Directing

Werner Jacobs

Born April 24, 1909 · Berlin, Germany

Died January 24, 1999 · aged 89

No biography available.

Known For

André and Ursula

André and Ursula · 1955

André and Ursula

Münchhausen in Afrika

Münchhausen in Afrika · 1958

Münchhausen in Afrika

MovieMusicComedy

The adventures of Baron Münchhausen jr. in Africa.

Circus of Fear

Circus of Fear · 1966

MovieHorrorMystery

A circus becomes the location for stolen loot and murder.

Comrades

Comrades · 1941

King Frederick II and his leading advisors hesitate too long in the eyes of some officers, so Major von Schill decides to strike out on his own. He hoped that his brave move would be the catalyst for the great war of liberation. But von Schill's troops were soon defeated by a superior force of Dutch-Danish troops. The king takes a public stand against von Schill's actions and eleven of his officers are shot by summary execution on Napoleon's orders. However, one of them, Lieutenant Heinrich von Wedell, escapes death and is sentenced to forced labor for life. When Wedell's brother Karl, who opposed von Schill's unauthorized actions, learns of Heinrich's fate, he decides to help him in a risky way...

Zur Hölle mit den Paukern

Zur Hölle mit den Paukern · 1968

Zur Hölle mit den Paukern

Pepe Nietnagel and his fellow students of the Mommsen school come up with all kinds of ideas to get out of doing any actual school work. This includes simulating suicides, setting off the air-raid sirens and abusing the school director's new broadcasting system. They succeed in sending their teacher to a sanatorium and get a replacement that turns out to not be so bad after all.

Onkel Filser - Allerneueste Lausbubengeschichten

Onkel Filser - Allerneueste Lausbubengeschichten · 1966

Onkel Filser - Allerneueste Lausbubengeschichten

Guitars of Love

Guitars of Love · 1955

Guitars of Love

MovieMusicComedy

Drei Liebesbriefe aus Tirol

Drei Liebesbriefe aus Tirol · 1962

Drei Liebesbriefe aus Tirol

MovieMusicComedy

Martin Hinterkirchner, dissatisfied with his position, sends the hits he has secretly composed to a manager. One of them would be ideal for the famous singer Linda Borg, but her manager refuses. Unfortunately, Martin now blames Linda and has nothing good to say about her - in contrast to his grandfather Leopold, who met Linda at a dog show. When Martin stands in for his untalented friend Peter as a singer at a hit song competition and mistakenly believes he has failed, he returns to his Tyrolean home village of Himmelberg. Peter, on the other hand, accepts a contract even though he cannot sing the required duet with Linda Borg and looks for excuses. Linda travels to Tyrol in a bad mood because she has received love letters from there. She has no idea that Martin's grandfather Leopold is the secret sender who wants to get her to sing Martin's hits.

Filmography

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André and Ursula

André and Ursula · 1955

André and Ursula

Director

Münchhausen in Afrika

Münchhausen in Afrika · 1958

Münchhausen in Afrika

MovieMusicComedy

The adventures of Baron Münchhausen jr. in Africa.

Director

Circus of Fear

Circus of Fear · 1966

MovieHorrorMystery

A circus becomes the location for stolen loot and murder.

Director

Comrades

Comrades · 1941

King Frederick II and his leading advisors hesitate too long in the eyes of some officers, so Major von Schill decides to strike out on his own. He hoped that his brave move would be the catalyst for the great war of liberation. But von Schill's troops were soon defeated by a superior force of Dutch-Danish troops. The king takes a public stand against von Schill's actions and eleven of his officers are shot by summary execution on Napoleon's orders. However, one of them, Lieutenant Heinrich von Wedell, escapes death and is sentenced to forced labor for life. When Wedell's brother Karl, who opposed von Schill's unauthorized actions, learns of Heinrich's fate, he decides to help him in a risky way...

