Otto Schmöle

Der eingebildete Kranke (1965)

Ein Volksfeind (1964)

Mit besten Empfehlungen (1963)

Der Bockerer (1963)

Karl Bockerer is a Viennese original. He survives the 'great times' – to his own dismay his birthday is on the same day as the one of the "Führer" – by pretending to be more stupid than he really is, and uncovers, over and over again, the hypocrisy an ...

Er kann's nicht lassen (1962)

Father Brown is only too happy to interfere with the work of the police in solving tricky criminal cases, usually with resounding success. That's why the clergyman is transferred to a sleepy island called Abbott's Rock. At first, nothing happens there, but ...

Lady Country Doctor (1958)

A German village gets a new doctor, but the conservative folk have trouble accepting a female for the job. ...

Die Lindenwirtin vom Donaustrand (1957)

The innkeeper of the Linden Inn is struggling with her debts and her rival, the butcher Kilian. A boost comes when the young interior designer Helga furnishes the inn with furniture from a nearby castle. In the process, she falls in love with the estate ma ...

Gasparone (1955)

Based on the operetta of the same name by Carl Milöcker. The residents of an Austrian town decide to teach their eccentric mayor a lesson. A young fisherman dresses up as the famous bandit Gaspare and goes to see the mayor. The mayor, terrified, flees fro ...

The Last Act (1955)

Albin Skoda embodies a frantic Adolf Hitler in his last days, scrambling to keep the Third Reich alive as morale within the bunker wanes and Berlin is encircled by enemy troops. Based on Michael A. Musmanno's book Ten Days to Die, Oscar Werner costars as f ...

Mysterious Shadows (1949)

Dr. Wittich is a passionate speleologist who spends more time on his research than on his fiancée Cornelia. As a result, she turns to the rich industrialist Roy, whom she eventually marries. But her heart actually belongs to the explorer and so she is dra ...

Gottes Engel sind überall (1948)

The Trial (1948)

In 1882 a country girl disappears from a small Hungarian village. The inhabitants suggest that she was murdered by the Jews. Everything is done to accuse them before the trial. A study in stubbornness, racism and intolerance and how to fight against it. ...

Oh, These Men (1941)

Eberhard gets into a brawl with Dr. Spindler not knowing that he just slapped his boss. To avoid the embarrassment Eberhard asks his friend Frank to substitute for him in the meeting with Dr. Spindler. Which accelerates the ensuing chaos. ...

Judgement Day (1940)

The greengrocer Ferdinand Strubel wants his daughter Marianne to marry the son of the brewery owner Baron von Schnackenberg. Since Strubel is an impossibly cheap bastard, the marriage is to take place on 20 May, which, coincidentally, is the same day the ...

Buchhalter Schnabel (1935)

The young man from Oxford originates from Vienna, where he returned after completing his studies to take over his deceased uncle's construction company. To gain a better overview, he joined the company as a junior employee and, of course, immediately fell ...

A Devil of a Fellow (1935)

An Austrian officer traveling to London to meet his newly married sister at a fancy costume party cannot find her but finds another woman instead. ...

Frasquita (1934)

Czechoslovakian opera star Jarmila Novotná plays the title role in the Austrian tunefest "Frasquita". Based on a Franz Lehár operetta, the story is the usual frothy nonsense. Dolly (Charlott Daudert) is engaged to marry Harald (Hans Heinz-Bollmann), but ...

Invisible Opponent (1933)

On a steamer bound for Europe two competing European investors try to get hold of a contract for exploiting oil wells in Brazil. Several agents cleverly play off one investor against the other to up the ante of a bogus scheme. ...