Directing

Erich Waschneck

Born — Died

1887-04-29 — 1970-09-22

Place of birth

Grimma, Germany

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

Known for

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

Two Souls poster
7.0

Gustav Froehlich and Charlotte Susa play Rochus and Judith, the zwei menschen (two humans) of the title. Rochus' domineering mother insists that he enter the priesthood, but he is reluctant to break up his blissful romance with the fair Judith. A religious fanatic of the first order, the mother swears before God and her Church that Rochus will indeed take his vows. When this does not come about, she dies of grief, whereupon the guilt-stricken Rochus abandons Judith to become a priest. The girl subsequently commits suicide -- and it is Rochus who must officiate over her body during the funeral. This final scene was excised from the print of Zwei Menschen released in New York, leaving audiences hanging in regard to Judith's ultimate fate.

Two Souls

1930

Between Hamburg and Haiti poster
7.0

A successful German overseas merchant with a plantation in Haiti is looking for a suitable wife in Hamburg and comes across a barmaid from the Reeperbahn with an illegitimate child. He wants to marry her, but she does not follow him out of nobility. In search of her, he finds her in Mexico as the secretary of his former lover, a writer.

Between Hamburg and Haiti

1940

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

The Rothschilds poster
6.1

Biopic about the Rothschilds, a Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community during the Napoleonic era.

The Rothschilds

1940

Anna Favetti poster
10.0

The daughter of a reclusive couple in the St. Moritz mountains tends to her brother, disabled from the Great War, though a handsome young architect who has just arrived waits for her attentions.

Anna Favetti

1938

Behind the camera

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

Two Souls poster
7.0

Gustav Froehlich and Charlotte Susa play Rochus and Judith, the zwei menschen (two humans) of the title. Rochus' domineering mother insists that he enter the priesthood, but he is reluctant to break up his blissful romance with the fair Judith. A religious fanatic of the first order, the mother swears before God and her Church that Rochus will indeed take his vows. When this does not come about, she dies of grief, whereupon the guilt-stricken Rochus abandons Judith to become a priest. The girl subsequently commits suicide -- and it is Rochus who must officiate over her body during the funeral. This final scene was excised from the print of Zwei Menschen released in New York, leaving audiences hanging in regard to Judith's ultimate fate.

Two Souls

1930

Between Hamburg and Haiti poster
7.0

A successful German overseas merchant with a plantation in Haiti is looking for a suitable wife in Hamburg and comes across a barmaid from the Reeperbahn with an illegitimate child. He wants to marry her, but she does not follow him out of nobility. In search of her, he finds her in Mexico as the secretary of his former lover, a writer.

Between Hamburg and Haiti

1940

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

The Rothschilds poster
6.1

Biopic about the Rothschilds, a Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community during the Napoleonic era.

The Rothschilds

1940

Anna Favetti poster
10.0

The daughter of a reclusive couple in the St. Moritz mountains tends to her brother, disabled from the Great War, though a handsome young architect who has just arrived waits for her attentions.

Anna Favetti

1938

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 Joker poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Joker

1930

Scandal in Baden-Baden poster
6.0

Dancer Vera Kersten is young, pretty, talented, and unemployed—because she rejects the explicit propositions made by agents. When she steps in front of billionaire John Leeds's car, the door to a career opens a crack for her.

Scandal in Baden-Baden

1929

No artwork available
9.0

The clever Zacharias Bräsig is a good friend to all and tries to help out, where he can. Bräsig also meddles in the relationships of young people, so that by the end of the film, there's a double marriage.

Onkel Bräsig

1936

Abel mit der Mundharmonika poster
10.0

Film by Waschneck.

