Paul Dessau Trailers
Paul Dessau (19 December 1894 – 28 June 1979) was a German composer and conductor. He collaborated with Bertold Brecht and composed incidental music for his plays, and several operas based on them.
Paul Dessau (19 December 1894 – 28 June 1979) was a German composer and conductor. He collaborated with Bertold Brecht and composed incidental music for his plays, and several operas based on them.
Total trailers found: 34
14 December 1938
Herr Werther, a new magistrate to the Grand Duchy of Walheim who is a violinist and poet, seems to have fate on his side as he meets and pursues a beautiful local woman, Charlotte.
30 December 1938
A famous violinist enlists in a music school in order to woo one of the students.
24 July 1965
A recording of the 1939 play "Mother Courage and Her Children" for German TV.
05 November 1928
Heli's misfortune begins when her mother, the landlady, marries for the second time. The man is bossy and brutal.
01 April 1938
A British officer poses as a traitor in order to infiltrate a team of terrorists who are sabotaging ships, while a seductive cabaret dancer is working for the mysterious genius who runs the enemy spy ring.
12 April 1933
The two main people in the story are Anna, a young girl, who is thought of having the ability to heal people mysteriously.
07 May 1963
A two-part East German documentary tracing Russia’s transformation from the Tsarist Empire to the Soviet Union, from the 1917 October Revolution to the achievements of the space program.
25 December 1930
Hannes is employed at the Mont Blanc Observatory; the only outside connection is a pilot and Hella over the radio.
25 May 1944
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
21 July 1948
In Hungary, a rich baron discovers that there are extensive oil deposits underneath nearby properties owned by villagers.
10 October 1968
In August of 1914, amidst the public ecstasy surrounding the impending war, Hans Gastl, the young son of a Munich bürger, makes a decision: he will not take part in this war.
15 December 1944
Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a traveling chamber of horrors, soon reviving the infamous Count Dracula, the frozen Frankenstein Monster, and the Wolf Man.
31 October 1952
A man investigates the disappearance of two of his friends who were the guests of a sinister Austrian count.
16 April 1948
Horace Vendig always gets what he wants. Even as a poor youth, he charmed his way into high society by getting the father of his friend, Martha, to foot the bill for his Harvard education.
17 August 1945
George Sanders stars in this engrossing melodrama about a very domineering sister who holds a tight grip on her brother -- especially when he shows signs of falling in love.
23 June 1937
Based on a novel by Maurice Dekobra, the film is set in Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, in the nineteenth century.
20 September 1926
Alice and Julius, while out hunting big game, find themselves brought before the court of the Lion King.
05 March 1936
In war against the Poles, the leader Cossack sees itself betrayed by one of his threads, been in love the girl of an enemy.
03 February 1937
Two journalists from different papers are looking for the same story. They want to know, who a group of gangsters getting young women from Europe to South America, where they are forced to work in brothels.
10 December 1931
The exploits of village girl Hannes and her attempts to master skiing and ski-jumping aided by the local expert.
01 September 1957
The East German documentary uncovers the postwar career of Heinz Reinefarth, the former SS general responsible for atrocities during the Warsaw Uprising who became mayor of Westerland on the island of Sylt.
24 August 1930
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 stars of the era.
06 June 1958
An East German documentary by Andrew and Annelie Thorndike investigating NATO General Hans Speidel’s alleged role in the 1934 assassination of Yugoslav King Alexander I and French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou.
03 February 1930
A sailor falls for a music hall performer with marital problems, after having been at sea a long 12 years, only to learn the distressing news that she is his own sister.
09 September 1938
A wealthy industrialist, Roger de Vetheuil, married, feels assured of aging in peace. Then appears a blackmailer who accuses him of being a usurper, actually called Jean Pelletier, a mobster well known to police.
30 August 1956
An East German documentary that uses archival footage to trace a direct line from Imperial Germany through the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich to the Federal Republic of West Germany in the 1950s.
10 February 1961
During the Thirty Years' War, the camp-follower Anna Fierling, called "Mother Courage", travels the length and breadth of Europe with her covered wagon.
10 August 1967
The film’s subtitle identifies it as a “study of the constructive discontent of a composer”. It is a portrait of the pugnacious musician Paul Dessau (1894 – 1979), who was controversial in East Germany, as a teacher.
14 December 1940
The owner of the place of Chamonix covets the inn, run by the Michel's uncle, whose business goes bad.
03 February 1967
GDR anti-Vietnam propaganda film with footage of East Germans donating blood to be sent to the Viet Cong soldiers.
30 January 1974
Mr. Puntilla is kind to his servants only when he's drunk, and at other times, they endure nothing but insults from him.
01 January 1956
Die Novemberrevolution 1918 (The November Revolution 1918) (1956) is a short East German documentary directed by Andrew and Annelie Thorndike.