Sonja Ziemann

Sonja Ziemann erzählt... (2017)

Sonja Ziemann talks about her career. ...

Germaine Damar – Der tanzende Stern (2011)

Filmlegenden. Deutsch (2005)

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

Das Biest (1977)

Fröhliche Weihnachten (1970)

Alle hatten sich abgewandt (1970)

De Sade (1969)

The 18th-century French marquis recalls his sadomasochistic experiments and goes to jail for lewd behavior. ...

The Bridge at Remagen (1969)

In March of 1945, as the War in Europe is coming to a close, fighting erupts between German and American troops at the last remaining bridgehead across the Rhine. ...

Kolportage (1968)

Josephine (1967)

Das Leben des Horace A.W. Tabor - Ein Stück aus den Tagen der letzten Könige (1965)

Halløj i himmelsengen (1965)

The beginning of the 20th century. The main character is the young, charming Count Pierre de Sauterne. There have been several conflicts between him and his aristocratic uncle, who, due to his fanatical interest in cars, is called Tøf-Tøf. The authoritat ...

Frühstück mit dem Tod (1964)

Ted Talbot is a prosecutor in Newtonville. In the course of his work, he accuses Jim Conley of robbing a bank and killing the cashier. Ted's wife Jane takes over Conley's defense. When the court sentences the defendant to death, she files for divorce. Beth ...

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 ...

Journey Into Nowhere (1962)

Ricky and Maria, desperate for money, undertake an insurance fraud. After getting involved with a thug, it ends in tragedy. ...

Ihr schönster Tag (1962)

Her most beautiful day is a German film by Paul Verhoeven from the year 1962. ...

The Dream of Lieschen Müller (1961)

Lieschen Müller is in her mid-20s, works a dull office job and fancies the handsome waiter from the diner down the street, wishing for a more exciting life. In a vivid, lucid dream she happens upon a gigantic fortune, allowing her to live out her wildest ...

A Matter of WHO (1961)

Health officials from the World Health Organization link a smallpox outbreak in Europe to oil drilling in the Middle East. ...

Denn das Weib ist schwach (1961)

The respected lawyer Jolly Gebhardt is in debt because of his lavish lifestyle and is therefore blackmailed by dubious criminals for embezzlement. ...

The Secret Ways (1961)

Vienna, 1956. After Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian uprising, soldier-of-fortune Michael Reynolds is hired to help a threatened Hungarian scientist escape from Budapest. ...

The Nabob Affair (1960)

Serge, alias Count Fornari, is hired by a mysterious employer to try to steal the Nabob, an exceptionally valuable diamond that Jeannette, alias Aménita (Perrette Pradier), the companion of a billionaire, wears as a locket. She covets the diamond and stea ...

Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen (1960)

The film depicts the first month of 1945 when the Russian Red Army broke into the eastern part of Germany and forced millions of civilians to flee in the coldest of winter. While the Russians invaded Ostpreussen hundred of thousands of civilians were evacu ...

Punishment Battalion (1960)

The film focuses on life in a World War II German penal battalion camp somewhere in Russia. The convicts include a heroic doctor unjustly convicted of avoiding military service, an officer who retreated against orders, and common criminals. It shows their ...

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 ...

Liebe auf krummen Beinen (1959)

The unsuccessful composer Daniel Mogge meets the photographer Eva through his runaway dog Blasius. He falls in love with her and a romance begins between the two. The envious neighbor Grusius, who is feverishly waiting for submissions for musical works, fi ...

Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever? (1959)

In the winter of 1943, against the background of battle scenes, a young German Lieutenant who increasingly distrusts the inhuman Nazi ideology struggles with the concept of war. ...

Serenade of Texas (1958)

Music seller and singer on occasion, Jacques Gardel learns from master Jérôme Quilleboeuf that he inherits oil fields located in Big Bend in Texas. ...

Die Beklagte (1958)

The Eighth Day of the Week (1958)

Zbigniew Cybulski and Sonja Ziemann play lovers struggling to find happiness and privacy in overcrowded Warsaw. The movie shows an honest picture of life in a war-damaged city, contrasting the characters' difficulties with their dreams of a better life. It ...

Tabarin (1958)

Jacques Forestier, also a choreographer, an art decorator and a stage producer, is the very competent manager of "Tabarin", a renowned Parisian music-hall. A hard worker, he always wants the best for the public, at the expense of his health. He is assisted ...

The Italians They Are Crazy (1958)

In a German prison camp, some Italian prisoners bet with the commander that they will be able to build a church in two hours. ...

Frauenarzt Dr. Bertram (1957)

Frühling in Berlin (1957)

The Zurich Engagement (1957)

Juliane Thomas is an ambitious but unemployed young writer. After breaking up with her lover she works at a dentist friend to make ends meet. One day she instantly falls in love with one of the patients (Jean Berner) and promptly writes a movie script abou ...

Nichts als Ärger mit der Liebe (1956)

Kaiserball (1956)

Austria, Bad Ischl: The young Princess Christine and the Imperial Count of Hohenegg are supposed to meet at the annual Imperial Ball before their planned engagement. But things turn out differently than expected: Christine falls in love with Count Baranyi, ...

