Wilhelm Bendow Movies

Two inspiration sources appear clearly: contemporary American gangster movies and Alfred Döblin’s novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929).

Ruritanian power struggle with opera singing.

A series of stupid coincidences causes the young Munich painter Paul to convert his uncle's castle into a hotel for four weeks. But he can't...

A man sells his shadow to gain success and fame but soon suffers the terrible consequences of that deal.

After drinking too much alcohol, King Michael XXXVII promptly forgets his own wedding date! To avoid a scandal, his police minister asks the writer...

Caught at the window just before an air-raid warning (WWII) composer Paul tells how he met his wive Anni, a revue star and song writer, how he...

Disguised chef is recognized and thrown out.

The story is one of the classic operetta stories with a young princess destined to marry a king whom her mother tries to enforce while the young...