Carl Ballhaus

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Durchs Brandenburger Tor
4.5

Durchs Brandenburger Tor

May 22, 1929

Durchs Brandenburger Tor
1929 112 min 1 vues
In the year 1914: The assistants of cobbler Lehmann compete for the affections of his daughter Frieda. Actually she’s in love with her ambitious cousin Fritz, but the cunning Franz knows how to string her along. When Fritz gets drafted, Frieda gives in and marries Franz. Soon Fritz is declared missing and the old cobbler dies of grief. Along the way Franz, who dodged the military service, earns his money with large-scale racketeering. Frieda is miserable. But then Fritz returns from Soviet captivity, prompting Frieda to divorce Franz. Finally Frieda accepts an inheritance from the USA and marries Fritz. With the money they open up a shoe store.
Drama
Ins Blaue hinein
6

Ins Blaue hinein

Dec 31, 1931

Ins Blaue hinein
1931 35 min 3 vues
A recent rediscovery, master cinematographer Schüfftan’s only film as a director is a free-spirited, fast-paced ode to being young, free, hopeful... and completely broke.
Comedy
Kadetten
1

Kadetten

Dec 21, 1931

Kadetten
1931 111 min 1 vues
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 cadet's attractive young stepmother, lands up being charged for murder.
Drama
Quatre de l'infanterie
6.74

Quatre de l'infanterie

May 23, 1930

Quatre de l'infanterie
1930 97 min 48 vues
Le film retrace la vie et la mort de quatre fantassins allemands sur le front français lors des derniers mois de la Première Guerre mondiale. Un jeune étudiant s'éprend de la cantinière et en fait sa maîtresse. Il sera tué au moment où son ami Karl, en permission, découvre l'infidélité de sa femme. Revenu au front, Karl et trois de ses compagnons se portent volontaires pour une mission au cours de laquelle il est blessé. Il meurt dans une église transformée en hôpital, tandis qu'à ses côtés un ennemi agonisant lui saisit la main en signe de fraternité.
War
Venus vor Gericht
5

Venus vor Gericht

Jun 04, 1941

Venus vor Gericht
1941 90 min 6 vues
A sculptor, an enemy of modern art, sets an example. He sculpts a statue of Venus in the style of the Greek antiquity and buries it in a forest. When it's dug up in 1930, it's considered to be a 2 000 year old, antique statue.
Drama
Unmögliche Liebe
8

Unmögliche Liebe

Dec 23, 1932

Unmögliche Liebe
1932 88 min 1 vues
A deranged woman artist falls in love with a young sculptor. The impossible love ends tragically.
Drama
Viel Lärm um nichts
6

Viel Lärm um nichts

Apr 22, 1964

Viel Lärm um nichts
1964 100 min 1 vues
Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well.
Drama
Anna und Elisabeth
3.9

Anna und Elisabeth

Apr 12, 1933

Anna und Elisabeth
1933 74 min 4 vues
The two main people in the story are Anna, a young girl, who is thought of having the ability to heal people mysteriously. Elisabeth is a young - middle aged aristocratic woman, that is disabled and puts all her hopes in meeting Anna and having her disability heal by her. A strange ambivalent relationship develops between the two women.
Drama
Ein Burschenlied aus Heidelberg
6.2

Ein Burschenlied aus Heidelberg

Aug 27, 1930

Ein Burschenlied aus Heidelberg
1930 79 min 4 vues
A long time ago, John Miller emigrated from Germany to America. Now he wants his daughter Elinor to get to know his old homeland and sends her off to Heidelberg, where she is to study for a year. Pretty soon, the pretty young girl is in demand among the young men in town. Especially the students Dahlberg and Bornemann try to win Elinor's heart.
Romance
Frühlings Erwachen
1

