Hans Unterkircher

Acting

Hans Unterkircher

Born — Died

1894-08-21 — 1971-05-27

Place of birth

Graz, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]

Known for

Acting

Credits

39 titles

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hans Unterkircher (22 August 1895 – 27 May 1971) was an Austrian film actor. He appeared in 63 films between 1916 and 1971. He was born in Graz, Austria and died in Vienna, Austria. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hans Unterkircher, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Film credits

1950s · 5 titles

Katia poster
6.4

Tsar Alexandre II meets a young student, Katia. He understands that he loves her and try to send her away but they end up seeing each other again and becomes his mistress. With the help of Katia, Alexandre prepares a liberal constitution, but these reforms make him hostile to the more privileged subjects without satirising the revolutionaries against the regime.

Katia

1959

Ja, so ist das mit der Liebe poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ja, so ist das mit der Liebe

1955

Ober zahlen poster
6.5

Vienna, 1957: Head waiters Gustav (Paul Hörbiger) and Franz (Hans Moser) are working for the stinted Cafétier Panigl and are close friiends despite of their different characters. Franz is happily married and a good family father, Gustav, a relaxed charmer, is living a calm single life. Overnight both of them become jobless, because Panigl decided to sell his Café which was not successful anymore. Right in this moment, Franz' brother is sending 20.000 Dollar from USA. Money, he once peculated and now wants to pay back.. Gustav and Franz are buying half of the Café for each from the unexpected money. One half they develop as the modern Musicbox-Espresso «Pinguin», the other half as a traditional old style Vienna Café . Misunderstandings between guests and generations are inevitable and stretch the long term friendship of the two waiters.

Ober zahlen

1957

Sarajevo poster
7.0

The film portrays the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in 1914.

Sarajevo

1955

Gasparone poster
8.0

Based on the operetta of the same name by Carl Milöcker. The residents of an Austrian town decide to teach their eccentric mayor a lesson. A young fisherman dresses up as the famous bandit Gaspare and goes to see the mayor. The mayor, terrified, flees from "Gaspare" and commits a series of ridiculous acts, becoming the laughing stock of the whole town.

Gasparone

1955

1940s · 8 titles

His Son poster
8.0

For many years, old Mr. Brugg has been employed at the jewelry store owned by the elegant Mrs. Hellmers. His son Peter has also been working there for some time as a salesman and hopes for a promotion. When Mr. Brugg is knocked unconscious during a robbery, Mrs. Hellmers sends him into well-deserved retirement. Peter then takes over his father's position as manager, which forces him to break off contact with the young employee Charlotte – he wants to find a more suitable bride. He seems to have found her in Brigitte, Mrs. Hellmers' niece, but she doesn't want much to do with him.

His Son

1942

Donauschiffer poster
6.0

The Hungarian noble Nikki von Kormendy is traveling incognito as a blind passenger on the Danube ferry "Fortuna". Captain Korngiebel keeps him busy with various tasks. When the young singer Anny Hofer comes on board, both men fall in love with her and compete for her affactions. Out of sheer jealousy, Korngiebel lets his ship run aground and now fears for his captain's license. But Kormendy generously acquires the boat and leases it to Peter and Anny ... with the sole condition that the ship bear his name from this date forward.

Donauschiffer

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

Jenny und der Herr im Frack poster
6.4

In this intricately plotted crime comedy, Johannes Heesters plays the worldly insurance detective Peter Holm, who is determined to apprehend jewel thief Robert Makaroff. To this end, Holm travels to Copenhagen, where the Hungarian actress Lilly Hegedüsch is staying at a luxury hotel with her rare jewelry. While Holm is searching for Makaroff, Jenny, the sleuthing daughter of Holm's boss, arrives in Copenhagen. Since Jenny doesn't know her secret admirer Holm, numerous mix-ups and suspicions ensue before the rival detectives become lovers.

Jenny und der Herr im Frack

1941

Die heimliche Gräfin poster
7.0

A comedy of confusion in aristocratic Vienna at the turn of the 19th into the 20th Century: The young Bohemian Countess Antschi Dorival trades places with her friend Martina, because she wants to become an actress and applies as such at the city theatre under a false name. And so, Martina attends the Vienna Opera Ball, posing as the countess. Because of their striking similarity to one another, Martina is confused with the impostor Sonja Lubomirska, who shortly before stole a necklace belonging to the wife of Archduke Johann Sylvester.

