Kaethe HaackFilmography

Daniella by Night

Actors: Ivan Desny, Elke Sommer, Helmut Schmidt, Danik Patisson

Synopsis: In this espionage drama a French model is shooting a layout in Rome when she finds herself entangled with spies who have hidden microfilm in her lipstick case. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

... Wie Einst Lili Marleen

Actors: Adrian Hoven, Marianne Hold, Lucie Englisch, Peter Carsten, Hannelore Schroth

Synopsis: The wartime song hit Lili Marlene is woven into the plotline of this German romantic drama. The story concerns a German soldier named Franz (Adrian Hoven) and his lady love Christa (Marianne Hold). When first they met in a restaurant, the orchestra was playing Lili Marlene. Then and there, the two Read More

Heimweh Nach Deutschland

Feuerwerk

Actors: Lilli Palmer, Karl Schoenboeck, Romy Schneider, Claus Biederstadt, Werner Hinz

Ich Warte Auf Dich

Gabriela

Actors: Zarah Leander, Carl Raddatz, Vera Molnar, Siegfried Breuer

Synopsis: Gabriela (Zarah Leander) is a popular nightclub singer who has recently divorced her millionaire husband Thomas Lorenzen (Siegfried Breuer). Just before running off with her lover, pianist Charlie (Carl Raddatz), Gabriela kidnaps her own daughter Andrea (Vera Molnar), who'd been left in her Read More

Gefaehrliche Gaeste

Actors: Wolf Albach-Retty, Vera Molnar, Paul Kemp, Kaethe Haack, Albert Florath

Synopsis: Despite its sinister title, the German Gefaehrliche Gaeste (Dangerous Guests) is a romantic comedy. It all begins when Peter Anders (Wolf Albach-Retty) puts his house up for sale. Enter three small-time crooks, who pose as servants to case the joint. Also on a house-hunting expedition is toothsome Read More

Münchhausen

Actors: Hans Albers, Brigitte Horney, Wilhelm Bendow, Michael Bohnen, Hans Brausewetter

Synopsis: This 1943 film, produced at the UFA studios in West Germany, was refurbished by Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau Foundation to mark the 50th anniversary of that studio. The Nazi director of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, wanted a big internationally acceptable production to celebrate the studio's 25th Read More

Bal Pare

Der Tag nach der Scheidung

Synopsis: In this German comedy, a man leaves his wife to be with his mistress, a singer. Unfortunately, like the dog in the manger, he gets jealous when another man begins courting his ex-wife. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Ratsel Um Beate

Actors: Lil Dagover, Albrecht Schoenhals, Sabine Peters, Walter Steinbeck, Fritz Odemar

Synopsis: Ratsel um Beate (Beate's Mystery) was adapted from a play by Alfred Moller and Hanz Lorenz, which originally starred Dorothy Wieck. The film version features Lil Dagover in the leading role of Beate Kaiserling, an impressionable young woman who gets involved in a village scandal. Despite her Read More

Der Herrscher

Actors: Emil Jannings, Paul Wagner, Maria Koppenhofer, Hilde Körber

Synopsis: Der Herrscher (The Sovereign) was based on Before Sunset, a play by Gerhart Hauptmann. The great Emil Jannings stars as Mathias Clausen, a self-made businessman who is forced to do a great deal of soul-searching when his wife unexpectedly dies. Determining to start life anew, he falls in love with Read More

Ein Falscher Fuffziger

Actors: Theo Lingen, Kaethe Haack, Lucie Englisch, Adele Sandrock, Georg Alexander

Synopsis: Per its title, the plotline of this film is motivated by a counterfeit $50 bill. The funny money is passed to shopgirl Christa (Lucie Englisch), who, fearful of being arrested, hides it in a baby's piggy bank at her home. In dire need of money, Christa's sister "robs" the bank and puts the bill Read More

Schloss Vogeloed

Actors: Walter Steinbeck, Carola Hoehn, Hans Stüwe, Kaethe Haack, Hans Zesch-Ballot

Synopsis: Sinister Vogeloed Castle is the setting for this complicated whodunit. The lord of the manor is Graf Leopold (Walter Steinback), whom the audience is conditioned to despise when he steals the sweetheart (Carola Hoehn) of his own brother Andreas (Hans Stuewe). Thus, when Leopold is murdered, no one Read More

Fridericus

Actors: Otto Gebuhr, Hilde Körber, Lil Dagover, Kaethe Haack

Synopsis: The Seven Years' War against Austria produced the many escapades of King Friedrich the Great as related in this epic drama. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Familienparade

