Wolfgang Zeller

12:34 AMM (2024)

A man wakes up in the middle of night to use the toilet, only to discover that the toilet is gone (stolen). ...

Serengeti Shall Not Die (1959)

The film tells of the beginnings of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. At the end of the 1950s, the Tanzanian National Park Administration wanted to fence in the protected area around the Ngorongoro Crater. Bernhard and Michael Grzimek were invited b ...

Lady Country Doctor (1958)

A German village gets a new doctor, but the conservative folk have trouble accepting a female for the job. ...

You Can No Longer Remain Silent (1955)

A Nordic fishermen's village surrounded by the raging sea. This is were fisherman Haldor (Wilhelm Borchert) is living. His marriage with the proud Salvör (Heidemarie Hatheyer) is going to be impend. While on the sea in a storm, he is being cast upon an is ...

Ein toller Tag (1954)

Shot in 1944, finished and released in 1954. ...

Ännchen von Tharau (1954)

After fleeing from East Prussia, waitress Ännchen has found a new home in a West German wine town. She looks after a young war orphan. One day his missing father turns up. He falls in love with Ännchen. ...

Borneo - Insel der Schönheit, Leidenschaft und Dämonie (1952)

Documentary about Borneo, the island of beauty, passion and demons ...

Eyes of Love (1951)

A terrible accident robs the successful artist Imhoff of his sight—a jet of flame shoots out of the kiln where he hardens his sculptures, and his career seems over. An attempt to surgically restore his sight fails. While he lies in his sickbed, the sensi ...

Der Schatten des Herrn Monitor (1950)

After years of silence, Thomas reunites with his great love, Petra, and is devastated: She has married his best friend, Christoph. Thomas remains friendly but secretly schemes to denigrate Christoph as a criminal and thus reclaim the woman he loves. ...

Schatten der Nacht (1950)

Elga's life with Magnus, her husband, would be a happy one if Struwe, her former lover, had not resurfaced and started to blackmail her.For a while, he has been extorting money from her, threatening, if she didn't, to reveal all the details about their pas ...

Schicksal aus zweiter Hand (1949)

A man's life breaks down in pursuit of material success. ...

Palace Scandal (1949)

During the Biedermeier era, a young singer searches for her missing father. Remake of "Das Hofkonzert", 1936. ...

… und wenn’s nur einer wär’ … (1949)

The young actress Bettina has angered the director of a West Berlin camp for troubled youth with a song that celebrates the adventurous lives of these "wayward youths." Hein Denecke invites her to get to know the real lives of these young people. ...

The Last Night (1949)

Set in German-occupied France in 1944 where a female resistance operative and a German army officer fall in love. ...

Morituri (1948)

As the end of the Second World War approaches and the Soviet Red Army is advancing, a group of concentration camp inmates is helped to escape by a Polish doctor. They hide in a wood where they meet other fugitives, who have been there for months, constantl ...

Grube Morgenrot (1948)

During the global economic crisis, "Morgenrot" mine is due to be closed due to unprofitable results. With the use of a machine forbidden for security reasons, the mates try to work more effectively and thus save their jobs. A serious accident happens. ...

It's Up To You (1948)

A historical film contrasting the two Germanies – the good and the evil – which struggled for power between the two world wars. ...

Marriage in the Shadows (1947)

Set during the rise of the Nazi regime, Elisabeth Maurer and Hans Wieland enjoy successful careers as actors in Berlin. Confident in her career, Elisabeth, who is Jewish, ignores the advice of a colleague to leave Germany in the face of increasing anti-Sem ...

The Years Pass (1945)

The successful shipowner Georg Behrendsen and his wife Irene are coming from South America to Germany for business. While negotiating in the home of senator Kersten, the senator's son Wilhelm (Werner Fuetterer) is taking care of Irene Behrendsen. The two f ...

Meine vier Jungens (1944)

Anna Christiansen has not heard from her husband Klaus, a sailor, for twelve years. To provide a secure life for her three sons, Anna has taken over a sailors' home. Since then, she has led a modest but contented life. One day, Klaus suddenly appears at he ...

Immensee (1943)

A man and a woman struggle to stifle their love for each other, even after he moves away to travel the world and she marries a suitor. ...

Andreas Schlüter (1942)

Historical drama portraying the life of German baroque architect Andreas Schlüter. ...

Himmelhunde (1942)

The Waitress Anna (1941)

Against the wishes of his adoptive father, Stefan Burgstaller decides to become a musician. He goes to Salzburg, where his girlfriend Veronika is already attending the conservatory. Stefan is also accepted at the school and even receives a scholarship beca ...

