Bernhard Goetzke

A Russian courier struggles to deliver a message to the troops fighting Tartar invaders. (TCM)

A Russian courier struggles to deliver a message to the troops fighting Tartar invaders. (TCM)

From a melodramatic novel by Hamsun: a country girl, engaged for economic reasons to a rich cousin, really loves a sensitive writer of poetry, who rejects her for another.

A Japanese doctor, on a secret mission to Paris for his country, becomes romantically involved with a cabaret singer at a Parisian nightclub. His entire mission is put at risk when he kills a rival for her love, a French journalist and blackmailer.

A detective inspector dismantles a smuggling organization by infiltrating the gang. Not a particularly exciting crime film.

Several unsolved murders in a locked room years before are rehashed when more tragedy strikes in the same place.

In 1812, during the French period, large parts of Germany are occupied by the troops of Napoleon. Several paramilitary Freikorps units battle the French forces, among them the Black Brunswickers led by the 'Black Duke' Frederick William of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. After the War of the Fifth Coalition, the Black Hussars are pursued by Napoleon throughout the country, but frequently take refuge with the noble-minded German people.

The beautiful dancer Barberina lies at the foot of Europe. Frederick II, King of Prussia, too, wants to engage her in his opera house. When she refuses, he lets her take her under military surveillance to Berlin, forces her to appear, and tries so eagerly for her that a love-story seems to arise between them. However, when Friedrich goes to war with Austria, Barberina falls in love with the secretary baron of Cocceji.

A Russian officer rescues the wanted anarchist Vera Maretskaja. A romance arises between them, but the secret police arrests the officer in a restaurant and expels him to Siberia on charges of aiding the revolutionaries.

An aging prostitute develops a motherly affection for a kind young man, but her pimp does not approve.

The sound re-make of Alraune (1928) also starring Brigitte Helm. (imdb)

«Goroda i gody» is a Drama film directed by Yevgeni Chervyakov, and written by Yevgeni Chervyakov, Konstantin Fedin, Dmitri Tolmachyov and Nathan Zarkhi, released in the USA on April 03 of 1931. (imdb)

A murder has been committed! The prime suspect is the daredevil acrobat Salto King, a star performer who packs the tent at Circus Roxi every night. He is accused of killing the wealthy Count Thierry, whose lifeless body was discovered in the villa of his girlfriend, Ellen Montis. Determined to prove his innocence, Salto King makes a daring escape to avoid arrest. Convinced that Ms. Montis is the one behind the crime, he pursues her across land, water, and air with his faithful German Shepherd.

A Socialist Realist distortion of Dr. Paul Kammerer's experiments in the inheritance of acquired character(istic)s -- the (not entirely anti-Darwinian) conjecture that certain changes the environment produces in an individual may spontaneously appear in the next generation. As recounted in Arthur Koestler's The Case of the Midwife Toad (1971), Kammerer (1880-1926) claimed that darkened footpads he had artificially induced in a toad had been passed on to its offspring. (imdb)

“Guilty” - Thomas Feld returns home after 16 years in prison to find his wife Magda and daughter Maria fell in the hands of Peter Cornelius, the owner of a cabaret. Lawyer Frank Peters falls in love with Maria.

In the Circus Royal, the young artists Ziska, Armand, Frank and their mentor Atto perform the aerial sensation "Ghosts of the Night" every day in front of an enthusiastic crowd. Armand is in love with Ziska. When she rejects him because she loves only Frank, Armand throws himself from the trapeze and dies. A mysterious inventor, Dr. Magirus, constructs a radio-mechanical human puppet, who is supposed to replace Armand in the act.

Reaching 40, Elsie is watching her girl friends one by one taking a lover. She happens to meet young student Jörgen who is dazzled by her cosmopolitan air. Elsie wants to divorce her husband, but the age gap between Elsie and the student becomes an issue.

