List of films made in Weimar Germany (1919-1933)
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The period of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933) between the fall of the German Empire and the rise of the Third Reich is considered an early renaissance in world cinema, with many influential and important films being made. The style of many of these films is called German Expressionism.
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[edit] 1919
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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| Alraune und der Golem | Nils Olaf Chrisander | Lost, possibly never made IMDb | ||
| Anders als die Andern (Different than the Others) | Richard Oswald | First film to openly address homosexuality | ||
| Die Arche | ||||
| Die Austernprinzessin (The Oyster Princess) | Ernst Lubitsch | |||
| Harakiri | Fritz Lang | |||
| Der Knabe in Blau (The Boy in Blue) | Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau | Presumed lost film IMDb | ||
| Madame DuBarry | Ernst Lubitsch | |||
| Meyer aus Berlin | Ernst Lubitsch | |||
| Mod lyset | Holger-Madsen | |||
| Opium | Robert Reinert | |||
| Die Puppe | Ernst Lubitsch | |||
| Die Spinnen, 1. Teil - Der Goldene See (The Spiders, Part 1 - The Golden Lake) |
Fritz Lang | |||
| Unheimliche Geschichten (Ominous Tales) | Richard Oswald |
[edit] 1920
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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| Abend - Nacht - Morgen (Evening - Night - Morning) | Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau | Presumed lost film IMDb | ||
| Algol (Algol - Tragödie der Macht) | Hans Werckmeister | Emil Jannings | Sci-fi | |
| Anna Boleyn | Ernst Lubitsch | |||
| Der Bucklige und die Tänzerin (The Hunchback and the Dancer) |
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau | Presumed lost film IMDb | ||
| The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) |
Robert Wiene | |||
| Genuine: A Tale of the Vampire (Genuine) | Robert Wiene | |||
| The Golem: How He Came Into the World (Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam) |
Paul Wegener | See also: Golem | ||
| Ich möchte kein Mann sein | Ernst Lubitsch | |||
| The Head of Janus (Der Januskopf) | Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau | early appearances of Bela Lugosi and Conrad Veidt | Based on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Presumed lost film IMDb | |
| Kohlhiesels Töchter | Ernst Lubitsch | |||
| Romeo und Julia im Schnee (Romeo and Juliet in the Snow) |
Ernst Lubitsch | |||
| Satanas | Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau | Presumed lost film IMDb | ||
| Die Spinnen, 2. Teil - Das Brillantenschiff | Fritz Lang | Continuation from Die Spinnen, 1. Teil (see above) | ||
| Sumurun | Ernst Lubitsch |
[edit] 1921
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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| Die Bergkatze (The Mountaincat) | Ernst Lubitsch | Bergfilme comedy | ||
| Brennendes Land | Heinz Herald | |||
| Danton | Dimitri Buchowetzki | |||
| Der Gang in die Nacht | Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau | |||
| Hamlet | Svend Gade, Heinz Schall | |||
| Hintertreppe | Leopold Jessner, Paul Leni | |||
| Das indische Grabmal: Die Sendung des Yoghi (The Indian Tomb: Part I: the Mission of the Yogi) |
Joe May | |||
| Das indische Grabmal: Der Tiger von Eschnapur (The Indian Tomb: Part II: The Tiger of Bengal) |
Joe May | |||
| Der müde Tod (Weary Death) | Fritz Lang | Three narratives within a frame story narrated by Death | ||
| Opus I | Walter Ruttmann | Animation | Film at YouTube | |
| Opus II | Walter Ruttmann | Animation | Film at YouTube (links to video of Opus II thru IV with modern soundtrack) | |
| Rhythmus 21 | Hans Richter | Animation | ||
| Scherben | Lupu Pick | |||
