Mathias Wieman

Geld und Geist (1964)

The farmer Christen, his wife Änneli, their sons Resli and Christeli, and their daughter Annelisi live together harmoniously on the Liebiwyl farm. The harmony is disrupted when Christen allows himself to be persuaded by the deceitful village clerk to spec ...

Der Gefangene der Botschaft (1964)

A group of Siberian farmers seek refuge in the American Embassy in Moscow because they are being persecuted in the Soviet Union due to their religious beliefs. For political reasons, the ambassador wants to send the people away, which comes to the attentio ...

Caroussel of Passion (1963)

The Molesters (1963)

In exploring sex offenses, particularly against children, this film reveals the inner workings of the Zurich police and INTERPOL as they pursue persons accused of voyeurism, rape, fetishism, sadism, and masochism. After the criminals are arrested and given ...

Der entscheidende Augenblick (1961)

Wetterleuchten um Maria (1957)

Baron Siebenzell employs the young forest ranger Thomas Sebald, to stop the bold poachers he's plagued with in his beautiful mountain forests. Most of the men in the village reject and ridicule Thomas because of his job. Nevertheless he falls in love with ...

Call of the Gods (1957)

The "call of the gods" is the religious faith that is deeply rooted among 300 million people of India, from the Himalayan mountain dwellers to the bathers of the Ganges River, and as shown in huge processions in the modern cities. ...

The Girl and the Legend (1957)

London, in 1730. Charly, Jim and Ben work hard, with the brave Maud, in a cotton mill to earn a few shillings. They all dream of the wonderful island told by Daniel Defoe. The latter lives in a miserable room. He is disgraced and rejected by his son Tom, a ...

Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz (1956)

Dr. Danwitz is a dedicated physician. The assistant doctor works practically day and night on a research project, but without pay. His wife Edith earns the necessary extra money as a model. That's why her pregnancy is a financial disaster for the young cou ...

Ripening Youth (1955)

The trials and tribulations of love in a school community in the still young Federal Republic of Germany. ...

Unsere kleine Stadt (1954)

This is a German version of Thornton Wilder's play, Our Town. ...

Fear (1954)

Irene Wagner, the wife of the prominent German scientist Professor Albert Wagner, had been having an affair with Erich Baumann. She does not disclose this to her husband, hoping to preserve his innocence and their "perfect marriage". This fills her with an ...

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. ...

Eine Liebesgeschichte (1954)

During a New Year's Eve ball, Prussian cavalry officer Jost von Fredersdorff falls in love with Lili, the lover of his superior. When they decide to get married, their plans are opposed by Jost's family and his superiors in the army and he is denied permis ...

Königliche Hoheit (1953)

An American heiress in Europe falls in love with a German prince, but he is required to marry someone else for reasons of state convenience. ...

As Long as You're Near Me (1953)

An actress used to playing only bit parts becomes the center of attention when a movie director buys her life story as a film project, she is now faced with a psychological crisis. ...

Augsburger Puppenkiste - Peter und der Wolf (1953)

Little Peter lives with his grandfather near a dark forest. Although his grandfather forbids him to do so, Peter decides, together with his friend, the little bird, to catch the wolf that is terrorizing the whole neighborhood... ...

Melodie des Schicksals (1950)

A mediocre conductor unscrupulously steals his friend's—a piano teacher's—wife. At first, the piano teacher wants to shoot his rival, but then, surprisingly, he abandons his thoughts of revenge—a piano concerto he composed in prison ultimately brings ...

Wenn eine Frau liebt (1950)

Wie sagen wir's unsern Kindern (1949)

Das Herz muß schweigen (1944)

On New Year's Eve 1900, Paul Holzgruber started a new praxis as a radiologist. The young Maximiliane Frey is his assistant and they have worked side by side for years helping people. Holzgruber repeatedly points out the dangers of radiation to Maximilian ...

Träumerei (1944)

A musical film based on biographical facts about Clara Wieck's love for composer Robert Schumann (1810-1856), her marriage against her will, Schumann's triumph, and his tragic end due to mental illness. The film is beautiful and entertaining, full of noble ...

Don't Talk to Me About Love (1943)

Painter rookie Pamela plans to work in advertising but established artist Alwin falls for her and urges her to hone her craft. He guides her to fragile success, she detests being dependent on him and tries to succeed on her own. ...

Paracelsus (1943)

The story of the Renaissance-era Swiss physician, alchemist and astrologer Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, better known to the world as Paracelsus. ...

Cadets (1941)

The year is 1760: it is the time of the Seven Years' War and the advancing Russian army has taken captive 100 underage Prussian cadets. The kids are mishandled by the raping and pillaging Russians, but with the help of a Rittmeister now in the service of t ...

Her Other Self (1941)

By coincidence Magdalena gets hired for two jobs in the same company (one day, one night shift) and "invents" a sister to "explain" the situation to an engineer who falls for one of the "sisters" while hating the other. ...

I Accuse (1941)

In this film, the wife of a renowned doctor becomes ill with multiple sclerosis. Trying to spare her beloved husband the ordeal, the woman turns to a family friend, Dr. Lang, to help end her life. When this doctor declines to help with the assisted suicide ...

Die Hochzeitsreise (1939)

1939 German film by Karl Ritter. ...

Anna Favetti (1938)

The daughter of a reclusive couple in the St. Moritz mountains tends to her brother, disabled from the Great War, though a handsome young architect who has just arrived waits for her attentions. ...

The Private's Job (1937)

During the Great War, German soldiers are persuaded to die heroically in order to take a French village held by the British. ...

Patriots (1937)

The sole thing giving hope to a German flyer downed over France in the Great War, as he longs for his return home, is the love from a young woman. ...

Togger (1937)

Suburban Cabaret (1935)

In Vienna of 1913 a young woman coming from vaudeville theatre circles stands before the wedding with a construction draftsman; this must move to the military and sends his bride on the country, so that she cannot be enticed to the stage. However, she does ...

The Eternal Mask (1935)

Expressionistic devices depict the nervous breakdown of a young physician whose patient has died,on whom he had tried out a new serum contrary to his superior's orders. ...

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 ...

Achtung! Wer kennt diese Frau? (1934)

Film by Seitz. ...

The Rider on the White Horse (1934)

Freely adapted from Theodor Storm's novella of the same name. ...

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. ...

Fräulein Hoffmanns Erzählungen (1933)

Miss Anita Liman is the sole owner of a coffee importing company, with offices in Hamburg, Genoa and Santiago. Anita's first competitor Benno Karden would merry her purely for business reasons, but he falls in love with her. Benno has not realized that his ...

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 ...

The Mistress of Atlantis (1932)

In this mythical fantasy, the evil queen of Atlantis lives in a magnificent palace, the halls of which are filled with the mummified remains of former lovers. ...

The Man Without a Name (1932)

Queen of Atlantis (1932)

Two young officers, Saint-Avit and Morhange, get lost in the desert and find themselves prisoners of the beautiful Antinéa, queen of the city of Atlantis. Saint-Avit, blinded by his love for her, obeys her when she orders him to kill his comrade... With L ...

The Countess of Monte Cristo (1932)

The two aspiring actresses Jeanette and Mimi are waiting for their big chance. But the real breakthrough is slow in coming. Jeanette especially desperately needs a big success, since her friend, the journalist Stephan, is about to lose his job. When the ...

The Blue Light (1932)

As sole female Junta is the only one who can climb a dangerous mountain, villagers deem her as a witch. ...

The Private's Job (1937)

During the Great War, German soldiers are persuaded to die heroically in order to take a French village held by the British. ...