Acting

Ilse Petri

Born — Died

1918-03-20 — 2018-02-03

Place of birth

Göttingen, Germany

Known for

Acting

Credits

37 titles

Known for

Film credits

1950s · 6 titles

Fanfaren der Ehe poster
7.5

Two married women musicians get work on a cruise ship; their husbands dress as women to be able to join them.

Fanfaren der Ehe

1953

Fanfares of Love poster
5.0

Two out of work musicians put on drag to get work in an all girl band. Inevitable comical romantic complications ensue.

Fanfares of Love

1951

Drei Tage Mittelarrest poster
10.0

The mayor of a small garrison town is constantly at odds with the local battalion commander. This does not sit well with the mayor’s wife at all, as she wants to marry her daughter off to a soldier. Things escalate when the mayor’s cook becomes pregnant by an unknown soldier. Although the "culprit" doesn't reveal himself, four men who have confessed to being the "fathers" would love to walk down the aisle with the head cook...

Drei Tage Mittelarrest

1955

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Herzlich willkommen?

1956

Heute nacht passiert’s poster
10.0

A professor inherits a fashion salon from a former lover. Since he doesn't want his wife to find out about his previous love life, he asks his son-in-law to take over the running of the place. Needless to say, that leads to a lot of misunderstandings.

Heute nacht passiert’s

1953

Eyes of Love poster
7.3

A terrible accident robs the successful artist Imhoff of his sight—a jet of flame shoots out of the kiln where he hardens his sculptures, and his career seems over. An attempt to surgically restore his sight fails. While he lies in his sickbed, the sensitive nurse Agnes tenderly cares for her patient. She gives him courage when he is on the verge of despair. Thus, a tender love slowly develops between patient and nurse. Eventually, Imhoff and Agnes marry, and his first attempt at sculpture, even in his blindness, is to be a sculpture of his wife's face. However, since Imhoff has never seen Agnes, she fears he will create an idealized image of her that she cannot live up to. Therefore, after a second operation, he initially conceals the fact that he can see again. He wants to "get used to" his wife first... But how long can he maintain the charade?

Eyes of Love

1951

1940s · 8 titles

Um eine Nasenlänge poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Um eine Nasenlänge

1949

An Old Heart Becomes Young Again poster
8.0

All throughout his entire life, Friedrich Wilhelm Hoffmann let his career run roughshod over his personal life. He had no wife, because he was married instead to his chocolate factory. Now he’s old and gray, and his relatives, who are greedily waiting for him to kick the bucket so they can get their hands on his worldly goods, keep their distance from him. Then one day, an astonished Hoffmann is visited by a young woman named Brigitte, who asserts, that she’s his granddaughter. Suddenly, it all comes back to the old man: as a young man, he had a short, but intense, love affair, which he had to end on the insistence of his father.

An Old Heart Becomes Young Again

1943

No artwork available
8.0

A widowed landlady in East Prussia, who, despite his acquittal by the court, believes the forester to have murdered her husband, opposes her son's marriage to the forester's daughter and even wants to sell the farm because of it. The exposure of a border smuggler as the perpetrator turns everything around for the better.

Heimaterde

1941

Die Degenhardts poster
6.8

A stuffy old civil servant is forced to retire during World War II, but when his son, a Navy submariner, is lost at sea and his city is heavily bombed by English bombers, his old patriotism is re-awakened and he determines to be of use to his country once again

Die Degenhardts

1944

The Adventures of Fridolin poster
8.7

A decent small-town citizen named Fridolin Biedermann travels to Berlin and wants to finally experience something. And he succeeds. First he falls into the hands of a couple of crooks who rip him off terribly, and - back home - the law...

The Adventures of Fridolin

1948

The Enchanted Princess poster
8.0

Assad, a young Turk, meets a boy who tells him about a princess who was enchanted by an evil sorcerer. In a jeweler’s shop, the young man finds a precious ring in which he sees the princess who is imprisoned in it. He takes the ring and from now on is hunted by the authorities for his crime. But he has fallen in love with the princess and wants to free her from her prison, but doesn't know how to break the spell. Only the princess knows the secret, but she's not allowed to tell.

