Trude Hesterberg Movies

Two inspiration sources appear clearly: contemporary American gangster movies and Alfred Döblin’s novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929).

A German film comedy

An opera company tries to get an engagement.

Dolly Haas is employed as a (supposedly male) servant at a Hotel.

Zezi, on being released from prison for smuggling, is ordered to leave the country. His incarceration has not lessened his craving for female...

Viennese Waltz or Johann Strauss, Royal and Imperial Court Musician is a 1932 German historical musical film directed by Conrad Wiene and starring...

A French adventurer fights to save a woman in the life of prostitution.

Tamara becomes addicted to cocaine but hides from her daughter by moving in with the dealer Mangol. The father tells his daughter that her mother has...

The inhibited, uptight Irene Wagner must take over running the seedy dance club the Green Cockatoo or lose her classic dance studio to creditors.

In the dive bar "Rote Katze," unemployed actor André is mistaken for a gang leader, whose charm attracts the interest of Gloria, the daughter...

Newlyweds Käthe and Max met while studying law. Trouble ensues when Max takes on his first case without telling his wife.

German language version of The Virtuous Sin (1930).