O.W. Fischer

Filmlegenden. Deutsch (2005)

A parade of well-known actors and directors from Germany ...

Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor (2000)

Klaus Kinski is one of the few German actors who has achieved international fame. He made headlines. And disappeared behind them. Kinski lived his parts 24/7. This film tells the story of a man who no longer could understand the difference or distinguish b ...

Shiva und die Galgenblume (1994)

Herbst in Lugano (1988)

Teerosen (1978)

Ein Glas Wasser (1977)

Amouren (1972)

Die Fliege und der Frosch (1971)

Das weite Land (1970)

Hofreiter, who has a relationship with Natter's wife Adele, confronts Natter after the latter launches a newspaper advertisement linking the suicide of an admirer of Hofreiter's wife to Hofreiter himself. In his tried and tested manner, Hofreiter challenge ...

Love Birds (1969)

Two couples live their erotic fantasies out until one of the women is murdered. ...

Transplantation (1969)

Make Love, Not War (1966)

Twenty years after the end of the war, a German submarine has not yet surrendered and continues to wander the seas. Its travelers include a half-witted officer, a meager and dazed crew, and Ombrina, a girl rescued from a shipwreck when she was only one yea ...

Der Marquis - der Mann, der sich verkaufen wollte (1965)

An eccentric marquis, for personal reasons, makes a deal with a man to kill him within six months. But some time later, he meets a woman and discovers that his reasons for being murdered have disappeared. Faced with this situation, he decides to go in sear ...

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1965)

In the pre-Civil War South, a sadistic plantation owner brutalizes his slaves to the point of rebellion. Always obedient, peaceful and honest old slave Tom plays a central role in this tragedy. ...

The Secret of the Black Widow (1963)

Someone is killing people related to a South American expedition. The means of murder are poison darts with rubber spiders attached to them. A writer and some police detectives investigate. ...

Breakfast in Bed (1963)

Henry and Liane Clausen's marriage is not going well. Henry is an ambitious publisher who is very focused on his career and neglects his wife Liane. In order to shake her husband out of his indifference, Liane Clausen begins an affair with Victor Armstrong ...

Berlin-Melodie (1963)

Story of San Michele (1962)

A biographical drama is based on the 1929 autobiography of Swedish doctor Axel Martin Fredrik, The Story of San Michele. It follows the physician, psychiatrist, and adventurer as he travels the distances from Lapland to his Villa San Michele on Capri, with ...

This Time it Must Be Caviar (1961)

Thomas Lieven is a German secret agent trying to leave that profession, to live a peaceful life. Adventure is too strong an appeal, he starts working again, and soon it's difficult to say if he is doing his job, or turned out as double agent for England, F ...

Operation Caviar (1961)

Bank accountant Thomas Lieven is forced to work as a triple agent for the British, the French and the Nazis. ...

Das Riesenrad (1961)

The story of a marriage over time, based on a play by Jan de Hartog. Maria Schell and O. W. Fischer play an aristocratic Austrian couple who meet during the imperial era and experience the first five decades of the 20th century together: temptations and tr ...

The Magnificent Rogue (1960)

A slightly ironic comedy about the rise of a celebrated factory owner who began his swindles while a prisoner of war and ends up as a cheated fraudster. ...

Scheidungsgrund: Liebe (1960)

Peter Voss, Hero of the Day (1959)

Peter Voss must recover eight Ming Dynasty horse statuettes from a gang of thieves, while dodging the detective on the case and trying to disrupt the fake marriage the gang set up to scam the young heiress, Mary de la Roche. ...

Rebel Flight to Cuba (1959)

Peter escapes a firing squad and leaves the island of San Quinto on a commercial flight to Bermuda. The plane is hijacked by a Nazi and San Quinto's Ex-General Cordobas who shoot pilot Pink and damage the landing gear of the plane. ...

Grand Hotel (1959)

Based on a book by Vicki Baum, all of the action takes place in one day in a luxury hotel in Berlin. Grusinkaya is a ballerina staying at the hotel, other guests include Baron von Gaigern a sophisticated thief, Otto Klingelein a dying man, Preysing a busin ...

And That on Monday Morning (1959)

Intended as a light farce this comedy by Luigi Commencini is a little plodding in its story about a bank manager who has had it with his buttoned-down, boring job. One Monday he can no longer face the tedium of both his work and his life and so he stays ho ...

Whirlpool (1959)

The ex-girlfriend of a German fugitive hides with the captain and crew of a ship on the Rhine. ...

Arms and the Man (1958)

1865: Swiss captain Bluntschli fights as mercenary in the war between Bulgaria and Serbia. When his group's attacked by a few Bulgarian troopers, he learns that he's got the wrong ammunition for his cannon and has to flee. His flight leads him right into t ...

Il bacio del sole (1958)

The story of homeless boys on the streets of Naples and of a priest who uses unusual methods to try to help them. ...

Peter Voss, der Millionendieb (1958)

Writer Peter Voss is faking a bank robbery, to find the robber of a rare jewelery. ...

...und nichts als die Wahrheit (1958)

Dr. Stefan Donat, a doctor from Frankfurt, unexpectedly becomes the sole heir to his wife Agnes' estate after she dies of a terminal illness, even though they had been divorced for years. The change in the will in Stefan's favor was made on the day Agnes d ...

El Hakim (1957)

A young Egyptian doctor leaves his uneducated, dance girl lady friend behind while he focuses on fighting poverty and superstition. Years later, rich and famous, on a trip to Paris he discovers her again, in a night club. ...

