Fritz Kortner Movies

An industrial plant gets into difficulties. The factory owner then decides to sell the company and makes all the employees redundant. How do the...

One evening at a ball, Count Georg de Clermont-Latour—a man who places great importance on convention and traditional notions of...

During a dinner given by a wealthy baron and his wife, attended by four of her suitors in a 19th century German manor, a shadow-player rescues the...

In a poor neighborhood of a big city, a crippled mailman is in love with a maid who lives in his building. However, she is in love with a wealthy and...

A young woman leaves behind her job, home and family to try to make it in the movie business. Features cameos from about three dozen German film...

The reporter Peter Zabel stumbles upon the sinking of the luxury yacht Orplid in Hamburg on August 14, 1949. The ship went down with a wedding party...

A pharaonic tragedy to the content that spans six different eras. In the first episode, the emergence and dramatic end of the love story between the...

A GIRL YOU DON'T FORGET can be thought of as a backstage musical that treats the whole world as backstage. Melodies seem to be buzzing through the...

An exploration of the misery of youth. A student, his friends, and the girl he loves all suffer due to the harsh and unforgiving nature of the adults...

Young peasant Paul's life is one of poverty and hardship from an early age. His lifelong struggle as he is forced to take on the responsibility of...

The film traces the individual stages in the life of Ludwig van Beethoven.

Peter the Great, having become Tsar of Russia, using his shipbuilding knowledge acquired in a foreign country to establish a navy, and being able to...

The House on the Moon

This documentation of a Kortner stage rehearsal shows in detail and fascinatingly how Kortner developed psychological tensions with meticulous...

A girl becomes an unwilling witness in her parents' scandalous divorce case.

A young doctor gets stuck on a ship after treating an injured first mate. Later, he rescues a woman from plane wreckage, and with the help of the...

After a chance meeting at a train station, Henry and Stascha, unhappy with their circumstances, are determined to leave and be together.