| The Haunted Castle (Schloß Vogelöd) | Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau | |||
| Sehnsucht | Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau | Presumed lost film IMDb | ||
| Der Stern von Bethlehem (The Star of Bethlehem) | Lotte Reiniger | Animation | ||
| Tischlein deck dich, Eselein streck dich, Knüppel aus dem Sack | Wilhelm Prager | |||
| Der verlorene Schatten (The Lost Shadow) | Rochus Gliese |
[edit] 1922
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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| Aschenputtel | Lotte Reiniger | Animation | Based on traditional German variant of Cinderella | |
| Der brennende Acker | Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau | |||
| Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler - Ein Bild der Zeit (Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler - a Picture of the Times) |
Fritz Lang | First Dr. Mabuse film | ||
| Hanneles Himmelfahrt | Urban Gad | |||
| Jeremias | Eugen Illés | |||
| Lucrezia Borgia | Richard Oswald | |||
| Marizza | Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau | Presumed lost film IMDb | ||
| Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror) |
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau | First adaptation of Dracula | ||
| Othello | Dimitri Buchowetzki | |||
| Phantom | Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau | |||
| Sodom und Gomorrha | Michael Curtiz | |||
| Tiefland | Adolf E. Licho | |||
| Das Weib des Pharao (The Wife of the Pharaoh) | Ernst Lubitsch |
[edit] 1923
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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| Alles für Geld (All for Gold) | Reinhold Schünzel | |||
| Die Austreibung - die Macht der zweiten Frau (The Expulsion - The Power of Two Women) |
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau | Presumed lost filmIMDb | ||
| Erdgeist (Earth Spirit) | Leopold Jessner | |||
| I.N.R.I. - Ein Film der Menschlichkeit (INRI- A Film of Humanity) |
Robert Wiene | aka Crown of Thorns; dramatic portrayal of the life of Christ | ||
| Mysterien eines Frisiersalons (Mysteries of a Barber's Salon) |
Bertolt Brecht, Erich Engel | |||
| Schatten - Eine nächtliche Halluzination (Shadows- A Nightime Hallucination) |
Arthur Robison, Rudolf Schneider | |||
| Der Schatz (The Treasure) | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | |||
| Der steinerne Reiter (The Stone Rider) | Fritz Wendhausen | |||
| Die Straße (The Street) | Karl Grune |
[edit] 1924
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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| Der Berg des Schicksals (Mountain of Destiny) | Arnold Fanck | |||
| Carlos und Elisabeth | Richard Oswald | |||
| Die Finanzen des Großherzogs (Finances of the Grand Duke) |
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau | |||
| Helena, 1. Teil - Der Raub der Helena (Helena, Part 1 - The Taking of Helen) |
Manfred Noa | |||
| Helena, 2. Teil - Der Untergang Trojas (Helena, Part 2 - The Fall of Troy) |
Manfred Noa | |||
| Der letzte Mann | Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau | Literally The Last Man; aka The Last Laugh | ||
| Mikaël (Chained: The Story of the Third Sex) | Carl Theodor Dreyer | Explicitly addresses homosexuality | ||
| Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (The Nibelungen: Siegfried) |
Fritz Lang | |||
| Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache (The Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Revenge) |
Fritz Lang | |||
| Opus III | Walter Ruttmann | Animation | Film at YouTube (links to video of Opus II thru IV with modern soundtrack) | |
| Orlacs Hände (The Unscrupulous Hands of Dr. Orloc) | Robert Wiene | |||
| Sylvester (New Years) | Lupu Pick | |||
| Symphonie diagonale | Viking Eggeling | Animation | ||
| Waxworks (Das Wachsfigurenkabinett) | Paul Leni | Literally The Waxfigure Cabinet | ||
