Victor Klemperers 'Kinotagebuch' 1929-1945 - Filmographie

When two childhood sweethearts are kept from marrying, misery ensues.

Four adventurers fight against the French in Africa, the daughter of the French major tries to free him when he is captured and the enemy lieutenant falls for her for a while.

After the mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville, Sherlock Holmes is called in to solve the mystery.

A Parisian playboy living beyond his means falls in love with a beautiful society woman fleeing her husband. He turns to robbing and swindling the wealthy to pay for their lavish lifestyle but his past finally catches up with him.

Four orphans, raised by an aging clown, becomes a high wire act in a circus.

A sexy young nightclub singer sets her sights on a young man she believes to be a millionaire playboy, although he is in reality only an insurance agent.

A lighthouse keeper's wife shelters her fugitive lover.

Napoleon is sentenced to exile on the prison island.

A tenacious scientist blasts off for the moon in hopes of riches that may be found there.

The transatlantic liner hits an iceberg and passengers realize that they are left only three hours to live.

A singing waiter and composer (Al Jolson) loves two women (Betty Bronson, Josephine Dunn), conquers Broadway and holds his dying son, singing "Sonny Boy."

Resisting the character-driven narrative adhered to by the rest of the world's filmmakers, Victor Turin formulated a grand, elemental drama centered around the struggle for survival in Asia, from the arid plains of Turkestan to the icy Siberian mountains. This unique film tells the story of the creation of a monumental Soviet construction project - a railway that connected Central Asia and Siberia.

Vela, cynical captain of a slow, decrepit sailing ship, sells passage out of Germany to fugitives. His crew are no angels either. Cheyne, a young American doctor visiting the ship, is shanghaied on a 3-month voyage to Brazil when Vela abruptly embarks. In mid-ocean, Cheyne rescues the survivor of a watery plane crash, lovely American heiress Ethel Marley; he and the ship's cook keep her hidden from captain and crew. But a brutal incident leads to mutiny and murder, putting the two Americans in great danger...building to a cliffhanger climax.

Prisoners in Siberia work on the railway and if anyone escapes he will be shot. A political prisoner, Jegorow, flees with his daughter Marfa, is betrayed by a Chinese man and taken to the governor. Marfa prays for his father's life, the governor's son, who loves Marfa comes into conflict with his father, Jegorow tries to take revenge by thinking the governor's train is on the wrong track, then discovers that Marfa is with the train, and in danger of her life he manages to save the passengers from doom.

Karl, a German diplomat in Paris, discovers that his fiancee Diane has been cheating on him. He tells her that he would rather marry a "girl of the streets" than her. Outraged, Diane decides to grant him his wish, and enlists the services of a Spanish singer/dancer from a disreputable nightclub to pose as a sophisticated, convent-educated singer, and surreptitiously arranges for her to meet Karl.

A spirited Norwegian Lass is torn between two suitors and two cultures.

A theater electrician's love to a ballet dancer is tested when he is elected minister.

A married restaurant owner is persuaded to become a bootlegger by a beautiful young girl. When he starts making money at it, she steals it, then runs off with another man. His wife finds out what happened. Complications ensue.

A boatload of 413 women is shipped to then underpopulated colonial Australia, so they can get busy with the men there to do some propagating.

His son and mother in peril at the hands of his enemies, a banished Caucasian warrior is forced to make an alliance with the Russians.

A snapshot of life in the jungles of Northern Siam.

In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.

Paul I, the Emperor of All Russia, becomes the target of a deadly conspiracy.

Suspicion surrounds a lieutenant for killing his father: Dimitri asks his father for his heritage. The father says he wants to marry young Grushenka. Dimitri tries to talk the girl out of that plan and is himself totally smitten with her.

With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.

After a thirty-year career on international variety stages, the famous clown Grock retires, marries and buys a villa on the Mediterranean. But Grock remains a clown and is so immersed in the work on his new home that his young wife is soon reunited with her former lover. Grock reappears in a traveling circus with his old partner Max and his world-famous act and is a sensational success. Grock's career continues.