Abel mit der Mundharmonika

1933

Kennwort Machin poster
6.0

The cashier, Jürgen Borb, has already worked for 10 years at Dadag in Hamburg and is an example for customer service and company loyalty. His professionalism are matched by the trust of his employers, who, while relating to him in an acceptable manner professionally, desire no closer contact with him outside of the workplace. When Borb suddenly disappears one day, Dadag's directors and Borb's colleagues are surprised. They become even more surprised when they soon discover that Borb has embezzled well over a million marks from the firm. His stepsister, Mette, doesn't believe that her stepbrother is an embezzler. In the meantime, she has fallen in love with a criminal investigator, who, she believes, is simply exploiting her affections to get to Borb. Then one day, the criminal investigator finds a body in the cellar of a house Borb rented under a false name and this man created a phony ID card for Borb, identifying him as a resident of a South American country.

Kennwort Machin

1939

Eskapade poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Eskapade

1936

Streit um den Knaben Jo poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Streit um den Knaben Jo

1939

Have Sunshine in Your Heart poster
7.5

On a mountain lake, in the picturesque Alps in the Salzburg region, the old, rich grumble has retired to his country house and actually only wants to live in peace and seclusion. Soon the longed-for peace will be over, because in the immediate vicinity a home for little-wealthy holiday children will be opened in an empty house, which will be headed by the cheerful and optimistic teacher Miss Helm.

Have Sunshine in Your Heart

1953

Impossible Love poster
9.0

A deranged woman artist falls in love with a young sculptor. The impossible love ends tragically.

Impossible Love

1932

Impossible Love poster
9.0

A deranged woman artist falls in love with a young sculptor. The impossible love ends tragically.

Impossible Love

1932

Jenny poster
5.3

The girls of competitive rowing club Nereus are hoping to win the women’s eight. One of them, Jenny, falls for an art dealer and becomes pregnant. Her friends at the club, her coach and her father all pitch in to help. The first Dutch feature length colour film.

Jenny

1958

Regine, die Tragödie einer Frau poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Regine, die Tragödie einer Frau

1927

Regine, die Tragödie einer Frau poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Regine, die Tragödie einer Frau

1927

Fräulein poster
9.0

Miss Annemarie Tessmer is a clerk in the house of the manufacturer Herman Schilling and she is indispensable. She is exploited by all the family members and her own life is completely in the background. Herman Schilling wants his daughter Thea merry with the representative for foreign affairs Dr. Richard Rauch. However, after a number of dramatic complications, Richard chooses for the good, selfless and hardworking Annemarie.

Fräulein

1939

My Life for Maria Isabella poster
5.8

As the Austro-Hungarian empire comes closer to defeat in the Great War, a young lieutenant tries to rescue the standards of his Maria Isabell regiment from falling into enemy hands.

My Life for Maria Isabella

1935

Diane - Die Geschichte einer Pariserin poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Diane - Die Geschichte einer Pariserin

1929

Three Around Edith poster
10.0

Notorious jewel thief Roger "Tiger" Brown sneaks into the trust of diamond dealer Thomas Morland. Not only does Morland's jewels appeal to him, but also his fiancée, Lady Edith Trent. But when Morland acquires the largest diamond in the world in Amsterdam, Brown decides against Edith and for the diamond, takes it and runs away.

Three Around Edith

1929

Die göttliche Jette poster
6.0

Cheeky Jette is a typical Berlin girl. Together with her mother, she performs couplets in a Berlin suburb theatre every night. Then, a young Austrian baron, who is worshipping Jette, enables her to audition for Königstädtisches Theater. Although she at first fails with an aria from an opera, Jette wins over the hearts of the board members with her fresh style when she performs a cheeky couplet that was written by Barsch, the stage manager of the suburb theater.

Die göttliche Jette

1937

Die göttliche Jette poster
6.0

Cheeky Jette is a typical Berlin girl. Together with her mother, she performs couplets in a Berlin suburb theatre every night. Then, a young Austrian baron, who is worshipping Jette, enables her to audition for Königstädtisches Theater. Although she at first fails with an aria from an opera, Jette wins over the hearts of the board members with her fresh style when she performs a cheeky couplet that was written by Barsch, the stage manager of the suburb theater.

