Date of birth: 1896-07-31
Place of birth: Hohenau an der March, Austria-Hungary
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Оскар Зима


1932-05-12
A series of stupid coincidences causes the young Munich painter Paul to convert his uncle's castle i

1963-10-11
Things are hectic at the "Black and White Horse Inn" on Lake Königssee. Cordula, the young owner of

1953-09-24
1956-06-06

1954-01-01

1935-06-04
Endstation offers the American viewer tantalizing glimpses of busy, bustling mid-1930s Vienna. Other

1930-10-13
Also known as Darling of the Gods, this was Emil Jannings' second talkie appearance. Jannings stars

1934-09-14

1937-08-11
An official justice assistant supposes behind a letter which falls to him by chance in the hands, a

1935-01-17
In Vienna of 1913 a young woman coming from vaudeville theatre circles stands before the wedding wit

1931-01-29
An episode in the life of the Austrian composer Franz Schubert, who wrote the most beautiful love so

1965-11-30

1929-04-29
After a chance meeting at a train station, Henry and Stascha, unhappy with their circumstances, are

1962-04-26
Graf Bobby and Baron Mucki founded the detective bureau Pfiff and Greif to finally make money. Short

1959-05-14
Peter schießt den Vogel ab is a German film comedy first released in 1959.

1959-02-05
The multi-millionaire John Underhower travels from New York to Bavaria, where he’s bought a castle.

1934-02-13
The great Dr. Pfeiffer plays the little Primaner Pfeiffer. As the successful playwright Dr. Hans Pfe

1930-06-12
An engaged woman discovers her fiancé has a four year old son. Pretending to take a cure she travels

1959-12-03
Musician Peter Karmann, whose main profession is teaching Asian languages, goes on a grand tour of A

1933-03-17
A musical comedy centering around the competitors in the Golden Saxophone competition.

1936-09-19
After completing work on the British musical Invitation to the Waltz, Lillian Harvey returned to her

1962-02-02
Dr. Gabriel Eisenstein, legal counsel at Arabayam & Co., is serving an eight-day sentence in the Gri

1933-11-03
Eva goes to Budapest to visit her friend Tini's wedding but as soon as she arrives, the husband-to-b

1958-12-25
Together with her uncle and waiter Otto, young Renate runs a guesthouse high above the Rhine, which

1961-12-20
A music comedy by Franz Marischka.
1957-11-22

1957-08-01
Maria Thaler, the recently widowed landlady of an inn in the picturesque Weineck in the Wachau regio

1955-11-21
Pseudonym Dr. Falke follows his wife through disguises and deceptions in postwar Vienna.

1956-02-16

1952-11-03

1953-07-23
1943-12-09

1954-02-05
In two fictional states bureaucracy and political intrigue provoke social unrest. Beppo learns that

1954-08-03
In Franz Joseph I's Vienna, Captain Eichfeld publishes a witty satire on imperial Austrian army abus

1955-02-11

1955-12-19
Congress of Vienna, 1815: In order to lure certain monarchs away from the conference, the Austrians

1955-12-21
Robert, Peter and Fritz are the best of friends ... and hopelessly broke. But they don't let that st

1956-12-21
The proud grandfather, retired General Count Hardberg, had actually already announced to his comrade

1961-01-19
Hermann König, owner of an ice palace, wants to make his niece Inge a star. Inge, on the other hand,

1961-09-01

1961-05-08
The actors Heinz Doll, Hans Stiegler and Werner Mack have failed to look after the end of the last s

1962-06-21

1963-02-12
Out of necessity, Gunther Philipp and his male colleagues put on women's clothes again and cause a c

1954-12-31
An engineer, a musician, and a salesman are heading off on summer vacation in an old VW and a rented

1959-09-23
Peter Keller is hired as a butler by the wealthy Pirkner couple to teach them good manners, which le

1937-01-01
René and his two artist friends lead a meager but careless life in a Parisian small apartment, their

