Paul Dahlke

Acting

Paul Dahlke

Born — Died

1904-04-12 — 1984-11-23

Place of birth

Köslin, Pomerania, Germany [now Koszalin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]

Known for

Acting

Credits

83 titles

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 13 titles

Red Dragon poster
6.7

An FBI agent goes to Hong Kong to short-circuit a smuggler of electrical parts to the communists.

Red Dragon

1965

Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt poster
7.0

A mother is sentenced to one year in prison for matchmaking her underage daughter with her adult boyfriend.

Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt

1962

Encounters in Salzburg poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Encounters in Salzburg

1964

Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious poster
6.9

A lonely German clerk captures two American flyers and keeps them as prisoners in his basement long after WWII has ended.

Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious

1965

Donnerwetter! Donnerwetter! Bonifatius Kiesewetter poster
3.7

No synopsis available yet.

Donnerwetter! Donnerwetter! Bonifatius Kiesewetter

1969

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ein Riß im Eis

1967

Sechs Stunden Angst poster
6.2

When the Paris airport management is informed by telephone that there is a time bomb on board a Canadian Atlantic Airways plane to Montréal, they initially believe it is a bad joke. But the caller answers again. Inspector Bignon gets involved...

Sechs Stunden Angst

1964

The Heathens of Kummerow poster
5.7

Kummerow, a village in North East Germany, around 1900: Mean-spirited miller Düker wants to drive cowherd Krischan out of the village. Being popular with the local children, Krischan can rely on the help of schoolboys Martin and Johannes and their friends, who try to prevent the miller's plans by playing pranks on him.

The Heathens of Kummerow

1967

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sie werden sterben, Sire

1964

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Die Großherzogin von Gerolstein

1962

Secret of the Chinese Carnation poster
6.2

Professor Wilkens has invented a formula for a new type of fuel and puts it on a microfiche that he sends to his daughter and her bodyguard, but multiple different mysterious groups, including the "Chinese Carnation", would kill to get their hands on it.

Secret of the Chinese Carnation

1964

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tabula rasa

1965

Sansibar poster
10.0

The plot revolves around a group of people who, for various reasons, want to flee Germany to Sweden in 1937.

Sansibar

1961

1950s · 23 titles

Confessions of Felix Krull poster
6.4

Thomas Mann's witty and intimate story of a irresistible scoundrel.

Confessions of Felix Krull

1957

Three Men in the Snow poster
7.5

The multi-millionaire Eduard Schlüter takes part under the name Schulze in a raffle of his own Schlüter works and wins a stay at the Grand Hotel. Disguised as a poor swallower, he would like to study the reactions of the hotel staff and guests. As an assistant, he takes his reliable servant Johann with him. Once there, he makes friends and also has cause for annoyance when his daughter and the housekeeper arrive.

Three Men in the Snow

1955

The Flying Classroom poster
7.7

The third form of a boarding school and the students of a neighboring school do not get along. Each side dreams up the craziest pranks to defeat the other. And when one day the high school students go as far as stealing the Gymnasium students’ essays and even burning them, daily school life really gets out of hand.

The Flying Classroom

1954

The Head poster
5.1

A scientist invents a serum that keeps a dog's head alive after its body dies. When the scientist dies of a heart attack, his crazed assistant cuts off his head and, using the serum, keeps the doctor's head alive and forces it to help him on an experiment to give his hunchbacked nurse assistant a new body.

The Head

1959

...und ewig bleibt die Liebe poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

...und ewig bleibt die Liebe

1954

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Liebe, Luft und lauter Lügen

1959

The Third Sex poster
5.0

Klaus is a young man in post-war Berlin. He is drawn to his friend Manfred and, under the encouragement of their acquaintance, Dr. Winkler, explore the underground world of gay clubs and electronic music. His family begins to learn of his other life and do everything they can to set him straight.

The Third Sex

1957

She Walks by Night poster
5.0

Based on an actual murder case in Frankfurt after the war, the film tells the story of the murder of Rosemarie, a prostitute, and how she ended up strangled in her apartment.

She Walks by Night

1959

No artwork available
7.0

After years of silence, Thomas reunites with his great love, Petra, and is devastated: She has married his best friend, Christoph. Thomas remains friendly but secretly schemes to denigrate Christoph as a criminal and thus reclaim the woman he loves.

Der Schatten des Herrn Monitor

1950

Rebel Flight to Cuba poster
9.5

Peter escapes a firing squad and leaves the island of San Quinto on a commercial flight to Bermuda. The plane is hijacked by a Nazi and San Quinto's Ex-General Cordobas who shoot pilot Pink and damage the landing gear of the plane.

Rebel Flight to Cuba

1959

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Das Abgründige in Herrn Gerstenberg

1957

Kitty and the Great Big World poster
6.4

The young Kitty is drawn into the world of international politics by chance.

Kitty and the Great Big World

1956

Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz poster
7.0

Dr. Danwitz is a dedicated physician. The assistant doctor works practically day and night on a research project, but without pay. His wife Edith earns the necessary extra money as a model. That's why her pregnancy is a financial disaster for the young couple. Then a wealthy woman asks Dr. Danwitz to perform an illegal abortion, for which she would pay well. The doctor has to make a difficult decision.

Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz

1956

Ihr erstes Rendezvous poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ihr erstes Rendezvous

1955

Drillinge an Bord poster
6.1

Househusband Heinz lives with his two brothers Otto and Eduard. When Heinz wins a luxury cruise in a pop song contest, Otto and Eduard don't want to stay at home. The two decide to secretly go along as stowaways...

Drillinge an Bord

1959

Dubrovsky poster
5.8

Vladimir Dubrovsky returns from St. Petersburg to his family estate, where he finds his father dying and learns that all his lands and serfs have been fraudulently taken by the owner of a neighboring estate. Having organized a detachment of peasants who refused to obey the new owner, our hero intends to restore justice and take revenge on his offender.

Dubrovsky

1959

Falschmünzer am Werk poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Falschmünzer am Werk

1951

All the Sins of the Earth poster
7.0

Regine, a physician, loses her lover in a car crash and carries out an abortion; it's the beginning of her descent into hell.

All the Sins of the Earth

1958

Moonwolf poster
5.5

Dr. Peter Holmes (Carl Moehner), zoologist and veterinarian, relectantly agrees to permit his dog, Wolf, to be used in a launch project commissioned by the International Conference of Science, at Geneva, to study body function and survival in outer space. Holmes had discovered Wolf as a pup in the forest, only to lose him again in a flood, and is fearful of risking the dog's life again.

Moonwolf

1959

No artwork available
6.8

Ten years ago, at the end of WW2, 7-year-old Beate was separated from her parents while fleeing. A wealthy couple from Hamburg took her in. But now her less affluent parents have found their lost daughter and are bringing her back to Berlin. Beate doesn't feel at home there, but she doesn't want to go back to Hamburg either. She escapes into a relationship with a musician. Only when that fails does she realize that she belongs with her real parents.

Roman einer Siebzehnjährigen

1955

Gute Nacht, Mary poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Gute Nacht, Mary

1950

Vergiß die Liebe nicht poster
9.0

A tenor sparks new hope into the life of a wife,a former piano player whose husband has not been paying enough attention to her.

Vergiß die Liebe nicht

1953

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kein Engel ist so rein

1950

1940s · 11 titles

Doctor Crippen poster
8.0

The popular trapeze artist Cora is married to the respected doctor Frank Crippen. After a party at the Crippens' house, Cora suddenly disappears. Apparently, she traveled to Brazil alone overnight. However, a friend of the couple is skeptical and calls the police. While excavating the garden, Inspector Düwell makes a gruesome discovery: body parts. Meanwhile, the prime suspect, Dr. Crippen, has already gone into hiding...

Doctor Crippen

1942

Comrades poster
9.0

King Frederick II and his leading advisors hesitate too long in the eyes of some officers, so Major von Schill decides to strike out on his own. He hoped that his brave move would be the catalyst for the great war of liberation. But von Schill's troops were soon defeated by a superior force of Dutch-Danish troops. The king takes a public stand against von Schill's actions and eleven of his officers are shot by summary execution on Napoleon's orders. However, one of them, Lieutenant Heinrich von Wedell, escapes death and is sentenced to forced labor for life. When Wedell's brother Karl, who opposed von Schill's unauthorized actions, learns of Heinrich's fate, he decides to help him in a risky way...

