Paul Hartmann

Von Reinhardt bis Karajan - 50 Jahre Salzburger Festspiele (1970)

Demetrius (1969)

Der zerbrochene Krug (1967)

Die Räuber (1966)

Through an intrigue, Franz Moor manages to have Karl, his brother, disinherited and disowned. He then founds a band of robbers and becomes their captain. Franz wants to win over Karl's fiancée Amalia and fakes Karl's death, and later the death of his fath ...

Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua (1964)

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 ...

Hermann und Dorothea (1961)

Buddenbrooks - 2. Teil (1959)

Second part of two of the saga of the troubled Buddenbrook family and their business in 19th century Germany. ...

Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil (1959)

First part of two of the saga of the troubled Buddenbrook family and their business in mid 19th century Germany. ...

Roses for the Prosecutor (1959)

April 1945. Because he stole two bars of chocolate, the soldier Rudi is sentenced to death by the court-martial judge Dr. Schramm. Rudi manages to escape from the firing squad at the last minute, and since the end of the war has been making a meager living ...

The Blue Moth (1959)

Julia Martens is a wrongly convicted murderess who is released from prison after thirteen years. She begins a new career as a chanson singer and her now grown-up son, who has been told that his mother is dead, has no idea who Julia Martens really is. One d ...

The Fox of Paris (1957)

Paris, 1944. With France under Nazi occupation, General Quade entrusts an important mission to Furstenwerth, the commander of the Wermacht: to secretly transmit secret documents to the Allies. While carrying out this mission, the commander falls under the ...

Es wird alles wieder gut (1957)

Wilhelm Tell (1956)

Rosen im Herbst (1955)

Prussia in the late 19th century: Eighteen-year-old Effi Briest, the daughter of a middle-class family, marries District Administrator Geert von Innstetten. But her marriage to this much older, highly dutiful man does not make her happy. In the small town ...

Ein toller Tag (1954)

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

Conchita and the Engineer (1954)

Regina Amstetten (1954)

Der Klosterjäger (1953)

The huntsman of a Bavarian monastery falls in love with a beautiful girl and convinces the provost to make his steward delay her brother's feudal due arrears. ...

Cuba Cabana (1952)

Der große Zapfenstreich (1952)

Die Dame in Schwarz (1951)

Das Tor zum Frieden (1951)

The Roedern Affair (1944)

Prussia, at the time of Frederick the Great. In his service is Major General Dietrich Edler von Roedern, a renowned fortress builder who pursues his work with fanatical zeal and seriousness. He is not in the mood for women or festivities. Although he is ma ...

My Summer Companion (1943)

The pianist Angelika Rink is exhausted from her chasing after success and is looking for peace and quiet in her hometown. Here, she sees her childhood friend Dr. Manfred Claudius again, who is running a country clinic with a lot of idealism. They both st ...

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 ...

Über alles in der Welt (1941)

Nazi propaganda film chronicling the plight of Germans caught by the outbreak of war in 1939 and their frantic attempts to return to the Fatherland to join the battle. ...

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. ...

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. ...

Irrtum des Herzens (1939)

On the afternoon of Christmas Eve, Sister Angelika bids her boss, Professor Reimers, farewell, for she has quit her post. Reimers doesn't understand the reason for this and since she won't say a word as to why she's quit, he asks her to spend the evening ...

In Battle Against the Enemy of the World: German Volunteers in Spain (1939)

Nazi propaganda film about the Condor Legion, a unit of German "volunteers" who fought in the Spanish Civil War on the side of eventual dictator Francisco Franco against the elected government of Spain. ...

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. ...

Legion Condor (1939)

Pour le Mérite (1938)

This Nazi propaganda film chronicles the rise of the German Air Force ("Luftwaffe") from World War I until Adolf Hitler took power in 1933. ...

Triad (1938)

A patriotic period melodrama in which a father and son are in love with the same lady.The son does not tell her that his father, an officer, has fought in a duel over her, but lies that he has left her for the army. Melodrama written by Douglas Sirk. ...

Revolutionshochzeit (1938)

Under Sealed Orders (1938)

In a Near East land, a German company building waterworks and mining copper is threatened by foreign interests.When the chief engineer is framed for a murder, the nephew of the ambassador makes a heroic sacrifice. ...

Togger (1937)

Die Warschauer Zitadelle (1937)

Considering Germany's own treatment of Poland in 1939, it is ironic in the extreme that the 1938 German film Um Freiheit und Liebe (For Freedom and Love) is a celebration of Poland's declaration of independence from Russia. Werner Hinz plays Konrad, an ide ...

Stronger Than Paragraphs (1936)

Renate Hubricht finds her uncle, the money broker Theodor Hubricht, murdered in his villa. That very night, the banker Lorik is arrested, who was last seen in Hubricht's house. Renate, who doesn't wish to live alone in the eerie estate lodges with the la ...

A Castle in Flanders (1936)

Officers stationed in a castle in Flandes during WWI are comforted by Gloria Delamare's recorded voice. One of them even writes her a letter that will never be sent. When the war is over Miss Delamare takes a tour in Belgium and spends a night in that cast ...

Carnival in Flanders (1936)

Flanders, Hispanic Monarchy, 1616. The inhabitants of the small town of Boom are busy organizing the annual local festivities when the arrival of the Duke of Olivares, who rules the country on behalf of the King Philip III of Spain, is announced. While the ...

Mazurka (1935)

A woman is put on trial for murdering a musician who ruined her marriage. ...

Everything for a Woman (1935)

A British industrialist offers a job to a German who kindly rescued him when they were pilots on opposite sides of the Great War, but his wife becomes attracted to the foreigner. Complications ensue. ...

Inheritance in Pretoria (1934)

The businessman Bernhard Fredersen, who has been blinded by an eye disease, shuts down his long-established company in Hamburg and moves to Pretoria to spend his retirement years with his wife Agnes. While on the journey, Agnes is seen by the treacherous E ...

Black Fighter Johanna (1934)

Germany under Napoleon. Johanna is travelling by stagecoach when one of its occupants, Major Korfes, is arrested by the French militia. Before capture, he gives Johanna a mysterious letter. To solve the mystery, she joins the German corps as the "Black Hun ...

Der Tunnel (1933)

The engineer MacAllan designs a tunnel, which will join America and Europe together on the seabed. A group of American billionaires are financing the gigantic project, but the construction of the tunnel is proving to be as tedious as it is dangerous. Mac ...

Grand Duchess Alexandra (1933)

A Czarist refugee, separated from her husband, gets a job as a nightclub singer in Vienna and has to decide later if she wants to rejoin him. ...

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. ...

Salon Dora Green (1933)

A cabaret dancer loves a German engineer and helps save his vital drawings of ship designs from falling into the hands of foreign plotters. ...

Der Läufer von Marathon (1933)

Focuses on a love triangle between three German athletes competing at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. It was the last film Dupont made in Germany, before escaping into exile following the rise to power of the Nazis. ...

F.P.1 Doesn't Answer (1932)

F.P.1 is a huge airplane landing dock in the Atlantic where pilots making the transatlantic flight can stop. Yet a saboteur tries to sink the technical wonder in this classic German science fiction film from 1932. The film was also created with English and ...