Die göttliche Jette

1937

Docks of Hamburg poster
5.8

When Hamburg ship's mate Klaus Brandt catches a thief one night at the port, his downfall is pre-ordained. For the thief turns out to be a young, attractive woman and the otherwise upright sailor allows her to slip away. Jenny is the star of a local dive bar, with a side-line in smuggling.

Docks of Hamburg

1928

Docks of Hamburg poster
5.8

When Hamburg ship's mate Klaus Brandt catches a thief one night at the port, his downfall is pre-ordained. For the thief turns out to be a young, attractive woman and the otherwise upright sailor allows her to slip away. Jenny is the star of a local dive bar, with a side-line in smuggling.

Docks of Hamburg

1928

Liebesleute poster
5.8

Baron von Goret is an impoverished landowner, whose estate is about to go into receivership. And so, for that reason, he wishes to marry off his son Hermann with his well-off girlfriend Helga. But Hermann is in love with the farmer’s daughter Dorothea. He leaves his father’s estate with her and makes his way to Berlin to make a name for himself. He’s not successful in this and, so as not to stand in his way, Dorothea leaves him. Hermann’s aunt brings him back to his father’s estate, where, depressed over losing Dorothea, works tirelessly to clear the estate of all its debts.

Liebesleute

1935

Old Song poster
8.0

A romantic drama about a relationship between people of different social classes. The young baron, who is in love with a record shop saleswoman, is sent by his family on a diplomatic mission to Budapest, where he loses his heart to a beautiful noblewoman. His remorseful, hasty return to Vienna brings tragedy.

Old Song

1930

Va Banque poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Va Banque

1930

Sacred Waters poster
10.0

For centuries, the water supply of a mountain village has depended on an endangered, wooden water pipe. The young engineer Josi blows a channel in the rock. After initial resistance, the villagers are excited about it. The film was based on a novel by Jakob Christoph Heer.

Sacred Waters

1932

Sacred Waters poster
10.0

For centuries, the water supply of a mountain village has depended on an endangered, wooden water pipe. The young engineer Josi blows a channel in the rock. After initial resistance, the villagers are excited about it. The film was based on a novel by Jakob Christoph Heer.

Sacred Waters

1932

Sacred Waters poster
10.0

For centuries, the water supply of a mountain village has depended on an endangered, wooden water pipe. The young engineer Josi blows a channel in the rock. After initial resistance, the villagers are excited about it. The film was based on a novel by Jakob Christoph Heer.

Sacred Waters

1932

Eight Girls in a Boat poster
7.0

Eight Girls concerns an all-female rowing team with its own club-house. One of the team announces she pregnant and finds herself torn between men (father and fiancé) who want the child aborted and the women who want her to keep it and bring it up at the club. The men win but it's the women you remember, especially the magnificent Hanna, team leader and determined adversary of the world of fathers.

Eight Girls in a Boat

1932

Die unvollkommene Liebe poster
8.0

In Bremen, a ship is launched, which was built by Thomas Holk. That evening, he gets to know the middle-aged widow Ada Rasmus, who flirts heavily with him. The next day, Thomas travels to Hallbad on vacation and the two lose sign of each other. In this rural idyll, he gets to know Krist and falls in love with her. He takes her back with him to Bremen and his aunt introduces her into society. Her natural charms enchants everyone and the beautiful widow Ada swears revenge. She finds a way to bring Ada into a painful situation with Dr. von Cremona, and, to top it all off, a man’s coat is found in her room.

Die unvollkommene Liebe

1940

Eine reizende Familie poster
6.3

Boys are usually busy playing "Indians", but when their uncle decides to rent part of their home to a Doctor Höflin, they took an oath to cast him out with a series of pranks.

Eine reizende Familie

1948

Music in the Blood poster
7.0

In Dresden's classical music world, female students learn from an opinionated conductor and a pompous dance instructor.When their work isn't appreciated, a teacher consoles them, saying Bruckner, Schubert and Wagner were also criticized.

Music in the Blood

1934

Mein Freund der Chauffeur poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mein Freund der Chauffeur

1926

Mein Freund der Chauffeur poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mein Freund der Chauffeur

1926