Die heimliche Gräfin

1942

Am Ende der Welt poster
8.0

Old Bell, owner of the sawmill and the surrounding forests in a remote place “at the end of the world,” died twenty years ago. Since then, the down-to-earth and nature-loving Michael March has been the sawmill’s manager. Then Bell’s daughter Roberta comes to him and demands a large sum from the estate, which she plans to use to open a cabaret in the city and perform as a singer herself.

Am Ende der Welt

1947

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

On Resonant Shores

1949

No artwork available
6.0

The greengrocer Ferdinand Strubel wants his daughter Marianne to marry the son of the brewery owner Baron von Schnackenberg. Since Strubel is an impossibly cheap bastard, the marriage is to take place on 20 May, which, coincidentally, is the same day the city is having a grand festival for him to celebrate his company's being in business for 100 years. Marianne, however, has fallen in love with Leopold, a gym teacher; and when he reads an article in the newspaper about the upcoming arrival of Haley's Comet on 19 May, he comes up with an idea how he can prevent the wedding from taking place: He tells Strubel that the world is going to come to an end when the comet shows up, so that Strubel will see the errors of his way, cancel the arranged wedding and will become a better person for it. (Sucker!).

Judgement Day

1940

1930s · 10 titles

Immortal Waltz poster
8.0

Johann Strauss firmly established himself as the leader of a dance orchestra in Vienna in the 1840s. His sons Johann junior and Josef have clearly inherited their father's talent. Nevertheless, father Johann is strictly opposed to both of them training as composers.

Immortal Waltz

1939

13 Chairs poster
6.7

A classical art junk dealer and an almost bankrupt hairdresser who unexpectedly makes an inheritance go hunting behind thirteen chairs from which of a 100,000 DM contains which the rich aunt has hidden there.

13 Chairs

1938

Die Fahrt in die Jugend poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Fahrt in die Jugend

1935

Salto in die Seligkeit poster
9.0

An unemployed artist must choose between a flower seller and a Hungarian dancer and defend himself against suspicion of shoplifting.

Salto in die Seligkeit

1934

Hotel Sacher poster
7.0

Vienna is celebrating New Year’s Eve 1913/14. It is the year, which will see the outbreak of the First World War. In Hotel Sacher, the mood is excellent; and although the political atmosphere is charged, there’s an undercurrent of hate and intolerance in the air. It is with this background that Nadja, a Russian spy, meets the Austrian civil servant Stefan. He loves her, but comes under suspicion of being an agent because of this love.

Hotel Sacher

1939

Castles in the Air poster
7.0

A wardrobe mistress at a Vienna theatre wins a competition, receiving as her prize a luxury tour round Italy. On the train she meets an impoverished young Italian who pretends to be a prince.

Castles in the Air

1939

The Optimist poster
8.0

A moron buys a worthless piece of land, which a swindler passed off as an oil field.

The Optimist

1938

Flowers from Nice poster
10.0

Maria, an astounding singer in a music school , is discovered by an impresario who engages her for a concert in Nizza. A nobleman wishing to leave his gambling debts behind accepts money to fake suicide for unrequited love, for publicity's sake. He heads for Paris, not knowing that she is also going to sing there.

Flowers from Nice

1936

Darling of the Sailors poster
9.0

A girl sneaks onto a ship and is discovered midseas.

Darling of the Sailors

1938

No artwork available
7.0

A melodrama about a self-sacrificing mother who, after her husband is struck by lightning, has to raise her three sons and one daughter alone. She buys a small laundry in Vienna and does everything she can to give her children a good life. When one of her employees becomes pregnant by one of her sons, she demands that the two marry. Another son has to leave home after an argument. The third son goes blind. For him, the mother makes her greatest sacrifice: she donates her cornea. Finally, she reconciles with the son who left home and, as a grandmother, can look back on a difficult but fulfilling life.

Mother Love

1939

1910s · 3 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera