Fritz Schulz

Dear Homeland

A German mechanic considers emigrating to the United States, but changes his mind when he falls in love with a local woman.

A waltz in the sleeping compartment

Dilemma

17-year-old Edith is celebrating at her friend's house in Zurich when she is dragged to a nightclub by the unscrupulous seducer Jean, who gets her drunk and abuses her. When she becomes pregnant, she asks her father, who is a gynecologist, to perform an abortion. He initially refuses, but eventually agrees to perform the procedure—with fatal consequences.

Der Apachenlord

The rejuvenated Adolar

Einer Frau muß man alles verzeih'n

"A woman must forgive everything"- Brunhilde's parents expects her to marry Mr. Kuhn. To avoid this Brunhilde makes plans with her lover and piano teacher. She will wear the ugliest possible dress and sing horribly when she meets with Kuhn.

Ich und meine Frau

The conversion of a pedantic family tyrant into an understanding husband and father.

Monte Carlo

Dear Homeland

A German mechanic considers emigrating to the United States, but changes his mind when he falls in love with a local woman.

A waltz in the sleeping compartment

Dilemma

17-year-old Edith is celebrating at her friend's house in Zurich when she is dragged to a nightclub by the unscrupulous seducer Jean, who gets her drunk and abuses her. When she becomes pregnant, she asks her father, who is a gynecologist, to perform an abortion. He initially refuses, but eventually agrees to perform the procedure—with fatal consequences.

Der Apachenlord

The rejuvenated Adolar

Einer Frau muß man alles verzeih'n

"A woman must forgive everything"- Brunhilde's parents expects her to marry Mr. Kuhn. To avoid this Brunhilde makes plans with her lover and piano teacher. She will wear the ugliest possible dress and sing horribly when she meets with Kuhn.

Ich und meine Frau

The conversion of a pedantic family tyrant into an understanding husband and father.

Monte Carlo

Ja, treu ist die Soldatenliebe

The love doctor

Laws of Love: Innocently Outlawed!

A documentary by Magnus Hirschfeld, which contains a shortened version of Different From the Others (1919).

Die unvollkommene Ehe

Divorce lawyer Dr. Winifred Lert tries to convince her daughter Susi of the futility of marriage. But Susi has long since married herself. Susi also wants to use trickery to bring her parents back together.

Headlong into happiness

The Soaring Maiden

In this theatrical adaptation, a well meaning eccentric tries to patch up a rift between his niece and her fiancé.

Das Tankmädel

Different from the Others

Conrad Veidt plays a famous musician who is blackmailed for being gay. Eventually he stands trial and is convicted. At the end the film pleads for the abolition of §175 (the law that punishes homosexuality).

Tanja, die Frau an der Kette

Duty Is Duty

Tales from the Vienna Woods

Miss Beryll... die Laune eines Millionärs

Anna Karenina

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.

My Cousin From Warsaw

Meine Kusine aus Warschau (My Cousin From Warsaw) was based on a stage play by Louis Verneuil. It's a romantic farce, with the heroine posing as her own cousin to carry on two amours at once.

The Song of Night

He was known as Anatole Litvak during his Hollywood directorial career, but he was still Anatole Litwak when he helmed the German musical Das Lied Einer Nacht (The Song of Night). Famed Polish tenor Jan Kiepura stars as famed Italian tenor Ferraro. Escaping from his tyrannical manager, Ferraro switches identities with a young tourist (Fritz Schulz) and goes off on an unscheduled Swiss holiday. Still travelling incognito, our hero falls in love with a winsome mountain girl (Magda Schneider). Alas, both his romance -- and his freedom -- are placed in jeopardy when it turns out that the charming young fellow with whom Ferraro traded identities was actually a notorious swindler. Anatole Litvak also directed the English-language version of Das Lied Einer Nacht, Be Mine Tonight

The Light of Love

After her husband's death, Kate Zeller had to sell the farm and move with her four children from the countryside to Vienna. There she opened a small laundry and raised her children. When they grew up, they thought they no longer needed their mother. But it turns out that they still need her...