Walter Steinbeck

Titanic (1943)

In 1912, the Titanic embarks on its inevitable collision course with history. In the wake of the over-spending required to build the largest luxury ship in the world, White Star Line executive Sir Bruce Ismay schemes to reverse the direction of his company ...

Wedding in Barenhof (1942)

Lothar von Pütz and Roswitha von Krakow fall in love and only then discover that their fathers are bitter enemies. When Lothar's father dies, a close friend of his father's, Baron Maximilian von Hanckel, takes the boy under his wing and tries to make peac ...

The Night in Venice (1942)

The marriage of the celebrated operetta diva Vilma and the chamber singer Peter has come to an end. Peter, however, is intent on winning back his now ex-wife. So he's come up with the idea of a guest performance in Venice, where the two will both appear. ...

Illusion (1941)

Melodrama about an actress falling in love with a man who wants her to give up her job. ...

Der Gasmann (1941)

A man comes into money unexpectatly. That's when the trouble starts. ...

The Sky-blue Evening Dress (1941)

As the son of a fashion house owner in Zurich, Hans Haberland apparently can offer his lovers any article of clothing, for which they're willing to sell themselves. His current girl-toy Lizzie wants this fantastic, sky blue dress -- but it's that dress exa ...

Frau nach Maß (1940)

A young actress in love ensnares the director she admires by successfully playing the role of his ideal woman—the homemaker. ...

In letzter Minute (1939)

A retired rail official and his wife Amalie purchase a disused railroad wagon to convert it into a villa in the countryside. One day, Amalie discovers 25,000 Marks hidden behind a picture in the rail car. The money was put there by a Dutch couple, who tr ...

Salonwagen E 417 (1939)

In a transport museum, the items on display begin to tell their stories. Most interesting is the history of the Pullman car. In the beginning, it served as transport for a princely family; then became the headquarters car for the military high command; a ...

Play in the Summer Breezes (1939)

Young Percy Averhoff returns to Hamburg after a five-year stay abroad and finds that his parents have already found a bride for him. The young man however has his own ideas, and rebelliously answers a contact ad in which a girl is looking for a young man a ...

War es der im 3. Stock? (1939)

Olga, a woman of the demimonde, is shot in her apartment. The bullet was deflected by something, otherwise it would have killed Olga. Witnesses heard a noise at 2 p.m. that sounded like a gunshot. Detective Heidenreich investigates and discovers that the p ...

Nanon (1938)

An operetta directed by Herbert Maisch. ...

Two Women (1938)

The famous actress Paula Corvey loves the young racer Werner Bruck. One day, Paula's 18-year old daughter returns unexpectedly to her mother. She was living with her father, Paula's ex-husband, but she's run off to Paula, because daddy wouldn't let her bec ...

Freight from Baltimore (1938)

Sabine Heitmann, the young boss for the shipping company Heitmann, has become friends with Michael, the First Officer and Helmsman of the ship, the "Sabine Heitmann". He only knows Sabine by her first name and doesn't know that she's the boss. When he disc ...

Red Orchids (1938)

In a made-up country somewhere in northern Europe: In the armaments factory F.N.G., an important drawing is copied and passed on to the enemy. Suspicion falls on the chief engineer Alexander Nica and his assistant Laurenz. Both are placed before the cou ...

Mordsache Holm (1938)

A wrecked car is found on the Reichsautobahn between Hamburg and Bremen. Inside is a murdered woman. It soon becomes clear that the woman is the dancer Grazielle Holm. The investigators are certain: it was murder! But unfortunately there are far too many s ...

Mrs. Sylvelin (1938)

Despite the way her businessman husband treats her like a slave, a woman abandons a brief flirtation with a young Austrian aristocrat, to show the German traits of duty and obedience. ...

Monika (1938)

Monika (German: Eine Mutter kämpft um ihr Kind, lit. 'A Mother Fights for Her Child') is a 1938 German melodrama film directed and written by Heinz Helbig. The story centers on a singer who relinquishes her illegitimate daughter to a German engineer in Sà ...

Hahn im Korb (1937)

a movie by Heinz Paul ...

The Coral Princess (1937)

Zlarin is a small fishing village on the Dalmatian coast. Every inhabitant has to work hard, as the once-high coral prices have plummeted. Vukovich, who has led the fishing cooperative for many years, decides one day to pass this important position on to h ...

The Glass Ball (1937)

A woman steals money from her banker husband but her lover, a baron, is jailed.He escapes and under a new identity is a circus daredevil but she threatens him and his new sweetheart. ...

The Night with the Emperor (1936)

A dancing girl succeeds in getting Napoleon, in 1808, to pardon her lover, a German artist who has drawn an unflattering caricature of the French emperor during his Erfurt conference with the Czar and several local princes. ...

Die Leute mit dem Sonnenstich (1936)

Michael Lutz and his fiancée Barbara want to spend their vacation on a quiet island in the Danube, hoping to finally have some time to themselves. And who do they run into there? None other than Mr. Bruckmann, Barbara's boss. He hadn't planned on ending u ...

Hilde und die vier PS (1936)

a movie by Paul Heinz ...

Moral (1936)

The double standards of a social class, which pontificates with big words what is proper and improper in the world of morality, while in its heart thinks very differently and acts accordingly. ...

Schloß Vogelöd (1936)

Remake of the silent film of 1921: The lord of a castle disappears after the return of two feuding brothers from a noble family. Suspicion falls on the recently returned brothers. ...

Paul und Pauline (1936)

a movie by Heinz Paul ...

The Empress's Favourite (1936)

Comedy about the love life of the Russian emperor. ...

Traumulus (1936)

This film is a fascinating showcase for Emil Janning's theatrical play. He's a gentle school teacher who believes in his boys and is easily fooled about all things, while the other town officials want him dismissed. Curiously it's very hard to see what th ...

His Late Excellency (1935)

The death of the Prime Minister causes a stir in the society of a small ducal residence. While Lord Chamberlain von Gillzing hopes to become the deceased's successor, Weber, his former secretary, is relegated to a minor post as archivist. Baroness von Wind ...

The Man with the Paw (1935)

"The Man with the Paw" is what people call the very successful banker Wiegant, who is desperately in love with Lena Kroning, the wife of the lawyer Hugo Kroning. So as to be nearer to her, Wiegant hires her husband to be the bank's lawyer. Shortly therea ...

Dreams of Love (1935)

The film depicts the composer Franz Liszt and takes its name from his 1850 piano work of the same title. ...

Winter Night's Dream (1935)

The wintry mountainscapes of Bavaria provide the backdrop for this airy German comedy. The story is set in motion when young clerk Boenecke (Richard Romanowsky) accidentally delivers a check to the wrong bank. Boenecke's boss Schumann (Walter Steinbeck) su ...

Warum lügt Fräulein Käthe? (1935)

The pleasure boat "Milwaukee" has a wide variety of guests on board: Frau Deiters, who is determined to get her daughter married off; Herr Krueger, who won a free ticket to travel onboard; Herr Dr. Bornemann, a completely introverted man, who has dedicate ...

Sie und die Drei (1935)

Top Sergeant Schwenke (1935)

A pretty girl helps a popular Berlin policeman solve the murders of a woman he knew and the crooked banker the victim worked for. ...

The Two Seals (1934)

The mustached ruler of a mythical principality, learning that his people dislike his spending so much time going hunting, allows his twin brother to take his place. ...

Vacationing from Oneself (1934)

A stressed American millionaire is advised by his doctor to take some downtime and rest in the German countryside. The tycoon is so impressed that he buys an estate and turns it into a resort where other businessmen can take holidays from their stressful l ...

Der Fall Brenken (1934)

Shots fall at night at Gussersee Hotel. Hermann Brenken, general manager of a large company, is attacked. Newspapers hype up the case and offer a reward for its clarification. ...

Her Highness the Saleswoman (1934)

Die große Chance (1934)

Film by Janson. ...

Gold (1934)

Using an atomic reactor, two scientists try to create gold. ...

Die Reise ins Glück (1934)

Police Report (1934)

Director Burckhardt is found shot just after making the moves on Gisela Ostercamp, the wife of a business colleague. When the criminal investigator Haupt inspects items in the apartment of the dead man, he comes to the conclusiong that Gisela herself is t ...

If I Were King (1934)

Mother and Child (1934)

Consul Petersen and his wife are desperate, because they lost their only child and can't have another. At the same time, the maid Anna is expecting a child, whose father, Jurgen, works in a sawmill. When both of them lose their jobs, they fear they won't ...

