Johannes Riemann

Jonathan, a well-fed ship's cook, and his friend Michael go ashore in an oriental port city after a long sea voyage. They cannot resist the lure of...

In the Republic of Utopia, because of the bad economic crisis ailing the nation, the Jews are made the scapegoats for the economic and social ills...

Shortly after being demobilized, Georges Duroy becomes aware of his power over women in the arms of Rachel, a young singer. Thanks to his good looks...

The sensitive, music-loving son of a German general reluctantly attends a military academy and after warning a fellow officer to stay away from the...

It’s 1910 and we’re in the duchy of Lauffenburg. Everybody is celebrating the 600th birthday of the local hero, Otto the Ironman, who in his...

"Truth Wins" - A history film that is particularly elaborate in terms of its features and that attempts to illustrate the perpetual victory of the...

"The Man with the Paw" is what people call the very successful banker Wiegant, who is desperately in love with Lena Kroning, the wife of the lawyer...

The ambassador of the Kingdom of Luvaria orders Baron Belmar, his attaché, to win the interest of Mona, wife of the war minister, who opposes a...

Bernd Flor, an aging, but still very attractive, actor feels most at home playing the role of the tireless Don Juan in his private life. He's...

A young country woman in Paris is temporarily drawn to her married, middle aged art teacher before she realizes she belongs instead with people her...

Robert and Dagmar have been married for seven years. And as we know, this is not just a lucky number in marriage. So even at the couple. Deflation...

This anti-communist propaganda film discusses the revolutionary curse of communism in the Soviet-Union shortly before and after the fall of czardom...

Nora and Peter constantly fight and wish to divorce. Nora's uncle Eberhard, however, believes the two belong together and comes up with a plan to...

Eberhard gets into a brawl with Dr. Spindler not knowing that he just slapped his boss. To avoid the embarrassment Eberhard asks his friend Frank to...

Yvette is the daughter of a courtesan who serves men of wealth and status. She is unaware of how her mother makes money and why they are always in...

Alexander and Poldi, the “Sunday Children”, work as a headwaiter and servant in the Palasthotel in a southern German spa resort. Like many...

At the center of this social satire is the wealthy and bored couple Irene and Erik. When Erik meets Hilde, who comes from a humble background, one...

The ambitious female chief executive of a gramophone record company slowly finds herself falling in love with the company's head of production.

Lisa's marriage is all in all quite happy; unfortunately, her husband never listens to her when it comes to buying new things. To change this...

Richard de la Croix's brother, Andreas, has been driven insane by a notorious vamp and socialite named Sappho. A friend takes Richard to the Odeon to...

'Switzerland. Schoolgirl poses as socialite to win diplomat.' (British Film Catalogue)

The landlords Schwertdorn and Unruh are enemies. The children of the two parties, Joachim Schwertdorn and Lisa Unruh, love each other, but the enmity...

During a house concert, the Bach family gets a visit by their son Wilhelm Friedemann, who has just given up his position in Dresden because he no...

Russia in the 19th century. The young Lieutenant Stanislaus Kovolski is in constant financial difficulties. One day he meets a fortune-teller, who...

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

The cousin of an ugly duckling, during a search for missing documents, brings out her hidden charm and falls in love with her.

A man, feeling unappreciated, leaves his wife for a cabaret singer, while the wife meets a young pilot and decides to join him abroad.

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky,...

When Dr. Müller is delayed and postpones his own wedding his furious bride Inge leaves him and goes to see her aunt, picking up smart Fred on the...

Dr. Brunner spends the night with a childhood friend. Instead, he tells his wife he met a friend—who then shows up shortly afterwards, completely...

A Czarist refugee, separated from her husband, gets a job as a nightclub singer in Vienna and has to decide later if she wants to rejoin him.

A middle-class, married woman, Mrs. Kessler, whose husband has been suicidal after losing his job, prostitutes herself once to get the family out of...

The stories' setup: a bunch of passive weaklings being dominated by two strong and ambitious women who fight for the same man.

Director Burckhardt is found shot just after making the moves on Gisela Ostercamp, the wife of a business colleague. When the criminal investigator...

When a wife reads a love letter addressed to her husband, written by an unknown female, all hell breaks lose.

Explores the ethics of a Berlin street during the Weimar era and the struggle for survival in a shady environment.

When a female violinist joins an otherwise all-male musical quartet, the other members struggle to cope.

Miss Inge Becker is a telephone operator. She makes an appointment with her unknown opera singer West. Simultaneously, Rainer, the young director of...

After high school the lover's Ursula and Gerhard paths part: she stays in the small town, while he attends university in Hamburg to become a...

The director and co-writer Lupu Pick plays musician Erik Paulsson, who loses his beloved son after a peaceful yet critical poetry reading is raided...

A farmer's wife decides to take her children and leave her gambling addict husband.

Directed by Lupu Pick, who died far too young, it was billed as a melodrama about a ring of counterfeiters on its first screening in New York City....