1955-07-20

1955-12-20
Since the capable landlady Maria bears a striking resemblance to the ruler of a miniature state, she

1956-09-07

1951-09-14
Two out of work musicians put on drag to get work in an all girl band. Inevitable comical romantic c

1952-11-27
1952-10-08

1952-06-22

1952-04-21

1953-08-20

1955-07-07
Germany in 1947. After the Second World War, revue stars Alice and Ellen meet up again with their hu

1962-12-21

1962-08-02

1930-08-11
A psychological drama based on the popular Jekyll and Hyde theme involving a strict legal official.

1953-10-01
Postman Titus Müller returns from his daily rounds with a letter that will change the course of his

1941-11-25

1930-12-15
The young wife of a rich old husband is prevented of a fling by a gentleman-burglar, who falls in lo

1952-03-27
Dr. Hartwig has settled in a small town as a doctor. One day the magical Ursel Daxenmeyer appears in

1956-08-02

1932-02-06
The fast-driving daughter of a car manufacturer keeps Berlin's most pricey lawyer busy as she keeps

1952-11-10

1952-05-26

1951-08-09
The action is relocated to occupied Athens after the Peloponnesian War (404 BC), where Mr. S. (= Soc

1941-04-17

1938-03-31
According to his last will, the rich American uncle of vacuum cleaner salesman Peter Pett only leave

1937-12-17
In the fantasy state of Olivia, the robber chief Gasparone is up to all sorts of mischief. But Prefe

1951-11-14
After the end of World War II Lüder Lüdersen, the former owner of a feudal estate in the East, and h

1956-06-12
Anny arrives in Munich to start a career as an actress, but soon ends up without money and job, slee

1934-09-04
A young man of property is engaged to two women at once.

1938-11-15
An operetta directed by Herbert Maisch.

1956-05-03
Agathe Zausel doesn't have it easy. Not only could her doll factory be running better, but her sons-

1947-01-17

1962-11-30
When the Lutheran pastor Roland retires, the young priest Roll shall replace him. He plays the trump

1932-10-25
The street urchin Scampolo (which means, "A Nothing"), who sleeps at night in a telephone booth and

1934-09-05
Germany under Napoleon. Johanna is travelling by stagecoach when one of its occupants, Major Korfes,

1937-08-02
William MacPhab loses seven-pounds in the stock market and decides to slap the man who was responsib

1966-11-25

1940-08-23
Film about the fictitious adventures of Franz Freiherr von Trenck, who lived during the times of emp

1937-01-15
Opera singer Maria Seydlitz has just left her fiancé because he put her between the choice of husban

1931-04-19
When a prostitute is murdered in a cheap Berlin boarding house, an investigating judge suspects that

1936-07-09

1943-10-05
The young ice skating talent, Liesl, lands a part in a new Revue at the Palast Theatre simply becaus

1940-08-08
A nostalgic story about life in and around a classic Vienna coffee house. The film is set in Imperi

1949-01-28

1958-04-11
A comedy directed by Hermann Kugelstadt.

1967-01-02
The literal English translation of the German-titled film here is "The Hostess of the Lahn." Suzanne

1954-10-05

1930-02-21
Prevented from wedding a postman's daughter (her father prefers she marry a farmer) a Tyrol schoolte

1932-08-18
Gottfried Jonathan, a small civil servant, lives as a lodger and is roommates with the blonde Käthe.