Toni Lechner, innkeeper at the small Tirolese village of Heiligenblut, sings in church and is happy with his mother and his girlfriend Leni. One day an impresario arrives after an auto failure and hears Toni sing, tempting him into an operatic career. Toni accepts but with time he misses his people, not knowing his jealous prima donna has kept them apart from him.

Willy, Kurt and Hans are broke, so they sell their car and open a filling station. Then they all fall in love with the same girl.

An impoverished painter and his rival engage in a race across Paris to recover a jacket concealing a winning lottery ticket.

A German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.

Scotland Yard receives anonymous letters at regular intervals, which contain precise details about planned jewel thefts or wanted criminals. Inspector Elford believes that the informant is the so-called Zinker.

Riccardo and his troupe travel around the world performing musical and dance numbers in vaudevillian and circus theaters. Dancer Kitty is so impressed when she hears him sing that she asks to enter the company, but is turned down by Riccardo. Then in the middle of a number at the Winter Garten she pops in and the audience loves it. Now she will try to win Riccardo's heart, although he has a secret from his past that might be an obstacle.

A poor cobbler named Wilhelm Voigt purchased the second-hand uniform of a Prussian infantry captain. Wearing this, he traveled to the borough of Köpenick and ordered a troop of guardsmen to place themselves under his command. He then declared the town hall to be under military law, ordering the arrest of the mayor and treasurer and confiscating all the funds in the bank.

An elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer.

Opera star Enrico Ferraro, tired of his stressful schedule, changes trains for a Swiss vacation. When his presence is discovered at the peaceful lakeside resort, he changes places with a new friend pretending he is his secretary. Free at last he explores the country and meets a beautiful girl.

When Gräfin Mariza visits her country estate it is certainly an event. She gives a party to celebrate her engagement to a certain Koloman Zsupan, who unexpectedly shows up. Her authoritarian ways collide with Török, her manager. Based on Emerich Kálmán operetta.

World War 1 begins and a young man enlists to fight for his country.

A group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas.

During a concert tour, famous tenor Riccardo Gatti meets Lixie at an Aida rehearsal and takes her for a ballet dancer. She is in fact trying to get a position for her boyfriend, so she accepts Gatti's date for supper. When she runs away he publishes a newspaper ad offering to give a concert anywhere she chooses if she shows up. She chooses a swimming pool hoping to discourage him. But he accepts..

A notorious woman rides a train through a dangerous situation with a British captain she loved.

Vienna glove-sales-lady Christl falls in love to Czar Alexander. Metternich tries to use this to keep him out of the conferences of the Vienna Congress from 1815.

Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair...all on the same day.

In Naples singing tourist guide Giovanni falls for widowed socialite Claire. They have an affair and travel to Germany hoping that he might become an opera singer. But Giovanni can't cope with Claire's constant flirts with other men.

White slave traders kidnap a cabaret singer aboard a ship headed for South America,but they have not counted on her husband aboard a nearby coast guard cutter.

While in France, the daughter of Copenhagen's police chief meets a fascinating detective who is seeking a criminal professor.

Heinrich George plays Henner who lives with his wife and child on a tugboat, going on the river to Berlin. There he meets the attractive Gescha (Betty Amann), and a story of love, betrayal and sadness ensues.

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 troublesome when she falls in love with Robert.

In this operetta about class differences, a struggling young inventor tries to win the heart of a wealthy aviatrix.

Lowbrow peasant comedy, a genre popular in Germany, about excitement in the country when a sheriff tries to collect a tax on a prize pig.

Rosé and his opera troupe travel by ship to Monte Carlo. Mario Delmonti, the tenor, finds Carla hidden in his cabin, and helps her returning to Europe. Arriving in Monte Carlo they find the opera director hard to convince. Confident in Mario's exceptional voice they don't give up, even if they have to perform a parallel Tosca in front of the Opera house. First film Martha Eggerth and husband-to-be Jan Kiepura made together.

