Hans Deppe Movies

Two inspiration sources appear clearly: contemporary American gangster movies and Alfred Döblin’s novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929).

A young man plans to emigrate to the United States with his fiancee but becomes extremely fearful about the ocean crossing due to a local...

Berlin, around 1900. Art student Hugo Großmann takes his work lightly and his pleasure seriously! A friend’s warnings do no good. He...

A few days before the planned wedding of the chief inheritor von Halleborg, he experiences a terrible blow: his beloved bride Julia has a riding...

High up in the mountains, a peasant family drags themselves through the towering granite blocks with all their possessions to make a new home for...

Nacht der Verwandlung (A Night of Change) stars Gustav Froelich as a globe-circling aviator, a character clearly based on America's Wiley Post. While...

The three musicians Hans, Otto and Paul have no work and propose becoming street musicians with the support of Grete, who lives in the same apartment...

A widowed landlady in East Prussia, who, despite his acquittal by the court, believes the forester to have murdered her husband, opposes her son's...

Freely adapted from Theodor Storm's novella of the same name.

Count Egge, a “special person” of noble birth, is rather conceited and has given his kids the old heave-ho, because they chose...