Hermann Pfeiffer

Acting

Hermann Pfeiffer

Born — Died

1902-05-06 — 1969-07-11

Place of birth

Wuppertal, Germany

Known for

Acting

Credits

73 titles

Known for

The Yellow Flag poster
8.5

An adventurer, Peter Diercksen, travels to South America to guide an expedition into the jungle. However, when the ship is quarantined he believes he has a serious disease. He does not accompany the trip, which runs into major problems.

The Yellow Flag

1937

Kommen Sie am Ersten poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kommen Sie am Ersten

1951

No artwork available
10.0

A waitress takes all the gossip of a small town on the Rhine in stride, in spite of a distinguished composer being a loving husband and father for her illegitimate child.

Kornblumenblau

1939

The Desert Song poster
5.6

When the famous singer Grace Collins got off the plane that had flown her a remote place in Northen Africa little did she know she would meet love and adventure there. If she came there, it was to visit Sir Collins, her stepfather. Falling in love was not on the agenda but how could she resist the charm of Nic Brenten, an alluring and idealistic Dutch engineer? Butcan devotion and generosity really compete with the greed of someone like Sir Collins, a cynical financier who wants to dispossess the locals of the copper mine Brenten helps them to develop ?...

The Desert Song

1939

Truxa poster
6.0

The famous tightrope artist Truxa is drinking at the Artisan bar in New York. He meets a young man, Husen, and gives him his stage name Truxa. He is to take the real Truxa's place at a circus show in Wintergarten, Berlin.

Truxa

1937

Homeland poster
7.5

In 1885, famous New York Metropolitan Opera singer Maddalena dall' Orto is scheduled to perform at a festival in the German residence of Ilmingen. It soon becomes obvious that she is non other than Magda von Schwartze, who left the town eight years ago against her father's wishes to become a singer.

Homeland

1938

Film credits

1950s · 15 titles

Kommen Sie am Ersten poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kommen Sie am Ersten

1951

Weh dem, der liebt! poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Weh dem, der liebt!

1951

Junger Mann, der alles kann poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Junger Mann, der alles kann

1957

They Call It Love poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

They Call It Love

1953

The Little Town will go to Sleep poster
5.0

In a small town a bag with delicate letters disappears. Many of the residents are worried about their written messages. A clever sculptor uses the opportunity to play a prank.

The Little Town will go to Sleep

1954

Eine Frau mit Herz poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Eine Frau mit Herz

1951

The Swap poster
5.0

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 to Gigl for a week in exchange for the bull?

The Swap

1952

Rot ist die Liebe poster
7.0

Poet Hermann Lons is turning 40. On his birthday, his childhood love, Rosemarie, unexpectedly to visit her cousin (who just happens to be Hermann's wife). Rosemarie and Hermann walk through the Luneburger Heide every day and it isn't long before their old love flares up again. Hermann is rather annoyed about that and asks the woman to leave. His decision, however, brings him no joy. Luckily, he's able to deal with his grief by writing poetry, which brings him some success. But now his life is one big, melancholy drama, punctuated by too much alcohol. When Hermann eventually learns that Rosemarie has gotten engaged to Hermann's hunting buddy, Prince Niko, he realizes he wants to ask his wife for a divorce and chase after his former lover. Luckily(?), Rosemarie puts the brakes on the whole thing saying it's too late for them.

Rot ist die Liebe

1957

The Last Waltz poster
7.0

The singer and dancer Vera Opalinska performs as Arlette in 1920s Paris, where she is a star. Next on the agenda is a tour of the United States. The contract is to be signed after a final, highly acclaimed show. During the negotiations, her new PR agent asks about her background.

The Last Waltz

1953

Guitars of Love poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Guitars of Love

1955

Dein Mund verspricht mir Liebe poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Dein Mund verspricht mir Liebe

1954

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

I Can't Marry Everyone

1952

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Czardas der Herzen

1951

No artwork available
NR

In South Tirol, shortly after ww-ii: Paul and Barbara Holzmann and their son Charlie own a small gasoline station. At their wedding anniversary, of all days, Barbara finds proof that Paul may again have cheated on her. At first she believes his explanations, but when she finds more proof later, she leaves and seeks comfort in the arms of her former friend Nicola in Italy. The story is told from the perspective of her diary.

