Josef Sieber Movies
- 1954
In this emotional melodrama, a woman is devastated to discover that her beloved has fathered the child of her closest friend. With many tears, she breaks their engagement and moves into the country where she eventually falls in love with a handsome schoolmaster. Unfortunately, this sets local tongues to wagging and, unable to bear the scandal, she leaves. Time passes and when she learns that the teacher has been horribly burned while saving someone from a fire, she returns to marry him. Unfortunately, while helping a friend's ailing child she catches diphtheria. Just before she passes on, she vows that she will love the teacher forever. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1943
This German only video tells the story of Paracelsus nefarious activities after quarantining the city of Basel from the plague and using unusual means of healing, saves a man. ~ All Movie Guide
- 1942
Produced in Germany in 1942, Submarinos Rumbo al Oeste (Submarines Heading Westward) had its Western Hemisphere premiere in neutral Argentina. The film almost didn't open due to violent anti-German demonstrations, but it finally earned distribution after the German government agreed to make several judicious cuts. Nothing more nor less than a Nazi propaganda effort, the film stresses the superiority and invulnerability of German sea power, but at the same time tries to assure its audience that a German submarine never, ever shells an enemy vessel unless it's absolutely necessary. Submarinos Rumbo al Oeste was staged, acted and photographed in the slick, glossy manner of a Hollywood war film, indicating that Joseph Goebbels knew that the best way to package his lies was to make them as visually attractive as possible. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ilse Werner, Josef Sieber, (more)
- 1939
Wasser Fur Canitoga (Water for Canitoga) is a duck-billed platypus of a film: a German-language western, filmed in Canada and designed as anti-British propaganda. Hans Albers, in 1939 Germany's most popular male actor, plays the rough-and-tumble hero. Falsely accused of sabotaging the system that pipes water to a remote Canadian outpost. The climax finds Albers struggling to save the subterranean piping machinery, at the cost of his own life. As he lies dying on the floor of the local saloon, his fellow miners strike up a soulful chorus of "Good-bye, Johnny!" This scene alone is worth the admission price of the slow-moving but undeniably compelling Wasser Fur Canitoga. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1936
Du bist Mein Gluck (You Are My Joy) was the third starring feature for the great Operatic tenor Beniamino Gigli. Gigli's imposing presence and splendid singing notwithstanding, the film is dominated by Isa Miranda in a dual role. After deserting her husband to shack up with Mario Monti (Gigli), Bianca Scarpa (Miranda) returns home years later to beg for custody of her child, only to be throw out into the street. Years later, the child has grown up into a beautiful young woman and an excellent dancer (Miranda plays both mother and daughter). Feeling guilty about causing so much family dissension, Monti tries to arrange for a reconciliation between Bianca and her daughter. The musical highlights in Du bist Mein Gluck feature such operatic luminaries as Hildegarde Ranczak, Maria Cornelius, and Ludwig Weber. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Beniamino Gigli, Isa Miranda, (more)
- 1936
Viktor de Kova plays Hans Werner, a clerk in his aunt's liquor store. His responsibilities really begin mounting up when Hans unofficially adopts cute little Lilly (Petra Unkel), the daughter of his late brother and sister-in-law. Our hero really becomes a hero when he saves Lilly from being victimized by greedy relatives. A goodly portion of the film takes place during an actual circus performance, to establish the fact that Lilly's doomed mother is an aerialist. Despite its somber overtones, Pappi is a comedy, replete with gratuitous slapstick and outrageous facial mugging. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Viktor de Kowa, Hilde Weissner, (more)
- 1935
The Gypsy Baron was based on the Johann Strauss operetta of the same name. Set in the early 19th century, the story concerns Sandor Barinkay (Adolf Wohlbreuck), the black-sheep son of a wealthy Hungarian family. Sandor returns home in the guise of a gypsy to reclaim his ancestral estate from an unscrupulous pig farmer (Fritz Kampers). He is also forced to choose between a marriage of convenience with haughty Arsena (Gina Falckenberg) and a more romantic union with gypsy girl Saffi (Hansi Knoteck). Leading man Adolf Wohlbreuck later changed his nom de screen to Anton Walbrook. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Anton Walbrook, Hansi Knoteck, (more)
