Ida Wüst

Acting

Ida Wüst

Born — Died

1884-10-10 — 1958-10-04

Place of birth

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Known for

Acting

Credits

61 titles

Known for

Film credits

1950s · 5 titles

1940s · 8 titles

Two Worlds poster
6.0

A foreman’s son and his noble friend, who have voluntarily arrived from Berlin to help out with the harvest, switch their billeting coupons while on the journey, so as to play a trick on the estate owner, who is related to one of them. The wrong boy is asked to sit at the estate owner’s table, while the real relative is pushed off on the servants. And so begins a game of confusion with amusing results.

Two Worlds

1940

Rote Mühle poster
10.0

A respectable woman in her 50s inherits a local night club from her husband in a divorce settlement, provided that she shows up there every night at 10:00pm for a month. In spite of eny and provocation, she manages to meet the terms.

Rote Mühle

1940

Request Concert poster
6.5

The young, attractive Inge Wagner becomes acquainted with Herbert Koch during the Berlin Olympics, his flight officer insignia having first caught her eye. Sparks fly immediately between the two and they soon decide to marry. But Herbert is called off on a secret mission in Spain.

Request Concert

1940

No artwork available
7.0

Berlin, the end of the 19th Century: The pretty sisters Gabriele and Ulrike Wilkens have both completed their ballet training with honors. But only Gabriele is really dedicated to the art; Ulrike, on the other hand, is more the domestic type. She dreams of having a husband and children. One day, both of them get to know the aspiring composer Andreas Holk. Holk falls madly in love with Gabriele without suspecting, that Ulrike is in love with him! He arranges a prestigious engagement for the sisters at the Berlin Opera, which only Gabriele accepts. Ulrike prefers her modest life. When Count Alversheim courts Gabriele with unbridled energy, a disappointed Holk turns to Ulrike. When Gabriele finally comes to her senses, it is too late: she’s lost Holk to her sister.

The Two Sisters

1943

The Brothers Noltenius poster
7.0

Wolf Noltenius is a real globetrotter. Early on, this talented young man travelled far and wide, where he earned fame as a construction planner. He moved to Brazil; but one day, homesickness got the best of him. He spontaneously travelled back to his hometown to visit his brother Werner and his family. Wolf and Werner, who both went into the same profession, couldn't be any more different: the one is worldly and an experienced man-about-town; the other a small bourgeois.

The Brothers Noltenius

1945

The Law of Love poster
9.0

Berlin, 1805: The brave Lieutenant Hofstede fell stormily in love with the charming singer Madeleine. Although Madeleine works in a very dubious establishment and thereby embroiled her lover in a scandal.

The Law of Love

1949

Sieben Jahre Pech poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sieben Jahre Pech

1940

Beloved Darling poster
6.0

When a wife reads a love letter addressed to her husband, written by an unknown female, all hell breaks lose.

Beloved Darling

1943

1930s · 33 titles

Herbstmanöver poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Herbstmanöver

1936

Bombs Over Monte Carlo poster
6.4

The captain of a battleship of a small Balkan country is fed up with following strange orders from the country's queen.

Bombs Over Monte Carlo

1931

The Csardas Princess poster
9.0

Sylva Varescu is an operetta singer performing Kálmán's Die Czardasfürstin through Europe with great success. Before going to Vienna she meets handsome Prinz Weylerstein and they fall in love. Offered a contract for America, she doubts until she finds out that he is already engaged to a countess.

The Csardas Princess

1934

Charley's Aunt poster
7.5

Charley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley's Brazilian Aunt Donna Lucia. Their purpose is to have a chaperone for their amorous visits with Amy and Kitty, niece and ward of crusty Stephen Spettigue. Complications begin when Fancourt, in drag, becomes the love object of old Spettigue and Sir Francis Chesney.

Charley's Aunt

1934

The Song of Night poster
8.0

He was known as Anatole Litvak during his Hollywood directorial career, but he was still Anatole Litwak when he helmed the German musical Das Lied Einer Nacht (The Song of Night). Famed Polish tenor Jan Kiepura stars as famed Italian tenor Ferraro. Escaping from his tyrannical manager, Ferraro switches identities with a young tourist (Fritz Schulz) and goes off on an unscheduled Swiss holiday. Still travelling incognito, our hero falls in love with a winsome mountain girl (Magda Schneider). Alas, both his romance -- and his freedom -- are placed in jeopardy when it turns out that the charming young fellow with whom Ferraro traded identities was actually a notorious swindler. Anatole Litvak also directed the English-language version of Das Lied Einer Nacht, Be Mine Tonight

The Song of Night

1932

Liselotte of the Palatinate poster
6.3

The film portrays the life of the Heidelberg-born Elizabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine, who married into the French royal family during the reign of Louis XIV.

