Käthe Haack

Familienfest (1980)

Ein Hut von ganz spezieller Art (1978)

Grete Minde (1977)

Grete Minde, based on the novel by Theodor Fontane, tells the story of a girl trapped in the turbulent religious and social prejudices of 17th-century Sweden. ...

Rosaura kam um zehn (1976)

Die Affäre Lerouge (1976)

Der Lord von Barmbeck (1974)

The film is based on the memoirs of Hamburg burglar Julius Adolf Petersen (1882-1933), who became famous as "Lord of Barmbeck". Petersen owed his status as a folk hero to the fact that he did not use any physical violence during his raids and only stole fr ...

Aus der Chronik der Familie Sawatzki (1974)

The Pedestrian (1973)

When a German businessman causes a car accident with deadly consequences, the papers start digging into his past to find scandals. What they find causes him to reevaluate his own past during WW2 when he was in Greece. ...

Black Coffee (1973)

The inventor Sir Claude Amery wants to give the thief of the formula for his latest invention the chance to return it in the dark without being recognized. He gathers everyone in the house in the library and has the lights switched off for a short time. Wh ...

Altersheim (1972)

Der trojanische Sessel (1971)

Glückspilze (1971)

Unser Doktor ist der Beste (1969)

The nurse Loni helps the young pediatrician Lennie Sommer to fight against the plans of the head of the clinic, who wants to close the children's ward. She also gets to know the charming pediatrician in private. ...

Lesbo (1969)

A sexually unsatisfied wife on the Greek island of Lesbos for a vacation meets a self-confident blonde lesbian who tries to seduce her. Her impotent husband, worried that his wife might turn gay, hires a local man to seduce his wife. ...

Zwei ahnungslose Engel (1969)

They live among doilies and all kinds of bric-a-brac, the two prissy old ladies Carter, and try to make the best of their pensioner's existence. For example, in a shopping game where they keep a whole army of sales clerks in suspense, only to end up buying ...

Kolportage (1968)

Jerry Cotton: Death and Diamonds (1968)

Sixth part of Jerry Cotton movies. Agent Jerry Cotton infiltrates a big crime syndicate that is planning a major diamond heist. ...

Johannisnacht (1966)

Wie ein Dieb in der Nacht (1964)

Die Entscheidung (1963)

Sind wir das nicht alle? (1962)

Unsere Jenny (1962)

The Tragedy of Silence (1962)

Cautionary drama, with vigorous attack on Germany's laws governing abortion. ...

Wer die Wahl hat (1961)

Hermann und Dorothea (1961)

The Last Pedestrian (1960)

Heinz Erhardt wanders through the Black Forest as a photographer for a magazine. On the train he meets a young girl who from now on does not leave his side. ...

Enchanting Arabella (1959)

Liebe, Luft und lauter Lügen (1959)

Der Kaiser von Amerika (1959)

Schwarze Nylons – Heiße Nächte (1958)

Reporter Heinz Wöhler is sent to find dancer Cilly, who vanished on tour. He discovers her dead under suspicious circumstances linked to her exploitative manager, Sabri. As Heinz digs deeper, he's framed and kidnapped. Undercover Interpol agent Vera inter ...

The Glass Menagerie (1958)

An aging Southern Belle complicates life for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her own warped views of what life should be. ...

Ist Mama nicht fabelhaft? (1958)

Mammis Wanderjahre (1957)

The Big Chance (1957)

Heidelberg teenagers make jazz music. ...

Jede Nacht in einem anderen Bett (1957)

I'll See You at Lake Constance (1956)

Die Stimme der Sehnsucht (1956)

Like Once Lili Marleen (1956)

Of und der Mond (1956)

Das Schweigen im Walde (1955)

Eine Frau genügt nicht? (1955)

Der Himmel ist nie ausverkauft (1955)

Der letzte Sommer (1954)

A Nordic revolutionary's plans to murder the president go awry when he falls in love with the man's daughter. ...

Heimweh nach Deutschland (1954)

Schützenliesel (1954)

Fireworks (1954)

The quiet life of an extended family is shaken up when a circus comes into town. ...

Die sieben Kleider der Katrin (1954)

Rosen-Resli (1954)

The nine-year-old orphan Therese has recently moved in with a family of gardeners. She continues to take loving care of her former foster mother, from whom she had to leave when she fell ill with a heart condition. With the help of old Jacob, the girl mana ...

