Paul Kemp

Salto Mortale (1954)

After some initial difficulties, the daughter of a circus director who died in an accident follows in her father's footsteps and takes over the business. ...

A Musical War of Love (1953)

Drei, von denen man spricht (1953)

Königin der Arena (1952)

The Thief of Bagdad (1952)

Fatme has quite the talent for getting herself into trouble and escaping with her head intact. But when she's caught rifling through Caliph Omar's possessions, she finds herself in serious trouble. News of a theft makes the rounds and now the caliph's men ...

In Munich stands a Hofbäuhaus (1952)

Berlin tongue encounters Munich lifestyle. A comedy around Oktoberfest. Movies, FRG, 1951 Fita Benkhoff, Paul Kemp, Liesl Karlstadt, etc. A Berlin producer of nerve healing, vitamin-enriched and expanding its life-prolonging lemonade stand in front of all ...

Das unmögliche Mädchen (1951)

Mutter sein dagegen sehr (1951)

Widow Florentine adopted three children. They fear for the love of their new mother when she falls in love with the architect Curt May. With united strength they want to drive him out of the house. ...

Engel im Abendkleid (1951)

The bailiff Engel is believed to be an heir to the millions via a fictitious newspaper advertisement. It is said to have a mink farm. Your debtors mean my nun that as a millionaire you can pay the debts. Some dowry hunters have seen it on them too. Paulche ...

The Midnight Venus (1951)

An inventive small-town tailor rises to international success with his daring and unusual designs. ...

Die Dritte von rechts (1950)

Die Nacht ohne Sünde (1950)

Liebe nach Noten (1950)

Mädchen mit Beziehungen (1950)

An unemployed engineer who does not want his fiancee to protect him has accidentally insulted his future boss, unknown and for no reason. From this meager idea, a stupidly rolled-out confusion with pop song in a Mexico bar develops. ...

Der Mann, der sich selber sucht (1950)

Kein Engel ist so rein (1950)

Insolent and in Love (1950)

Penniless Peter Schild looks for work when arrived in Germany. Working as a private eye he has to observe a young lady who is willing to marry an unemployed actor against the will of her parents. ...

Unknown Sender (1950)

Gefährliche Gäste (1949)

The playboy Peter Anders is financially bankrupt, so he puts up his villa for sale. But during this time, 3 harmless gangsters, Franz, August, and Poldi, settled in Anders's estate to try to sell the villa on their behalf. ...

Lysistrata (1949)

Adaptation of LYSISTRATA by Aristophanes ...

Lambert fühlt sich bedroht (1949)

Der himmlische Walzer (1948)

Das singende Haus (1948)

Ghost in the Castle (1947)

In the antique shop J.M. Mauritius, there's astonishment when a young, beautiful woman, Gabriele Euler, inquires about an old fortress crest, which can be seen in the background on an old tapestry --- it's, in fact, the same crest engraved on an old, silve ...

Leuchtende Schatten (1945)

Marriage of Love (1944)

Young newlywed Martin Mansfeld suspects his wife Maria Mansfeld of infidelity and together with his friend sets a trap for her. ...

Glück unterwegs (1944)

1944 film. ...

Sieben Briefe (1944)

Das Lied der Nachtigall (1944)

Fahrt ins Abenteuer (1943)

The Big Number (1943)

Against her father's wishes, the ringmaster Wallner, Helga forms a connection with the wild animal trainer Peter. After he is almost killed during an appearance, he promises his mistress, that he'll never work with wild animals again. From that point on, ...

Ein Windstoß (1942)

A gust of wind is a German movie from the year 1941 ...

Jenny und der Herr im Frack (1941)

In this intricately plotted crime comedy, Johannes Heesters plays the worldly insurance detective Peter Holm, who is determined to apprehend jewel thief Robert Makaroff. To this end, Holm travels to Copenhagen, where the Hungarian actress Lilly Hegedüsch ...

You Only You (1941)

The two stars of an upcoming operetta performance quarrel constantly. but they also fall in love with each other. ...

Mistress Moon (1941)

Berlin's theatre crowd is excited about the new operetta "Frau Luna". But for the head of the city's vice police, who was invited to the dress rehearsal, the costumes for the ladies onstage are a bit too revealing. He demands the show be cancelled as offen ...

Small Town Poet (1940)

Paul Schleemueller is the town clerk of Schonbach, but secretly, he is counting on becoming the municipality's mayor one day. However, Paul's real passion is poetry, which he has never admitted to anyone, because he thinks it is unworthy of a municipal di ...

