Erich Ponto

Erich Ponto

Born: December 14, 1884
Died: February 4, 1957
in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Movies for Erich Ponto...

Der Stern von Afrika
Title: Der Stern von Afrika
Character: Ein alter Franzose
Released: August 13, 1957
Type: Movie
Biographic Movie of the German fighter ace, who was killed in a plane crash after over 150 kills in North Africa.
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The Zurich Engagement
Title: The Zurich Engagement
Character: Old Man
Released: April 16, 1957
Type: Movie
Juliane Thomas is an ambitious but unemployed young writer. After breaking up with her lover she works at a dentist friend to make ends meet. One day she instantly falls in love with one of the patients (Jean Berner) and promptly writes a movie script about the encounter in which she projects her own fantasies about how things will turn out eventually. By coincidence this movie script is picked up by a film director who happens to be Berner's closest friend and from then on things become very complicated...
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The Girl and the Legend
Title: The Girl and the Legend
Character: Daniel Defoe
Released: February 7, 1957
Type: Movie
London, in 1730. Charly, Jim and Ben work hard, with the brave Maud, in a cotton mill to earn a few shillings. They all dream of the wonderful island told by Daniel Defoe. The latter lives in a miserable room. He is disgraced and rejected by his son Tom, a scoundrel who blames his father for losing his position at the Court ...
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Made in Germany – Ein Leben für Zeiss
Title: Made in Germany – Ein Leben für Zeiss
Character: Professor Virchow
Released: January 24, 1957
Type: Movie
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Wenn wir alle Engel wären
Title: Wenn wir alle Engel wären
Character: Amtsrichter
Released: September 20, 1956
Type: Movie
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Ballerina
Title: Ballerina
Character: Schimanski
Released: March 28, 1956
Type: Movie
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Sky Without Stars
Title: Sky Without Stars
Character: Vater Kaminski
Released: October 14, 1955
Type: Movie
Anna is a factory worker in East Germany. Her five-year-old son Jochen lives with his grandparents in the West and Anna wants him to live with her, so she abducts him. Along the way she meets Carl who helps her with her son and they fall in love.
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The Golden Plague
Title: The Golden Plague
Character: Dr. Sierich
Released: December 30, 1954
Type: Movie
At the end of the war a disillusioned German exile returns home only to fall into the dark world of black market goods and drug trafficking.
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Keine Angst vor Schwiegermüttern
Title: Keine Angst vor Schwiegermüttern
Released: October 14, 1954
Type: Movie
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The Flying Classroom
Title: The Flying Classroom
Character: Sanitätsrat Dr. Hartwig
Released: September 2, 1954
Type: Movie
The third form of a boarding school and the students of a neighboring school do not get along. Each side dreams up the craziest pranks to defeat the other. And when one day the high school students go as far as stealing the Gymnasium students’ essays and even burning them, daily school life really gets out of hand.
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...und ewig bleibt die Liebe
Title: ...und ewig bleibt die Liebe
Released: August 12, 1954
Type: Movie
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The Life of Surgeon Sauerbruch
Title: The Life of Surgeon Sauerbruch
Character: Chefarzt Psychiatrie
Released: July 12, 1954
Type: Movie
Young Olga Ahrendt almost succeeded in attempting suicide. She had thrown herself in front of a tram out of desperation about her miserable life, a desperation she shared with many in the post-war period. Fortunately, Privy Councillor Sauerbruch is at the scene of the incident, ordering her to be admitted to his clinic after a brief examination. Sauerbruch works both as a university lecturer and as a surgeon, a famous doctor who not only helps his patients physically but also gives them spiritual comfort. After he has taken Olga Ahrendt to his hospital, he discovers during an examination that her suicide attempt is due to a serious physical illness. He intensively takes care of her without forgetting about his other patients, to whom he can give a new will to live, even if only through a small story. And he will also treat Olga Ahrendt successfully...
