Cast: Lina Carstens

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Hansi Knoteck · Ellen Frank · Kurt Fischer-Fehling · Friedrich Kayßler

Synopsis Based on a Selma Lagerlöf 's short story ,"Das Mädchen..." belongs to Sierck's long series of melodramas ,a genre he was one of the indisputable masters. Probably influenced by Frank Borzage's characters, he made Helga a pure heroine who sacrifices...

Direction Kurt Hoffmann

Cast Lilli Palmer · Karl Schönböck · Romy Schneider · Claus Biederstaedt

Direction Heinz Rühmann

Cast Hertha Feiler · Hans Söhnker · Hans Nielsen · Susanne von Almassy

Synopsis A man meets a girl in an Alpine Lodge and decide to make the relation permanent, but they lose each other, each thinking the other to be disloyal. When the meet again, both are engaged, to others, and she is...

Direction Josef von Báky

Cast Fritz Kortner · Johanna Hofer · Rosemary Murphy · Lina Carstens

Synopsis A jewish professor who emigrated from Nazi Germany to teach in Los Angeles comes back to Germany fifteen years later, intending to continue his career. He also needs to find out what happened to his ex-wife and son, the biggest...

Direction Rudolf Jugert

Cast O.W. Fischer · Ruth Leuwerik · Carl Wery · Gertrud Kückelmann

Synopsis A man, in need of money and too lazy to work for a living, marries a plain but rich girl in the knowledge that she is ill and has not long to live. Once he is married to her, he...

Direction Rainer Geis

Cast Claus Biederstaedt · Susanne Cramer · Eva Kerbler · Hans Nielsen

Synopsis A wealthy man sends his selfish daughter to a strict boarding school after she nearly marries a gigolo. The headstrong girl soon escapes to return to her love. During her travels, she meets a man kayaking down the Rhine. She...

Direction Gustav Ucicky · Emil Jannings

Cast Emil Jannings · Friedrich Kayßler · Max Gülstorff · Lina Carstens

Synopsis The blank verse does not work all that well in subtitles, but the film works even for those who don't understand German. The man who broke the jug, the judge, is trying a case who determine who broke the jug....

Direction Carl Froelich

Cast Zarah Leander · Heinrich George · Ruth Hellberg · Lina Carstens

Synopsis The opera singer Maddalena had been cast out by her family after they learned she was to bear the child of a banker von Keller who had seduced and abandoned her. Her return to her native city has her father...

Direction Helma Sanders-Brahms

Cast Heinrich Giskes · Grischa Huber · Hannelore Hoger · Lina Carstens

Synopsis The life and struggles of the German writer Heinrich von Kleist.

Direction Mihai Iacob · Wolfgang Liebeneiner

Cast Roland Demongeot · Marc di Napoli · Lucia Ocrain · Lina Carstens

Synopsis TV Mini-Series (1968). 4 episodes.

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Erhard Siedel · Lina Carstens · Charlott Daudert · Werner Finck

Synopsis A baker who has made his fortune goes into pasta trading. A friend decides to trick him and arranges a false official visit to the new plant.

Direction Hans Grimm

Cast Dieter Borsche · Georg Thomalla · Inge Egger · Fita Benkhoff

Direction Rudolf Jugert · Hugo Grimaldi

Cast Belinda Lee · Walter Rilla · Karl Lieffen · Claus Wilcke

Synopsis Inspired by the life and death of Rosemarie Nitribitt, a famous German call girl whose death caused a large scandal in the press.

Direction Rolf Hansen

Cast Maria Schell · Dieter Borsche · Heidemarie Hatheyer · Carl Wery

Synopsis A rare (for them) German-made film in the Soap Opera genre later mined by German-born Douglas Sirk in a series of plush-and-dreamy American films throughout the 1950's. Here, Angelika has an incurable disease but Dr. Holl, the fiancé of Angelika's...

Direction Alfred Weidenmann

Cast John Phillip Law · Anita Ekström · Gert Fröbe · Dirk Galuba

Direction Axel von Ambesser

Cast Heinz Rühmann · Rudolf Forster · Grit Boettcher · Ruth-Maria Kubitschek

Synopsis Although sent by his bishop to a little island far away from the coast, Father Brown is again involved in crime, when the painting of a famous artist, which he found in a hidden cellar of his church, was stolen.

Direction Rolf Hansen

Cast Liselotte Pulver · Curd Jürgens · Ellen Schwiers · Walther Reyer

Synopsis Gustl Leubelfing, daughter of the mayor of Nuremberg adores the king of the Swedes. So she happily substitutes her brother as Gustav Adolf's page instead of marrying her fiancée Roland. Of course she has to hide that she's a woman,...

Direction Helmut Ashley

Cast Heinz Rühmann · Karl Schönböck · María Sebaldt · Siegfried Lowitz

Synopsis Father Brown starts solving a murder, to the annoyance of his housekeeper, the police and especially his bishop, who obviously is not amused by a priest playing detective.

Direction Rudolf Jugert

Cast Hildegard Knef · Sybille Schmitz · Hardy Krüger · Maurice Teynac

Synopsis A lonely older woman falls in love and marries a lascivious young band leader; an action that ultimately destroys her family.

Direction Bernhard Sinkel

Cast Lina Carstens · Fritz Rasp · Herbert Bötticher · Ellen Mahlke

Synopsis Many people may not know that apartment leases in Germany are a lifetime affair, which is one reason apartments there are so difficult to find. Thus, it comes as something of a surprise to 82 year-old Lina Braake (Lina Carstens)...