Kurt Meisel

Robert darf nicht sterben (1994)

Wenn ich sonntags in mein Kino geh'... (1992)

A documentary about the 75th birhday of the UFA film studios directed by Hans-Christoph Blumenberg. ...

Wiener Walzer (1988)

Please, Let the Flowers Live (1986)

A lawyer who survives a plane crash takes the opportunity to take a new identity and begin a new life. ...

Sein Doppelgänger (1982)

In der Sache J. Robert Oppenheimer (1981)

Cautio Criminalis (1974)

The Odessa File (1974)

Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out to hunt down an SS Captain and former concentration camp commander. In doing so he discovers that, despite allegations of war crimes, the former commander has be ...

Strogoff (1970)

A captain in the Czar's army encounters danger and romance while carrying a secret message across 19th-century Russia. ...

Hier bin ich, mein Vater (1970)

Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel (1969)

In medieval times, a horse merchant is forced by a noble to leave part of his stock as payment for crossing his land. Upon returning, he finds his horses near death, and when the noble refuses to compensate him, the merchant fights unsuccessfully against t ...

Haus Herzenstod (1968)

Rückkehr von Elba (1967)

Congress of Love (1966)

Vienna 1965. While visiting the Wax Museum a group of tourists stop in front of the figure of Prince Metternich. All of a sudden they find themselves brought back 150 years earlier during the Vienna Congress of 1814-1815. Before their eyes wide open, histo ...

An Affair of States (1966)

Two female members of the Soviet military are supposed to kidnap the new American secret weapon at a disarmament conference. The highlight is the duel between Curd Jürgens and Lilli Palmer with vodka in a diplomatic back room. The stopover on the way to f ...

Oberst Wennerström (1965)

Swedish military attaché Stig Wennerström comes into contact with the US secret service at a party. After a trip to Moscow, he provides the Americans with valuable information about Soviet jets. But Wennerström is playing a double game. Lieutenant Gener ...

Thomas More (1964)

Actis (1964)

Leutnant Gustl (1963)

In the foyer of a Viennese concert hall, Lieutenant Gustav Wilfert is called a "stupid boy" by master baker Habetswallner because of his clumsy arrogance and is grabbed by the pommel of his sabre without putting up a fight. A major witnessed the incident a ...

The Longest Day (1962)

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied ...

Der Weg ist dunkel (1961)

Die Rückseite des Mondes (1959)

The bizarre story of a play's development at Munich's Kammerspiele theatre. ...

No Exit (1959)

In a locked room with forever burning light, a man and two women meet after their death: Garcin has tormented his wife to death and failed cowardly in a crucial situation. The lesbian Ines has alienated a young woman from her husband, the woman has poisone ...

Dorothea Angermann (1959)

Dorothea Angermann the daughter of a clergyman is accused of the murder of her husband, a brutal man that she was obliged to marry because she was pregnant and he was the father of the baby. ...

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 ...

Embezzled Heaven (1958)

A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)

A German soldier home on leave falls in love with a girl, then returns to World War II. ...

The Cat (1958)

During the Occupation, Cora takes the place of her dead husband at the head of a Resistance network. One evening, she sympathizes with Bernard, a Swiss journalist. However, he is actually an undercover German officer who is close to the man ordered to find ...

Die letzte Station (1958)

Drei Mann auf einem Pferd (1957)

Vater sein dagegen sehr (1957)

Margot is looking forward to moving into the old defense tower with her fiancé Lutz, a writer. Then the writer receives the news of his sister's death. Lutz is supposed to take in their children Traudl and Rudi and the dog Leo. Margot did not expect so mu ...

Two Blue Eyes (1955)

Unternehmen Schlafsack (1955)

During the closing stages of the Second World War, a bureaucratic mistake leads to a German officer being reassigned from the dangerous Eastern Front to Berlin and a new non-existent unit. ...

Drei Väter (1955)

It Happened on July 20th (1955)

A dramatic reconstruction of the July 1944 attempt by German Army Officers to assassinate Hitler with a bomb and end the war before Germany was totally destroyed. ...

Gestatten, mein Name ist Cox (1955)

Meuterei auf der Caine (1954)

They Were So Young (1954)

A model agency in Rio de Janeiro is actually a front for a white-slavery ring that kidnaps European women and sells them on the South American sex market. ...

Emil and the Detectives (1954)

Emil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with no money. It is up to him and a group of children to save the day. ...

Ein toller Tag (1954)

Shot in 1944, finished and released in 1954. ...

Adventure in Berlin (1952)

The plot revolves around a gang of criminals, mostly former guards of Auschwitz, who print and distribute counterfeit U.S. currency in Berlin after World War II. ...

Until we meet again (1952)

This is the tear-jerking love story between young Pamela and casino owner Mayrhoefer. ...

Der Teufel führt Regie (1951)

Liebe auf Eis (1950)

Verspieltes Leben (1949)

Germany, 1914: The bourgeois austerity of the small, northern German town in which Ulyssa lives conflicts sharply with her desire to flirt with and be ensnared by charming, young men. That she's married is irrelevant; it's a marriage which exists only on ...

Wozzeck (1947)

While an anatomy seminar prepares to examine the cadaver of Franz Wozzeck in the name of scientific progress, medical student Büchner excoriates humanity for having allowed Wozzeck's fate. The tragic story unfolds in flashbacks, as Büchner narrates. ...

Kolberg (1945)

During Napoleon's victorious campaign in Germany, the city of Kolberg gets isolated from the retreating Prussian forces. The population of Kolberg refuses to capitulate and organizes the resistance against the French army, which immediately submits the cit ...

