The best Walter Franck’s movies

Walter Franck

Walter Franck

16/04/1896- 10/08/1961
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Walter Franck’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Walter Franck.

The Rothschilds

The Rothschilds
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 17/07/1940
  • Character: Herries
Nazi biography of the Rothschilds, a Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community during the Napoleonic era.

Bismarck

Bismarck
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/12/1940
  • Character: Napoleon III.
A biographical film of Otto von Bismarck, the Prime Minister of Prussia, and how he and his policies - including aggressive war - helped to unite Germany.

Kautschuk

Kautschuk
7.1/10
  • Genre: Adventure
  • Release: 01/11/1938
  • Character: Der Gouverneur von Para
About how the British broke the Brazilian monopoly on natural rubber. The storyline suggests a complex relation between adventure, military conquest and imperialism.

The Mountain Calls

The Mountain Calls
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/01/1938
  • Character: Staatsanwalt
The Italian mountaineer Carel wants to be the first man to stand on the top of the Matterhorn. Since the climb is very difficult, he agrees to try it together with the British mountaineer Whymper. But due to an intrigue this agreement is dropped and the two man try it on the same day with two different teams and then disaster strikes.

Alarm auf Station III

Alarm auf Station III
5/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 10/11/1939
  • Character: Dr. Talverson, Vorsitzender des Prohibitionsvereins

Die Jahre vergehen

Die Jahre vergehen
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/02/1945
The successful shipowner Georg Behrendsen and his wife Irene are coming from South America to Germany for business. While negotiating in the home of senator Kersten, the senator's son Wilhelm (Werner Fuetterer) is taking care of Irene Behrendsen. The two fall in love with each other and decide to marry after Irene's divorce from her husband. But the old senator forces his son to decide whether to marry Irene or to become head of the shipping company. Not to break the family tradition, Wilhelm decides against the marriage. Irene, full of hatred against the senator, goes back to her husband. 25 years later. The senator is still head of the shipping company, because Wilhelm was killed in the war. He concentrates his love now on his daughter Victoria and he can't refuse any wish of her. Some day she tells him that she has been falling in love with a young german guy from overseas called Peter Behrendsen, not knowing that he is the son of the women who hates the senator the most.

Eskapade

Eskapade
6.5/10

The Emperor of California

The Emperor of California
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 20/07/1936
  • Character: Castro - sein Adjutant
The film follows the life story of Johann Augustus Suter, the owner of Sutter's Mill, famous as the birthplace of the great California Gold Rush of 1848.

Master of the World

Master of the World
6.4/10
A German scientist designs and builds a machine that will do dangerous work instead of placing humans in jeopardy. But the machine itself turns out to have disastrous effects on the people involved.

Between Hamburg and Haiti

Between Hamburg and Haiti
5.8/10
  • Genre: AdventureDrama
  • Release: 29/11/1940
  • Character: Melchior Schlömpp
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Friedrich Schiller – Der Triumph eines Genies

Friedrich Schiller – Der Triumph eines Genies
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/11/1940
The young Schiller, whose heart and soul are writing and poetry, is forced into the military academy (the pride and joy of the Duke of Württemberg). Schiller is disgusted by the everyday routine of the military, always back and forth between breeding and drills. Conversation, conflict or even critique are discouraged – the oppression insufferable for the young rebel. Disgusted by the brutality, he writes his drama "The Bandit", which he would later publish anonymously. But following a frank conversation with the Duke, Schiller is dishonored and must leave the land.

K – Das Haus des Schweigens

K – Das Haus des Schweigens
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/03/1951

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