List of German films of 1926

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This is a list of the most notable films produced in the Cinema of Germany in 1926.

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1926
Accommodations for Marriage | Georg Jacoby | Elga Brink, Georg Alexander | Comedy |
The Adventurers | Rudolf Walther-Fein | Harry Liedtke, Erna Morena | Adventure |
The Adventure of Mr. Philip Collins | Johannes Guter | Georg Alexander, Ossi Oswalda | Comedy |
Annemarie and Her Cavalryman | Erich Eriksen | Colette Brettel, Sig Arno | Silent |
The Armoured Vault | Lupu Pick | Ernst Reicher, Mary Nolan | Thriller |
The Bank Crash of Unter den Linden | Paul Merzbach | Hans Albers, Margarete Schlegel | Silent |
The Battle Against Berlin | Max Reichmann | Carlo Aldini, Jenny Jugo | Silent |
Battle of the Sexes | Heinrich Brandt [de; ru] | Aud Egede-Nissen, Paul Richter | Comedy |
The Black Pierrot | Harry Piel | Harry Piel, Dary Holm | Thriller |
The Blue Danube | Frederic Zelnik | Harry Liedtke, Lya Mara | Romance |
The Bohemian Dancer | Frederic Zelnik | Lya Mara, Harry Liedtke | Drama |
The Boxer's Bride | Johannes Guter | Xenia Desni, Willy Fritsch | Sports |
The Brothers Schellenberg | Karl Grune | Conrad Veidt, Lil Dagover | Drama |
Cab No. 13 | Michael Curtiz | Lili Damita, Jack Trevor | Drama |
The Captain from Köpenick | Siegfried Dessauer | Hermann Picha, Fritz Kampers | Comedy | All copies that could be found were ordered destroyed by Hitler
Chaste Susanne | Richard Eichberg | Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch | comedy |
Children of No Importance | Gerhard Lamprecht | Bernhard Goetzke, Margarete Kupfer | Drama |
The Circus of Life | Mario Bonnard | Marcella Albani, Vladimir Gajdarov | Silent |
Circus Romanelli | Georg Jacoby | Reinhold Schünzel, Claire Rommer | Comedy |
The Clever Fox | Conrad Wiene | Hans Brausewetter, Clementine Plessner | Comedy |
Countess Ironing-Maid | Constantin J. David | Ossi Oswalda, Curt Bois | Comedy |
Dagfin | Joe May | Paul Richter, Alfred Gerasch | Silent |
Darling, Count the Cash | Felix Basch | Sig Arno, Ossi Oswalda | Comedy |
Department Store Princess | Heinz Paul | Hella Moja, Hans Albers | Silent |
Derby | Max Reichmann, Joe May | Barbara von Annenkoff, Henry Stuart | Sports |
The Divorcée | Victor Janson, Rudolf Dworsky | Mady Christians, Marcella Albani | Silent |
The Eleven Schill Officers | Rudolf Meinert | Gustav Adolf Semler, Grete Reinwald | Historical |
Eternal Allegiance | Heinrich Brandt [de; ru] | Otto Gebühr, Claire Rommer | Silent |
Eyes Open, Harry! | Harry Piel | Harry Piel, Denise Legeay | Thriller |
Fadette | Frederic Zelnik | Lya Mara, Yvette Guilbert | Historical |
The Fallen | Rudolf Walther-Fein, Rudolf Dworsky | Asta Nielsen, William Dieterle | Drama |
False Shame | Rudolf Biebrach | Olaf Storm, Frida Richard | Drama |
Faust | F. W. Murnau | Gösta Ekman (senior), Emil Jannings | classic literature/drama | aka Faust - A German Folk Legend
Fedora | Jean Manoussi | Lee Parry, Anita Dorris | Silent |
The Fiddler of Florence | Paul Czinner | Elisabeth Bergner, Conrad Veidt | Comedy |
The Flames Lie | Carl Froelich | Ruth Weyher, Henny Porten | Drama |
The Flight in the Night | Amleto Palermi | Conrad Veidt, Robert Scholz | Silent |
Frauen, die den Weg verloren | Bruno Rahn | Ressel Orla, Frida Richard, Oskar Marion | Drama |
Fräulein Mama | Géza von Bolváry | Grete Reinwald, Walter Janssen, Ferdinand von Alten | Silent |