Editor

Zur Hölle mit den Paukern

Zur Hölle mit den Paukern · 1968

Zur Hölle mit den Paukern

Pepe Nietnagel and his fellow students of the Mommsen school come up with all kinds of ideas to get out of doing any actual school work. This includes simulating suicides, setting off the air-raid sirens and abusing the school director's new broadcasting system. They succeed in sending their teacher to a sanatorium and get a replacement that turns out to not be so bad after all.

Director

Onkel Filser - Allerneueste Lausbubengeschichten

Onkel Filser - Allerneueste Lausbubengeschichten · 1966

Onkel Filser - Allerneueste Lausbubengeschichten

Director

Guitars of Love

Guitars of Love · 1955

Guitars of Love

MovieMusicComedy

Director

Drei Liebesbriefe aus Tirol

Drei Liebesbriefe aus Tirol · 1962

Drei Liebesbriefe aus Tirol

MovieMusicComedy

Martin Hinterkirchner, dissatisfied with his position, sends the hits he has secretly composed to a manager. One of them would be ideal for the famous singer Linda Borg, but her manager refuses. Unfortunately, Martin now blames Linda and has nothing good to say about her - in contrast to his grandfather Leopold, who met Linda at a dog show. When Martin stands in for his untalented friend Peter as a singer at a hit song competition and mistakenly believes he has failed, he returns to his Tyrolean home village of Himmelberg. Peter, on the other hand, accepts a contract even though he cannot sing the required duet with Linda Borg and looks for excuses. Linda travels to Tyrol in a bad mood because she has received love letters from there. She has no idea that Martin's grandfather Leopold is the secret sender who wants to get her to sing Martin's hits.

Director

Tante Frieda - Neue Lausbubengeschichten

Tante Frieda - Neue Lausbubengeschichten · 1965

Tante Frieda - Neue Lausbubengeschichten

The 13-year-old Ludwig is to have for every joke. At boarding school he cuts his stern teacher, Captain a. D. Semmelmaier, during the nap from the beard. The angry pedagogue then sends the spoiled flail back to his beloved Bavarian village. The long-suffering mother persuades the rector to resume her reforming boy at the Latin school. Everything seems to be working out for the better, but the upcoming marriage of his sister Ännchen with the Berlin beer brewer Karl Schultheiss presents Ludwig with new challenges.

Director

Bombs on Monte Carlo

Bombs on Monte Carlo · 1960

Bombs on Monte Carlo

MovieRomanceComedy

In Monte Carlo, a captain tries to raise the money to pay his crew at the gaming table, and meets and falls in love with a Queen.

Screenplay

The Model Boy

The Model Boy · 1963

MovieComedyMusic

Since Benno Geyer fails to pass his Abitur due to his panicky exam anxiety, Dr. Fritz Geyer enrolls in high school under his brother's name. As a model student, he has no trouble getting good grades, but he quickly becomes unpopular among the students. From then on, he tries to impress with the craziest pranks.

Director

Meine Tochter - Deine Tochter

Meine Tochter - Deine Tochter · 1972

Meine Tochter - Deine Tochter

Dr. Oskar Sommer, a good-natured high school teacher, takes on a momentous task for the school janitor, also named Oskar Sommer: he is to play the role of the janitor's daughter's father for a few days. Since the real father has not been seen for 15 years and has pretended to be a teacher in his letters, the two Sommers promptly pick up the wrong person at the train station.

Director

Mariandl's Homecoming

Mariandl's Homecoming · 1962

Mariandl's Homecoming

MovieFamilyComedy

After marrying Hofrat Geiger, Marianne moves to Vienna to be with her husband. She runs the household while her daughter attends the music academy. But Mariandl is heartbroken. She constantly catches her Peter in strange situations with other women. Marianne, on the other hand, constantly has to listen to the innuendo of Franzi, Geiger's long-time housekeeper, who would have loved to be a Hofrat herself. Frustrated, mother and daughter decide to leave Vienna and visit their grandfather. He has inherited a dilapidated farm in the Wachau region, where horses are kept, awaiting shipment to Italian slaughterhouses. Through two benefit concerts, the talented music student Mariandl is able to raise enough money to buy the horses' freedom.

