Mr. Wu

Operette-like oriental fantasy about a forbidden love between en english boy and a chinese girl.

Es werde Licht!

A painter with syphilis infects his brother's wife and the child born of their affair.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

A variation of the famous Oscar Wilde tale in which Dorian Gray's soul is manifested in a painting instead of his own body.

Japanese Sacrifice

A friend sacrifices himself, taking the blame for a murder upon himself. A guilty conscience will end up killing the real culprit.

Schlemihl

A family's newfound wealth causes problem after problem.

The Last Horse Carriage in Berlin

A taxi driver in Berlin refuses to give up his horse and switch to motor transport.

Die Rothenburger

A medical officer decides to become a doctor, change his name and devote his life to research after the woman he loves marries his best friend.

A Night of Horror

An extremely jealous artist slips into a monkey costume and kills all those men who come too close to his wife, another artist.

Tales of Hoffmann

This movie, directed by Richard Oswald, is based on the operetta "Les contes de Hoffmann" by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), which is a genial musical potpourri from various short stories and novels by the Prussian writer, composer, painter, lawyer and judge E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822). While Hoffmann's literary work was longtime considered to be merely fantastical, it was finally researched, in the last years, according to its metaphysical background. Characteristic for Hoffmann's work is his life-long fight against rationalism and for the r...