German Hearts on the German Rhine | Fred Sauer | Gyula Szőreghy, Hans Albers | Silent |
The Girl on a Swing | Felix Basch | Ossi Oswalda, Harry Liedtke | Comedy |
Give My Regards to the Blonde Child on the Rhine | Carl Boese | Walter Slezak, Hanni Reinwald, Frida Richard | Comedy |
The Golden Butterfly | Michael Curtiz | Lili Damita, Nils Asther | Silent | Co-production with Austria
The Good Reputation | Pierre Marodon | Lotte Neumann, Hans Mierendorff | Drama |
Grandstand for General Staff | Hans Otto, Erich Schönfelder | Alexander Roda Roda, Harry Liedtke, Olga Chekhova | Comedy |
The Great Duchess | Willi Wolff | Ellen Richter, Adolf Klein | Silent |
Gretchen Schubert | Karl Moos | Wilhelm Diegelmann, Hermann Picha | Silent |
The Grey House | Friedrich Feher | Magda Sonja, Erna Morena | Silent |
The Heart of a German Mother | Géza von Bolváry | Margarete Kupfer, Heinz Rühmann | Drama |
Hell of Love | Bruno Rahn | Vivian Gibson, Erich Kaiser-Titz, William Dieterle | Drama |
Her Husband's Wife | Felix Basch | Nils Asther, Lucy Doraine | Silent |
Herbstmanöver | Wolfgang Neff | Kurt Vespermann, Hanni Weisse, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski | Silent |
Herr Tartüff | F. W. Murnau | Emil Jannings | Drama | Adaptation of Molière's play
His Toughest Case | Fritz Wendhausen | Alexander Murski, Christa Tordy | Crime |
The Holy Mountain | Arnold Fanck | Leni Riefenstahl, Luis Trenker | Drama | One of many Bergfilme
The House of Lies | Lupu Pick | Werner Krauss, Lucie Höflich | Drama |
Hunted People | Nunzio Malasomma | Carlo Aldini, Maly Delschaft, Hans Albers | Adventure |
The Hunter of Fall | Franz Seitz | Grete Reinwald, William Dieterle | Drama |
I Liked Kissing Women | Bruno Rahn | Alfons Fryland, Elisabeth Pinajeff | Silent |
I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg | Arthur Bergen | Gertrud de Lalsky, Werner Fuetterer | Silent |
I Once Had a Comrade | Conrad Wiene | Erich Kaiser-Titz, Otz Tollen | Silent |
It's Easy to Become a Father | Erich Schönfelder | Lilian Harvey, Harry Halm | Comedy |
The King's Command | Kurt Blachy | Grete Reinwald, Fritz Alberti | Silent |
Kissing Is No Sin | Rudolf Walther-Fein, Rudolf Dworsky | Xenia Desni, Ellen Plessow | Silent |
Die Kleine und ihr Kavalier | Richard Löwenbein | Maly Delschaft, Hilde Jennings, Elisabeth Pinajeff | Silent |
Kubinke the Barber | Carl Boese | Werner Fuetterer, Erika Glässner | Comedy |
Lace | Holger-Madsen | Olaf Fønss, Elisabeth Pinajeff | Crime |
The Last Horse Carriage in Berlin | Carl Boese | Lupu Pick, Maly Delschaft | Comedy |
The Laughing Husband | Rudolf Walther-Fein, Rudolf Dworsky | Livio Pavanelli, Elisabeth Pinajeff, Hans Albers | Silent |
Little Inge and Her Three Fathers | Franz Osten | Dorothea Wieck, Oskar Marion | Comedy |
The Little Variety Star | Hanns Schwarz | Ossi Oswalda, Georg Alexander | Comedy |
Lives in Danger | Karl Gerhardt | Luciano Albertini, Ruth Weyher, Raimondo Van Riel | Adventure |
The Love of the Bajadere | Géza von Bolváry | Karl Falkenberg, Helene von Bolváry | Silent |
Love's Joys and Woes | Kurt Gerron | Charlotte Susa, Margarete Kupfer | Comedy |
Madame Wants No Children | Alexander Korda | María Corda, Harry Liedtke | Drama |
Mademoiselle Josette, My Woman | Gaston Ravel | Dolly Davis, Livio Pavanelli | Comedy | Co-production with France
Malice | Manfred Noa | Paul Wegener, Olga Chekhova | Silent |
The Man in the Fire | Erich Waschneck | Henry Stuart, Olga Chekhova | Silent |
