Screenplay: Gerhard Menzel

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


The Great King

1942 · Movie · 118 min. · Germany

6.3

27 votes

6.3

27 votes

Dawn

1933 · Movie · 85 min. · Germany

Direction Vernon Sewell · Gustav Ucicky

Cast Rudolf Forster · Fritz Genschow · Adele Sandrock · Camilla Spira

Plot In 1915, Captain Liers, commander of a submarine is leaving his hometown, where he, his 2nd officer and the radio-operator, who is married there, spend their shore leave. Liers two...

5.6

25 votes

5.6

25 votes

Cheated by the Wind

1937 · Movie · 98 min. · Germany

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Zarah Leander · Ferdinand Marian · Karl Martell · Julia Serda

Plot Don Pedro, the elegant landowner of Puerto Rico, is conquered by Astree, the rebellious travelling Swedish woman. They get married and have a child. Their relationship begins to change and...

5.5

49 votes

5.5

49 votes

Flüchtlinge

1933 · Movie · 87 min. · Germany

Direction Gustav Ucicky

Cast Hans Albers · Käthe von Nagy · Eugen Klöpfer · Ida Wüst

Plot Propaganda film detailing the plight of ethnic Germans, known as "Volga Germans", in the Soviet province of Manchuria.

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King in Shadow

1957 · Movie · 104 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

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Das Mädchen Johanna

1935 · Movie · 87 min. · Germany

Direction Gustav Ucicky

Cast Angela Salloker · Gustaf Gründgens · Heinrich George · René Deltgen

Plot The recount of the 17-year-old peasant girl Joan of Arc of the 15th century tinted to the presence of the National Socialist ideology.

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Her Crime Was Love

1955 · Movie · 95 min. · Austria

Direction Josef von Báky

Cast Eva Bartok · Ivan Desny · Karlheinz Böhm · Walter Richter

Plot Beautiful Dunja is bored to death at the post office of her father, far in the depths of Russia. When the dubious officer Minski arrives, she's fascinated by his stories...

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Ich suche dich

1956 · Movie · 95 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

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Homecoming

1941 · Movie · 88 min. · Germany

Direction Gustav Ucicky

Cast Paula Wessely · Peter Petersen · Attila Hörbiger · Ruth Hellberg

Plot This Nazi propaganda film attempts to justify the invasion of Poland--and thus the start of World War II--by "showing" how the ethnic Germans in Poland were were discriminated against and...

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The Sinner

1951 · Movie · 100 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Willi Forst

Cast Hildegard Knef · Gustav Fröhlich · Änne Bruck · Wera Frydtberg

Plot In the film, Hildegard Knef plays the prostitute Marina, who is "reformed" by her love for the incurably ill painter, Alexander (played by Gustav Fröhlich). After a brief period of...

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Hanussen

1955 · Movie · 95 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction O.W. Fischer · Georg Marischka

Cast O.W. Fischer · Liselotte Pulver · Erni Mangold · Maria Dominik

Plot In Germany during World War II, a well-known psychic decides to collaborate with the Nazis.

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