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Hokuspokus
Title: Hokuspokus
Character: Mr. Arthur Graham
Released: August 31, 1953
Type: Movie
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Keine Angst vor großen Tieren
Title: Keine Angst vor großen Tieren
Character: Polizeikommissar
Released: July 30, 1953
Type: Movie
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Tobias Knopp, Adventure of a Bachelor
Title: Tobias Knopp, Adventure of a Bachelor
Character: Plünne (voice)
Released: February 8, 1953
Type: Movie
The wealthy man Tobias Knopp becomes ever more lonely and quirky over the years. He had let himself go, his girth increased significantly, and his hair fell out. Over that, he waited too long for the right woman and stayed a bachelor involuntarily. But now, he wants to try again one more time and wants to get married after all. But first of all, the right woman for this has to be found, and thus Knopp embarks on a journey to look for a wife all through the German lands. During that, he visits his friends who are already married for a long time and gets all kinds of advice from them on how to get to know a woman and to conquer her heart. On his journey, Knopp then learns much about the different facets of married life. After countless adventures, he, however, doesn’t find an adequate partner and returns home frustrated. But perhaps, his housekeeper might be able to help out?
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Die große Versuchung
Title: Die große Versuchung
Character: Prof. Dr. Gandolphi
Released: December 18, 1952
Type: Movie
A young man practices medicine without a licence.
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Der weißblaue Löwe
Title: Der weißblaue Löwe
Character: Regierungspräsident
Released: November 18, 1952
Type: Movie
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Mönche, Mädchen und Panduren
Title: Mönche, Mädchen und Panduren
Character: Fellerer, Goldschmied
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: Movie
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Haus des Lebens
Title: Haus des Lebens
Character: Geheimrat Merk
Released: September 11, 1952
Type: Movie
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No Greater Love
Title: No Greater Love
Character: Minister
Released: February 29, 1952
Type: Movie
Directed by Harald Braun and told from the perspective of Bertha von Suttner, the first female to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, The Alfred Nobel Story - No Greater Love chronicles the life of scientist, inventor, and businessman Alfred Nobel. Nobel built a massive fortune throughout his life, and while much if it was amassed by his inventions--dynamite being perhaps the most notable--he was also revered for his discoveries within the fields of science and economics. Upon his death, Nobel decided that his fortune was simply too great to continue in the form of an inheritance or single charitable donation, opting instead to use the money as reward for the greatest contributors to physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and, of course, peace.
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Primanerinnen
Title: Primanerinnen
Character: Krautkopf
Released: November 30, 1951
Type: Movie
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Was das Herz befiehlt
Title: Was das Herz befiehlt
Released: September 12, 1951
Type: Movie
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Zwischen Herz und Gewissen
Title: Zwischen Herz und Gewissen
Character: Prokurist Knopp
Released: March 16, 1951
Type: Movie
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Title: Deutscher Filmpreis
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: TV
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Frauenarzt Dr. Prätorius
Title: Frauenarzt Dr. Prätorius
Character: Professor Speiter
Released: January 15, 1950
Type: Movie
In the face of two world wars, Professor Prätorius, a philanthropist and a surgeon, wants to exterminate the one danger to mankind, the microbe of stupidity, as he states in a spontaneous lecture to his male and female students. When he tries to help a pregnant girl he gets involved more and more in her life and is forced to marry her.
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Geliebter Lügner
Title: Geliebter Lügner
Character: Plage
Released: January 13, 1950
Type: Movie
The young fashion illustrator Jeanette meets the chief engineer Rudolf Siebert at an artists' festival in Schwabing, but thinks he is the talented but poor painter Braubach, whom she admires and would like to support. The spoiled Siebert is happy to put up with this. This is a completely new life for him. He wants to continue playing this role, and so Braubach has to play the chief engineer in his place. But then the unsuspecting Jeanette learns the truth. She feels betrayed and is deeply hurt. Now Rudolf Siebert has to convince them that he started the game with the best of intentions and that he wants to bring it to a happy end with their help. Will she believe him?
