Gerhard Ritterband
1904 - 1959
Kadetten
Georg Jacoby
Albert Bassermann, Trude von Molo
The sensitive, music-loving son of a German general reluctantly attends a military academy and after warning a fellow officer to stay away from the cadet's attractive young stepmother, lands up being charged for murder.
Cadets
Die Puppe
Ernst Lubitsch
Ossi Oswalda, Hermann Thimig
The misadventures of an effete young man who must get married in order to inherit a fortune. He opts to purchase a remarkably lifelike doll and marry it instead, not realizing that the doll is actually the puppet-maker’s flesh-and-blood daughter in disguise.
The Doll
Ein Lied, ein Kuß, ein Mädel
Géza von Bolváry
Mártha Eggerth, Gustav Fröhlich
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 his shops, and all his plans are turned upside down while they both fall in love in this light musical comedy filled with Robert Stolz music.
A Song, A Kiss, A Girl
Das lockende Ziel
Max Reichmann
Richard Tauber, Maria Elsner
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.
The Alluring Goal
Das Schiff der verlorenen Menschen
Maurice Tourneur
Marlene Dietrich, Fritz Kortner
A young doctor gets stuck on a ship after treating an injured first mate. Later, he rescues a woman from plane wreckage, and with the help of the cook, he hides her away from the rowdy and dangerous crew.
The Ship of Lost Men
