Viktor Staal

The Standard (1977)

During the final days of the First World War, Officer Menis does his duty in defending the battle flag of the defeated Austro-Hungarian empire, while his fellow troops, a motley gang recruited from several different countries not loyal to the royal family, ...

Der Jäger von Fall (1974)

When a hunter returns home after two years, he finds nothing is like it used to be, as his cruel rival has stolen his bride. ...

Hilfe, ich liebe Zwillinge! (1969)

Young photographer Andy is commissioned to take advertising photographs of the film star Hanna Peters. She is on holiday, and to his confusion and bewilderment Andy finds that her twin sister works in Hanna's hotel. The comedy of errors that arises keeps A ...

Die drei Scheinheiligen (1964)

Herz ist Trumpf (1963)

Der Pastor mit der Jazztrompete (1962)

When the Lutheran pastor Roland retires, the young priest Roll shall replace him. He plays the trumpet, loves Jazz and his methods are unconventional: From the first day on he offends the village's notables, but he doesn't care so much since he especially ...

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 ...

Hubertusjagd (1959)

The young Monika Dahlhoff returns from the USA after two years. As soon as she arrives, she learns that her father wants to sell his traditional stud farm, because he has quarreled with the members of the equestrian club. Accordingly annoyed is the old Dah ...

Die Sklavenkarawane (1958)

The dreaded slave hunter Abu el Mot attacks the caravan and abducts the travelers, including Kara Ben Nemsi, his faithful companion Hadschi Halef Omar, the quirky scholar Ignaz Pfotenhauer and the English explorer Sir David Lindsay. Kara Ben Nemsi manages ...

Der schwarze Blitz (1958)

Michael Kirchner, nicknamed "The Black Lightning", is a passionate alpine skier. Now he must eliminate the tough opponent Herbert Tanner to be the representative of the national team. ...

Taiga (1958)

A German doctor who is a prisoner of war inspires her compatriots in a Siberian labor camp to regain their courage and confidence in life. ...

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 ...

Wetterleuchten um Maria (1957)

Baron Siebenzell employs the young forest ranger Thomas Sebald, to stop the bold poachers he's plagued with in his beautiful mountain forests. Most of the men in the village reject and ridicule Thomas because of his job. Nevertheless he falls in love with ...

Seamen (1957)

Spy for Germany (1956)

The true story of a German agent sent to the USA in 1944 in order to stop the development of the atomic bomb. ...

Regine (1956)

Martin Lundt, heir to his family's industrial business, falls for and, against his family's wishes, weds the family maid, Régine. Soon thereafter, rumors begin to circulate about Régine's faithfulness and being to haunt Martin. ...

Die Herrin vom Sölderhof (1955)

Blocked paths (1955)

After committing a crime, four fugitives intend to cross the border just to find the roads are blocked. ...

Der dunkle Stern (1955)

Der Schmied von St. Bartholomä (1955)

Hochstaplerin der Liebe (1954)

The Beginning Was Sin (1954)

Rosalie is young and pretty maid on the farm of the winemaker Jacob. She becomes pregnant with the servant Marko, who disappears with a gypsy singer, leaving Rosalie alone in her awkward situation. ...

Dein Herz ist meine Heimat (1953)

Die vertagte Hochzeitsnacht (1953)

Tante Jutta aus Kalkutta (1953)

When the Heath Dreams at Night (1952)

A film about men's friendship and the complications of love: Karl and Peter are close buddies since they were pilots in defense of German cities during ww-ii. Now they are working together in a bomb disarm unit. During a vacation they visit Karl's mother a ...

Der Weibertausch (1952)

Lorenz has his eye on Simon Gigl's prize-winning breeding bull and would love to have it. But is he willing to make a deal to give up his wife Uschi to Gigl for a week in exchange for the bull? ...

Haus des Lebens (1952)

Der letzte Schuß (1951)

Was das Herz befiehlt (1951)

Zwischen Herz und Gewissen (1951)

Eine Frau mit Herz (1951)

Riot in Paradise (1950)

Everything for the Company (1950)

Mein Herz gehört Dir (1950)

Adaptation of Theodor Fontane's novel Mathilde Möhring. ...

Verführte Hände (1949)

Die seltsame Geschichte des Brandner Kaspar (1949)

Brandner Kaspar does not want to die, there is still so much to do and experience on earth. When death appears and wants to get him, Kaspar plays with him for his life - and wins. ...

Between Yesterday and Tomorrow (1947)

A group of people gathers back in the post-war ruins of a luxurious Munich hotel they inhabited at one point or another years before; each trying to cope with the tragic consequences of the war and their own actions. ...

