Hans Schweikart

The House on the Moon

The bizarre story of a play's development at Munich's Kammerspiele theatre.

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

After fleeing from Nazi Germany, Josef and Helen Schwarz arrive in Portugal's capital in 1942, where a ship to America awaits them. But on the...

When British philosopher Harold Hilliard took off for Warsaw to lecture on the Dysteleological Surd, he had no idea that he would soon become...

A young Anglican clergyman gets on the night express to London at Edinburgh station and joins an elderly gentleman in the compartment. Gradually, the...

Penniless Peter Schild looks for work when arrived in Germany. Working as a private eye he has to observe a young lady who is willing to marry an...

King Frederick II and his leading advisors hesitate too long in the eyes of some officers, so Major von Schill decides to strike out on his own. He...

A rookie detective’s first case is to observe an engineer, but she behaves so clumsily in her job, that she’s mistaken for a thief and...

The actress Julia Bach is married to the famous director, Professor Paulus Allmann; however, no one is to know about the marriage. Julia doesn't...

A young king and a princess are engaged to be married but have never met. Both are reluctant to take part in an arranged marriage but they meet in...

Everything seems perfect in the lives of Andreas and Garda. They have a happy marriage and up-and-coming talent Andreas is constantly striving to...

Lisa is taking a night train to Munich to start fashion training, while Martin is a young artist. They meet and romance blossoms. Upon arrival, they...

The life story of Friedrich List, an influential 19th century German political economist who developed the liberal nationalist theory of political...

A German peasant woman is determined to succeed as a sculptor and ,though she has a child out of wedlock, spurns chances to set up a marriage and...

The young fashion illustrator Jeanette meets the chief engineer Rudolf Siebert at an artists' festival in Schwabing, but thinks he is the talented...

Set during the rise of the Nazi regime, Elisabeth Maurer and Hans Wieland enjoy successful careers as actors in Berlin. Confident in her career,...

In a locked room with forever burning light, a man and two women meet after their death: Garcin has tormented his wife to death and failed cowardly...

Although she is known as a patron of the arts, a graceful duchess nevertheless refuses her nephew to marry an enterprising actress in this German...

Hugo Brinkmeyer, a tax consultant, takes his wife Gerda out to the cabaret one evening. There he encounters a potential client, the wealthy...