Ruth Stephan

Elfmeter! Elfmeter! (1974)

Preussenkorso Nr. 17 (1974)

Wagner, the owner of the secondhand shop, hires student Tißmann to clear out an apartment at Preußenkorso 17 in Berlin. ...

Kinderarzt Dr. Fröhlich (1972)

A young woman pharmacist, Eva, is very friendly with a children's doctor, Dr. Fröhlich. Eva's small nephew Peter lives with her and she is often thought to be his mother. A number of amusing and more serious misunderstandings arise from this situation... ...

Die Kompanie der Knallköppe (1971)

Admiral Dagobert von Kattnig develops a rescue system for the German Navy. The mountain troops are to test the device in Upper Bavaria and Dagobert sends his son and his staff boatman there. Instead of testing the device, however, the two marvel at the coz ...

Unser Willi ist der Beste (1971)

Retired tax official Willi Winzig spends his retirement happily and contentedly in his home. However, this changes when his sister Heidelinde, her daughter and his father want to move in with him, and as Willi is a good-natured man, he takes them in, but b ...

Hurra, wir sind mal wieder Junggesellen! (1971)

That Can't Shake Our Willi! (1970)

Summer in Germany, anno 1970. Italy is the number one destination. As every year, swarms of Teutonic tourists make their way to the Adriatic Sea. Only Willi Hirsekorn from Castrop-Rauxel has so far no plans to break south. That changes, however, as the bit ...

Wir hau'n die Pauker in die Pfanne (1970)

Principal Gottlieb Taft's twin brother Gotthold Taft partakes in the most recent prank by faking his death and promising a large inheritance to the Mommsen-Gymnasium and the principal. Of course, the inheritance is tied to many embarrassing conditions. ...

Was ist denn bloß mit Willi los? (1970)

Willi Winzig is a small tax officer with a big heart. He sometimes lets the tax files of his insolvent fellow citizens disappear into the air shaft. But shortly before his retirement, the shaft is so full that Willi has to dispose of the file of a penniles ...

Hurra, die Schule brennt (1969)

A new teacher, Dr. Dr. Bach, is transferred from his quiet village elementary school to the Mommsen Gymnasium, bringing along his nephew Jan. Bach's lackadaisical methods raise the suspicions of the other teachers. ...

Klein Erna auf dem Jungfernstieg (1969)

Little Erna is a cheeky Hamburg girl. She gets up to the greatest pranks with her boyfriend. That's why her mother sends her on vacation alone to her aunt. There, too, the little girl gets up to all sorts of mischief... ...

Helgalein (1969)

As a naive blonde from the countryside, Helgalein comes into conflict with the insignia of the sexual revolution. ...

Pepe, der Paukerschreck (1969)

Mommsen Gymnasium director Taft secretly places his nephew as a spy with the difficult class of Pepe Nietnagel. During the celebration for the 100th anniversary, a simulated fire forces the school to shut down for a week. The director's attempt to get a to ...

Zur Hölle mit den Paukern (1968)

Pepe Nietnagel and his fellow students of the Mommsen school come up with all kinds of ideas to get out of doing any actual school work. This includes simulating suicides, setting off the air-raid sirens and abusing the school director's new broadcasting ...

Rheinsberg (1967)

Kurt Hoffmann's film adaptation of Tucholsky's eponymous novella is situated in 1910s Berlin: The aspiring editor Wolf runs into Claire by chance. Both are attracted to one another, yet they are not entirely certain about their feelings. They embark on a t ...

Das Spukschloß im Salzkammergut (1966)

On a trip through the Salzkammergut, a couple singing pop songs tell the story of another duo and their difficult path to marriage: he was into light entertainment, while she was into serious art. ...

Das sündige Dorf (1966)

When the sons of farmer Thomas and his wife Therese Stangassinger, Toni and Sepp, introduce their fiancées to their parents, the latter cannot believe their eyes. Independently of each other, the parents try to prevent the wedding by any means necessary. ...

Komm mit zur blauen Adria (1966)

Unartige Lieder (1964)

Jetzt dreht die Welt sich nur um dich (1964)

Lilian Andreesen is the music loving daughter of a Danish newspaper empire and falls in love with Rex Gildo. ...

