Czech films and their German remakes during the1930s
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- DirectorKarel LamacStarsAnny OndraOldrich NovýAdina MandlováComposer Bertl is a heavy drunkard and generously spends his wife's money. Her lawyer tries to arrange a quick divorce for the couple and thus save the rest of her account.
- DirectorKarel LamacStarsAnny OndraJack TrevorRobert DorsayNotorious gambler Toni and his wife hit a low point when he loses all their money. Their lawyer Werkmann initiates a plan to hire penniless Anny to pose with Toni in a compromising situation, thus creating a sufficient cause for a divorce.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsOldrich NovýNatasa GollováRaoul SchránilAlois Novák (Oldrich Nový), a minor clerk in a travel agency and the husband of a dowdy housewife Marenka (Natasa Gollová), lives a run-of-the-mill, dull life. In his soul, however, there resides an inextinguishable desire for adventure. And so once a month he poses as a playboy. As the mysterious and wealthy Mr. Kristian he goes to the exclusive Orient Bar where he does not skimp on generous tips and where he platonic-ally seduces beautiful and elegant women. In the salon he speaks of love and the magnificence of exotic lands, which he has supposedly come to know on his wanderings abroad. In reality he has read all of this in the travel agency's brochures.
- DirectorFrantisek CápStarsGünther LüdersPaul HörbigerHans Reiser
- DirectorVladimír SlavínskýStarsVera FerbasováKarel JicínskýOldrich NovýA fortune-teller forecasts for Dr. Prelouc that he will marry the third poverty-stricken little girl he meets. Míla, the daughter of factory owner Janota, likes the doctor and with the aid of his housekeeper Amálka she insinuates herself into his household in the disguise of a poor seller of shoe-laces. She has prepared for her role beforehand by surveying the outskirts of the city where she met Vendelín Pleticha, who became her guide to the local pubs and teacher of the people's speech. Dr. Prelouc is inspired by the poor, uneducated girl and tries to teach her the rudiments of societal behavior, even literary language. Everything goes along until the moment he finds out that Míla is tricking him and that Pleticha is not the father she has passed him off to be.
- DirectorCarl BoeseStarsPaul HörbigerRolf WankaFred HenningsA doctor needs to educate and civilize a young woman before he can marry her.
- DirectorMartin FricKarel LamacStarsVlasta BurianMeda ValentováOtto RubíkFinnicky efficiency expert is sent to straighten out business management problems at a jazz club, finds self being drawn into the swingin' scene.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsHugo HaasHana VítováZdenek StepánekSimultaneously filmed Czech language version of a German film, in which an unhappy dogcatcher in the poor part of town has a transformative experience befriending an abandoned boy and a stray animal.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsHans MoserPeter BosseMady RahlVehicle for the popular Austrian comic Hans Moser, as a dogcatcher in the poor part of town whose life changes when he befriends an abandoned youth and a stray animal.
- DirectorMartin FricKarel LamacStarsVlasta BurianAnny OndraOtto RubíkPostman Brabec is a welcome guest of the revue theatre for his sense of humor, and he brings his director Holt letters from female admirers every day. Holt's fans include Brabec's sister Anny. The girl would like to join the theatre, but for the time being works as a maid for the actress Velden. A new revue is being rehearsed, the name of the author is secret. Veldenová will return the role just before the premiere because she doesn't like it. The quick-witted Brabec introduces the director to his sister, who knows all the parts by heart.
- DirectorKarel LamacStarsAnny OndraVlasta BurianBerthe Ostyn
- DirectorMartin FricStarsVlasta BurianTruda GrosslichtováVáclav TréglAfter losing his job,Florian goes to Prague to see a girl he recently met.However, as he does not know her name,he accidentally comes to a villa of movie star Elvira.He finds here a love letter and by mistake thinks it is addressed to him.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsVlasta BurianElse LordBetty BirdThe tailor Florian Kerzl is immersed in the Middle Ages. When he spoils the celebrations for the 500th anniversary of the founding of the town of Zdislavice, he is banished from the town. So he moves in his armor to the nearby ruins of a medieval castle. Where Florian has several interesting adventures and even falls in love with the film extra Hanni. Eventually he finds a treasure in the cellars of the old castle, containing the will of the former castle lord.
- DirectorKarel LamacStarsVlasta BurianRoda-RodaHarry Frank
- DirectorMartin FricStarsHugo HaasTheodor PistekAdina MandlováYoung music composer Viktor Honzl in vain looks for work. He is prevented from committing suicide by a technician of the gasworks who shortly beforehand has disconnected his gas due to past due bills. In the disguise of an older, serious, musical scholar Viktor obtains work in a music publishing house. So he may court Eva, publisher Durdys's daughter, who he likes quite a bit, he recommends to the owner that he also employ his nephew. Understandably, this is he himself, in his every-day form. For Viktor, however, this becomes an extremely complicated situation as he switches in the place of business from the clothes of the uncle and then back again from the clothes of Viktor the nephew.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsFritz KampersJakob TiedtkeLien DeyersA young composer thinks he will make a better impression at a publishing house by pretending he is his uncle, a professor.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsVlasta BurianNora StallichSuzanne MarwilleLieutenant Patera is unhappily involved in a scandalous affair in the highest circles of the Habsburg monarchy and is transferred to a remote garrison in Mnyuk as a punishment.
- DirectorMartin FricMichal WaszynskiStarsVlasta BurianAdolf DymszaZula PogorzelskaFerdinand spent most of his as a barber. And he would probably stay like this for the rest of his life. But one day an attorney's clerk knocks on his door and tells him he became universal heir to his aunt, who had recently died in Warsaw.
- DirectorE.W. EmoStarsHeinz RühmannHans MoserInge ListRabe travels to Vienna in hope of a great inheritance from his aunt. But there are only 13 chairs waiting for him, which he sells. Then he finds a letter from the aunt announcing that she has hidden her money in one of the chairs.