Die tolle Lola (1954)

Sie kommen immer in der Nacht (1954)

Eternal Love (1954)

A romantic drama directed by Hans Deppe. ...

Everything for Dad (1953)

Die unsichtbare Sammlung (1953)

Die vertagte Hochzeitsnacht (1953)

Von Liebe reden wir später (1953)

The beautician Angela Bell, a well-off middle-aged lady, and the respected fashion doctor Prof. Christian Hollmann would like to get married, but there is a catch: Hollmann is still married to his somewhat annoying wife Margot. Angela, however, has to get ...

I'm Waiting for You (1952)

A teenage girl is stranded by a storm on a small North Sea island, where she and a young teacher fall in love and conceive a child. Back on the mainland, with help from her aunt and a family doctor, she gives birth and returns to finish school, unaware tha ...

Der Tag vor der Hochzeit (1952)

Homesick for You (1952)

Five musicians form in pre-war Berlin a dance band, which is largely successful thanks to the singer Marion. When love rivalries break out among the musicians and the Second World War begins, they are scattered in all directions. After the war, a coinciden ...

The Count from Pappenheim (1952)

Not directed by Richard Eichberg. ...

Smuggler's Ball (1952)

Smuggler's Ball is the English-language title for this French-Belgian seriocomedy. The action takes place along the borders separating Belgium, Holland and France. It is here that the worldly Pierre (J. P. Kieran) carries on a profitable smuggling operatio ...

No Greater Love (1952)

Directed by Harald Braun and told from the perspective of Bertha von Suttner, the first female to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, The Alfred Nobel Story - No Greater Love chronicles the life of scientist, inventor, and businessman Alfred Nobel. Nobel built ...

Lockende Sterne (1952)

A completely new life begins for railroad employee Werner Nordhaus when he meets the fascinating variety theater director Karena Rodde. She discovers that Werner is a great dancing talent and is determined to win him over for her theater. Karena wants Wern ...

When the Evening Bells Ring (1951)

A woman marries a rich landowner, by request of her parents, instead of her lover who's child she's expecting. After a couple of years, the father of the child returns. ...

Mein Freund, der Dieb (1951)

Germany in the post-war period. Due to the circumstances of the time and his lack of prospects, the young Bimbo has become a hoodlum who keeps his head above water with petty crime. One night he robs the writer Percy, but is picked up by the police shortly ...

Königin einer Nacht (1951)

Duke Ferdinand of Novara-Liechtenstein flees the duchy to avoid an arranged marriage with princess Anna Silvana of Este-Parma. He loses his papers on the flight and is treated as an imposter at the inn where he stays. The princess is hot on his heels, and ...

Die verschleierte Maja (1951)

Furioso (1950)

About the power of love and that love is such a strong force that humans are willing to commit the most ruthless acts to achieve it. And the one who loses in the game of love, can die as a result of it. This is how love is, according to "Furioso". ...

Das Mädchen aus der Südsee (1950)

Hamburg student Richard Kirbach indulges in an unusual hobby: he plays chess via shortwave with Arnold Pieper, an old German coconut planter in the South Seas. The men, who are so different, become so close that one day Pieper asks the young man for a big ...

Gabriela (1950)

Gabriela once a famous singer who enjoyed great success. She married, had a daughter Andrea, but pursued her career. Now that Andrea has matured into a young woman, Gabriela is overwhelmed by maternal remorse. ...

Unknown Sender (1950)

Gefährliche Gäste (1949)

The playboy Peter Anders is financially bankrupt, so he puts up his villa for sale. But during this time, 3 harmless gangsters, Franz, August, and Poldi, settled in Anders's estate to try to sell the villa on their behalf. ...

The Beaver Coat (1949)

Mother Wolffen, a washerwoman, is a woman of principle: A poor man must do what he must to get through life, only he mustn't get caught doing it. All sorts of crooked deals contribute to the improvement of the daily menu and the increase of household funds ...

Nachtwache (1949)

In a hospital, the Protestant pastor Heger and the Catholic chaplain von Imhoff are responsible for pastoral care. Cornelie, a senior doctor, has lost her faith in God after the death of her daughter in the war. One day, Cornelie's former lover and father ...

The Appeal to Conscience (1949)

Ten years ago, the "Andree case" was seemingly solved. Now criminal investigator Husfeld is to reopen it, as doubts have arisen about the guilt of Helga Andree, who was convicted at the time. She is said to have pushed her former rival, the singer Elinor G ...