A young couple get into trouble when her father discovers that they spent the money he loaned them, is used to finance the production of an operetta written by the young husband instead of buying a big farm to make their living.

Famous 1930's tenor Jan Kiepura doubles as a singing shop-assistant who stands in for a famous but lazy singer, mixing up each others love-lives in the process.

A young woman is deeply moved by the shipboard singing of a widower who has been left with only his young son.

Balduin loves innkeeper's niece Lydia but is infatuated with singer Julia, kept by Baron Waldis. Dr. Carpis, jealous of the Baron, intervenes in Balduin's pursuit of Julia, exacting a high price that endangers Balduin's life and sanity.

A Broadway producer is reluctant to hire his high school sweetheart for the leading role in a new show, so she decides to take advantage of a rumor started by a gossip columnist.

Simultaneously filmed German language version of the French classic La Kermesse Heroique, in which women of a 17th century Flanders town ,after the men have run off, win over the invading Spanish by collaborating and offering hospitality.

A British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930s rules his area strictly but justly. He struggles with gun-runners and slavers with the aid of a loyal native chief.

An Austrian officer traveling to London to meet his newly married sister at a fancy costume party cannot find her but finds another woman instead.

A female cabaret singer is put on trial for murdering a predatory musician.

Toni Kowalski, a taxi-driver, has his favorite stop at Vienna's Opernring corner, where Mizzi and her father sell flowers and press. When Toni is mistakenly involved in an accident and looses his job, he earns his living singing at the nearby villages. Until wealthy Corinne makes him his protegée and trains him to become an opera singer. Little by little Toni is fascinated by her manners, so different from those of Mizzi and his own.

"Ménage à cinq" with lots of turbulences comes to a happy-end with six.

A Barbary Coast saloonkeeper and a Nob Hill impresario are rivals for the affections of a beautiful singer, both personally and professionally, in 1906 San Francisco.

The son of a cavalry captain inherits a 60 acre plot and farms it with the daughter of a coachman.He resists the temptation of a society girl and returns back to the soil.

At a ball at the Metropol, the married Margit gives a harmless kiss to a one-time friend from her childhood and cousin, Eberhard. The two notice, however, that Margit's ill and jealous husband observed them from a distance.

The famous British sleuth subverts the plans of a sinister gang to steal important business blueprints.

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.

Vienna 1905: A risque drawing is published and threatens to compromise the model, a doctor's wife. Artist Heideneck protects her and invents a name. But the name exists, and this respectable lady is drawn into the artist's shady affairs.

After finding a 100 mark bill, a low level city functionary goes out for a night on the town,captures a couple of crooks in the process, and inspires his shiftless wife to reform.

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.

A half-Indian girl brought up in a wealthy household is loved by the son of the house against his mother's wishes, and she soon falls in love an Indian ranch owner.

A small town official in pre Weimar Germany stands in opposition to any progress in his area, but is challenged when a stage impresario who looks just like him, arrives.

Madame Bovary is a 1937 German historical drama film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht and starring Pola Negri, Aribert Wäscher and Ferdinand Marian. It is an adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's 1857 novel Madame Bovary.

Hans Albers and Heinz Rühmann play two confidence tricksters. They manage to stop a night train for nefarious purposes, and impersonate Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. Romantic involvement with two young British female travelers ensues, but the plot deepens into the disappearance of rare Mauritius postage stamps which they undertake to recover, in their role as Holmes and Watson..

William MacPhab loses seven-pounds in the stock market and decides to slap the man who was responsible for the stock manipulation that caused him to lose his money. Astor Terbanks, the stock-market manipulator is surprised the next day when he gets soundly slapped by MacPhab, and the latter promises to deliver one more a day for the next six days. Terbank's daughter, Daisy, is amused by the procedure and is attracted to MacPhab.

