Production

Hubert Schonger

Born — Died

1897-10-19 — 1978-02-21

Place of birth

Bachhagel, Germany

Known for

Production

Credits

40 titles

Hubert Schonger was a German film director and producer. He made a name for himself both as a filmmaker and as a film producer in the genres of cultural and nature films, music films, fairy tale films and literary adaptations, Heimatfilms, and mountain films.

Known for

Mother Holly poster
6.0

During the winter, the grandfather tells his grandchildren the fairy tale of Mother Holly: A widow lives with her two daughters—the hardworking and beautiful Blondmarie, who, as an unloved stepchild, must do all the chores, and her own lazy and wicked daughter, Blackmarie. When Blondmarie enters the realm of the weather fairy Mother Holly and diligently performs her duties there, she is richly rewarded for her efforts: Blondmarie returns home in a golden dress. Now Blackmarie dreams of the same wealth, and so she enters Mother Holly's service, but her laziness earns her nothing but a shower of pitch. Blondmarie, however, knows how to make the most of her good fortune: she gifts her gold to the fields, now bearing a bountiful harvest, and so she is able to marry her beloved shepherd, Kaspar Franz, as a simple farmer’s wife.

Mother Holly

1948

Sensation Alpen poster
10.0

From Trento to Chamonix, via Zermatt; from the Morgiou cove to the Eiger's north face; from Planica to the Lavaredo peaks, the Alps are depicted, illustrated, and magnified in all their unique and sublime beauty, through the sports practiced there and the most typical customs and traditions of their inhabitants. A helicopter rescue and a parachute jump from the Red Wall by Wolfgang Weizenbocks are experiences not to be missed.

Sensation Alpen

1966

No artwork available
10.0

Two boys try out a home-made flying machine in their children's room at night. For another test, a rat that the boys keep as a pet is thrown out of the window with a small rocket. After this has also worked, the first boy stands on the windowsill ready to jump into the yard. At this moment, a man suddenly flies into the children's room from outside through the window, introducing himself as an inhabitant of Mars.

Der Test

1964

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs poster
5.0

Snow White's mother, the Queen dies when she is born. Her father, the King, remarries a beautiful but vain lady. The new Queen has a magic mirror that she asks every day, who is the fairest one of all? When it answers Snow White, the Queen is furious. Will handsome Prince Charming and the Seven Dwarfs be able to save Snow White from the wicked Queen's wrath?

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

1955

Frederick and Catherine poster
NR

Once upon a time there was Frederick, a clever and hardworking man, and his wife Catherine, who, though well-meaning, was not exactly the brightest. Whatever she touches turns to misfortune—and so, with her good-natured foolishness, she leads her husband from one misadventure to the next! Based on the fairy tale farce by the Brothers Grimm.

Frederick and Catherine

1940

Little Red Riding Hood poster
6.8

Ever since a little girl received a red cap from her grandmother—which she loves to wear—everyone has called her “Little Red Riding Hood.” Little Red Riding Hood lives with her mother and her five brothers in a little cottage on the edge of the forest. Since their father passed away, Little Red Riding Hood’s brothers have been working as lumberjacks to support the family. The little girl helps her mother with the housework as best she can. When Little Red Riding Hood’s grandmother falls seriously ill, her mother has to take care of her, while the girl handles the chores at home and also prepares meals for her five brothers.

Little Red Riding Hood

1954

Behind the camera

Mother Holly poster
6.0

During the winter, the grandfather tells his grandchildren the fairy tale of Mother Holly: A widow lives with her two daughters—the hardworking and beautiful Blondmarie, who, as an unloved stepchild, must do all the chores, and her own lazy and wicked daughter, Blackmarie. When Blondmarie enters the realm of the weather fairy Mother Holly and diligently performs her duties there, she is richly rewarded for her efforts: Blondmarie returns home in a golden dress. Now Blackmarie dreams of the same wealth, and so she enters Mother Holly's service, but her laziness earns her nothing but a shower of pitch. Blondmarie, however, knows how to make the most of her good fortune: she gifts her gold to the fields, now bearing a bountiful harvest, and so she is able to marry her beloved shepherd, Kaspar Franz, as a simple farmer’s wife.