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Hans im Glück
Title: Hans im Glück
Character: Müller
Released: December 18, 1949
Type: Movie
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Love '47
Title: Love '47
Character: Alter Mann
Released: November 25, 1949
Type: Movie
A young man and woman meet on a bridge, both about to commit suicide by jumping into the river, and recount to each other their experiences.
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Schicksal aus zweiter Hand
Title: Schicksal aus zweiter Hand
Character: Professor Sapis
Released: October 5, 1949
Type: Movie
A man's life breaks down in pursuit of material success.
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The Third Man
Title: The Third Man
Character: Dr. Winkel
Released: August 31, 1949
Type: Movie
In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.
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Das kleine Hofkonzert
Title: Das kleine Hofkonzert
Character: Serenissimus
Released: April 15, 1949
Type: Movie
Shot in 1944, finished and released in 1949.
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Verspieltes Leben
Title: Verspieltes Leben
Character: Mathematik-Professor
Released: February 27, 1949
Type: Movie
Germany, 1914: The bourgeois austerity of the small, northern German town in which Ulyssa lives conflicts sharply with her desire to flirt with and be ensnared by charming, young men. That she's married is irrelevant; it's a marriage which exists only on paper. Among all the men Ulyssa flirts with, there is one for which she has genuine affection: Stefen Marbach, an upright and sincere man, far superior to her other men. And, indeed, the two are honest with one another about their feelings, but the outbreak of the First World War separates them. Sometime later, Ulyssa finds out that not only her husband, but Stefan, too, has fallen in battle. The news of this disaster leads her to reconsider and eventually give in to the constant urgings of the Viennese merchant Reindl. Ulyssa joins Reindl in Vienna and lives a life of wealth and comfort, until one day, Stefan shows up.
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Die kupferne Hochzeit
Title: Die kupferne Hochzeit
Character: Old teacher
Released: December 15, 1948
Type: Movie
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Das verlorene Gesicht
Title: Das verlorene Gesicht
Character: Wissenschaftler
Released: November 19, 1948
Type: Movie
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Film Without Title
Title: Film Without Title
Character: Herr Schichtholz
Released: January 23, 1948
Type: Movie
A screenwriter comes up with a story about an affair between a maid and her employer.
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Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
Title: Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
Character: Professor von Walther
Released: December 11, 1947
Type: Movie
A group of people gathers back in the post-war ruins of a luxurious Munich hotel they inhabited at one point or another years before; each trying to cope with the tragic consequences of the war and their own actions.
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In the Evening After the Opera
Title: In the Evening After the Opera
Character: Stephan Schneider
Released: August 31, 1945
Type: Movie
A wealthy man murders his wife, then marries a young woman who becomes suspicious of him.
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Der Scheiterhaufen
Title: Der Scheiterhaufen
Released: January 1, 1945
Type: Movie
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The Molander Case
Title: The Molander Case
Character: Dannemann
Released: January 1, 1945
Type: Movie
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The Angel and the Lyre
Title: The Angel and the Lyre
Character: Barnabas, Diener bei Strengholt
Released: December 19, 1944
Type: Movie
Achim and Vera are friends and live an uncomplicated and happy life .... that is, until they get into their first serious argument on how they should spend New Year's Eve. Vera wants to celebrate with friends, while Achim wants to go off to a lonely mountain hut. And so, he goes off alone into the mountains. In the hut, he meets the student Susanne, with whom he spends New Years' Eve; gets to know well; and falls in love with. Unfortunately, through misfortune, they lose sight of each other afterwards...