The Man Without Sleep | Carl Boese | Harry Liedtke, Maly Delschaft | Silent |
Manon Lescaut | Arthur Robison | Lya De Putti, Vladimir Gajdarov | Drama |
Marriage Announcement | Fritz Kaufmann [de] | Fritz Kampers, Max Landa | Silent |
Marco's Greatest Gamble | Franz Seitz Sr. | Joe Stöckel, Maria Minzenti | Comedy |
The Master of Death | Hans Steinhoff | Hertha von Walther, Simone Vaudry | Silent |
Maytime | Willi Wolff | Adolf Klein, Ellen Richter | Romance |
Der Meineidbauer | Jacob Fleck, Luise Fleck | Eduard von Winterstein, Elisabeth Markus | Drama |
Michel Strogoff | Victor Tourjansky | Ivan Mozzhukhin, Nathalie Kovanko | Adventure | French-German co-production
The Mill at Sanssouci | Frederic Zelnik, Siegfried Philippi | Otto Gebühr, Jakob Tiedtke | Historical |
My Friend the Chauffeur | Erich Waschneck | Livio Pavanelli, Hans Albers | Silent |
Nanette Makes Everything | Carl Boese | Mady Christians, Georg Alexander | Comedy |
Nixchen | Kurt Blachy | Hans Albers, Olga Limburg | Silent |
One Does Not Play with Love | G. W. Pabst | Werner Krauss, Lili Damita | Drama |
The Ones Down There | Victor Janson | Aud Egede-Nissen, Walter Rilla | Silent |
Only a Dancing Girl | Olof Molander | Lil Dagover, Walter Janssen | Silent | Co-production with Sweden
Orphan of Lowood | Curtis Bernhardt | Evelyn Holt, Olaf Fønss | Drama |
Our Daily Bread | Constantin J. David | Fritz Kampers, Mary Nolan | Drama |
Our Emden | Louis Ralph | Fritz Greiner, John Mylong | War | Remade as a sound film Cruiser Emden in 1932
People to Each Other | Gerhard Lamprecht | Alfred Abel, Aud Egede-Nissen | Drama |
The Pink Diamond | Rochus Gliese | Xenia Desni, Rudolf Klein-Rogge | Comedy |
The Poacher | Johannes Meyer | Heinrich Schroth, Carl de Vogt | Drama |
The Pride of the Company | Georg Jacoby | Reinhold Schünzel, Georg H. Schnell | Comedy |
The Priest from Kirchfeld | Jacob Fleck, Luise Fleck | William Dieterle, Fritz Kampers | Silent |
The Prince and the Dancer | Richard Eichberg | Willy Fritsch, Hans Albers | Silent |
The Princess of the Riviera | Géza von Bolváry | Hans Junkermann, Ellen Kürti | Silent |
Princess Trulala | Erich Schönfelder, Richard Eichberg | Lilian Harvey, Dina Gralla | Comedy |
Professor Imhof | Fred Sauer | Albert Bassermann, Lee Parry | Drama |
The Queen of the Baths | Victor Janson | Mary Nolan, Walter Rilla | Comedy |
The Red Mouse | Rudolf Meinert | Aud Egede-Nissen, Paul Richter | Silent |
The Ride in the Sun | Georg Jacoby | Livio Pavanelli, Paul Heidemann | Silent |
Roses from the South | Carl Froelich | Henny Porten, Angelo Ferrari | Romance |
The Schimeck Family | Alfred Halm, Rudolf Dworsky | Livio Pavanelli, Olga Chekhova | Silent |
Schützenliesel | Rudolf Walther-Fein, Rudolf Dworsky | Xenia Desni, Livio Pavanelli | Comedy |
The Sea Cadet | Carl Boese | Walter Slezak, Gerd Briese | Silent |
The Secret of One Hour | Max Obal | Ernst Reicher, Helena Makowska | Crime |
The Secret of St. Pauli | Rolf Randolf | Maria Matray, Hanni Weisse | Silent |
Secrets of a Soul | G. W. Pabst | Werner Krauss, Ruth Weyher | Drama |
Secret Sinners | Franz Seitz Sr. | Dorothea Wieck, Mary Kid | Silent |
The Seventh Son | Franz Osten | Maria Minzenti, Ferdinand Martini | Drama |
Should We Be Silent? | Richard Oswald | Conrad Veidt, Walter Rilla | Drama |
A Sister of Six | Ragnar Hyltén-Cavallius | Willy Fritsch, Betty Balfour | Comedy |
The Son of Hannibal | Felix Basch | Liane Haid, Alfons Fryland | Silent |
The Song of Life | Arthur Bergen | Carl de Vogt, Angelo Ferrari | Silent |
