Eduard von Winterstein

The Blue Angel deals with the humiliation and breakdown an inhibited, overbearing, sexually-repressed instructor at a boys' prep school... (imdb)

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

When farmer Rog dies, his son Peter stays, but Johannes can not be satisfied with such a condition (and servant Maria's love) and finds a job as old Count Rudenberg's secretary. His ambition leads him to charm Gerda, the Count's unique daughter. But when he discovers that Count's second wife Helga will soon inherit a field that only he knows his underground is full with petroleum, he changes his allegiance... Greed and death. (imdb)

Danish silent movie-star Asta Nielsen formed her own production company to make this film, in which new elements are combined with features familiar from Shakespeare's version of the legend. The most important of these changes sees Hamlet made into a female character - a princess forced to masquerade as a man by her scheming mother; from this follows Hamlet's secret passion for Horatio and rivalry with Ophelia for his love. (imdb)

Roloff and Teacher John are political enemies, one a proto-fascist factory owner, the other an "apostle of the people" provoking near-religious fervour in his followers. Courtroom drama, romantic entanglements, class war, radical politics and Roloff's mental breakdown, replete with visions of the dead, all occupy screentime before a conclusion that's utterly bizarre yet somehow gels entirely with Reinert's mindset. (dvdtimes.co.uk)

Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that he has to offer his services to the powers-that-be if he wants to wield power himself. (imdb)

A philanthropic European Doctor seeks to find a way to use the medical benefits of opium without it's addictive effects. On this thin premise hangs a tale of addiction, murder, infidelity and abandon

The last part of Fridericus Rex's main focus is entirely on the battle after years of conflict with Austria, which allied itself with France and Russia finally opens against Prussia in 1756 in the Seven Years War. (de.wikipedia.org)

Based on a Selma Lagerlöf 's short story ,"Das Mädchen..." belongs to Sierck's long series of melodramas ,a genre he was one of the indisputable masters .Probably influenced by Frank Borzage's characters ,he made Helga a pure heroine who gave everything : she refuses that the father of her (not yet born) child swears on the Bible because she wants to save his soul;she wants to save Karsten so that he can marry Gertrud and find happiness. (imdb)

The true story of the conflict between Danton and Robespierre, the leaders of the French Revolution. (imdb)

An adaptation of Theodor Storm's most well known work. Der Schimmelreiter is the story of a visionary young north Frisian who sets about creating of a new form of dyke to protect the flood-prone lands. His rural, ultra-conservative community view his science and engineering with great suspicion and consider him to be working with the devil.

Drama about street walker Elena who marries shop keeper Albert. When her former pimp Peter shows up, her life is ruined. She shoots him and poisons herself. (imdb)

Frank returns to his homeland as an engineer, falls in love with Regine, the housemaid of his uncle, and marries her. Thanks to the intrigues of Floris, one of Frank's rejects, Regine is suspected of having an affair with another man. Depressed and desperate, she intends to commit suicide, but is saved by Frank in the last minute.

Focuses on a love triangle between three German athletes competing at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. It was the last film Dupont made in Germany, before escaping into exile following the rise to power of the Nazis.

A Berlin woman grows up in the wake of Prussia's victory over France in 1870 and lives to see her grandchildren participating in the military successes of Germany under Hitler. (imdb)

A cruel Earl of England threatens to execute the father of the beautiful Lady Godiva if she does not agree to marry him. When the Earl plans to burn down her village she succeeds in changing his mind by promise to ride naked through town.

Psychological drama based on the popular Jekyll and Hyde theme. (imdb)

Part 1 of a four part series of biographical films about king Friedrich II of Prussia focuses on his early life, his love of music and his father's displeasure with it.

Part 2 of a four part series of biographical films about Friedrich II of Prussia tells of his continued interest in music, his marriage to Elisabeth-Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern, and the death of his father following which he becomes king.

Part 3 of a four part of biographical films about Friedrich II of Prussia. Friedrich befriends the French philosopher Voltaire and he realizes a long held dream by building the castle of Sanssouci.

On February 26, 1815 Napoleon leaves his exile on Elba. He is marching with 1 000 men towards Paris to rebel against the conditions imposed by the Congress of Vienna.

Christa, the forester's daughter, falls in love with the emperor. But that love will be clouded by reasons of state.

The tenor Albert Winkelmann is a celebrated artist, admired for his singing and for his effect on women. He is a "Darling of the Gods". His wife Agathe sees the bohemian spouse's preference for the "weaker sex" with some concern.