Süss, the Jew (1940)

Nazi historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer. ...

Der Polizeifunk meldet (1939)

The Governor (1939)

In an imaginary Scandinavian country, an ambitious radical buys an indebted estate in order to become a member of parliament as a local resident, which he ultimately succeeds in doing. Salvation in the party turmoil comes in the form of a military dictator ...

Fahrendes Volk (1938)

Fernand has escaped from prison and finds shelter in the traveling circus Barlay, where his former wife Flora works as a predator trainer. Their son, now grown up, Marcel is an art rider and does not know that Fernand is his father. Marcel loves Yvonne, th ...

You and I (1938)

Melodrama about an entrepreneur and his family. ...

Mannesmann (1938)

Short version of the Mannesmann film that premiered the previous year. ...

Petermann ist dagegen (1938)

Experiences during a voyage with a KDF-steamer (Kraft Durch Freude = Power Through Joy, a nazi campaign that allowed working class people to make affordable holidays often on steamers).Grumpy old Petermann is a moaner, but during a KDF-tour on the "Der Deu ...

Shadows over St. Pauli (1938)

Old John Carstens sells his marine‐equipment firm to Lafrenz, unaware it's now a fuel‐smuggling front. Living above the showroom with daughter Hanna and son Jochen, he resists Lafrenz's pressure. When Hanna falls for bargeman Oschi Rasmus, Lafrenz dema ...

The Broken Jug (1937)

Today is a fateful day for village judge Adam. Who broke Widow Kull's jug fleeing head over heels after his nightly visit to her daughter? As the trial unfolds, it becomes clear to everyone that the judge himself is the culprit. Judge Adam twists and turns ...

The Sovereign (1937)

Der Herrscher (The Sovereign) was based on Before Sunset, a play by Gerhart Hauptmann. The great Emil Jannings stars as Mathias Clausen, a self-made businessman who is forced to do a great deal of soul-searching when his wife unexpectedly dies. Determining ...

Ride to Freedom (1937)

Eternal Forest (1936)

Intended as a cinematic proof for the shared destiny of the German woods and the German people beyond the vicissitudes of history, Ewiger Wald portrays a perfect symbiosis of an eternal forest and a likewise eternal people firmly rooted in it between Neoli ...

Stuttgart, die Großstadt zwischen Wald und Reben (1935)

Hans Schilling, who emigrated to Chile shortly before World War 1, comes from Valparaiso to visit his old hometown of Stuttgart after an absence of almost 22 years. His brother Georg Schilling, who stayed in Stuttgart, picks him up at the train station. He ...

The Old and The Young King (1935)

The story of the stormy relationship between King Friedrich Wilhelm and his son, who later became known as King Frederick the Great of Prussia. ...

Aus der Tiefe empor (1934)

Images and numbers illustrate the domestic political measures taken after the Nazis came to power to eliminate unemployment. ...

Deutschland - zwischen gestern und heute (1934)

A recounting of the social, economic and political conditions in Germany up until the Nazi takeover in 1933. ...

Wajan (1933)

Wajan, the son of Nudonk, a witch, is beset with difficulties. His mother is in ill favor with the Balinese natives who want to get rid of her, and the hand of Sari, a native chieftain's daughter, will not be his until this is accomplished. How he manages ...

The Mistress of Atlantis (1932)

In this mythical fantasy, the evil queen of Atlantis lives in a magnificent palace, the halls of which are filled with the mummified remains of former lovers. ...

Sacred Waters (1932)

For centuries, the water supply of a mountain village has depended on an endangered, wooden water pipe. The young engineer Josi blows a channel in the rock. After initial resistance, the villagers are excited about it. The film was based on a novel by Jak ...

Unsichtbare Brücken (1932)

In the broadcasting center of a radio station, visitors are informed in a kind of educational course about how "electric waves" are generated and how they are converted into sounds that can then be heard on the radio. ...

Queen of Atlantis (1932)

Two young officers, Saint-Avit and Morhange, get lost in the desert and find themselves prisoners of the beautiful Antinéa, queen of the city of Atlantis. Saint-Avit, blinded by his love for her, obeys her when she orders him to kill his comrade... With L ...

Vampyr (1932)

Allan Gray, a young man fascinated by the supernatural, goes to a small village where he feels a sinister force descending upon him. There, Allan meets an old man who asks him to protect his two daughters, for one of them has been bitten by a vampire. ...

Feind im Blut (1931)

Excelsior (1931)

An expedition through the mountains of Nepal, during which 9 peaks are climbed. ...