CURD JÜRGENS' BEST FILMS

A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with Maria, the aristocratic opera manager, end in abrupt firing in spite of a mutual attraction. He is quickly engaged by another theatre and will become famous for his lavish stage productions and fine acting of operettas, which start their golden age with Suppé and Strauss.

The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.

A film relating to the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. [This is from the US copyright record, which is public domain.]

During WWII an American destroyer discovers a German U-boat, and in the ensuing duel the American captain must draw upon all his experience to defeat the equally experienced German commander.

A long time-span of Austrian history (from the late 19th century to the years after world war II) is reflected in the ups and downs of a family of piano-makers in Vienna.

While her husband is held as a prisoner of war, a woman has become a doctor. When he is finally released he is unable to resume his former career, putting a strain on their marriage.

During WW2, German general Harry Harras is a test pilot and chief engineer for the Luftwaffe but his contempt for the Nazis and sabotage at the aircraft plant land him in hot water with the Gestapo.

At midnight in the museum of transportation, the spirits of different conveyances throughout time gather to welcome a new member. The spirit of salon car E 417 tells tales of his long history involving romances and intrigues. He knows the secrets of princes and vagabonds, of baronesses and street girls. In particular, he knows the story of that very museum's tour guide and the secret the man carries with him.

A tenacious British woman becomes a missionary and runs an inn for travelling merchants in China during the Japanese invasion and the tumultuous years leading up to the Second World War.

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.

World War II drama about the 1943 battle around the Neretva River between Axis forces and Yugoslav partisan units.

A famed composer has to prove his innocence, when his wife who has mysteriously disappeared is shot one day on the street.

James Bond investigates the hijacking of British and Russian submarines carrying nuclear warheads, with the help of a K.G.B. agent whose lover he killed.

In North Africa Dr. Walter is a very skilled surgeon but lives at a distance from the hospital. In the evening a husband and his sick wife come to his private home from far away. He tells them to go to the hospital. The wife dies during the operation. The other doctors think that Walter might have saved her. Shortly afterward a man asks Walter to come to a village to treat a very sick man. Walter goes thither in his car. The local habitants do not allow him to apply Western medical techniques, all tyres of his car are stolen, and he sees husband in this village. Walter tells him that his wife would not have died if he had timely taken her to a doctor. Walter buys a lot of coca-cola and starts walking home on his feet. He refuses husband's offer to show him a shortcut. But thrice he finds husband sitting at the road much ahead of him. Then he accepts husband's guidance = misguidance. When they have been without water for many days and Walter wishes he was dead, he wounds husband with a knife. Husband is sure to die within 24 hours without medical treatment. Then husband says that inhabited areas are found in a quite different direction. Walter starts in this direction, not followed by husband.

Carl Michael Ziehrer is a young composer who tries to make his way in a Strauss devoted Vienna. When his first opportunity arrives he is encouraged by Mitzi and two of her sisters. He in turn presents them with a waltz, "Wiener Mädeln" (Viennese girls). Then he meets Klara, the eldest sister, and the waltz's lyrics are born. But Klara has other interests. Colourful Austrian operette with Ziehrer waltzes and marches.

During his divorce proceedings famous composer/bandleader Robert needs to live off the grid and switches identities with his friend George, a barkeeper. But his new flame, Maria, learns that George has a wife and two kids.

In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel as a prelude to a possible Axis invasion of the U.K.

Jacobowsky, a refugee, and Prokoszny, a Polish colonel, flee Nazis despite conflicting views. Vying for a woman's affection, they learn to respect each other while outwitting pursuers.

Three crooks come out of jail on probation and, taking advantage of the economic boom in Germany, they continue their shady business quite legally this time.