Directing

Carl Boese

Born — Died

1887-08-26 — 1958-07-06

Place of birth

Berlin, Germany

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

The Golem: How He Came into the World poster
7.0

In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.

The Golem: How He Came into the World

1920

Dyplomatyczna żona poster
8.5

The director of the Warsaw operetta has problems with putting together a team. He cares very much about acquiring the star of the stage - Jadwiga Janowska. However, she is currently in Paris with her husband, diplomat Henryk de Fontana. It turns out that Ambassador Rossi falls in love with her. Jadwiga goes to Warsaw, where in her apartment her friend Apolonia trains a young adept Wanda to play on stage.

Dyplomatyczna żona

1937

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8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Alimente

1930

Steputat & Co. poster
5.8

A rich East Prussian shopkeeper,jealous that one of his male employees is in love with a female employee he himself covets, frames the couple for stealing lottery tickets.

Steputat & Co.

1938

No artwork available
7.0

To stave off creditors of a young composer, his friend plants a news story that he is engaged to an American heiress.

The Song of Happiness

1933

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Das Nachtgespenst

1953

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Geisha and the Samurai

1919

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

Angels with Minor Faults poster
7.0

Mary arrives in Berlin from Canada to visit her nephew Max and meet his twin daughters that she has been amply supporting financially. But Max has cheated: There is only one daughter Inge who has to enact both girls to cover up the mess.

Angels with Minor Faults

1936

My Cousin From Warsaw poster
6.0

Meine Kusine aus Warschau (My Cousin From Warsaw) was based on a stage play by Louis Verneuil. It's a romantic farce, with the heroine posing as her own cousin to carry on two amours at once.

My Cousin From Warsaw

1931

The Stork Society poster
9.0

Literary adaptation about the need for the new Germany to have more children.

The Stork Society

1937

Meine Frau, die Schützenkönigin poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Meine Frau, die Schützenkönigin

1934

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

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Unschuld in tausend Nöten

1951

Der Mann ohne Schlaf poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Mann ohne Schlaf

1926

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Donna Lucia

1918

Bashful Felix poster
10.0

The traveling salesman for a bathing suit company has trouble getting business until he meets a girl willing to take off her clothes and act as a model.Misunderstandings and complications ensue.

Bashful Felix

1934

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

The Wedding Hotel poster
10.0

A group of artists and journalists enjoy a series of romantic entanglements in a country hotel. An author, Vera von Eichberg "of whom no photo exists," has mentioned the hotel in her work, boosting its notoriety. When another female guest arrives, everyone assumes she is the author, despite her repeated assertions to the contrary.

The Wedding Hotel

1944

The Wedding Hotel poster
10.0

A group of artists and journalists enjoy a series of romantic entanglements in a country hotel. An author, Vera von Eichberg "of whom no photo exists," has mentioned the hotel in her work, boosting its notoriety. When another female guest arrives, everyone assumes she is the author, despite her repeated assertions to the contrary.

The Wedding Hotel

1944

Meine Tante, deine Tante poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Meine Tante, deine Tante

1956

No Celebration Without Meyer poster
7.0

Siegmund Meyer might be a professional matchmaker, but his own married bliss will not come that easily. In order to impress city councillor Goebel, the father of Meyer's love interest Mary, he tries to pass as an industrial tycoon. But Mary's heart belongs to someone else, and while Meyer continues his risky role-changing, he fails to notice that his loyal secretary Ms. Krause has been secretly in love with him for a long time.

No Celebration Without Meyer

1931

The Cheeky Devil poster
10.0

Adaptation of a French comedy, set in Paris, in which a lecherous man sets his sights on a beautiful married woman, whose husband is otherwise distracted.

The Cheeky Devil

1932

My Aunt, Your Aunt poster
8.0

Because his future wife abandoned him shortly before the wedding, an old baron has decided that he doesn't want any women near him anymore. The daughter of the flaky woman decides to take it upon herself to get the baron and her mother back together again and dresses up as a gypsy boy to use music from "his" violin to soften the baron's heart ...

My Aunt, Your Aunt

1939

Miss Madame poster
10.0

On their honeymoon in St. Moritz,a new husband who is much older than his young bride is driven to despair when he thinks she prefers to spend her time with a younger man there, an actor.

Miss Madame

1934

Three Nights poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Three Nights

1920

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The handsomest man in the state

1932

No artwork available
8.0

Rudi, who’s been quite the ladies’ man, finally wants to settle down and marry Hilde. So as to not get into a touchy situation with all his many women, he plans to bring them all together the night before his wedding. While sitting alone in his apartment and burning all his old photos and love letters, he notices a woman in the garden. She assets, that she’s hiding from a stubborn admirer and he stupidly offers her to come in … and then it all begins! First, his wife-to-be Hilde shows up, who wants to spend the night before their wedding together. While Rudi tries to hide the unknown woman in his bedroom, a hotel detective shows up and claims he’s following a thief.

Polterabend

1940

No artwork available
8.0

A comedy loosely based on the life story of Johann Friedrich Böttger, the inventor of Meissen porcelain: In Berlin, the pharmacist Fritz Böttger gains a reputation for being able to make gold and is imprisoned on the orders of the Prussian king. Following in the footsteps of a young lady, he flees to Saxony, but is also imprisoned in Dresden and forced to make gold. Although he does not succeed in this, by chance he discovers how to make porcelain instead. Augustus the Strong appoints him baron and director of the royal porcelain manufactory.

The King's Prisoner

1935

La famiglia Brambilla in vacanza poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

La famiglia Brambilla in vacanza

1941

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Liebe und Leben. 3. Zwei Welten

1918

Terror of the Garrison poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Terror of the Garrison

1931

No artwork available
8.0

A modest young woman, who dreams of a radio career, forges a lottery ticket so that she can win the prize.

Gretl Wins First Prize

1933

No artwork available
10.0

German romantic comedy from Carl Boese.

Men Before Marriage

1936

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Schrecken vom Heidekrug

1934

Das Blumenmädchen vom Grand-Hotel poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Das Blumenmädchen vom Grand-Hotel

1934

Wie der Hase läuft poster
7.0

Whenever Pastor Piepenbrink gets his “deputatsrabbit”, there’s a frenzy in Pumpelshausen. For every time the rabbit is hung on the gable of the parsonage, every man in the village has the ambition to kidnap it. For that reason, the field watch Fuchtel is going to guard it with his pistol. Gustav Rabbit is to be kidnapped once again this year; but Marianne, the beautiful daughter of the town elder, is determined to save it from this fate and convinces a holiday guest, the singer Kasimir Haase, to pull down the rabbit. And it just so happens that the pastor’s house is attacked from several sides. The next morening, the rabbit is still on the gable … but stuffed. The storm begins; who has the real rabbit?!?

Wie der Hase läuft

1937

No artwork available
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der große Trick

1933

Die Unschuld vom Lande poster
9.0

A village maiden gets her chance at becoming a big star in the Berlin theater.

Die Unschuld vom Lande

1933

Heimkehr ins Glück poster
8.2

After a burn-out Karl spends time in his home region, the Black Forest. His car gets lost and is picked up by penniless magician Amadori who enjoys posing as wealthy entrepreneur Karl while Karl reunites with the love of his youth, Liesl.

Heimkehr ins Glück

1933