Mother Holly

1948

Sensation Alpen poster
10.0

From Trento to Chamonix, via Zermatt; from the Morgiou cove to the Eiger's north face; from Planica to the Lavaredo peaks, the Alps are depicted, illustrated, and magnified in all their unique and sublime beauty, through the sports practiced there and the most typical customs and traditions of their inhabitants. A helicopter rescue and a parachute jump from the Red Wall by Wolfgang Weizenbocks are experiences not to be missed.

Sensation Alpen

1966

No artwork available
10.0

Two boys try out a home-made flying machine in their children's room at night. For another test, a rat that the boys keep as a pet is thrown out of the window with a small rocket. After this has also worked, the first boy stands on the windowsill ready to jump into the yard. At this moment, a man suddenly flies into the children's room from outside through the window, introducing himself as an inhabitant of Mars.

Der Test

1964

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs poster
5.0

Snow White's mother, the Queen dies when she is born. Her father, the King, remarries a beautiful but vain lady. The new Queen has a magic mirror that she asks every day, who is the fairest one of all? When it answers Snow White, the Queen is furious. Will handsome Prince Charming and the Seven Dwarfs be able to save Snow White from the wicked Queen's wrath?

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

1955

Frederick and Catherine poster
NR

Once upon a time there was Frederick, a clever and hardworking man, and his wife Catherine, who, though well-meaning, was not exactly the brightest. Whatever she touches turns to misfortune—and so, with her good-natured foolishness, she leads her husband from one misadventure to the next! Based on the fairy tale farce by the Brothers Grimm.

Frederick and Catherine

1940

Little Red Riding Hood poster
6.8

Ever since a little girl received a red cap from her grandmother—which she loves to wear—everyone has called her “Little Red Riding Hood.” Little Red Riding Hood lives with her mother and her five brothers in a little cottage on the edge of the forest. Since their father passed away, Little Red Riding Hood’s brothers have been working as lumberjacks to support the family. The little girl helps her mother with the housework as best she can. When Little Red Riding Hood’s grandmother falls seriously ill, her mother has to take care of her, while the girl handles the chores at home and also prepares meals for her five brothers.

Little Red Riding Hood

1954

Bergkristall poster
7.0

Franz, a Tyrolean mountain farmer's son and passionate poacher, loves the beautiful Sanna. A hunter, who is also interested in her, catches Franz poaching, shoots him and leaves him alone. On the way back to the valley, he falls into a crevasse and dies. When Franz returns home seriously injured by the shot, he is mistaken for the murderer of the missing hunter and is put on trial. Although he is acquitted for lack of evidence, the village community cannot prove his innocence. Everyone turns away from Franz, only Sanna sticks by him. They live in seclusion with their two children on a farmstead. Only when the children get lost in the mountains at Christmas time years later can the supposed murder case be solved.

Bergkristall

1949

Bergkristall poster
7.0

Franz, a Tyrolean mountain farmer's son and passionate poacher, loves the beautiful Sanna. A hunter, who is also interested in her, catches Franz poaching, shoots him and leaves him alone. On the way back to the valley, he falls into a crevasse and dies. When Franz returns home seriously injured by the shot, he is mistaken for the murderer of the missing hunter and is put on trial. Although he is acquitted for lack of evidence, the village community cannot prove his innocence. Everyone turns away from Franz, only Sanna sticks by him. They live in seclusion with their two children on a farmstead. Only when the children get lost in the mountains at Christmas time years later can the supposed murder case be solved.

Bergkristall

1949

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Die Sterntaler

1940

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Die Sterntaler

1940

Mother Holly poster
6.3

The prince’s marshal sends word throughout the land: a seamstress is wanted at the royal court! But neither the widow Berta nor her lazy and wicked daughter, Pitchmarie, can spin—so who will provide the finest yarn in the land? Goldmarie, the kind and hardworking orphan who has come to live with them, must do it! But when her spindle falls into a deep well, she follows it and finds herself in the magical realm of Mother Holly, the weather fairy. There, she carries out her duties with such diligence that she is richly rewarded with gold. Now the lazy Pitchmarie longs for the same fortune, and she, too, enters the service of Mother Holly ...

