Directing
Erich Engels
Born — Died
1889-05-23 — 1971-04-25
Place of birth
Remscheid, Germany
Known for
Directing
Credits
40 titles
Known for
9.0Murder mystery about the disappearance of a boy who has leukaemia following the murder of his mother, which he witnessed.
Grabenplatz 17
1958
6.4Friedrich Schiller, a respected baker in Einbeck, enjoys a seemingly idyllic life with his wife and nine children. As he approaches his silver wedding anniversary, he nearly succumbs to a fleeting liaison with a spirited woman named Lollo. Though the episode ends harmlessly, it awakens a crisis of conscience in Friedrich, threatening the harmony of his devoted family.
Vater, Mutter und neun Kinder
1958
No synopsis available yet.
Beim Rechtsanwalt
1936
6.8Double murderer Dr. Crippen is using every means possible to search for a manuscript that he suspects is in the possession of the daughter of the man who was executed in his place.
Doctor Crippen Lives
1958
6.1Father Scherzer generally buries himself in the books of the castle library, which he is responsible for managing. He is a warm-hearted but somewhat overwhelmed father to his five daughters, ranging from a preschooler to two teenage girls to a successful press photographer who flirts with a dashing dentist. While he is trying to sell the castle to an overbearing American millionaire, the housekeeper quits, and the youth welfare office insists on discipline and order in the five-girl household.
Witwer mit 5 Töchtern
1957
5.2No synopsis available yet.
Kirschen in Nachbars Garten
1956
Behind the camera
9.0Murder mystery about the disappearance of a boy who has leukaemia following the murder of his mother, which he witnessed.
Grabenplatz 17
1958
9.0Murder mystery about the disappearance of a boy who has leukaemia following the murder of his mother, which he witnessed.
Grabenplatz 17
1958
6.4Friedrich Schiller, a respected baker in Einbeck, enjoys a seemingly idyllic life with his wife and nine children. As he approaches his silver wedding anniversary, he nearly succumbs to a fleeting liaison with a spirited woman named Lollo. Though the episode ends harmlessly, it awakens a crisis of conscience in Friedrich, threatening the harmony of his devoted family.
Vater, Mutter und neun Kinder
1958
6.4Friedrich Schiller, a respected baker in Einbeck, enjoys a seemingly idyllic life with his wife and nine children. As he approaches his silver wedding anniversary, he nearly succumbs to a fleeting liaison with a spirited woman named Lollo. Though the episode ends harmlessly, it awakens a crisis of conscience in Friedrich, threatening the harmony of his devoted family.
Vater, Mutter und neun Kinder
1958
No synopsis available yet.
Beim Rechtsanwalt
1936
6.8Double murderer Dr. Crippen is using every means possible to search for a manuscript that he suspects is in the possession of the daughter of the man who was executed in his place.
Doctor Crippen Lives
1958
6.8Double murderer Dr. Crippen is using every means possible to search for a manuscript that he suspects is in the possession of the daughter of the man who was executed in his place.
Doctor Crippen Lives
1958
6.1Father Scherzer generally buries himself in the books of the castle library, which he is responsible for managing. He is a warm-hearted but somewhat overwhelmed father to his five daughters, ranging from a preschooler to two teenage girls to a successful press photographer who flirts with a dashing dentist. While he is trying to sell the castle to an overbearing American millionaire, the housekeeper quits, and the youth welfare office insists on discipline and order in the five-girl household.
Witwer mit 5 Töchtern
1957
6.1Father Scherzer generally buries himself in the books of the castle library, which he is responsible for managing. He is a warm-hearted but somewhat overwhelmed father to his five daughters, ranging from a preschooler to two teenage girls to a successful press photographer who flirts with a dashing dentist. While he is trying to sell the castle to an overbearing American millionaire, the housekeeper quits, and the youth welfare office insists on discipline and order in the five-girl household.
Witwer mit 5 Töchtern
1957
5.2No synopsis available yet.
Kirschen in Nachbars Garten
1956
5.2No synopsis available yet.
Kirschen in Nachbars Garten
1956
No synopsis available yet.
Keine Angst vor Schwiegermüttern
1954
8.0The popular trapeze artist Cora is married to the respected doctor Frank Crippen. After a party at the Crippens' house, Cora suddenly disappears. Apparently, she traveled to Brazil alone overnight. However, a friend of the couple is skeptical and calls the police. While excavating the garden, Inspector Düwell makes a gruesome discovery: body parts. Meanwhile, the prime suspect, Dr. Crippen, has already gone into hiding...
Doctor Crippen
1942
8.0The popular trapeze artist Cora is married to the respected doctor Frank Crippen. After a party at the Crippens' house, Cora suddenly disappears. Apparently, she traveled to Brazil alone overnight. However, a friend of the couple is skeptical and calls the police. While excavating the garden, Inspector Düwell makes a gruesome discovery: body parts. Meanwhile, the prime suspect, Dr. Crippen, has already gone into hiding...
Doctor Crippen
1942
6.5A girl from the city falls for a country lad, but his aunt has other plans for him.
Fruit in the Neighbor's Garden
1935
6.5A girl from the city falls for a country lad, but his aunt has other plans for him.
Fruit in the Neighbor's Garden
1935
6.2Eberhard Dobermann is a widower and a policeman who loves to control the roads and let people pay fines. Even with his neighbour and friend Jutta Schmalbach he has no pity. Thus he cannot understand why his daughter Karin just falls in love with a racing pilot called Walter. But it gets even worse when Eberhard wins a VW-Kaefer at the annual police party. So he has to learn to drive and thus even brings his teacher close to a heart attack.