Tagebuch einer Verliebten

1953

Engel im Abendkleid poster
9.0

The bailiff Engel is believed to be an heir to the millions via a fictitious newspaper advertisement. It is said to have a mink farm. Your debtors mean my nun that as a millionaire you can pay the debts. Some dowry hunters have seen it on them too. Paulchen, who shows the ad, has in Ms. Engel and in the end she also has a couple.

Engel im Abendkleid

1951

1940s · 12 titles

Die Wirtin zum weißen Röss'l poster
5.7

Up till now, Eri Bel and Heinz Marius were a happy couple only on the movie screen. Now, however, the successful film stars want to be a happy couple in real life. After the next film they star in together, the whole thing should be a reality.

Die Wirtin zum weißen Röss'l

1943

The Wedding Hotel poster
10.0

A group of artists and journalists enjoy a series of romantic entanglements in a country hotel. An author, Vera von Eichberg "of whom no photo exists," has mentioned the hotel in her work, boosting its notoriety. When another female guest arrives, everyone assumes she is the author, despite her repeated assertions to the contrary.

The Wedding Hotel

1944

The Great Love poster
6.8

The attractive Oberleutnant Paul Wendlandt is stationed in North Africa as a fighter pilot. While in Berlin to deliver a report he is given a day's leave, and on the stage of the cabaret theatre "Skala" sees the popular Danish singer Hanna Holberg. For Paul it is love at first sight. When Hanna visits friends after the end of the performance, he follows her, and speaks to her in the U-Bahn. After the party in her friends' flat, he accompanies her home and chance throws them further together when an air raid warning forces them to take cover in the air raid shelter. Hanna reciprocates Paul's feelings, but after a night spent together Paul has to return immediately to the front. There now follows a whole series of misunderstandings, and one missed opportunity after another. While Hanna waits in vain for some sign of life from Paul, he is flying on missions in North Africa. When he tries to visit her in her Berlin flat, she is giving a Christmas concert in Paris.

The Great Love

1942

Familienanschluß poster
8.0

Old captain Barkhahn keeps on going bankrupt with all his business endeavors. He’s made for the sea and not for the land. His newest idea is a family-run bed and breakfast with “Familienanschluß," and so Captain Bräuer moves in and quickly shows interest in Barkhahn's daughter Käthe, whom he met and bugged earlier already. Meanwhile, the bailiff is on Barkhahn's back, and the next catastrophe is on the rise.

Familienanschluß

1941

Unser kleiner Junge poster
7.0

The printing worker Lena suffers a lot from the teasing of her colleagues, because no one really knows who the child she expects is from. The alleged father, sailor Ole Thomsen, is on his way. When he comes back, doubts also prevail over him, and he sits down. When Lena wants to take her own life, the doubters come to their senses and found a fund for the boy to be expected.

Unser kleiner Junge

1941

Damals poster
7.0

Vera Meiners' life was sweet but unfortunately for her, it was not to last. Her husband, Jan, left her after she met a former lover in a harmless friendly meeting. Forced to resume her disrupted medical career, she worked in a Swiss clinic but, without the knowledge of the chief surgeon, Vera ordered a risky operation to be performed and was thereafter fired. Penniless, she then works in Spanish nightclubs in order to provide for herself and her child. After many years, she runs into her friend Frank again in one of these nightclubs...

Damals

1943

Jenny und der Herr im Frack poster
6.4

In this intricately plotted crime comedy, Johannes Heesters plays the worldly insurance detective Peter Holm, who is determined to apprehend jewel thief Robert Makaroff. To this end, Holm travels to Copenhagen, where the Hungarian actress Lilly Hegedüsch is staying at a luxury hotel with her rare jewelry. While Holm is searching for Makaroff, Jenny, the sleuthing daughter of Holm's boss, arrives in Copenhagen. Since Jenny doesn't know her secret admirer Holm, numerous mix-ups and suspicions ensue before the rival detectives become lovers.

