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Tag Archives: Gustav Fröhlich
Die Sünderin / The Sinner (1951)
Marina, a prostitute, lives with the unsuccessful artist Alexander. Read More »
Homecoming (1928) Joe May
Following World War I, after a long imprisonment, two German prisoner-of-war soldiers Read More »
Sechs Tage Heimaturlaub (1941) Jürgen von Alten
A warrant officer in the Great War lands up falling in love with a woman who has written a letter to an unknown soldier. Read More »
The Great King (1942) Veit Harlan, Otto Gebühr, Kristina Söderbaum, Gustav Fröhlich
King Frederick II (aka “Frederick the Great”) of Prussia is engaged in a major battle Read More »
Abenteuer in Wien / Adventures in Vienna (1952) Emil E. Reinert, Gustav Fröhlich, Cornell Borchers, Adrienne Gessner
In postwar Vienna, fate brings together a petty crook working under the table as a taxi driver and a famous concert pianist. Read More »
I Do Not Want to Know Who You Are / Ich will nicht wissen, wer du bist (1932) Géza von Bolváry, Liane Haid, Gustav Fröhlich, S.Z. Sakall
An impoverished count has to work as a chauffeur but because of his good looks Read More »
Gitta Discovers Her Heart / Gitta entdeckt ihr Herz (1932) Carl Froelich, Gitta Alpar, Gustav Fröhlich, Paul Kemp
Hungarian peasant Julika is discovered by an impresario in a hamlet Read More »
The Eleven Devils / Die elf Teufel (1927) Zoltan Korda, Carl Boese, Gustav Fröhlich, Evelyn Holt, Lissy Arna
The story deals with two fictious teams: The poor workers’ club “Linda” named after the nice girl Read More »
Asphalt (1929) Joe May, Albert Steinrück, Else Heller, Gustav Fröhlich, Drama
Joe May’s sensual drama of life in the Berlin underworld is in many ways the perfect summation of German filmmaking in the silent era: a dazzling visual style, a psychological approach to its characters, and the ability to take a simple and essentially melodramatic story and turn it into something more complex and inherently cinematic.
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