Natürlich die Autofahrer
1959
6.2Suspicion surrounds a lieutenant for killing his father; based on Dostoevsky's novel.
The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov
1931
5.8A wrecked car is found on the Reichsautobahn between Hamburg and Bremen. Inside is a murdered woman. It soon becomes clear that the woman is the dancer Grazielle Holm. The investigators are certain: it was murder! But unfortunately there are far too many suspects...
Mordsache Holm
1938
5.8A wrecked car is found on the Reichsautobahn between Hamburg and Bremen. Inside is a murdered woman. It soon becomes clear that the woman is the dancer Grazielle Holm. The investigators are certain: it was murder! But unfortunately there are far too many suspects...
Mordsache Holm
1938
Nanette has a boyfriend Peter who works for her jeweler father, and who the father doesn't think much of.Peter uses a fake identity as "Paul" to recover a stolen gem, so maybe now he will make a better impression.
Peter, Paul and Nanette
1935
9.0Mr. Rapp was close to selling Rauhenegg Castle when suddenly some young men turn up claiming that the place is haunted. The seller wants to prove the opposite and invites the men to spend a night in the building themselves.
Freitag, der 13.
1945
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Die Dame in Schwarz
1951
A young widow shoots the murderer of her young daughter because the court had to declare the sex offender—who had already killed two children—mentally ill and not criminally responsible; she herself is granted leniency for manslaughter in the heat of the moment.
Im Namen einer Mutter
1960
The burly Abruzzo, a good-natured fellow with the temperament of a butcher's dog, has no fun under his domineering wife Martha. One day he has had enough and leaves home to lead a completely new and, above all, different life as a bandit captain. Together with two other gallows birds, the somewhat dim-witted robbers Tarta and Sigi, he forms a small gang. When two horsemen escape an ambush, the gang takes up the chase, which leads them to a nearby castle. One of the escaped horsemen, the attractive cavalry captain Philipp Weinsberg, immediately takes a liking to the beautiful lady of the castle, Isabella, who, however, is less than pleased when Abruzzo's gang of cutthroats follows him.
Die Nacht ohne Moral
1953
7.0This comedy pokes fun at the military exercises Germans were fond of doing in the lead up to the Great War.
Zu Befehl, Herr Unteroffizier
1932
No synopsis available yet.
Die Nacht im Forsthaus
1933
8.0Dr. Alexander Jordan murders his mother-in-law.
Mordprozeß Dr. Jordan
1949
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Die goldene Spinne
1943
8.2No synopsis available yet.
Im Namen des Volkes
1939
The two clowns, Valentin and Karlstadt, present their act during an audition at a cabaret. They intend to perform a song. Since they are a bit out of practice, things do not go according to plan, and the music stands seem to take on a life of their own: at times they are set too low or too high, while at others they bend or extend of their own accord. Despite—or perhaps because of—this, they are initially hired, only to be passed over in favor of another act. The hapless duo sits dejectedly in a restaurant. Valentin attempts to fish a fly out of a neighboring diner's meal so he can complain about the order and avoid paying the bill.
Musik zu zweien
1936
The two clowns, Valentin and Karlstadt, present their act during an audition at a cabaret. They intend to perform a song. Since they are a bit out of practice, things do not go according to plan, and the music stands seem to take on a life of their own: at times they are set too low or too high, while at others they bend or extend of their own accord. Despite—or perhaps because of—this, they are initially hired, only to be passed over in favor of another act. The hapless duo sits dejectedly in a restaurant. Valentin attempts to fish a fly out of a neighboring diner's meal so he can complain about the order and avoid paying the bill.
Musik zu zweien
1936
As the son of a fashion house owner in Zurich, Hans Haberland apparently can offer his lovers any article of clothing, for which they're willing to sell themselves. His current girl-toy Lizzie wants this fantastic, sky blue dress -- but it's that dress exactly, which his father has just sold to a business buddy in Berlin. Oh, the shortages and traumas of war one has to put up with!
The Sky-blue Evening Dress
1941
Just for fun and to prove to the daughter of the castle lord how courageous they are, three young men agree to each spend one night in the "blue room“ of the castle. Years ago two people lost their lives in this room under most mysterious circumstances. Ever since, the door to the room has been locked. The youngest of the three men insists upon spending the first night in the blue room. At exact 1 a.m. a shot rings out...
The Secret of the Blue Room
1932
8.0Relations between Huckebein, a humble tailor, and Greizinger, a wealthy farmer, become strained after Greizinger breaks off the romance between his son, Franzl, and Huckenbein's daughter, Evi. However, after a situation with a 100 mark note taken from a pair of trousers pressed by Huckebein belonging to Greisinger is resolved, a valuable mineral spring is found on the tailor's property,and the warring fathers become friends and Evi and Franzl are married.
Thunder, Lightning and Sunshine
1936
8.0Relations between Huckebein, a humble tailor, and Greizinger, a wealthy farmer, become strained after Greizinger breaks off the romance between his son, Franzl, and Huckenbein's daughter, Evi. However, after a situation with a 100 mark note taken from a pair of trousers pressed by Huckebein belonging to Greisinger is resolved, a valuable mineral spring is found on the tailor's property,and the warring fathers become friends and Evi and Franzl are married.
Thunder, Lightning and Sunshine
1936
a movie by Heinz Paul
Hahn im Korb
1937
No synopsis available yet.
Ruhiges Heim mit Küchenbenutzung
1930
No synopsis available yet.
Lachkabinett
1953
6.0Maria Halmborg is a widow. Her husband Erik - missing for years - is considered dead. Suddenly she learns that her husband allegedly lives in Rio and sets out on the journey to clarify the matter.
Zentrale Rio
1939
