Carl Wilhelm, was a prolific German film director, film producer and screenwriter of the silent film era, at the end of which his career apparently entirely faded away and he vanished into obscurity.
Willi Forst, born Wilhelm Anton Frohs was an Austrian actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer and singer. As a debonair actor he was a darling of the German-speaking film audiences, as a director, one of the most significant makers of the Viennese period musical melodramas and comedies of the 1930s known as Wiener Filme. From the mid-1930s he also recorded many records, largely of sentimental Viennese songs, for the Odeon Records label owned by Carl Lindström AG.
The Transformation of Dr. Bessel is a 1927 German silent film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Jakob Tiedtke, Sophie Pagay and Hans Stüwe. The film was based on a novel by Ludwig Wolff. It premiered at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo. It has thematic similarities with Ernst Lubitsch's 1932 film The Man I Killed. Whereas that film featured a French soldier partially assuming the identity of a dead German, in Oswald's film a German is able to survive by pretending to be French.
All Because of the Dog is a 1935 German comedy film directed by Fred Sauer and starring Weiß Ferdl, Julia Serda and Edith Oß.
Doctor Crippen or Doctor Crippen on Board is a 1942 German crime film directed by Erich Engels and starring Rudolf Fernau, René Deltgen, and Anja Elkoff.
Sergeant Schwenke is a 1935 German drama film directed by Carl Froelich and starring Gustav Fröhlich, Marianne Hoppe and Karl Dannemann. It is based on a novel of the same title by Hans Joachim Freiherr von Reizenstein. It was remade in 1955 as Sergeant Borck..
The Four Musketeers is a 1934 German drama film directed by Heinz Paul and starring Fritz Kampers, Paul Westermeier and Erhard Siedel. Four comrades of the First World War meet up many years later and discover they have very different views on the political future of Germany.
The Schimek Family is a 1926 German silent film directed by Alfred Halm and Rudolf Dworsky and starring Livio Pavanelli, Olga Tschechowa, and Lydia Potechina.
Love on Skis is a 1928 German silent comedy film directed by Rolf Randolf and starring Harry Liedtke, Rita Roberts and Georg Henrich.
Miss Midshipman is a 1929 German silent film directed by Fred Sauer and starring Mary Parker, Willi Forst and Fritz Schulz.
Colibri is a 1924 German silent film directed by Victor Janson and starring Ossi Oswalda and Bruno Kastner.
The Happy Vagabonds is a 1929 German silent film directed by Jacob Fleck and Luise Fleck and starring Georg Alexander, Lotte Lorring and Ernö Verebes.
I Once Had a Beautiful Homeland is a 1928 German silent film directed by Max Mack and starring Leo Peukert, Grete Reinwald, and Ernst Rückert.
The Criminal of the Century is a 1928 German silent crime film directed by Max Obal and starring Luciano Albertini, Gritta Ley, and Hans Albers.
Between the Parents is a 1938 German drama film directed by Hans Hinrich and starring Willy Fritsch, Jutta Freybe, and Gusti Huber.
The Last Performance of the Circus Wolfson is a 1928 German silent film directed by Domenico Gambino and starring Hermann Vallentin.
Mikosch Comes In is a 1928 German silent comedy film directed by Rolf Randolf and starring Gyula Szőreghy, Lydia Potechina, and Claire Rommer.
Gentlemen Among Themselves is a 1929 German silent film directed by Rudolf Walther-Fein and starring Hermann Picha, Lydia Potechina and Maria Paudler.
German Women - German Faithfulness is a 1927 German silent drama film directed by Wolfgang Neff and starring Eugen Neufeld, Philipp Manning and Helga Thomas. Its title is taken from the second verse of the German national anthem.
My Son the Minister is a 1937 German comedy drama film directed by Veit Harlan and starring Hans Brausewetter, Heli Finkenzeller and Françoise Rosay.
