List of German films 1919–1933
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This is a list of the most notable films produced in Germany of the Weimar Republic era from 1919 until 1933, in year order. This period, between the end of World War I and the advent of the Nazi regime, 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.
For an alphabetical list of articles on Weimar German films see Category:Films of Weimar Germany.
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[edit] 1919
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1919 | ||||||
| Alraune und der Golem | Nils Olaf Chrisander | Lost, possibly never made IMDb | ||||
| Anders als die Andern (Different than the Others) |
Richard Oswald | Conrad Veidt | Drama | |||
| Die Arche | Richard Oswald | Science fiction | ||||
| 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 | |||||
| Nerven | Robert Reinert | IMDb | ||||
| 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 | Paul Wegener, Maria Koppenhöfer, Blandine Ebinger | ||||
[edit] 1920
[edit] 1921
[edit] 1922
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1922 | ||||||
| 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 | Crime | First Dr. Mabuse film | |||
| Hanneles Himmelfahrt | Urban Gad | Based on the play The Assumption of Hannele by Gerhart Hauptmann. | ||||
| Ihre Hoheit die Tänzerin | Richard Eichberg | Bela Lugosi | ||||
| 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 | Max Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder | Horror | First adaptation of Dracula | ||
| Othello | Dimitri Buchowetzki | |||||
| Phantom | Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau | |||||
| Tiefland | Adolf E. Licho | |||||
| Das Weib des Pharao (The Wife of the Pharaoh) | Ernst Lubitsch | |||||
[edit] 1923
[edit] 1924
[edit] 1925
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1925 | ||||||
| Der Flug um den Erdball, 1. Teil - Paris bis Ceylon | Willi Wolff | |||||
| Die freudlose Gasse | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Asta Nielsen Greta Garbo |
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| Der Gardeoffizier | Robert Wiene | |||||
| Opus IV | Walter Ruttmann | Animation | Film at YouTube(links to video of Opus II through IV with modern soundtrack) | |||
| The Pleasure Garden | Alfred Hitchcock | Melodrama | Co-production with the UK. Filmed in Munich and Italy | |||
| Prem Sanyas | Franz Osten Himansu Rai |
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| Die Prinzessin und der Geiger | Graham Cutts | |||||
| Rebus Film Nr. 1 | Paul Leni | |||||
| She | Leander de Cordova, G.B. Samuelson | Betty Blythe, Carlyle Blackwell | Adventure | Co-production with UK | ||
| Varieté | Ewald André Dupont | Drama | ||||
| Zur Chronik von Grieshuus | Arthur von Gerlach | |||||
[edit] 1926
[edit] 1927
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1927 | ||||||
| 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 | Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm | Science fiction | |||
| 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 the Will to Fight) |
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 | |||||
| Das Erwachen des Weibes (The Awakening of Woman) |
Fred Sauer | Movie Poster repeatedly displayed in Man with A Movie Camera (Vertov, 1929) | ||||
[edit] 1928
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1928 | ||||||
| Abwege | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Gustav Diessl, Brigitte Helm | ||||
| Alraune | Henrik Galeen | Brigitte Helm, Paul Wegener | Drama | 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 | William Dieterle, Gunnar Tolnæs | ||||
| Heimkehr | Joe May | |||||
| Polizeibericht Überfall | Ernö Metzner | |||||
| Scampolo | Augusto Genina | |||||
| Spione (Spies) | Fritz Lang | Thriller, Spy film | ||||
| Ungarische Rhapsodie (Hungarian Rapsody) | Hanns Schwarz | |||||
| Vormittagsspuk | Hans Richter | Animation | ||||
| Zuflucht | Carl Froelich | |||||
[edit] 1929
[edit] 1930
[edit] 1931
[edit] 1932
[edit] 1933
This year could count both as part of the Weimar era and the Nazi Germany era.
See List of German films 1933-1945
[edit] References
- ^ "A Brecht-Valentin Production: Mysteries of a Barbershop", W. Stuart McDowell, Performing Arts Journal, Vol. 1, No. 3 (Winter, 1977), pp. 2-14.
[edit] See also
- Weimar Republic
- Universum Film AG
- Cinema of Germany
- German Expressionism
- List of films set in 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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