Director

Charleys Onkel

Charleys Onkel · 1969

Driving instructor Carola "Charley" can no longer stand the constant advances of her pupils and quits her job without further ado. To gain some distance, she takes the opportunity to look after her friend Lilo's dog, the two parrots and her apartment while Lilo is on vacation. But even here she has to fend off unloved admirers, as Lilo earns her living as a playgirl. However, "Charley" has received a good tip from her friend: As soon as a man becomes too pushy, janitor Pinkus pretends to be "Captain Tressblekken" on cue and quickly chases the visitors away. But when the real Uncle Tressblekken turns up at "Charley's" house, chaos can no longer be averted...

Director

Zum Teufel mit der Penne

Zum Teufel mit der Penne · 1968

Zum Teufel mit der Penne

Pepe Notnagel (who inexplicably had his name changed from the first movie's Nietnagel) and his classmates scheme to get around doing any actual school work by cheating or sending their teachers to the sanatorium. A Swiss documentary film maker disguises himself as his brother in law, who got a position as an exchange teacher, to aid his project of making a movie about the current youth.

Director

The Heathens of Kummerow

The Heathens of Kummerow · 1967

The Heathens of Kummerow

Kummerow, a village in North East Germany, around 1900: Mean-spirited miller Düker wants to drive cowherd Krischan out of the village. Being popular with the local children, Krischan can rely on the help of schoolboys Martin and Johannes and their friends, who try to prevent the miller's plans by playing pranks on him.

Director

Hurra, die Schule brennt

Hurra, die Schule brennt · 1969

Hurra, die Schule brennt

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 lackadaisical methods raise the suspicions of the other teachers.

Director

The White Horse Inn

The White Horse Inn · 1960

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 only interested in the lawyer Dr. Siedler. Jealous, Leopold comes up with a plan to gain Josepha's attention.

Director

Unser Willi ist der Beste

Unser Willi ist der Beste · 1971

Unser Willi ist der Beste

Retired tax official Willi Winzig spends his retirement happily and contentedly in his home. However, this changes when his sister Heidelinde, her daughter and his father want to move in with him, and as Willi is a good-natured man, he takes them in, but because they have no money and his pension is not enough for all four of them, he has to take on a new job. He gets a job as a salesman for household appliances, but his good nature gets in the way again.

Director

Was ist denn bloß mit Willi los?

Was ist denn bloß mit Willi los? · 1970

Was ist denn bloß mit Willi los?

Willi Winzig is a small tax officer with a big heart. He sometimes lets the tax files of his insolvent fellow citizens disappear into the air shaft. But shortly before his retirement, the shaft is so full that Willi has to dispose of the file of a penniless taxpayer in the wastepaper basket. The scam is promptly discovered and Willi is threatened with a hefty fine - even dishonorable dismissal from the civil service. Fortunately, friend and colleague Felix Klein knows what to do.

Director

Heintje - A Heart Goes on a Journey

Heintje - A Heart Goes on a Journey · 1969

Heintje - A Heart Goes on a Journey

MovieMusicFamily

A poor orphan boy runs away from the children's home and sets up his lonely fatherly friend with his youth welfare officer. As a result, nothing stands in the way of our hero's adoption.

Director

Zwei himmlische Dickschädel

Zwei himmlische Dickschädel · 1974

Zwei himmlische Dickschädel

Director

Morgen fällt die Schule aus

Morgen fällt die Schule aus · 1971

Morgen fällt die Schule aus

Pepe Nietnagel's father has a valuable stamp collection stolen in Amsterdam. Street musician Pit recovers it. To show his gratitude, Pit is invited to Baden Baden and enters the Mommsen Gymnasium. There, he joins Pepe in his pranks.

Director

The Blue Straw Hat

The Blue Straw Hat · 1949

The Blue Straw Hat

Pretty hat-saleswoman Lola wants nothing more than to become an operetta singer. Unfortunately, it isn't so easy to make it in the music business. Operetta diva Isabella, on the other hand, is sick and tired of performing and leaves the stage, despite the fact that her partner begs her to stay, because without her he can't premiere his latest work on the stage.

Editor