The Enchanted Princess

1940

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Seine beste Rolle

1944

Mädchen im Vorzimmer poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Mädchen im Vorzimmer

1940

1930s · 12 titles

Women for Golden Hill poster
6.5

Women are being sent to an all male settlement. The marriages are planned in advance, but not everything goes according to plan.

Women for Golden Hill

1938

The Girl from the Marsh Croft poster
7.0

A farm boy betrothed to a socialite falls in love with his maid - an impoverished girl from the marsh.

The Girl from the Marsh Croft

1935

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Raub der Sabinerinnen

1936

No artwork available
9.0

Monika (German: Eine Mutter kämpft um ihr Kind, lit. 'A Mother Fights for Her Child') is a 1938 German melodrama film directed and written by Heinz Helbig. The story centers on a singer who relinquishes her illegitimate daughter to a German engineer in São Paulo to pursue her career, only to return eight years later as a celebrated film star and wife of a prominent surgeon, demanding custody after encountering the child on a film set.

Monika

1938

No artwork available
6.7

The daughter of a wealthy art dealer is blackmailed, and then his former wife is found dead in a Paris hotel.One of the four suspects turns out to be actually a police detective.

A Strange Guest

1936

April, April! poster
6.2

Businessman and shameless social climber, Julius Lampe, is subjected to a cruel April Fools’ Day prank when he is led to believe a noble prince intends to personally inspect his pasta factory.

April, April!

1935

No artwork available
9.0

At the last performance of the Barszony Circus in Hamburg, the Indian lion-tamer Sikkim Khan is attacked by a tiger and is badly wounded. That he got away with his life at all is due to the quick action of the circus director's daughter, Tamara, who shoots the tiger. From that point on, Tamara appears as "Sikkim Khan" and the "Diamond King" van Houten falls in love with her. On a ship of the South American Line, they meet and get to know each other better. When an emerald worth half a million is stolen, Tamara declares herself to be the thief, so as to protect an old colleague of her father, who wants to save the circus with the money from the stolen jewel.

Königstiger

1935

Men Are That Way poster
9.0

Young Beatrice has trained as a dancer against her father's wishes. At the circus, she meets the famous tamer Ruda and falls in love with him. But the next day, Ruda disappears with the circus. Beatrice gets a new engagement with another circus and makes a career as a dancer among live tigers.

Men Are That Way

1939

Hochzeit mit Hindernissen poster
6.5

A wealthy uncle from America has named the widowed shoemaker Emil Rogge as his sole heir and bequeathed him a chest containing his entire fortune. However, the will includes a clause stipulating that the chest may only be opened after a three-month period, and Rogge will only inherit the fortune if he fulfills two conditions within that time: he must abstain from alcohol at work, and he must find and marry a wife. A con man then tries to seduce Rogge and arrange for his accomplice, the sophisticated Olga, to marry him. But in the end, Rogge not only finds the right woman but also experiences a major surprise.

Hochzeit mit Hindernissen

1939

Thunder, Lightning and Sunshine poster
8.0

Relations between Huckebein, a humble tailor, and Greizinger, a wealthy farmer, become strained after Greizinger breaks off the romance between his son, Franzl, and Huckenbein's daughter, Evi. However, after a situation with a 100 mark note taken from a pair of trousers pressed by Huckebein belonging to Greisinger is resolved, a valuable mineral spring is found on the tailor's property,and the warring fathers become friends and Evi and Franzl are married.

Thunder, Lightning and Sunshine

1936

Who's Kissing Madeleine? poster
7.0

Pierre Pasqual has just about everything his heart desires: in his career as a commercial pilot, he is well known and successful; he has wealth and a beautiful wife. The only thing is, that because of his career, Pierre is frequently away and the thought constantly tortures him, that his wife is up to something when he’s not home. “Who’s kissing Madeleine?” is the question Pierre must have answered.

Who's Kissing Madeleine?

1939

Bel Ami poster
5.9

Shortly after being demobilized, Georges Duroy becomes aware of his power over women in the arms of Rachel, a young singer. Thanks to his good looks and his charming manners and his unabashed cynicism he will rapidly rise to the top by courtesy of women women (Mme Walter, Clotilde, Madeleine), from journalist to member of Parliament to cabinet minister. But it is also the fair sex that will cause his fall in the end.

Bel Ami

1939

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