Ernst Legal

Rätsel der Nacht

Johannes Meyer

Lotte Koch, Kirsten Heiberg

Es kommt ein Tag

Rudolf Jugert

Dieter Borsche, Maria Schell

Melodrama set during wartime.

Die Jungfern vom Bischofsberg

Peter Paul Brauer

Hans Brausewetter, Lina Carstens

1943 German film.

L'agonie des aigles

Dominique Bernard-Deschamps, Julien Duvivier

Gaby Morlay, Gilbert Dalleu

After the death of Napoleon, colonel Montaner plots to restore the Empire, but falls in love with Lise, a beautiful dancer.

Sieben Briefe

Vladimír Slavínský

Mady Rahl, O.W. Fischer

Romanze in Moll

Helmut Käutner

Marianne Hoppe, Paul Dahlke

A grieving husband tries to uncover the truth behind his wife's suicide, leading him to discover a tragic tale of infidelity and redemption.

Der Untertan

Wolfgang Staudte

Werner Peters, Paul Esser

Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that he has to offer his services to the powers-that-be if he wants to wield power himself. His life motto now runs: bow to those at the top and tread on those below. In this way, he always succeeds: as a student in a duel-fighting student fraternity and as a businessman in a paper factory. He cajoles the obese district administrative president Von Wulkow and wins his favor. He slanders his financial rivals and hatches a plot with the social democrats in the town council. On his honeymoon with his rich wife Guste, he finally finds a chance to do his beloved Kaiser a favor. And when a memorial to the Kaiser is unveiled in the town where Diederich lives and works, he delivers the address. He stands behind the lectern in the pouring rain, saluting his Kaiser. The crowd is dispersed. Everything is laid in ruins...

Kinderarzt Dr. Engel

Johannes Riemann

Paul Hörbiger, Viktoria von Ballasko

Charleys Tante

Robert A. Stemmle

Fritz Rasp, Max Gülstorff

Charley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley's Brazilian Aunt Donna Lucia. Their purpose is to have a chaperone for their amorous visits with Amy and Kitty, niece and ward of crusty Stephen Spettigue. Complications begin when Fancourt, in drag, becomes the love object of old Spettigue and Sir Francis Chesney.

Die Reise nach Tilsit

Veit Harlan

Philip Dorn, Kristina Söderbaum

A villager is tempted by a sophisticated city woman and almost kills his wife in a boating accident.

Sein bester Freund

Harry Piel

Harry Piel, Henry Lorenzen

Remake of a 1929 German film by the same title about a man and a police dog.

Der Mann, der Sherlock Holmes war

Karl Hartl

Hans Albers, Heinz Rühmann

Two out-of-work private detectives disguise themselves as Holmes and Watson to gain attention and end up chasing counterfeiters and stolen stamps.

Andreas Schlüter

Herbert Maisch

Heinrich George, Mila Kopp

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

Figaros Hochzeit

Georg Wildhagen

Angelika Hauff, Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender

Shortly after WWII, the DEFA Studios produced a series of operas and operettas which belonged to the classical German musical heritage. This enchanting film, the very first opera production of DEFA, stands out because of its lavish decor and costumes, its outstanding actors and their masterful voices of that time.

Der Florentiner Hut

Wolfgang Liebeneiner

Heinz Rühmann, Herti Kirchner

Der Florentiner Hut (The Leghorn Hat), a 1939 German film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner

Der Berg ruft

Luis Trenker

Luis Trenker, Herbert Dirmoser

The Italian mountaineer Carel wants to be the first man to stand on the top of the Matterhorn. Since the climb is very difficult, he agrees to try it together with the British mountaineer Whymper. But due to an intrigue this agreement is dropped and the two man try it on the same day with two different teams and then disaster strikes.