| Das Wolkenphänomen in Majola (Cloud Phenomena of Majola) |
Arnold Fanck |
[edit] 1925
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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| Der Flug um den Erdball, 1. Teil - Paris bis Ceylon | Willi Wolff | |||
| Die freudlose Gasse | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | |||
| Der Gardeoffizier | Robert Wiene | |||
| Opus IV | Walter Ruttmann | Animation | Film at YouTube(links to video of Opus II thru IV with modern soundtrack) | |
| The Pleasure Garden | Alfred Hitchcock | |||
| Prem Sanyas | Franz Osten, Himansu Rai | |||
| Die Prinzessin und der Geiger | Graham Cutts | |||
| Rebus Film Nr. 1 | Paul Leni | |||
| Varieté | Ewald André Dupont | |||
| Zur Chronik von Grieshuus | Arthur von Gerlach |
[edit] 1926
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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| The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed) |
Lotte Reiniger | Animation / Fantasy | Oldest-surviving animated feature film IMDb | |
| Adventures of a Ten Mark Note (Die Abenteuer eines Zehnmarkscheines) | Berthold Viertel | |||
| Faust (Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage) | Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau | Gösta Ekman, Emil Jannings | Fantasy / Horror | aka Faust - A German Folk Legend |
| Fiaker Nr. 13 | Michael Curtiz | |||
| Der Geiger von Florenz | Paul Czinner | |||
| Der goldene Schmetterling | Michael Curtiz | |||
| Der Hauptmann von Köpenick | Siegfried Dessauer | All copies that could be found were ordered destroyed by Hitler | ||
| The Holy Mountain (Der heilige Berg) | Arnold Fanck | Leni Riefenstahl | Drama | One of many Bergfilme |
| Herr Tartüff | Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau | Emil Jannings | Drama | Adaptation of Molière's play |
| Michel Strogoff | Viktor Tourjansky | Adventure | French-German co-production | |
| The Mountain Eagle | Alfred Hitchcock | Nita Naldi, Bernard Goetzke | British-German co-production | |
| The Student of Prague (1926 film) (Der Student von Prag) | Henrik Galeen | Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss, Elizza La Porta | Drama / Horror | Based on the story by Hanns Heinz Ewers Remake of the 1913 film The Student of Prague (1913 film) |
[edit] 1927
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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| Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt (Berlin: Symphony of a Great City) |
Walter Ruttmann | Experimental documentary | Runtime: 65 min. | |
| Das Geheimnis des Abbe X (The Secret of Abby X) | Julius Brandt, William Dieterle | |||
| Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney (The Love of Jeanne Ney) | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | |||
| Metropolis | Fritz Lang | |||
| The Queen was in the Parlour | Graham Cutts | |||
| Ramper, der Tiermensch (Ramper, the Animal Man) | Max Reichmann | |||
| Seelische Konstruktionen (Spiritual Construction) | Oskar Fischinger | Experimental film | Runtime: 10 min. | |
| Eine Symphonie des Kampfwillens (A Symphony of Struggling Wills) |
NSDAP propaganda | The first documentary of a Nuremberg Rally | ||
| U 9 Weddigen | Heinz Paul | |||
| Was ist los im Zirkus Beely? | Harry Piel | |||
| Die Weber | Friedrich Zelnik |
[edit] 1928
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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| Abwege | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | |||
| Alraune | Henrik Galeen | Based on the story by Hanns Heinz Ewers | ||
| Der geheimnisvolle Spiegel | Carl Hoffmann, Richard Teschner | |||
| Geschlecht in Fesseln - Die Sexualnot der Gefangenen (Sex in Chains) | William Dieterle | Another film to explicitly address homosexuality | ||
| Heimkehr | Joe May | |||
| Polizeibericht Überfall | Ernö Metzner | |||
| Scampolo | Augusto Genina | |||
| Spione (Spies) | Fritz Lang | |||