Unsere tollen Tanten in der Südsee (1964)

The five guys of the band "Sunny Boys" go to Polynesia, where they are forced by external circumstances to throw themselves back into women clothes. ...

Hochzeit am Neusiedler See (1963)

A comedy directed by Rolf Olsen. ...

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)

Unsere tollen Nichten (1963)

Out of necessity, Gunther Philipp and his male colleagues put on women's clothes again and cause a commotion in the noble ski resort of Davos as the Jolly Sisters. Their girlfriends don't take kindly to this and counterattack in men's costumes. ...

Wild Waters (1962)

Thomas, son of sawmill owner Mautner, is more interested in music and women than in his father's business. His latest acquaintance is the young Andrea Sternberg, whom he rescues from a torrent and whose father wants to build a hotel on the Mautners' proper ...

Der Vogelhändler (1962)

Der verkaufte Großvater (1962)

The Turkish Cucumbers (1962)

Oskar Schnabel is a wholesaler of fruits from the Arabian region. One day his oriental trading partner passes on a twelve-piece of harem ladies to him. ...

Max der Taschendieb (1962)

Max, a small time pick-pocket, has nothing to do with the 'big' crimes. But then he must find the murderer of Fred, his wife's brother. ...

Ramona (1961)

Isola Bella (1961)

Consul daughter Anne Stülcken wants to take her fiancee undetected under the magnifying glass and therefore slips in her father's villa in the role of a maid. ...

Ein Stern fällt vom Himmel (1961)

Blond muß man sein auf Capri (1961)

Maria and Hannes are already looking forward to their vacation together when Hannes has to go away on business at short notice. Maria suspects that Hannes is having an affair with another woman and defiantly travels to Capri with her friends. ...

Bei Pichler stimmt die Kasse nicht (1961)

Ach Egon! (1961)

Pediatrician Waldemar Weber is at his wits' end. Of all days, his adopted son Egon—from his first marriage, whom Waldemar has always kept a secret from his young wife Henny—has announced he's coming to visit on their first wedding anniversary. Waldemar ...

Kauf Dir einen bunten Luftballon (1961)

Hermann König, owner of an ice palace, wants to make his niece Inge a star. Inge, on the other hand, has a completely different dream - the theater stage. The talented girl then falls head over heels in love with ice hockey player Hans Haller, who also ha ...

Natürlich die Autofahrer (1959)

Eberhard Dobermann is a widower and a policeman who loves to control the roads and let people pay fines. Even with his neighbour and friend Jutta Schmalbach he has no pity. Thus he cannot understand why his daughter Karin just falls in love with a racing p ...

La Paloma (1959)

Two rival Berlin revue theaters are vying for their big breakthrough. With top stars like jazz legend Louis Armstrong, the Kessler twins, and Bill Ramsey, they try to outdo and outmaneuver one another. ...

Peter schießt den Vogel ab (1959)

Peter schießt den Vogel ab is a German film comedy first released in 1959. ...

Schlag auf Schlag (1959)

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Hier bin ich – hier bleib ich (1959)

A Song Goes Round the World (1958)

A biopic of the singer and film actor Joseph Schmidt. The title is a reference to his best-known song and a 1933 film of the same title in which he starred. ...

Der Stern von Santa Clara (1958)

Carlo del Ponte, a pop star celebrated in the U.S., travels to his hometown of Santa Clara, Italy, to take some time off. Not only does Carlo find himself caught up in an armed robbery there, but his pretty cousin Antonella is missing her father and believ ...

Wehe, wenn sie losgelassen (1958)

Peter wants to practice for an upcoming jazz competition with his friends Willi, Oskar, and Jupp. But his uncle Tobias, on whose farm Peter lives, must not find out about it. ...

...und abends in die Scala (1958)

The chorus girl Caterina Duval gets the chance of her life when hired as stand-in of a famous star. On the opening night Catarina is singing, dancing and stepping into the hearts of the audience. ...

Gruß und Kuss vom Tegernsee (1957)

A 1957 German musical comedy heimatfilm. ...

