Kurt Vespermann

Acting

Kurt Vespermann

Born — Died

1887-05-01 — 1957-07-13

Place of birth

Kulmsee, West Prussia, Germany [now Chelmza, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland]

Known for

Acting

Credits

61 titles

Known for

Film credits

1950s · 13 titles

Die Kaiserin von China poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Kaiserin von China

1953

The Third Sex poster
5.0

Klaus is a young man in post-war Berlin. He is drawn to his friend Manfred and, under the encouragement of their acquaintance, Dr. Winkler, explore the underground world of gay clubs and electronic music. His family begins to learn of his other life and do everything they can to set him straight.

The Third Sex

1957

Through Thick and Thin poster
9.0

Theo Müller and his family inherit a vintage car that turns out to have a wayward mind of its own, fixing the family troubles and some romances with a series of guardian angel and/or matchmaking shenanigans.

Through Thick and Thin

1951

King Thrushbeard poster
9.5

No synopsis available yet.

King Thrushbeard

1954

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Unschuld in tausend Nöten

1951

Before Sundown poster
7.8

Based on a play by Gerhardt Hauptmann, the film details a bittersweet May-December romance between ageing Mathias Clausen and young, beautiful Inken Peters.

Before Sundown

1956

Your Life Guards poster
10.0

In a fantasy European principality, the headstrong and beautiful Princess Ingrid falls in love with a handsome officer, but dismisses him in a fit of temperamental overreaction when she learns of an alleged liaison.

Your Life Guards

1955

Like Once Lili Marleen poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Like Once Lili Marleen

1956

Ten on Every Finger poster
5.2

"Ten on Every Finger" (German: "An jedem Finger zehn") is a 1954 West German musical comedy film directed by Erik Ode. The story centers on a revue dancer named Margit Rameau, played by Germaine Damar, who falls in love with composer Bert Martin, portrayed by Erich Auer, but their romance is hindered by misunderstandings and busy schedules until they reunite during a local revue performance. The film is structured as a musical revue featuring numerous guest stars performing as themselves, including Josephine Baker in her final on-screen film role, Hans Albers, and Kenneth Spencer

Ten on Every Finger

1954

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Es geht nicht ohne Gisela

1951

Oberarzt Dr. Solm poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Oberarzt Dr. Solm

1955

Königliche Hoheit poster
8.0

An American heiress in Europe falls in love with a German prince, but he is required to marry someone else for reasons of state convenience.

Königliche Hoheit

1953

Wunschkonzert poster
8.0

Accountant and would-be song-writer Willy inadvertently gets into a live TV game show and is tasked with finding, presenting and performing with a motley band of six amateur musicians within 90 minutes.

Wunschkonzert

1955

1940s · 4 titles

The Night in Venice poster
7.5

The marriage of the celebrated operetta diva Vilma and the chamber singer Peter has come to an end. Peter, however, is intent on winning back his now ex-wife. So he’s come up with the idea of a guest performance in Venice, where the two will both appear. Vilma, however, has already found a new man – Niki. He’s a salesman and she wants to marry him. With the help of Annemarie, a friend, who has won a trip to Venice, Peter succeeds in diverting Niki, for he falls in love with Annemarie. Now the way is free for Peter to win back the ex-wife, who couldn’t care if he lived in a hole six feet underground.

The Night in Venice

1942

No artwork available
8.0

Rudi, who’s been quite the ladies’ man, finally wants to settle down and marry Hilde. So as to not get into a touchy situation with all his many women, he plans to bring them all together the night before his wedding. While sitting alone in his apartment and burning all his old photos and love letters, he notices a woman in the garden. She assets, that she’s hiding from a stubborn admirer and he stupidly offers her to come in … and then it all begins! First, his wife-to-be Hilde shows up, who wants to spend the night before their wedding together. While Rudi tries to hide the unknown woman in his bedroom, a hotel detective shows up and claims he’s following a thief.

Polterabend

1940

Jan und die Schwindlerin poster
10.0

There's a great deal of excitement on a small North Sea island: A millionairess has arrived, accompanied by her elderly secretary. No one knows why the lady is vacationing here of all places. It's particularly strange that Ellinor, as the sophisticated city woman is called, is snooping around everywhere. She's being watched suspiciously by all the islanders. But it's all just a game! In reality, the elderly secretary is a millionaire – his name is Jan Remmers, and he left his home island many years ago to pursue a career overseas. Now he's returned, but he doesn't want to reveal his identity until he's found out whether the community would welcome him warmly even without his millions. Unfortunately, Remmers discovers that no one is expecting him in his old home: His former fiancée, Berta, has married the fisherman Hinnerk, and his son, Peter, is a very independent engineer. Proud of his son, Remmers is secretly supporting a major construction project Peter is working on.

