Gustav Diessl
1899 - 1948
Moral um Mitternacht
Marc Sorkin
Gustav Diessl, Camilla Horn
Berlin, the center of pleasures and kingdom of small virtues. From all over Germany, young night owls come to burn themselves cheerfully in its lights, to drown in its champagne and fill its boxes and restaurants until dawn.
Morals at Midnight
Das gelbe Haus des King-Fu
Karl Grune
Charlotte Susa, Gustav Diessl
When a criminal named King Fu who has terrorized a city substitutes himself for a stage actor who resembles him, the staff and spectators at that night's show think the actor is giving an unusually good performance.
King Fu's yellow house
Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse
Fritz Lang
Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Oscar Beregi Sr.
After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professor's preoccupation with another patient, the criminal genius Dr. Mabuse the hypnotist. When Mabuse's notes are found to be connected with a rash of recent crimes, Commissioner Lohmann must determine how Mabuse is communicating with the criminals, despite conflicting reports on the doctor's whereabouts, and capture him for good.
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Die Büchse der Pandora
G.W. Pabst
Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner
Lulu is a young woman so beautiful and alluring that few can resist her siren charms. The men drawn into her web include respectable newspaper publisher Dr. Ludwig Schön, his musical producer son Alwa, circus performer Rodrigo Quast, and seedy old Schigolch. When Lulu's charms inevitably lead to tragedy, the downward spiral encompasses them all.
Pandora's Box
Die Herrgottsgrenadiere
Anton Kutter
Gustav Diessl, Kurt Horwitz
In the middle of the mountains around the Lötschental is a lonely village that is exposed to the forces of nature. A state of excitement arouses when an international mining company discover a gold vein and acquired mining rights.
The Herrgotts-Grenadiers
Der Prozeß
G.W. Pabst
Ernst Deutsch, Ewald Balser
In 1882 a country girl disappears from a small Hungarian village. The inhabitants suggest that she was murdered by the Jews. Everything is done to accuse them before the trial. A study in stubbornness, racism and intolerance and how to fight against it.
The Trial
Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü
G.W. Pabst, Arnold Fanck
Gustav Diessl, Leni Riefenstahl
Dr. Johannes Krafft climbs a 12,000-foot mountain over and over again to search for his wife, who was lost on their honeymoon. Another couple makes the dangerous climb with him.
White Hell of Pitz Palu
Westfront 1918: Vier von der Infanterie
G.W. Pabst
Fritz Kampers, Gustav Diessl
A group of German infantrymen of the First World War live out their lives in the trenches of France. They find brief entertainment and relief in a village behind the lines, but primarily terror fills their lives as the attacks on and from the French army ebb and flow. One of the men, Karl, goes home on leave only to discover the degradation forced on his family by wartime poverty. He returns to the lines in time to face an enormous attack by French tanks.
Westfront 1918
Menschen hinter Gittern
Pál Fejős
Heinrich George, Gustav Diessl
German-language version of "The Big House" (MGM, 1930), with Heinrich George in Wallace Beery's role, filmed by MGM parallel to the English-speaking version, at a time when good subtitles weren't yet in use.
Men Behind Bars
Die große Sehnsucht
Steve Sekely
Camilla Horn, Theodor Loos
During lunch break at the movie studio, the extras rush to the canteen Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Maria Paudler and Luis Trenker are chatting. Eva von Loe a beautiful young extra rushes past; she is looking for her fiancé, Paul Wessel, who is also an extra. She has to return to the set where the famous director Regisseur Hall is shooting a scen. He is dissatisfied with his star, Carla Marventa, who is wrong for the scene he must photograph. Hall notices Eva, but laughs at her desire to replace Marventa. At that moment Conrad Veidt comes on the scene and assumes that Eva is the star.
The Great Longing
