Erich Engel

Directing

Erich Engel

Born — Died

1891-02-14 — 1966-05-10

Place of birth

Hamburg, Germany

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

Known for

Pygmalion poster
6.7

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.

Pygmalion

1935

The Blum Affair poster
9.0

Dr. Blum, a Jewish manufacturer, is falsely accused of a murder. Even when the real killer’s identity becomes evident, the state prosecutor refuses to accept Blum’s innocence.

The Blum Affair

1948

Kommen Sie am Ersten poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kommen Sie am Ersten

1951

Who Takes Love Seriously? poster
8.0

Max Hansen and Willi Schur play two small-time criminals who steal dogs from their owners in the hope that they will get a reward. When the police catches them at their 'work', Hansen flees and gets into the apartment of Jenny Jugo, who takes a liking to the man and pretends that he's her boyfriend. Her landlady isn't amused, and so our heroine loses her rooms and moves in with Hansen. The two of them soon become lovebirds, of course. But when they later go to an entertainment park and Jugo takes part in a beauty contest, trouble arises...

Who Takes Love Seriously?

1931

High School poster
6.5

The love of a young Austrian aristocrat to a circus rider is put on a heavy load test when becomes obvious that the former officer has killed the brother of the young woman, a traitor of the country, in the duel.

High School

1934

Victoria in Dover poster
9.0

After her Prime Minister Lord Melbourne arranges a marriage for her with the German Prince Albert, the young Queen Victoria decides to leave London and spend some time in Kent. While there she meets a handsome young German and falls in love, unaware that he is her intended husband Albert.

Victoria in Dover

1936

Behind the camera

Pygmalion poster
6.7

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.

Pygmalion

1935

The Blum Affair poster
9.0

Dr. Blum, a Jewish manufacturer, is falsely accused of a murder. Even when the real killer’s identity becomes evident, the state prosecutor refuses to accept Blum’s innocence.

The Blum Affair

1948

Kommen Sie am Ersten poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kommen Sie am Ersten

1951

Who Takes Love Seriously? poster
8.0

Max Hansen and Willi Schur play two small-time criminals who steal dogs from their owners in the hope that they will get a reward. When the police catches them at their 'work', Hansen flees and gets into the apartment of Jenny Jugo, who takes a liking to the man and pretends that he's her boyfriend. Her landlady isn't amused, and so our heroine loses her rooms and moves in with Hansen. The two of them soon become lovebirds, of course. But when they later go to an entertainment park and Jugo takes part in a beauty contest, trouble arises...

Who Takes Love Seriously?

1931

High School poster
6.5

The love of a young Austrian aristocrat to a circus rider is put on a heavy load test when becomes obvious that the former officer has killed the brother of the young woman, a traitor of the country, in the duel.

High School

1934

Victoria in Dover poster
9.0

After her Prime Minister Lord Melbourne arranges a marriage for her with the German Prince Albert, the young Queen Victoria decides to leave London and spend some time in Kent. While there she meets a handsome young German and falls in love, unaware that he is her intended husband Albert.

Victoria in Dover

1936

Sommerliebe poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sommerliebe

1942

Der Mann meines Lebens poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Mann meines Lebens

1954

Only a Comedian poster
6.9

A moving actor at the rococo era shows the power-hungry-crude minister of a small state prince in the barriers, while he makes use of his resemblance to the sovereign and slips in his role. - Double role for Rudolf Forster who plays his figures very much chilly.

Only a Comedian

1935

Nanette poster
8.0

Successful playwright goes undercover to get new material and finds romance.

Nanette

1940

The Grapes Are Ripe poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Grapes Are Ripe

1952

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Das seltsame Leben des Herrn Bruggs

1951

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

An Old Heart Becomes Young Again poster
8.0

All throughout his entire life, Friedrich Wilhelm Hoffmann let his career run roughshod over his personal life. He had no wife, because he was married instead to his chocolate factory. Now he’s old and gray, and his relatives, who are greedily waiting for him to kick the bucket so they can get their hands on his worldly goods, keep their distance from him. Then one day, an astonished Hoffmann is visited by a young woman named Brigitte, who asserts, that she’s his granddaughter. Suddenly, it all comes back to the old man: as a young man, he had a short, but intense, love affair, which he had to end on the insistence of his father.

An Old Heart Becomes Young Again

1943

Under the Thousand Lanterns poster
7.5

This German drama tells the story of a musician who is killed and leaves his work unfinished. His apprentice is cleared of the murder and turns out to be the real composer.

Under the Thousand Lanterns

1952

Under the Thousand Lanterns poster
7.5

This German drama tells the story of a musician who is killed and leaves his work unfinished. His apprentice is cleared of the murder and turns out to be the real composer.

Under the Thousand Lanterns

1952

Five from the Jazzband poster
7.5

By pure chance, Jessie and his four jazz musicians are hired to play at the cabaret theatre “Trocadero”. Unfortunately, she knows nothing about music and it doesn’t help that all four musicians are in love with her. Jessie doesn’t reciprocate their feelings, because she has a thing for Martin. Unfortunately, Martin believes that Jessie stole his car … and so, right before the premiere at the cabaret, she ends up in jail.

Five from the Jazzband

1932

No artwork available
10.0

A young woman from the Berlin slums gets her chance to move into a new suburban home with her boyfriend, when she wins a lottery.

