Karl Platen Movies

Robert is almost the epitome of a head waiter: Politely and courteously, he informs guests about the goings on in the stock market as well as...

Four-generation story-saga dealing with the decline of a middle-class Lübeck family. The first adaptation of a Thomas Mann book was also Gerhard...

Life for Hanna Bollova has never been easy. No matter what she did in life, how hard she worked, there never seemed to be any money. That is, until...

A young woman born illegitimately comes to terms with the challenge of getting married.

Melodrama about an entrepreneur and his family.

Set in the sleepy Silesian town of Runxendorf, the story follows eccentric radio visionary Paul Neugebauer (Ludwig Manfred Lommel) as he schemes to...

A man searches for a cursed emerald belonging to his ancestor. Lost film, minor fragments survive

In Dresden's classical music world, female students learn from an opinionated conductor and a pompous dance instructor.When their work isn't...

a silent movie by Heinz Paul

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...

A method actress likes living out the roles she is playing in real life. To prepare for her new play, she enters the criminal underworld and ends up...

Robert Lambard, son of a respected Parisian banker, seduces Marguerite Walser, the sister of Guy Walser, a diligent general manager employed by his...

A group of popular musicians including a girl singer is staying in a spooky castle where there may be a treasure of money.

A sinister man instigates blackmail against the wayward wife of a banker.

The daughter of a landowner helps save an aristocratic neighbor from ruin, in this operetta adaptation.

Teresa is a young, always cheerful woman, who has a harmonious marriage with the writer Peter Duhren. Unfortunately, it’s so harmonious, that...

Film by Jacob and Luise Fleck.

The permanent lack of money is giving Kibis a real headache. The rent has been overdue for seven months and now he is threatened with eviction. Then...

Aimless Bohemians are encouraged to find their salvation in Arbeit (Work) in this propagandistic Nazi era German production.