State Attorney Jordan | Karl Gerhardt | Hans Mierendorff, Hedwig Pauly-Winterstein | Silent |
The Street of Forgetting | Heinz Paul | Hella Moja, Henry Stuart | Silent |
The Student of Prague | Henrik Galeen | Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss, Elizza La Porta | Drama / Horror | Based on the story by Hanns Heinz Ewers
Remake of the 1913 film The Student of Prague (1913 film)
Superfluous People | Aleksandr Razumny | Camilla von Hollay, Heinrich George | Drama |
The Sweet Girl | Manfred Noa | Mary Nolan, Paul Heidemann, Nils Asther | Silent |
Sword and Shield | Victor Janson, Rudolf Dworsky | Mady Christians, William Dieterle | Historical |
The Tales of Hermann | Kurt Stanke | Margarete Kupfer, Hermann Picha | Comedy |
Tea Time in the Ackerstrasse | Paul L. Stein | Reinhold Schünzel, Mary Nolan | Drama |
The Third Squadron | Carl Wilhelm | Fritz Spira, Eugen Burg | War |
Three Cuckoo Clocks | Lothar Mendes | Lillian Hall-Davis, Nina Vanna | Drama |
The Three Mannequins | Jaap Speyer | Hans Albers, Anton Pointner | Silent |
Torments of the Night | Curtis Bernhardt | Claire Rommer, William Dieterle | Drama |
Trude | Conrad Wiene | Olga Chekhova, Anny Ondra | Comedy |
The Trumpets are Blowing | Carl Boese | Bruno Kastner, Hugo Fischer-Köppe | Silent |
Two and a Lady | Alwin Neuß | Ágnes Esterházy, Bernhard Goetzke | Comedy |
The Uncle from the Provinces | Manfred Noa | Jakob Tiedtke, Margarete Kupfer | Silent |
Uneasy Money | Berthold Viertel | Mary Nolan, Oscar Homolka | Drama |
Unmarried Daughters | Carl Boese | Jenny Jugo, Charlotte Ander | Silent |
Vienna, How it Cries and Laughs | Rudolf Walther-Fein, Rudolf Dworsky | Fritz Greiner, Mady Christians | Silent |
The Violet Eater | Frederic Zelnik | Lil Dagover, Harry Liedtke | Comedy |
Die vom anderen Ufer | Arthur Bergen | Bruno Kastner, Maria Paudler, Colette Brettel | Silent |
Watch on the Rhine | Helene Lackner | Hans Mierendorff, Ernst Winar | Historical |
We Belong to the Imperial-Royal Infantry Regiment | Richard Oswald | Mary Kid, Paul Heidemann | Silent |
We'll Meet Again in the Heimat | Leo Mittler, Reinhold Schünzel | Reinhold Schünzel, Margot Landa | Silent |
When I Came Back | Richard Oswald | Liane Haid, Max Hansen | Silent |
When She Starts, Look Out | Carl Froelich | Henny Porten, Bruno Kastner | Comedy |
The White Geisha | Valdemar Andersen, Karl Heiland | La Jana, Peter Nielsen | Silent | Co-production with Denmark
The White Horse Inn | Richard Oswald | Liane Haid, Max Hansen | Comedy |
White Slave Traffic | Jaap Speyer | Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Erich Kaiser-Titz | Thriller |
Why Get a Divorce? | Manfred Noa | André Mattoni, Vivian Gibson | Comedy |
The Wiskottens | Arthur Bergen | Karl Platen, Harry Liedtke | Silent |
The Woman in Gold | Pierre Marodon | Lotte Neumann, Ernő Verebes | Silent |
The Woman's Crusade | Martin Berger | Conrad Veidt, Maly Delschaft | Drama |
Women and Banknotes | Fritz Kaufmann [de] | Ruth Weyher, Angelo Ferrari | Silent |
Women of Passion | Rolf Randolf, | Fern Andra, Fritz Spira | Silent |
The Wooing of Eve | Max Mack | Ossi Oswalda, Willy Fritsch | Comedy |
The World Wants To Be Deceived | Peter Paul Felner | Harry Liedtke, Georg Alexander | Comedy |
Wrath of the Seas | Manfred Noa | Bernhard Goetzke, Ágnes Esterházy, Nils Asther | War |
Young Blood | Manfred Noa | Lya De Putti, Walter Slezak | Drama |
The Young Man from the Ragtrade | Richard Löwenbein | Curt Bois, Maria Paudler | Comedy |