Jenny und der Herr im Frack

1941

Everything for Gloria poster
7.0

The ambitious female chief executive of a gramophone record company slowly finds herself falling in love with the company's head of production.

Everything for Gloria

1941

Beloved Darling poster
6.0

When a wife reads a love letter addressed to her husband, written by an unknown female, all hell breaks lose.

Beloved Darling

1943

No artwork available
9.0

A young actress in love ensnares the director she admires by successfully playing the role of his ideal woman—the homemaker.

Frau nach Maß

1940

No artwork available
6.0

Herzensfreud-Herzensleid (literally translates to "Heartfelt Joy - Heartbreak"), the 1940 Hubert Marischka German family relationship romantic comedy starring Magda Schneider, Paul Horbiger (later, he appeared in "The Third Man"!), Olly Holzmann, Lucie Englisch, and Walter Muller. It appears this movie was never released in the U.S.

Herzensfreud – Herzensleid

1940

Circus Renz poster
5.4

A circus film made as a deliberately escapist release at a time when the Second World War was starting to turn against Germany and its allies.

Circus Renz

1943

1930s · 33 titles

The Yellow Flag poster
8.5

An adventurer, Peter Diercksen, travels to South America to guide an expedition into the jungle. However, when the ship is quarantined he believes he has a serious disease. He does not accompany the trip, which runs into major problems.

The Yellow Flag

1937

The Desert Song poster
5.6

When the famous singer Grace Collins got off the plane that had flown her a remote place in Northen Africa little did she know she would meet love and adventure there. If she came there, it was to visit Sir Collins, her stepfather. Falling in love was not on the agenda but how could she resist the charm of Nic Brenten, an alluring and idealistic Dutch engineer? Butcan devotion and generosity really compete with the greed of someone like Sir Collins, a cynical financier who wants to dispossess the locals of the copper mine Brenten helps them to develop ?...

The Desert Song

1939

The Desert Song poster
5.6

When the famous singer Grace Collins got off the plane that had flown her a remote place in Northen Africa little did she know she would meet love and adventure there. If she came there, it was to visit Sir Collins, her stepfather. Falling in love was not on the agenda but how could she resist the charm of Nic Brenten, an alluring and idealistic Dutch engineer? Butcan devotion and generosity really compete with the greed of someone like Sir Collins, a cynical financier who wants to dispossess the locals of the copper mine Brenten helps them to develop ?...

The Desert Song

1939

Truxa poster
6.0

The famous tightrope artist Truxa is drinking at the Artisan bar in New York. He meets a young man, Husen, and gives him his stage name Truxa. He is to take the real Truxa's place at a circus show in Wintergarten, Berlin.

Truxa

1937

Homeland poster
7.5

In 1885, famous New York Metropolitan Opera singer Maddalena dall' Orto is scheduled to perform at a festival in the German residence of Ilmingen. It soon becomes obvious that she is non other than Magda von Schwartze, who left the town eight years ago against her father's wishes to become a singer.

Homeland

1938

Salonwagen E 417 poster
7.0

In a transport museum, the items on display begin to tell their stories. Most interesting is the history of the Pullman car. In the beginning, it served as transport for a princely family; then became the headquarters car for the military high command; and then, most adventurous of all, it ended up with a circus. Converted to a bar, it finally had its day and was supposed to serve as a placard carrier. Luckily, the museum saved it from this sad fate.

Salonwagen E 417

1939

Ich bin gleich wieder da poster
10.0

Undergraduate Nik just wanted to get cigarettes when he is pulled into a series of events over the course of one night. Also during this night he meets three interesting women - whom will he end up with?

Ich bin gleich wieder da

1939

Duet poster
8.0

Opera singer Maria Seydlitz has just left her fiancé because he put her between the choice of husband or profession when she receives a telegram from New York: an unknown person hires her for a large fee at the theater Maria accepts the offer... The film is based on the novel of the same name by Hans Rudolf Berndorff. The film was shot from July to September 1936 on the Neubabelsberg outdoor area and on the passenger ship "Bremen“. He experienced on the 15th. Its premiere in January 1937 in Berlin's Gloria-Palast.

