In Berlin, when the journalist Greg Bachmann is released from prison six months Read More »
Tag Archives: Frank Wisbar
Death and the Maiden (1936) Fährmann Maria
Maria, an enigmatic young drifter, takes over the job of piloting a tiny ferry in a small Read More »
Darkness Fell Over Gotenhafen / Nacht fiel über Gotenhafen (1960) Frank Wisbar, Sonja Ziemann, Gunnar Möller, Erik Schumann
At the beginning of 1945, Germany is a defeated nation. Its armies in the east are in full retreat. Read More »
Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever? AKA Hunde, wollt ihr ewig leben (1959) Frank Wisbar, Joachim Hansen, Wilhelm Borchert, Wolfgang Preiss
1942. First lieutenant Wisse, young and still idealistic, is sent to the Eastern front where a renewed German offensive is in full swing. Read More »
Sharks and Small Fish AKA Haie und kleine Fische (1957) Frank Wisbar, Hansjörg Felmy, Sabine Bethmann, Wolfgang Preiss
Four young German naval cadets begin their military service in 1940; only one of them will survive. Read More »
Lighthouse (1947) Frank Wisbar, Don Castle, June Lang, John Litel
Looks like the film that might have inspired Hugo Hass to make one like it twice a year in the early fifties. Read More »
Strangler of the Swamp (1946) Frank Wisbar, Rosemary La Planche, Robert Barrat, Blake Edwards
A number of swamp land men have died by strangulation Read More »
Commando (1962) Frank Wisbar, Stewart Granger, Dorian Gray, Carlos Casaravilla
A French Foreign Legion commander is told to assemble a unit and capture an Algerian rebel leader. Read More »
Devil Bat’s Daughter (1946) Frank Wisbar, Rosemary La Planche, John James, Michael Hale
Wishing to dispose of his wife, psychiatrist Doctor Elliott makes his patient Nina think that she suffers from a compulsion to kill. Read More »
Barbara – Wild wie das Meer (1961) Frank Wisbar, Harriet Andersson, Maria Sebaldt, Carl Lange
Nicely done drama on the basis of the Jacobsen novel. Wisbar translates the novels’ mistery and sexual ambiguity entirely Read More »