Movies by Johannes Heesters

Clear the stage for Marika

Clear the stage for Marika

A dance and music film tailored completely for Marika Rokk: After her divorce, the wife of a composer uses her wit and charm to engage Marika as a singer and dancer on the stage. This manages to give life once again to the extinguished love between her and her former husband.

Gasparone

Gasparone

Es lebe die Liebe

Es lebe die Liebe

The Moon Is Blue

The Moon Is Blue

Two aging playboys are both after the same attractive young woman, but she fends them off by claiming that she plans to remain a virgin until her wedding night. Both men determine to find a way around her objections.

Melody of a Great City

Melody of a Great City

A young woman moves to Berlin to work as a press photographer.

Gestatten, mein Name ist Cox

Gestatten, mein Name ist Cox

Heute heiratet mein Mann

Heute heiratet mein Mann

Viktor und Viktoria

Viktor und Viktoria

Aspiring singer Susanne takes over for ham actor Viktor at a small cabaret in Berlin where he works a woman impersonator and per chance she's discovered by an agent, who thinks, that she really is a man. She becomes famous, but her situation becomes troublesome, when she falls in love with Robert.

The Beggar Student

The Beggar Student

To take a revenge on countess Laura, who slapped him at his proposal, the Governor of the occupied Poland gets her fall in love with a poor student, and exposes him during wedding banquet.

Die Fledermaus

Die Fledermaus

Produced in 1944, finished and released in 1946.

Paganini

Paganini

Operetta concerning the love affair of Niccolò Paganini, the violinist, and Élisa Bonaparte, the younger sister of Napoleon.

Die schöne Wilhelmine

Die schöne Wilhelmine

Hab’ ich nur Deine Liebe

Hab’ ich nur Deine Liebe

The Divorcée

The Divorcée

Filmlegenden. Deutsch

Filmlegenden. Deutsch

A parade of well-known actors and directors from Germany

Junge Leute brauchen Liebe

Junge Leute brauchen Liebe

Memories of Berlin: The Twilight of Weimar Culture

Memories of Berlin: The Twilight of Weimar Culture

The film tells the cultural story of Berlin during the Weimar Republic through interviews with a number of persons who were involved in literature, film, art, and music during the period. It includes interviews with Christopher Isherwood, Louise Brooks, Lotte Eisner, Elisabeth Bergner, Francis Lederer, Carl Zuckmayer, Gregor Piatigorsky, Claudio Arrau, Rudolf Kolisch, Mischa Spoliansky, Herbert Bayer, Mrs. Walter Gropius, and Arthur Koestler.