A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is released after being jailed for 15 years. Read More »
Tag Archives: Heinz Rühmann
Looking for His Murderer AKA Der Mann, der seinen Mörder sucht (1931) Robert Siodmak, Heinz Rühmann, Lien Deyers, Raimund Janitschek
A man in bad sorts hires a burglar to later kill him, then changes his mind when Read More »
Grand Hotel AKA Menschen im Hotel (1959) Gottfried Reinhardt, O.W. Fischer, Michèle Morgan, Heinz Rühmann
People staying at or working in a luxurious hotel undergo a variety of crises in their personal lives. Read More »
Laughing Heirs AKA Lachende Erben (1933) Max Ophüls, Lien Deyers, Heinz Rühmann, Ida Wüst
A young salesman may inherit a wine-estate on one condition: he can’t drink a drop of alcohol for at least a month. Read More »
The Punch Bowl AKA Die Feuerzangenbowle (1944) Helmut Weiss, Heinz Rühmann, Karin Himboldt, Hilde Sessak
Hans Pfeiffer and some of his friends are drinking “Feuerzangenbowle”. Talking about their school-time they discover that Hans Read More »
Three Good Friends AKA Die Drei von der Tankstelle (1930) Wilhelm Thiele, Willy Fritsch, Lilian Harvey, Heinz Rühmann
Returning home from a holiday, three friends – Willy, Kurt and Hans – learn they are bankrupt. Read More »
The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes AKA Der Mann, der Sherlock Holmes war (1937) Karl Hartl, Hans Albers, Heinz Rühmann, Marieluise Claudius
Hans Albers and Heinz Rühmann play two confidence tricksters. They manage to stop a night train for nefarious purposes Read More »
It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958) Ladislao Vajda, Heinz Rühmann, Sigfrit Steiner, Siegfried Lowitz
Several young girls were killed. Policeman Matthaei travels to the region where it happened Read More »
Hitlers Hollywood (2017) Rüdiger Suchsland, Hans Albers, Heinz Rühmann, Zarah Leander, Documentary
Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945 when the Third Reich collapsed. Read More »
Man braucht kein Geld / We need no money (1932) Carl Boese, Hedy Lamarr, Heinz Rühmann, Hans Moser, Comedy
Family Brandt has lost its fortune in oil speculation, and they have great debts at the local bank. This one is threatened with its own crash due to lack of money. Read More »
The Upright Sinner / Der brave Sünder (1931) Fritz Kortner, Max Pallenberg, Heinz Rühmann, Dolly Haas, Comedy
Leopold Pichler (Pallenberg) is a very orderly and trustworthy chief cashier who is asked by his boss to get a large sum of money from the bank which the boss urgently needs on a trip to Vienna. Due to some circumstances, getting the money takes a little longer than expected and the director leaves for Vienna without it. But Pichler sees himself as a reliable man, and so he and his assistant Wittek (Rühmann) follow the director to Vienna with the money kept in a bag. In Vienna, the two provincials however are mistaken for guests of the director and spend an evening at a posh night club. But when it transpires that the director actually won’t come to the night club that evening, Pichler and Wittek have to pay the bill with the money from the bank. And their subsequent attempts at reimbursing the money lead to situations of ever-increasing hilariousness…
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