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Philharmoniker
Title: Philharmoniker
Character: Orchesterdiener Straehle
Released: December 4, 1944
Type: Movie
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Der Meisterdetektiv
Title: Der Meisterdetektiv
Character: Gutsbesitzer Theobald Langendorff
Released: July 10, 1944
Type: Movie
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The Punch Bowl
Title: The Punch Bowl
Character: Professor Crey, genannt Schnauz
Released: January 28, 1944
Type: Movie
Die Feuerzangenbowle from Director Helmut Weiss is based on the novel by the same name from Heinrich Spoerl and Hans Reimann that has turned into a cult German film. The film tells the story of a writer Johannes Pfeiffer who goes undercover as a student in a high school after his friends told him that he missed out on a great life experience since he was home schooled.
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Die beiden Schwestern
Title: Die beiden Schwestern
Character: Adolph Menzel
Released: October 26, 1943
Type: Movie
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Ein glücklicher Mensch
Title: Ein glücklicher Mensch
Character: Pauly
Released: October 14, 1943
Type: Movie
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Diesel
Title: Diesel
Character: Theodor Diesel
Released: February 9, 1943
Type: Movie
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12 Minuten UFA
Title: 12 Minuten UFA
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1943
Type: Movie
An insight into the work at the UFA-Studios.
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Der große Schatten
Title: Der große Schatten
Character: Oswald Siebel
Released: September 25, 1942
Type: Movie
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Attack on Baku
Title: Attack on Baku
Character: Mr. Jensen, Danish Oil Tycoon
Released: August 25, 1942
Type: Movie
Azerbaijan, 1919. The British hope to secure control of the vast oil fields around Baku by launching a series of terrorist attacks on them. Hans Romberg, a German who is working as a security officer, battles with the British chief agent Captain Forbes and his associates. (Description from Wikipedia)
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Der Fall Rainer
Title: Der Fall Rainer
Character: Hotelwirt
Released: May 12, 1942
Type: Movie
Germany in the fall of 1918: Accompanied by the Archduke Karl Maria, Princess Henriette von Battenstein makes an inspection tour of hospitals. During these inspections, she meets Lieutenant Rainer, the former conductor of the State Opera. When she later makes music with him in the Archduke's castle, she becomes the unwilling witness to a secret cease fire negotiation.
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The Night in Venice
Title: The Night in Venice
Character: Direktor Arnold Richard Schmitz, Parfümfabrikant
Released: April 2, 1942
Type: Movie
The marriage of the celebrated operetta diva Vilma and the chamber singer Peter has come to an end. Peter, however, is intent on winning back his now ex-wife. So he’s come up with the idea of a guest performance in Venice, where the two will both appear. Vilma, however, has already found a new man – Niki. He’s a salesman and she wants to marry him. With the help of Annemarie, a friend, who has won a trip to Venice, Peter succeeds in diverting Niki, for he falls in love with Annemarie. Now the way is free for Peter to win back the ex-wife, who couldn’t care if he lived in a hole six feet underground.
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Das andere Ich
Title: Das andere Ich
Character: Geheimrat Wuellner
Released: November 21, 1941
Type: Movie
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Leichte Muse
Title: Leichte Muse
Character: Chorleiter Palitsch
Released: October 10, 1941
Type: Movie
A composer finds commercial success but has to confront difficulties in his private life.
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I Accuse
Title: I Accuse
Character: Prof. Werther
Released: August 29, 1941
Type: Movie
In this film, the wife of a renowned doctor becomes ill with multiple sclerosis. Trying to spare her beloved husband the ordeal, the woman turns to a family friend, Dr. Lang, to help end her life. When this doctor declines to help with the assisted suicide, however, she is forced to turn to her husband. After much soul-searching, Dr. Heyt, her husband, assists in her suicide. The act, however, is witnessed by a chambermaid, who reports him to the police. Dr. Heyt is put on trial for murder and, at first, Dr. Lang testifies against him in court. Soon, however, Dr. Lang is faced with a similar case in his professional practice and this, along with Dr. Heyt’s impassioned performance in court, convinces Dr. Lang that, in some instances, mercy killing may be the right thing to do.