Duet

1937

Die Kronzeugin poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Kronzeugin

1937

The Man Who Can't Say No poster
7.0

This 1938 film by Mario Camerini is the German version of a previously-made film by the same director. However, unlike the previous film, this one isn't quite as serious. A libertine gets married, but is free to carry out his adventures in this marriage of convenience. Eventually, however, he will discover that the marriage is more than something convenient and will lead, surprisingly, to something he never expected.

The Man Who Can't Say No

1938

No artwork available
6.7

A soldier thinks about leaving the army for a woman. His friends try to stop him.

Drei Unteroffiziere

1939

Napoleon Is to Blame for Everything poster
8.5

English Lord Arthur Cavershoot is a passionate Napoleon scholar who badly neglects his wife Josephine for his obsession with the French emperor. When the cranky historian travels to a Napoleon conference in Paris, his smart spouse secretly follows him. Unnoticed by her, the city of love threatens to spark a romance between Arthur and a chorus girl.

Napoleon Is to Blame for Everything

1938

A Night in May poster
7.6

A reckless young woman has her driving license withdrawn, drives home anyway and gets involved in a traffic accident. Realizing this was a little over the top she decides that she has to flee the country. As fate has it, she misses her train and instead meets a handsom young man who imidiately falls in love with her. This marks the beginning of a long night of misunderstandings, chases and courting.

A Night in May

1938

Alarm at Station III poster
5.8

During the Prohibition the US government has been just as successful at stopping drinking as they have been in the War on Drugs. Customs Officer Arne Kolk is determined to stop the alcohol smugglers at any price.

Alarm at Station III

1939

Kitty and the World Conference poster
8.0

The setting is Lugano (Switzerland), where an apparently very important world conference takes place. The film tells the story of the young Kitty (Hannelore Schroth), who works as a manicurist at the Eden Hotel, and who in the course of events gets to know both a young journalist (Christian Gollong) and the English minister of economics (Fritz Odemar). A lot of wild mix-ups, comic situations, a love story and occasional singing ensue, and in the end most of the VIPs have gained their share of laughter… There’s also a great performance by Paul Hörbiger as the hotel porter. For a 1939 film made in Germany, “Kitty” is remarkably irreverent and satirical about politics.

Kitty and the World Conference

1939

No artwork available
7.0

At the behest of the financially strapped Duke, his nephew, Crown Prince Rudolf, is to marry someone of suitable rank. But Rudolf has no interest whatsoever in his uncle's plans and works under his commoner's name as an engineer in a car factory. Then a certain Count Rasumirski appears before the Duke and explains that the famous operetta diva Vera Naldi is actually a Russian princess who knows nothing of her origins. They hatch a plan to marry Rudolf off to her. But at the theater, Rudolf falls not for the singer, but for the secretary. Instead, Rudolf's other uncle begins to take an interest in Vera. Then, however, it turns out that Rasumirski is an imposter and Vera is not a princess at all...

Frühlingsluft

1938

Wie einst im Mai poster
10.0

1900: Much to the chagrin of Baron Uhlendorff in Schoneberg, the city of Berlin is expanding. But what is much worse is that his son George is in love with Traute, the daughter of the master carpenter Schradecke. So the son must leave for South America as a diplomat and Father Schradecke has to intercept his letters to his daughter. Traute is inconsolable; 1913: The early days of the small artisans have now given way to them becoming big businessmen. Traute continues to wait for George in spite of the stubborn proposing by the carpenter Paul Buttner.

Wie einst im Mai

1938

Parkstrasse 13 poster
7.5

The beautiful Evelyne Schratt, who has many admirerers, and whose two husbands both died under mysterious circumstances, is giving a reception. When one of her admirers is found stabbed to death in a room upstairs, the police detains everyone in the house and begins an interrogation (oh goody: does dinner come with this mystery theatre, too?). Evelyne admits, that the murdered man tried to blackmail about some information he had about the death of the two husbands.