| Ungarische Rhapsodie (Hungarian Rapsody) | Hanns Schwarz | |||
| Vormittagsspuk | Hans Richter | Animation | ||
| Zuflucht | Carl Froelich |
[edit] 1929
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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| Asphalt | Joe May | |||
| Brüder | Werner Hochbaum | |||
| Pandora's Box (Die Büchse der Pandora) | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Featuring Louise Brooks | ||
| Frau im Mond (The Woman in the Moon) | Fritz Lang | Romance | A realistic planetary romance | |
| Fräulein Else | Paul Czinner | |||
| Großstadtschmetterling | Richard Eichberg | |||
| Ich küsse Ihre Hand, Madame (I Kiss Your Hand, Madame) | Robert Land | |||
| Melodie der Welt | Walter Ruttmann | |||
| La Merveilleuse vie de Jeanne d'Arc (The Marvelous Life of Joan of Arc) |
Marco de Gastyne | |||
| Mutter Krausens Fahrt ins Glück | Phil Jutzi | |||
| Napoleon auf St. Helena (Napoleon at St. Helena) | Lupu Pick | |||
| Das Schiff der verlorenen Menschen (The Ship of Lost Men) |
Maurice Tourneur | |||
| Diary of a Lost Girl (Tagebuch einer Verlorenen) | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Featuring Louise Brooks | ||
| Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü | Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Arnold Fanck | |||
| The Wrecker | Géza von Bolváry | |||
| Die wunderbare Lüge der Nina Petrowna | Hanns Schwarz | |||
| Zwei Welten | Werner Hochbaum |
[edit] 1930
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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| Abschied | Robert Siodmak | Brigitte Horney, Aribert Mog | Love tragicomedy | |
| Achtung! - Auto-Diebe! | Harry Piel | Harry Piel, Hugo Fischer-Köppe | ||
| Alraune | Richard Oswald | Brigitte Helm | Sci-fi | Based on the story by Hanns Heinz Ewers |
| El Amor solfeando | Armand Guerra | |||
| Der blaue Engel (The Blue Angel) | Josef von Sternberg | Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings | ||
| Le Chemin du paradis | Wilhelm Thiele, Max de Vaucorbeil | |||
| Die Drei von der Tankstelle | Wilhelm Thiele | |||
| Einbrecher | Hanns Schwarz | |||
| Der Greifer | Richard Eichberg | |||
| Die große Sehnsucht | Steve Sekely | |||
| Der Hampelmann | E.W. Emo | |||
| Der Herr auf Bestellung | Géza von Bolváry | |||
| Der Kampf mit dem Drachen oder: Die Tragödie des Untermieters | Robert Siodmak | |||
| Die letzte Kompanie | Curtis Bernhardt | |||
| Menschen am Sonntag | Robert Siodmak, Curt Siodmak | |||
| Rasputin, Dämon der Frauen | Adolf Trotz | |||
| Der unsterbliche Lump | Joe May | |||
| Westfront 1918 | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | |||
| Zwei Herzen im Dreiviertel-Takt | Géza von Bolváry |
[edit] 1931
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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| Die 3groschenoper (Three Penny Opera) | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | A film of Bertolt Brecht; French version: L'Opéra de quat'sous | ||
| Anna Christie | Jacques Feyder | |||
| Ein ausgekochter Junge | Erich Schönfelder | |||
| Berlin - Alexanderplatz | Phil Jutzi | |||
| Bomben auf Monte Carlo | Hanns Schwarz | |||
| Emil und die Detektive (Emil and the Detective) | Gerhard Lamprecht | |||
| Gloria | Hans Behrendt | |||
| Der Hauptmann von Köpenick | Richard Oswald | |||
| Hyppolit a lakáj | Steve Sekely | |||
| Ich geh' aus und Du bleibst da | Hans Behrendt | |||
| Kameradschaft (Comradeship) | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Fr. title: La Tragédie de la mine | ||
| Keine Feier ohne Meyer | Carl Boese | |||
| Die Koffer des Herrn O.F. | Alexis Granowsky | |||
| Der Kongreß tanzt (Congress Dances) | Erik Charell | French language version: Le Congrès s'amuse | ||
| Kyritz - Pyritz | Carl Heinz Wolff | |||
| M | Fritz Lang | Peter Lorre's breakout role | ||
| Der Mann, der seinen Mörder sucht (A Man in search of his own Murderer) |
