Hans Adalbert Schlettow

Acting

Hans Adalbert Schlettow

Born — Died

1888-06-11 — 1945-04-30

Place of birth

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Known for

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler poster
7.7

Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to make huge profits on the stock exchange. Afterwards, Mabuse disguises himself and attends the Folies Bergères show, where Cara Carozza, the main attraction of the show, passes him information on Mabuse's next intended victim, the young millionaire Edgar Hull. Mabuse then uses psychic manipulation to lure Hull into a card game where he loses heavily. When Police Commissioner von Wenk begins an investigation of this mysterious crime spree, he has little to go on, and he needs to find someone who can help him.

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler

1922

Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge poster
7.6

When Kriemhild, thirsty for revenge, marries to Etzel, king of the Huns, she invites King Gunther and his court to visit them, intending to finally take the life of the man responsible of her disgrace.

Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge

1924

Asphalt poster
7.3

Starring Betty Amann in her most famous leading role, Joe May's Asphalt is a luxuriously produced German Expressionist classic where tragic liaisons and fatal encounters are shaped alongside the constant roar of Berlin traffic.

Asphalt

1929

Die Nibelungen: Siegfried poster
7.7

Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, travels to Worms, capital of the Burgundian kingdom, to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the beautiful Kriemhild.

Die Nibelungen: Siegfried

1924

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

You Are Adorable, Rosmarie poster
7.0

You Are Adorable, Rosmarie is a 1934 German romantic comedy film directed by Hans von Wolzogen and starring Herta Worell, Hans Stüwe and Hans Adalbert Schlettow. Location shooting took place around Salzkammergut.

You Are Adorable, Rosmarie

1934

Film credits

1940s · 5 titles

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

The Big Number poster
8.0

Against her father’s wishes, the ringmaster Wallner, Helga forms a connection with the wild animal trainer Peter. After he is almost killed during an appearance, he promises his mistress, that he’ll never work with wild animals again. From that point on, he works with Helga on safe horse numbers. When Helga finds out from Peter’s friend Otto, that Peter would rather work with wild animals again, she doesn’t want to stand in the way of her beloved’s dreams. Helga disappears and leaves Otto enough money to buy Peter a new group of lions. For a long time, Peter and Helga do not see one another, though neither can forget the other. When Helga hears from Otto one day, that Peter is practicing a very dangerous number involving wild animals, during which Otto is to play the “lead”, Helga makes a fatal decision, so she might see Peter again.

The Big Number

1943

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

Request Concert poster
6.5

The young, attractive Inge Wagner becomes acquainted with Herbert Koch during the Berlin Olympics, his flight officer insignia having first caught her eye. Sparks fly immediately between the two and they soon decide to marry. But Herbert is called off on a secret mission in Spain.

Request Concert

1940

Much Ado About Nixi poster
5.5

Nixi has a vivid imagination and she makes extensive use of it. After parting from her longtime fiancée after an argument, she tells her father, that she’s pregnant --- and by another man: the police prefect Roland von Gabriel, whom she met after an auto accident. Called in by her father to be lectured, Roland doesn’t seem to mind the idea of marrying Nixi, but she’s already taken to her heels and fled.

Much Ado About Nixi

1942

1930s · 21 titles

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

You Are Adorable, Rosmarie poster
7.0

You Are Adorable, Rosmarie is a 1934 German romantic comedy film directed by Hans von Wolzogen and starring Herta Worell, Hans Stüwe and Hans Adalbert Schlettow. Location shooting took place around Salzkammergut.

You Are Adorable, Rosmarie

1934

The Schlemihl poster
9.0

Hartwig gets by a strange coincidence confused by a prince with a certain Josef Döllinger in a luxurious restaurant. Hartwig is overjoyed, as he gets to know the dancer Garda Maro.

The Schlemihl

1931

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

Liselotte of the Palatinate poster
6.3

The film portrays the life of the Heidelberg-born Elizabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine, who married into the French royal family during the reign of Louis XIV.

Liselotte of the Palatinate

1935

Ja, treu ist die Soldatenliebe poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ja, treu ist die Soldatenliebe

1932

Familie Schimek poster
6.8

For three difficult orphans living by her aunt the former employee of the family searches a new premouth; he releases with it a result of tumultuous involvements. - Humble-entertaining mistake farce, completely fitted on Hans Moser.

Familie Schimek

1935

The Anthem of Leuthen poster
7.2

The story of the rise to power of King Frederick II (aka "Frederick the Great") of Prussia of his military campaigns to make Prussia a major power in Europe.

The Anthem of Leuthen

1933

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Marshal Forward

1932

No artwork available
7.0

Simultaneously shot German version of Italian Terra Madre: A young aristocrat, planning to spend time in town, returns to sell his farmland to a modernizing new owner, thus threatening the welfare of the peasants who work for him.

