Movies by Ernst Hofmann
U 9 Weddigen
a silent war movie by Heinz Paul
Ikarus, the Flying Man
Two French spies, Baron d’Aubigny and Clemence de Montignon, blackmail German engineer Günther Ellinghaus with his gambling debts into handing over his construction plans for the new Ikarus engine. He flees to New York and works as a waiter. When World War I breaks, he signs on as a fireman on a Dutch ship and returns to Europe. He becomes a fighter pilot in Germany and faces the former spies as his enemies. After an emergency landing he is taken into their headquarters. He escapes an attempted murder and fights his enemies in an air battle....
The Chaste Susanne
Naughty Susanne leads an exciting double life between her hometown and Paris: in the provincial nest she is considered the ever virtuous and down to earth girl, while in the cosmopolitan city she always escapes to, she is the queen of the night, sophisticated and seductive. In Paris, she meets René and begins to recruit him, but she has a noble competitor: Jacqueline. A spirited love triangle begins, complicated by the interventions of uncomprehending moral preachers. Their befitting final finds the story in the Moulin Rouge.
Algol: Tragedy of Power
An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that creates enough energy to power the entire world.
Express Train of Love
Silent romantic comedy set on a train.
Der rote Henker
France in the first half of the 17th century, at the time of the Duke and all-powerful Cardinal Richelieu. The courtesan Marion Delorme falls in love with the nobleman Didier de Lassigny, although she is still with another nobleman at the time, the Marquis de Saverny. Marion then leaves the Marquis. This leads to a duel between the two aristocratic gentlemen, although duels were strictly forbidden in these circles by Richelieu. When this becomes known, Didier is put in chains and sentenced to death. Marion sacrifices herself for the sake of ...
Das Recht der freien Liebe
Emerald of Death
A man searches for a cursed emerald belonging to his ancestor.
Rosen, die der Sturm Entblättert
German film from 1918 starring Pola Negri
The Island of the Blessed
Max Reinhardt’s second and last silent film. It tells the story of two young girls (Cheerful & Shy) who, in order to escape their father’s authority, reaches an island of wonder filled with gods, nymphs, fauns and other creatures.
Dead Eyes
German silent film starring Pola Negri.
Die Tochter Napoleons
The Morals of the Alley
Explores the ethics of a Berlin street during the Weimar era and the struggle for survival in a shady environment.