Max Gülstorff
Actor · 1882 – 1947 · Tilsit, East Prussia, Germany [now Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia]
Movies24
Movie7.0ComedyRomanceThe film is an adaptation of the 1891 operetta Der Vogelhändler by composer Carl Zeller, with libretto by Moritz West and Ludwig Held, though it incorporates few of the original songs, using them mostly instrumentally or in the background. The plot follows Adam, a Tyrolean bird seller in 18th-century Rhineland, who hopes to marry his beloved Christl, a postmaster's daughter; to secure his future, she arranges for him to perform at court, but complications arise when she is mistakenly suspected of an affair with a philandering prince.
Movie5.8DramaHistorical drama portraying the life of German baroque architect Andreas Schlüter.
Andreas Schlüter
1942 · 6 votes
Movie7.3DramaMusicBegun in 1944/45, finished and released in 1949, this is a biography of the composer Carl Michael Ziehrer, who overcomes hypersensitivity in competitive situations which leads initially to failures in both career and romance.
- Movie7.0DramaRomance
Walter is in love with the 17-year-old Erika, but she raves for older, experienced men. When Walter and Erika visit his parents' estate after passing their exams, Erika shows increasing interest in Walter's father, Werner von Schlettow.
Eine Siebzehnjährige
1934 · 1 votes
Movie5.9DramaHistoryThe married Lady Emma Hamilton has an ill fated romance with Admiral Horatio Nelson.
Lady Hamilton
1921 · 5 votes
- Movie8.0Comedy
A comedy loosely based on the life story of Johann Friedrich Böttger, the inventor of Meissen porcelain: In Berlin, the pharmacist Fritz Böttger gains a reputation for being able to make gold and is imprisoned on the orders of the Prussian king. Following in the footsteps of a young lady, he flees to Saxony, but is also imprisoned in Dresden and forced to make gold. Although he does not succeed in this, by chance he discovers how to make porcelain instead. Augustus the Strong appoints him baron and director of the royal porcelain manufactory.
Movie6.0DramaA film actress falls for an extra on her set, he turns out to be a prince.
- Movie10.0Comedy
Der Raub der Sabinerinnen
1936 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyYou Are Adorable, Rosmarie is a 1934 German romantic comedy film directed by Hans von Wolzogen and starring Herta Worell, Hans Stüwe and Hans Adalbert Schlettow. Location shooting took place around Salzkammergut.
Movie6.3MusicRomanceCzechoslovakian opera star Jarmila Novotná plays the title role in the Austrian tunefest "Frasquita". Based on a Franz Lehár operetta, the story is the usual frothy nonsense. Dolly (Charlott Daudert) is engaged to marry Harald (Hans Heinz-Bollmann), but she's really in love with Hippolit (Heinz Rühmann). Harald is likewise enamored of another, namely Frasquita (Jarmila Novotná).
Frasquita
1934 · 3 votes
Movie6.0ComedyWhen Dr Hartung (Fritz Odemar) hits Eva (Geraldine Katt) with his car, she decides to make him her "life's mission" and free him of his "unhappy marriage" which he never declares as such. In her way stands only her best friend Ursula (Hannelore Schroth) who happens to be Dr Hartung's daughter and is all but enthusiastic about her friend trying to seduce her father.
Kleine Mädchen – große Sorgen
1941 · 3 votes
Movie7.2ComedyFamilyWriter 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.
Movie7.5ComedyCharley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley's Brazilian Aunt Donna Lucia. Their purpose is to have a chaperone for their amorous visits with Amy and Kitty, niece and ward of crusty Stephen Spettigue. Complications begin when Fancourt, in drag, becomes the love object of old Spettigue and Sir Francis Chesney.
- Movie10.0Romance
Das Liebesnest
1922 · 1 votes
Movie4.9DramaTheodor Fontane's novel about a young girl who as a teenager marries a stiff bureaucrat, has a love affair out of boredom and loneliness and has to suffer the consequences years later should be well known.
Der Schritt vom Wege
1939 · 8 votes
- Movie10.0Drama
Die Sandgräfin
1928 · 1 votes
Movie8.5DramaRomanceBotto the Clown is in love with the much younger Blanche but she is in love with the handsome daredevil acrobate Andre.
Movie8.0ComedyEach evening, before saying their prayers, some children swallow their cod liver oil. One evening, the youngest child makes a daring request in his prayer. (Lost film.)
Movie7.8ComedyThe young man from Oxford originates from Vienna, where he returned after completing his studies to take over his deceased uncle's construction company. To gain a better overview, he joined the company as a junior employee and, of course, immediately fell in love with a young colleague...
Buchhalter Schnabel
1935 · 2 votes
Movie7.0ComedyAfter living in the tropics for five years, Peter Asfeld returns to Amsterdam and wants to marry his childhood friend Julia Vermehren. However, his future father-in-law has read in the horoscope that Peter will one day commit a theft and demands that he do so before the wedding. Peter can't get the thought out of his head, and even in his dreams he commits all kinds of crimes. Inspired by so much imagination, he kidnaps Julia, his future wife, the next day. But the horoscope was wrong.
Alles Schwindel
1940 · 1 votes
Movie7.0The House on the Moon
MovieSchwiegermutter
1918
Movie6.3ComedyAbsurd mistakes arise when the passengers of a burnt down sanitarium are quartered at a hotel. -Humble-tumultuous comedy with situation joke and proven comedians.
Movie6.5ComedyDie Jungfern vom Bischofsberg
1943 · 2 votes