Jan und die Schwindlerin

1947

Tell the Truth poster
7.0

Peter's fiancee Maria is chronically lying and hides her little affairs. To change this, Peter bets that he is going to tell everyone the truth for 24 hours. The consequences are catastrophic.

Tell the Truth

1946

1930s · 25 titles

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Alimente

1930

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 Czar's Courier poster
7.5

A Czarist courier has to get across the Siberia frontier, threatened by Tartar invaders and a treacherous Russian helping them. Strogoff encounters several colorful characters along the way. German language version of the French film Michel Strogoff, adapting the novel by Jules Verne.

The Czar's Courier

1936

Angels with Minor Faults poster
7.0

Mary arrives in Berlin from Canada to visit her nephew Max and meet his twin daughters that she has been amply supporting financially. But Max has cheated: There is only one daughter Inge who has to enact both girls to cover up the mess.

Angels with Minor Faults

1936

Kampf poster
9.0

The race car drivers Robert Wenck and Kurt Harder are good friends. They become rivals when it appears that Robert is married to Eva. Eva was the former lover of Kurt Harder. Complications will follow.

Kampf

1932

Buchhalter Schnabel poster
7.8

The young man from Oxford originates from Vienna, where he returned after completing his studies to take over his deceased uncle's construction company. To gain a better overview, he joined the company as a junior employee and, of course, immediately fell in love with a young colleague...

Buchhalter Schnabel

1935

It Was a Gay Ballnight poster
7.0

1865. Katharina goes to a ball in Moscow. There she meets again Tchaikowsky, her first and only love. The young, who is now married to wealthy Michael Iwanowitsch Murakin, a man she does not love, has not forgotten Piotr Illich, the (not yet) famous composer. Both are still in love with each other but Piotr is engaged to Nastassia, a dancer, while for her part Katharina cannot leave her husband. Tchaikowky's first love then decides to sacrifice her happiness to the success of the composer, sponsoring him in secret. Something Piotr will learn only years after. When Katharina finds herself free at last it is too late: Tchaikowsky is dying of cholera and she only has time to close his eyes.

It Was a Gay Ballnight

1939

Die schönen Tage von Aranjuez poster
7.0

As a gang of classy jewel thieves hop from one European country to another, an engineer rescues a woman from their clutches.

Die schönen Tage von Aranjuez

1933

Geheimnis eines alten Hauses poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Geheimnis eines alten Hauses

1936

No Celebration Without Meyer poster
7.0

Siegmund Meyer might be a professional matchmaker, but his own married bliss will not come that easily. In order to impress city councillor Goebel, the father of Meyer's love interest Mary, he tries to pass as an industrial tycoon. But Mary's heart belongs to someone else, and while Meyer continues his risky role-changing, he fails to notice that his loyal secretary Ms. Krause has been secretly in love with him for a long time.

No Celebration Without Meyer

1931

Wenn du eine Schwiegermutter hast poster
8.0

Dr. Lorenz is presenting her married daughter to everyone as being unmarried, because she believes a flirtation between the girl and her son-in-law’s boss just might play to the married couple’s advantage. Everyone seems to dance to the doctor’s tune, even a rather moronic professor. However, at the end of all these entanglements, everything seems to work out after all.

Wenn du eine Schwiegermutter hast

1937

Inheritance in Pretoria poster
10.0

The businessman Bernhard Fredersen, who has been blinded by an eye disease, shuts down his long-established company in Hamburg and moves to Pretoria to spend his retirement years with his wife Agnes. While on the journey, Agnes is seen by the treacherous Eugen Schliebach.

Inheritance in Pretoria

1934

A Woman Who Knows What She Wants poster
9.0

Woman concert singer seeks to connect with her adult daughter, by her former marriage to a staid industrialist who has kept the two apart since the daughter was a small child, and gets inadvertent help from the industrialist's fired employee who has fallen in love with the girl.

A Woman Who Knows What She Wants

1934

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The handsomest man in the state

1932

The rejuvenated Adolar poster
6.0

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The rejuvenated Adolar

1931

Isn't My Husband Wonderful? poster
10.0

Trying to impress his wife, a newly-wed office clerk makes up a story about being promoted to manager of a record-company.

Isn't My Husband Wonderful?

