Karl Platen Movies

In the depression era unemployed Susanne tries to break into movies by working as an extra. She is ‚hired' to be kidnapped in a PR stunt that...

A young woman leaves behind her job, home and family to try to make it in the movie business. Features cameos from about three dozen German film...

German adventurers discover the cultural and natural riches of Yugoslavia regions, their own carelessness almost pays for their fascination with...

A group of popular musicians including a girl singer is staying in a spooky castle where there may be a treasure of money.

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...

A restaurant cashier, who has a mutual attraction to the restauranteur, has a secret passion for dance. As soon as she finishes work she is off down...

Life for Hanna Bollova has never been easy. No matter what she did in life, how hard she worked, there never seemed to be any money. That is, until...

Experiences during a voyage with a KDF-steamer (Kraft Durch Freude = Power Through Joy, a nazi campaign that allowed working class people to make...

A young student, Stephan, inherits shares in a coal mine from his father. The mine is no longer profitable, and Stephan needs money to finance his...

After an emergency plane landing in the desert, the actress Barbara gets to know the industrialist Thomas. After they are rescued, the two live at...

Fernand has escaped from prison and finds shelter in the traveling circus Barlay, where his former wife Flora works as a predator trainer. Their son,...

The film was an epic portrayal of the life of Catherine the Great of Russia.

Biopic of composer conductor Carl Maria von Weber, who championed the little regarded German opera instead of the then popular Italian opera, in the...

The Trombonist is a 1949 comedy film directed by Carl Boese and starring Paul Dahlke, Sabine Peters and Ludwig Körner.

Young Angélique has a crush on the famous writer René Vernon. One night she follows him, sleeps with him and becomes pregnant. Years...