Hans Zesch-Ballot Movies

The Berlin lawyer Dr. Lessner (Karl Ludwig Diehl) is involved in a murder case. His wife, movie star Christa (Kitty Jantzen), allegedly had an affair...

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

In Bremen, a ship is launched, which was built by Thomas Holk. That evening, he gets to know the middle-aged widow Ada Rasmus, who flirts heavily...

Set on the Hungarian plains and in romantic Budapest, the film follows Rose Barsony’s spirited dancer-singer and Wolf Albach-Retty’s...

This is essentially a "Kraft durch Freude" propaganda film though the organization is never mentioned. A company's three day outing might very well...

Remake of the silent film of 1921: The lord of a castle disappears after the return of two feuding brothers from a noble family. Suspicion falls on...

A continuation of the film "Familie Buchholz": To Wilhelmine Buchholz, the concept of a marriage based on love is somewhat scary, although she hears...

An interfering mother plans husbands for her three daughters as they come of marriageable age. However she pays no attention to her daughters own...

After the death of his wife and mother of his 17-year-old daughter Gisela, Consul Brückmann is now in his second marriage to the beautiful...

A dancing girl succeeds in getting Napoleon, in 1808, to pardon her lover, a German artist who has drawn an unflattering caricature of the French...

The young lieutenant Hans Rudloff is engaged to the daughter of a councilor of commerce. However, he is in love with the flower arranger Anna. In...

Sabine Heitmann, the young boss for the shipping company Heitmann, has become friends with Michael, the First Officer and Helmsman of the ship, the...

Maria Halmborg is a widow. Her husband Erik - missing for years - is considered dead. Suddenly she learns that her husband allegedly lives in Rio and...

Azerbaijan, 1919. The British hope to secure control of the vast oil fields around Baku by launching a series of terrorist attacks on them. Hans...

Pauline Pittelkow, a widow in her prime, lives in Berlin with her daughter Olga and her younger, still unmarried sister Stine. No one takes offense...