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Blutsbrüderschaft
Title: Blutsbrüderschaft
Character: Direktor Gösch
Released: January 3, 1941
Type: Movie
On November 11, 1918, the last day of the First World War , Lieutenant Colonel Klaus Olden desperately tried to hold a lost post with his unit. The rescue appears in the form of pilot Jochen Wendler, who shows up with his plane and drops ammunition. When Jochen's machine is shot down immediately, Klaus manages to pull him out of the wreck at the last second. Both are injured and taken to the hospital , where they are cared for by the attractive nurse Barbara, a childhood friend of Jochen. The two men form a blood brotherhood and drive together with Barbara to East Prussia , where they want to visit relatives of Jochen on their estate . But the relatives' yard was destroyed in the war. The post-war period turns out to be an economic disaster.
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The Heart of a Queen
Title: The Heart of a Queen
Character: Gaukler
Released: November 1, 1940
Type: Movie
As the title "The Queen's Heart" suggests, this early German black and white version of Mary Queen of Scott's eventful reign and death focuses on her emotional perception rather lyrically, with some songs, mainly by her.
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Das Fräulein von Barnhelm
Title: Das Fräulein von Barnhelm
Character: Wirt
Released: October 22, 1940
Type: Movie
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Clothes Make the Man
Title: Clothes Make the Man
Character: Puppenspieler Christoffel
Released: September 16, 1940
Type: Movie
The daydreaming tailor Wenzel is fired from his job, because the fancy frock he was supposed to cut for the mayor, he instead made for himself. He is allowed, however, to take the frock, which he appropriated for himself and he puts it on as he leaves the shop. A puppeteer picks him up in his coach and addresses Wenzel as "Count". So is he received in Goldach, where people think he is Count Stroganoff, the ambassador to the Czar of Russia.
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Wie konntest Du, Veronika!
Title: Wie konntest Du, Veronika!
Character: Bankier
Released: August 29, 1940
Type: Movie
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Aus erster Ehe
Title: Aus erster Ehe
Character: Professor Skutor
Released: July 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Movie based on the novel by Christel Broehl-Delhaes
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The Rothschilds
Title: The Rothschilds
Character: Mayer Amschel Rothschild
Released: July 17, 1940
Type: Movie
Biopic about the Rothschilds, a Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community during the Napoleonic era.
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Der Feuerteufel
Title: Der Feuerteufel
Character: Napoleon Bonaparte
Released: March 5, 1940
Type: Movie
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Achtung! Feind hört mit!
Title: Achtung! Feind hört mit!
Character: Monsieur Bock
Released: January 2, 1940
Type: Movie
This is the war and everybody in Germany should beware : the enemy is listening. One family in particular had better be even more careful than the average citizen of the Reich : the Kettwigs. Indeed they own an armament factory and their engineers, technicians, workers and of course themselves belong to a highly sensitive sector. They are under the constant scrutiny of those who want to get hold of the secret weapons devised in the plant, notably of a wire which, when attached to a balloon, may become the most effective anti-aircraft ever. For sure, they should distrust everybody. Isn't Nolte, the waiter, an enemy agent? Should young Bernd Kettwig allow himself to be seduced by this pretty woman ? As for Bernd's secretary, is she right when she lets this handsome man woo her?
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In letzter Minute
Title: In letzter Minute
Character: Alexander Piepenbrink
Released: September 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A retired rail official and his wife Amalie purchase a disused railroad wagon to convert it into a villa in the countryside. One day, Amalie discovers 25,000 Marks hidden behind a picture in the rail car. The money was put there by a Dutch couple, who tried to smuggle the money across the border during the train’s last journey. Sorely tempted to keep the money, Amalie turns it over to the authorities. The smugglers, who finally find the rail car after a long search, will be turned over to the cops, too.