Do you know the country

1931

A Certain Mr. Gran poster
7.0

An Italian engineer who had made a strategically important invention to ward off enemy aircraft is killed in a robbery. As the plans have presumably fallen into the hands of spies, secret service captain Bergall is given the task of recovering the papers. Bergall initially adopts a false name and appears as Mr. Gran, whom nobody knows. Under this name, he rents a room in the Hotel Danieli in Venice and makes the acquaintance of the shipowner's daughter Viola Dolleen. With her help, he is able to eliminate Captain Gordon, who is also interested in the plans. When Gran learns that the plans are now in the possession of the art dealer Tschernikoff, who wants to sell them to Gordon, he immediately travels to Rome, visits the art dealer Titian and pretends to be Gordon. In the art dealer's remote villa, events come thick and fast...

A Certain Mr. Gran

1933

Menschen vom Varieté poster
7.2

In a cosmopolitan city vaudeville theatre, meeting place of the most successful artistes, the art shooter gets in suspicion to have committed a murderous poster on his jealous partner. - Not particularly successful mixture of vaudeville theatre numbers, artiste's destiny and crime film tension, on an average produced and played. A production rotated in Budapest with the popular dancer La Jana.

Menschen vom Varieté

1939

The Hunter of Fall poster
5.8

In the first light of day, one can see a mountain farm close to the forest. Nothing stirs far and wide. Suddenly, a figure comes out of the forest, running quickly to the farm. There's a quick grab and the hunting rifle is hidden in the gutter. There's a jump to the window sill: Obermeier Martl creeps like a cat into his room. No one's seen him. At the same time, the doorbell rings at Doctor Rauch's place. The hunter's mate Hias is standing outside. "Doctor, you have to bandage me: I've been shot!" By whom, he doesn't know.

The Hunter of Fall

1936

Bock Beer Fest poster
7.0

Underwear manufacturer Livius Heintze is a vehement anti-alcoholic and thus is very much against the marriage of his daughter Hedwig to the brewery owner Raumert. Heintze's second, illegitimate daughter Emmi also wants to give her father a heart attack by marrying the hops merchant Seidl.

Bock Beer Fest

1930

The Page from the Dalmasse Hotel poster
6.6

Dolly Haas is employed as a (supposedly male) servant at a Hotel.

The Page from the Dalmasse Hotel

1933

No artwork available
7.0

Yvette is the daughter of a courtesan who serves men of wealth and status. She is unaware of how her mother makes money and why they are always in the presence of princes, dukes and barons. Only when Yvette goes away on a holiday she realizes that the Banker Saval is engaging her mother in such activities, she suddenly feels dirty.

Yvette

1938

Wibbel the Tailor poster
5.5

During the Napoleonic occupation of the German states in 1812, a tailor by the name of Anton Wibbel is sentenced to sit in jail for insulting the Emperor. The tailor manages to get out of this by paying off a friend to go to prison in his place. But then, the "phony" prisoner suddenly dies in his cell and everyone now thinks Wibbel is dead.

Wibbel the Tailor

1939

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Jäger aus Kurpfalz

1933

Don't Lose Heart, Suzanne! poster
7.0

In the depression era unemployed Susanne tries to break into movies by working as an extra. She is ‚hired' to be kidnapped in a PR stunt that is supposed to hush over a suicide scandal. This soon gets her a real role in an artistic film.

Don't Lose Heart, Suzanne!

1935

No artwork available
10.0

In this comedy, a crude country girl from Poland is brought to Germany and turned into a fine lady by a cosmopolitan jeweler.

Old Comrades

1934

Nights in Andalusia poster
10.0

When the dancer Carmen visits the bullfighter Antonio, who has stabbed a gypsy, in prison, she meets the dragoon brigadier José. The two immediately take a liking to each other, and from that day on, José often visits the café where Carmen dances. When Carmen injures another dancer in a jealous quarrel, José is ordered to arrest her...

Nights in Andalusia

1938

1920s · 30 titles

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler poster
7.7

Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to make huge profits on the stock exchange. Afterwards, Mabuse disguises himself and attends the Folies Bergères show, where Cara Carozza, the main attraction of the show, passes him information on Mabuse's next intended victim, the young millionaire Edgar Hull. Mabuse then uses psychic manipulation to lure Hull into a card game where he loses heavily. When Police Commissioner von Wenk begins an investigation of this mysterious crime spree, he has little to go on, and he needs to find someone who can help him.

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler

1922

Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge poster
7.6

When Kriemhild, thirsty for revenge, marries to Etzel, king of the Huns, she invites King Gunther and his court to visit them, intending to finally take the life of the man responsible of her disgrace.

Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge

1924

Asphalt poster
7.3

Starring Betty Amann in her most famous leading role, Joe May's Asphalt is a luxuriously produced German Expressionist classic where tragic liaisons and fatal encounters are shaped alongside the constant roar of Berlin traffic.

