Wie sagen wir's unsern Kindern

So angelt man keinen Mann

The Count from Pappenheim

Big City Night

Young French student Madeleine Duchanel wants to go to the theater and therefore pulls out of the well-protected environment of her school. In Paris she hopes to make a career, but in her naivety she ends up on the street.

Der Sündenbock

Der Fremdenführer von Lissabon

The Tempest

Two inspiration sources appear clearly: contemporary American gangster movies and Alfred Döblin’s novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929).

Zweimal zwei im Himmelbett

Eternal Love

A romantic drama directed by Hans Deppe.

Drei tolle Tage

A cheerful film about the Cologne carnival.

The Berliner

Otto, a feckless Everyman, tries to adjust to the postwar travails of his defeated nation. Stymied by black-market profiteers and government bureaucrats, Otto begins fantasizing about a happier life at the end of that ever-elusive rainbow.

Gewitter im Mai

Poldi Sonnleitner had actually wanted to trade the local mountains for the vastness of the open sea. That’s why he had become a sailor. But during a visit home, everything suddenly changes for him, because all he wants is to stay with his girlfriend Dorle, the grocer’s daughter. When he learns that she has long been promised to the village blacksmith Domini—once Poldi’s best friend—he sets out on a life-threatening mountain trek in a fit of rage. As fate would have it, only his friend Domini can save him.

Die schönen Tage von Aranjuez

As a gang of classy jewel thieves hop from one European country to another, an engineer rescues a woman from their clutches.

Vacationing from Oneself

A stressed American millionaire is advised by his doctor to take some downtime and rest in the German countryside. The tycoon is so impressed that he buys an estate and turns it into a resort where other businessmen can take holidays from their stressful lives. In the process he falls in love with the estate's former owner.

Der Außenseiter

Peter Bang, a journeyman carpenter who knows absolutely nothing about horses, wins the trust of Toni—a mare that had broken loose—and gently leads her back to her stud farm. There, he is offered a job as a stable hand, as he clearly possesses a special knack for handling horses. Peter accepts the offer but notices that the jockey, Otto Burian, treats the mare rather roughly. Believing that Otto’s colleague, Hans Rückert, has a better way with horses, he secretly arranges for Hans to train with the mare.

The Black Forest Girl

The painter Hans Hauser falls head over heels in love with the "Black Forest girl" Bärbele Riederle. He travels to her home village and soon the two realize that they are made for each other.

Der kleine Grenzverkehr