Das leichte Mädchen (1940)

Dietz' relatives are horrified to discover that Dietz, the son of a wealthy merchant, is planning to marry an actress, who is known to appear in rather daring roles. Dietz finds a way to escape from a gathering over coffee, during which he's supposed to b ...

Was wird hier gespielt? (1940)

Kornblumenblau (1939)

A waitress takes all the gossip of a small town on the Rhine in stride, in spite of a distinguished composer being a loving husband and father for her illegitimate child. ...

Another Experience (1939)

A popular stage tenor can't stay away from his female admirers until his wife threatens to divorce him. ...

Marionette (1939)

The Dream of Butterfly (1939)

Italian filmmaker Carmine Gallone was still in his "operetta" mode when he helmed 1938's Il Sogno di Butterfly (Dream of the Butterfly) Maria Cebotari plays opera diva Rosa Belloni, currently starring in a production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly. The plot ...

My Heart Belongs to Thee (1938)

A famous American tenor, relaxing on a farm near Naples and singing for pleasure in the fields, is mistaken by a lady journalist as an unknown talent she has discovered.He plays along with her and even falls in love. ...

Our Little Wife (1938)

When a young woman becomes aware of her husband's wandering attentions, she plots his comeuppance. ...

Capriccio (1938)

Lilian Harvey plays a young heiress in long-ago France named Madelon who is raised by her grandfather as a boy in order to frighten away fortune hunters. But when the old man dies, her guardian Cesaire wants to marry her off to the rich prefect Barberousse ...

The Stars Shine (1938)

German all-star musical from 1938 that was a big commercial success. ...

Ihr Leibhusar (1938)

An easy-going hussar officer successfully vies for the love of a millionaire's daughter. ...

Musik für dich (1937)

A film for scatterbrains. Everyone's constantly forgetting something – the daughter the little dog, the father the files, the chauffeur forgetting to close the roof of his taxi when it's pouring rain and his passenger gets soaked. Everyone rushes through ...

The Missing Wife (1937)

An official justice assistant supposes behind a letter which falls to him by chance in the hands, a crime and gets going with his crimi-sleuthing energy an unclear confusion. ...

The Charm of La Bohème (1937)

René and his two artist friends lead a meager but careless life in a Parisian small apartment, their main worry being to avoid the housekeeper. Whenever they get some money they call more friends in and celebrate. This is how he meets beautiful but fragil ...

Flowers from Nice (1936)

Maria, an astounding singer in a music school , is discovered by an impresario who engages her for a concert in Nizza. A nobleman wishing to leave his gambling debts behind accepts money to fake suicide for unrequited love, for publicity's sake. He heads f ...

Lucky Kids (1936)

After completing work on the British musical Invitation to the Waltz, Lillian Harvey returned to her adopted country of Germany to star in the comedy-with-music Glueckskinder (Children of Fortune). Harvey plays Ann Garden, an unemployed actress who ends up ...

Boccaccio (1936)

The film is set during the Italian Renaissance in the 14th century. Petruccio lives in Ferrara with his wife, Fiametta. Initially, he works as a scribe at the city court. Under the pseudonym Giovanni Boccaccio, he writes amorous tales that divide opinion w ...

Hot Blood (1936)

Baroness Marika von Korossy dresses up as a man, in order to compete in a horse race. Her victorious horse, Satan, will only allow her to ride him and throws everyone else off of him. That includes the dandy lieutenant Tibor von Denes, who immediately reco ...

Der schüchterne Casanova (1936)

The Valiant Navigator (1935)

A young man plans to emigrate to the United States with his fiancee but becomes extremely fearful about the ocean crossing due to a local superstition. Eventually he decides to stay at home and marry his girl. ...

The King's Prisoner (1935)

A comedy loosely based on the life story of Johann Friedrich Böttger, the inventor of Meissen porcelain: In Berlin, the pharmacist Fritz Böttger gains a reputation for being able to make gold and is imprisoned on the orders of the Prussian king. Followin ...

Amphitryon: Happiness from the Clouds (1935)

Lamenting Thebian women are waiting for the men to come back from war. God Jupiter is attracted to one of them: Alkmene. He goes to earth and tries to seduce her as himself: an old man. Failing in this, he disguises himself as Amphitryon (Alkemene's husban ...

