Screenplay: Gerhart Hauptmann

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


The Rats

1955 · Movie · 97 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

7.2

76 votes

7.2

76 votes

Phantom

1922 · Movie · 125 min. · Germany

Direction F.W. Murnau

Cast Alfred Abel · Grete Berger · Lil Dagover · Lya De Putti

Plot The story revolves around a man obsessed with an unattainable woman, and his attempts to substitute for his unfulfilled desires.

6.8

336 votes

6.8

336 votes

Atlantis

1913 · Movie · 120 min. · Denmark

Direction August Blom

Cast Olaf Fønss · Ida Orlov · Ebba Thomsen · Carl Lauritzen

Plot The biologist von Kammacher (Olaf Fønns) leaves his home, after his wife is taken to a mental institution and his doctorate is rejected. In Berlin he meets the young dancer...

6.2

104 votes

6.2

104 votes

Die Weber

1927 · Movie · 93 min. · Germany

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Dorothea Angermann

1959 · Movie · 106 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Ruth Leuwerik · Bert Sotlar · Alfred Schieske · Kurt Meisel

Plot Dorothea Angermann the daughter of a clergyman is accused of the murder of her husband, a brutal man that she was obliged to marry because she was pregnant and he...

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Fuhrmann Henschel

1918 · Movie · min. · Germany

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Emil Jannings

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Hanneles Himmelfahrt

1934 · Movie · 64 min. · Germany

Direction Thea von Harbou

Cast Inge Landgut · Käthe Haack · Theodor Loos · Rudolf Klein-Rogge

Plot The story of Hannele, an unhappy girl who is beaten by her stepfather and tries to commit suicide.

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The Beaver Coat

1937 · Movie · 98 min. · Germany

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Before Sundown

1956 · Movie · 103 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Gottfried Reinhardt

Cast Hans Albers · Annemarie Düringer · Martin Held · Claus Biederstaedt

Plot The film details a bittersweet May-December romance between ageing Mathias Clausen (Albers) and young, beautiful Inken Peters (Annemarie Dueringer).

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The Beaver Coat

1949 · Movie · 97 min. · Germany - East Germany (GDR)

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The Rats

1921 · Movie · 59 min. · Germany

Direction Hanns Kobe

Cast Blandine Ebinger · Gertrude Hoffman · Lucie Höflich · Emil Jannings

Plot Theater director Hassenreuter has housed his stock of costumes in a place where all sorts of outcast live. Drug addicts, prostitutes, and criminals symbolizing dirt, poverty and decline of morals...

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The Ruler

1937 · Movie · 103 min. · Germany

Direction Veit Harlan

Cast Emil Jannings · Paul Wagner · Hannes Stelzer · Käthe Haack

Plot Matthias Clausen is the powerful leader of Clausen Works, an old and prosperous munitions firm. He falls in love with a secretary in the office, and his children conspire against...

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Rose Bernd

1919 · Movie · 70 min. · Germany

Direction Alfred Halm

Cast Henny Porten · Alexander Wirth · Emil Jannings · Paul Bildt

Plot Rose Bernd is a 1919 German silent drama film directed by Alfred Halm and starring Henny Porten and Emil Jannings. It is based on the play of the same name...

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The Sins of Rose Bernd

1957 · Movie · 98 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

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