Otto Graf

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Die Fledermaus
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Die Fledermaus

Oct 30, 1937

Die Fledermaus
1937 103 min 2 vues
The delightful Johann Strauss comic opera Die Fledermaus was mercilessly lampooned in this truly bizarre production. For starters, a framing device has been added: After appearing in 300 consecutive appearances of Fledermaus (which translates as The Bat) the lead tenor (Georg Alexander) imagines that he's seeing bats everywhere. Driven a bit over the edge by all this, he falls asleep and has a nightmare about the opera, with a group of non-singers cast in the leading roles. The original libretto about romantic assignations, political imprisonments and mistaken identity is burlesqued to the hilt: at one point, the hero finds out that his prison cell is surrounded by rubber tubes!
Die Herren mit der weißen Weste
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Die Herren mit der weißen Weste

Mar 12, 1970

Die Herren mit der weißen Weste
1970 90 min 6 vues
Bruno Stiegler, a boxing promoter with a disreputable past, returns from America to Berlin to make some big things again with his friends. Fatally, he is always preceded by some gentlemen from better circles who are developing amazing criminal activity in their old days. They are led by Oberlandesgerichtsrat a. D. Herbert Zänker, whom it still hisses, that he could bring in his term Bruno never behind bars.
Comedy
Anastasia - Die letzte Zarentochter
5.3

Anastasia - Die letzte Zarentochter

Sep 26, 1956

Anastasia - Die letzte Zarentochter
1956 107 min 3 vues
In 1920, an unknown 24-year-old woman was fished out of Berlin's Landwehr kanal after a suicide attempt. Since she has no papers and no answers to any questions, they soon assign them to the insane asylum Dallendorf. A co-patient believes she recognizes the Czar's daughter Anastasia Romanowa - who apparently was the only one who survived the murder of the tsar's family in 1918.
Drama
Anders als du und ich (§ 175)
4.875

Anders als du und ich (§ 175)

Aug 29, 1957

Anders als du und ich (§ 175)
1957 91 min 8 vues
Klaus is a young man in post-war Berlin. He is drawn to his friend Manfred and, under the encouragement of their acquaintance, Dr. Winkler, explore the underground world of gay clubs and electronic music. His family begins to learn of his other life and do everything they can to set him straight.
Drama
L'Abdication
5.4

L'Abdication

Sep 15, 1942

L'Abdication
1942 109 min 6 vues
1888. L'empereur allemand Guillaume 1er va mourir. Étant donné que l'héritier du trône Frédéric souffre d'un cancer de la gorge, il reviendra sous peu à son fils Guillaume, âgé de 29 ans. Guillaume et le chancelier Bismarck sont appelés par l'empereur couché sur son lit, il leur demande de se jurer fidélité l'un à l'autre. Très souffrant, Frédéric ne peut assister à l'enterrement de Guillaume Ier qu'en regardant la cérémonie par la fenêtre. Peu après, il meurt, Guillaume devient l'empereur Guillaume II. Bismarck se méfie du nouvel empereur, car le jeune souverain pourrait s'opposer à sa politique librement.
Drama
Der Engel mit dem Saitenspiel
7.7

Der Engel mit dem Saitenspiel

Dec 19, 1944

Der Engel mit dem Saitenspiel
1944 95 min 6 vues
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...
Romance
Le Dernier Témoin
6.3

Le Dernier Témoin

Dec 30, 1960

Le Dernier Témoin
1960 102 min 16 vues
En voyages d’affaires à Berlin, Werner Rameil, directeur d’usine marié et respectable, reçoit un appel téléphonique de sa maîtresse Ingrid Berhnardy, paniquée : leur fille de quatre mois a été étranglée dans son berceau à son domicile à Hambourg. Alors qu’il lui conseille d’appeler la police, la jeune femme, désemparée, se précipite chez son ancien amant, le docteur Stephan. Les soupçons des enquêteurs se portent bientôt sur Ingrid, que son instabilité, son célibat et ses mœurs légères désignent comme la coupable idéale. Elle clame pourtant son innocence.
Crime
Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes
5.8

Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes

Dec 30, 1939

Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes
1939 113 min 4 vues
Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his district and no one is able to do anything about it. Every fourth child is already sick and the parents must helplessly watch as their young ones die. Now Koch is undertaking to find the cause of the tuberculosis --- something he has already been working on for years --- which has been causing this plague of illness. His work is made more difficult by envy; for example, that of his teacher, who was wounded defending his honor. But his greatest obstacle is the famous Berliner scientist and Reichstag deputy, Privy Councilor Rudolf Virchow: He is extraordinarily skeptical of Koch's theory, that the cause for tuberculosis is a bacteria.
Drama
Bismarck
5.7

Bismarck

Dec 06, 1940

Bismarck
1940 114 min 7 vues
A biographical film of Otto von Bismarck, the Prime Minister of Prussia, and how he and his policies - including aggressive war - helped to unite Germany.
Drama
Nacht der Verwandlung
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Nacht der Verwandlung

May 30, 1935

Nacht der Verwandlung
1935 70 min 3 vues
Nacht der Verwandlung (A Night of Change) stars Gustav Froelich as a globe-circling aviator, a character clearly based on America's Wiley Post. While basking in his celebrity at a nighttime carnival, Froelich romances Rose Stradner, the unhappy wife of brutish Heinrich George. When George refuses to give Stradner her freedom, she takes it anyway, but her fling with Froelich is doomed to disappointment. Our hero learns the hard way that one can be in a teeming crowd, yet still be all alone. Leading lady Stradner later resettled in Hollywood, where she appeared in such films as The Last Gangster and Keys to the Kingdom.
Drama
Verräter
6

Verräter

Aug 19, 1936

Verräter
1936 92 min 1 vues
This 1936 film tells the story of the doings of foreign agents in Germany and their allies among the German population. Having placed an ad in a local paper looking for "contact with bigwigs in German industry", enemy agents Morris and Geyer end up making contact with an engineer named Brockau. Brockau has developed an improvement in turning oil into gasoline and that's just what these enemy agents are looking for. Brockau, for his part, needs money, because his girlfriend is a selfish cow who demands more and more toys and trinkets, which has put our naive little nerd deep into debt. Brockau, however, is not the only unwitting maroon to fall into the clutches of the evil agents: the former bank agent Hans Klemm, now doing his service in the Wehrmacht, ends up being contacted by an agent from the other side and ends up getting blackmailed into working for them.
Drama
1913
1

1913

Jul 09, 1961

1913
1961 137 min 1 vues
Henze: Der junge Lord
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Henze: Der junge Lord

Jan 01, 1968

Henze: Der junge Lord
1968 136 min 3 vues
A 1968 production of Hans-Werner Henze's comic opera filmed at Berlin's Deutsche Oper. With the plot centering around how a whole town is deceived into taking a dressed monkey as a young lord, the work features performances from, among others, Edith Mathis, Donald Grobe and Barry McDaniel. Christoph von Dohnányi conducts.
Damals
6.6

Damals

Apr 23, 1943

Damals
1943 94 min 5 vues
Vera Meiners' life was sweet but unfortunately for her, it was not to last. Her husband, Jan, left her after she met a former lover in a harmless friendly meeting. Forced to resume her disrupted medical career, she worked in a Swiss clinic but, without the knowledge of the chief surgeon, Vera ordered a risky operation to be performed and was thereafter fired. Penniless, she then works in Spanish nightclubs in order to provide for herself and her child. After many years, she runs into her friend Frank again in one of these nightclubs...
Drama
Teufel in Seide
5.7

Teufel in Seide

Jan 05, 1956

Teufel in Seide
1956 106 min 3 vues
After leaving his overbearing wife for another woman, a composer is suspected of her murder when she is found dead.
Drama