Hans Schweikart Movies

The bizarre story of a play's development at Munich's Kammerspiele theatre.

The early stage experiences of a group of young, more or less talented aspiring actors, whose first steps on the stage are described. Among them are...

During the Seven Years' War, Prussian Major von Tellheim sacrifices his own fortune to save a Saxon estate from being plundered. After the war ends...

The life story of Friedrich List, an influential 19th century German political economist who developed the liberal nationalist theory of political...

Penniless Peter Schild looks for work when arrived in Germany. Working as a private eye he has to observe a young lady who is willing to marry an...

Set during the rise of the Nazi regime, Elisabeth Maurer and Hans Wieland enjoy successful careers as actors in Berlin. Confident in her career,...

In a locked room with forever burning light, a man and two women meet after their death: Garcin has tormented his wife to death and failed cowardly...

Although she is known as a patron of the arts, a graceful duchess nevertheless refuses her nephew to marry an enterprising actress in this German...

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

A German peasant woman is determined to succeed as a sculptor and ,though she has a child out of wedlock, spurns chances to set up a marriage and...

A mediocre conductor unscrupulously steals his friend's—a piano teacher's—wife. At first, the piano teacher wants to shoot his rival, but...