Rudolf Essek

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

A diligent office worker and a cheeky sales representative are tasked by their boss with reserving a first-class hotel room with a bathroom for a visiting Hamburg exporter and his wife. A misunderstanding leads to non-stop confusion, because the office worker is spending his first wedding anniversary with his wife in the rented hotel room.

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

The delightful Johann Strauss comic opera Die Fledermaus was mercilessly lampooned in this truly bizarre production. For starters, a framing device has been added: After appearing in 300 consecutive appearances of Fledermaus (which translates as The Bat) the lead tenor (Georg Alexander) imagines that he's seeing bats everywhere. Driven a bit over the edge by all this, he falls asleep and has a nightmare about the opera, with a group of non-singers cast in the leading roles. The original libretto about romantic assignations, political imprisonments and mistaken identity is burlesqued to the hilt: at one point, the hero finds out that his prison cell is surrounded by rubber tubes!

Movie - 1916, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

Identities are changed in the Austrian countryside. A simple woman does this to test the affections of a store manager, he too changes character several times and there are other locals who do this as well.

Movie - 1934, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

Vienna, 1753. Baron Neuhaus is flirting with two ladies-in-waiting, hoping to get a job at the imperial court. He succeeds, and the empress orders him to investigate the immoral conduct in the palace of which Neuhaus himself is the cause.

Movie - 1934, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

The political advisor to the French emperor Napoleon, and the Austrian emperor Franz I, arrange a marriage between Napoleon and the Austrian archduchess Marie-Luise in order to prevent another war.

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Aktienaufkäufer

Biopic about the Rothschilds, a Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community during the Napoleonic era.

Movie - 1936, 2h 15m • as Lord Palmerstone

After her Prime Minister Lord Melbourne arranges a marriage for her with the German Prince Albert, the young Queen Victoria decides to leave London and spend some time in Kent. While there she meets a handsome young German and falls in love, unaware that he is her intended husband Albert.

Movie - 1913, 2h 15m • as Martin Luther

The film depicts the early life of the reformer Martin Luther and was produced by the Berlin and Vienna-based production company Rubin-Film. The premiere took place on September 1, 1913. The showing of the film in Austria was banned because the film was likely to offend religious sensibilities. On April 20, 1921, following a complaint from the producer Báron, this decision was overturned by the film inspection authority with the restriction that the film “may not be shown in front of young people”.

Movie - 1934, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

Hotel tycoon Paulsen re-meets an old flame who mistakes him for a waiter. Paulsen's daughter Toni likes hotelier Reno and accepts to work for him as a waitress and chambermaid because she wants to be loved for herself, not her money.

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Lorenzo Perelli

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Movie - 1936, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

Before he became cult director Douglas Sirk, Detlef Sierck cut his teeth on such lavish European star vehicles as Das Hofkonzert (The Court Concert). Marta Eggerth is cast as Christine, a young singer who aspires to find out who her father was. Her odyssey brings her to the court of a mythical kingdom, where she is romanced by handsome lieutenant Walter (Johannes Heesters). He is warned not to lose his heart to a "commoner," but all turns out all right when King Serenissimus (Otto Tressler) turns out to be Christine's long-lost daddy. Hofkonzert was designed as a comeback for Marta Eggerth, whose star had eclipsed by the mid-1930s.

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

After the events of Der Tiger von Eschnapur, Maharadscha Chandra is ready to execute his well-planned vengeance, in which German architect Peter Fürbringer, his fiancée Irene and his assistant will have to fight for their lives amidst a revolt fueled by traitor Prinz Ramigani.

Movie - 1933, 2h 15m • as Reichert, Rechtsanwalt

A Bavarian baron has invited his three illegitimate children to come on a visit. Suddenly, happiness can be seen in this house only recently cut off from the rest of the world. The baron is happy. When two of the children have to leave because of their duties back home, only the daughter stays behind, determined to cure the baron of his quirks.

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

Melodrama about an entrepreneur and his family.

Movie - 1925, 2h 15m • as Vorsitzender

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Movie - 1933, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

Hans Steinherr will one day inherit the family steel-mill but prefers a living as a musician. He ends his relationship with ingenue peasant's daughter Hanne and ventures into the big city where he meets a famous singer.

Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • as Der Geschäftsführer der Hotelbar

In this spy drama set in a Hamburg hotel, a waiter saves important industrial papers belonging to a German contractor from being stolen by foreign crooks.

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

Millionaire Ambrosius Brown has been robbed in Chicago for the fifth time and is reported missing again shortly after being rescued. In reality, however, he is traveling to Europe with his friend Buddy Drops and his servant Washington. After twenty years in America, he now intends to spend his retirement on his estate in Mecklenburg.

Movie - 1936, 2h 15m • as Direktor Ribben

Michael Lutz and his fiancée Barbara want to spend their vacation on a quiet island in the Danube, hoping to finally have some time to themselves. And who do they run into there? None other than Mr. Bruckmann, Barbara's boss. He hadn't planned on ending up on the island at all; he only wanted to take a boat trip with his partner, Consul Hansens, and the latter's pretty daughter, Gwen. Bruckmann and Gwen are on the verge of falling in love, which the consul would find extremely pleasing. Now they're all stranded on the island together, without money, papers, or clothes.