Henny Porten Movies

Based on an 1884 novel by Julius Stinde, it is a family chronicle set in late nineteenth century Berlin.

A blind patient and her doctor fall in love, but the doctor fears that she will no longer love him if her sight is restored.

A farmer's wife decides to take her children and leave her gambling addict husband.

An engaged woman discovers her fiancé has a four year old son. Pretending to take a cure she travels to the boy's foster-parents to make his...

Somewhere in Southern Bavaria Xaver wants to marry Gretel, but her father Kohlhiesel wants his elder daughter Liesel to marry first. The problem is,...

Carola has been running the family-owned circus alone since her husband’s death, but she suddenly finds herself at odds with her three adult...

The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors...

Although Cäcilie Angerapp is happily married to the merchant Arved Angerapp, she does not feel fulfilled by her life, which is defined by luxury...

A young academic decides to accept guardianship of the daughter of a late friend. Expecting her to be a young child, the household is shocked to find...

First feature film produced by the German pioneer Oskar Messter

A production company holds a public competition for film ideas. The winning letter tells of a young woman's lost love in the 1840's. It is, in fact,...

Although she is known as a patron of the arts, a graceful duchess nevertheless refuses her nephew to marry an enterprising actress in this German...