Ilka Grüning Movies

a silent movie by Heinz Paul

During World War I, two German men friends who emigrated to the US and become millionaires agree on most things, with one major difference: one has...

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...

A feature-length jewish joke: The heavily indebted Sami Bambus fakes his death, so that his debts are taken over by the greedy heirs, led by the...

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

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

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...

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.

The daughter of a famous painter fleeing thieves who believe she knows where one of her father's original paintings is kept, flees and hides out at...

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

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...