Cast: Paul Henckels

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


Sex in Chains

1928 · Movie · 107 min. · Germany

Direction William Dieterle

Cast William Dieterle · Gunnar Tolnaes · Mary Johnson · Paul Henckels

Synopsis A young man is convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to a term in prison. There he forms a close relationship with his cellmate and upon his release his wife is concerned as to how prison has changed the man she...

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Wozzeck

1947 · Movie · 98 min. · Germany

Direction Georg C. Klaren

Cast Max Eckard · Kurt Meisel · Helga Zülch · Paul Henckels

Synopsis The body of Franz Wozzeck lies on a table in an anatomy lecture of a small German university. Whereas the doctor in charge of dissecting the cadaver can only see the corpse of a murderer, Buechner, a medical student, sees...

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The Night in Venice

1942 · Movie · 89 min. · Germany

Direction Paul Verhoeven II

Cast Heidemarie Hatheyer · Lizzi Waldmüller · Hans Nielsen · Harald Paulsen

Synopsis The divorced opera singer Peter (Harald Paulsen) wants to win back his ex-wife Vilma (Lizzi Waldmüller), also an opera singer. He offers her a false engagement for an opera in Venice. He finds a helping hand in the young Annemarie...

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Scandal About Eva

1930 · Movie · 96 min. · Germany

Direction Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Cast Henny Porten · Oskar Sima · Ludwig Stössel · Paul Henckels

Synopsis An engaged woman discovers her fiancé has a four year old son. Pretending to take a cure she travels to the boy's foster-parents to make his acquaintance.

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Polizeiakte 909

1933 · Movie · 81 min. · Germany

Direction Robert Wiene

Cast Liane Haid · Viktor de Kowa · Valery Inkijinoff · Veit Harlan

Synopsis About a group of Japenese living in Paris and planning a terrorist act against the French government. Liane Haid, a nightclub singer, falls in love with Inkijinov and leaves her boyfriend de Kowa. She steals an important document, de Kowa...

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Träumerei

1944 · Movie · 110 min. · Germany

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Tales of the Uncanny

1932 · Movie · 89 min. · Germany

Direction Richard Oswald

Cast Paul Wegener · Maria Koppenhöfer · Blandine Ebinger · Eugen Klöpfer

Synopsis A crazed scientist murders his wife, walls her up, then flees. A reporter sets out to track him down.

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Melody of a Great City

1943 · Movie · 107 min. · Germany

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The Immortal Vagabond

1930 · Movie · 97 min. · Germany

Direction Gustav Ucicky · Joe May

Cast Liane Haid · Gustav Fröhlich · Hans Adalbert Schlettow · Karl Gerhardt

Synopsis Prevented from wedding a postman's daughter( (her father prefers she marry a farmer) a Tyrol schoolteacher succeeds instead in having an opera of his accepted in Vienna.But this isn't the happiness he wanted, he becomes a hobo.

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Die schönen Tage von Aranjuez

1933 · Movie · 101 min. · Germany

Direction Johannes Meyer

Cast Brigitte Helm · Gustaf Gründgens · Wolfgang Liebeneiner · Kurt Vespermann

Synopsis The impostor Olga is passing herself off as the Countes of Beaumont and steals a valuable pearl necklace. She wants to meet her accomplice Alexander in Spain, but the police are already hard on her heels. During the trip, she...

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Palace Scandal

1948 · Movie · 70 min. · Germany

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The Leghorn Hat

1939 · Movie · 91 min. · Germany

Direction Wolfgang Liebeneiner

Cast Heinz Rühmann · Herti Kirchner · Christl Mardayn · Paul Henckels

Synopsis Nazi version of a play more famously done as the French silent, An Italian Straw Hat: en route to his wedding, the groom's horse eats the chapeau of a baroness whose husband would be suspicious if she returned without it.

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Der Stolz der 3. Kompanie

1932 · Movie · 85 min. · Germany

Direction Fred Sauer

Cast Heinz Rühmann · Anton Walbrook · Eugen Burg · Ferdinand von Alten

Synopsis The adventures of smart soldier Gustav Diestelbeck include managing his superior officer, competing for the canteneer's daughter, evading punishment for discipline faults and hosting Prinz Willibald during his visit to the regiment.

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Her Majesty Love

1931 · Movie · 102 min. · Germany

Direction Joe May

Cast Käthe von Nagy · Francis Lederer · Otto Wallburg · Gretl Theimer

Synopsis Fred von Wellingen is a wealthy industrialist, part of a large family-owned corporation. Fred has fallen for Lia, a comely bartender in the Berlin Cabaret. He proposes to her, much to the horror of his family, which considers Lia and...

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