Believing he has killed a guest, a groom flees on his wedding night.

A princess visiting in the hotel where a famous singer is staying,helps him out on the piano when he has dismissed his accompanist. he uses her again later,but when her betrothed,a prince,suspects her of being in the singer,s bedroom she runs away to another city to work incognito.But the singer turns up there as well and reconciles the lovers.

A man is caught in the 1900 Boxer Rebellion in China.

René and his two artist friends lead a meager but careless life in a Parisian small apartment, their main worry being to avoid the housekeeper. Whenever they get some money they call more friends in and celebrate. This is how he meets beautiful but fragile Denise, who wants to be a singer as himself, and they fall in love. Yet when she finds out her real condition she takes a drastic decision which will determine their fates. La Bohème arias, and more.

After two brothers have sold a French property, one gambles away his francs on the Riviera and encounters a couple of chiselers.

In 1889, A gypsy princess, Young Marie (Annabella), loses her aristocratic husband after his is killed in an accident. Nearly a half-century later, her granddaughter Maria (Annabella) falls in love with a Canadian horse trainer, Kerry Gilfallen (Henry Fonda), working to prepare entries for Epsom Downs Derby. Although she is engaged to marry a man in Spain, she falls in love with Kerry and he with her. Complications arise when the Spanish fiancé reappears.

Konrad, an idealistic Polish student who courts disaster for his loved ones through his constant harangues against Russian impression. When his mother promises the authorities that Konrad will cease his protests, he is bound to obey her.

In 1846 the actress Gloria Vane is performing at the Adelphi Theatre, London. She is in love with the destitute nobleman Albert Finsbury, who is shortly departing to Australia to become an officer in the Queen's regiment. He is supposed to pay his debts before leaving and uses an altered cheque to do so. After Finsbury has left, the forgery is discovered. To protect him, Gloria claims responsibility and is sentenced to 7 years in the notorious Paramatta prison, Sydney. From prison she sends a note to him asking for help, but he does not reply. An Aussie seller falls in love with her and asks her to marry him - she agrees, but only so she can get out of prison. When she finds out Finsbury is planning to marry the Governor's daughter, she is heartbroken. Finsbury finally finds her, but she no longer loves him.

Backstage melodrama: The past of a star tenor's wife catches up with her when the unsavory father of her illegitimate child returns.The jealous wife of the father murders him.

Trapped in Puerto Rico, a beautiful young Swede is torn between her passionate, but mildly abusive Caribbean oligarch husband and her longing for her European homeland.

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.

A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the seventh floor, then marches away to war.

Steve Raleigh wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee, however his wife Caroline Whipple forces Steve to use a known star, not a newcomer. Sally purchases a horse she used to train when her parents had a farm before the depression and with two ex-vaudevillians, Sonny Ledford and Peter Trott she trains it to win a race, providing the money Steve needs for his show.

The life and career of a Wells Fargo official frames this fictionalized account of the express company's formation.

Three narrators (French writer Jean Martin, an English royal equerry, and a papal chamberlain) tell the story of seven matched pearls, four of them now in the British Crown. Episodes whirl us from Pope Clement VII to Mary Queen of Scots, from whom the pearls are stolen while she's occupied with the headsman. Historic events are seasoned with sly, satiric humor, and famous beauties are portrayed by stunning actresses. Then the narrators meet, and decide to try tracing the three unrecovered pearls from 1587 to the present...

A young secretary quits her job and goes to Berlin to try to be a film star. She enters Gloria Films as an extra, there many German and foreign film stars appear as pictures in process are made. Musical dance numbers by La Jana and many others.

King John IV of Cerdania (Victor Francen), who knows monarchs are a vanishing race but who plays his royalty role in state council or boudoir to the hilt, is in Paris to sign a treaty, and becomes enmeshed in intrigue with an actress, Therese Mannix (Elvire Popesco) and involved in a bit of cuckoldry with YouYou Bourdier (Gaby Morlay), the ex-seamstress wife of a French senator, who is un-awed by money, power or the King's kisses. For his part, her husband, Senator Bourdier (Raimu), is glad to use his wealth, wife and collectivist ideals for social position, in spite of his democratic posing.