Actors: Ernst Dumcke, Helmut Weiss

Synopsis: It hardly takes a linguistics expert to figure out that the title of this German comedy translates as Family On Parade. Curt Juergens heads the cast as Erik, a young Swedish count who gets a big surprise on his 21st birthday. Erik discovers that he's not a nobleman at all, but the bastard son of a Read More

Geheimnis Eines Alten Hauses

Hermine und die 7 Aufrechten

Actors: Heinrich George, Karin Hardt, Paul Henckels, Albert Lieven

Synopsis: The "7 Aufrechten" ("Seven Righteous Men") of the title are a septet of elderly Swiss gentleman who've taken a vow of eternal friendship. En masse, the seven set out into the world to preach a doctrine of love and peace. Curiously, however, these benevolent oldsters are dead-set against the Read More

Der Traum Vom Rhein

Synopsis: Dream of the Rhine is the English-language title of this easygoing romantic comedy. German-born Jupp Steinweg (Schroeder-Schromm) returns to Der Fatherland after several years in America. He arrives with two servants, who are instantly inveigled into a pick-pocketing scheme. This comic subplot is Read More

Schwarze Walfisch

Actors: Emil Jannings, Max Guelstorff, Margarete Kupfer

Synopsis: Schwarze Walfisch (The Black Whale) is the German-language version of the Marcel Pagnol masterpiece Fanny. Replacing the virtually irreplaceable Raimu as philosophical innkeeper Panisse is Emil Jannings, no small talent in his own right. When Panisse's son Marius (Franz Nicklisch) goes off to sea Read More

Das Schoene Abenteuer

Actors: Alfred Abel, Kurt Vespermann, Ida Wuest, Blandine Ebinger, Wolf Albach-Retty, Ferdinand Hart, Kaethe von Nagy, Adele Sandrock

Synopsis: Writer Emeric Pressburger is best known for his 1940s British film collaborations with producer/director Michael Powell. In a previous life, however, Pressburger toiled away in the German film industry. Beautiful Adventure was adapted by Pressburger and director Reinhold Schuenzel from a French Read More

Quick

Actors: Lilian Harvey, Jeanne Fusier-Gir, Jules Berry, Pierre Brasseur

Synopsis: Though Lillian Harvey is the star of Quick, the title character is played by the versatile French character actor Jules Berry. The story is set among an acting troupe, with leading lady Harvey falling in love with a clown. However, she loves him only when they're on stage together; offstage, Harvey Read More

Der Hauptmann von Koepenick

Actors: Max Adalbert, Willi Schur, Max Guelstorff

Synopsis: In this drama, set in Germany during the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm, a practical joker cons a town. It is based upon the true tale of a daring shoemaker who dons a captain's uniform and leads a troop of soldiers into a small town of Koepenick. He immediately places the mayor and the treasurer under Read More

Emil und die Detektive

Actors: Fritz Rasp, Kaethe Haack, Olga Engl, Inge Landgut, Hans Hermann Schaufuss

Synopsis: No less a scrivener than Billy Wilder adapted the Erich Kastner novel Emil and the Detectives for its first film version. The story concerns a young boy named Emil who has been packed off to visit relatives in Germany. While en route on the train, Emil's money is stolen by a penny-ante thief. The Read More

Alraune

Actors: Albert Basserman, Brigitte Helm, Harald Paulsen, Bernhard Goetzke

Synopsis: H.H. Evers' best-selling science fiction novel Alraune was the source for this chilling German fantasy. The story is set in motion by a misguided scientist (Albert Basserman) who artificially inseminates a prostitute (Agnes Straub) with the sperm of a convicted murderer. The baby grows up to be a Read More

Skandal Um Eva

Actors: Adele Sandrock, Paul Henckels, Karl Ettlinger, Ludwig Stossel, Oska Sima

Synopsis: After completing his searing antiwar drama Westfront 1918, director G. W. Pabst shifted gears with the romantic seriocomedy Skandal um Eva (Scandalous Eva). Upon learning that her fiancee, the Minister of Finance, has fathered a child, schoolteacher Eva (Adele Sandrock) brings the kid to her home Read More

Daughter of Evil

Synopsis: In this drama, an experimental researcher plays with gene splicing. In one experiment, he artificially inseminates a prostitute with the semen of a hanged killer. A beautiful daughter is produced. The trouble is that the daughter is devoid of moral character. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Wilhelm Tell

Algol