Cast: Ernst Legal

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


Romance in a Minor Key

1943 · Movie · 98 min. · Germany

Direction Helmut Käutner

Cast Marianne Hoppe · Paul Dahlke · Ferdinand Marian · Siegfried Breuer

Plot A traditional love triangle. Made in Nazi Germany, Nazi theories or propaganda is for the most part notably absent.

7.3

30 votes

7.3

30 votes

Three Wax Men

1924 · Movie · 84 min. · Germany

Direction Paul Leni · Leo Birinsky

Cast Emil Jannings · Conrad Veidt · Werner Krauss · William Dieterle

Plot The owner of a Waxmuseum needs for three of his models stories to be told to the audience. For that reason he has hired a writer, who after one look...

6.4

332 votes

6.4

332 votes

The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes

1937 · Movie · 80 min. · Germany

Direction Karl Hartl

Cast Hans Albers · Heinz Rühmann · Marieluise Claudius · Hansi Knoteck

Plot The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes (German:Der Mann, Der Sherlock Holmes War) is a German mystery comedy of 1937, directed by Karl Hartl. Hans Albers plays the detective Morris Flynn,...

5.9

28 votes

5.9

28 votes

Nights in Andalusia

1938 · Movie · 94 min. · Germany

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Die Degenhardts

1944 · Movie · 93 min. · Germany

Direction Werner Klingler

Cast Heinrich George · Walter Bechmann · Robert Forsch · Herwart Grosse

Plot A stuffy old civil servant is forced to retire during World War II, but when his son, a Navy submariner, is lost at sea and his city is heavily bombed...

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Der Tag nach der Scheidung

1938 · Movie · 90 min. · Germany

Direction Paul Verhoeven II

Cast Luise Ullrich · Johannes Riemann · Hans Söhnker · Hilde Hildebrand

Plot A man, feeling unappreciated, leaves his wife for a cabaret singer, while the wife meets a young pilot and decides to join him abroad.

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Mia moglie si diverte

1938 · Movie · 88 min. · Germany

Direction Paul Verhoeven II

Cast Käthe von Nagy · Albert Matterstock · Georg Alexander · Paul Kemp

Plot When a young woman becomes aware of her husband's wandering attentions, she plots his comeuppance.

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The Leghorn Hat

1939 · Movie · 91 min. · Germany

Direction Wolfgang Liebeneiner

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

Plot 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...

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Jakko

1941 · Movie · 77 min. · Germany

Direction Fritz Peter Buch

Cast Martin Affelt · Franz Berghaus · Günther Clemm · Inge Cupel

Plot In this Nazi propaganda film, a troubled young boy joins the Hitler Naval Youth, where he finds meaning and purpose in his life.

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Der Verteidiger hat das Wort

1944 · Movie · 89 min. · Germany

Direction Werner Klingler

Cast Heinrich George · Carla Rust · Rudolf Fernau · Margit Symo

Plot To defend an innocent man accused of murder, a lawyer has to turn detective and find the real criminal.

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An Old Heart Leaves on a Voyage

1938 · Movie · 87 min. · Germany

Direction Carl Junghans

Cast Gerhard Bienert · Vera Complojer · Maly Delschaft · Heinz Dugall

Plot The underage Rosemarie is still too young to run her inherited farm by herself; but she's more than aware that her foster father and the farm's administrator, the farmer Schlieker,...

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The Immortal Heart

1939 · Movie · 107 min. · Germany

Direction Veit Harlan

Cast Heinrich George · Kristina Söderbaum · Paul Wegener · Raimund Schelcher

Plot Biography of Paul Henlein, the man who invented the pocket watch.

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The Trip to Tilsit

1939 · Movie · 90 min. · Germany

Direction Veit Harlan

Cast Kristina Söderbaum · Philip Dorn · Anna Dammann · Charlotte Schultz

Plot From the same Sudermann story that inspired Murnau's Sunrise: a villager is tempted by a sophisticated city woman and almost kills his wife in a boating accident.

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Es kommt ein Tag

1950 · Movie · 91 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Rudolf Jugert

Cast Dieter Borsche · Maria Schell · Lil Dagover · Gustav Knuth

Plot A soldier serving his time in enemy territory meets a local girl. Out of this meeting grows a great love between two people that is so boundless, that concepts such...

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Der Mustergatte

1937 · Movie · 95 min. · Germany

Direction Wolfgang Liebeneiner

Cast Heinz Rühmann · Leny Marenbach · Hans Söhnker · Heli Finkenzeller

Plot A London banker makes a business trip to Venice where he falls in love with a woman who thinks her friend is cheating. They marry, but she soon gets bored...

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Heaven Is Never Booked Up

1955 · Movie · 102 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

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Man of Straw

1951 · Movie · 109 min. · Germany - East Germany (GDR)

Direction Wolfgang Staudte

Cast Werner Peters · Paul Esser · Renate Fischer · Ernst Legal

Plot Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that he has to offer his services to the powers-that-be if he wants...

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The Adventures of Fridolin

1948 · Movie · 83 min. · Germany

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