Ilka Grüning Movies

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

Beyond the River, a Gemrna silent directed by Ludwig Czerny and starring Walter Janssen & Ada Svedin.

During World War I, two German men friends who emigrated to the US and become millionaires agree on most things, with one major difference: one has...

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...

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...

Escape from the Golden Dungeon is the second part of the two-part silent movie Christian Wahnschaffe.

On the surface a straightforward tale of the search for a buried treasure, the film is a textbook example of German expressionism, with the passions...

a silent movie by Heinz Paul

The daughter of a famous painter fleeing thieves who believe she knows where one of her father's original paintings is kept, flees and hides out at...

Drama set around a circus at Blackpool. A clown loves a young housekeeper and saves her from a fire caused by a jealous lion tamer.