## Documentaries

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Auf Tierfang in Abessinien | Ernst Garden |  | documentary |
Aus der Waffenschmiede der SPD | Gertrud David |  | documentary |
Berliner Stilleben | László Moholy-Nagy |  | documentary |
Die Biene Maja und ihre Abenteuer | Waldemar Bonsels, Wolfram Junghans |  | documentary |
Das Blumenwunder | Max Reichmann |  | documentary |
Ein Freitag Abend | Gertrud David |  | documentary |
Schaffende Hände: Wassily Kandinsky in der Galerie Neumann-Nierendorf | Hans Cürlis |  | documentary |
Die Schwester vom Roten Kreuz - Ein Lebenslauf | Gertrud David |  | documentary |
Wie werde ich Mitglied im Konsumverein? | Gertrud David |  | documentary |

## Animation

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The Adventures of Prince Achmed | Lotte Reiniger |  | Animation / Fantasy | Oldest-surviving animated feature film IMDb
Der Arm | Hans Fischerkoesen |  | Animation |
Der Aufstieg | Walter Ruttmann, Julius Pinschwer |  | Animation |
Durch Schaden wird man klug | Arthur Kraska |  | Animation |
Raumlichtkunst | Oskar Fischinger |  | animation |
Rebus Film Nr. 4 | Paul Leni |  | animation |
Rebus Film Nr. 5 | Paul Leni |  | animation |
Rebus Film Nr. 6 | Paul Leni |  | animation |
Rebus Film Nr. 7 | Paul Leni |  | animation |
Rebus Film Nr. 8 | Paul Leni |  | animation |
In Schneekönigs Reich | Ewald Mathias Schumacher |  | Animation |
Spiel der Wellen | Walter Ruttmann, Lotte Lendesdorff |  | Animation |
Spirals | Oskar Fischinger |  | experimental |
Wambus Rettung | Georg Germroth |  | animation |

## References

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## External links

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* IMDB listing for German films made in 1926
* filmportal.de listing for films made in 1926

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