
Acting
Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur
Born — Died
1886-03-06 — 1960-05-13
Place of birth
München, Germany
Known for
Acting
Credits
61 titles
Known for
8.1In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.
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1931
6.8After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds a traumatized ex-soldier living in her apartment in bombed out Berlin. Together the two try to move past their experiences during WWII.
The Murderers Are Among Us
1946
7.2An Austrian prince hatches a plan to keep his rival, the Russian czar, busy by keeping him surrounded by beautiful women and away from the negotiating table. The Czar, however, has his own plan—he hires a man who is his exact double to impersonate him and confuse the Austrians by appearing to be everywhere at once. In addition, both the Czar and his double fall for the same woman.
Congress Dances
1931
6.1A disillusioned Wehrmacht officer named Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944.
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
1955
Hoping to restore his family name to the ranks of the great circus dynasties, Karl Urmann works with his children to develop a horse act. Having previously been injured in a trapeze accident that claimed his brother's life, Karl is trampled to death by a horse; with his dying breath, he begs his daughter Claudia to leave the circus and go live with her Aunt Paula. There, she works as a maid and secretary while continuing her training. After a few years, she is ready to stage her own act. She hopes to reunite with her brother, Freddy, who is currently in the US performing alongside the treacherous Matsu. With Patsy’s help, Matsu tries to persuade Freddy to sign a contract, but the young man returns to his sister instead. [Filming was halted in 1946 after DEFA management identified significant technical flaws. The footage is considered destroyed.]
Off You Go!
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6.7A Polish officer works undercover in 1930s Berlin to discover Nazi Germany's plans against his homeland.
Cavalry Captain Wronski
1954
Film credits
1950s · 15 titles
6.1A disillusioned Wehrmacht officer named Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944.
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
1955
6.7A Polish officer works undercover in 1930s Berlin to discover Nazi Germany's plans against his homeland.
Cavalry Captain Wronski
1954
6.7A Polish officer works undercover in 1930s Berlin to discover Nazi Germany's plans against his homeland.
Cavalry Captain Wronski
1954
6.7A doctor discovers a new medical cure with dangerous side effects, and takes the drug himself to test its limitations.
Chased by the Devil
1950
7.31802: The adventurous life story of Hans Bückler, known as “Schinderhannes”, who fights against the French occupying forces and large landowners who exploit poor farmers in the Hunsrück region during the Napoleonic Wars.
Der Schinderhannes
1958
No synopsis available yet.
Und das am Montagmorgen
1957
8.7At his uncle’s behest, the young Karl-Heinrich, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Karlsburg, is sent to Heidelberg to study for a year. After a joyless youth in the gloomy, stately Karlsburg Castle, the prince embarks on the most carefree period of his life. He falls hopelessly in love with Käthi, the charming daughter of his landlords. But duty calls: the prince is gravely ill, and Karl-Heinrich must return to assume his duties as heir apparent and future ruler.
Old Heidelberg
1959
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Eine Frau genügt nicht?
1955
No synopsis available yet.
Mylord weiß sich zu helfen
1958
No synopsis available yet.
Der Prozeß Mary Dugan
1956
5.4Told in flashback, the film recounts the events leading up to the killing of good-for-nothing Curt Jurgens. Warned by her friends and relatives that Jurgens is a bad job, impulsive Ina Kahr marries him anyway. His ceaseless philandering and abuse wears away at Ina to the point that she contemplates poisoning her husband...
The Confession of Ina Kahr
1954
6.0The true story of a German agent sent to the USA in 1944 in order to stop the development of the atomic bomb.
Spy for Germany
1956
No synopsis available yet.
Stresemann
1957
7.2Karin Twerdy used to be an opera singer but now, in order to pay for her daughter Daniela's education in a religious school, she performs in a shady nightclub. Industrialist Dietrich Gontard, the father of Karin's school friend Christa, falls for her. But when he learns the truth about her he is outraged and rejects her. At a loss and not to stand in the way of Daniela's future, Karin chooses to disappear...
