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

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7.0

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

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10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Adam und Eva

1928

Two Souls poster
7.0

Gustav 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

The Case of Colonel Redl poster
8.0

Based 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

Der Hahn im Korb poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Hahn im Korb

1925

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Frauenbeichte. 2. Die Beichte der Mörderin

1921

Behind the camera

No artwork available
7.0

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 artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Adam und Eva

1928

Two Souls poster
7.0

Gustav 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

The Case of Colonel Redl poster
8.0

Based 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

Der Hahn im Korb poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Hahn im Korb

1925

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Frauenbeichte. 2. Die Beichte der Mörderin

1921

No artwork available
7.0

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

Die Frau von gestern und morgen poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Die Frau von gestern und morgen

1928

My Wife's Family poster
7.0

Comedy 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

The Flight in the Night poster
NR

Based 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

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10.0

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Frauenbeichte, 3. Teil - Die Beichte der Krankenschwester

1922

Camera obscura poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Camera obscura

1921

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NR

a silent movie by Heinz Paul

Der Mitternachtswalzer

1929

Die Frau für 24 Stunden poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Frau für 24 Stunden

1925

Boycott poster
7.0

A 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

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8.0

No synopsis available yet.

The experience of a night

1930

The Isle of Forbidden Kisses poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Isle of Forbidden Kisses

1927

Marriage in Name Only poster
5.0

a movie by Heinz Paul

Marriage in Name Only

1930

Cab No. 13 poster
7.2

The 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

Heaven on Earth poster
10.0

Reinhold 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

Heaven on Earth poster
10.0

Reinhold 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

The Favourite of the Queen poster
9.0

It 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

An Auto and No Money poster
9.0

Slapstick-style comedy in which a celebrity, to escape a marriage, trades places with his personal chauffeur.

An Auto and No Money

1932

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7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Erlebnisse einer Kammerzofe

1922

Arme kleine Colombine poster
NR

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Arme kleine Colombine

1927

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Frauenbeichte, 1. Teil - Die Beichte einer Ausgestossenen

1921

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8.0

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

Der Totenkopf, 50 000 Mark-Prämienfilm poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Totenkopf, 50 000 Mark-Prämienfilm

1920

Der Sprung ins Dunkle poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Sprung ins Dunkle

1920

Der Sprung ins Dunkle poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Sprung ins Dunkle

1920

No artwork available
NR

German silent film

Am Weibe zerschellt

1919

Fräulein Fähnrich poster
10.0

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Fräulein Fähnrich

1929

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8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Herkules Maier

1928

Autobus Nr. 2 poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Autobus Nr. 2

1929

Elisabeth of Austria poster
7.0

Elisabeth of Austria is a German movie with Lil Dagover as royalty Elisabeth who has many men to choose from.

Elisabeth of Austria

1931

The Runaway Princess poster
8.0

A prince in disguise saves a runaway princess from becoming a forger's dupe.

The Runaway Princess

1929

The Orlov poster
10.0

Based on the operetta of the same name.

The Orlov

1927

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mother and Son

1924