Mother Holly

1961

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hansel and Gretel

1940

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hansel and Gretel

1940

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hansel and Gretel

1940

No artwork available
9.0

Short documentary by Peter Fleischmann

Brot der Wüste

1962

Chicago – A Metropolis in the Making poster
NR

Heinrich Hauser, born 1901 in Prussia, filmed Chicago long before Hollywood discovered the authentic showplace. He went there at the height of the Great Depression, in 1931. It was only him and his camera. He manages without stars. He is not interested in the world of make-believe: no impressionist images, no experimental city poem, no travelogue or image film, no posed footage, certainly not one of the usual culture fi lms. The city was all that counted: the Naked City and the people living here. Hauser was obliged to Neue Sachlichkeit: New Objectivity – and to his aspirations and ambition as an artist.

Chicago – A Metropolis in the Making

1931

Brüderchen und Schwesterchen poster
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

Brüderchen und Schwesterchen

1953

Brüderchen und Schwesterchen poster
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

Brüderchen und Schwesterchen

1953

The Brave Little Tailor poster
6.2

It's a movie about the story of The Brave Little Tailor

The Brave Little Tailor

1941

Da lacht Tirol poster
7.0

There’s excitement in a small mountain village in the Tyrol: The mountain climbers Margit Sollerer and Wolf Pretorius, who’ve already conquered so many difficult peaks, have arrived to climb the 'Pillar'. Especially difficult about the 'Pillar' is an extreme overhang, which even Hias Holleis’ sons Toni and Franz haven’t been able to climb. Since Hias wants to prevent his village becoming the laughing stock of Tyrol -which no doubt will be the case if the strangers are able to climb what the locals can’t- he dares both his sons to try the climb again.

Da lacht Tirol

1967

Paradies ohne Sünde poster
NR

Documentary about the plants, animals and nude women of the alps.

Paradies ohne Sünde

1965

Paradies ohne Sünde poster
NR

Documentary about the plants, animals and nude women of the alps.

Paradies ohne Sünde

1965

No artwork available
NR

The film shows the various stages of the Stahlhelm's integration into the NSDAP and the Third Reich.

Hakenkreuz am Stahlhelm

1933

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

1939

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

1939

Snow White and Rose Red poster
7.5

Snow White and her sister Rose Red try to help two princes stop an evil dwarf from robbing the royalty of their wealth.

Snow White and Rose Red

1955

No artwork available
NR

Guatemala and ancient Mayan cultural sites.

Auf der Suche nach Atlantis

1933

Tanja - Die Nackte von der Teufelsinsel poster
8.0

Tanja spends her vacation on a deserted island, running around naked and watching animals.

Tanja - Die Nackte von der Teufelsinsel

1967

No artwork available
10.0

A boy from the desert tries to sell a sand rose in the big city.

Geschichte einer Sandrose

1961

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Nach Südamerika in drei Tagen

1934

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Nach Südamerika in drei Tagen

1934

No artwork available
NR

One of the first detailed photo reportages about the country and its people, customs and traditions, the economy and transportation in Indonesia. Skillfully inserted travel sketches from the Suez Canal to Singapore break up the documentary.

Paradies auf Erden

1950

No artwork available
NR

One of the first detailed photo reportages about the country and its people, customs and traditions, the economy and transportation in Indonesia. Skillfully inserted travel sketches from the Suez Canal to Singapore break up the documentary.

Paradies auf Erden

1950

No artwork available
NR

One of the first detailed photo reportages about the country and its people, customs and traditions, the economy and transportation in Indonesia. Skillfully inserted travel sketches from the Suez Canal to Singapore break up the documentary.

Paradies auf Erden

1950

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Zehn Jahre später

1948

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Eintagsfliege

1957

No artwork available
NR

Short film using material from the 1930 documentary "Windjammer und Janmaaten".

Männer, Meer und Stürme

1942

No artwork available
NR

Documentary about astrology explaining that it is not just superstition.

Dein Horoskop - Dein Schicksal?

1956

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Der süße Brei

1940

No artwork available
NR

Documentary about the production of a radio in the Saba factories.

Ein angenehmer Hausfreund!

1930