Movies by Kurt Meisel

Cautio Criminalis

Cautio Criminalis

Gestatten, mein Name ist Cox

Gestatten, mein Name ist Cox

Emil and the Detectives

Emil and the Detectives

Emil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with no money. It is up to him and a group of children to save the day.

Wozzeck

Wozzeck

While an anatomy seminar prepares to examine the cadaver of Franz Wozzeck in the name of scientific progress, medical student Büchner excoriates humanity for having allowed Wozzeck’s fate. The tragic story unfolds in flashbacks, as Büchner narrates.

Liebe auf Eis

Liebe auf Eis

Strogoff

Strogoff

A captain in the Czar's army encounters danger and romance while carrying a secret message across 19th-century Russia.

Der Weg ins Freie

Der Weg ins Freie

In Vienna, during the 1848 Revolution, opera singer Antonia Corvelli marries Detlev von Blossin, a rich landowner. But, as she refuses to give up her career, her infuriated husband returns to Pomerania without her. After falling into the clutches of the cruel and wicked count Stefan Oginski, whose lover she unfortunately becomes, Antonia has no other choice but to pass for dead in order to escape him. She then returns to Italy where she joins small theater companies under various aliases. Until one day she is overtaken by her fate...

The Grouch

The Grouch

A Little Night Music

A Little Night Music

Produced by the Nazis in honor of the 150th anniversary of Mozart's death: a celebration of his music, as the film shows him traveling to Prague for the Don Giovanni premiere and inspired by his wife to compose the finale.

Adventure in Berlin

Adventure in Berlin

The plot revolves around a gang of criminals, mostly former guards of Auschwitz, who print and distribute counterfeit U.S. currency in Berlin after World War II.