Reinhold Schünzel

Victor/Victoria (1982)

A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life. ...

Viktor und Viktoria (1957)

Aspiring singer Susanne takes over for ham actor Viktor at a small cabaret in Berlin where he works a woman impersonator and per chance she's discovered by an agent, who thinks, that she really is a man. She becomes famous, but her situation becomes troubl ...

New Wine (1941)

The romantic story of Franz Schubert 's fight for recognition of his music. The 1941 Reinhold Schunzel biographical musical composer melodrama. ...

Balalaika (1939)

A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love. ...

The Ice Follies of 1939 (1939)

Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at home, out of work. ...

Rich Man, Poor Girl (1938)

A millionaire courts a working-class woman. ...

Land of Love (1937)

The story is one of the classic operetta stories with a young princess destined to marry a king whom her mother tries to enforce while the young woman tries to escape her fate. ...

Donogoo Tonka (1936)

Parisians Josette and Pierre are a happy couple, but also a completely broke one. An absurd chain of events leads them to Professor Trouhadec, who is in a predicament. ...

The Girl Irene (1936)

A woman (Lil Dagover) who has lost her husband falls in love again, but is bitterly opposed by her daughters especially the title figure who can't stand the thought of seeing her mother going into a relationship with another man. Those who want to see if S ...

First a Girl (1935)

An aspiring singer quits her menial job and is talked into performing as a female impersonator by her friend. Her drag act makes her famous, which causes problems for her when a very determined young man falls in love with her. A remake of the 1933 German ...

Les dieux s'amusent (1935)

Alternate-language version of Amphitryon (1935). ...

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 ...

The English Marriage (1934)

Georg Alexander plays Douglas Mavis, the son of a rich English family who falls in love with a Berlin girl (Renate Müller) and marries her. However, he doesn't tell his family, and for a reason: the resolute head of the family (played by the inimitable Ad ...

La jeune fille d'une nuit (1934)

Die Töchter ihrer Exzellenz (1934)

A young woman tries to hinder her sister from committing adultery - by wooing the man she thinks is the suitor herself. ...

Georges et Georgette (1934)

Victor and Victoria (1933)

Aspiring singer Susanne takes over one night for her sick friend, a small-time female impersonator, and finds unexpected fame when everyone believes that she is actually a man. While touring London, complications arise as a local womanizer catches on to he ...

Cairo Season (1933)

Comedy with an Egyptian backdrop: Businessman Tobby and the Countess Stafanie wish to take all the fun away from their single parents and make them marry each other. Their parents have the same plan, too ... but with regards to their nosy kids. And so i ...

Idylle au Caire (1933)

How Shall I Tell My Husband? (1932)

The film starts in the fashionable seaside resort on the Baltic, Heringsdorf, where Renate Müller spends a secret weekend away from her husband with her bosom friend Ida Wüst. The husband meanwhile has a flirtation while traveling by night train from Fra ...

The Beautiful Adventure (1932)

The Beautiful Adventure (1932)

Helene has agreed to marry a man that she isn't in love with. On the day of her wedding her cousin arrives just in time to rescue her and they run away together. They stay with her aged grandmother who assumes the young man (whom she doesn't know) to be th ...

Ronny (1931)

Käthe von Nagy plays Ronny, who designs the costumes for the upcoming premiere of an opera written by the young prince of Perusa (Willy Fritsch) and has to deliver them personally due to the urgency of the commission. Arriving there, the prince not only i ...

Ronny (1931)

Ronny is a young designer on her way to the capital of the Ruritanian Kingdom of Perusa with the costumes she has created for the operetta written by the Prince. On her journey, she meets the prince and is persuaded to take the place of the star who had ju ...

The Small Gap (1931)

The Little Escapade (1931)

A wife believes her husband has been deceiving her and decides to have some fun at his expense. After a bit of mischief, her husband, a lawyer who is preparing a divorce for a client, decides to start divorce proceedings himself. The wife then realises she ...

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 ...

Meines Vaters Pferde, 2. Teil: Seine dritte Frau (1954)

In the second part of the drama, the wounded Jürgen hears about the happy years his father Michael spent with his wife Bim at the "Fohlenhof." He learns how the war took everything from him and how Michael was nearly broken by the death of his beloved Bim ...

Meines Vaters Pferde, 1. Teil: Lena und Nicoline (1954)

After World War II, Jürgen Godeysen ends up in a hospital, wounded and traumatized. There, the young Nicoline reads to him from the diaries of his father, Michael. The entries chronicle his life and loves, from the moment he first encountered his first lo ...

The Vicious Circle (1948)

In Hungary, a rich baron discovers that there are extensive oil deposits underneath nearby properties owned by villagers. He manages to convince all the property owners to sell to him, except for a few properties owned by Jewish families. Infuriated at the ...

Berlin Express (1948)

In post-war Europe, a diverse group of passengers aboard a U.S. Army train to bombed-out Frankfurt becomes involved in a Nazi assassination plot. ...

Golden Earrings (1947)

A British colonel escapes from the Gestapo to the Black Forest and poses as a Gypsy's mate. ...

Notorious (1946)

In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Al ...

Dragonwyck (1946)

A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson Valley mansion. ...

The Man in Half Moon Street (1945)

A British doctor and painter must kill for the glands he needs to stop the aging process. ...

The Hitler Gang (1944)

The Hitler Gang adopts the style of a gangster film as it charts Adolf Hitler's rise from small-time politico to dictator of Germany. ...

Hostages (1943)

After the mysterious disappearance of a German soldier from a Prague cafe, the staff and customers are held captive by the Nazis accused of murder and collusion with the Czech resistance. ...

First Comes Courage (1943)

Merle Oberon plays a Norwegian resistance figure in a small town, married to a Nazi commandant. When his superiors begin to suspect her, the Allies land an assassin to kill him -- an assassin who happens to be her former lover. ...

Hangmen Also Die! (1943)

During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history p ...

The Ball (1931)

The daughter of a nouveau riche family, invited to an upper class ball meant to launch her in society, rejects the offer. ...

Her Grace Commands (1931)

An emancipated Princess, who has just returned home to her court in the Balkans from England, goes in disguise to a servants' bal and falls in love with an alleged caterer, who turns out next day to be a lieutenant of the guard. Without letting on to her ...

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'. ...

1914: The Last Days Before the War (1931)

The film focuses on the leadership of the Great Powers of Europe in the days leading up to the outbreak of the First World War. ...