It's grand premiere at the Revue Theater in Vienna, not only for a new spectacular revue in the large scale, but also for a new star: Carmen Daviot. In his office the theatre manager Frank listens to the former star Lydia Loo, who is complaining bitterly for being thrown out of the revue, because the financier Reinhold has rejected her in favor of his new protégée. When Reinhold arrives to the office, she pulls a pistol, but the actor Fred Nissen takes the gun away. Nissen visits Carmen in her dressing room, wanting them to be lovers again, just as in the old days in the Western-Varieté. Reinhold enters, gets furious when seeing Nissen, who responds by pointing at him with Lydia's gun. It's time for Carmen Daviot to make her spectacular entrance in the revue. This ends with her, Nissen and the ballet performing a choreographed shooting act. During the act someone shoots Reinhold in his box from the stage, without the audience noticing it. Inspector Helder, who is in the theatre, immediately starts investigating the murder. Carmen believes that Nissen committed it, and tries to protect him, now knowing for sure that she loves him.

Is it his corpse they found in the river?

A patriotic military man foils a plot by anarchists against the government of an unnamed country, in this Nazi era propaganda drama.

A draftsman is accused of selling industry state secrets to a foreign agent and must also save the life of a fellow engineer sentenced for espionage.

Séraphine and her mother arrive in Paris for the 1867 World Exhibition. As their reservation was lost they must be accommodated in separate hotels. The next day the mother has disappeared and everybody denies having ever met her.

A female medical student is torn between the rational science of her professor-lover and the mystical pseudo science of her amateur doctor father, who says you can diagnose a patient by simply looking into their eyes.

1885. For the opera festival it has organized, the small town of Imlingen has invited a famous singer, Maddalena Dall'Orto, who will not only sing at the local opera but will also perform the part of Bach's St. Matthew's Passion at church. The lady is welcomed by an enthusiastic welcome committee comprising the Prince of Imlingen himself. After a while Maddalena, who has come with her friend Rohrmoser, reveals that they are both of German origin. In fact, Maddalena is Magda von Schwartze, a citizen of Ilmingen who has left home in anger a few years before...

Rabe travels to Vienna in hope of a great inheritance from his aunt. But there are only 13 chairs waiting for him, which he sells. Then he finds a letter from the aunt announcing that she has hidden her money in one of the chairs.

Due to an accident at the Barlay Circus, animal trainer Flora finds Fernand, a former prison escapee, and refers him to manager, Edouard Barlay.

Four graduates of an industrial design school team up and form a small business. The protagonist is so excited by the venture that she turns down the proposal of her dashing instructor. Time passes and her three partners lose interest in the business for different reasons. This leaves the heroine who has a change of heart and decides to forgo the business and marry the instructor after all.

Infamous anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer.

Under the guise of a brutally honest documentary, this malevolent propaganda film aims to be an "indispensable tool in the hands of the Aryan race," designed to depict the "true" Jew when the masks of Western civilization fall off.

On the eve of her divorce, a mother enlists her sister's aid in smuggling her young son out of the house, fearing that she will lose custody of him and hides out in the apartment of her husband's bachelor lawyer, who has just left town for a month. Complications arise when the lawyer's parents unexpectedly pay him a visit, and the woman is forced to pose as his new wife in order to be able to stay hidden out in the apartment.

When young Dr. Ophoven arrives at the village as the new doctor, he is not exactly welcome. His wife Anna helps to break the ice. Their happiness is cut short when she dies. But the doctor is determined to stay and fulfill his obligation.

Maud Gregaards travels to China in search of a fabled treasure said to have belonged to the Queen of Sheba. Once there, she is taken captive by an evil man and nearly killed in the belief she is a witch.