Known For
Complete Filmography

The Avenger
1960
Director
A maniac is loose in London, decapitating his victims and sending the heads to Scotland Yard.

Der kühne Schwimmer
1957
Director

Viktor und Viktoria
1957
Director
Aspiring singer Susanne takes over for ham actor Viktor at a small cabaret in Berlin where he works a woman impersonator and per chance she's discover...

Die Christel von der Post
1956
Director

Hello Kathrin
1956
Director, Screenplay
German musical with Caterina Valente and Peter Alexander.
Clivia
1954
Director

Der Vetter aus Dingsda
1953
Director, Writer

Die Rose von Stambul
1953
Director

Von Liebe reden wir später
1953
Director
The beautician Angela Bell, a well-off middle-aged lady, and the respected fashion doctor Prof. Christian Hollmann would like to get married, but ther...

Der Weibertausch
1952
Director
Lorenz has his eye on Simon Gigl's prize-winning breeding bull and would love to have it. But is he willing to make a deal to give up his wife Uschi t...

Ruf an das Gewissen
1951
Director
Ten years ago, the "Andree case" was seemingly solved. Now criminal investigator Husfeld is to reopen it, as doubts have arisen about the guilt of Hel...
Verlobte Leute
1950
Director, Executive Producer

Der große Fall
1949
Director

Peter Voss, der Millionendieb
1946
Director, Writer
Polly Petterson is a major customer of the Van Geldern bank, which manages her assets to the tune of one million. When she wants to withdraw the entir...

Der große Preis
1944
Director
The moral is simple: keep your mouth shut, especially when you're working during the wartime in a factory, which produces racing cars only, or someone...

Die Hochstaplerin
1944
Director
A fake countess falls in love with an honest man.

Kollege kommt gleich
1943
Director

Die Wirtin zum weißen Röss'l
1943
Director
Die große Nummer
1943
Director

Die Sache mit Styx
1942
Director

Immer nur Du
1941
Director
The two stars of an upcoming operetta performance quarrel constantly. but they also fall in love with each other.

Uncle Krüger
1941
Second Unit Director
An anti-British propaganda film from Nazi Germany which depicts the life of the South African politician Paul Kruger and his eventual defeat by the Br...

The Star of Rio
1940
Director

We're Dancing Around the World
1939
Director
Mit versiegelter Order
1938
Director

White Slaves
1937
Director
Russia, 1917. Revolution is in the air. The Sevastopol anchors In Saint Petersburg. The sailors are thirsty for women and celebration. The ship become...

Martha
1936
Director
At the English court, at the beginning of the 18th century, Lady Henriett fell in love with a farmer, Lionel, who, following a mistake, believes her t...

Martha
1936
Director
At the start of the 18th century, British Queen Anne, inspired by her German born lady in waiting, emancipates the country's farmers and peasants.

Arènes joyeuses
1935
Director
Cabissol, the Mayor of Martigues, a town in the South of France, wishes to organize a bullfight as part of the coming festivities. But that is not cou...

Monsieur Sans-Gêne
1935
Director
A man creates a national scandal after he mistakenly kisses the wrong woman in a darkened cinema. The following year it was remade as an American come...

La cinquième empreinte
1934
Director
Jacques de Nisson, a rich man, has a new mistress, Lucie Cavelier. Which does not prevent him from courting Florence, the wife of his lawyer friend Fo...
A Fly in the Ointment
1934
Director
A young man drowning in debts must make a rich marriage to pay them off. But his friend compromises the plan until there is one that she likes and she...
Simone est comme ça
1933
Director

Les Surprises du sleeping
1933
Director
Prince Philippe of Bracowa must join his fiancée by train. The young and pretty Gisèle is on the same train, for her too to join her fiancé.

Un soir de réveillon
1933
Director

Matricule 33
1933
Director
In 1917, a French deserter entered the service of German counterintelligence, but Villard (number 33) was a real French spy. Discovered, he is saved b...

I'm a Girl with a Devil in the Flesh
1933
Director
This Czech sophisticated romantic comedy, filmed by director Anton also in a parallel French version ("Une petite femme dans le train"), casts beautif...

Nothing But Lies
1933
Director
Two husbands claim to be Freemasons so they can go out at night. Where do they go, if not to the lodge, the Masonic lodge? In reality, one goes to vis...

Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's
1933
Director
A man is a hunter at Maxim's restaurant. He lives in the provinces and his family is unaware of his profession. As soon as he has enough money, he qui...

Make Up
1932
Director
Misfortunes and disarray of the little clown Leroy who is upstaged by a comrade, Bertini, and sees himself abandoned by his girlfriend Ginette, prefer...

Une petite femme dans le train
1932
Director
Sophisticated romantic comedy of suspicious husbands, straying wives, handsome lovers, with various misunderstandings thrown in for good measure. (Inc...

Shout It from the House Tops
1932
Director
The son of a rich soap manufacturer gets himself in predicaments trying to prove to his father that he's responsible enough for marriage.
Mister Albert
1932
Director
Monsieur Albert is a very elegant and much-appreciated butler. One day he falls in love with a client, Sylvia Robertson, and follows her to a winter s...

The naked truth
1932
Director

The Champion Cook
1932
Director
Le Cordon Bleu doesn't refer to a ham-and-veal delicacy, though there is plenty of ham in this Gallic comedy. The scene is a posh Parisian hotel-resta...

The Case of Colonel Redl
1931
Director, Editor
The case of Colonel Redl -- an officer blackmailed into spying by virtue of his homosexuality.
A Girl from the Reeperbahn
1930
Director, Writer, Editor
Lighthouse keeper Uwe Bull lives with his wife Hanne and the silent assistant Jens in a secluded, small world. When the only survivor from a shipwreck...

Tonka of the Gallows
1930
Director, Editor, Producer
Melodramatic story of an innocent country girl (Ita Rina) who struggles to make a living in the city as a prostitute. As she provides last service to ...
Otec Kondelík a ženich Vejvara II.
1927
Director

Pohádka máje
1926
Director
A lyrical tale of the pure, vernal romance between a diffident, somewhat naive girl from a rural backwater and a fairly dissolute, but kind-hearted la...
Otec Kondelík a ženich Vejvara I.
1926
Director
Do panského stavu
1925
Director
The Kidnapping of Fux the Banker
1923
Director, Screenplay
Tu ten kámen
1923
Screenplay, Director, Story
Poslední polibek
1922
Director
Mrtví žijí
1922

Gypsies
1922
Director, Screenplay
The tale of the Venetian gondolier whose desire for revenge following a thwarted love affair leads him to Bohemia. The intricate plot also deals with ...