Cast: Gustaf Gründgens

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Gustaf Gründgens. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


M

1931 · Movie · 111 min. · Germany

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Peter Lorre · Otto Wernicke · Gustaf Gründgens · Theo Lingen

Synopsis In Fritz Langs startling and exquisite film M, fear stalks the streets of Berlin in the form of a serial child murderer whose grisly accomplishments are so heinous even the criminal minds of the underworld want him dead. Filmed in...

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8.3

20K votes

Liebelei

1933 · Movie · 88 min. · Germany

Direction Max Ophüls

Cast Paul Hörbiger · Magda Schneider · Luise Ullrich · Gustaf Gründgens

Synopsis The film, set in imperial Vienna, concerns the romance between a young girl and a lieutenant. A powerful baron misreads the lieutenant's ardor, assuming that it is being directed towards his own wife. A duel follows which, no matter how...

7.3

286 votes

7.3

286 votes

Dance with Death: The Ufa-Star Sybille Schmitz

2000 · Documentary · 56 min. · Germany

Direction Achim Podak

Cast Sybille Schmitz · Hans Albers · Louise Brooks · Willy Egger

Synopsis A documentary of the life of German actress Sybille Maria Christina Schmitz (1909 - 1955) who rose to prominence in the German cinema of the 1930s.

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Danton

1931 · Movie · 92 min. · Germany

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Die schönen Tage von Aranjuez

1933 · Movie · 101 min. · Germany

Direction Johannes Meyer

Cast Brigitte Helm · Gustaf Gründgens · Wolfgang Liebeneiner · Kurt Vespermann

Synopsis The impostor Olga is passing herself off as the Countes of Beaumont and steals a valuable pearl necklace. She wants to meet her accomplice Alexander in Spain, but the police are already hard on her heels. During the trip, she...

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Never Trust a Woman

1930 · Movie · 90 min. · Germany

Direction Max Reichmann

Cast Richard Tauber · Paul Hörbiger · Werner Fuetterer · Maria Matray

Synopsis A sailor falls for a music hall performer with marital problems, after having been at sea a long 12 years, only to learn the distressing news that she is his own sister.

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The Theft of the Mona Lisa

1931 · Movie · 89 min. · Germany

Direction Géza von Bolváry

Cast Trude von Molo · Willi Forst · Gustaf Gründgens · Fritz Odemar

Synopsis Crimecomedy based on the true case of Vincenzo Peruggia, who stole the Mona Lisa in 1911: Peruggia steals the famous painting in order to impress the roommaid Mathilde, which is waiting for something big to happen in her life. When...

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Das Mädchen Johanna

1935 · Movie · 87 min. · Germany

Direction Gustav Ucicky

Cast Angela Salloker · Gustaf Gründgens · Heinrich George · René Deltgen

Synopsis The recount of the 17-year-old peasant girl Joan of Arc of the 15th century tinted to the presence of the National Socialist ideology.

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Le tunnel

1933 · Movie · 72 min. · Germany

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Pygmalion

1935 · Movie · 92 min. · Germany

Direction Erich Engel

Cast Jenny Jugo · Gustaf Gründgens · Anton Edthofer · Eugen Klöpfer

Synopsis Professor Higgins determines to transform an uneducated flower girl into a great lady.

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Friedemann Bach

1941 · Movie · 102 min. · Germany

Direction Traugott Müller · Gustaf Gründgens

Cast Gustaf Gründgens · Leny Marenbach · Johannes Riemann · Camilla Horn

Synopsis The film depicts the life of Johann Sebastian Bach's son Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. It is based on Albert Emil Brachvogel's novel Friedemann Bach. Wilhelm Friedemann Bach is shown as a gifted son trying to escape his father's shadow.

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Fire in the opera house

1930 · Movie · 104 min. · Germany

Direction Carl Froelich

Cast Alexa Engström · Gustav Fröhlich · Gustaf Gründgens · Gertrud Arnold

Synopsis A young singer in the Opera finds out who really loves her, when the theater catches fire on the opening night of the performance.

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A Woman of No Importance

1936 · Movie · 81 min. · Germany

Direction Hans Steinhoff

Cast Gustaf Gründgens · Käthe Dorsch · Friedrich Kayßler · Hans Leibelt

Synopsis Oscar Wilde adaptation ,a satire of British society, in which the father of a bastard son returns after two decades in India and challenges the son who doesn't know him to a duel over a woman they both want.

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