Liselotte of the Palatinate

1935

Laughing Heirs poster
6.1

After the death of his uncle, the owner of the Rhine based Bockelmann Sparkling Wine, Peter turns up for the reading of the will. Justus Bockelmann, a producer of mineral water, is confident he will inherit the business, but ‘for reasons of moral rectitude’ he has no intention of running an ‘alcoholic business’. The opening of the will comes as a surprise to all the potential heirs.

Laughing Heirs

1933

We Need No Money poster
6.3

In this German comedy, an enterprising American uncle comes from Chicago goes to the tiny town of Groditzkirchen to make a fortune on credit even though he only has $10 to his name. To do so, he enlists the aide of a bank clerk and begins posing as a millionaire.

We Need No Money

1931

Ja, treu ist die Soldatenliebe poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ja, treu ist die Soldatenliebe

1932

The Testament of Cornelius Gulden poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

The Testament of Cornelius Gulden

1932

My Leopold poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

My Leopold

1931

Once There Was a Waltz poster
8.0

Banker Rudi Moebius and his counselor arrive in Wien for an arranged marriage which should solve their financial problems. Only they don't know, but Lucie Weidling is broken too, and in love with Gustl, a musician without the courage to elope. Meanwhile Rudi meets Steffi and falls in love not even knowing her name. He and Lucie become good friends and decide to help each other.

Once There Was a Waltz

1932

Marriage in Name Only poster
5.0

a movie by Heinz Paul

Marriage in Name Only

1930

Wenn du eine Schwiegermutter hast poster
8.0

Dr. Lorenz is presenting her married daughter to everyone as being unmarried, because she believes a flirtation between the girl and her son-in-law’s boss just might play to the married couple’s advantage. Everyone seems to dance to the doctor’s tune, even a rather moronic professor. However, at the end of all these entanglements, everything seems to work out after all.

Wenn du eine Schwiegermutter hast

1937

The mute of Portici poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The mute of Portici

1931

Once a Great Lady poster
9.0

A young woman working as a secretary for a Berlin car business tries to impress a rich Australian visitor by pretending she is a foreign countess.

Once a Great Lady

1934

Freut Euch des Lebens poster
5.0

A Bavarian comedy centered around Gusti, the lovely waitress of the restaurant „Bratwurstglockl“, who is adored by all the men. When the spoiled snob Carl Maria complains to the manager about the restaurant, Gusti is summarily dismissed and accepts the invitation of the poor chamber singer Gottlieb Bumm to accompany him on a three-day trip to the Zugspitze he won in a contests. While there, they both live well above their means and Gusti runs into Carl Maria again.

Freut Euch des Lebens

1934

The rejuvenated Adolar poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

The rejuvenated Adolar

1931

Warum lügt Fräulein Käthe? poster
10.0

The pleasure boat “Milwaukee” has a wide variety of guests on board: Frau Deiters, who is determined to get her daughter married off; Herr Krueger, who won a free ticket to travel onboard; Herr Dr. Bornemann, a completely introverted man, who has dedicated himself to his work; and Ms. Kathe, the ship’s photographer. On the way to Madeira, Mother Deiters quickly determines, that only Dr. Bornemann would be an appropriate match for her daughter. However, Fraulein Kathe secretly is in love with him. When the two end up in a very publicly embarrassing situation, the entire ship thinks she is the fiancée.

Warum lügt Fräulein Käthe?

1935

Peter Voss, Thief of Millions poster
7.0

When the wealthy Mr. Pitt decides to withdraw a sum in the millions, the Schilling & Co. bank faces ruin. To save it, the authorized signatory Peter Voß stages a break-in in which two million marks are allegedly stolen.

Peter Voss, Thief of Millions

1932

Tenant Schulze against everyone poster
10.0

Several inhabitants of a big apartment building get involved in a series of lawsuits.

Tenant Schulze against everyone

1932

Bock Beer Fest poster
7.0

Underwear manufacturer Livius Heintze is a vehement anti-alcoholic and thus is very much against the marriage of his daughter Hedwig to the brewery owner Raumert. Heintze's second, illegitimate daughter Emmi also wants to give her father a heart attack by marrying the hops merchant Seidl.

Bock Beer Fest

1930

Manoeuver Time Is Fine poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Manoeuver Time Is Fine

1931

A Song for You poster
8.0

During a concert tour, famous tenor Riccardo Gatti meets Lixie at an Aida rehearsal and takes her for a ballet dancer. She is in fact trying to get a position for her boyfriend, so she accepts Gatti's date for supper. When she runs away he publishes a newspaper ad offering to give a concert anywhere she chooses if she shows up. She chooses a swimming pool hoping to discourage him, but he accepts.

