Werner Finck
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1902-05-02
Locus Natus: Görlitz, Germany
Et ut: Werner Paul Walther Finck, Werner Fink
Hurrah, the School Is Burning
A new teacher, Dr. Dr. Bach, is transferred from his quiet village elementary school to the Mommsen Gymnasium, bringing along his nephew Jan. Bach's...
release : 1969.12.17popularis : 5.436
The White Horse Inn
Leopold, head waiter at the "Weißen Rössl" (White Horse Inn), is secretly in love with the owner of the restaurant, Josepha. But she's...
release : 1960.12.20popularis : 3.856
Viktor und Viktoria
Aspiring singer Susanne takes over for ham actor Viktor at a small cabaret in Berlin where he works a woman impersonator and per chance she's...
release : 1957.04.16popularis : 1.456
Liebelei
Vienna in the beginning of the twentieth century. Cavalry Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer is about to end his affair with Baroness Eggerdorff when he...
release : 1933.03.10popularis : 2.04
The Happiest Married Couple in Vienna
The happiest one should be selected from 500 married couples to move a marriage-hostile American millionnaire's daughter to the marriage. - Shallow...
release : 1937.08.17popularis : 1.716
Unentschuldigte Stunde
When the schoolgirl Kate defends her friend, she is expelled from school. To conceal the incident from her parents, she positions herself ill....
release : 1937.09.24popularis : 0.674
Roses for the Prosecutor
April 1945. Because he stole two bars of chocolate, the soldier Rudi is sentenced to death by the court-martial judge Dr. Schramm. Rudi manages to...
release : 1959.09.24popularis : 2.587
The Zurich Engagement
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...
release : 1957.04.16popularis : 4.532
Operation Caviar
Bank accountant Thomas Lieven is forced to work as a triple agent for the British, the French and the Nazis.
release : 1961.10.18popularis : 3.815
The Anthem of Leuthen
The story of the rise to power of King Frederick II (aka "Frederick the Great") of Prussia of his military campaigns to make Prussia a major power in...
release : 1933.02.02popularis : 2.32
April, April!
Douglas Sirk's first feature film.
release : 1935.10.23popularis : 0.956
Film Without Title
A screenwriter comes up with a story about an affair between a maid and her employer.
release : 1948.01.23popularis : 1.652
Lola Montès
Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after having been the lover of various important men.
release : 1955.12.23popularis : 7.96
La Habanera
While vacationing in Puerto Rico, a young Swedish woman falls in love with and marries a powerful local landowner. Ten years later, their marriage...
release : 1937.12.18popularis : 2.444
Die Umwege des schönen Karl
Karl Kramer is a waiter in a beach hotel on the Baltic Sea. But he has completely different plans in mind for the future. Before he marries Grete...
release : 1938.01.30popularis : 0.893
And That on Monday Morning
Intended as a light farce this comedy by Luigi Commencini is a little plodding in its story about a bank manager who has had it with his...
release : 1959.07.13popularis : 0.63
Die Freundin eines großen Mannes
A renowned actress rescues a small theater, which is on the verge of bankruptcy.
release : 1934.03.14popularis : 0.578
Quartett im Bett
Musical comedy set in Berlin Kreuzberg.
release : 1968.12.13popularis : 1.168
Eine Frau die weiß, was sie will
Woman concert singer seeks to connect with her adult daughter, by her former marriage to a staid industrialist who has kept the two apart since the...
release : 1934.08.30popularis : 0.649
Labyrinth
Georgia Gale was a great poet, but then she stopped writing and started drinking heavily. Now, as a desperate last resort, she has traveled to...
release : 1959.09.02popularis : 2.484
Sherlock Holmes: The Grey Lady
Jimmy Ward infiltrates a criminal gang, only to reveal at the last moment that he is, in fact, none other than an undercover Sherlock Holmes.
release : 1937.02.26popularis : 3.993
Hanussen
In Germany during World War II, a well-known psychic decides to collaborate with the Nazis.
release : 1955.09.14popularis : 1.425
Don't Be Afraid of Love
The unemployed secretary Käte applies a job by mistake in the piano factory of the entrepreneur Helmut Hofert. He does not really have any need...
release : 1933.12.12popularis : 1.462
Once a Great Lady
A young woman working as a secretary for a Berlin car business tries to impress a rich Australian visitor by pretending she is a foreign countess.
release : 1934.02.10popularis : 0.55
The Company's in Love
The story follows a movie crew who is filming a musical in a small and idyllic alpine village. After their temperamental leading lady drops out of...
release : 1932.02.22popularis : 0.871
Tobias Knopp, Adventure of a Bachelor
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...
release : 1953.02.08popularis : 1.794
A Trip to the Country
A banker goes bankrupt and flees to the countryside where a family of peasants cheers him up.
release : 1933.08.03popularis : 0.365
My Niece Suzanne
A Parisian cocotte at the turn of the century plans to capture a very rich Peruvian for marriage and hires her servant as an uncle who is supposedly...
release : 1950.05.05popularis : 1.715
A Song, A Kiss, A Girl
Peter Franke owns Supraphon record company, which has one main competitor in Lyraphon. As a commercial strategy Peter gets engaged to her counter...
release : 1932.04.13popularis : 1.407
Love at Twenty
Love at Twenty unites five directors from five different countries to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20....
release : 1962.06.22popularis : 6.378