Cast: Adrienne Gessner

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Adrienne Gessner. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Stolen Identity

1953 · Movie · 81 min. · Austria

Direction Gunther von Fritsch

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

Plot 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...

6.6

22 votes

6.6

22 votes

A March for the Emperor

1955 · Movie · 91 min. · Austria

Direction Ernst Marischka

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

Plot 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...

5.1

365 votes

5.1

365 votes

The Trapp Family in America

1958 · Movie · 99 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Wolfgang Liebeneiner

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

Plot 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....

4.6

31 votes

4.6

31 votes

Tales from the Vienna Woods

1979 · Movie · 90 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Maximilian Schell

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

Plot 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...

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Catherine the Last

1936 · Movie · 89 min. · Austria

Direction Henry Koster

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

Plot "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...

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The Great Love

1931 · Movie · 76 min. · Austria

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Das Riesenrad

1961 · Movie · 110 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

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Adventures in Vienna

1952 · Movie · 89 min. · Austria

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Waldrausch

1962 · Movie · 89 min. · Austria

Direction Paul May

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

Plot 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...

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Hannerl: Ich tanze mit Dir in den Himmel hinein

1952 · Movie · 103 min. · Austria

Direction Ernst Marischka

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

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

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Ich heirate Herrn Direktor

1960 · Movie · 99 min. · Austria

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I Often Think of Piroschka

1955 · Movie · 96 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Kurt Hoffmann

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

Plot 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...

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Crown Prince Rudolph's Last Love

1956 · Movie · 99 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Rudolf Jugert

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

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

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Die goldene Brücke

1956 · Movie · 105 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

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Der Feldherrnhügel

1953 · Movie · 100 min. · Austria

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No Time for Flowers

1952 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

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

Plot 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...

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