Herbert Juttke Movies
- 1933
Romance and espionage intermingle in this WW I drama that centers on an Austrian officer who falls in love with an Italian woman and later discovers that she is an enemy agent. Soon he becomes a double agent and joins her. Unfortunately, he does not seem to be very good at espionage as she saves him from capture several times. In the sorrowful end, the woman ends up sacrificing her own life to preserve his. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1931
Zwischen Nacht und Morgen (During Night and Morning) was based on Dirnentragodie, a play by Wilhelm Braun. Aud Egede Nissen plays an aging prostitute who falls in love with a young, wealthy scapegrace. Soon her new swain leaves her in favor of a younger tart, compelling Nissen to murder her rival. Whether or not this will have any redemptive effect on the young man is left to conjecture; it is certain, however, that Nissen will pay for her crime. The film is a remake of a 1925 silent picture which starred Asta Nielsen and was directed by Bruno Rahn. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Aud Egede Nissen, Oscar Homolka, (more)
- 1930
In this drama, originally filmed as a silent, a young woman blunders into the wrong hotel room and finds herself in the midst of a romantic fight between two socially disparate fellow. The aristocratic one demonstrates how low he is willing to go to get what he wants. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1929
The German Somnambul raises the question "Can a man be influenced by hypnosis to commit a crime?" The answer is never clearly stated, though it would seem that the filmmakers were inclined to believe that mental suggestion could determine a man's moral makeup. The German censors were none too enchanted by the film and in fact held up its release twice before enough cuts were made to satisfy them. The complaint was not so much the content of the film as the nonjudgemental depiction of the "medium" whose hypnotic spell set the plot in motion. Such dependable Teutonic players as Fritz Kortner, Julius Falkenstein and Fritz Kampers lent a measure of credibility to this highly incredible yarn. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
