Willy Birgel Movies

A German wartime biography of Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the Diesel engine. The movie links the importance of the engine to the war by starting the...

The young lieutenant Hans Rudloff is engaged to the daughter of a councilor of commerce. However, he is in love with the flower arranger Anna. In...

Baron Franz von Naydek is constantly being mistaken for Prince Woronzeff, since both look identical. One day, Woronzeff decides that this similarity...

In an imaginary Scandinavian country, an ambitious radical buys an indebted estate in order to become a member of parliament as a local resident,...

Renate Brinkmann is a German lady on a railway journey in Africa. She is wooed by two very different men. One is a hard drinking, cocky French...

A Polish officer works undercover in 1930s Berlin to discover Nazi Germany's plans against his homeland.

Wolf Burkhardt, who has acquired mining rights in Africa, returns home to get financing for his project. At the same time, he'd like to renew his...

The physician Dr. Deruga is suspected of having poisoned his wife out of greed. She died after naming Deruga, poor and in debt, the sole heir in...

A few days before the planned wedding of the chief inheritor von Halleborg, he experiences a terrible blow: his beloved bride Julia has a riding...

Based on a graphic novel, this story follows the lives of people with leprosy from around the world who live on a South Sea island, including a...

A woman between two men. Horror melodrama.

Marlene Roedern is a student at the Salzburg Mozarteum, as is her boyfriend, Hans Hellmer, a promising conductor. Strothoff, a government cultural...

In Andorra on St. George’s Eve, Jewish foster‐son Andri loves Barblin, unaware she’s his half‐sister. Amid rising...

The focus of this wartime propaganda film from 1940 is the foreman Keith, who works at a Polish sawmill, not far from the German border. It is 1939...