Hard Luck Mary

1934

Inge and the Millions poster
9.0

A well scripted and captivating thriller about the owners of a small private bank in Berlin, squeezing money out of honest business firms, causing their bankruptcies, and then trying to smuggle the cash into Switzerland.

Inge and the Millions

1933

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

Der Weg zu Isabel poster
7.0

The German estate owner Corner travels to Marseilles, looking for his daughter. He had a relationship with a French aristocrat before the World War and knows she was pregnant, when he had to return to Germany. The War separated them however and the mother died giving birth to his child. He knows neither the name of his daughter, nor where she is living. A lawyer named Beauchamps is tasked with finding her and one days introduces a young singer named Isabel to him. She is with great probability the one, who is being sought. She follows her father back to Germany, but only with great reluctance.

Der Weg zu Isabel

1940

The Checkered Vest poster
NR

Karl Pechkopf and his wife run a junk shop but are struggling to scrape together the fifty marks due for rent. In Mrs. Pechkopf’s opinion, her husband simply lacks the knack for foisting goods onto customers that they do not actually want to buy.

The Checkered Vest

1936

No artwork available
9.0

Painter rookie Pamela plans to work in advertising but established artist Alwin falls for her and urges her to hone her craft. He guides her to fragile success, she detests being dependent on him and tries to succeed on her own.

Don't Talk to Me About Love

1943

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder

1957

Du bist die Richtige poster
9.0

A film comedy about two beautiful women, two marry-able girls and a man!

Du bist die Richtige

1955

Es lebe die Liebe poster
6.0

A romantic skirmish between an intrusive operetta tenor from the Berlin Theater and a revue diva in Barcelona, who later encounters him, initially unrecognized, as a ballet dancer and, after they marry, plays the role of a housewife to cure him of his arrogance and flightiness. He himself is no stranger to deception, but their joint stage finale is not far off.

Es lebe die Liebe

1944

Journey to Happiness poster
10.0

Celia Lövengaart was formerly involved with the theatre and was able to live a carefree life. But now she's in financial difficulties. The court appointed trustee grants her enough money for a trip to Tirol, where she's going to visit her daughter Susanne, who was raised by her grandparents. Susanne is supposed to marry Richard, whom she can't stand and her mother tolerates him even less. Celia wants to help her daughter, but that's easier said than done: Richard knows about her lively past and is blackmailing her to keep her nose out of his affairs. If she doesn't agree to this wedding, he'll tell everything the consul Hoyermann, Susanme's guardian, and there will be a big stink.

Journey to Happiness

1948

Unser Fräulein Doktor poster
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

Unser Fräulein Doktor

1940

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Where Is Mr. Belling?

1945

Melody Beyond Love poster
6.5

Marlene Roedern is a student at the Salzburg Mozarteum, as is her boyfriend, Hans Hellmer, a promising conductor. Strothoff, a government cultural representative, engages Hans to conduct at Hamburg. While in Salzburg, Strothoff meets Marlene, who works as a tourist guide in order to pay her tuition fees. He hires her for an all-night tour of the city. She becomes infatuated with him and he with her. Hans is not happy about this.

Melody Beyond Love

1954

Vor Gott und den Menschen poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Vor Gott und den Menschen

1955

The Mysteries of a Hairdresser's Shop poster
5.7

The absurd goings-on of a by no means ordinary hair salon, where men with great beards wait in vain for a shave while the barber takes a nap.

The Mysteries of a Hairdresser's Shop

1923

The Mysteries of a Hairdresser's Shop poster
5.7

The absurd goings-on of a by no means ordinary hair salon, where men with great beards wait in vain for a shave while the barber takes a nap.

The Mysteries of a Hairdresser's Shop

1923

The Night with the Emperor poster
10.0

A dancing girl succeeds in getting Napoleon, in 1808, to pardon her lover, a German artist who has drawn an unflattering caricature of the French emperor during his Erfurt conference with the Czar and several local princes.

The Night with the Emperor

1936

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Liebe ist der Frauen Macht

1924

No artwork available
NR

Since the envisaged tour guide for a tourist crowd on the way to Italy is allegedly suddenly prevented, the secretary of the travel agency must unexpectedly step in and accompany the group on the bus.

Land der Sehnsucht

1950

Der Maulkorb poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Der Maulkorb

1938

Liebe ohne Illusion poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Liebe ohne Illusion

1955

The Beaver Coat poster
6.3

Mother Wolffen, a washerwoman, is a woman of principle: A poor man must do what he must to get through life, only he mustn't get caught doing it. All sorts of crooked deals contribute to the improvement of the daily menu and the increase of household funds. When everyone is searching for pensioner Krueger's missing beaverskin coat, Mother Wolffen and her family are calmly enjoying fresh roast venison.

The Beaver Coat

1949

Geschwader Fledermaus poster
7.0

An American transport squadron led by former General Lee supports the French colonial army in Vietnam in return for high pay. Originally their mission was only to help the wounded, but as the advance of the Vietnamese liberation army puts the French under increasing pressure, they also fly ammunition - in return for even more money and in defiance of international law. Chief pilot Bryk refuses to fly, secretary Flessy becomes the unscrupulous general's mistress after one lover after another fails to return from a mission, and the rest of the squadron is shot down during an ammunition flight. The French army shows up at the camp to arrest the interpreter Thao for espionage. Bryk rescues her and flees with her to the liberated part of Vietnam.

Geschwader Fledermaus

1958