Ave Maria
1953
7.5Adaptation of a novel by Johannes Mario Simmel. The story takes place in the Dolomites, where a conflict arises between the clergy of a monastery and the inhabitants of a shanty town for construction workers over the water supply. A young novice feels increasingly attracted to the men who, after work, enjoy themselves in dimly lit bars with music and alcohol with easy girls. As a result, she is in danger of falling away from the faith and, instigated by a woman from the village, even leaves the convent. In the end, however, she finds her way back to God.
Nackt, wie Gott sie schuf
1958
1940s · 5 titles
6.8After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds a traumatized ex-soldier living in her apartment in bombed out Berlin. Together the two try to move past their experiences during WWII.
The Murderers Are Among Us
1946
6.3As the title "The Queen's Heart" suggests, this early German black and white version of Mary Queen of Scott's eventful reign and death focuses on her emotional perception rather lyrically, with some songs, mainly by her.
The Heart of a Queen
1940
5.4The two stars of an upcoming operetta performance quarrel constantly. but they also fall in love with each other.
You Only You
1941
6.5Äls, a young woman from Sweden living in Hamburg in the summer months, attracts a newly married explorer, Albrecht Froben, who has just returned to his native city. But although Äls seems to be 'life itself', she suffers from a tropical disease which is slowly killing her. Froben is torn between Äls and his wife Octavia, who he seen as a kind of 'heavenly' counterpart to the earthy and beguiling Äls.
The Great Sacrifice
1944
Professor Lorenz is nominated for the highest accolade of his profession, and he smiles about his sons' juvenile mismanagement of private funds. Then he learns that one of them has forged the professor's signature on several IOUs.
Ein glücklicher Mensch
1943
1930s · 14 titles
8.1In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.
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1931
7.2An Austrian prince hatches a plan to keep his rival, the Russian czar, busy by keeping him surrounded by beautiful women and away from the negotiating table. The Czar, however, has his own plan—he hires a man who is his exact double to impersonate him and confuse the Austrians by appearing to be everywhere at once. In addition, both the Czar and his double fall for the same woman.
Congress Dances
1931
6.6A long time ago, John Miller emigrated from Germany to America. Now he wants his daughter Elinor to get to know his old homeland and sends her off to Heidelberg, where she is to study for a year. Pretty soon, the pretty young girl is in demand among the young men in town. Especially the students Dahlberg and Bornemann try to win Elinor's heart.
A Student's Song of Heidelberg
1930
10.0A sympathetic bandit chief supports the cause of freedom in Naples against the Bourbon King Ferdinand.
Fra Diavolo
1931
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Hasenklein can't help it
1932
7.0A film about the pupils of a posh Berlin gymnasium in their final term, and their class teacher teaching them about humanism and tolerance, a lesson that would be badly needed three years later.
Boycott
1930
6.2During the shooting of a jealousy scene on a soundstage, one actress is murdered. Due to the fact that the male star of the movie had a relation with the victim and the female star is now his fiance, he is suspected by the police.
The Shot in the Talker Studio
1930
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Streit um den Knaben Jo
1939
7.0No synopsis available yet.
The Case of Helena Willfuer
1930
9.0No synopsis available yet.
The men around Lucie
1931
7.0Mayor Eberhorn is known as a womanizer to everyone in the village. Katchen, his wife, is constantly trying to convert him to a proper way of life … but in vain. When one morning, Casanova finds a stroller with a clever slogan referencing his affairs at his front door, Eberborn seeks revenge. Top suspects for the prank? The “Spassvogel”: seven friends led by the former sailor Hannes Strobel.
Spaßvögel
1939
10.0An Austrian officer falls in love with a Polish girl at a Saint Petersburg New Year's Party in 191, but war soon breaks out.
