Writing

Walter Wassermann

Born — Died

1883-09-19 — 1944-10-04

Place of birth

Berlin, Germany

Known for

Writing

Credits

41 titles

Known for

Pygmalion poster
6.7

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.

Pygmalion

1935

Goodbye Beautiful Days poster
7.0

After she has abused the confidence of the young engineer Pierre Lavernay, the beautiful thief Olga, who has fallen in love with him, wants to break with her criminal past. Unfortunately, by the awkwardness of her former accomplices, Olga is extradited to the police and, sadly, her young lover turns back to Paris.

Goodbye Beautiful Days

1933

Schüsse in Kabine 7 poster
8.0

The Minerva Mines Company is interested in transporting two particularly valuable diamonds from Cape Town to Amsterdam. To confuse potential thieves, two detectives are sent on two different ships with steel suitcases and they have no clue whether they’re carrying pebbles or diamonds. Nevertheless, a collection of questionable characters come on board both ships. The hunt for the diamonds begins; the suitcases are stolen; everyone is suspect.

Schüsse in Kabine 7

1938

The Bat poster
4.2

The delightful Johann Strauss comic opera Die Fledermaus was mercilessly lampooned in this truly bizarre production. For starters, a framing device has been added: After appearing in 300 consecutive appearances of Fledermaus (which translates as The Bat) the lead tenor (Georg Alexander) imagines that he's seeing bats everywhere. Driven a bit over the edge by all this, he falls asleep and has a nightmare about the opera, with a group of non-singers cast in the leading roles. The original libretto about romantic assignations, political imprisonments and mistaken identity is burlesqued to the hilt: at one point, the hero finds out that his prison cell is surrounded by rubber tubes!

The Bat

1937

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Möblierte Zimmer

1929

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

Film credits

Behind the camera

Pygmalion poster
6.7

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.

Pygmalion

1935

Goodbye Beautiful Days poster
7.0

After she has abused the confidence of the young engineer Pierre Lavernay, the beautiful thief Olga, who has fallen in love with him, wants to break with her criminal past. Unfortunately, by the awkwardness of her former accomplices, Olga is extradited to the police and, sadly, her young lover turns back to Paris.

Goodbye Beautiful Days

1933

Schüsse in Kabine 7 poster
8.0

The Minerva Mines Company is interested in transporting two particularly valuable diamonds from Cape Town to Amsterdam. To confuse potential thieves, two detectives are sent on two different ships with steel suitcases and they have no clue whether they’re carrying pebbles or diamonds. Nevertheless, a collection of questionable characters come on board both ships. The hunt for the diamonds begins; the suitcases are stolen; everyone is suspect.

Schüsse in Kabine 7

1938

The Bat poster
4.2

The delightful Johann Strauss comic opera Die Fledermaus was mercilessly lampooned in this truly bizarre production. For starters, a framing device has been added: After appearing in 300 consecutive appearances of Fledermaus (which translates as The Bat) the lead tenor (Georg Alexander) imagines that he's seeing bats everywhere. Driven a bit over the edge by all this, he falls asleep and has a nightmare about the opera, with a group of non-singers cast in the leading roles. The original libretto about romantic assignations, political imprisonments and mistaken identity is burlesqued to the hilt: at one point, the hero finds out that his prison cell is surrounded by rubber tubes!

The Bat

1937

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Möblierte Zimmer

1929

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

Die heimlichen Bräute poster
9.0

Uncle Ludwig’s childless estate hinges on his nephews: Peter studies agriculture and is engaged to Inge, while Paul, a court assessor, loves Marianne, whose father disdains “judges.” Both women secretly visit Bainingen, but Ludwig mistakes Inge for Marianne and vice versa, triggering a cascade of romantic mix-ups.

Die heimlichen Bräute

1942

The Rhineland Model poster
6.5

Four girls seeks happiness on the dance floor among the handsome and rich gentlemen.

The Rhineland Model

1930

Les voleurs de gloire poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Les voleurs de gloire

1926

Inheritance in Pretoria poster
10.0

The businessman Bernhard Fredersen, who has been blinded by an eye disease, shuts down his long-established company in Hamburg and moves to Pretoria to spend his retirement years with his wife Agnes. While on the journey, Agnes is seen by the treacherous Eugen Schliebach.

Inheritance in Pretoria

1934

Thou Art My Joy poster
9.0

Tenor Mario Monti is searching for his wife Bianca's daughter, who is believed to be dead. Before Mario, Bianca was married to Carlo Scarpia, Mario's patron. When Carlo discovered that his wife and Mario were having an affair, he left them both and, as he was leaving, told Bianca that their daughter Mary had died. In reality, she grew up without knowing her real parents. Mario tracks Mary down in Munich, where she works as a ballerina at the State Opera.

Thou Art My Joy

1936

Das Mädel mit der Peitsche poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Das Mädel mit der Peitsche

1929

Kora Terry poster
5.5

When Bartos, the director of the Odeon variety theater, cancels an artist at short notice, he hires the Terrys out of necessity, whose parents were successful variety artists, but who had not yet received an engagement themselves. Both are supported by Tobs, a friend of their parents. While blonde Mara Terry arrives punctually for the first rehearsal, her dark-haired sister Kora is late like a diva and acts aloof and snippy. At their first performance together the next day, Kora is overtired from partying the night before. During a dangerous act in which she has to balance her upside-down sister on her head, she becomes careless...

