Karl Ritter

Directing

Karl Ritter

Born — Died

1888-11-07 — 1977-04-07

Place of birth

Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany

Known for

Directing

Credits

36 titles

Known for

Im Photoatelier poster
7.0

A photographer goes on a business trip for three days. His helper (Karl Valentin) and the apprentice (Liesl Karlstadt) would prefer it to close the store during the absence of the boss. They only photograph customers reluctantly and cause all kinds of mayhem. When the boss returns, he faints after taking a look at the chaos.

Im Photoatelier

1933

Capriccio poster
5.5

Lilian Harvey plays a young heiress in long-ago France named Madelon who is raised by her grandfather as a boy in order to frighten away fortune hunters. But when the old man dies, her guardian Cesaire wants to marry her off to the rich prefect Barberousse. She is tricked by Cesaire with the portrait of a young man (Viktor von Staal) which is presented to her as that of her future husband. But when Madelone discovers this scheme she flees, again in men's clothing. But on her route to escape, she meets the young man from the portrait and falls in love with him. But Madelone can't give up her disguise right now...

Capriccio

1938

Cadets poster
6.6

The year is 1760: it is the time of the Seven Years' War and the advancing Russian army has taken captive 100 underage Prussian cadets. The kids are mishandled by the raping and pillaging Russians, but with the help of a Rittmeister now in the service of the Tsar, they succeed in getting away. They hole up in a deserted fort and eventually sally forward to take back their military academy from the bloodthirsty, pillaging Cossacks.

Cadets

1941

The Traitor poster
7.0

This 1936 film tells the story of the doings of foreign agents in Germany and their allies among the German population. Having placed an ad in a local paper looking for "contact with bigwigs in German industry", enemy agents Morris and Geyer end up making contact with an engineer named Brockau. Brockau has developed an improvement in turning oil into gasoline and that's just what these enemy agents are looking for. Brockau, for his part, needs money, because his girlfriend is a selfish cow who demands more and more toys and trinkets, which has put our naive little nerd deep into debt. Brockau, however, is not the only unwitting maroon to fall into the clutches of the evil agents: the former bank agent Hans Klemm, now doing his service in the Wehrmacht, ends up being contacted by an agent from the other side and ends up getting blackmailed into working for them.

The Traitor

1936

Staatsanwältin Corda poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Staatsanwältin Corda

1953

Hitler Youth Quex poster
6.0

Nazi propaganda film based on the life and death of Hitler Youth Herbert "Quex" Norkus – in the film, renamed Heini Völker – who was killed while distributing flyers in a Communist neighborhood.

Hitler Youth Quex

1933

Behind the camera

Im Photoatelier poster
7.0

A photographer goes on a business trip for three days. His helper (Karl Valentin) and the apprentice (Liesl Karlstadt) would prefer it to close the store during the absence of the boss. They only photograph customers reluctantly and cause all kinds of mayhem. When the boss returns, he faints after taking a look at the chaos.

Im Photoatelier

1933

Capriccio poster
5.5

Lilian Harvey plays a young heiress in long-ago France named Madelon who is raised by her grandfather as a boy in order to frighten away fortune hunters. But when the old man dies, her guardian Cesaire wants to marry her off to the rich prefect Barberousse. She is tricked by Cesaire with the portrait of a young man (Viktor von Staal) which is presented to her as that of her future husband. But when Madelone discovers this scheme she flees, again in men's clothing. But on her route to escape, she meets the young man from the portrait and falls in love with him. But Madelone can't give up her disguise right now...

Capriccio

1938

Cadets poster
6.6

The year is 1760: it is the time of the Seven Years' War and the advancing Russian army has taken captive 100 underage Prussian cadets. The kids are mishandled by the raping and pillaging Russians, but with the help of a Rittmeister now in the service of the Tsar, they succeed in getting away. They hole up in a deserted fort and eventually sally forward to take back their military academy from the bloodthirsty, pillaging Cossacks.

