Paul Wegener Movies

On the eve of the Great War, an expatriate German working in Latin America learns that the Fatherland is in peril, and risks various obstacles to get...

A well scripted and captivating thriller about the owners of a small private bank in Berlin, squeezing money out of honest business firms, causing...

The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors...

A traveler comes into a town overrun with rats and vermin. He promises to free the place of the pests and names his price. When the townspeople...

Six sequences about Fascism and its segments throughout history.

An adaptation of the famous fairy tale.

Directed by Paul Wegener.

A renowned actress rescues a small theater, which is on the verge of bankruptcy.

Balzac adaptation: Escaped convict moves into a brothel where he becomes father to a boy. But his advantageous position is eventually threatened by...

A man of mystery known only as Doctor Terror recounts seven stories from his casebook of personal encounters with evil and the supernatural.

An engineer develops a device that will disarm any electrically power device, in an attempt to prevent armed conflicts.

A Hapsburg archduke in the 1880s gives up his title, changes his name, marries a Viennese actress, and then disappears with her on a South American...

A German wartime biography of Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the Diesel engine. The movie links the importance of the engine to the war by starting the...

As a practical joke, an actor impersonates the screen monster he made famous. A lost film.

Nuremberg durting the time of Albrecht Durer and the famous geographer Martin Behaim: the locksmith Peter Henlein is looking for a way to make...

In this blood and soil melodrama, the daughter of the chief forester is torn between love for a reprobate painter and the duty to wed the assistant...

"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...

A man sells his shadow to gain success and fame but soon suffers the terrible consequences of that deal.