Love and Alarum
1934
6.7The mountain guide Jakob is a controversial figure. His supposed father dies and leaves behind a great heritage to the people. In the town they consider Jakob a bastard, because his parents were not married, which means that without a testament, the lands in which he lives do not belong to him. But the testament indicates that the inheritance corresponds him under a single condition, he must be the first person to climb the east face of Monte Verità. There is a French version of the film, titled 'Un de la montagne', shot the year after with the same script but with different actors and by a different director.
White Majesty
1933
8.0The young Gaby is happily married to the musician Peter but cannot ignore the impression that his friend Michael, a violin virtuoso, makes on her. Even when Peter falls seriously ill, she cannot forget her love for Michael. Torn between the two men, Gaby sees only one way out...
Dreaming Lips
1932
1920s · 16 titles
10.0After divorcing her husband Hans, who had started a relationship with another woman because of her infertility, Maria Immermann leaves their shared apartment and moves to Berlin.
Mutterliebe
1929
8.0Marriage and sexuality is examined through the lens of screenwriter Dr. van de Velde, a Dutch gynocologist.
Die Ehe
1929
No synopsis available yet.
Kolonne X
1929
NRA crime syndicate targets the wife of a chemist to gain access to her husband's research.
Panic in the House of Ardon
1920
6.0Dancer Vera Kersten is young, pretty, talented, and unemployed—because she rejects the explicit propositions made by agents. When she steps in front of billionaire John Leeds's car, the door to a career opens a crack for her.
Scandal in Baden-Baden
1929
7.0The ridin', ropin' and shootin' Billie is shipped from the Argentinian pampas to Europe to be polished girls' boarding school. Cheerfully untamable, she constantly violates the rules of the boarding school and is thrown out. So she gathers other girls around her and founds the Republic of the Teenage Girls on a deserted island, and becomes its president herself.
Die Republik der Backfische
1928
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Johannes Goth
1920
8.0Rupp (Jannings) is a former butcher, made rich in the meat packing industry as a result of the reversal of fortunes brought on by WWI. He is crude, uncouth and uneducated. His son, Fred, is the apple of his father's eye and is an auto enthusiast. The widowed Rupp falls in love with a former aristocrat, Helen, now down on her luck and pawning her last heirloom. He proposes marriage and she accepts in order to save her ailing mother who needs a monetary influx to avoid death. Her former boyfriend, Platen, warns Helen against Rupp's intentions - he and Rupp are enemies, Rupp having caused his being fired for protecting a chorus girl against Rupp's unwanted advances. Meanwhile, Graf, a shyster, arranges purchase of a near bankrupt auto manufacturing firm, Phoenix, to Rupp's great advantage with practically no monetary recognition to Graf, who swears revenge. Rupp comes upon his son begging Helen not to marry his father but to return to Platen.
All for Money
1923
No synopsis available yet.
The Amazon
1921
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Der Anwalt des Herzens
1927
No synopsis available yet.
Die seltsame Vergangenheit der Thea Carter
1929
A story of the underground gangsters of Berlin after dark.
Berlin After Dark
1929
10.0A waitress plans revenge on the man whom she believes killed her mother.
Der Bund der Drei
1929
No synopsis available yet.
Diebe
1928
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Vom Täter fehlt jede Spur
1929
A minister founds a fraud company, but a lawyer smells a rat.
Gewalt gegen Recht
1920
1910s · 9 titles
3.3Based on the semi-fictionalized autobiography of a trans and intersex person published in 1907 as an anonymous biography under the pseudonym NOBody. A child born without a clear gender is raised by the father as a boy, later by the uncle as a girl and dissected after death.
A Man's Girlhood
1919
No synopsis available yet.
Eugen Onegin
1919
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Der Treubruch
1918
NRDisguised chef is recognized and thrown out.
From a Man's Girlhood
1913
NRThe tumultuous life of Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia.
Maria Pawlowna
1919
Lilli marries Dr. Friese, but when she realizes that he was her mother's lover, tragedy ensues.
Lillis Ehe
1919
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Zwangsliebe im Freistaat
1919
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Pogrom
1919
A young woman marries a count who is not what he seems.
Das Geschlecht der Schelme. 1. Teil
1917