Parkstrasse 13

1939

Talking About Jacqueline poster
5.8

Since her father died, rich and carefree Jacqueline Topelius makes magazine covers and causes social gossip with her flirtatious adventures around Europe, leaving a string of admirers behind without much concern. Her sister June, living in Paris, is all the contrary but they love each other just the same. Everything changes when Jacqueline meets Dr. Michael Thomas, who rejects her at first. Now she must choose, and also face the consequences her past life may have on their future together.

Talking About Jacqueline

1937

Das Mädchen von gestern Nacht poster
3.5

No synopsis available yet.

Das Mädchen von gestern Nacht

1938

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Barbara, wo bist Du?

1939

Autobus S poster
9.0

Bus driver Jonny wants to marry Grete, but she is jealous, and when he wrecks his bus, gets robbed by burglars and is implicated in an insurance fraud he decides to leave town and sign up on a ship as a sailor.

Autobus S

1937

Liebe geht seltsame Wege poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Liebe geht seltsame Wege

1937

Der Unwiderstehliche poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

Der Unwiderstehliche

1937

Ihr Leibhusar poster
5.7

An easy-going hussar officer successfully vies for the love of a millionaire's daughter.

Ihr Leibhusar

1938

Das Recht auf Liebe poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Das Recht auf Liebe

1939

Five Millions Seek an Heir poster
4.1

According to his last will, the rich American uncle of vacuum cleaner salesman Peter Pett only leaves his 5 million dollars to Peter if he is married happily. Otherwise the five million will fall to Peter's Scottish cousin Patrick.

Five Millions Seek an Heir

1938

The Stars Shine poster
6.6

German all-star musical from 1938 that was a big commercial success.

The Stars Shine

1938

No artwork available
5.2

Curt serenades his wife Charlott from the garden without her recognizing him. When she later doesn't refer to the incident he assumes that she is falling for the 'unknown' suitor and deliberately puts a notorious womanizer on her trail.

When Women Keep Silent

1937

The Final Chord poster
6.3

After her husband dies, a German woman who gave up her infant for adoption to emigrate to America returns to Germany, discovering that her child is being raised by a married orchestra conductor.

The Final Chord

1936

The Coral Princess poster
8.0

Zlarin is a small fishing village on the Dalmatian coast. Every inhabitant has to work hard, as the once-high coral prices have plummeted. Vukovich, who has led the fishing cooperative for many years, decides one day to pass this important position on to his son Marko. Although Marko is a flight officer through and through, he understands the importance of the post and is also concerned about the well-being of the inhabitants of his birthplace.

The Coral Princess

1937

Nanon poster
10.0

An operetta directed by Herbert Maisch.

Nanon

1938

Krach und Glück um Künnemann poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Krach und Glück um Künnemann

1937

Behind the camera

No artwork available
10.0

A waitress takes all the gossip of a small town on the Rhine in stride, in spite of a distinguished composer being a loving husband and father for her illegitimate child.

Kornblumenblau

1939

Falschmünzer poster
10.0

Counterfeit money is discovered near the Bodensee. The investigators for the "Reichszentrale für Falschmünzerei" get wind of it and open up an investigation. When the band of counterfeiters try to recruit a young graphic artist into their ranks, he quickly rats on them to the police. The investigation soon leads to Switzerland, where the nest of criminals is stormed with the help of the Swiss police.

Falschmünzer

1940

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Das Ekel

1957

Für die Katz' poster
8.0

He who loves, torments himself: This turn of phrase works for the big farmer Gerd Tapken and his landlady Katrin Geerken. For more than 30 years, the two have fought at every opportunity, although they secretly love one another. But things seem to have come to a serious breach when Tapken shoots Katrin’s cat, because it allegedly ate three of his hens. The woman is so enraged over this brutality, that she contacts her lawyer. Thus begins a court case, in which the farmer might be fined or even go to jail!

Für die Katz'

1940

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Pension Schöller

1956

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Millowitsch-Theater - Der keusche Lebemann

1958

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Das Missverständnis

1960

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Der Raub der Sabinerinnen

1959

Gesucht wird Majora poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Gesucht wird Majora

1949

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Der erste Frühlingstag

1962

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der fröhliche Weinberg

1961

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kein Grund zur Unruhe

1964

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Irren ist Teuflisch

1964