Via Mala (1945)

In a mountain village a deranged alcoholic who routinely beats his wife and kids goes missing. Though everyone in the village is glad to see him gone, an investigation begins. ...

Nora (1944)

The film is an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House. ...

Die Gattin (1943)

Puck Niklas (Jenny Jugo) loves her husband Peter even though her brother thinks he's a no-good. She's very charming and a bit crazy and does everything to help him get an engagement as an architect. Opportunity comes knocking in the form of factory owner W ...

Du gehörst zu mir (1943)

Professor Dr. Burkhardt is a much celebrated surgeon. Obsessed with his career, he is always available when an unexpected operation comes up. That his personal life is suffering because of this obsession is something the successful doctor doesn't notice. ...

Make Love to Me (1942)

A showgirl aspiring to greater things endeavours to sort out her financial and romantic problems. ...

The Great Love (1942)

The attractive Oberleutnant Paul Wendlandt is stationed in North Africa as a fighter pilot. While in Berlin to deliver a report he is given a day's leave, and on the stage of the cabaret theatre "Skala" sees the popular Danish singer Hanna Holberg. For Pau ...

Heimaterde (1941)

A widowed landlady in East Prussia, who, despite his acquittal by the court, believes the forester to have murdered her husband, opposes her son's marriage to the forester's daughter and even wants to sell the farm because of it. The exposure of a border s ...

Wetterleuchten um Barbara (1941)

After an Austrian home guard raids a group of pro Nazi mountain folk, Barbara and her husband ,part of the group, escape to Germany, from which they will return with invading troops to establish closer ties between the two countries. ...

Liebesschule (1940)

A young woman works for two different men, both of whom fall in love with her. In the mornings she is secretary for a popular author and in the afternoons for a singer. Which of them will she settle for? ...

Twilight (1940)

Walter Gruber once belonged to a group of unscrupulous, money-grubbing poachers. Now released from prison, he is determined never to touch a gun again. He was imprisoned for poaching, but they couldn't prove he fired the shot that wounded forester Kuhnert. ...

Das Recht auf Liebe (1939)

Detours to Happiness (1939)

Hanna is deeply worried about her husband Thomas Bracht's fidelity because he had a rendezvous with the singer Jeannette Danieli. She leaves him and meets with the singer for a heart-to-heart. Very soon, she realizes that her jealousy was completely unfoun ...

Ursula Under Suspicion (1939)

The sawmill owner Ramin disappears from one day to the next. Concerned, his family learns from the bank that he wrote a check to an agent named Frisch. He supposedly wanted to use it to buy a good. However, that did not happen. When Ramin's body is found, ...

Women for Golden Hill (1938)

Women are being sent to an all male settlement. The marriages are planned in advance, but not everything goes according to plan. ...

A Night in May (1938)

A reckless young woman has her driving license withdrawn, drives home anyway and gets involved in a traffic accident. Realizing this was a little over the top she decides that she has to flee the country. As fate has it, she misses her train and instead me ...

Fortsetzung folgt (1938)

The writer Viktor Borg is always in arrears with his manuscripts, much to the annoyance of his publisher, editor and friend Otto. Without further ado, Otto announces the arrival of Viktor's new murder mystery, which is to appear in the "Illustrierten Woch ...

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 ...

Gewitter im Mai (1938)

Poldi Sonnleitner had actually wanted to trade the local mountains for the vastness of the open sea. That's why he had become a sailor. But during a visit home, everything suddenly changes for him, because all he wants is to stay with his girlfriend Dorle, ...

Brillanten (1937)

Two mysterious events, both surrounding valuable diamonds, occur a decade and an ocean apart. Can a jeweler's assistant uncover the truth? ...

To New Shores (1937)

A 19th-century London cabaret singer is deported to prison in Australia. Her crime? Taking the blame when her lover bounces checks. ...

Ride to Freedom (1937)

A Girl from the Chorus (1937)

Henriette Lange lives only for the theater in Berlin around 1900. Her grandfather, however, has no understanding for this. He is a prompter and knows all about the hustle and bustle of the theater. Her friend, the chorus girl Liesbeth, is heartbroken becau ...

Winter in the Woods (1936)

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. ...

Waltz Around the Stefanstower (1935)

A handsome Vienna lawyer has been driving a cab to make ends meet.He lands up romancing both a widowed countess and her adopted daughter, a chorus girl. ...

Love's Arithmetic (1935)

Identities are changed in the Austrian countryside. A simple woman does this to test the affections of a store manager, he too changes character several times and there are other locals who do this as well. ...

Everything for the Company (1935)

Familial disputes surrounding a traditional business. Grandfather Sonndorfer allies himself with his grandson Otto, in order to bring his arrogant son Max on the right path. Between the fronts is Emmerich Liebling, the intriguing messenger. ...