Heinrich Schroth Movies

The life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, during the years leading up to and during the French Revolution in which she was executed.

In this German comedy, an enterprising American uncle comes from Chicago goes to the tiny town of Groditzkirchen to make a fortune on credit even...

Der Herrscher (The Sovereign) was based on Before Sunset, a play by Gerhart Hauptmann. The great Emil Jannings stars as Mathias Clausen, a self-made...

Rupp (Jannings) is a former butcher, made rich in the meat packing industry as a result of the reversal of fortunes brought on by WWI. He is crude,...

In 1918, a German regiment is granted five-hours leave in Berlin.

Dr. Robert Hart visits his friend Ursula von Hohenau in Saxony in July 1914. There he hears about the Austrian ultimatum to Serbia. He immediately...

Franz Biberkopf has served four years in prison. His return to normal life is not successful.

1936: Fahnrich Peter serves on a torpedo boat. Peter loves Carmita, the pretty sister of a fellow seaman. But then his superior officer falls in...

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

The film focuses on the leadership of the Great Powers of Europe in the days leading up to the outbreak of the First World War.

This Nazi propaganda film chronicles the rise of the German Air Force ("Luftwaffe") from World War I until Adolf Hitler took power in 1933.

Based on the true story of a cobbler who bought a second-hand captain's uniform, assumed command of a troop of guardsmen, declared the town of ...

A pharaonic tragedy to the content that spans six different eras. In the first episode, the emergence and dramatic end of the love story between the...

A tyrannical landowner terrorizes his wife and seduces the daughter of one of his employees.