Carl Froelich

German film in which a sensitive girl is sent to an all-girls boarding school and develops a romantic attachment to one of her teachers... (imdb)

Fred Sponer is a mischievous,ill-humoured, bad-tempered, sometimes too simple minded member of the lower classes, toiling his day away, having high aspirations but with no hope of changing his situation. This character gets tangled up in a jealousy drama involving the famous conductor Montemayor, his wife and of course Jack Mortimer, who gets murdered on the backseat of Sponer's taxi on his arrival in Budapest. (imdb)

Ingrid Bergman and three other women advertise.

The story of the rise to power of King Frederick II (aka "Frederick the Great") of Prussia of his military campaigns to make Prussia a major power in Europe. (imdb)

The story of the great German composer, from his childhood through his great triumphs in orchestral and operatic music. (imdb)

On 2 December 1805 Napoleon Bonaparte succeed in the glorious "Three Emperors" at Austerlitz, the Austrian Empire to defeat. Condition of the peace treaty is the surrender of the country Tyrol to the French...

1885. For the opera festival it has organized, the small town of Imlingen has invited a famous singer, Maddalena Dall'Orto, who will not only sing at the local opera but will also perform the part of Bach's St. Matthew's Passion at church. The lady is welcomed by an enthusiastic welcome committee comprising the Prince of Imlingen himself. (imdb)

Shortly melodrama about a young woman who is executed because she shot at an army patrol. Her fiance turns out to be the leader of this army unit, but he can not save her.

Two French spies, Baron d'Aubigny and Clemence de Montignon, blackmail German engineer Günther Ellinghaus with his gambling debts into handing over his construction plans for the new Ikarus engine. He flees to New York and works as a waiter. When World War I breaks, he signs on as a fireman on a Dutch ship and returns to Europe. He becomes a fighter pilot in Germany and faces the former spies as his enemies. After an emergency landing he is taken into their headquarters.

1865. Katharina goes to a ball in Moscow. There she meets again Tchaikowsky, her first and only love. The young, who is now married to wealthy Michael Iwanowitsch Murakin, a man she does not love, has not forgotten Piotr Illich, the (not yet) famous composer. Both are still in love with each other but Piotr is engaged to Nastassia, a dancer, while for her part Katharina cannot leave her husband. (imdb)

Fascinating showcase for Emil Janning's. He's a gentle school teacher who believes in his boys and is easily fooled about all things, while the other town officials want him dismissed. Curiously it's very hard to see what the film is exactly aiming for. Disaster strikes and the lax prof proves to be too far removed of the real problems of the world, on the other hand his enemies are shown in the most unsympathetic, satirical way denouncing the militaristic, bourgeois ideology of the Kaiserreich.

As the title "The Queen's Heart" suggests, this early German black and white version of Mary Queen of Scott's eventful reign and death focuses on her emotional perception rather lyrically, with some songs, mainly by her. (imdb)

"Zuflucht" directed by Carl Froelich in the late 20's is an interesting melodrama about a revolutionary long haired man (Francis Lederer) who spent nine years in Russia where he ignored the worries that his foolish decision has caused his bourgeois family. When he finally returns to his own country, he is ragged, hungry and ill, but he meets a poor girl (Henny Porten) who takes care of him. (imdb)

The ruler of a Ruritanian kingdom falls in love, in this Weimar era operetta.

It begins with a Tannhäuser performance and ends with the premiere of The Tales of Hoffmann. In between a young ingénue cast in her first big role, the Hoffmann rehearsals, the theatre director and his stage director exchanging cynicisms, a budding love affair. Gründgens at his most repulsive, trying to woo both lovers. And a hair-raising finale. Add to this some snappy dialogue and “pre-code” scenes that make you sit up and stare.