Es leuchten die Sterne (1935)

Prinzessin Turandot (1934)

Her Highness the Saleswoman (1934)

My Heart Is Calling You (1934)

Director Rosé and his opera company travel to Monte Carlo where they expect an engagément to perform at the opera house. During the boat trip Mario, the cheerful tenor, meets a girl hidden in his cabin. He helps her singing for her passage and soon Nicol ...

Charley's Aunt (1934)

Charley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley's Brazilian Aunt Donna Lucia. Their purpose is to have a chaperone for their amorous visits with Amy and Kitty, niece and ward of crusty Stephen Spettigue. Compl ...

The Csardas Princess (1934)

Sylva Varescu is an operetta singer performing Kálmán's Die Czardasfürstin through Europe with great success. Before going to Vienna she meets handsome Prinz Weylerstein and they fall in love. Offered a contract for America, she doubts until she finds o ...

My Heart Calls You (1934)

An opera company tries to get an engagement. ...

Mit dir durch dick und dünn (1934)

The Fugitive from Chicago (1934)

Werner Dux, heir of the big car company "Dux-Werke", is a gambler who has just been arrested in Chicago for shooting a cardsharper. While in jail, he learns from his friend Michael Nissen that his father has died recently. That means that the Dux-Werke are ...

Das Lied vom Glück (1933)

The Castle in the South (1933)

Another fine film from the master of stylish early German comedies, Geza von Bolvary. This may not be among Bolvary's major works, but the story of a prince (Victor de Kowa) who substitutes for an actor playing a prince in a film without anyone knowing tha ...

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. ...

Roman einer Nacht (1933)

While in France, the daughter of Copenhagen's police chief meets a fascinating detective who is seeking a criminal professor. ...

A Song for You (1933)

During a concert tour, famous tenor Riccardo Gatti meets Lixie at an Aida rehearsal and takes her for a ballet dancer. She is in fact trying to get a position for her boyfriend, so she accepts Gatti's date for supper. When she runs away he publishes a news ...

A Man with Heart (1932)

A story about a series of confusions, in which Paul Ritter, a bank employee, is unaware that the girl he's fallen in love with is the daughter of his boss. No one bothers to tell him and he gets jealous of the boss, who seems to have a very good relationsh ...

Zigeuner der Nacht (1932)

Tenant Schulze against everyone (1932)

Several inhabitants of a big apartment building get involved in a series of lawsuits. ...

Sehnsucht 202 (1932)

After a mix-up with a newspaper advertisement, a shop-girl and a millionairess are mistaken for one another by two businessmen. A musical romantic comedy. ...

The Bartered Bride (1932)

Bohemia in the 19th century, stage-coach driver Hans loves the mayor's daughter Marie, but she is promised Wenzel, the son of another wealthy farmer. Marie refuses to marry Wenzel because of Hans, but the marriage arranger tries to "buy" Marie from Hans. B ...

Gitta Discovers Her Heart (1932)

In a small Hungarian village, a priest discovers a girl named Gitta who can sing beautifully. He takes Gitta with him and turns her into a celebrated revue star. After a quarrel with the priest, she runs away and meets a young composer named Peter, who doe ...

Three from the stamp office (1932)

An Auto and No Money (1932)

Slapstick-style comedy in which a celebrity, to escape a marriage, trades places with his personal chauffeur. ...

I'd Rather Have Cod Liver Oil (1931)

Each evening, before saying their prayers, some children swallow their cod liver oil. One evening, the youngest child makes a daring request in his prayer. (Lost film. ...

Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf (1931)

Franz Biberkopf has served four years in prison. His return to normal life is not successful. ...

The Soaring Maiden (1931)

In this theatrical adaptation, a well meaning eccentric tries to patch up a rift between his niece and her fiancé. ...

By a nose (1931)

The Theft of the Mona Lisa (1931)

A painter working at the Louvre is struck by the Mona Lisa. When he meets a girl whom he believes bears a resemblance to the painting, and who wants him to become famous, he comes up with the idea of stealing the painting. Based on the real-life theft of 1 ...

My Cousin From Warsaw (1931)

Meine Kusine aus Warschau (My Cousin From Warsaw) was based on a stage play by Louis Verneuil. It's a romantic farce, with the heroine posing as her own cousin to carry on two amours at once. ...

M (1931)

In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seed ...

Infidelities (1931)

When both husband and wife find romance outside their marriage, it's a shock to everyone. Robert and Annemarie break up to elope with their respective lovers, only to be thrown together again when they show up at the justice of the peace. ...

The 3 Penny Opera (1931)

In London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum without the knowledge of her father, the equally enterprising 'king of the beggars'. ...