Kora Terry

1940

The Night in Venice poster
7.5

The marriage of the celebrated operetta diva Vilma and the chamber singer Peter has come to an end. Peter, however, is intent on winning back his now ex-wife. So he’s come up with the idea of a guest performance in Venice, where the two will both appear. Vilma, however, has already found a new man – Niki. He’s a salesman and she wants to marry him. With the help of Annemarie, a friend, who has won a trip to Venice, Peter succeeds in diverting Niki, for he falls in love with Annemarie. Now the way is free for Peter to win back the ex-wife, who couldn’t care if he lived in a hole six feet underground.

The Night in Venice

1942

Sergeant Berry poster
7.0

Sergeant Hans Albers, the terror of Chicago gangsters, is transferred South of the border to deal with bandidos.

Sergeant Berry

1938

The Testament of Cornelius Gulden poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

The Testament of Cornelius Gulden

1932

Strong Hearts in the Storm poster
9.0

On the eve of the Russian Revolution, a performance of "Tosca" is taking place at the opera house. The artists and staff are too engrossed in their work to notice the unrest in the streets. The leading roles are played by Marina Marta and René Areno, who are also lovers. However, Marina has another admirer in Captain Alexander von Harbin. When, during the final performance, the insurgent communists suddenly storm the opera house, Alexander seems to be Marina's last hope…

Strong Hearts in the Storm

1937

Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes poster
6.6

Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his district and no one is able to do anything about it. Every fourth child is already sick and the parents must helplessly watch as their young ones die. Now Koch is undertaking to find the cause of the tuberculosis --- something he has already been working on for years --- which has been causing this plague of illness. His work is made more difficult by envy; for example, that of his teacher, who was wounded defending his honor. But his greatest obstacle is the famous Berliner scientist and Reichstag deputy, Privy Councilor Rudolf Virchow: He is extraordinarily skeptical of Koch's theory, that the cause for tuberculosis is a bacteria.

Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes

1939

Little Sinner poster
9.0

In this love triangle, two comrades working at a Berlin auto repair place fall out over a waitress they both want. The only way Rudi can think of winning away Erika from Hanni is to badmouth her to his rival.

Little Sinner

1938

An Old Heart Becomes Young Again poster
8.0

All throughout his entire life, Friedrich Wilhelm Hoffmann let his career run roughshod over his personal life. He had no wife, because he was married instead to his chocolate factory. Now he’s old and gray, and his relatives, who are greedily waiting for him to kick the bucket so they can get their hands on his worldly goods, keep their distance from him. Then one day, an astonished Hoffmann is visited by a young woman named Brigitte, who asserts, that she’s his granddaughter. Suddenly, it all comes back to the old man: as a young man, he had a short, but intense, love affair, which he had to end on the insistence of his father.

An Old Heart Becomes Young Again

1943

Das Konzert poster
5.6

A concert pianist, the romantic idol of many women, is seduced away from his wife. The seductress's husband takes in the pianist's wife, and all four pretend to be happy with the new arrangement.

Das Konzert

1944

Die schönen Tage von Aranjuez poster
7.0

As a gang of classy jewel thieves hop from one European country to another, an engineer rescues a woman from their clutches.

Die schönen Tage von Aranjuez

1933

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Cold Heart

1924

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Schicksal

1925

Spelunke poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Spelunke

1929

Ja, treu ist die Soldatenliebe poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ja, treu ist die Soldatenliebe

1932

The Page from the Dalmasse Hotel poster
6.6

Dolly Haas is employed as a (supposedly male) servant at a Hotel.

The Page from the Dalmasse Hotel

1933

The Stranger poster
8.5

"The Stranger" is Mrs. Clarkson, the wife of a wealthy American. Mrs. Clarkson has entered into matrimony for the express purpose of accumulating a great deal of money. No, she isn't a spendthrift: She hopes to use the cash to finance a campaign of revenge, levelled against the man who ruined her mother.

The Stranger

1931

Une nuit au paradis poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Une nuit au paradis

1932

The girl from USA poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

The girl from USA

1930

Ein Zug fährt ab poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

Ein Zug fährt ab

1942

Should We Wed Them? poster
10.0

Professor Bock is to inaugurate the museum, the construction of which was donated by a generous patron who remains anonymous. He learns that it is his brother's wife, a former dancer, and whom he hates. But her daughter falls in love with Jim, the son of the ex-dancer, and everything will work out.

Should We Wed Them?

1932

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Nächste, bitte!

1930

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Queen of Whitechapel

1922

Roman einer Nacht poster
7.0

While in France, the daughter of Copenhagen's police chief meets a fascinating detective who is seeking a criminal professor.

Roman einer Nacht

1933

No artwork available
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Der kühne Schwimmer

1934

Es lebe die Liebe poster
6.0

A romantic skirmish between an intrusive operetta tenor from the Berlin Theater and a revue diva in Barcelona, who later encounters him, initially unrecognized, as a ballet dancer and, after they marry, plays the role of a housewife to cure him of his arrogance and flightiness. He himself is no stranger to deception, but their joint stage finale is not far off.

Es lebe die Liebe

1944

Poor little Eva poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Poor little Eva

1931

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Hotelratte

1928

Storm in a Water Glass poster
8.0

Popular comedy about a flower seller who cannot afford to pay a tax for having a little dog as her companion, and the new candidate for the post of burgomaster she endangers.

Storm in a Water Glass

1931