Hans Deppe

Rival window cleaners Willy I and Willy 2 befriend Jou-Jou, an aspiring dancer, who has been tricked out of money by a con-man posing as an American...

Franz Biberkopf has served four years in prison. His return to normal life is not successful.

Long before he played the corpulent Goldfinger, German actor Gert Froebe was a scarecrow-skinny comedian. In Berliner Ballade, Froebe makes his...

An elderly lady has a trauma and simply must celebrate Christmas every day of the year, to the dismay of her family and relatives.

An insight into the work at the UFA-Studios.

Freely adapted from Theodor Storm's novella of the same name.

Detective Hans Braumüller is trying to untange the conspiracy behind a bank robbery.

Young French student Madeleine Duchanel wants to go to the theater and therefore pulls out of the well-protected environment of her school. In Paris...

Film by Lupu Pick.

Nazi propaganda film based on the life and death of Hitler Youth Herbert "Quex" Norkus – in the film, renamed Heini Völker – who was...

A dashing marquis bends from his horse when he discovers a lost garter in the woods and falls. During his delirium he is serenaded by a little...

Two inspiration sources appear clearly: contemporary American gangster movies and Alfred Döblin’s novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929).

Cafe owner Paul Perlacher is a real pig: not only are his daughter and sister Trude embarrassed constantly by his disgusting behavior, but his...

Married couple Willy and Therese go separate ways. Willy leaves town and returns years later as a famous singer. But Therese is about to marry her...

Three childhood friends go on another bike tour after 20 years of no contact.

After the end of World War II Lüder Lüdersen, the former owner of a feudal estate in the East, and his daughter Helga arrive as refugees in...

The painter Hans Hauser falls head over heels in love with the "Black Forest girl" Bärbele Riederle. He travels to her home village and soon the...

Another German Heimatfilm.

Freely adapted from Theodor Storm's novella of the same name.

Directed by Richard Eichberg.

During the summer holidays, a teenage girl in love with pop star Tedy Reno visits her aunt, an aging countess, at her mansion in Italy, where both...

A romantic drama directed by Hans Deppe.

A few days before the planned wedding of the chief inheritor von Halleborg, he experiences a terrible blow: his beloved bride Julia has a riding...

Old Meiseken, a gingerbread baker, has been dead for three years, but his bosses don’t know that. They’ve been paying him his pension...

The feisty boss of a chain of cafes wants to push the youngest of her daughters off on a husband, who would be well-suited to take over the business...

Nacht der Verwandlung (A Night of Change) stars Gustav Froelich as a globe-circling aviator, a character clearly based on America's Wiley Post. While...

Another German Heimatfilm.

Freely adapted from Theodor Storm's novella of the same name.

Count Egge, a “special person” of noble birth, is rather conceited and has given his kids the old heave-ho, because they chose...

Film by Deppe.

In the first light of day, one can see a mountain farm close to the forest. Nothing stirs far and wide. Suddenly, a figure comes out of the forest,...