1933

Terror of the Garrison poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Terror of the Garrison

1931

No artwork available
10.0

German romantic comedy from Carl Boese.

Men Before Marriage

1936

The Poor Millionaire poster
7.5

A shoemaker has delusions of grandeur when he inherits from a baron whose life he saved.He prevents his daughter from seeing a mere carpenter, abandons humble old friends, and shows poor judgment by falling for a couple of poseurs.

The Poor Millionaire

1939

Die Unschuld vom Lande poster
9.0

A village maiden gets her chance at becoming a big star in the Berlin theater.

Die Unschuld vom Lande

1933

Every Woman Has Something poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Every Woman Has Something

1931

Parkstrasse 13 poster
7.5

The beautiful Evelyne Schratt, who has many admirerers, and whose two husbands both died under mysterious circumstances, is giving a reception. When one of her admirers is found stabbed to death in a room upstairs, the police detains everyone in the house and begins an interrogation (oh goody: does dinner come with this mystery theatre, too?). Evelyne admits, that the murdered man tried to blackmail about some information he had about the death of the two husbands.

Parkstrasse 13

1939

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Vater geht auf Reisen

1932

Befehl ist Befehl poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Befehl ist Befehl

1936

The Man with the Paw poster
7.0

"The Man with the Paw" is what people call the very successful banker Wiegant, who is desperately in love with Lena Kroning, the wife of the lawyer Hugo Kroning. So as to be nearer to her, Wiegant hires her husband to be the bank's lawyer. Shortly thereafter, Wiegant is suspected of having conned the Countess Steindorff during a telephone conversation; but he never did. During the relevant period of time, he was with Lena "having tea" (uh huh), which he conceals from the lawyer-husband, so as to protect Lena.

The Man with the Paw

1935

1920s · 15 titles

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

People Among Us poster
7.3

Gerhard Lamprecht sketches a cross-section of Germany's new post-war society, with its winners, social climbers, and losers, represented by the social microcosm of an apartment building. The gossip-mad Frau Mierig from the rear building gives the newly-arrived Frau Kaminski, the janitor's wife, a lively initiation into the tenants and their peculiarities.

People Among Us

1926

The Little Napoleon poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Little Napoleon

1923

Vienna, City of My Dreams poster
10.0

The young Queen of Nlilrania and her consort, Prince Ferdinand, are deeply attached to each other, but a hectic youth in Vienna has left him with a flirtatious disposition. An old flame visits the palace, and the Queen apparently has justification for her jealousy. She orders her husband to remain in his apartments. He retaliates by returning the key of the door between their rooms. After a furious scene he departs for Vienna with the Countess. The Queen secretly follows with her aide-de-camp. in the train they encounter sonic officers, and the Queen not only dances, but at Vienna goes to the Arts Ball, where her husband awaits the Countess. Though masked, he recognizes her, and reconciliation ensues.

Vienna, City of My Dreams

1928

Die Frau für 24 Stunden poster
9.0

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Die Frau für 24 Stunden

1925

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Maskottchen

1929

Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter poster
8.0

A pharaonic tragedy to the content that spans six different eras. In the first episode, the emergence and dramatic end of the love story between the pharaoh's daughter Princess Amnertis and her beloved Tirhaka is told until the latter comes to a violent death. From this drama arises a curse, which in the following episodes has had far-reaching effects over the centuries. Everyone who possesses the skull of the long-lost pharaoh's daughter must die violently until the day the skull is sunk in the sea.

Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter

1920

The Great Light poster
7.0

Lorenz Ferleitner has worked his way up from a poor but gifted farm boy to a recognized master builder. When a new cathedral is to be built, he is given the honor of carrying out the task. He would like to commission the unknown young painter Fritz Rasmussen to decorate the dome. The director of the art academy, Professor Marquardt, however, wants to employ his untalented nephew for the painting work. A bitter conflict unfolds.

The Great Light

1920

The Countess of Paris poster
7.0

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The Countess of Paris

1923

No artwork available
10.0

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Die dritte Eskadron

1926

Die Flucht vor der Liebe poster
9.0

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Die Flucht vor der Liebe

1929

Die Geliebte seiner Hoheit poster
7.0

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Die Geliebte seiner Hoheit

1929

No artwork available
9.0

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Der Stolz der Kompagnie

1926

No artwork available
8.0

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The Great Industrialist

1923

No artwork available
10.0

A wealthy man is found bludgeoned to death near a railway. The question is, who killed him and why?

Der Todfeind

1920

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