A Song for You

1933

A Night on the Danube poster
7.0

After meeting up with a charming blonde and her female orchestra on a Danube river steamer, a nobleman who had aspired toward the classics turns to popular music instead.

A Night on the Danube

1935

Keinen Tag ohne dich poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Keinen Tag ohne dich

1933

Kleiner Mann – was nun? poster
7.0

First adaptation of Hans Fallada's novel of the same name.

Kleiner Mann – was nun?

1933

The Winner poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Winner

1932

A Girl You Don't Forget poster
10.0

A GIRL YOU DON'T FORGET can be thought of as a backstage musical that treats the whole world as backstage. Melodies seem to be buzzing through the air, available to anyone in the right state of mind. Willi Forst always is, and he is also an actor who can transform any space into a stage. Fritz Kortner, one of the defining personalities of the German theatre scene of the 1920s, makes the most of his star’s talent in an intricately constructed romantic comedy that believes in the truth of artifice. Forst plays Paul Hartwig, a wannabe actor who is reduced to selling books in the cold streets of Berlin. While pursuing his big break, he meets Lisa Brandes (Dolly Haas), another victim of the global financial crisis who has just learned a new trick: cheating horny old men out of their money by selling promises she does not intend to keep. Dedicated theatre man Paul decides to win her over by putting on an act, but a misplaced slap leads to unintended consequences. - Lukas Foerster

A Girl You Don't Forget

1932

Annette im Paradies poster
7.0

1934 German-Czechoslovak film.

Annette im Paradies

1934

The Beautiful Adventure poster
7.0

Helene has agreed to marry a man that she isn't in love with. On the day of her wedding her cousin arrives just in time to rescue her and they run away together. They stay with her aged grandmother who assumes the young man (whom she doesn't know) to be the new husband and has prepared a bridal bed for them.

The Beautiful Adventure

1932

A Student's Song of Heidelberg poster
6.6

A long time ago, John Miller emigrated from Germany to America. Now he wants his daughter Elinor to get to know his old homeland and sends her off to Heidelberg, where she is to study for a year. Pretty soon, the pretty young girl is in demand among the young men in town. Especially the students Dahlberg and Bornemann try to win Elinor's heart.

A Student's Song of Heidelberg

1930

Madame Pompadour poster
9.0

Historical romance about French monarch Louis XV and his infatuation with Madame Pompadour.

Madame Pompadour

1931

1920s · 14 titles

No artwork available
9.0

a silent movie by Heinz Paul

Die Straße des Vergessens

1926

Vienna, City of My Dreams poster
10.0

The young Queen of Nlilrania and her consort, Prince Ferdinand, are deeply attached to each other, but a hectic youth in Vienna has left him with a flirtatious disposition. An old flame visits the palace, and the Queen apparently has justification for her jealousy. She orders her husband to remain in his apartments. He retaliates by returning the key of the door between their rooms. After a furious scene he departs for Vienna with the Countess. The Queen secretly follows with her aide-de-camp. in the train they encounter sonic officers, and the Queen not only dances, but at Vienna goes to the Arts Ball, where her husband awaits the Countess. Though masked, he recognizes her, and reconciliation ensues.

Vienna, City of My Dreams

1928

No artwork available
NR

Es zogen drei Burschen (1928) is a German silent comedy film directed by Carl Wilhelm. Also known by its alternative German title Drei Seelen und ein Gedanke, the movie is a lighthearted farce famously featuring an early-career performance by the legendary actor Hans Albers.

Es zogen drei Burschen

1928

Das Heiratsnest poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Das Heiratsnest

1927

The Night Belongs to Us poster
7.5

During a test run for a large race in Sicily the racing car driver Bettina Bang gets into an accident and is saved by a secretive person unknown to her. It later turns out that the unknown man is the race car driver Harry Bredow.

The Night Belongs to Us

1929

The Countess of Paris poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Countess of Paris

1923

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Zwischen vierzehn und siebzehn

1929

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die dritte Eskadron

1926

Queen Louise poster
8.0

The young Crown Princess Luise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz grows up sheltered in the North German countryside in the late 18th century and develops into a bit of a rebel. She struggles to come to terms with the rules of etiquette at court; her actions are often spontaneous and driven by emotion. Thus, she resists accepting her father’s mistress and future wife. During a ball, she snubs her future stepmother and even has the audacity to ask the orchestra to play a waltz—a dance considered deeply improper at the time.

Queen Louise

1927

O alte Burschenherrlichkeit poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

O alte Burschenherrlichkeit

1925

No artwork available
7.0

A pregnant teenage couple consider their options.

Madame Lu, die Frau für diskrete Beratung

1929

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Raub der Sabinerinnen

1928

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Königin des Weltbades

1926

Der Fall des Staatsanwalts M... poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Fall des Staatsanwalts M...

1928

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