Asphalt

1929

Die Nibelungen: Siegfried poster
7.7

Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, travels to Worms, capital of the Burgundian kingdom, to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the beautiful Kriemhild.

Die Nibelungen: Siegfried

1924

Song poster
7.3

After committing a murder for his lover, Gloria, the famous painter Jack is forced to go underground. In the harbor district, he saves the poor Malaysian girl Song in front of two intrusive sailors. She loves him for it, and together Song and Jack appear in the tingle dungeon of the port, he as a knife artist, she as a dancer.

Song

1928

Thérèse Raquin poster
5.2

Thérèse Raquin, an unhappily married woman, aided by her lover Laurent, drowns her husband Michaud, only to find the guilt of her actions intolerable.

Thérèse Raquin

1928

No artwork available
NR

Silent Film Drama by Adolf Gärtner. Starring Ellen Richter

Maria Tudor

1920

The Bordellos of Algiers poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Bordellos of Algiers

1927

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Der Totenvogel

1921

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Don Juan

1922

No artwork available
NR

Jack Clifford caught in a web on intrigue attempts to extricate himself.

The Owl Part 1

1927

Isn't Life Wonderful poster
6.4

A Polish family, left homeless in the wake of World War I, move to Germany and struggle to survive during the Great Inflation. War orphan Inga has only accumulated a small amount of money from the rubble and hopes to wed Paul. Weakened by poison gas, Paul begins to invest in Inga's future and serves as their symbol of optimism.

Isn't Life Wonderful

1924

Algol: Tragedy of Power poster
6.5

An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that creates enough energy to power the entire world.

Algol: Tragedy of Power

1920

Winter Storms poster
7.0

Winterstürme is a 1924 German silent film directed by Otto Rippert.

Winter Storms

1924

In the Name of the Kaisers poster
9.0

The story of medical student Sonja Smirnow and her family.

In the Name of the Kaisers

1925

Op hoop van zegen poster
10.0

On the Dutch North Sea coast among fishing families. the wholesaler and ship owner Bos is only interested in profit and, out of pure greed, he risks the lives of his fishermen, who set out to sea to catch herring for him. One of his ships, a veritable coffin, is to set sail once again, and Bos has the rickety vessel patched up as best he can. To avoid losses in the event of a likely shipwreck, he takes out high insurance on the sloop. For old mother Kniertje Vermeer, this is no reason to prevent her sons Geert and Barend from signing on to the ship. An experienced old shipwright warns everyone not to board this "floating coffin," but no one heeds his well-intentioned warning.

Op hoop van zegen

1924

The Golden Plague poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Golden Plague

1921

A Cottage on Dartmoor poster
7.2

A jealous barber's assistant becomes enraged by the attentions the manicurist he's obsessed with and a repeat customer pay to one another.

A Cottage on Dartmoor

1929

Heilige oder Dirne poster
8.0

The wealthy Frenchman Raoul lives with his mother and his cousin Therese in a magnificent villa on the Riviera. Therese is deeply in love with her relative, but he seems to reciprocate only "brotherly" affection. One day, a visitor arrives: the lustful Lydia, a friend of Therese's, known as a man-eating and amoral woman. It isn't long before Raoul, the master of the house, falls completely under the spell of the blonde siren from abroad, and the two become engaged and eventually married.

Heilige oder Dirne

1929

Queen Louise poster
8.0

The young Crown Princess Luise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz grows up sheltered in the North German countryside in the late 18th century and develops into a bit of a rebel. She struggles to come to terms with the rules of etiquette at court; her actions are often spontaneous and driven by emotion. Thus, she resists accepting her father’s mistress and future wife. During a ball, she snubs her future stepmother and even has the audacity to ask the orchestra to play a waltz—a dance considered deeply improper at the time.

Queen Louise

1927

No artwork available
9.0

A winter land romance as disaster strikes.

Wind

1920

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Schatten jener Nacht

1922

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Friesenblut

1925

Malva poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Malva

1924

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Volga Volga

1928

No artwork available
NR

What Belongs to Darkness (German: Die Finsternis und ihr Eigentum) is a 1922 German silent drama film directed by Martin Hartwig and starring Karl Etlinger, Erra Bognar, and Fritz Kortner. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alfred Columbus.

What Belongs to Darkness

1922

No artwork available
5.5

A taxi driver in Berlin refuses to give up his horse and switch to motor transport.

The Last Horse Carriage in Berlin

1926

Die Siebzehnjährigen poster
9.0

A teenager finds his father is interested in the same girl he is.

Die Siebzehnjährigen

1929

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Wenn die Mutter und die Tochter

1928

No artwork available
NR

A minister founds a fraud company, but a lawyer smells a rat.

Gewalt gegen Recht

1920