Anonyme Briefe (1949)

Der große Mandarin (1949)

Eine alltägliche Geschichte (1948)

And If We Should Meet Again (1947)

Students raised under Nazi ideology witness the disintegration of the Third Reich and the realization of those who indoctrinated them that they were wrong. ...

Das Konzert (1944)

A concert pianist, the romantic idol of many women, is seduced away from his wife. The seductress's husband takes in the pianist's wife, and all four pretend to be happy with the new arrangement. ...

Seinerzeit zu meiner Zeit (1944)

Inge Peters has a guilty conscience. She told her mother, that she'd be going to the weekend house at the lake with her friend Barbara, but in reality, the horny girl is taking Peter with her. She's afraid, that if mom finds out, she's gonna lecture her ...

Meine vier Jungens (1944)

Anna Christiansen has not heard from her husband Klaus, a sailor, for twelve years. To provide a secure life for her three sons, Anna has taken over a sailors' home. Since then, she has led a modest but contented life. One day, Klaus suddenly appears at he ...

Love Letters (1944)

A CEO in his mid-50s, an exemplary husband and father, finds himself in a mid-life crisis, when he gets to know a young fashion designer. His wife gets wise to the whole affair, because genius sent his new beau love letters, which were direct copies of th ...

Wildvogel (1943)

The engineer Wolff Benningsen (Volker von Collande), a self-assured and über-obnoxious jingo jerk meets the young art student Vika von Demnitz (Leny Marenbach) while climbing in the Alps. One get's the idea that he would like to knock her over the head wi ...

Münchhausen (1943)

Legendary, immortal nobleman Baron Munchausen regales a lovestruck woman with tales of his amazing adventures. ...

Sophienlund (1943)

The successful writer Erich Eckberg lives with his wife Sigrid and their three children -- the twins, Knut and Michael and the daughter Gabriel -- on their estate "Sophienlund". On their sons' 21st birthday, Eckberg tells them the great family secret: Kn ...

12 Minuten UFA (1943)

An insight into the work at the UFA-Studios. ...

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. ...

Heimaterde (1941)

A widowed landlady in East Prussia, who, despite his acquittal by the court, believes the forester to have murdered her husband, opposes her son's marriage to the forester's daughter and even wants to sell the farm because of it. The exposure of a border s ...

Sechs Tage Heimaturlaub (1941)

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. ...

The Sky-blue Evening Dress (1941)

As the son of a fashion house owner in Zurich, Hans Haberland apparently can offer his lovers any article of clothing, for which they're willing to sell themselves. His current girl-toy Lizzie wants this fantastic, sky blue dress -- but it's that dress exa ...

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. ...

The Lucky Seven (1940)

Bernd Flor, an aging, but still very attractive, actor feels most at home playing the role of the tireless Don Juan in his private life. He's already been married six times and had left all six women, although the marriages were in no way unhappy. On the ...

Bal paré (1940)

At the turn of the century in Munich, a ballerina accepts the sponsorship of an older industrialist but also spends time with his son. ...

Der Stammbaum des Dr. Pistorius (1939)

Dein Leben gehört mir (1939)

Der Schritt vom Wege (1939)

Theodor Fontane's novel about a young girl who as a teenager marries a stiff bureaucrat, has a love affair out of boredom and loneliness and has to suffer the consequences years later should be well known. ...

Ursula Under Suspicion (1939)

The sawmill owner Ramin disappears from one day to the next. Concerned, his family learns from the bank that he wrote a check to an agent named Frisch. He supposedly wanted to use it to buy a good. However, that did not happen. When Ramin's body is found, ...

Steputat & Co. (1938)

A rich East Prussian shopkeeper,jealous that one of his male employees is in love with a female employee he himself covets, frames the couple for stealing lottery tickets. ...

The Deruga Case (1938)

The physician Dr. Deruga is suspected of having poisoned his wife out of greed. She died after naming Deruga, poor and in debt, the sole heir in her will. There are a lot of people willing to testify against him in court, including Marta, the dead woman ...

The Day After the Divorce (1938)

A man, feeling unappreciated, leaves his wife for a cabaret singer, while the wife meets a young pilot and decides to join him abroad. ...

Kleiner Mann - ganz groß (1938)

Peter Kolle, a low-level clerk, and his wife Sabine have a happy marriage, but Peter lacks the necessary funds. Therefore, he secretly works on his invention at a friend's house at night. When his wife finds out, she angrily leaves their apartment and trav ...

