Writing
Alfred Schirokauer
Born — Died
1880-07-13 — 1934-10-27
Place of birth
Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]
Known for
Writing
Credits
38 titles
German novelist and screenwriter.
Known for
The sensitive, music-loving son of a German general reluctantly attends a military academy and after warning a fellow officer to stay away from the cadet's attractive young stepmother, lands up being charged for murder.
Cadets
1931
No synopsis available yet.
Adam und Eva
1928
7.0Gustav Froehlich and Charlotte Susa play Rochus and Judith, the zwei menschen (two humans) of the title. Rochus' domineering mother insists that he enter the priesthood, but he is reluctant to break up his blissful romance with the fair Judith. A religious fanatic of the first order, the mother swears before God and her Church that Rochus will indeed take his vows. When this does not come about, she dies of grief, whereupon the guilt-stricken Rochus abandons Judith to become a priest. The girl subsequently commits suicide -- and it is Rochus who must officiate over her body during the funeral. This final scene was excised from the print of Zwei Menschen released in New York, leaving audiences hanging in regard to Judith's ultimate fate.
Two Souls
1930
8.0Based on the short story "Der Fall des Generalstabschefs Redl" by Egon Erwin Kisch. Alfred Redl, a colonel on the Austrian General Staff, leads an extravagant private life. No one suspects that in reality he is passing information to Russian spies. Alternate-language version of "Aféra plukovníka Rédla" (1931).
The Case of Colonel Redl
1931
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Der Hahn im Korb
1925
No synopsis available yet.
Frauenbeichte. 2. Die Beichte der Mörderin
1921
Behind the camera
The sensitive, music-loving son of a German general reluctantly attends a military academy and after warning a fellow officer to stay away from the cadet's attractive young stepmother, lands up being charged for murder.
Cadets
1931
No synopsis available yet.
Adam und Eva
1928
7.0Gustav Froehlich and Charlotte Susa play Rochus and Judith, the zwei menschen (two humans) of the title. Rochus' domineering mother insists that he enter the priesthood, but he is reluctant to break up his blissful romance with the fair Judith. A religious fanatic of the first order, the mother swears before God and her Church that Rochus will indeed take his vows. When this does not come about, she dies of grief, whereupon the guilt-stricken Rochus abandons Judith to become a priest. The girl subsequently commits suicide -- and it is Rochus who must officiate over her body during the funeral. This final scene was excised from the print of Zwei Menschen released in New York, leaving audiences hanging in regard to Judith's ultimate fate.
Two Souls
1930
8.0Based on the short story "Der Fall des Generalstabschefs Redl" by Egon Erwin Kisch. Alfred Redl, a colonel on the Austrian General Staff, leads an extravagant private life. No one suspects that in reality he is passing information to Russian spies. Alternate-language version of "Aféra plukovníka Rédla" (1931).
The Case of Colonel Redl
1931
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Der Hahn im Korb
1925
No synopsis available yet.
Frauenbeichte. 2. Die Beichte der Mörderin
1921
An exploration of the misery of youth. A student, his friends, and the girl he loves all suffer due to the harsh and unforgiving nature of the adults in their lives.
Primanerliebe
1927
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Die Frau von gestern und morgen
1928
7.0Comedy of errors centred around a piano and the baby of a servant girl whose existence is unknown to all, based on the play 'A house full of strife' by A. Duprez and A. Milo Bennet.
My Wife's Family
1935
NRBased on the play Henry IV by Luigi Pirandello. Conrad Veidt plays Count di Nolli, a nobleman who, after a head injury, imagines he is the medieval emperor. His friends and relatives choose to play along, dressing up as medieval courtiers, but is di Nolli truly mad, or just pretending? The art direction was by Hermann Warm. It was shot on location in Italy. 6 acts, 1856 meters.
The Flight in the Night
1926
No synopsis available yet.
Frauenbeichte, 3. Teil - Die Beichte der Krankenschwester
1922
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Camera obscura
1921
a silent movie by Heinz Paul
Der Mitternachtswalzer
1929
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Die Frau für 24 Stunden
1925
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
No synopsis available yet.
The experience of a night
1930
9.0No synopsis available yet.
The Isle of Forbidden Kisses
1927
5.0a movie by Heinz Paul
Marriage in Name Only
1930
7.2The film starts with a woman on the run from her millionaire husband giving birth to a daughter in the home of a washerwoman. The woman dies in childbirth, but the baby survives. The washerwoman leaves the baby in a horsedrawn Parisian taxicab (No. 13). The paperwork of the birth is lost in a huge tome. Sixteen years pass. The tome is bought by a poor student. One day his bookshelf collapses, and the tome opens at the page where the paperwork has been hidden. The student realises that the paperwork relates to a millionaire who has spent the last sixteen years looking for his pregnant wife. The student traces the washerwoman, and he tricks her into confessing what she has done with the baby. Meanwhile, the baby has been adopted by the cab driver and his wife, and has grown into Lili Damita.
Cab No. 13
1926
10.0Reinhold Schünzel plays the rigid representative Traugott Bellmann, who publicly condemns the low morals of the night life. Although Belmann's stance is supported by his wife, he is strongly opposed by his father-in-law, a champagne manufacturer. But when he inherits 500 000 Marks in cash and the infamous nightclub "Der Himmel auf Erden" ("Heaven on Earth") from his deceased brother, Bellmann really gets himself into trouble: In order to fulfil his brother's will - and to get hold of the money - , he has to be at the club every night at 9 pm.
Heaven on Earth
1927
10.0Reinhold Schünzel plays the rigid representative Traugott Bellmann, who publicly condemns the low morals of the night life. Although Belmann's stance is supported by his wife, he is strongly opposed by his father-in-law, a champagne manufacturer. But when he inherits 500 000 Marks in cash and the infamous nightclub "Der Himmel auf Erden" ("Heaven on Earth") from his deceased brother, Bellmann really gets himself into trouble: In order to fulfil his brother's will - and to get hold of the money - , he has to be at the club every night at 9 pm.
Heaven on Earth
1927
9.0It is based on a Georg Hirschfeld play set in Elizabethan England, focusing on the tumultuous relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and her favorite, the Earl of Essex, amid court intrigue and a deadly epidemic.
The Favourite of the Queen
1922
9.0Slapstick-style comedy in which a celebrity, to escape a marriage, trades places with his personal chauffeur.
An Auto and No Money
1932
No synopsis available yet.
Die Erlebnisse einer Kammerzofe
1922
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Arme kleine Colombine
1927
No synopsis available yet.
Frauenbeichte, 1. Teil - Die Beichte einer Ausgestossenen
1921
Eva Bennet, a young mysterious widow appears at Pension Sanssouci in Berlin during the Weimar era. She attracts a lot of attention from everybody, especially from Georg Raval.
Das Mädchen ohne Heimat
1927
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Der Totenkopf, 50 000 Mark-Prämienfilm
1920
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Der Sprung ins Dunkle
1920
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Der Sprung ins Dunkle
1920
German silent film
Am Weibe zerschellt
1919
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Fräulein Fähnrich
1929
No synopsis available yet.
Herkules Maier
1928
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Autobus Nr. 2
1929
7.0Elisabeth of Austria is a German movie with Lil Dagover as royalty Elisabeth who has many men to choose from.
Elisabeth of Austria
1931
8.0A prince in disguise saves a runaway princess from becoming a forger's dupe.
The Runaway Princess
1929
10.0Based on the operetta of the same name.
The Orlov
1927
No synopsis available yet.
Mother and Son
1924
