Date of birth: 1884-12-14
Place of birth: Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Эрих Понто, Erich Johannes Bruno Ponto


1944-01-28
Writer Johannes Pfeiffer who goes undercover as a student in a high school after his friends told hi

1949-08-31
In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest o

1948-11-19

1953-02-08
The wealthy man Tobias Knopp becomes ever more lonely and quirky over the years. He had let himself

1957-04-16
Juliane Thomas is an ambitious but unemployed young writer. After breaking up with her lover she wor

1956-09-20

1936-06-26
After her husband dies, a German woman who gave up her infant for adoption to emigrate to America re

1953-08-31
A murder trial becomes a farce when a widow tries to convince the district attorney that she didn't

1955-10-14
Anna is a factory worker in East Germany, but her five-year-old son Jochen lives with his grandparen

1957-02-07
London, in 1730. Charly, Jim and Ben work hard, with the brave Maud, in a cotton mill to earn a few

1944-12-19
Achim and Vera are friends and live an uncomplicated and happy life .... that is, until they get int

1948-01-23
A screenwriter comes up with a story about an affair between a maid and her employer.

1954-09-02
The third form of a boarding school and the students of a neighboring school do not get along. Each

1940-03-05

1949-11-25
A young man and woman meet on a bridge, both about to commit suicide by jumping into the river, and

1950-01-15
In the face of two world wars, Professor Prätorius, a philanthropist and a surgeon, wants to extermi
1942-09-25
During a performance of Calderón's "The Judge of Zalamea," a young actor encounters his famous older
1949-12-18
The plot closely follows the Grimm fairy tale. Hans, a hard-working miller's apprentice, sets off on

1952-09-11
1952-12-18
A young man practices medicine without a licence.

1935-04-26
France in the 15th Century: The country is marked by the wars with England and internal power strugg

1939-06-30
The French ballet girl Janine, a gifted tap-dancer, dreams of a musical career in Paris. But first s

1952-02-29
Directed by Harald Braun and told from the perspective of Bertha von Suttner, the first female to re

1940-11-01
As the title "The Queen's Heart" suggests, this early German black and white version of Mary Queen o
1944-12-04

1951-11-30

1954-07-12
Young Olga Ahrendt almost succeeded in attempting suicide. She had thrown herself in front of a tram

1937-01-12
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson look into reports that a huge, vicious hound has killed Lord Charles

1943-02-09

1940-07-17
Biopic about the Rothschilds, a Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking

1939-08-17

1954-12-30
At the end of the war a disillusioned German exile returns home only to fall into the dark world of

1942-04-02
The marriage of the celebrated operetta diva Vilma and the chamber singer Peter has come to an end.

1940-01-02
This is the war and everybody in Germany should beware : the enemy is listening. One family in parti
1943-10-15

1942-08-25
Azerbaijan, 1919. The British hope to secure control of the vast oil fields around Baku by launching

1947-12-11
A group of people gathers back in the post-war ruins of a luxurious Munich hotel they inhabited at o
1952-11-18

1940-09-16
The daydreaming tailor Wenzel is fired from his job, because the fancy frock he was supposed to cut

1941-01-03
On November 11, 1918, the last day of the First World War , Lieutenant Colonel Klaus Olden desperate

1952-10-01
Historical adventure comedy film about the beer-brewing mendicant brothers in the mid-18 Century Bav

1945-02-16
A wealthy man murders his wife, then marries a young woman who becomes suspicious of him.
1938-09-22
A WWI veteran comes home and with a scientist's help opens an artificial silk factory later used for

1949-04-15
During the Biedermeier era, a young singer searches for her missing father. Remake of "Das Hofkonzer

1940-08-29
1938-01-04

1949-10-05
A man's life breaks down in pursuit of material success.
1940-10-22
1943-10-27
1941-11-21

1944-07-10
1945-01-01
1939-09-07
A retired rail official and his wife Amalie purchase a disused railroad wagon to convert it into a v
1950-01-13
The young fashion illustrator Jeanette meets the chief engineer Rudolf Siebert at an artists' festiv
1945-01-01

1931-01-23
The story is about Conrad Veidt as military attache in Turkey where he learns to know an English con

1949-02-27
Germany, 1914: The bourgeois austerity of the small, northern German town in which Ulyssa lives con

1938-10-01
Four graduates of an industrial design school team up and form a small business. The protagonist is

1941-08-29
In this film, the wife of a renowned doctor becomes ill with multiple sclerosis. Trying to spare her

1951-09-12

1956-03-28
Bettina Sanden, a solo dancer at the opera, falls ill with polio. The chances of a cure look rather
1940-07-23
Movie based on the novel by Christel Broehl-Delhaes

1938-12-22
World War I, Eastern Front. A special battery consisting of thirteen soldiers and one cannon success

1953-07-30
Emil, a technical draftsman, is hardworking, always helpful, and somewhat shy. Because of these trai
1951-03-16
1954-10-14
1941-10-10
A composer finds commercial success but has to confront difficulties in his private life.

1957-08-13
Biographic Movie of the German fighter ace, who was killed in a plane crash after over 150 kills in
1957-01-24
1942-05-12
Germany in the fall of 1918: Accompanied by the Archduke Karl Maria, Princess Henriette von Battens

1954-08-12

1934-12-21
In a harbor bazaar of the Pacific town of Kona, the young sailor Kiwe is offered a mysterious bottle
1931-01-08
Marooned on a rubber plantation in the East Indies, Leslie turns to Geoffrey for the love and divers

1948-12-15