1933-08-04
The stenotypist Margit is supposed to take 3,000 Marks to the bank for her boss, Mr. Plaumann, but s

1934-09-27
Aimless Bohemians are encouraged to find their salvation in Arbeit (Work) in this propagandistic Naz
1934-08-15

1935-09-19
Identities are changed in the Austrian countryside. A simple woman does this to test the affections

1935-01-25
A German who has been away too long in America and has lost all of his money needs to prove himself
1935-08-21

1936-01-24
Parisians Josette and Pierre are a happy couple, but also a completely broke one. An absurd chain of

1937-02-19

1955-08-23

1934-01-03

1934-09-20

1958-01-16
Unhappy accountant Karl has a crush on Eva who seems to prefer dates with execs. But real trouble en

1958-09-19
In the Vienna of the Biedermeier era, the young Carl makes a delicate wager with two officers: If he

1937-06-09
The story is one of the classic operetta stories with a young princess destined to marry a king whom
1942-12-20
A big explosion in a pulp mill causes a lot of damage. The police suspect a crime and put up a 5,00

1936-11-26
In a remote village in Southern Bavaria, hostilities run rampant between a farmer and a luxury hotel

1940-06-16
The Hungarian noble Nikki von Kormendy is traveling incognito as a blind passenger on the Danube fer

1937-05-26
Old Meiseken, a gingerbread baker, has been dead for three years, but his bosses don’t know that. T

1962-08-12
1953-01-22
1956-03-08

1942-08-27

1931-04-23
Riccardo and his troupe travel around the world performing musical and dance numbers in vaudevillian

1932-08-18

1952-08-27

1936-12-30

1932-04-21
The two aspiring actresses Jeanette and Mimi are waiting for their big chance. But the real breakth

1938-10-20

1935-10-13
Rosika, a girl from Genoa, fled her innkeeper stepfather after he tried to abuse her. She finds refu

1938-09-05

1934-08-29

1941-02-27
There’s excitement in St. Johann, when the lawyer and notary Dr. Junhnickel from Vienna arrives and
1944-01-31
A rookie detective’s first case is to observe an engineer, but she behaves so clumsily in her job, t

1957-12-19
In the made-up country of Alanien, King Alexander I has been overthrown while abroad. Now, he's in V
1958-01-10
1941-03-21
Nazi propaganda film chronicling the plight of Germans caught by the outbreak of war in 1939 and the

1955-09-23
During the closing stages of the Second World War, a bureaucratic mistake leads to a German officer
1951-01-26

1956-05-16

1931-03-06
A dance teacher helps his ten well-bred student sisters when they leave home as a protest against th

1932-04-13
Peter Franke owns Supraphon record company, which has one main competitor in Lyraphon. As a commerci

1950-10-23
1963-12-23

1939-10-15

1944-11-10
The emergency braking of the Orient Express causes chaos. When the lights are switched back on, lawy

1936-11-27

1952-08-28

1935-12-21
A man comes back from America after years to find his reputation ruined.

1943-04-16

1961-07-05
Instead of attending seminars and lectures at the University of World Trade, Peter Baumann prefers t

1960-10-19

1953-10-01

1938-08-25
1963-05-21

1934-11-10
Viktor Schott, daredevil and womanizer, is charged by his father, a jeweler, to go to Istanbul and p

1950-12-25

1957-12-20

1935-05-30
1935-09-22
A love story based in Munich in 1852: An Austrian officer belonging to the nobility has the mission

1936-07-16
After serving a prison sentence for no fault of her own, café violinist Helene seeks out her twin si

1939-10-12
Alois, Wendelin, Schani and Franz operate an auto repair shop in Vienna. One evening, Alois fishes

1944-03-09
1951-03-24
Archduke Johann, whose liberal leanings and bourgeois lifestyle have brought him into disfavor with
1948-08-21
1940-05-31
1956-07-26
1957-08-07
1959-01-15

1930-08-27

1932-05-05
A scullery maid manages to con her way into being adopted by a wealthy factory owner and frees his n

1935-02-01

1960-10-13
Scammers in Bundeswehr uniforms fool a future garrison town.
1932-01-20
A GIRL YOU DON'T FORGET can be thought of as a backstage musical that treats the whole world as back

1951-02-10
A group of talented young people are dismissed from an ice dancing troupe as a result of the intrigu
1956-09-13

1961-07-27
While on vacation, the young, Benedictine monk Markus runs into temptation in the form of his childh

