Albert Bassermann Movies

A penniless composer marries a young widow with a baby—even though he is in love with his brother's fiancée.

While staying with her aunt at a fashionable spa, Else receives an unexpected telegram from her mother, begging her to save her father from...

Loosely inspired from Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker who abandons his middle-classed life, his family,...

Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.

German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.

The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries.

Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff's passenger is an inventor has just...

The film focuses on the leadership of the Great Powers of Europe in the days leading up to the outbreak of the First World War.

The managers of a teak lumber camp in Burma compete for the affections of a beautiful American entertainer who gets stranded in Rangoon.

Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, has three adult children: Juan, who is virtuous and has a sweetheart who is a woman of the people, Lucrezia, who...

A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front.

Always the diplomat, Alex Hazen is slow to take sides in Europe of the 1920s and 1930s. Cassie Bowman wants him to be more decisive and leaves him in...

An American businessman returns from a hunting trip to find fascists have overrun the country in this propaganda film.

Bernard Lefrancois is a prosperous farmer on the River Marne, while his neighbor is impoverished. Lefrancois objects strongly to the romance between...

Aka Passport to Heaven. In Prussia shoemaker Voight needs a residence permit to get a job, but can only get a job if he already has a permit. He...

An Italian engineer who had made a strategically important invention to ward off enemy aircraft is killed in a robbery. As the plans have presumably...

Napoleon at Saint Helena (German: Napoleon auf Sankt Helena) is a 1929 German silent historical film directed by Lupu Pick and starring Werner...