Directing

Gottfried Reinhardt

Born — Died

1913-03-20 — 1994-07-19

Place of birth

Berlin, Germany

Known for

Directing

Credits

24 titles

Gottfried Reinhardt was an influential film director and producer who bridged the gap between European and American cinema. Born in Berlin, Germany, Reinhardt was the son of renowned theater director Max Reinhardt. Following his father’s lead, Gottfried began his career in the arts, working in theater before moving to Hollywood in the 1930s to escape the rise of Nazism. Reinhardt started in Hollywood as a script reader and gradually worked his way up to producer and director. As a producer, he contributed to notable films such as The Red Badge of Courage (1951), directed by John Huston. Reinhardt also directed several films, including Town Without Pity (1961), a gripping courtroom drama sta…

Known for

Zeugen des Jahrhunderts poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Zeugen des Jahrhunderts

1979

Film Emigration from Nazi Germany poster
9.0

Based on extensive interviews, shot on 16mm in a series of static long takes, Filmemigration aus Nazideutschland, is one of the most fascinating examples of "Film history on film" ever produced. Straschek devoted years to researching the topic and accumulating both film and non-film materials. Apart from some radio features and articles, however, this 290-minute TV programme remains the only published trace of Straschek's lifelong work on the emigration of film personnel. He had intended to publish a three-volume book, encompassing all available data about 3,000 emigrants originating from the centre and peripheries of film production, but the book never materialised.

Film Emigration from Nazi Germany

1975

The Red Badge of Courage poster
6.4

Henry Fleming is a young Union soldier in the American Civil War. During his unit's first engagement, Henry flees the battlefield in fear. When he learns that the Union actually won the battle, shame over his cowardice leads him to lie to his friend Tom and the other soldiers, saying that he had been injured in battle. However, when he learns that his unit will be leading a charge against the enemy, Henry takes the opportunity to face his fears and redeem himself.

The Red Badge of Courage

1951

Betrayed poster
5.7

When the Dutch resistance brings in Carla Van Oven to spy on the Nazis, Col. Pieter Deventer initially suspects she could be a double agent. Van Oven eventually convinces Deventer of her character, and when she is sent into occupied territory, she joins up with a rebel leader known as "The Scarf". As the resistance endures severe losses and their missions fail, Deventer starts to wonder whose side Van Oven is fighting on.

Betrayed

1954

The Story of Three Loves poster
6.0

Passengers on an ocean liner recall their greatest loves.

The Story of Three Loves

1953

The Great Sinner poster
6.8

A young man succumbs to gambling fever.

The Great Sinner

1949

Series credits

Behind the camera

The Red Badge of Courage poster
6.4

Henry Fleming is a young Union soldier in the American Civil War. During his unit's first engagement, Henry flees the battlefield in fear. When he learns that the Union actually won the battle, shame over his cowardice leads him to lie to his friend Tom and the other soldiers, saying that he had been injured in battle. However, when he learns that his unit will be leading a charge against the enemy, Henry takes the opportunity to face his fears and redeem himself.

The Red Badge of Courage

1951

Betrayed poster
5.7

When the Dutch resistance brings in Carla Van Oven to spy on the Nazis, Col. Pieter Deventer initially suspects she could be a double agent. Van Oven eventually convinces Deventer of her character, and when she is sent into occupied territory, she joins up with a rebel leader known as "The Scarf". As the resistance endures severe losses and their missions fail, Deventer starts to wonder whose side Van Oven is fighting on.

Betrayed

1954

The Story of Three Loves poster
6.0

Passengers on an ocean liner recall their greatest loves.

The Story of Three Loves

1953

The Great Sinner poster
6.8

A young man succumbs to gambling fever.

The Great Sinner

1949

Rage in Heaven poster
6.4

A jealous man frames his wife's suspected lover for murder.

Rage in Heaven

1941

Two-Faced Woman poster
6.4

A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband.

Two-Faced Woman

1941

Big Jack poster
7.3

Wallace Beery, in his final film, plays a bandit in this period drama set in Colonial America.

Big Jack

1949

Town Without Pity poster
6.9

Four American soldiers stationed near a German village face death in the rape of a local girl and are defended by outside counsel Major Steve Grant.

Town Without Pity

1961

Town Without Pity poster
6.9

Four American soldiers stationed near a German village face death in the rape of a local girl and are defended by outside counsel Major Steve Grant.

Town Without Pity

1961

Young Man with Ideas poster
5.2

A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.

Young Man with Ideas

1952

Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious poster
6.9

A lonely German clerk captures two American flyers and keeps them as prisoners in his basement long after WWII has ended.

Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious

1965

Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious poster
6.9

A lonely German clerk captures two American flyers and keeps them as prisoners in his basement long after WWII has ended.

Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious

1965

Comrade X poster
6.1

An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.

Comrade X

1940

Invitation poster
6.6

A rich man buys a husband for his dying daughter and she finds out.

Invitation

1952

Rebel Flight to Cuba poster
9.5

Peter escapes a firing squad and leaves the island of San Quinto on a commercial flight to Bermuda. The plane is hijacked by a Nazi and San Quinto's Ex-General Cordobas who shoot pilot Pink and damage the landing gear of the plane.

Rebel Flight to Cuba

1959

Sweetheart of the Gods poster
7.5

Biography of the famous German actress Renate Müller, who died in 1937 under unsettled circumstances; While doing her first movie for the UFA in Berlin, she meets the elderly secretary-general Dr. Simon and is impressed by his charm. Although her Nazi-friend Volker discourages her to befriend a Jew, they start dating. While she ascends to one of the most famous German actresses of her time, Simon is suffering more and more under the Nazi regime.

Sweetheart of the Gods

1960

Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt poster
9.0

"The Great Magician" - Max Reinhardt (1873-1943) was an Austrian theater and film director, director, theater producer and theater founder. With his Jedermann production on August 22, 1920, he founded the Salzburg Festival.

Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt

1973

Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt poster
9.0

"The Great Magician" - Max Reinhardt (1873-1943) was an Austrian theater and film director, director, theater producer and theater founder. With his Jedermann production on August 22, 1920, he founded the Salzburg Festival.

Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt

1973

Everyman poster
8.0

Everyman (German: Jedermann) is a 1961 Austrian drama film directed by Gottfried Reinhardt, based on the play written by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. The film was selected as the Austrian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 34th Academy Awards, but was not nominated.

Everyman

1961

Elf Jahre und ein Tag poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Elf Jahre und ein Tag

1963

Before Sundown poster
7.8

Based on a play by Gerhardt Hauptmann, the film details a bittersweet May-December romance between ageing Mathias Clausen and young, beautiful Inken Peters.

Before Sundown

1956

Grand Hotel poster
6.8

Based on a book by Vicki Baum, all of the action takes place in one day in a luxury hotel in Berlin. Grusinkaya is a ballerina staying at the hotel, other guests include Baron von Gaigern a sophisticated thief, Otto Klingelein a dying man, Preysing a businessman, and a stenographer. Events intertwine the lives of these strangers, bringing them together for some dramatic moments.

Grand Hotel

1959