Wolfgang Neuss

Acting

Wolfgang Neuss

Born 1923-12-03 · Wrocław, Poland

Deutscher Kabarettist und Schauspieler

Acting credits

No Way Back poster
7.4

A Russian army officer is haunted by the memory of a girl he met during the war.

No Way Back

1954

Pension Schöller poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Pension Schöller

1952

Hollandmädel poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hollandmädel

1953

Mädchen mit schwachem Gedächtnis poster
5.5

Anny arrives in Munich to start a career as an actress, but soon ends up without money and job, sleeping on a park bench. When the police picks her up, she pretends to have amnesia and is taken to the police station. There she's surprised to get presented to her alleged parents. Not knowing yet what kind of game they play, she goes home with them and lets the rich couple coddle her.

Mädchen mit schwachem Gedächtnis

1956

No artwork available
NR

Short film about labor relations.

Wenn ich Chef wäre

1962

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Zu Befehl, Frau Feldwebel

1956

Unternehmen Schlafsack poster
10.0

During the closing stages of the Second World War, a bureaucratic mistake leads to a German officer being reassigned from the dangerous Eastern Front to Berlin and a new non-existent unit.

Unternehmen Schlafsack

1955

A Man Aglow poster
8.0

Vienna, March 18, 1863: the poet Friedrich Hebbel, weakened by fever, spends his fiftieth — and final — birthday confined to bed. In feverish reverie, he recalls his life and work. The two blend with each other as well as with the present. A demanding reflection, filmed mostly in monochrome images, on this "ardent man" (a description by Eduard Mörike) and his work.

A Man Aglow

1975

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die heilige Lüge

1954

Die schöne Müllerin poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die schöne Müllerin

1954

Charley's Aunt poster
6.1

Otto Dernburg is forced by circumstances to dress up as a middle-aged woman.

Charley's Aunt

1956

Ferien auf Immenhof poster
6.9

The pony hotel has just been opened, but so far no guests have arrived. Dick gets Ralf to design a brochure about the hotel. The girls and Ethelbert then lead the village children on horseback to Lübeck, where they all distribute the brochure - not knowing that Dalli has added some embellishments to the text.

Ferien auf Immenhof

1957

The Dream of Lieschen Müller poster
8.3

Lieschen Müller is in her mid-20s, works a dull office job and fancies the handsome waiter from the diner down the street, wishing for a more exciting life. In a vivid, lucid dream she happens upon a gigantic fortune, allowing her to live out her wildest fantasies. Quickly, however, she realizes that that's not what makes her happy.

The Dream of Lieschen Müller

1961

Mein Leopold poster
8.0

In unconditional fatherly love, an old shoemaker clings to his son, a spoiled good-for-nothing. After the Filius has ruined the respected shoe shop, he gets further and further down the wrong path without opening his father's eyes.

Mein Leopold

1955

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

Rotmord poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Rotmord

1969

The Spessart Inn poster
6.9

Countess Franziska "is kidnapped" by a band of robbers. However, her father is not willing to pay the ransom so Franziska changes sides.

The Spessart Inn

1958

The Endless Night poster
7.2

Anthology film about a night at airport Berlin-Tempelhof. Due to fog passengers can't leave Berlin by plane and struggle to find other ways out of Berlin.

The Endless Night

1963

The Devil's General poster
6.8

The adaptation of the eponymous play by Carl Zuckmayer tells the story of renegade general Harras of the German Luftwaffe, who during WWII openly criticizes the Nazi regime. As a consequence, he is put under surveillance, and even imprisoned for a brief period of time. Still remaining outspoken, Harras realizes the horrific dimensions of this hopeless and injust war waged by Germany.

The Devil's General

1955

Sky Without Stars poster
6.9

Anna is a factory worker in East Germany, but her five-year-old son Jochen lives with his grandparents in the West. Anna wants him to live with her, so she abducts him. Along the way she meets Carl, who helps her cross the border, and they fall in love.

Sky Without Stars

1955

Der schwarze Freitag poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Der schwarze Freitag

1966

Phantom of the Big Tent poster
7.0

Mr. Rossi and Mr. Capelli, co-owners of a successful traveling circus, have a rivalry over the affections of the lovely Dolores. That's all settled after Rossi is mauled to death by a lion. Years later a series of accidents, attacks and mysterious deaths plague the circus.

Phantom of the Big Tent

1954

Schwarzwälder Kirsch poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Schwarzwälder Kirsch

1958

Not Afraid of Big Animals poster
7.8

Emil, a technical draftsman, is hardworking, always helpful, and somewhat shy. Because of these traits, he is often taken advantage of by those around him. Now Emil is set to inherit a supposedly large fortune. His landlady's brother wants to marry him off to one of his relatives. But soon panic and confusion set in. The inheritance consists of three full-grown lions.

Not Afraid of Big Animals

1953

Behind the camera

No artwork available
NR

Short film about labor relations.

Wenn ich Chef wäre

1962

Bandits of the Highway poster
8.7

The film is based on a true story, concerning a series of robberies on the highways of Germany. At the time of the actual events, there was a controversy over whether or not highway patrolmen should be given permission to use firearms against perpetrators.

Bandits of the Highway

1955

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

Genosse Münchhausen poster
8.5

In his film attempt, Berlin cabaret artist Wolfgang Neuss strings together various sketches to create a story that deals with the division of Germany based on motifs from the Münchhausen legend. A farmer from the western occupation zone crashes as a reconnaissance pilot over the Soviet Union. He returns to the West via the island of Sylt by miraculous means and finally on the back of a rocket. But he finds his future farmland in the East, on the other side of the fence.

Genosse Münchhausen

1962

Genosse Münchhausen poster
8.5

In his film attempt, Berlin cabaret artist Wolfgang Neuss strings together various sketches to create a story that deals with the division of Germany based on motifs from the Münchhausen legend. A farmer from the western occupation zone crashes as a reconnaissance pilot over the Soviet Union. He returns to the West via the island of Sylt by miraculous means and finally on the back of a rocket. But he finds his future farmland in the East, on the other side of the fence.

Genosse Münchhausen

1962