Werner Finck

Dreht euch nicht um – der Golem geht rum (1971)

In the 23rd century, it is no longer necessary to work thanks to the latest technology. Convicts do the work that still needs to be done. The World Leisure Center uses a computer system to decide how people spend their free time. World citizen number DARK ...

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. ...

Spanking at School (1969)

Katja, a young journalist, tries to do her A-levels instead of her friend. But the class teacher falls in love with the supposed student. But before the happy ending, the class goes on strike and the chemistry lab is almost blown up. ...

Quartet in Bed (1968)

West Berlin, summer 1968: the attitude to life at the time through the eyes of (at least) three different quartets: the anarchic bards of "Insterburg & Co." wander through the backyards of Kreuzberg, passing the time with silly poems, homemade instruments ...

Der Partyphotograph (1968)

A television technician who is mistaken for a star photographer can hardly save himself from girls who are addicted to fame. A simple-minded story of mistaken identity as a hook for striptease acts and cheap jokes. ...

Die Reise (1965)

Doddy und die Musketiere (1964)

A modern fairy tale: Young beauty meets the three musketeers and experiences her own "adventures". ...

Talente und Verehrer (1963)

Zwei Bayern in Bonn (1962)

Love at Twenty (1962)

Love at Twenty unites five directors from five different countries to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20. The episodes are united with the score of Georges Delerue and still photos of Henri Cartier-Bresson. ...

Ihr gehorsamer Diener (1962)

Operation Caviar (1961)

Bank accountant Thomas Lieven is forced to work as a triple agent for the British, the French and the Nazis. ...

Was macht Papa denn in Italien? (1961)

Madame de… (1961)

Die große Reise (1961)

General Quixotte (1961)

The White Horse Inn (1960)

Leopold, head waiter at the "Weißen Rössl" (White Horse Inn), is secretly in love with the owner of the restaurant, Josepha. But she's only interested in the lawyer Dr. Siedler. Jealous, Leopold comes up with a plan to gain Josepha's attention. ...

Mal drunter – mal drüber (1960)

The Last Pedestrian (1960)

Heinz Erhardt wanders through the Black Forest as a photographer for a magazine. On the train he meets a young girl who from now on does not leave his side. ...

Tempest in a Water Glass (1960)

Mein Schatz, komm mit ans blaue Meer (1959)

Roses for the Prosecutor (1959)

April 1945. Because he stole two bars of chocolate, the soldier Rudi is sentenced to death by the court-martial judge Dr. Schramm. Rudi manages to escape from the firing squad at the last minute, and since the end of the war has been making a meager living ...

Labyrinth (1959)

Georgia Gale was a great poet, but then she stopped writing and started drinking heavily. Now, as a desperate last resort, she has traveled to Switzerland, where she hopes to find a cure. ...

Liebe, Luft und lauter Lügen (1959)

And That on Monday Morning (1959)

Intended as a light farce this comedy by Luigi Commencini is a little plodding in its story about a bank manager who has had it with his buttoned-down, boring job. One Monday he can no longer face the tedium of both his work and his life and so he stays ho ...

Outing with ladies (1959)

Vater, Mutter und neun Kinder (1958)

Friedrich Schiller, a respected baker in Einbeck, enjoys a seemingly idyllic life with his wife and nine children. As he approaches his silver wedding anniversary, he nearly succumbs to a fleeting liaison with a spirited woman named Lollo. Though the episo ...

Androcles and the Lion (1958)

Die Zwillinge vom Zillertal (1957)

Der müde Theodor (1957)

Heiraten verboten (1957)

Tolle Nacht (1957)

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 ...

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 ...

Heute heiratet mein Mann (1956)

The talkative dentist Dr. Agartz lets the drill whir and tries to entertain his patient Thesi Petersen with the latest society gossip: the famous Hamburg architect Robert Petersen is about to remarry. The new girl's name is Karin Nielsen and she comes "fro ...

Lumpazivagabundus (1956)

The fairy Fortuna and the ghost Lumpazivagabundus argue about whether money determines whether people act for good or for evil. So they make a bet – and shortly thereafter, the three less-than-virtuous journeymen Knieriem, Zwirn, and Leim are able to cel ...

Ich und meine Schwiegersöhne (1956)

Agathe Zausel doesn't have it easy. Not only could her doll factory be running better, but her sons-in-law Fred and Otto also seem to have nothing but fantasies on their minds instead of devoting their full attention to the family business. Fred has taken ...

Lola Montès (1955)

Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after having been the lover of various important men. ...

Hanussen (1955)

In Germany during World War II, a well-known psychic decides to collaborate with the Nazis. ...

Die falschen Nasen (1955)

Meuterei auf der Caine (1954)

Tobias Knopp, Adventure of a Bachelor (1953)

The wealthy man Tobias Knopp becomes ever more lonely and quirky over the years. He had let himself go, his girth increased significantly, and his hair fell out. Over that, he waited too long for the right woman and stayed a bachelor involuntarily. But now ...

Es begann um Mitternacht (1951)

Es geht nicht ohne Gisela (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 ...

My Niece Suzanne (1950)

A Parisian cocotte at the turn of the century plans to capture a very rich Peruvian for marriage and hires her servant as an uncle who is supposedly supposed to watch over her virtue. ...

Film Without Title (1948)

A screenwriter comes up with a story about an affair between a maid and her employer. ...

Das Mädchen von gestern Nacht (1938)

The Man Who Can't Say No (1938)

This 1938 film by Mario Camerini is the German version of a previously-made film by the same director. However, unlike the previous film, this one isn't quite as serious. A libertine gets married, but is free to carry out his adventures in this marriage ...

Die Umwege des schönen Karl (1938)

Karl Kramer is a waiter in a beach hotel on the Baltic Sea. But he has completely different plans in mind for the future. Before he marries Grete Wernicke, the daughter of the hotel manager, he wants to have enough money himself. ...

La Habanera (1937)

While vacationing in Puerto Rico, a young Swedish woman falls in love with and marries a powerful local landowner. Ten years later, their marriage has turned sour; meanwhile, two Swedish doctors have arrived on the island to investigate a mysterious fever. ...

Autobus S (1937)

Bus driver Jonny wants to marry Grete, but she is jealous, and when he wrecks his bus, gets robbed by burglars and is implicated in an insurance fraud he decides to leave town and sign up on a ship as a sailor. ...

Unentschuldigte Stunde (1937)

When the schoolgirl Kate defends her friend, she is expelled from school. To conceal the incident from her parents, she positions herself ill. Promptly she falls in love with the treating doctor who cures her sudden illness not only, but marries his patien ...

The Tramps (1937)

Two members of a traveling troupe are reduced to the status of hoboes. They pretend to be a famous composer and his colleague, to improve their prospects. ...

The Happiest Married Couple in Vienna (1937)

The happiest one should be selected from 500 married couples to move a marriage-hostile American millionnaire's daughter to the marriage. - Shallow and turbulent love banter with some tumultuous and funny climaxes. ...

Sherlock Holmes: The Grey Lady (1937)

Jimmy Ward infiltrates a criminal gang, only to reveal at the last moment that he is, in fact, none other than an undercover Sherlock Holmes. ...

Fresh Wind from Canada (1935)

A wholesome youth returns from Canada to the Fatherland, to rescue his father's business from a crooked accountant and a scheming lawyer. ...

April, April! (1935)

Businessman and shameless social climber, Julius Lampe, is subjected to a cruel April Fools' Day prank when he is led to believe a noble prince intends to personally inspect his pasta factory. ...

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 ...

Love Conquers (1934)

After Willy privately photographs Renee her image headlines an ad campaign making her a star model. Her sister Elli loses her acting job but Willy's friend Max adds her singing to his musical variety act, and they score an instant success. ...

Maiden vs. Monk (1934)

Mutz Hagedorn has just graduated from grammar school, much to the delight of her aunt Jenny, who cares for her like a mother. Then she learns from notary Strohbein that she has inherited the hotel "Zur Jungfrau" from her uncle, it is located on Lake Consta ...

Herr Kobin geht auf Abenteuer (1934)

The Cousin from Nowhere (1934)

In this operetta adaptation, a young woman waits for her lover in India, while her impatient uncle wants to marry her off without further ado to a rich merchant. ...

A Woman Who Knows What She Wants (1934)

Woman concert singer seeks to connect with her adult daughter, by her former marriage to a staid industrialist who has kept the two apart since the daughter was a small child, and gets inadvertent help from the industrialist's fired employee who has fallen ...

What Am I Without You (1934)

A struggling composer gets one of his pieces into a film program and his wife captures the lead part in the production as well. ...

Herr oder Diener? (1934)

Die Freundin eines großen Mannes (1934)

A renowned actress rescues a small theater, which is on the verge of bankruptcy. ...

Once a Great Lady (1934)

A young woman working as a secretary for a Berlin car business tries to impress a rich Australian visitor by pretending she is a foreign countess. ...

Der Mann mit dem Affen (1934)

Dr. Bluff (1934)

Erstens kommt es anders (1934)

Don't Be Afraid of Love (1933)

The unemployed secretary Käte applies a job by mistake in the piano factory of the entrepreneur Helmut Hofert. He does not really have any need for an additional secretary at the moment, but Käte is very attractive. ...

Das Tankmädel (1933)

Wenn am Sonntagabend die Dorfmusik spielt (1933)

A Trip to the Country (1933)

A banker goes bankrupt and flees to the countryside where a family of peasants cheers him up. ...

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 ...

The Anthem of Leuthen (1933)

The story of the rise to power of King Frederick II (aka "Frederick the Great") of Prussia of his military campaigns to make Prussia a major power in Europe. ...

A Song, A Kiss, A Girl (1932)

Peter Franke owns Supraphon record company, which has one main competitor in Lyraphon. As a commercial strategy Peter gets engaged to her counter partner Asta, to his assistant Münzer's approval. Then he meets Wally Sommer, singing saleswoman at one of hi ...

Die Wasserteufel von Hieflau (1932)

Despite a strong storm, Kurt crosses the English Channel, celebrates with his girlfriend Inge and club mates, leads a paddling adventure on the Enns river, encounters Viennese kayaker Gustl and his girlfriend Gisel, reconciles with Gustl during a rescue mi ...

The Company's in Love (1932)

The story follows a movie crew who is filming a musical in a small and idyllic alpine village. After their temperamental leading lady drops out of the film, they decide to replace her with the village's young post office clerk Gretl, who returns to Berlin ...