Cadets

1941

The Traitor poster
7.0

This 1936 film tells the story of the doings of foreign agents in Germany and their allies among the German population. Having placed an ad in a local paper looking for "contact with bigwigs in German industry", enemy agents Morris and Geyer end up making contact with an engineer named Brockau. Brockau has developed an improvement in turning oil into gasoline and that's just what these enemy agents are looking for. Brockau, for his part, needs money, because his girlfriend is a selfish cow who demands more and more toys and trinkets, which has put our naive little nerd deep into debt. Brockau, however, is not the only unwitting maroon to fall into the clutches of the evil agents: the former bank agent Hans Klemm, now doing his service in the Wehrmacht, ends up being contacted by an agent from the other side and ends up getting blackmailed into working for them.

The Traitor

1936

Staatsanwältin Corda poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Staatsanwältin Corda

1953

Hitler Youth Quex poster
6.0

Nazi propaganda film based on the life and death of Hitler Youth Herbert "Quex" Norkus – in the film, renamed Heini Völker – who was killed while distributing flyers in a Communist neighborhood.

Hitler Youth Quex

1933

Stukas poster
5.6

This Nazi propaganda film details the exploits of a group of German Luftwaffe pilots flying Stukas--fighter-bombers--in the Battle of France in the early days of World War II.

Stukas

1941

Stukas poster
5.6

This Nazi propaganda film details the exploits of a group of German Luftwaffe pilots flying Stukas--fighter-bombers--in the Battle of France in the early days of World War II.

Stukas

1941

The Girl from Spree Woods poster
8.0

Rural comedy about a farmer's fiancée who becomes distracted by a handsome young officer staying with them in 1910s Germany.

The Girl from Spree Woods

1928

The Crew of the Dora poster
6.8

German film about Luftwaffe pilots. It depicts a love triangle involving two of them being overcome by their participation in battle together.

The Crew of the Dora

1943

The Crew of the Dora poster
6.8

German film about Luftwaffe pilots. It depicts a love triangle involving two of them being overcome by their participation in battle together.

The Crew of the Dora

1943

The Private's Job poster
6.2

During the Great War, German soldiers are persuaded to die heroically in order to take a French village held by the British.

The Private's Job

1937

The Private's Job poster
6.2

During the Great War, German soldiers are persuaded to die heroically in order to take a French village held by the British.

The Private's Job

1937

In Battle Against the Enemy of the World: German Volunteers in Spain poster
10.0

Nazi propaganda film about the Condor Legion, a unit of German "volunteers" who fought in the Spanish Civil War on the side of eventual dictator Francisco Franco against the elected government of Spain.

In Battle Against the Enemy of the World: German Volunteers in Spain

1939

In Battle Against the Enemy of the World: German Volunteers in Spain poster
10.0

Nazi propaganda film about the Condor Legion, a unit of German "volunteers" who fought in the Spanish Civil War on the side of eventual dictator Francisco Franco against the elected government of Spain.

In Battle Against the Enemy of the World: German Volunteers in Spain

1939

No artwork available
6.2

The sole thing giving hope to a German flyer downed over France in the Great War, as he longs for his return home, is the love from a young woman.

Patriots

1937

Furlough on Parole poster
6.0

In 1918, a German regiment is granted five-hours leave in Berlin.

Furlough on Parole

1938

Furlough on Parole poster
6.0

In 1918, a German regiment is granted five-hours leave in Berlin.

Furlough on Parole

1938

Über alles in der Welt poster
6.0

Nazi propaganda film chronicling the plight of Germans caught by the outbreak of war in 1939 and their frantic attempts to return to the Fatherland to join the battle.

Über alles in der Welt

1941

Über alles in der Welt poster
6.0

Nazi propaganda film chronicling the plight of Germans caught by the outbreak of war in 1939 and their frantic attempts to return to the Fatherland to join the battle.