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Schneider Wibbel
Title: Schneider Wibbel
Character: Schneider Anton Wibbel
Released: August 17, 1939
Type: Movie
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Hallo Janine
Title: Hallo Janine
Character: Monsieur Pamion
Released: June 30, 1939
Type: Movie
The French ballet girl Janine, a gifted tap-dancer, dreams of a musical career in Paris. But first she wants to take revenge on Count René who stood up her best friend Charlotte. Janine wants him to fall in love with her and disappoint him afterwards. At a masked ball at which Janine pretends to be a Marquise they have their first meeting. Janine is very disappointed in the "good gentleman", but she does not suspect that this gentleman also makes a pretence. The man whom she holds to be count René is Pierre, a composer and pianist.
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Dreizehn Mann und eine Kanone
Title: Dreizehn Mann und eine Kanone
Released: December 22, 1938
Type: Movie
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The Four Companions
Title: The Four Companions
Character: Regierungsrat Alfred Hintze
Released: October 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Four graduates of an industrial design school team up and form a small business. The protagonist is so excited by the venture that she turns down the proposal of her dashing instructor. Time passes and her three partners lose interest in the business for different reasons. This leaves the heroine who has a change of heart and decides to forgo the business and marry the instructor after all.
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Am seidenen Faden
Title: Am seidenen Faden
Character: Theodor Kalbach
Released: September 22, 1938
Type: Movie
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Das Geheimnis um Betty Bonn
Title: Das Geheimnis um Betty Bonn
Character: Kapitän Spurling
Released: January 4, 1938
Type: Movie
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Title: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Character: Stapleton
Released: January 12, 1937
Type: Movie
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson look into reports that a huge, vicious hound has killed Lord Charles Baskerville and that Lord Henry Baskerville is the next to be killed.
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Final Accord
Title: Final Accord
Character: Vorsitzender des Schwurgerichts
Released: June 26, 1936
Type: Movie
After her husband dies, a German woman who gave up her infant for adoption to emigrate to America returns to Germany, discovering that her child is being raised by a married orchestra conductor.
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Joan of Arc
Title: Joan of Arc
Character: Lord Talbot, englischer Armeeführer
Released: April 26, 1935
Type: Movie
France in the 15th Century: The country is marked by the wars with England and internal power struggles. King Charles sees himself powerless against the state. As emerges from the people suddenly a young woman named Johanna, who claimed that the Archangel Gabriel to be appointed, to save France. First of all doubt the king in their words, but he remembers that the people through this "help of God" is gaining new courage. With the slogan "God and the Virgin!" pulls the revivified victorious army into battle against the English-Burgundian alliance. After Johanna King Charles is crowned at Reims, there breaks the plague over the country in. Now Johanna all the blame on the disaster: God would punish believe in the country for that a heretic; if Johanna were actual a holy, she would deal also with the plague. The waning faith weakens France, England is again on the rise. But Johanna is executed as a witch. Only years later annulled the verdict of the Holy and Johanna explained.
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Love, Death and the Devil
Title: Love, Death and the Devil
Character: The Old Man
Released: December 21, 1934
Type: Movie
In a harbor bazaar of the Pacific town of Kona, the young sailor Kiwe is offered a mysterious bottle, which supposedly gives her owner power and wealth and should fulfill all his wishes. The required return is however high. From now on, the soul of the new owner belongs to the devil.
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The Man Who Committed the Murder
Title: The Man Who Committed the Murder
Character: Bouchet
Released: January 23, 1931
Type: Movie
The story is about Conrad Veidt as military attache in Turkey where he learns to know an English consul (Heinrich George) and his attractive wife who is treated badly. They begin an affair and soon the husband proves to be an obstacle that has to be disposed of.
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Woman in the Jungle
Title: Woman in the Jungle
Released: January 8, 1931
Type: Movie
Marooned on a rubber plantation in the East Indies, Leslie turns to Geoffrey for the love and diversion that she does not find with her husband.