Frank Wisbar

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Frank Wisbar

Born December 9, 1899 · Tilsit, East Prussia, Germany [now Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia]

Died March 17, 1967 · aged 67

Frank Wisbar, born Franz Wysbar, was a German film director and screenwriter. He directed more than 30 feature films and tv-productions between 1932 and 1967 in Germany and the United States. Frank Wisbar is probably best known for "Anna und Elisabeth" (1933) and "Die Unbekannte" (1936). Two great examples of densified and high-strung relationships in unusual contexts. He also produced the cult …

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Ferryman MariaFerryman Maria · 1936
Ferryman Maria
6.81936
MovieThrillerDrama
A beautiful young drifter comes to a small village and battles Death itself to save the man she loves.
CommandoCommando · 1962
Commando
6.21962
MovieWar
A French Foreign Legion commander is told to assemble a unit and capture an Algerian rebel leader. He gathers in his old unit, most of whom are no longer in top form. One is having nightmares of past indiscretions, another is now drinking, another has lost his nerve. He takes them in captures the leader, but then is unable to make it to the pick up. He encounters a rebel patrol and is trapped unless they can escape before their water runs out.
Mädchen in UniformMädchen in Uniform · 1931
Mädchen in Uniform
7.21931
MovieDramaRomance
A sensitive girl is sent to an all-girls boarding school and develops a romantic attachment to one of her teachers.
Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever? · 1959
Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?
7.31959
MovieDramaWar
In the winter of 1943, against the background of battle scenes, a young German Lieutenant who increasingly distrusts the inhuman Nazi ideology struggles with the concept of war.
Secrets of a Sorority GirlSecrets of a Sorority Girl · 1945
Secrets of a Sorority Girl
9.01945
MovieDrama
In this crime drama, a sorority girl is photographed hanging around with known criminals in illicit gambling dens. The resulting pictures are then used to blackmail her father, a district attorney.
Anna and ElizabethAnna and Elizabeth · 1933
Anna and Elizabeth
4.41933
MovieDrama
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.
Fabrik der OffiziereFabrik der Offiziere · 1960
Fabrik der Offiziere
9.01960
MovieWar
An army war school during the WWII: first Lieutenant Krafft has a strong sense of justice. This has often brought him into disrepute with his previous superiors and he has been transferred several times as a result. With his new position in an officer's school, he hopes to survive the war and tries to avoid further conflicts. However, Krafft is entrusted with an investigation by his general - a supervising officer has been blown to pieces by an explosive charge during an engineer exercise. Although the chief field judge rules the man's death an accident, Krafft reconstructs the events and proves that it was a case of murder. Ensign Hochbauer, who was in the party's favor, is said to have deliberately shortened the fuse during the explosive exercise, as a result of which the supervising officer was unable to get to safety in time.
Wet AsphaltWet Asphalt · 1958
Wet Asphalt
6.01958
MovieThrillerDrama
In Berlin, when the journalist Greg Bachmann is released from prison six months before the end of his sentence, there is a driver named Jupp waiting for him. Soon he learns that the famous journalist Cesar Boyd was the responsible for the shorter sentence. Cesar offers a position of his assistant to Greg; in return, Boyd would write his story about his interviews to war criminals and Greg would help him in other matters. Meanwhile Boyd welcomes the daughter of a deceased friend, Bettina, and he becomes her guardian.

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Fabrik der OffiziereFabrik der Offiziere · 1960
Fabrik der Offiziere
9.01960
MovieWar
An army war school during the WWII: first Lieutenant Krafft has a strong sense of justice. This has often brought him into disrepute with his previous superiors and he has been transferred several times as a result. With his new position in an officer's school, he hopes to survive the war and tries to avoid further conflicts. However, Krafft is entrusted with an investigation by his general - a supervising officer has been blown to pieces by an explosive charge during an engineer exercise. Although the chief field judge rules the man's death an accident, Krafft reconstructs the events and proves that it was a case of murder. Ensign Hochbauer, who was in the party's favor, is said to have deliberately shortened the fuse during the explosive exercise, as a result of which the supervising officer was unable to get to safety in time.

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Darkness Fell on GotenhafenDarkness Fell on Gotenhafen · 1960
Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen
5.71960
MovieDramaWar
The film depicts the first month of 1945 when the Russian Red Army broke into the eastern part of Germany and forced millions of civilians to flee in the coldest of winter. While the Russians invaded Ostpreussen hundred of thousands of civilians were evacuated by ships. Gotenhafen was the last open port and ships left the town almost by the minute, overloaded by refugees. One of the last ships to leave Gotenhafen was the 'Wilhelm Gustloff', a former 'Kraft durch Freude' pleasure cruiser designed for 1000 passengers. Until today it is unknown how many people were on board but it is said to be around 10.000. The ship sunk without a trace and only a handful of people survived this hellish nightmare.

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