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1965
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1964
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1963
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1963
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1962
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1962
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This is an unpretentious teen-oriented musical with enough songs and dances (including that of the title) to keep the younger...
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Johann Ebeseder
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1962
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1960
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1959
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German only story of Wachauer boarding school for boys with singing by the Wiener Bubenchor. ~ Rovi...
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1958
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As can be gathered from its title, which translates to Vienna, City of My Dreams, this film is an old-fashioned Austrian...
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Vater Lehnert
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1958
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1958
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1958
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Life Begins at 17 in this all-too-typical example of the "art" of quickie producer Sam Katzman. Plain little Carol Peck...
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1958
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1957
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1957
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The title of this provincial Austrian comedy translates to Candidates for Marriage. The story concerns two browbeaten...
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1957
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The long-standing feud between Germans and Austrians is grist for the comedy mill in Und die Liebe Lacht Dazu (And Love...
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Count Ferdinand von Ausberg
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1957
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Tomi Streiff directs this screwball road movie about a guy, a girl, and a cow. Country bumpkin Ela Thier (Isabella Parkinson)...
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1957
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1956
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1956
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1956
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1956
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Despite its frivolous title, Eine Frau Genuegt Nicht? (One Woman Is Not Enough?) is a complicated romantic drama. Ernst...
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1955
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One of several films helmed by internationally renowned actor-director Fritz Kortner after his return to Germany in 1947, Die...
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Herbert Klein
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1955
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Adapted from a novel by W. F. Fischelscher, The Dancing Heart combines music, dance, whimsy and fantasy. Herta Staal plays...
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Fuerst (Prince)
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1955
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This comical mix up features a baron who falls for a young woman on her way to visit her aunt in Vienna. When he call to ask...
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1955
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1955
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Banditen der Autobahn (Bandits of Highway) may remind the contemporary viewer of the American TV series...
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1955
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1955
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The classic British stage farce Charley's Aunt is given a Teutonic flavor in this 1956 release. The story is updated and the...
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1955
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Das Leben Beginnt Mit 17 (Life Begins at 17) is adapted from a novel by Gabor von Vaszary. Sonja Liebermann plays Madeleine,...
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1954
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This is the third cinematic production of Johann Strauss the Younger's The Gypsy Baron and it is an amateur effort except for...
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1954
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1954
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1954
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That venerable Leo Fall operetta Die Rose von Stamboul was given a serviceable screen treatment in 1953. The fetchingly...
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1953
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Colonel v. Leuckfeld
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1953
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Though the English-language title of this Austrian musical is Emperor Waltz, the film bears no relation to the 1948 Hollywood...
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1953
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1953
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1952
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1952
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1952
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1952
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1952
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1951
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Appropriately, the title of this nostalgic Austrian musical translates to Vienna, As it Was. The story concerns a wealthy...
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1951
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Der Fidele Bauer is another postwar attempt to recapture the effortless charm of prewar Austrian musical films. Scripted by...
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1951
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1950
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This German melodrama is set in the Paris of some hundred years ago. It is a tale of two brothers: Robert (Paul Dahlke), a...
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1950
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1950
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In this Cold War spy classic, Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten), a third-rate American pulp novelist, arrives in postwar Vienna,...
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Porter
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1949
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In this operatic film, a traveling clown, convicted of killing his wife and lover, serves his 20-year sentence and then...
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Real-Life Canio
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1948
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In a sense, The Mozart Story can qualify as an international production. The balance of the film was lensed in Austria by...
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1948
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Produced by the prolific Willi Forest, Hofrat Geiger (Counsellor Geiger) is based on a popular Viennese stage play. The story...
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1948
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Little Melody from Vienna (Kleine Melodie aus Wien) focuses on the plight of war widow Maria Andergast. Having lost her home,...
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1948
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1944
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1944
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1943
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1943
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In her penultimate film in National Socialist Germany, Swedish diva Zarah Leander plays Hanna Holberg, a Danish chanteuse,...
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1942
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1941
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German musical-comedy favorite Willy Forst is writer, director and star of Operetta. Produced in 1940, the film did not...
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Alexander Girardi
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1940
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1940
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1940
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1940
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1939
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1939
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1939
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1939
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1939
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1939
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1939
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1939
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1938
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1938
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1938
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1938
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1937
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Peter Im Schnee (Peter in the Snow) top-bills Traudl Stark in the title role. Despite her character name, Stark was...
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1937
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1937
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Lessons in Love is the streamlined English-language title for this musical farce. It's another story of romantic...
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Alois Weinberl
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1937
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Florian Mayer
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1937
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1936
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Baby Doctor Engel is the English-language title of this German comedy-drama. The titular Engel (Paul Horbinger) not only...
