Cast: Adrienne Gessner

Direction Gunther von Fritsch

Cast Donald Buka · Joan Camden · Francis Lederer · Adrienne Gessner

Synopsis When an American businessman gets murdered while hailing his taxi, Viennese cab driver Toni (Donald Buka) steals the dead man’s passport and identity in the hopes of escaping Austria and getting to the United States. But soon, Toni finds himself...

Direction Ernst Marischka

Cast Romy Schneider · Magda Schneider · Gretl Schörg · Susi Nicoletti

Synopsis This comical mix up features a baron who falls for a young woman on her way to visit her aunt in Vienna. When he call to ask for the girls hand in marriage, he calls the wrong aunt about the...

Direction Wolfgang Liebeneiner

Cast Ruth Leuwerik · Hans Holt · Josef Meinrad · Wolfgang Wahl

Synopsis The story recounted in both the stage and screen versions of The Sound of Music had earlier been presented in two German films that were never released in the US. The Trapp Family (1956) was one of the biggest box...

Direction Maximilian Schell

Cast Birgit Doll · Hanno Pöschl · Helmut Qualtinger · Jane Tilden

Synopsis In Vienna, in 1930, a young woman falls in love with a gambler and leaves her fiancé, a common butcher. They become a couple and have a baby, but he gets bored and leaves them. Without means to support herself,...

Direction Henry Koster

Cast Franciska Gaal · Hans Holt · Hans Olden · Otto Wallburg

Synopsis "Katharina die Letzte" is the work of Hermann Kosterlitz, who later became very well known in Hollywood under the name of Henry Koster. This film is a very fine example of his early work in Austria. The story concerns a...

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Hansi Niese · Betty Bird · Attila Hörbiger · Ferdinand Mayerhofer

Direction Géza von Radványi

Cast O.W. Fischer · Maria Schell · Adrienne Gessner · Rudolf Forster

Direction Emil E. Reinert

Cast Gustav Fröhlich · Cornell Borchers · Adrienne Gessner · Rosa Albach-Retty

Direction Paul May

Cast Marianne Hold · Gerhard Riedmann · Ingeborg Schöner · Sieghardt Rupp

Synopsis After years of absence, engineer Lutz Ambross returns to his home village Maria Schnee with the job to build a dam. He can persuade most of the residents to accept the offered compensation for their land and houses - only...

Direction Ernst Marischka

Cast Johanna Matz · Adrian Hoven · Paul Hörbiger · Richard Romanowsky

Synopsis A musical is being staged and a novice dancer bluffs her way into the leading role.

Direction Wolfgang Liebeneiner

Cast Heidelinde Weis · Gerhard Riedmann · Hans Söhnker · Katharina Mayberg

Direction Kurt Hoffmann

Cast Liselotte Pulver · Gunnar Möller · Wera Frydtberg · Gustav Knuth

Synopsis During a train journey, the writer Andreas nostalgically recalls a holiday trip he had made thirty years before in 1920s Hungary to the Lake Balaton area. While there he had enjoyed his first true romance with the daughter of the...

Direction Rudolf Jugert

Cast Rudolf Prack · Christiane Hörbiger · Winnie Markus · Lil Dagover

Synopsis The film portrays the tragic 1889 Mayerling Incident, in which Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria and his lover Baroness Mary Vetsera committed suicide.

Direction Paul Verhoeven II

Cast Ruth Leuwerik · Curd Jürgens · Paul Hubschmid · Jester Naefe

Direction Ernst Marischka

Cast Annemarie Düringer · Adrienne Gessner · Hans Holt · Harry Hardt

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Viveca Lindfors · Paul Hubschmid · Ludwig Stössel · Adrienne Gessner

Synopsis Tells the story of a Czechoslovakian secretary and the government official she works for. Both are loyal party members, particularly the secretary. One day, her boss, having just returned from a visit to the US is assigned to test his...