Comrades

1941

Menschen in Gottes Hand poster
6.8

Film by Rolf Meyer.

Menschen in Gottes Hand

1948

Geliebte Welt poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Geliebte Welt

1942

And If We Should Meet Again poster
7.5

Students raised under Nazi ideology witness the disintegration of the Third Reich and the realization of those who indoctrinated them that they were wrong.

And If We Should Meet Again

1947

Comedy Times Three poster
7.0

Art student Ulla lies to her older sister Ilse, claiming to be posing for sculptor Professor Viktor Arnim. To confront him, Ilse visits him that very evening. In her excitement, she forgets her handbag, which the professor immediately notices. Ilse clearly doesn't dislike Viktor and no longer wants to appear as the strict sister. So she lies to Viktor and his friend Philipp Geiger, who is also present, telling him that her handbag was stolen by a man named Meier. Viktor and Philipp immediately offer to retrieve it. Sure enough, the famous boxer Willi Meier lives in the neighborhood. Viktor and Philipp also find a woman's handbag in his apartment, which they secretly take with them.

Comedy Times Three

1949

Long Is the Road poster
7.0

The first feature film to represent the Holocaust from a Jewish perspective. Shot on location at Landsberg, the largest DP camp in U.S.-occupied Germany, and mixing neorealist and expressionist styles, the film follows a Polish Jew and his family from pre-war Warsaw through Auschwitz and the DP camps.

Long Is the Road

1948

Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius poster
7.8

The young Schiller, whose heart and soul are writing and poetry, is forced into the military academy (the pride and joy of the Duke of Württemberg). Schiller is disgusted by the everyday routine of the military, always back and forth between breeding and drills. Conversation, conflict or even critique are discouraged – the oppression insufferable for the young rebel. Disgusted by the brutality, he writes his drama "The Bandit", which he would later publish anonymously. But following a frank conversation with the Duke, Schiller is dishonored and must leave the land.

Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius

1940

Ich vertraue Dir meine Frau an poster
5.2

No synopsis available yet.

Ich vertraue Dir meine Frau an

1943

Die Zeit mit dir poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Zeit mit dir

1948

Romance in a Minor Key poster
7.0

A grieving husband tries to uncover the truth behind his wife's suicide, leading him to discover a tragic tale of infidelity and redemption.

Romance in a Minor Key

1943

1930s · 7 titles

Love, Death and the Devil poster
10.0

In a harbor bazaar of the Pacific town of Kona, the young sailor Kiwe is offered a mysterious bottle, which supposedly gives her owner power and wealth and should fulfill all his wishes. The required return is however high. From now on, the soul of the new owner belongs to the devil.

Love, Death and the Devil

1934

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

Fridericus poster
5.6

In 18th century Europe, King Friedrich II of Prussia leads his army through the seven-years-war with neighboring states, and after numerous near defeats, eventually brings a victorious army back to Berlin.

Fridericus

1937

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

War es der im 3. Stock? poster
9.0

Olga, a woman of the demimonde, is shot in her apartment. The bullet was deflected by something, otherwise it would have killed Olga. Witnesses heard a noise at 2 p.m. that sounded like a gunshot. Detective Heidenreich investigates and discovers that the perpetrator must have been one of the tenants in the building. He realizes that many people are suspects.

War es der im 3. Stock?

1939

Women for Golden Hill poster
6.5

Women are being sent to an all male settlement. The marriages are planned in advance, but not everything goes according to plan.

Women for Golden Hill

1938

Joan of Arc poster
6.2

France in the 15th Century: The country is marked by the wars with England and internal power struggles. King Charles sees himself powerless against the state. As emerges from the people suddenly a young woman named Johanna, who claimed that the Archangel Gabriel to be appointed, to save France. First of all doubt the king in their words, but he remembers that the people through this "help of God" is gaining new courage. With the slogan "God and the Virgin!" pulls the revivified victorious army into battle against the English-Burgundian alliance. After Johanna King Charles is crowned at Reims, there breaks the plague over the country in. Now Johanna all the blame on the disaster: God would punish believe in the country for that a heretic; if Johanna were actual a holy, she would deal also with the plague. The waning faith weakens France, England is again on the rise. But Johanna is executed as a witch. Only years later annulled the verdict of the Holy and Johanna explained.