Der kühne Schwimmer (1957)

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Das einfache Mädchen (1957)

The newcomer actress Caterina Bastiani, there is the Chance of your life, as you are the leading role in a Musical get offered. But the author of the novel has, in this respect concerns: first, he wants his material was not as musical Revue prepared to see ...

Das Glück liegt auf der Straße (1957)

Zwei Bayern im Urwald (1957)

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Die Unschuld vom Lande (1957)

Theater director Werner Sturm was amazed when he arrived in the Bavarian market town of Oberwinkel on a vacation and came across all kinds of disguised characters: knights and maids, squires and heralds were running around, and children were shooting arrow ...

Die liebe Familie (1957)

August the Thug (1957)

Die Beine von Dolores (1957)

Dolores leads her parents to believe she is an ambitious nurse. But in secret, she pursues her passion for dance. Night after night, she performs at Auguste Link's club, "Pigalle." When the star of the revue tears up his contract, Dolores sees her big chan ...

Hotel Allotria (1956)

Four young musicians from Hamburg are heading to a hotel in Upper Bavaria. Three lively young women are also on their way there. No wonder the hotel, which is on the brink of bankruptcy, is coming back to life. Max, Franz, Egon, and Paul—four young music ...

Manöverball (1956)

Du bist Musik (1956)

Das Liebesleben des schönen Franz (1956)

Ein tolles Hotel (1956)

Die gestohlene Hose (1956)

A hotel owner's son, who is still quite young at heart, falls madly in love with the niece of a strange old man. He is actually supposed to take up an apprenticeship at a hotel in the distant Dolomites on behalf of his strict father. To keep his father fro ...

Musikparade (1956)

Greta Lund leads her own jazz band with charm and flair, but she's not interested in romantic entanglements with her musicians. Then the popular trumpeter and singer Peter joins her band and falls in love with her. He tries in creative ways to convince her ...

Die wilde Auguste (1956)

Charley's Aunt (1956)

Otto Dernburg is forced by circumstances to dress up as a middle-aged woman. ...

Musik im Blut (1955)

Love, Dance, and 1000 Songs (1955)

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Drei Tage Mittelarrest (1955)

The mayor of a small garrison town is constantly at odds with the local battalion commander. This does not sit well with the mayor's wife at all, as she wants to marry her daughter off to a soldier. Things escalate when the mayor's cook becomes pregnant by ...

Ein Herz voll Musik (1955)

Ellinor Patton is so wealthy that her six unsuccessful marriages are considered befitting of her status. She is currently unhappily single again and hoping for her lucky number seven. Vico, the hotel owner's son, dreams of a career as a singer and is in lo ...

Wie werde ich Filmstar (1955)

Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe (1955)

Die spanische Fliege (1955)

Four respectable men in Daxburg once footed child support for the same mysterious dancer. Twenty years later, the opening of a new local court threatens to expose their secret and a string of anonymous donations from that dancer. As scandal nears, they mus ...

Ten on Every Finger (1954)

"Ten on Every Finger" (German: "An jedem Finger zehn") is a 1954 West German musical comedy film directed by Erik Ode. The story centers on a revue dancer named Margit Rameau, played by Germaine Damar, who falls in love with composer Bert Martin, portrayed ...

Keine Angst vor Schwiegermüttern (1954)

Clivia (1954)

Theft of the Sabines (1954)

Fräulein vom Amt (1954)

Die Privatsekretärin (1953)

Determined Gerda Weber travels to the big city and locates at a girl's pension. She soon finds job as a secretary in a big business thanks to her optimism and wits, and ends dating her boss after mistaking him for a companion. They share an evening of musi ...

Schlagerparade (1953)

Die Kaiserin von China (1953)

Damenwahl (1953)

Not Afraid of Big Animals (1953)

Emil, a technical draftsman, is hardworking, always helpful, and somewhat shy. Because of these traits, he is often taken advantage of by those around him. Now Emil is set to inherit a supposedly large fortune. His landlady's brother wants to marry him off ...

Der Onkel aus Amerika (1953)

You Only Live Once (1952)

Remake of the 1931 film The Man in Search of His Murderer. ...

Ich hab’ mein Herz in Heidelberg verloren (1952)