Ethel Reschke

Acting

Ethel Reschke

Born — Died

1911-04-24 — 1992-06-05

Known for

Acting

Credits

68 titles

Known for

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

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
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kommissariat 9

1975

Mädchen in Uniform poster
7.2

A sensitive girl is sent to an all-girls boarding school and develops a romantic attachment to one of her teachers.

Mädchen in Uniform

1931

Tim Frazer poster
7.0

Engineer Tim Frazer is hired by the mysterious Mr. Ross to search for his missing business partner Harry Denston. Denston appears to be involved in a case of espionage.

Tim Frazer

1963

Die Karte mit dem Luchskopf poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Karte mit dem Luchskopf

1963

Film credits

1970s · 5 titles

1960s · 13 titles

No artwork available
7.0

Doris Putzke is fond of dating men in her quest to find the perfect one. In her brief relationships, she goes from one disillusionment to another, constantly deluding herself about the intentions of her lovers.

The High Life

1960

Several Times Daily poster
7.0

A student of chinese languages tries to find a wife.

Several Times Daily

1969

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Prairie-Saloon

1964

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Das ozeanische Fest

1964

Doddy und die Musketiere poster
9.0

A modern fairy tale: Young beauty meets the three musketeers and experiences her own "adventures".

Doddy und die Musketiere

1964

No artwork available
7.0

In wartime Berlin, a factory foreman, Otto Quangel and his wife, Anna learn that their only son, Paul, has been killed in action in France. In their grief, the couple decide to take action against the Nazi regime. They create their own form of resistance, writing postcards urging people to resist Hitler and the Nazis and quietly distributing the postcards around Berlin. Various people enter the picture, showing the fear and distrust of the times. People, such as the actor Harteisen, find the cards and race to turn them in, lest they be found with them and come under suspicion. The police and the Gestapo are baffled for over a year, but finally find the source of the cards. The Volksgerichtshof sentences the Quangels to death.

Everyone Dies Alone

1962

No artwork available
7.0

A young widow shoots the murderer of her young daughter because the court had to declare the sex offender—who had already killed two children—mentally ill and not criminally responsible; she herself is granted leniency for manslaughter in the heat of the moment.

Im Namen einer Mutter

1960

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Die göttliche Jette

1961

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Gemüse und Liebe engros

1967

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8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Angeklagter: Onkel Daniel

1964

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10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Einer von sieben

1960

Wir Kellerkinder poster
6.5

During the Third Reich, Macke played the drums for the Hitler Youth, but also had a "dangerous" penchant for jazz. After the war, he came under ideological fire in the Soviet zone. Finally in West Germany, he ends up in an institution.

Wir Kellerkinder

1960

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kubinke

1966

1950s · 18 titles

The Captain from Kopenick poster
7.3

A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is jailed for fifteen years. Upon his release, he wants to get a permit to get a job and start anew, but finds that without a job he can't get a permit, and without a permit he can't get a job. Ensnared in the absurd net of Prussian bureaucracy, he can't see any way out. That is, until he enters a thrift shop and spots a Prussian officer's uniform that fits him like a second skin...

The Captain from Kopenick

1956

Don't Ask My Heart poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Don't Ask My Heart

1952

Meine Tante, deine Tante poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Meine Tante, deine Tante

1956

Christina poster
5.9

No synopsis available yet.

Christina

1953

Hollandmädel poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hollandmädel

1953

The Golden Plague poster
8.0

At the end of the war a disillusioned German exile returns home only to fall into the dark world of black market goods and drug trafficking.

The Golden Plague

1954

Das Glück liegt auf der Straße poster
7.7

No synopsis available yet.

Das Glück liegt auf der Straße

1957

Siebenmal in der Woche poster
7.5

The famous singer Roberto Ricci wants to save himself from his overly intrusive female fans with a fake marriage. Mr. Praxl from the marriage institute Eros finds him his own granddaughter Gertie, who works as a waitress and wants to finance her own singing and dancing career with the fee for the role of his wife. To comply with Mr. Ricci's wishes, the attractive Gertie disguises herself as a wallflower with her hair pinned up and high-necked dresses. The act has the desired effect on Roberto's female followers. Over time, however, Gertie and Roberto actually fall in love with each other, which sparks the jealousy of Roberto's stage partner Loretta. With the help of Füllkrug, she tries to thwart the budding romance.

Siebenmal in der Woche

1957

Der bunte Traum poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der bunte Traum

1952

Meine Frau macht Dummheiten poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Meine Frau macht Dummheiten

1952

12:15 AM, Room 9 poster
5.8

The young hotel manager Leutner runs for study purposes a transmitter in the hotel room of his fiancée Maria. Coincidentally he learns that a gang of counterfeiters want to get rid of a troublesome witness at 12:15 AM. Will Leutner be able to prevent this… and can he trust his fiancée at all? Cheats, swindlers, forgers and murderers are hiding under the mask of honest and reputable hotel guests.

12:15 AM, Room 9

1950

No artwork available
7.7

Two retired Bavarian traffic police officers and a Berlin detective work together to track down jewelry thieves.

Die fidelen Detektive

1957

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ihr 106. Geburtstag

1958

Der Onkel aus Amerika poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Onkel aus Amerika

1953

Die Rose von Stambul poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Rose von Stambul

1953

No artwork available
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Der keusche Lebemann

1951

Königin einer Nacht poster
6.5

Duke Ferdinand of Novara-Liechtenstein flees the duchy to avoid an arranged marriage with princess Anna Silvana of Este-Parma. He loses his papers on the flight and is treated as an imposter at the inn where he stays. The princess is hot on his heels, and ends up staying at the same inn under an assumed name. Mayhem ensues.

