Karl Schoenboeck Movies

In this slapstick satire, Fritz is a life-long forger of Nazi memorabilia. He got his start as a boy, selling items of clothing as something Hitler wore. His current income-generating scam is to sell "original" portraits by Hitler of his mistress Eva Braun to connoisseurs of Nazi art. He runs into an ambitious journalist who works for a tabloid-style magazine (a thinly disguised "Der Stern"), and the two of them concoct a scam which will garner headlines for the journalist and plenty of cash for the forger. With some care, Fritz creates "Hitler's Diaries," and his creations become a household word before the scam is uncovered. Film buffs may recognize the title of this film as a term Charlie Chaplin used in The Great Dictator to refer to Hitler. This satire hews pretty closely to the actual news story it is based on, but the movie plays it strictly for laughs, a tactic which won great popularity for it in Germany. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

Losseray (Michel Piccoli) is a surgeon who has recently suffered a heart attack but has returned to work. He is being hassled by the owner of a nearby medical clinic and becomes obsessed with the story of Berg (Gerard Depardieu), another surgeon who was similarly hassled by the same man some years before. Berg killed himself, his wife and children, apparently in response to the pressure. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

Charley (Werner Enke) is a shiftless man with a chip on his shoulder and a smoldering resentment of society in this offbeat comedy. He encounters a series of situations which seem to always land him in trouble, but he always seems to extricate himself from any real danger. Both the Establishment and the rebels who fight against it are lampooned in this gag filled film. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

Explicit scenes are a regular feature in this sexually oriented drama by German director Rolf Thiele. The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century when a young man who lives along the Rhine awakens sexually and has his first, highly erotic affair with an alluring actress. His socially well-placed father is not happy and sends the lad off to a remote school in the provinces, thinking that might help him settle down. Instead, the son continues his escapades with a variety of women, including his landlady. But the libidinous lothario's one-track mind is forced to rethink his actions when World War I alters the European panorama. In relation to the title, the former imperial German flag was black, white, and red in color. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

The title of this German musical translates to The Forester's Daughter. The title character is Christi, played by Hanneri Matz. Christi impulsively falls in love with a handsome stranger (Karl Schoenboeck), never suspecting that her boyfriend is really Austrian emperor Franz Joseph. Upon ascertaining the emperor's true identity, Christi pleads with him to save her former boyfriend, rebel leader Joseph Foeldessy (Will Quadfleg), from the firing squad. Die Foersterchristi is based upon the stage operetta of the same name by the Buchbinder Brothers. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Per the title of this Austrian melodrama, much of the action takes place in Satan's domain. The devil, played by Hans Holt, decides to make life a living you-know-what for a nightclub singer. This he does by trying to sabotage the singer's romance with an artist. The cast is wildly variable, with relative newcomer Vera Molnar coming off best, at least in the eyes of the critics in 1949. It is remotely possible that Hoellische Liebe served as one of the influences for the much-later Disney comedy/fantasy The Devil and Max Devlin. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

This dramatic recounting of the disastrous maiden voyage of H.M.S. Titanic was produced in Germany during WWII and features an undertow of anti-British propaganda absent from other versions of the story. The building of the luxurious ocean liner Titantic proves to be a hugely expensive proposition, and Sir Bruce Ismay (Ernst Fritz Furbringer), president of White Star Lines, wants to make sure that the ship's first crossing is big news. It is at his urging that Capt. Edward J. Smith (Otto Wernicke) pushes for a record speed in their voyage to New York, sowing the seeds for later disaster. This Titanic features a number of rich, decadent British passengers and a handful noble German peasants. While the film was produced with the participation of the Nazi government, its portrait of a disaster at sea proved to be more depressing than inspiring, and it was pulled from theaters shortly after its initial release, though it has since appeared on television and on home video in Europe. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

The remarkable story of how one man unified the many states of Germany into one nation under the rule of the Kaiser between 1870-71. Available only in German. ~ All Movie Guide