Karl Platen

The Trombonist (1949)

The Trombonist is a 1949 comedy film directed by Carl Boese and starring Paul Dahlke, Sabine Peters and Ludwig Körner. ...

Free Land (1946)

After World War II, scores of refugees leave in search of a new home. They now stand in the hall of a large mansion, waiting to receive their deeds of ownership for sections of land that the lord of the manor had left behind after he fled. Among them is yo ...

The Man in the Saddle (1945)

After a bad losing streak, Lisa Freyberg wants to sell her inherited horse stall. Trainer Roberts, however, is successful in making the stall profitable again. Lisa's new passion for horses, however, is proving to be a losing streak for her engagement to ...

Das schwarze Schaf (1944)

The young Eva Heldmann has inherited a publishing house, which she is running in an exemplary fashion. However, she still has a co-heir, Stefan Gudewill, who is considered a good-for-nothing and who has been missing since he was 18 years old. With the he ...

Kollege kommt gleich (1943)

Robert is almost the epitome of a head waiter: Politely and courteously, he informs guests about the goings on in the stock market as well as what's going on in politics, the world of culture, and the economy. Now, Robert is in love with Lilo, the daught ...

Romance in a Minor Key (1943)

A grieving husband tries to uncover the truth behind his wife's suicide, leading him to discover a tragic tale of infidelity and redemption. ...

Der ewige Klang (1943)

1943 German film. ...

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. ...

Diesel (1943)

A German wartime biography of Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the Diesel engine. The movie links the importance of the engine to the war by starting the movie with newsreel clips of German Navy U-boats in action. ...

My Wife Theresa (1942)

Teresa is a young, always cheerful woman, who has a harmonious marriage with the writer Peter Duhren. Unfortunately, it's so harmonious, that he's uncapable of writing a novel. So he decides instead to write a book about his own marriage. Teresa is so h ...

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 ...

Tanz mit dem Kaiser (1941)

The young emperor Joseph II of Austria and Hungary is not interested in romance and marriage, and every time his mother makes arrangements for him to meet eligible young ladies, he escapes under some pretense. This time he is off on a 'tour of inspection' ...

Sonntagskinder (1941)

Alexander and Poldi, the "Sunday Children", work as a headwaiter and servant in the Palasthotel in a southern German spa resort. Like many people, they dream of one day being rich. But when their lottery ticket actually wins, their friendship is destroye ...

Mistress Moon (1941)

Berlin's theatre crowd is excited about the new operetta "Frau Luna". But for the head of the city's vice police, who was invited to the dress rehearsal, the costumes for the ladies onstage are a bit too revealing. He demands the show be cancelled as offen ...

The Chaste Beloved (1940)

A sinister man instigates blackmail against the wayward wife of a banker. ...

Fahrt ins Leben (1940)

The four sailing school cadets Gerhard, Fritz, Kurt, and Christian are close friends; there's hardly anything they don't do together. But when the charming Gerhard begins a romance with Charlotte, his comrade Christian's childhood sweetheart, a shadow fall ...

Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes (1939)

Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his district and no one is able to do anything about it. Every fourth child is already sick and the parents must helplessly watch as their young ones die. Now Ko ...

We're Dancing Around the World (1939)

Fire on the Ocean (1939)

Tom Finberg and Nick Dorland, two highly competent divers working for the Caribbian Oil Company, have been the best friends in the world since the day they met. But this wonderful friendship is endangered by their falling in love with the same young woman, ...

The Fourth Did Not Show Up (1939)

Four school chums who meet yearly are missing their friend, who was working in a Stockholm bank and supposedly killed himself. But was it murder, instead? ...

Humans, Animals, Sensations (1938)

The artist Hansen and his wife have separated due to professional stubbornness, even though they love each other. The animals behave more sensibly: Hansen's trained monkeys bring the couple back together. People and animals work together to create a sensat ...

Fahrendes Volk (1938)

Fernand has escaped from prison and finds shelter in the traveling circus Barlay, where his former wife Flora works as a predator trainer. Their son, now grown up, Marcel is an art rider and does not know that Fernand is his father. Marcel loves Yvonne, th ...

