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
Direction Herbert Maisch
Cast Imperio Argentina · Friedrich Benfer · Karl Klüsner · Erwin Biegel
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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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It Illuminates, My Dear
1922 · Movie · min. · Germany
Direction Paul L. Stein
Cast Mady Christians · Hans Heinrich von Twardowski · Olga Belajeff · William Dieterle
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Heaven Is Never Booked Up
1955 · Movie · 102 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Alfred Weidenmann
Cast Hardy Krüger · Irène Galter · Peer Schmidt · Claus Biederstaedt
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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
Direction Wolfgang Staudte
Cast Axel von Ambesser · Ilse Petri · Hubert von Meyernick · Ursula Krieg
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