1953-05-06

1930-03-27

1951-01-11

1956-11-29
The renowned Viennese artist Stefan Helmers spends the summer in a mountain village where he has bee

1933-01-17

1942-03-26
The unscrupulous dealer Haslinger has paid off a debt note worth 1000 Mark from the peasant Kreithof

1944-01-01

1949-01-07

1935-11-22

1963-02-22
The head of a fashion school spots a girl on television with exactly the angelic face he needs for o

1961-01-06
This previously unknown 37-minute film shows a Heinz Erhardt in top form. The main actor, Vogelsand
1943-09-23

1932-08-17
Helene has agreed to marry a man that she isn't in love with. On the day of her wedding her cousin a

1932-04-14
Three brothers lead the life of bachelors and their rent is overdue. The landlord who also happens t

1944-07-12

1955-11-17
When seminarian Martin Rufmann arrives in St. Eustachen, idyllically located in the Carinthian mount

1955-06-15

1933-07-04
1935-03-22

1951-12-05
A formerly unsuccessful musician comes back to his homeland in Carinthia as a famous composer via Br

1954-08-30

1952-02-29

1951-08-30

1962-03-22
Oskar Schnabel is a wholesaler of fruits from the Arabian region. One day his oriental trading partn
1967-07-08
1956-05-09
Three young men working at a filling station fall in love with the same woman.
1966-03-17

1956-12-21
Through a cleverly deceptive maneuver, a theater ensemble attempts to prevent the sale of its small

1940-12-19

1942-10-09
After all the mess, Kersten takes his loyal servant back in. Paul's first job is to deposit a large

1957-05-23

1961-12-01
1930-01-02

1931-04-04
In this comedy, a civilian singer of opera is obliged to fulfill his duty and perform six weeks of m

1931-11-10
German-Italian crime drama with a racing milieu: The International criminal, "The Paw", who kills hi
1945-01-01

1943-03-18
1941-10-17
After an Austrian home guard raids a group of pro Nazi mountain folk, Barbara and her husband ,part

1951-11-16
1957-06-20
1937-10-02
The Parisian restaurant "At the Oyster King's" is looking for a new waitress, whose job would be to

1928-09-24

1934-02-01
A German-language film loosely based on the 1883 operetta Eine Nacht in Venedig (A Night in Venice)

1943-01-15

1938-09-14
A reckless young woman has her driving license withdrawn, drives home anyway and gets involved in a
1951-05-25
1957-01-25

1931-12-30
When the master and mistress of a household are away, and the chambermaid's father visits, she prete

1931-03-19
When both husband and wife find romance outside their marriage, it's a shock to everyone. Robert and
1944-12-05

1934-03-13
Film by Stemmle.
1933-10-08
Film by Behrendt.

1934-04-19

1933-01-04
Detective Hans Braumüller is trying to untange the conspiracy behind a bank robbery.

1930-02-21
A man unknowingly falls madly in love with the fiancé of a close friend who has twice saved his life
1967-01-20

1930-04-18
Toni Lechner, innkeeper at the small Tirolese village of Heiligenblut, sings in church and is happy

1951-04-30
1932-08-16

1942-04-17
Uncle Ludwig’s childless estate hinges on his nephews: Peter studies agriculture and is engaged to I

1929-08-01
Based on a story by Michel Linsky, "Adieu, Mascotte" revolves around an artist's model named Mascott
1929-08-07
1931-01-16

1933-10-13
In this French set comedy, five million francs change hands one weekend between a man pretending to

1931-12-25
Film by Karel Lamac.

1936-07-03
Brothers Grimm adaptation

1931-04-09
Weimar era screwball comedy about a floor model who is required to go out evenings to escort VIPs wh

1926-12-25

1934-12-21
In a harbor bazaar of the Pacific town of Kona, the young sailor Kiwe is offered a mysterious bottle
1922-03-24
1938-12-05