You and I (1938)

Melodrama about an entrepreneur and his family. ...

Frühlingsluft (1938)

At the behest of the financially strapped Duke, his nephew, Crown Prince Rudolf, is to marry someone of suitable rank. But Rudolf has no interest whatsoever in his uncle's plans and works under his commoner's name as an engineer in a car factory. Then a ce ...

The Secret Lie (1938)

The stand-alone opera singer Carmen Casini dare not admit to her adult son, the spoiled race car driver Cecil, that she ruined her voice on a stormy day at the racetrack and that her career is thus at an end. Meanwhile, Cecil has fallen in love with the p ...

Faded Melody (1938)

After an emergency plane landing in the desert, the actress Barbara gets to know the industrialist Thomas. After they are rescued, the two live at Thomas' place in Berlin. Although she confesses her love for him, Thomas asks his brother Werner to look aft ...

Petermann ist dagegen (1938)

Experiences during a voyage with a KDF-steamer (Kraft Durch Freude = Power Through Joy, a nazi campaign that allowed working class people to make affordable holidays often on steamers).Grumpy old Petermann is a moaner, but during a KDF-tour on the "Der Deu ...

Monika (1938)

Monika (German: Eine Mutter kämpft um ihr Kind, lit. 'A Mother Fights for Her Child') is a 1938 German melodrama film directed and written by Heinz Helbig. The story centers on a singer who relinquishes her illegitimate daughter to a German engineer in Sà ...

Gabriele eins, zwei, drei (1937)

Gabriele Bordersen, a woman from a good home, wants to see what real life is like among the common folk. With her stewardess Fanny Flint and the tour guide Simikry, she goes off to visit a sailors' bar. Fanny and Gabriele change clothes, which allows the s ...

Love Can Lie (1937)

Dr. Ivar Andersson, introduced by his colleague, Sigrid Mall, is the new German teacher for the underclassmen in a girl's high school. As is to be expected, there's soon a whole swarm of girls vying for his attention, but none as much as Kerstin Dahlberg, ...

Fridericus (1937)

In 18th century Europe, King Friedrich II of Prussia leads his army through the seven-years-war with neighboring states, and after numerous near defeats, eventually brings a victorious army back to Berlin. ...

Ball at the Metropol (1937)

At a ball at the Metropol, the married Margit gives a harmless kiss to a one-time friend from her childhood and cousin, Eberhard. The two notice, however, that Margit's ill and jealous husband observed them from a distance, because he recognized the coat s ...

The Night with the Emperor (1936)

A dancing girl succeeds in getting Napoleon, in 1808, to pardon her lover, a German artist who has drawn an unflattering caricature of the French emperor during his Erfurt conference with the Czar and several local princes. ...

The Unknown (1936)

The body of an unknown beautiful woman is fished out of the river and leaves the policemen wondering what drove the girl to such a grisly fate. The film then flashes back to months before, showing the torrid love affair between a young cabaret singer and a ...

The Hour of Temptation (1936)

Irene is unhappy because her lawyer husband Dr. Leuttern never has time for her. Womanizer Mac Norris slyly benefits from her depression and lures her to his apartment. As she struggles to fend him off a shot is fired and Mac collapses. ...

Men Before Marriage (1936)

German romantic comedy from Carl Boese. ...

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. ...

Paul und Pauline (1936)

a movie by Heinz Paul ...

Ferryman Maria (1936)

A beautiful young drifter comes to a small village and battles Death itself to save the man she loves. ...

The Young Count (1935)

A young woman poses as a boy to ingratiate herself better with her strict aristocratic grandfather and to get him to better accept the new freer ways of the younger generation. ...

Dreams of Love (1935)

The film depicts the composer Franz Liszt and takes its name from his 1850 piano work of the same title. ...

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 ...

Knockout – Ein junges Mädchen, ein junger Mann (1935)

Marianne is an accountant, but since she is so pretty the employment agency sends her to the theater. There, Max's gaffer falls in love with Marianne and persuades her to stay at the theater. Once he has to defend her against a professional boxer who haras ...

The Counterfeit Bill (1935)

An honest German cashier gets stuck with a fake note, part of a scheme by two crooks to pass bad money. ...

