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
Direction Otto Preminger
Cast Hansi Niese · Betty Bird · Attila Hörbiger · Ferdinand Mayerhofer
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Das Riesenrad
1961 · Movie · 110 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Géza von Radványi
Cast O.W. Fischer · Maria Schell · Adrienne Gessner · Rudolf Forster
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Adventures in Vienna
1952 · Movie · 89 min. · Austria
Direction Emil E. Reinert
Cast Gustav Fröhlich · Cornell Borchers · Adrienne Gessner · Rosa Albach-Retty
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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
Direction Wolfgang Liebeneiner
Cast Heidelinde Weis · Gerhard Riedmann · Hans Söhnker · Katharina Mayberg
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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)
Direction Paul Verhoeven II
Cast Ruth Leuwerik · Curd Jürgens · Paul Hubschmid · Jester Naefe
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Der Feldherrnhügel
1953 · Movie · 100 min. · Austria
Direction Ernst Marischka
Cast Annemarie Düringer · Adrienne Gessner · Hans Holt · Harry Hardt
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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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