Screenplay: Frank Wisbar

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Frank Wisbar. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?

1959 · Movie · 97 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Frank Wisbar

Cast Joachim Hansen · Ernst Wilhelm Borchert · Wolfgang Preiss · Carl Lange

Plot In the winter of 1943, against the background of battle scenes, a young German Lieutenant who increasingly distrusts the inhuman Nazi ideology struggles with the concept of war.

6.6

374 votes

6.6

374 votes

Ferryman Maria

1936 · Movie · 85 min. · Germany

6.2

31 votes

6.2

31 votes

Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen

1959 · Movie · 99 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Frank Wisbar

Cast Sonja Ziemann · Gunnar Möller · Erik Schumann · Brigitte Horney

Plot At the beginning of 1945, 10,000 german refuggees tried to escape from the russian army at the MV Wilhelm Gustloff, a pleasure cruise German ship requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine (German...

6.1

98 votes

6.1

98 votes

Commando

1962 · Movie · 101 min. · Belgium

Direction Frank Wisbar

Cast Stewart Granger · Dorian Gray · Carlos Casaravilla · Ivo Garrani

Plot A French Foreign Legion commander is told to assemble a unit and capture an Algerian rebel leader. He gathers in his old unit, most of whom are no longer in...

5.1

27 votes

5.1

27 votes

Strangler of the Swamp

1946 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Frank Wisbar

Cast Rosemary La Planche · Robert Barrat · Blake Edwards · Charles Middleton

Plot A number of swamp land men have died by strangulation and the inhabitants believe that an innocent man they hanged is seeking revenge on all of the male descendants of...

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Women in Bondage

1943 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Steve Sekely

Cast Gail Patrick · Nancy Kelly · William Henry · Tala Birell

Plot Margot Bracken returns home to Germany after several years of absence, and is horrified at the degraded status which has been forced on the women of her homeland. Toni Hall...

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The Unknown

1936 · Movie · 84 min. · Germany

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Rimfire

1949 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction B. Reeves Eason

Cast James Millican · Mary Beth Hughes · Reed Hadley · Henry Hull

Plot An undercover army officer investigating the theft of army gold shipments takes a job as deputy in a small town that's being terrorized by what they believe is the ghost...

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Fabrik der Offiziere

1960 · Movie · 91 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

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Anna and Elizabeth

1933 · Movie · 74 min. · Germany

Direction Frank Wisbar

Cast Dorothea Wieck · Hertha Thiele · Mathias Wiedman · Maria Wanck

Plot Dorothea Wieck and Herta Thiele, the stars of the popular and controversial Maedchen in Uniform, were reunited in Frank Wisbar's Anna und Elisabeth. Anna (Thiele) is a peasant girl who...

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