Hearts Are Trumps (1934)

Hotel tycoon Paulsen re-meets an old flame who mistakes him for a waiter. Paulsen's daughter Toni likes hotelier Reno and accepts to work for him as a waitress and chambermaid because she wants to be loved for herself, not her money. ...

Invitation to the Dance (1934)

Biopic of composer conductor Carl Maria von Weber, who championed the little regarded German opera instead of the then popular Italian opera, in the 19th Century. ...

Polish Blood (1934)

The daughter of a landowner helps save an aristocratic neighbor from ruin, in this operetta adaptation. ...

Miss Liselott (1934)

Aimless Bohemians are encouraged to find their salvation in Arbeit (Work) in this propagandistic Nazi era German production. ...

Music in the Blood (1934)

In Dresden's classical music world, female students learn from an opinionated conductor and a pompous dance instructor.When their work isn't appreciated, a teacher consoles them, saying Bruckner, Schubert and Wagner were also criticized. ...

The Assumption of Hannele (1934)

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

Gypsy Blood (1934)

Princess Stauffenstein has arranged a marriage for her grandnephew Poldi and orders him to meet his unknown bride Steffi. But he falls for alluring dancer Ilonka while his uncle Leopold, sent to reason with him, is enchanted by Steffi. ...

My Heart Calls You (1934)

An opera company tries to get an engagement. ...

So This is Midnight (1934)

A group of popular musicians including a girl singer is staying in a spooky castle where there may be a treasure of money. ...

The World Without a Mask (1934)

An inventor works on coming up with a radio-television device, but can't get it to work properly. A slick con artist sees a chance to fleece gullible people with this device and encourages the inventor to keep working at it. One day in the lab, a freak acc ...

The Black Whale (1934)

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

So ein Flegel (1934)

The great Dr. Pfeiffer plays the little Primaner Pfeiffer. As the successful playwright Dr. Hans Pfeiffer, he is planning a play about school. In order to gather material, he takes the place of his brother, who is a primary school pupil. The seasoned docto ...

Elisabeth and the Jester (1934)

Elisabeth is subject of a girl's boarding school run by the nuns. The village idiot Michele adores her and is particularly drawn to her organ playing. In his madness, he kills the girl's father and tries to lay the blame on the organist. ...

Atlantic Hotel (1933)

Life for Hanna Bollova has never been easy. No matter what she did in life, how hard she worked, there never seemed to be any money. That is, until one day her fortunes changed distant relatives of hers pass away and she inherits a hotel. ...

Du sollst nicht begehren (1933)

Görk, the hardworking son of a heathland farmer, meets Nelly, the daughter of a traveling merchant, by chance and falls in love at first sight. However, his carefree brother Lutz, who has just returned from military service, soon sets his sights on her as ...

Glück im Schloß (1933)

A Bavarian baron has invited his three illegitimate children to come on a visit. Suddenly, happiness can be seen in this house only recently cut off from the rest of the world. The baron is happy. When two of the children have to leave because of their ...

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)

After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professor's preoccupation with another patient, the criminal genius Dr. Mabuse the hypnotist. When Mabuse's notes are found to be connected with a rash o ...

Anna and Elizabeth (1933)

The two main people in the story are Anna, a young girl, who is thought of having the ability to heal people mysteriously. Elisabeth is a young - middle aged aristocratic woman, that is disabled and puts all her hopes in meeting Anna and having her disabil ...

Das Lied der Schwarzen Berge (1933)

German adventurers discover the cultural and natural riches of Yugoslavia regions, their own carelessness almost pays for their fascination with their lives, but the intellect still wins in mastering nature, which offers the winners resources for a better ...

Gilgi: One of Us (1932)

A young woman born illegitimately comes to terms with the challenge of getting married. ...

Barbarina, the King's Dancer (1932)

Prussian King Frederick II was keen to hire the dancer Barberina, who had already enjoyed great success in Italy and England, for the Berlin opera house. ...

M (1931)

In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seed ...

Road to Rio (1931)

A young woman causes a fatal accident. She flees the country, only to get caught in the net of Brasilian traffickers. ...