Ilka Grüning Movies

The title character, played by John Payne, is a ship's captain whose embittered behavior after losing his lady love seemingly leads to tragedy....

Unemployed and homeless actors following the dream of finding the future in South America. The manager Osvaldo Curtis tricks the group of colorful...

Escape from the Golden Dungeon is the second part of the two-part silent movie Christian Wahnschaffe.

Jacques Lantier, the "human beast" of the title, has a hereditary madness and has several times in his life wanted to murder women. At the beginning...

About a deceptive bourgeois couple that blends their acquaintances into their dubious business.

In his film version, Curt Goetz shifts the focus away from the poetic output towards the young Friedrich Schiller himself: on the misery of his soul...

On the surface a straightforward tale of the search for a buried treasure, the film is a textbook example of German expressionism, with the passions...

Beyond the River, a Gemrna silent directed by Ludwig Czerny and starring Walter Janssen & Ada Svedin.

Drama set around a circus at Blackpool. A clown loves a young housekeeper and saves her from a fire caused by a jealous lion tamer.

Based on Henrik Ibsen's play.

The extended Steyer family lives together in a cottage in the mountains. The younger Steyer's wife Ludmilla wants money, and doesn't care if she must...

The film was an epic portrayal of the life of Catherine the Great of Russia.

After the death of his parents, Anton pursues a career at the Schröter trading house in Breslau. He meets Sabine, the boss's sister, befriends...