Scandal in Bad Ischl (1957)

Dr. Franz Duhr, a fashionable doctor in the feudal Austro-Hungarian spa town of Bad Ischl, is said to have "helped" a pregnant girl after a suicide attempt. When he then also wants to establish a home for unmarried mothers, the scandal is complete. ...

King in Shadow (1957)

The film portrays the interaction of Johann Friedrich Struensee, a doctor treating the mentally ill Christian VII of Denmark, and his English consort Caroline Matilda. ...

Mein Vater, der Schauspieler (1956)

Because Diva Christine believes that her husband is cheating on her, she hurtles away and dies. Only the little son prevents the widower from committing suicide. ...

Ich suche Dich (1956)

Dr. Paul Venner, a headstrong young doctor, is working on the development of a serum to renew destroyed brain cells. He is watched with skepticism by his colleagues, whom he repeatedly snubs with his cynical manner. Physician Françoise Maurer also feels h ...

Hanussen (1955)

In Germany during World War II, a well-known psychic decides to collaborate with the Nazis. ...

Napoleon (1955)

The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Vers ...

Ludwig II (1955)

Life and death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria. ...

Portrait of an Unknown Woman (1954)

Keller, a painter, while at the ballet is impressed with the beauty of Nicole and sketches her head on the body of a nude model. When it is shown, it causes embarrassment to Nicole's husband, Walter, a diplomat whose career is threatened. ...

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 ...

Tagebuch einer Verliebten (1953)

In South Tirol, shortly after ww-ii: Paul and Barbara Holzmann and their son Charlie own a small gasoline station. At their wedding anniversary, of all days, Barbara finds proof that Paul may again have cheated on her. At first she believes his explanation ...

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. ...

Ein Herz spielt falsch (1953)

A man, in need of money and too lazy to work for a living, marries a plain but rich girl in the knowledge that she is ill and has not long to live. ...

Dreaming Lips (1953)

Cuba Cabana (1952)

Until we meet again (1952)

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

Ich hab' mich so an Dich gewöhnt (1952)

Tausend rote Rosen blüh'n (1952)

Desires (1952)

A drug-addicted ballerina seeks morphine during the Salzburg Festival, nearly ruining pharmacist Hans Falkner's marriage to Anna. A doctor prescribes a lethal dose of morphine to the ballerina, but Anna, tempted to eliminate her rival, ultimately chooses m ...

Heidelberger Romanze (1951)

The rich and jung American Susanne falls in love with the Student Hans-Joachim. Set in the romantic Heidelberg. ...

Dreaming Days (1951)

The Berger couple want to enjoy their vacation in the mountains, a break that they both deserve. Because Maya suffers from strong emotional swings and feels constrained by the concerns of her husband, who is successful in the hospitality industry. Things d ...

Erzherzog Johanns große Liebe (1951)

Archduke Johann, whose liberal leanings and bourgeois lifestyle have brought him into disfavor with the Viennese court, falls in love with the postmaster's daughter Nandl. Against the wishes of the court, he wants to make her his wife... ...

A Tale of Five Cities (1951)

An Englishman has been working in the US so long he now speaks with an American accent. He is drafted into the British Army during WWII but is injured and loses his memory. Because he talks like an American, the doctors repatriate him to the States where h ...

Hin und her (1951)

Märchen vom Glück (1949)

Das unsterbliche Antlitz (1949)

Lysistrata (1949)

Adaptation of LYSISTRATA by Aristophanes ...

Liebling der Welt (1949)

Verlorenes Rennen (1948)

Leuchtende Schatten (1945)

Sag’ endlich ja (1945)

Spiel (1944)

Glück unterwegs (1944)

1944 film. ...

Sieben Briefe (1944)

The Two Sisters (1943)

Berlin, the end of the 19th Century: The pretty sisters Gabriele and Ulrike Wilkens have both completed their ballet training with honors. But only Gabriele is really dedicated to the art; Ulrike, on the other hand, is more the domestic type. She dreams ...

Vienna 1910 (1943)

Vienna 1910 is a 1943 German biographical film directed by Emerich Walter Emo and starring Rudolf Forster, Heinrich George and Lil Dagover. It is based on the life of Mayor of Vienna Karl Lueger. Its antisemitic content led to it being banned by the Allied ...

Sommerliebe (1942)

The Farmer Forsworn (1941)

After his stepbrother Jacob dies in an accident, farmer Matthias Ferner learns from Paula, Jacob's spouse of many years, that she and her two children will inherit the whole farm. She takes over command immediately, failing to realize that Matthias must f ...

Meine Tochter lebt in Wien (1940)

Gretl has been living in Vienna ever since her father, Klaghofer, a small general store owner, tried to marry her off against her will to the wealthy Gruber farmer. Her disgruntled father never opened a single one of her letters. A postcard tells him that ...

Anthony the Last (1939)

A grumpy valet takes corrective action with mumbling peevishness in the fortunes of his family household count. ...

Burg Theatre (1936)

In this convoluted melodrama, an elderly thespian falls for a rising young starlet. He admits his love for her and then announces that he will retire. The young woman pretends she loves him too, but her real motive is to give her struggling lover, also an ...

Ich suche Dich (1956)

Dr. Paul Venner, a headstrong young doctor, is working on the development of a serum to renew destroyed brain cells. He is watched with skepticism by his colleagues, whom he repeatedly snubs with his cynical manner. Physician Françoise Maurer also feels h ...

Hanussen (1955)

In Germany during World War II, a well-known psychic decides to collaborate with the Nazis. ...