Joan of Arc

1935

Series credits

The Old Fox poster
6.3

A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.

The Old Fox

1977

Derrick poster
6.0

Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.

Derrick

1974

Dalli Dalli poster
9.3

No synopsis available yet.

Dalli Dalli

1971

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

German Film Award

1951

The Commissioner poster
8.0

Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein.

The Commissioner

1969

No artwork available
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Was bin ich?

1955

Polizeiinspektion 1 poster
10.0

Polizeiinspektion 1 is a German television series.

Polizeiinspektion 1

1977

Das Kriminalmuseum poster
8.0

Das Kriminalmuseum was a German television series. It ran from 1963 to 1970 on ZDF and was one of its first programs. Each episode began with a tracking shot through an unspecified crime museum, stopping at one of the displays, whose story was then told. Each episode was between 60 and 75 minutes long and featured different actors as the criminal commissioner. The best known was Erik Ode, who in 1969 moved to Der Kommissar, appearing in 97 episodes. The theme music of the series was written by German composer Martin Böttcher, who also composed the complete scores for five episodes.

Das Kriminalmuseum

1963

Das Kriminalmuseum poster
8.0

Das Kriminalmuseum was a German television series. It ran from 1963 to 1970 on ZDF and was one of its first programs. Each episode began with a tracking shot through an unspecified crime museum, stopping at one of the displays, whose story was then told. Each episode was between 60 and 75 minutes long and featured different actors as the criminal commissioner. The best known was Erik Ode, who in 1969 moved to Der Kommissar, appearing in 97 episodes. The theme music of the series was written by German composer Martin Böttcher, who also composed the complete scores for five episodes.

Das Kriminalmuseum

1963

Das Kriminalmuseum poster
8.0

Das Kriminalmuseum was a German television series. It ran from 1963 to 1970 on ZDF and was one of its first programs. Each episode began with a tracking shot through an unspecified crime museum, stopping at one of the displays, whose story was then told. Each episode was between 60 and 75 minutes long and featured different actors as the criminal commissioner. The best known was Erik Ode, who in 1969 moved to Der Kommissar, appearing in 97 episodes. The theme music of the series was written by German composer Martin Böttcher, who also composed the complete scores for five episodes.

Das Kriminalmuseum

1963

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Krimistunde

1982

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Krimistunde

1982

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sonderdezernat K1

1972

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sonderdezernat K1

1972

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sonderdezernat K1

1972

Die fünfte Kolonne poster
8.0

Die fünfte Kolonne is a German television series.

Die fünfte Kolonne

1963

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Wie würden Sie entscheiden?

1974

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Leute wie du und ich

1980

The Illegal poster
10.0

Set against the backdrop of post-war Germany, Der Illegale follows the story of a young man named Stefan who, after being arrested for deserting the army, finds himself in the country’s illegal labor market. As he attempts to start a new life, he faces not only the challenges of survival but also a world where trust is rare, and every action carries immense risks. Through Stefan's journey, the film explores themes of power, survival, and the lengths one will go to in order to escape the clutches of an unforgiving system. The Illegal is a gritty and realistic look at the underbelly of life in a divided Germany during a time of political tension and social upheaval.

The Illegal

1972

No artwork available
NR

Lugtal, a town nestled between hills, where the citizens feel at home in their half-timbered houses. A dominant figure: Count Brosch, brewery owner and entrepreneur. He is planning a large-scale housing project in the nearby city forest. Some politicians and many committed citizens are opposed to this, striving instead for the renovation of the old town. Against this backdrop, the story of two contrasting brothers unfolds—the conformist Fridolin and the rebellious Max Fantl.

Die Stadt im Tal

1975

Der Monddiamant poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Monddiamant

1974

MS Franziska poster
8.0

MS Franziska is a German television series.

MS Franziska

1978

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Schusters Gespenster

1978