Werner Jacobs Movies
- 1971
Willi (Heinz Erhardt) is the president of a soccer club located in the provinces. The team is deeply in debt and may have to go out of business if something isn't done. He enlists the help of a photographer and his three lovely daughters, and a rich aunt from Brazil arranges for a famous soccer player to join the team. Clever publicity and the new star turn things around. This movie is the fourth in the popular "Willi" series to star Heinz Erhardt. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- 1971
This German comedy is basically a star vehicle for Heinze Erhardt, a comedian so deeply beloved by German audiences that the content of this film is of secondary importance to the fact that he appears in it. The character he plays is a very agreeable retired financier, a "soft touch," who is perpetually short of money. He decides to take a job to help keep up with his debts and chooses to be a salesman. He keeps at it despite being fired a few times, and things eventually turn out well. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- 1971
Movies about juvenile mayhem and schemes by children to outwit their parents and teachers are a popular staple of German filmmaking, and the director of this film, Werner Jacobs, practically invented the theme. All the action takes place in a girls' school. The girl who carries most of the film's focus, Trixi (Mascha Gonska), is stage-struck and has been thrown out of several schools prior to this, but after several minor scrapes she is induced to mend her ways and settle down. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- 1970
Willie (Heinz Erhardt) is a sympathetic tax collector nearing the end of his career and looking forward to retirement. He champions the cause of the needy and poor by losing the tax information that allows the government to collect the money. His boss is angry with Willie who is in danger of losing his pension over the incident. Pretending to be insane to escape punishment, his actions win the sympathies of a high ranking tax official. Willie's story endears him to the man and the general population and he is promoted to a high paying job in this delightful comedy. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Heinz Erhardt, Ralf Wolter, (more)
- 1969
This film serves as a vehicle for the popular 11-year-old child singer Heintje. He plays an orphan who lives with his aunt, a woman dizzy with the prospects of a new romance. He spends his time with an older friend who has a horse, until the boy is sent to an orphanage. Heintje runs away to Switzerland, hitchhiking his way through the Alps to find his friend. He is put in danger when he accidentally discovers a ring of smugglers. When his older friend proposes marriage to his true love, the couple makes plans to adopt the young boy. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Heinz Reincke, Gerlinde Locker, (more)
- 1969
Dr. Peter Bach (Peter Alexander) is sent to a city school when his small village school burns down. The liberal and progressive instructor soon gains a large following among the student. He alternately makes enemies among his fellow teachers who resent his methods. Heintje, one of Germany's most popular child singers, plays his nephew Jan. The students play tricks on the teachers but leave Bach alone in this musical that features the singing of both Heintje and Alexander. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Peter Alexander, Hansi Kraus, (more)
- 1969
This situation comedy finds a television reporter posing as a teacher in order to get a story on the younger generation. He falls for the pretty sister of one of his students, the daughter of a wealthy and influential pillar of the community who happens to hate teachers. The report deals with the fallout from daddy dearest and stuffy administrators in this continuation of the film, directed by Werner Jacobs, that often pokes fun at the educational system. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Peter Alexander, Hansi Kraus, (more)
- 1968
A group of children play a game on their island home of Ruegen in the Baltic Sea. They revise an ancient heathen ritual one cold March day by standing in the frigid water. The one who lasts the longest in the icy cold will be referred to as the king of Kummerow. They befriend a poor shepherd who is something of a social outcast, and the group makes fun of a pompous preacher and the mean, miserly miller who tries to drive their shepherd friend out of town. The children rejoice when their nemesis the miller is hauled off to jail to pay for his past crimes in this engaging, heartwarming story. West German producer Walter Koppel used an East German crew, taking advantage of a recently developed color process called Orwocolor. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Paul Dahlke, Ralf Wolter, (more)
Based on an Edgar Wallace murder mystery this chiller centers on a Scotland Yard investigation of a series of puzzling deaths plaguing a traveling circus and the hunt for loot stolen from an armored car robbery. Suspects include the mask-wearing and disfigured lion tamer, a vengeful ringmaster, an insanely jealous knife-thrower, and a blackmailing dwarf called "Mr. Big." The film is also known as Circus of Fear. A German version was shot simultaneously with Psycho-Circus but used a different director. Though available in color in Great Britain, most of the American copies of the film are in black-and-white. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Christopher Lee, Leo Genn, (more)
- 1965
German director Werner Jacobs 1965 drama Heidi stars Eva Maria Singhammer in the title role of a young girl who happily resides in a quaint mountain chalet with her kindly grandfather (Gustav Knuth). When Heidi is taken by her aunt to live in Frankfort and help Klara (Gertraude Mittermayr), a wealthy man's crippled daughter, she finds herself under the constant watchful eye of a cold and aloof governess and grows to miss her grandfather terribly. Fortunately, as Heidi works to raise Klara's spirits, the two form a strong bond with one another. Adapted from the novel by Johanna Spyri, this is just one of countless filmed versions of the tale. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Eva Maria Singhammer, Gertraud Mittermayr, (more)
- 1964
Connie Froboess plays the daughter of a millionaire who is a kleptomaniac in this screwball comedy. Her fiance (Peter Alexander) gets himself into many troublesome situations trying to cover up for his lover's larceny. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
