Knut Mahlke

The Flying Classroom (1954)

The third form of a boarding school and the students of a neighboring school do not get along. Each side dreams up the craziest pranks to defeat the other. And when one day the high school students go as far as stealing the Gymnasium students’ essays and even ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kurt Hoffmann
CAST:  Paul Dahlke  •  Heliane Bei  •  Paul Klinger  •  Peter Vogel

The third form of a boarding school and the students of a neighboring school do not get along. Each side dreams up the craziest pranks to defeat the other. And when one day the high school students go as far as stealing the Gymnasium students’ essays and even ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kurt Hoffmann
CAST:  Paul Dahlke  •  Heliane Bei  •  Paul Klinger  •  Peter Vogel

The Trapp Family in America (1958)

The von Trapp family are struggling to survive in America, where their performances of European church music are not popular with the audiences. Only when they start performing more upbeat Austrian folk songs and even some American numbers do they become a success ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Wolfgang Liebeneiner
CAST:  Ruth Leuwerik  •  Hans Holt  •  Josef Meinrad  •  Adrienne Gessner

The von Trapp family are struggling to survive in America, where their performances of European church music are not popular with the audiences. Only when they start performing more upbeat Austrian folk songs and even some American numbers do they become a success ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Wolfgang Liebeneiner
CAST:  Ruth Leuwerik  •  Hans Holt  •  Josef Meinrad  •  Adrienne Gessner

The Trapp Family (1956)

"The Trapp Family" is a true story based on the popular novel by the Baroness Von Trapp of Austria. The film was made in 1961, a few years before the other film based on the Trapp Family's life was released - a little movie named "The Sound of Music".  (more)

DIRECTION:  Wolfgang Liebeneiner
CAST:  Ruth Leuwerik  •  Hans Holt  •  Maria Holst  •  Josef Meinrad

"The Trapp Family" is a true story based on the popular novel by the Baroness Von Trapp of Austria. The film was made in 1961, a few years before the other film based on the Trapp Family's life was released - a little movie named "The Sound of Music".  (more)

DIRECTION:  Wolfgang Liebeneiner
CAST:  Ruth Leuwerik  •  Hans Holt  •  Maria Holst  •  Josef Meinrad