Directing

Friedrich Dalsheim

Place of birth

Frankfurt, Germany

Known for

Directing

Credits

7 titles

German lawyer and ethnographic filmmaker.

Known for

Behind the camera

The Wedding of Palo poster
5.5

The movie tells of the contest between two rivals for the love of an Inuk woman. The forces of nature will determine the winner.

The Wedding of Palo

1934

Wajan poster
7.0

Wajan, the son of Nudonk, a witch, is beset with difficulties. His mother is in ill favor with the Balinese natives who want to get rid of her, and the hand of Sari, a native chieftain's daughter, will not be his until this is accomplished. How he manages to save his mother and also win Sari is unfolded in the film.

Wajan

1933

Wajan poster
7.0

Wajan, the son of Nudonk, a witch, is beset with difficulties. His mother is in ill favor with the Balinese natives who want to get rid of her, and the hand of Sari, a native chieftain's daughter, will not be his until this is accomplished. How he manages to save his mother and also win Sari is unfolded in the film.

Wajan

1933

Wajan poster
7.0

Wajan, the son of Nudonk, a witch, is beset with difficulties. His mother is in ill favor with the Balinese natives who want to get rid of her, and the hand of Sari, a native chieftain's daughter, will not be his until this is accomplished. How he manages to save his mother and also win Sari is unfolded in the film.

Wajan

1933

Headhunters of Borneo poster
6.0

An early ethnographic film. Made three years after Plessen's "Insel der Dämonen", "Kopfjäger von Borneo" is a half-fictional documentary. The plot involves a love story between a girl and a boy of incompatible social classes.

Headhunters of Borneo

1936

People in the Bush poster
NR

Ethnological documentary about the life in a remote village in Togo.

People in the Bush

1930

No artwork available
NR

Documentary about Borneo, the island of beauty, passion and demons

Borneo - Insel der Schönheit, Leidenschaft und Dämonie

1952