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1936
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The music of Johann Strauss counterbalances the various intrigues in Ein Liebesroman im Hause Habsburg (A Romance in the...
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1936
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1936
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Based on the stage favorite Lilac Time, Drei Maederl um Schubert re-creates incidents in the life of composer Franz Schubert...
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Franz Schubert
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1936
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Originally Der Konigswaltser, The Royal Waltz is a lighthearted opera with no message or moral whatsoever. As he often would...
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King Max II
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1936
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Leading Milan opera tenor Alessandro Zillani stars in the comic operetta Koengin der Liebe (Queen of Love). Zillani is cast...
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Pierre
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1936
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Schabernack (Hoax) gets under way when heroine Eva (Trude Marlen) finds herself too broke to open her hotel for the season....
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Peter Burgstaller
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1936
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Die Csardasfurstin (Czardas Princess) was adapted from the Emmerich Kalmann operetta of the same name. Marta Eggerth essays...
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Feri von Kerekes
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1935
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Pesti Szerelem (aka Scandal in Budapest and Romance in Budapest) serves as a vehicle for Hungarian stage favorite Franciska...
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Paul Moray
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1934
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1934
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This Hungarian musical comedy (English title: Spring Parade) was produced by Joseph Pasternak, who later remade the picture...
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1934
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1933
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1933
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1933
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1933
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Professor Emanuel Wielander
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1933
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1933
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Paul Rainer
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1933
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The title translates literally as I'll Never Believe in Women Again, thereby neatly giving away the entire plot. Ostensibly a...
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Jochem
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1933
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Another spin on the life of "waltz king" Joseph Strauss, Walzerkrug (Battle of the Waltzes) is typical of the escapist...
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Joseph Lanner
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1933
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1933
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Gabriel
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1932
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1932
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1932
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The title translates as A Tremendously Rich Man, which indeed describes the financial condition of hero Curt Bois. Actually,...
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1932
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1932
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1932
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1932
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1932
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Liebelei is one of the earliest of the cinematic banquets directed by German filmmaker Max Ophuls. The film, set in imperial...
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1932
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The title translates as Unfaithful Eckehart, and indeed Dr. Eckart Bleitreu (Ralph A. Roberts) is cheating on his loving wife...
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Karl Moor
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1932
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Ein Toller Einfall (A 'Phantastic' Idea) features comic actor Max Adelbert as a "poor rich man," who in spite of his...
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1932
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Music, drama and comedy are neatly integrated in this low-key backstage romance. After a lengthy spell of unemployment,...
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1932
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Though Lillian Harvey is the star of Quick, the title character is played by the versatile French character actor...
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1932
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Princess Marie Christine (Kaethe Von Nagy) doesn't want to marry the man picked out for her by her parents. Likewise,...
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Pipac
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1931
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1931
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It's hard to figure out what the title of this German comedy means, but one suspects it's something along the lines of...
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1931
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The legendary European clown Grock plays himself in this lachrymose German biopic. Celebrated by countless admirers as the...
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1931
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During the 1814 Congress in Vienna, the crowned heads of Europe gather together to decide the shape (and fate) of the...
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1931
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Der Zinker (To Squeal) was based on The Squeaker, a mystery play by Edgar Wallace. The hero is a Scotland Yard detective who...
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1931
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1931
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Die Lustigen Weiber von Wien (The Merry Wives of Vienna) is all about the romance between Viennese official Leitner (Paul...
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Councillor Leitner
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1931
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Dr. Postpieschill
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1931
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The comic tenor of this German slapsticker can be assessed by its English-language title, His Grounds for Divorce. The...
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Rasmussen
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1931
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1930
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1930
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Originally Zwie Herzen in Drei-Vertel Takt, this delightful operetta was written directly for the screen by Robert Stolz....
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1930
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1930
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How Do I Become Rich and Happy? is how the title of this German musical comedy translates into English. The film answers its...
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1930
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1930
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Zippert, secretary
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1930
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Starring American expatriate Betty Amann, this still extant German silent film features a young citizen of Berlin, who,...
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1929
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1929
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Why Cry At Parting? was adapted from the popular German stage musical by Hugo Hirsch. Drina Galla and Hugo Hirsch star as the...
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1929
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1928
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1928
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1928
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Spies (Spione) was the first independent production of German "thriller" director Fritz Lang. The years-ahead-of-its-time...
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1928
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Although filmed in Berlin with an all-German cast, Song was financed and distributed by British International Pictures....
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1928
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1928
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This entertaining video looks at the story of a postal worker who gets to play the part of Christel von de Post, the famous...
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