Ilka Grüning Movies

Five officer candidates fight to prove their mettle during training.

During World War I, two German men friends who emigrated to the US and become millionaires agree on most things, with one major difference: one has...

Jacques Lantier, the "human beast" of the title, has a hereditary madness and has several times in his life wanted to murder women. At the beginning...

A feature-length jewish joke: The heavily indebted Sami Bambus fakes his death, so that his debts are taken over by the greedy heirs, led by the...

In 1863, having escaped from a rock-quarry prison in Salt Lake, six inmates led by convicted murderer Pete Black take over a small wagon train headed...

After the death of his parents, Anton pursues a career at the Schröter trading house in Breslau. He meets Sabine, the boss's sister, befriends...

On the surface a straightforward tale of the search for a buried treasure, the film is a textbook example of German expressionism, with the passions...

About a deceptive bourgeois couple that blends their acquaintances into their dubious business.

A young maid from the country looses her job as maid in k.u.k. Budapest, when she stays out too long with her beau, a soldier, who's saving money to...

Escape from the Golden Dungeon is the second part of the two-part silent movie Christian Wahnschaffe.

In his film version, Curt Goetz shifts the focus away from the poetic output towards the young Friedrich Schiller himself: on the misery of his soul...

Drama set around a circus at Blackpool. A clown loves a young housekeeper and saves her from a fire caused by a jealous lion tamer.