Königin einer Nacht

1951

Drei Tage Angst poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Drei Tage Angst

1952

1940s · 15 titles

Port of Freedom poster
7.3

Singing sailor Hannes, who now entertains the crowd at St. Pauli's Hippodrome after years at sea, promises his dying brother that he will take care of his ex-girlfriend Gisa. Taking Gisa to Hamburg to live with him, Hannes quickly falls in love with her, but soon has to face Gisa's affection for another man, Willem.

Port of Freedom

1944

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

Stukas poster
5.6

This Nazi propaganda film details the exploits of a group of German Luftwaffe pilots flying Stukas--fighter-bombers--in the Battle of France in the early days of World War II.

Stukas

1941

Sechs Tage Heimaturlaub poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sechs Tage Heimaturlaub

1941

Der dunkle Punkt poster
10.0

Eduard Winkelmann, the owner of an apartment building in Munich, never tires of making life difficult for his renters. One day, a young woman, Erika, shows up at his door. She is the illegitimate daughter of a long-past love affair.

Der dunkle Punkt

1940

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Schenke zur ewigen Liebe

1945

The Three Codonas poster
7.0

Biography of the life of the circus performer Alfredo Codona.

The Three Codonas

1940

No artwork available
7.0

It's bowling night again in Dingelfingen am Rhein. Hotel owner Kiesewitz has set a new record in bowling and is crowned the winner. Now he is to represent the club at the Oktoberfest in Munich. But at home he makes life difficult for everyone, especially his wife and his two daughters.

Weltrekord im Seitensprung

1940

No artwork available
10.0

Whodunit centered around a hostel.

The Silent Guest

1945

Weiße Wäsche poster
8.0

Musician Eduard Boeckel wants to settle down and marries laundry owner Lisbeth Timm. He brings his friend August Garfs into the marriage, and the housekeeper Alwine quickly sets her sights on him. In his new position, Boeckel invents a laundry detergent with unfortunately disastrous consequences: the laundry becomes brittle, and the first major marital spat ensues. Eduard flees to his fellow musicians, gets drunk, and seeks solace with Alwine. When she drives him away, he returns contritely to his wife, who forgives him. And now she also knows what is truly wrong with their marriage: her Eduard misses his profession. From now on, he makes music, and she does the laundry.

Weiße Wäsche

1942

Casanova heiratet poster
7.0

The actor Ralph Gregor plays "Casanova" on the stage and everyone expects, that he also lives out the role in real life. Johanna Brinkmann, known as "Joe", tries everything to make her husband jealous of Ralph. Ralph, however, is actually dating his colleague Steffie. After a fight with her, he takes off on a short trip into the countryside and there gets to know the attractive Gertrude, with whom he falls in love. In short order, he proposes to and marries her. Soon, however, Gertude gets to know Steffie and Joe, who appear to know Ralph much better than they do, and Gertrude loses it.

Casanova heiratet

1940

White Lilacs poster
8.0

The playboy owner of a sock manufacturing business bestows a bouquet of white lilies on each lady who catches his eye.One of them offers an interesting possibility: she owns her own sock business.Will they merge, in more ways than one?

White Lilacs

1940

No artwork available
7.5

An exchanged suitcase and a burglary with an actress give occasions to whirl a family with daughters-in-law and brides hard in a mess. Old mistake comedy according to pattern.

Unfaithful Eckehart

1940

Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe

1949

A Beautiful Day poster
5.5

Three soldiers on very short home leave visit Berlin. One isn't from there and runs around with his guide book being perplexed by all the things that are different now. Another visits his wife and his baby. The third enters a romance due to a mistaken identity.

A Beautiful Day

1944

1930s · 9 titles

Mädchen in Uniform poster
7.2

A sensitive girl is sent to an all-girls boarding school and develops a romantic attachment to one of her teachers.

Mädchen in Uniform

1931

No artwork available
NR

The police come to inquire about a suspected murder.

Eine Tat mit Vorbedacht

1938

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hilde und die vier PS

1936

Der Stammbaum des Dr. Pistorius poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Stammbaum des Dr. Pistorius

1939

Who's Kissing Madeleine? poster
7.0

Pierre Pasqual has just about everything his heart desires: in his career as a commercial pilot, he is well known and successful; he has wealth and a beautiful wife. The only thing is, that because of his career, Pierre is frequently away and the thought constantly tortures him, that his wife is up to something when he’s not home. “Who’s kissing Madeleine?” is the question Pierre must have answered.

Who's Kissing Madeleine?

1939

Im Namen des Volkes poster
8.2

No synopsis available yet.

Im Namen des Volkes

1939

No artwork available
7.0

a movie by Heinz Paul

Hahn im Korb

1937

No artwork available
7.0

A WWI veteran comes home and with a scientist's help opens an artificial silk factory later used for clothing. Crooked international profiteers ,a lawyer and a banker, threaten the profitability of the concern and the workers' jobs.

Am seidenen Faden

1938

No artwork available
8.0

Set in the sleepy Silesian town of Runxendorf, the story follows eccentric radio visionary Paul Neugebauer (Ludwig Manfred Lommel) as he schemes to turn the local bog lake into a famous spa resort. Along the way, he assists a young romance between the hotel keeper's daughter and a modest local hairdresser by outwitting her multiple wealthy suitors, utilizing his signature mimicry and radio tricks.

Paul und Pauline

1936

Series credits

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

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

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
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kommissariat 9

1975

Tim Frazer poster
7.0

Engineer Tim Frazer is hired by the mysterious Mr. Ross to search for his missing business partner Harry Denston. Denston appears to be involved in a case of espionage.

Tim Frazer

1963

Die Karte mit dem Luchskopf poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Karte mit dem Luchskopf

1963

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Herr Schrott verwertet sich

1967

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Willy Reichert in …

1964