Cast: Albrecht Schönhals

Direction Luchino Visconti

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Ingrid Thulin · Helmut Griem · Helmut Berger

Synopsis A family's decline coincides with Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s and serves as an allegory for German society as a whole in this intoxicating work from Luchino Visconti. The Essenbeck family runs the German steel industry and the...

Direction Willi Forst

Cast Pola Negri · Albrecht Schönhals · Ingeborg Theek · Franziska Kinz

Synopsis "Mazurka" was Willi Forst's third film as a director, made directly after having achieved a major international success with "Maskerade". This time, Forst chose to make a drama based on an allegedly real murder case. A young and unexperienced music...

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Heinrich George · Maria Krahn · Horst Teetzmann · Albrecht Schönhals

Synopsis Henrik Ibsen's 1877 play Samfundets Stotter (Pillars of Society) was the source for this German drama. The plot centers upon a flagrant case of municipal corruption, carried out by the town's "finest" people. The selfishness of the elite results in...

Direction Helmut Käutner

Cast Ruth Leuwerik · O.W. Fischer · Erich Schellow · Irene von Meyendorff

Synopsis Keller, a painter, while at the ballet is impressed with the beauty of Nicole and sketches her head on the body of a nude model. When it is shown, it causes embarrassment to Nicole's husband, Walter, a diplomat whose career...

Direction Viktor de Kowa

Cast Albrecht Schönhals · Dorothea Wieck · Klaus Detlef Sierck · Gunnar Möller

Synopsis The exploits of a young German youth during World War II in Argentina.

Direction Carl Froelich

Cast Albrecht Schönhals · Adelheid Seeck · Axel von Ambesser · Georg Thomalla

Direction Paul May

Cast Peter van Eyck · Agnes Windeck · Dieter Borsche · Werner Peters

Synopsis The spirit of the evil Dr. Mabuse takes over the body of a famous professor. The professor/Dr. Mabuse then begins a new crime wave that terrorizes the city.

Direction Veit Harlan

Cast Lil Dagover · Peter Petersen · Albrecht Schönhals · Hilde Körber

Synopsis Set in Tsarist Russia. A happily married woman falls in love with her husband's cousin through their mutual love of music. She decides to stay with her husband, but he has become jealous and murders her. He is acquitted but...

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Erhard Siedel · Lina Carstens · Charlott Daudert · Werner Finck

Synopsis A baker who has made his fortune goes into pasta trading. A friend decides to trick him and arranges a false official visit to the new plant.

Direction Paul Verhoeven II

Cast Werner Hinz · Ilse Steppat · Liane Croon · Albrecht Schönhals

Direction Arthur Robison

Cast Albrecht Schönhals · Hansi Knoteck · Willy Birgel · Heinrich Berg

Synopsis Baron Franz von Naydek is confused again and again with the prince Woronzeff, since both are deceptively similar each other. A day comes for Woronzeff this similarity very convenient. Since he was not up to seriously ill, to make the...

Direction Hans H. Zerlett

Cast Albrecht Schönhals · Karl Dannemann · Franz Weber · Karin Hardt

Synopsis Dr. Felgentreu is not expecting half of what's coming upon him : a young lady patient falling in love with him, a well-kept secret from his past unveiled and himself being involved in a crime. The only thing he could...

Direction Rudolf Jugert

Cast Hildegard Knef · Sybille Schmitz · Hardy Krüger · Maurice Teynac

Synopsis A lonely older woman falls in love and marries a lascivious young band leader; an action that ultimately destroys her family.