Hermine Sterler

Potsdam, das Schicksal einer Residenz

Hans Behrendt

Christa Tordy, Hans Stüwe

Hanseaten

Gerhard Lamprecht

Tamara Karsavina, Fritz Alberti

Les saltimbanques

Lucien Jaquelux, Robert Land

Käthe von Nagy, Nicolas Koline

An old clown loves a young dancer to whom he gives lessons. He heroically withdraws from the love of a rich young man.

Unfinished Symphony

Willi Forst, Anthony Asquith

Mártha Eggerth, Helen Chandler

Composer Franz Schubert--broke, struggling and unhappy--gets a break when a wealthy friend wangles him an invitation to a command performance in front of a princess of the royal family. Schubert performs a version of his new work, "Symphony in B Minor", for the princess, but a misunderstanding results in Schubert storming out of the concert in a rage. Complications ensue.

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

William Dieterle

Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon

True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis.

Zwei Menschen

Erich Waschneck

Charlotte Susa, Gustav Fröhlich

Gustav Froehlich and Charlotte Susa play Rochus and Judith, the zwei menschen (two humans) of the title. Rochus' domineering mother insists that he enter the priesthood, but he is reluctant to break up his blissful romance with the fair Judith. A religious fanatic of the first order, the mother swears before God and her Church that Rochus will indeed take his vows. When this does not come about, she dies of grief, whereupon the guilt-stricken Rochus abandons Judith to become a priest. The girl subsequently commits suicide -- and it is Rochus who must officiate over her body during the funeral. This final scene was excised from the print of Zwei Menschen released in New York, leaving audiences hanging in regard to Judith's ultimate fate.

Die Unehelichen

Gerhard Lamprecht

Ralph Ludwig, Fee Wachsmuth

If watching a fellow facing indifference/rejection in the slums of Berlin didn't convey enough pathos, Gerhard Lamprecht gathered much of the same crew from Die Verrufenen and turned his attention to the city's population of unwanted children for the heart-tugging Die Unehelichen, released the following year. The trio of foster children at the center of Die Verrufenen are survivors who use their own resourcefulness to get by when the kids' guardians and the system itself let them down.

Paganini

Heinz Goldberg

Conrad Veidt, Eva May

Historical film about Italian musician Niccolo Paganini.

Kleine Mutti

Henry Koster

Franziska Gaal, Friedrich Benfer

Ученица старших классов Мари Боннар выполняет поручение завуча и отправляется в ближайшую лавку за тряпкой для классной доски. По пути девушка замечает, что неизвестная женщина оставляет на крыльце детского дома свёрток с ребёнком и скрывается. Любопытная Мари подходит и берёт малыша на руки, но в этот самый момент двери приюта распахиваются, и медсестра приглашает её зайти. Невозмутимый врач регистрирует школьницу, как мать подкидыша, не слушая её слова, что она — не маленькая мама, а просто случайная прохожая. Уже к вечеру все в школе знают о ребенке.

So Ends Our Night

John Cromwell

Fredric March, Margaret Sullavan

An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.

Menschen untereinander

Gerhard Lamprecht

Käthe Haack, Lydia Potechina

The story of a Berlin tenement and its inhabitants. A silent drama by Gerhard Lamprecht.

Das Mädel aus der Provinz

James Bauer

Fred Döderlein, Anita Dorris

Young Steffi goes to the city to take a job in a factory, and falls for the son of the owner.

Ehegeheimnisse

Wolfgang Neff

William Dieterle, Walter Rilla

Golden Earrings

Mitchell Leisen

Ray Milland, Marlene Dietrich

A British colonel escapes from the Gestapo to the Black Forest and poses as a Gypsy's mate.

Rasputin, Dämon der Frauen

Adolf Trotz

Conrad Veidt, Paul Otto

The demonic Rasputin is poisoned but survives to continue seducing in evil ways, in this historical thriller.

Der Raub der Mona Lisa

Géza von Bolváry

Trude von Molo, Willi Forst

This German crime drama was based on a true story. Willy Forst stars as a poverty-stricken Italian glazier who falls in love with French hotel maid Rosa Valletti. Struck by the girl's resemblance to Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Forst manages to steal the painting from the Louvre in hopes of impressing his sweetheart. But when the girl proves to be a fickle sort, the crestfallen hero confesses his crime and is carted off to jail. Unwilling to admit that he'd been led astray by a woman, Forst claims that he stole the Mona Lisa to restore it to his native Italy, and as a result is hailed as a national hero! Raub der Mona Lisa was distributed in the U.S. by RKO Radio, under the title The Theft of the Mona Lisa.