Ilka Grüning Movies

Encomium to Larry Hart (1895-1943), seen through the fictive eyes of his song-writing partner, Richard Rodgers (1902-1979): from their first meeting,...

A young man succumbs to gambling fever.

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 prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.

In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their...

An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he's accused of robbery.

A British bomber crew, including Australian and American, is shot down over Germany during a bombing run. The five make their way across a perilous...

When he learns that a gangster has taken over his nightclub and murdered his partner, returning WWII hero Joe Miracle steals the money from the...

Five officer candidates fight to prove their mettle during training.

a silent movie by Heinz Paul

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...

An adaptation of the Gerhart Hauptmann play of the same name. A young farmer's daughter is used and abused by the men in her life.

When a German art dealer living in the US returns to his native country he finds himself attracted to Nazi propaganda.

Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.

Police battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.

The likeable and carefree Grand Duke of Abacco is in dire straits. There is no money left to service the State's debt; the main creditor is looking...

Lorenz Lubota is a city clerk with no direction in life. One day on his way to work he is run over by a woman driving a chariot and he is immediately...

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...

The title character, played by John Payne, is a ship's captain whose embittered behavior after losing his lady love seemingly leads to tragedy....