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
Direction Veit Harlan
Cast Otto Gebühr · Kristina Söderbaum · Gustav Fröhlich · Hans Nielsen
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)
Direction Harald Braun
Cast Odile Versois · O.W. Fischer · Horst Buchholz · Fritz Tillmann
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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)
Direction O.W. Fischer
Cast O.W. Fischer · Anouk Aimée · Nadja Tiller · Otto Brüggemann
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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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Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes
1939 · Movie · 113 min. · Germany
Direction Hans Steinhoff
Cast Emil Jannings · Werner Krauss · Viktoria von Ballasko · Raimund Schelcher
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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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