Ein kleiner Irrtum (1933)

A professor is mistaken for a comedian and ends up in a vaudeville show. ...

The Page from the Dalmasse Hotel (1933)

Dolly Haas is employed as a (supposedly male) servant at a Hotel. ...

An Invisible Man Goes Through the City (1933)

A taxi driver, (Piel), finds an odd contraption on the back seat that renders him invisible, but his friend steals the device to rob a bank. An inventive comedy. ...

Der Traum vom Rhein (1933)

Love Must Be Understood (1933)

The stenotypist Margit is supposed to take 3,000 Marks to the bank for her boss, Mr. Plaumann, but she lazes away the time window-shopping, and eventually stands before a closed door. She follows Plaumann to Dresden, where he, believing the money is deposi ...

Liebelei (1933)

Vienna in the beginning of the twentieth century. Cavalry Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer is about to end his affair with Baroness Eggerdorff when he meets the young Christine, the daughter of an opera violinist. Baron Eggerdorff however soon hears of his past ...

Salon Dora Green (1933)

A cabaret dancer loves a German engineer and helps save his vital drawings of ship designs from falling into the hands of foreign plotters. ...

Her Majesty Love (1933)

Fred von Wellingen is a wealthy industrialist, part of a large family-owned corporation. Fred has fallen for Lia, a comely bartender in the Berlin Cabaret. He proposes to her, much to the horror of his family, which considers Lia and her unsophisticated fa ...

Der große Bluff (1933)

During a spectacular break-in at the villa of film star Marion Milner, the jewel thieves fortunately only manage to get their hands on imitations of the valuable jewelry. The police suspect the notorious master thief Silver-Jim, whom they have long been af ...

Impossible Love (1932)

A deranged woman artist falls in love with a young sculptor. The impossible love ends tragically. ...

Wenn die Liebe Mode macht (1932)

The Blue from the Sky (1932)

Out of unlikely circumstances an underground ticket vending girl and a mail pilot fall in love. ...

Trenck - Der Roman einer großen Liebe (1932)

A celebration of strong Prussian leadership during the reign of Frederick the Great. ...

Strafsache van Geldern (1932)

Paulus van Geldern is a lawyer who has made a name for himself as a criminal defense attorney, but is notoriously short of funds due to his unbridled passion for gambling. His gambling causes problems with his marriage to Martha who is thriving. ...

Jonny Steals Europe (1932)

Ein harmloser Fall (1932)

Five from the Jazzband (1932)

By pure chance, Jessie and his four jazz musicians are hired to play at the cabaret theatre "Trocadero". Unfortunately, she knows nothing about music and it doesn't help that all four musicians are in love with her. Jessie doesn't reciprocate their feeli ...

A Tremendously Rich Man (1932)

A man swallows a diamond - and suddenly all people around him change their attitude towards him. ...

Chauffeur Antoinette (1932)

The athletic young widow Antoinette Peterson gets into financial troubles when a business venture backfires and has to sell her car and her villa. On the road, she meets a stranger whose car she is able to repair and whom she later meets again as the buyer ...

The Pride of Company Three (1932)

The adventures of smart soldier Gustav Diestelbeck include managing his superior officer, competing for the canteneer's daughter, evading punishment for discipline faults and hosting Prinz Willibald during his visit to the regiment. ...

Marriage with Limited Liability (1931)

Though "blessed" with a complex title, which translates as Marriage with Limited Liability, this German comedy was adapted from the more simply titled stage play Causa Kaiser. Composer Georg Kaiser is unable to secure a divorce from his wife, so he "lives ...

Weekend in Paradise (1931)

24 Hours of a Woman's Life (1931)

After the tragic death from malaria of her beloved husband his rich widow Helga Vanroh travels restlessly around various Mediterranean countries. In the luxurious surroundings of a hotel in Monte Carlo Mrs. Vanroh keeps apart from society, until one evenin ...

In the Employ of the Secret Service (1931)

During WWI a German agent receives an order to find out when the Russian army will carry out its expected attack against the German lines. ...

I Go Out and You Stay Here (1931)

Weimar era screwball comedy about a floor model who is required to go out evenings to escort VIPs while her boyfriend has to wait at home. ...