Über alles in der Welt

1941

Pour le Mérite poster
6.6

This Nazi propaganda film chronicles the rise of the German Air Force ("Luftwaffe") from World War I until Adolf Hitler took power in 1933.

Pour le Mérite

1938

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kehre zurück! Alles vergeben!

1929

No artwork available
8.0

A love story based in Munich in 1852: An Austrian officer belonging to the nobility has the mission of ensuring the young Kaiser Franz Joseph doesn’t endanger his future marriage to Princess Elisabeth by his acquaintanceship with the daughters of a coffee-house owner.

The Royal Waltz

1935

Petticoat Government poster
8.0

In Bavaria's snowy mountains, a battle of the sexes develops over the Rosl family brewery which a conniving relative sets up for staffing entirely by women. The moral is, as with reproduction, society needs both genders to get the job done.

Petticoat Government

1936

Ball of the Nations poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ball of the Nations

1954

G.P.U. poster
5.8

Olga, a Russian refugee from Bolshevik terror, has joined the Soviet secret police to find the man responsible for killing her parents. Meanwhile, a young Baltic couple are caught up in the schemes of the communists.

G.P.U.

1942

G.P.U. poster
5.8

Olga, a Russian refugee from Bolshevik terror, has joined the Soviet secret police to find the man responsible for killing her parents. Meanwhile, a young Baltic couple are caught up in the schemes of the communists.

G.P.U.

1942

Love Must Be Understood poster
6.3

The stenotypist Margit is supposed to take 3,000 Marks to the bank for her boss, Mr. Plaumann, but she lazes away the time window-shopping, and eventually stands before a closed door. She follows Plaumann to Dresden, where he, believing the money is deposited in a bank as a down payment, wants to purchase a newfangled remote control from the inventor Lambach. Since Plaumann’s car breaks down on the road, Margit arrives before him and rests in the seemingly empty hotel room which later turns out to be Lambach’s. Meanwhile, Lambach himself is being spied on by the jealous cousin of his fiancée, who can’t wait to catch him in the act…

Love Must Be Understood

1933

Fräulein Lausbub poster
7.0

Daisy Baroness Eggloffsburg, a ball of energy, is a spoiled and rather lively, cheerful wild child who is always in the mood for pranks. Her uncle Egon, a stern old gentleman, thinks she has had enough of her foolishness and boozy ideas and needs a man to tell her off and tame Daisy. Harry Spring, the young sportsman hired for the job, is supposed to get both the girl and Baron Eggloffsburg, the owner of the racing stable, back on their feet. But Daisy doesn't give in so easily and now begins to give the young gallant a good grooming.

Fräulein Lausbub

1930

Bal paré poster
6.2

At the turn of the century in Munich, a ballerina accepts the sponsorship of an older industrialist but also spends time with his son.

Bal paré

1940

The Royal Waltz poster
8.0

In 1852, the young Austrian emperor Franz Joseph persuades his friend, Count Michel de Thalberg, to act as a go-between in his love affair with the Bavarian duchess Elisabeth. Not long after his arrival in Munch, Thalberg has an embarrassing encounter in a public garden with an attractive young woman. The innocent incident is misinterpreted by a passer-by who, recognising the woman as the youngest daughter of Ludwig Tomasini, a highly respected caterer, persuades her father that she should marry the man who flirted with her to avoid a scandal (FilmsdeFrance).

The Royal Waltz

1936

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Legion Condor

1939

El paraíso poster
NR

A newly married couple who left the country to make their fortune in the city comes across a gang of criminals.

El paraíso

1953

El paraíso poster
NR

A newly married couple who left the country to make their fortune in the city comes across a gang of criminals.

El paraíso

1953

Die Hochzeitsreise poster
8.0

1939 German film by Karl Ritter.

Die Hochzeitsreise

1939

No artwork available
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Sommernächte

1944