Robert Siodmak | |||
| Mary | Alfred Hitchcock | |||
| Mädchen in Uniform (The Girls in Uniform) | Leontine Sagan | One of the earliest films to openly potray lesbianism - IMDb | ||
| Der Mörder Dimitri Karamasoff | Erich Engels, Fyodor Otsep | |||
| Niemandsland | Victor Trivas | |||
| Der Raub der Mona Lisa | Géza von Bolváry | |||
| Schatten der Manege | Heinz Paul | |||
| Studie Nr. 7 | Oskar Fischinger | Animation | ||
| Studie Nr. 8 | Oskar Fischinger | Animation | ||
| Der unbekannte Gast | E. W. Emo | |||
| Die verliebte Firma | Max Ophüls | |||
| Der weiße Rausch - Neue Wunder des Schneeschuhs | Arnold Fanck | |||
| Wer nimmt die Liebe ernst... | Erich Engel | |||
| Yorck | Gustav Ucicky |
[edit] 1932
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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| Acht Mädels im Boot (Eight Girls in a Boat) | Erich Waschneck | |||
| Allo Berlin? Ici Paris! (Hello Berlin? This is Paris) | Julien Duvivier | |||
| L'Atlantide | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | German lang. version: Die Herrin von Atlantis English lang. version: Mistress of Atlantis |
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| The Blue Light (Das blaue Licht) | Leni Riefenstahl | Bergefilm | Riefenstahl directorial debut | |
| Blutendes Deutschland (Bloody Germany) | Johannes Häussler | Propaganda | Nazi propaganda film about Horst Wessel | |
| Ein blonder Traum (A Blondes Dream) | Paul Martin | Featuring Lilian Harvey | Musical/ Romantic comedy | |
| F.P.1 antwortet nicht (FP1 Doesn't Respond) | Karl Hartl | |||
| Filmtagebuch vom Krieg in China (Film Diary of the War in China) |
Martin Rikli | Documetary | ||
| Der Frechdachs (The Audacious Badger) | Carl Boese | Romantic comedy | (Badger was German slang for a unfaithful man)IMDb | |
| Fräulein - Falsch verbunden (Fraulein, Wrong Number) | E.W. Emo | Romantic comedy | ||
| Hitler über Deutschland (Hitler over Germany) | Propaganda | NSDAP propaganda film for German presidential election, 1932 | ||
| Kuhle Wampe oder: Wem gehört die Welt? (To Whom Does the World Belong?) |
Slatan Dudow | |||
| Das Lied einer Nacht (The Song of the Night) | Anatole Litvak | Musical/ Romantic comedy | ||
| Lügen auf Rügen (Scams Out of Bamboozles) | Victor Janson | Comedy | ||
| Mensch ohne Namen (Man With No Name) | Gustav Ucicky | |||
| Peter Voss, der Millionendieb (Peter Voss Who Stole Millions) |
Ewald André Dupont | Comedy | ||
| Rasputin, Dämon der Frauen (Rasputin, Demon of Women) |
Adolf Trotz | Featuring Conrad Veidt | ||
| Quick | Robert Siodmak | Featuring Lilian Harvey | Comedy | |
| Scampolo, ein Kind der Straße (Scampolo, a Child of the Street) |
Hans Steinhoff | Comedy | ||
| Der schwarze Husar (The Black Hussar) | Gerhard Lamprecht | Featuring Conrad Veidt | Historical comedy | |
| Spione im Savoy-Hotel (Spies in the Savoy Hotel) | Frederic Zelnik | Featuring Alfred Abel | Comedy | |
| Ein steinreicher Mann (A Tremendously Rich Man) | Hans Steinhoff | Comedy | ||
| Studie Nr. 10 | Oskar Fischinger | Animation | ||
| Stupéfiants | Kurt Gerron, Roger Le Bon | Featuring Peter Lorre | ||
| Tumultes | Robert Siodmak | Featuring Charles Boyer | ||
| Vampyr - Der Traum des Allan Grey (Vampire - A Dream of Allan Grey) |
Carl Theodor Dreyer | |||
| Zu Befehl, Herr Unteroffizier (At Your Orders, Sergeant) |
Erich Schönfelder | Comedy |
[edit] 1933
This year could count both as part of the Weimar era and the Third Reich era.
See List of films made in the Third Reich (1933-1945)
[edit] See also
- Weimar Republic
- Universum Film AG
- Cinema of Germany
- German Expressionism
- List of films featuring Berlin
- List of films made in France 1919-1940
- List of films made in Poland in the Interwar Period
- List of films made in First Republic of Czechoslovakia
- List of Dutch Films made in the Interwar period (1919-1940)
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