In between the orgies and the rampant homoeroticism, directors Amleto Palermi and Carmine Gallone stick close to the Victorian melodramatics of Bulwer-Lytton's novel. The blind flower girl Nydia (Maria Korda) loves the dumb but good-hearted hunk Glaucus (Victor Varconi) who prefers the demure and aristocratic Ione (Rina de Liguoro). Ione, alas, is lusted after by the villainous Arbaces (Bernhard Goetzke) who also has a close...er...friendship with her brother Apicedes. (imdb)

In the Kentucky hills a store keeper tries to win the love of an innocent schoolteacher. She runs away and seeks refuge with a hermit. (imdb)

If watching a fellow facing indifference/rejection in the slums of Berlin didn't convey enough pathos, Gerhard Lamprect gathered much of the same crew from Die Verrufenene and turned his attention to the city's population of unwanted children for the heart-tugging Die Unehelichen, released the following year. The trio of foster children at the center of Die Verrufenene are survivors who use their own resourcefulness to get by when the kids' guardians and the system itself let them down.

A French violinist saves his beloved princess from the Russian Revolution, of which his former tutor is the leader. (imdb)

It was not just the children who were treated badly by the wealthy Weimar republic. Robert Kramer is released from prison but struggles to adjust to civilian life. His father disowns him out, his wife has left him for another man. There is no work. He eventually arrives in a shelter for the homeless, and seeks salvation through Emma, a prostitute. (imdb)

After Siegfried's dead, Kriemhild marries Etzel, the King of the Huns. She gives birth to a child, and invites her brothers for a party... (imdb)

Arch-criminal Dr. Mabuse sets out to make a fortune and run Berlin. Detective Wenk sets out to stop him. (imdb)

Peter the Great, having become Tsar of Russia, using his shipbuilding knowledge acquired in a foreign country to establish a navy, and being able to use it, provokes a war with Sweden, defeating that country at the Battle of Poltava. This battle marks a turning point between Peter and Russia. His only son turns out to be a coward, meets a refugee girl and makes her his Empress, alienating himself from the church and many nobles. All these factors lead to a conspiracy...

Vanina loves rebel leader Octavio, who gets caught. He gets a pardon and marries Vanina. When he is captured again, Vanina helps him to escape prison. They are both caught, and after his execution she dies from grief. (imdb)

As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and is sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall (imdb)

Three Oxford graduates -- Robert Allen (Paul Richter), Carl Langland (Olaf Fonss) and Indian Prince Ayan (Conrad Veidt) -- pledge to remain devoted to one another. It doesn't take long for the oath to be broken, as the prince believes that his wife, Princess Savitri (Erma Morini), has been unfaithful with Allen. He decides to bury his wife alive and has Yogi Ramigami (Berhard Goetze) travel to England to fetch Langland. But when he orders his old pal to build him a tomb, he refuses. (allmovie.com)

Howard is infected with leprosy, Mac Allen was captured by the Maharadsha, and now the Maharadsha offers Irene a deal: one night for letting healing Howard. She accepts, but when she tries to commit suicide, he lets her go. Mac Allen is being eaten by the tigers, and finally the Maharani dies. (imdb)

Suspicion surrounds a lieutenant for killing his father; based on Dostoevsky’s novel.

Martin Berger's 'Menschen' serves as a harrowing socio-cinematic autopsy of the human spirit, adrift in the wreckage of a post-war landscape. Far from the escapist fantasies that often dominated early Weimar screens, this 1921 opus delves into the penumbral existence of the disenfranchised. The narrative follows a fatalistic trajectory, where the characters—portrayed with a raw, almost primitive intensity—grapple with the crushing weight of systemic indifference and personal moral decay.

The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution. (imdb)

Idealistic journalist trying to help young doctor financially. In her pursuit of raising money she frequents a loan shark, finally killing him.

the film's plot deals with a man haunted by a misdeed he has committed (his obsessive passion for rare objets d'art has driven him to make away with a statue from an Indian temple). In fact, the plot opens with the hero's arrival at his estate from abroad where he is already in an agitated state and orders his myriad servants to bar the entrances and exits! One of them, however, is worried by his master's paranoia and seeks advice from the town minister and the hero's former schoolteacher. (imdb)