Frühlings Erwachen

Jan 01, 1929

Frühlings Erwachen
1929 95 min 1 vues
Moritz Stiefel faces expulsion due to poor marks. When he is caught with an essay titled “Shame and Lust”, he is indeed kicked out – instead of classmate Melchior Gabor, who actually penned it. Gabor was drawing on his experiences with neighbourhood girl Wendla. Then Wendla turns up pregnant. Stiefel descends into despair ... Exploitation between Eros and Thanatos in this “sexual tragedy of youth” based on Frank Wedekind’s play. Setting the film in the 1920s provided a chance to explore “modern” youth culture, complete with cigarettes, jazz music, the gramophone, and a goodly bit of alcohol. Richard Oswald, a master of films of manners and young sex beginning in the 1910s, fully explores the temptations of the youthful body, even early childhood flirtatiousness. At the same time, with his target audience in mind, the film laments the bigotry and double standards of the adult world.
Drama
M le maudit
8.076

M le maudit

May 11, 1931

M le maudit
1931 111 min 2226 vues
Toute la presse ne parle que de ça : le maniaque tueur d’enfants, qui terrorise la ville depuis quelques temps, vient de faire une nouvelle victime. Chargé de l’enquête, le commissaire Lohmann multiplie les rafles dans les bas-fonds. Gênée par toute cette agitation la pègre décide de retrouver elle-même le criminel : elle charge les mendiants et les clochards de surveiller chaque coin de rue…
Drama
Väter und Söhne
1

Väter und Söhne

Nov 28, 1930

Väter und Söhne
1930 86 min 1 vues
About the wealthy Mr Markurell and his son, Johan, who is closing in on his graduation, and their life in the city of Wadköping. German language version.
Drama
L'Ange bleu
7.3

L'Ange bleu

Apr 01, 1930

L'Ange bleu
1930 108 min 316 vues
Un professeur très autoritaire sombre dans la déchéance en succombant à la passion dévastatrice qu'il éprouve pour une chanteuse de cabaret…
Drama
Ein Mädchen von 16 ½
1

Ein Mädchen von 16 ½

May 15, 1958

Ein Mädchen von 16 ½
1958 95 min 1 vues
The young orphan Helga is raised by her aunt after WW II. At the age of sixteen, she turns her back to go her own way. As a rambler, Helga wanders through the night streets of Berlin and has brief acquaintances.
Drama
Der Teufelskreis
1

Der Teufelskreis

Jan 13, 1956

Der Teufelskreis
1956 103 min 1 vues
Shortly after the seizure of power by Adolf Hitler at the beginning of 1933, preparations were underway to silence the members of the socialist and communist parties.
History
Ein Mädchen von 16 ½
1

Ein Mädchen von 16 ½

May 15, 1958

Ein Mädchen von 16 ½
1958 95 min 1 vues
The young orphan Helga is raised by her aunt after WW II. At the age of sixteen, she turns her back to go her own way. As a rambler, Helga wanders through the night streets of Berlin and has brief acquaintances.
Drama
Der Teufelskreis
1

Der Teufelskreis

Jan 13, 1956

Der Teufelskreis
1956 103 min 1 vues
Shortly after the seizure of power by Adolf Hitler at the beginning of 1933, preparations were underway to silence the members of the socialist and communist parties.
History
Die Galerie der großen Detektive
6

Die Galerie der großen Detektive

Aug 24, 1955

Die Galerie der großen Detektive
1955 min 1 vues
This is a 7-part German crime series by Peter A. Horn. In self-contained and unconnected episodes, the great detectives of crime literature solve various cases. Sherlock Holmes (Ernst Fritz Fürbringer) and Dr. Watson (Harald Mannl) start things off, followed by Auguste Dupin, David Wilson, Father Brown, Inspector Bucket, Sergeant Cuff and Hercule Poirot. Every episode of this early crime series in the early days of television was still broadcast live. It could hardly have been more irregular: it was broadcast in loose succession on different days at different start times in prime time, and the length of the broadcast varied between 25 and 50 minutes.
Crime