Das Ehesanatorium (1938)

Rätsel um Beate (1938)

After her husband suddenly dies, a small town woman becomes the target of gossip, as to whether he had been having an affair and whether she is connected to his demise. ...

Furlough on Parole (1938)

In 1918, a German regiment is granted five-hours leave in Berlin. ...

Krach und Glück um Künnemann (1937)

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 ...

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. ...

Thunder, Lightning and Sunshine (1936)

Relations between Huckebein, a humble tailor, and Greizinger, a wealthy farmer, become strained after Greizinger breaks off the romance between his son, Franzl, and Huckenbein's daughter, Evi. However, after a situation with a 100 mark note taken from a pa ...

Geheimnis eines alten Hauses (1936)

A Woman of No Importance (1936)

Sylvia, the daughter of the pastor Kelvil, is lectrice to Lady Patricia and gets to know the young Lord Harford. They love one another, but their class differences forbid marriage. There's a sharp argument with the father, who afterwards wants to send th ...

Hans in Luck (1936)

Brothers Grimm adaptation. The story follows Hans, who, after seven years of service, is rewarded with a large lump of gold. As he travels home, he trades the gold for a horse, the horse for a cow, then a pig, a goose, and finally a grindstone. Despite los ...

Familienparade (1936)

Film by Wendhausen. ...

Schloß Vogelöd (1936)

Remake of the silent film of 1921: The lord of a castle disappears after the return of two feuding brothers from a noble family. Suspicion falls on the recently returned brothers. ...

Familie Schimek (1935)

For three difficult orphans living by her aunt the former employee of the family searches a new premouth; he releases with it a result of tumultuous involvements. - Humble-entertaining mistake farce, completely fitted on Hans Moser. ...

Pygmalion (1935)

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous ...

Wunder des Fliegens: Der Film eines deutschen Fliegers (1935)

A young German boy meets his hero, a famous flying ace, and dreams of becoming a pilot. However, his mother--whose husband was a fighter pilot killed in battle during World War I--does not want to lose her son, too, and tries to persuade him to abandon his ...

Ein falscher Fuffziger (1935)

Die törichte Jungfrau (1935)

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. ...

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. ...

Ich heirate meine Frau (1934)

Der Meisterboxer (1934)

Film by Fred Sauer. ...

Die vier Musketiere (1934)

The Assumption of Hannele (1934)

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

The Black Whale (1934)

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

Konjunkturritter (1934)

Police Report (1934)

Director Burckhardt is found shot just after making the moves on Gisela Ostercamp, the wife of a business colleague. When the criminal investigator Haupt inspects items in the apartment of the dead man, he comes to the conclusiong that Gisela herself is t ...

Wilhelm Tell (1934)

Der Traum vom Rhein (1933)

Love Must Be Understood (1933)

The stenotypist Margit is supposed to take 3,000 Marks to the bank for her boss, Mr. Plaumann, but she lazes away the time window-shopping, and eventually stands before a closed door. She follows Plaumann to Dresden, where he, believing the money is deposi ...

Die Herren vom Maxim (1933)

Tannenberg (1932)

Shortly after the outbreak of World War I August 1914, Eastern Front. The Russian surprise attack on the northeasternmost part of the country causes serious problems for the German defenders. ...

Zwei glückliche Tage (1932)

Quick (1932)

Lilian Harvey plays Eva, a young girl taking some time in a health spa and spending her evenings in the town's vaudeville theatre enamoured by a heavily made-up clown called Quick. Quick takes a shine to her and tries to woo her without make-up and masquer ...

Nachtkolonne (1932)

The film begins in a Berlin club with Trude Berliner singing as gangsters plan a burglary at a Hamburg hotel. At the hotel, Orbeliani leads the band while his wife Olga sings their son Jascha to sleep. During the heist, Jascha wakes, screams, and is knocke ...

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. ...

Emil and the Detectives (1931)

When a suspicious man bribes Emil with chocolate in return for a bundle of cash, the young lad thinks of a plan to catch him. ...

I'd Rather Have Cod Liver Oil (1931)

Each evening, before saying their prayers, some children swallow their cod liver oil. One evening, the youngest child makes a daring request in his prayer. (Lost film. ...

Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf (1931)

Franz Biberkopf has served four years in prison. His return to normal life is not successful. ...