Johannes Heesters

A dance and music film tailored completely for Marika Rokk: After her divorce, the wife of a composer uses her wit and charm to engage Marika as a...

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...

The story of Lanze who is in love with the princess. One day the princess is kidnapped by the Dark Knight and Lanze starts his journey to rescue her....

A parade of well-known actors and directors from Germany

In the 1880s, Georges Duroy, back from the Colonies, arrives in Paris with the firm intention of conquering the capital through his power of...

Familial disputes surrounding a traditional business. Grandfather Sonndorfer allies himself with his grandson Otto, in order to bring his arrogant...

The multi-millionaire John Underhower travels from New York to Bavaria, where he’s bought a castle. The reason? He wants to prove...

A short directed by Stefan Hering.

Head waiter Leopold has been secretly in love with the hostess Josepha for a long time, but she only has eyes for Dr. Siedler, a guest in the White...

A documentary about the life of the 93 years old actor Johannes Heesters who doesn't want to leave the stage.

To take a revenge on countess Laura, who slapped him at his proposal, the Governor of the occupied Poland gets her fall in love with a poor student,...

Produced in 1944, finished and released in 1946.

Penniless Peter Schild looks for work when arrived in Germany. Working as a private eye he has to observe a young lady who is willing to marry an...

A young woman moves to Berlin to work as a press photographer.

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...

An operetta directed by Herbert Maisch.

Before he became cult director Douglas Sirk, Detlef Sierck cut his teeth on such lavish European star vehicles as Das Hofkonzert (The Court Concert)....

Melodrama about an actress falling in love with a man who wants her to give up her job.

East Friesian Otto moves to the big city Hamburg. There he gets into trouble with a loan shark and needs to find a way to impress his love interest...

Operetta concerning the love affair of Niccolò Paganini, the violinist, and Élisa Bonaparte, the younger sister of Napoleon.

TV-film by Alfred Vohrer

Because his future wife abandoned him shortly before the wedding, an old baron has decided that he doesn't want any women near him anymore. The...

The two stars of an upcoming operetta performance quarrel constantly. but they also fall in love with each other.

A young woman works for two different men, both of whom fall in love with her. In the mornings she is secretary for a popular author and in the...

TV version of Curth Flatow's stage play starring Johannes Heesters and his wife Simone Rethel.

Clemens and Bobi, two legation secretaries, are sent on a delicate mission by their minister: it concerns a red portfolio with secret papers, which...

On account of a bet, the painter Menzinger and his friend Schratt decide to travel the country as unemployed bums (no doubt, because there were so...

A popular stage tenor can't stay away from his female admirers until his wife threatens to divorce him.

A comedy of manners, the film centers on virtuous actress Patty O'Neill, who meets playboy architect Donald Gresham on the observation deck of the...

A remake of the 1940 film of the same title. It was shot on location in Brazil with separate German and Italian versions.

A movie with three episodes starring Johannes Heesters.

After years of touring abroad with his "Cirque Hollandais", Hendrik van Dalen returns to Holland, hoping that his brother will lend him financial...

Two aging playboys are both after the same attractive young woman, but she fends them off by claiming that she plans to remain a virgin until her...

In 1930s Amsterdam, greengrocer Bet is involved in illicit affairs with businessman Van Santen. To tighten bonds even further, Bet arranges a...

The film tells the cultural story of Berlin during the Weimar Republic through interviews with a number of persons who were involved in literature,...

Several generations of Mullers go to war with each other over their family business, the main branch of which is about to go belly-up.