The Golden City (1942)

Anna Jobst is the daughter of a rich, conservative farmer. Living on the bank of the Moldau, she wishes nothing more than follow the river to Prague, the "Golden City". After arriving, she quickly falls into a bad crowd. ...

Der Fall Rainer (1942)

Germany in the fall of 1918: Accompanied by the Archduke Karl Maria, Princess Henriette von Battenstein makes an inspection tour of hospitals. During these inspections, she meets Lieutenant Rainer, the former conductor of the State Opera. When she later ...

The Great King (1942)

King Frederick II (aka "Frederick the Great") of Prussia is engaged in a major battle against the Austrian army at Kunersdorf, and things aren't going well. The Austrians are inflicting major casualties, and his army is beginning to crumble. Defeat seems i ...

Menschen im Sturm (1941)

The Way to Freedom (1941)

In Vienna, during the 1848 Revolution, opera singer Antonia Corvelli marries Detlev von Blossin, a rich landowner. But, as she refuses to give up her career, her infuriated husband returns to Pomerania without her. After falling into the clutches of the cr ...

The Chaste Beloved (1940)

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

Der Feuerteufel (1940)

A Little Night Music (1939)

Produced by the Nazis in honor of the 150th anniversary of Mozart's death: a celebration of his music, as the film shows him traveling to Prague for the Don Giovanni premiere and inspired by his wife to compose the finale. ...

A Woman Like You (1939)

Maria Pretorius is the leader of a counseling office in a large factory. She is completely engrossed by her career and so gives the cold shoulder to her colleague Wallrodt, who wants to marry her. Only the young Manfred Thiele is successful in winning he ...

The Grouch (1939)

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Nanon (1938)

An operetta directed by Herbert Maisch. ...

Mrs. Sylvelin (1938)

Despite the way her businessman husband treats her like a slave, a woman abandons a brief flirtation with a young Austrian aristocrat, to show the German traits of duty and obedience. ...

Der Schimmelkrieg in der Holledau (1937)

To resolve a feud between two villages over a horse, the burgomasters propose that a man from one town marry a woman from the other. ...

Andere Welt (1937)

Escaping her school teacher life, a lady marries a British military doctor who takes her to Malaysia. But realizing there that the marriage isn't working, she turns to an Oriental prince instead. ...

Spiel auf der Tenne (1937)

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, ...

Such Great Foolishness (1937)

The young Styrian woman Therese Brandl desperately wants to work in the theater and therefore travels by train to Vienna to pursue artistic training. The scholarship granted by the elderly Countess Hoyer is intended to guarantee her financial independence. ...

Die göttliche Jette (1937)

Cheeky Jette is a typical Berlin girl. Together with her mother, she performs couplets in a Berlin suburb theatre every night. Then, a young Austrian baron, who is worshipping Jette, enables her to audition for Königstädtisches Theater. Although she at f ...

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 Final Chord (1936)

After her husband dies, a German woman who gave up her infant for adoption to emigrate to America returns to Germany, discovering that her child is being raised by a married orchestra conductor. ...

Matrimonial Strike (1935)

In a theme reminiscent of the classic Greek comedy Lysistrata by Aristophanes, wives and sweethearts in a Bavarian village agree to withhold sex from their men, as long as the men keep spending time with a new waitress at the inn. ...

Little Dorrit (1934)

Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her employer's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from ov ...

Zinsen des Ruhms (1984)

Haus Herzenstod (1968)

Ostwind (1967)

Alle Reichtümer der Welt (1967)

Adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's "More Stately Mansions". ...

Der Tag des Zornes (1966)

Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg (1966)

The Habsburg Empire between the Reformation and the approaching Thirty Years' War: upheaval, awakening and change, which culminate in the political and human catastrophe of a cruel slaughter. ...

Requiem für eine Nonne (1965)

Der Verschwender (1964)

Liliom (1963)

Die rote Hand (1960)

Liebe verboten – Heiraten erlaubt (1959)

Kathrin and Wolfgang are not exactly blessed with riches, but they love each other more than anything, and that (still) outweighs their financial worries. When Wolfgang fails his architecture exams, Kathrin looks for a job as a secretary to support her fam ...

Court Martial (1959)

In this war drama, three Nazi survivors are rescued after their battleship sank. Initially they are given heroes' accolades for their courage, but then it becomes apparent that these men actually jumped ship three hours before the boat sank. The men are tr ...

Naked in the Night (1958)

Karin is a brilliant student whose good looks give her an added advantage in assuming the role of a prostitute and exploring Berlin's thriving sex industry. Hired posthaste by nefarious Madame Clavius, the pretty blonde sets about gathering information for ...

Drei Mann auf einem Pferd (1957)

Vater sein dagegen sehr (1957)

Margot is looking forward to moving into the old defense tower with her fiancé Lutz, a writer. Then the writer receives the news of his sister's death. Lutz is supposed to take in their children Traudl and Rudi and the dog Leo. Margot did not expect so mu ...

Das Sonntagskind (1956)

Die Todesarena (1953)

Der Teufel führt Regie (1951)

Liebe auf Eis (1950)

Tragödie einer Leidenschaft (1949)

When she was a little girl, Liuba came to town with her widowed mother to live in the block of flats owned by her aunt Anna Iwanowna. The wealthy and cold-hearted Anna Iwanowna barely accepted them as tenants. And no sooner did Liuba's mother die than she ...

Verspieltes Leben (1949)

Germany, 1914: The bourgeois austerity of the small, northern German town in which Ulyssa lives conflicts sharply with her desire to flirt with and be ensnared by charming, young men. That she's married is irrelevant; it's a marriage which exists only on ...