's, Baron Maximilian von Hanckel, takes the boy under his wing and tries to make peac ...

Das Mädchen von Fanö (1941)

The two Danish fishermen Frerk and Ipke battle a severe storm off the coast of Fanø harbor. They finally manage to reach land, where they want to recover from the rigors of the journey before heading home to distant Hooge. ...

Bismarck (1940)

A biographical film of Otto von Bismarck, the Prime Minister of Prussia, and how he and his policies - including aggressive war - helped to unite Germany. ...

Für die Katz' (1940)

He who loves, torments himself: This turn of phrase works for the big farmer Gerd Tapken and his landlady Katrin Geerken. For more than 30 years, the two have fought at every opportunity, although they secretly love one another. But things seem to have ...

The Star of Rio (1940)

Concha flies from his natal Rio to Germany to help his loved one, who has been caught after finding some diamonds in a mine already registered by a company. Amongst them is the impressive one which thanks to her will be known as The Star from Rio. She find ...

The Desert Song (1939)

When the famous singer Grace Collins got off the plane that had flown her a remote place in Northen Africa little did she know she would meet love and adventure there. If she came there, it was to visit Sir Collins, her stepfather. Falling in love was not ...

Alarm at Station III (1939)

During the Prohibition the US government has been just as successful at stopping drinking as they have been in the War on Drugs. Customs Officer Arne Kolk is determined to stop the alcohol smugglers at any price. ...

Die fremde Frau (1939)

Die Pfingstorgel (1939)

The residents of the villages Strasslach and Rott are anything but friends. The residents of the "enemy" town are ridiculed at every chance the residents of the other village can get to do so. And it's no different, when Rott is getting ready to celebrat ...

Water for Canitoga (1939)

In the spring of 1905, the water conduit project in the Canadian city of Canitoga is set to be completed. For years, the completion had been marred by sabotage. Engineer Oliver Montstuart commands the last blasting operation. But again, the explosive charg ...

Thirteen Men and a Cannon (1938)

World War I, Eastern Front. A special battery consisting of thirteen soldiers and one cannon successfully holds back the enemy. But then the position of the gun is betrayed to the Russians and the cannon is destroyed. Each of the thirteen men is now suspec ...

The Gambler (1938)

A gambling-drama based on Dostoevsky's works: The retired General Kirileff is addicted to gambling and also has a costly affair. He takes out a loan from the greedy imposter Vincent, for which he is to pay an exorbitant interest rate. Vincent, for his p ...

Under Sealed Orders (1938)

In a Near East land, a German company building waterworks and mining copper is threatened by foreign interests.When the chief engineer is framed for a murder, the nephew of the ambassador makes a heroic sacrifice. ...

Cat Walk (1937)

A son, in defending Prussia circa 1814 under the thumb of Napoleon, washes away the disgrace of his aristocrat father who had collaborated with the French and caused the deaths of countrymen. ...

Moscow Shanghai (1936)

Spanning the years between the Bolshevik Revolution and 1930, this Negri vehicle focuses on an exiled Russian noblewoman who has lost track of her daughter and of a young officer she pined for.Until she finds them both again and together. ...

The Higher Command (1935)

A Prussian commander disobeys orders and goes to find a British envoy who can negotiate a pact with Austria to help fight off Napoleon in 1806. ...

Pillars of Society (1935)

A man comes back from America after years to find his reputation ruined. ...

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 ...

An Ideal Husband (1935)

Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently ...

Joan of Arc (1935)

France in the 15th Century: The country is marked by the wars with England and internal power struggles. King Charles sees himself powerless against the state. As emerges from the people suddenly a young woman named Johanna, who claimed that the Archangel ...

Top Sergeant Schwenke (1935)

A pretty girl helps a popular Berlin policeman solve the murders of a woman he knew and the crooked banker the victim worked for. ...

Eine Siebzehnjährige (1934)

Walter is in love with the 17-year-old Erika, but she raves for older, experienced men. When Walter and Erika visit his parents' estate after passing their exams, Erika shows increasing interest in Walter's father, Werner von Schlettow. ...

Trouble with Jolanthe (1934)

Comedy about a prize pig, who's more than a tad responsible for the turbulent adventures in his small town. ...

Volldampf voraus! (1934)

Full Steam Ahead, a propaganda film sponsored by the German military, was produced in 1933 under the direction of Carl Froelich. Two shipyards compete to build the engine room for a new destroyer flotilla. Ferdinand Wölfel, chief designer at the Bodenhard ...

I for You, You for Me (1934)

Nazi propaganda film in which German girls from differing walks of life come together to serve the Fatherland in the 'Bund deutscher Maedl,' by harvesting crops, doing housework, acting as midwives, helping with handicrafts, and singing songs. ...