Supreme Confession (1956)

The wife of a conductor with a stormy past agrees to meet a blackmailer in a small hotel. ...

Opernball (1956)

Dany, bitte schreiben Sie (1956)

Das Bad auf der Tenne (1956)

On his journey through the Flemish province, Don Fernando, the king's stadtholder, passes through the small, bourgeois community of Terbrügg. There, he meets Antje, the mayor's wife. To impress the beautiful lady, he gives her his bathtub. It's a sensatio ...

Mädchen ohne Grenzen (1955)

Helga, a stewardess, meet a passenger, Eric, during a flight to Athens. They fall in love, but he is married. Later Helga is involved in a flight crash. One of the severely injured passengers is Eric's wife Maria. ...

Ich war ein häßliches Mädchen (1955)

Liebe ohne Illusion (1955)

Große Starparade (1954)

Die sieben Kleider der Katrin (1954)

The Little Czar (1954)

Sonja, a little ballerina at the Grand Theater, is secretly in love with the handsome tenor Luis Mariano. One night, she hurts her feet while dancing and under the influence of a sedative falls asleep and starts dreaming. She is Sonja Ilyanova now, a young ...

My Sister and I (1954)

After an accident, Princess Maria Christine ends up stranded in Rothenburg, where she falls in love with engineer Rudi Becker, but pretends to be a shoe saleswoman. Misunderstandings, mix-ups and intrigues lead to turmoil surrounding her planned wedding to ...

It Was Always So Nice with You (1954)

While working as an accountant in his uncle's factory, talented young pianist Peter dreams of becoming a famous composer. When he shows his work to a producer, he manages to convince him to give him a chance. From time to time he gets bigger contracts that ...

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 ...

Mit siebzehn beginnt das Leben (1953)

Hollandmädel (1953)

Am Brunnen vor dem Tore (1952)

The vagabonds Tünnes, Nachtigall, and Hans come upon a small town during their travels, where they use the first unoccupied house they find as a place to sleep. When the homeowner, Georg Straaten, unexpectedly returns from a long journey, the vagabonds ar ...

I Can't Marry Everyone (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 ...

The Heath Is Green (1951)

After the end of World War II Lüder Lüdersen, the former owner of a feudal estate in the East, and his daughter Helga arrive as refugees in the Lüneburg Heath. While living a seemingly happy life on the estate of his cousin, Lüdersen hides a dark secre ...

Johannes und die 13 Schönheitsköniginnen (1951)

The Women of Mr. S. (1951)

The action is relocated to occupied Athens after the Peloponnesian War (404 BC), where Mr. S. (= Socrates, played by Paul Hörbiger) proposes double marriage for men to the Athenian parliament and the four occupying powers for hidden personal reasons. Outw ...

Schön muß man sein (1951)

The Merry Wives of Windsor (1950)

For the corpulent nobleman Sir John Falstaff, the inn in the small English town of Windsor is the best of all places. Here he can indulge in excessive dining and intemperate drinking, as well as swagger and boast about his adventures, particularly those of ...

Liebe nach Noten (1950)

The Black Forest Girl (1950)

The painter Hans Hauser falls head over heels in love with the "Black Forest girl" Bärbele Riederle. He travels to her home village and soon the two realize that they are made for each other. ...

Maharadscha wider Willen (1950)

Eine Nacht im Séparée (1950)

Nach Regen scheint Sonne (1949)

Um eine Nasenlänge (1949)

Nächte am Nil (1949)

Die Freunde meiner Frau (1949)

Overly proper family man Walter Brinkmann is coaxed to a cabaret by free‐spirited friend Bernd. After a spoof of himself, Walter decides to embrace life's fun side. With his wife away, he returns to the cabaret, where he harmlessly flirts with singer Fee ...

Nichts als Zufälle (1949)

Paths in Twilight (1948)

Three homeless youths commit petty crimes to get by in the difficult time just after the end of WW2 in Germany. When they become suspects in a murder case, a witness of the events comes forward with evidence that they are innocent of the crime. He offers t ...

Eine reizende Familie (1948)

Boys are usually busy playing "Indians", but when their uncle decides to rent part of their home to a Doctor Höflin, they took an oath to cast him out with a series of pranks. ...

Herzkönig (1947)

After drinking too much alcohol, King Michael XXXVII promptly forgets his own wedding date! To avoid a scandal, his police minister asks the writer Peter Petroni, who looks deceptively like the king, to stand in for the alcoholic Michael at the ceremony. T ...

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 ...

Tell the Truth (1946)

Peter's fiancee Maria is chronically lying and hides her little affairs. To change this, Peter bets that he is going to tell everyone the truth for 24 hours. The consequences are catastrophic. ...

Friends (1945)

After a near fatal accident two boys swear to each other never to let a girl get in the way of their friendship. But 35 years later, that is exactly what happens. ...

Dog Days (1944)

Peter and Paul are old friends who happen to meet again. Both are dentists and both want to get married the next day. ...

Eine kleine Sommermelodie (1944)

Die Jungfern vom Bischofsberg (1943)

1943 German film. ...

Beloved Darling (1943)

When a wife reads a love letter addressed to her husband, written by an unknown female, all hell breaks lose. ...

Ein Windstoß (1942)

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