13 Films & TV Shows Set In Germany During The 1850s
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Buddenbrooks
🇩🇪 Germany The 1870s The 1860s The 1850s The 1840sMid-19th-century, Baltic Sea port city of Lubeck, Germany. Follows the fourth generation of the Buddenbrook mercantile family as Tony and Thomas reach the age of marriage. Fatefully impeded every step of the way, the Buddenbrooks struggle as economic hardship and personal defeats weigh down family relations.
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Beloved Clara
🇩🇪 Germany The 1850sA look at the lives of 19th-century composers Clara and Robert Schumann.
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Nosferatu the Vampyre
🇩🇪 Germany 🇷🇴 Romania The 1850sNosferatu… he who is doomed to wander alone in darkness — Jonathan Harker, a real estate agent, goes to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar. Once Jonathan is caught under his evil spell, Dracula travels to Wismar where he meets the beautiful Lucy, Jonathan's wife, while a plague spreads through the town, now ruled by death.
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Buddenbrooks
🇩🇪 Germany The 1850s The 1860s The 1840s The 1870sFirst part of two of the saga of the troubled Buddenbrook family and their business in mid 19th century Germany.
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Sissi: The Young Empress
🇦🇹 Austria 🇩🇪 Germany The 1850sSissi is now the empress of Austria and attempts to learn etiquette. While she is busy being empress she also has to deal with her difficult new mother-in-law, while the arch-duchess Sophie is trying to tell the emperor how to rule and also Sissi how to be a mother.
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Sissi
🇦🇹 Austria 🇩🇪 Germany The 1850sThe young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Néné to Austria where Néné will be wed to an emperor named Franz Joseph, Yet unexpectedly Franz runs into Sissi while out fishing and they fall in love.
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Song of Love
🇩🇪 Germany The 1850s The 1830s The 1840sA Love Story So Beautiful It Was Set to Music! — Composer Robert Schumann struggles to compose his symphonies while his loving wife Clara offers her support. Also helping the Schumanns is their lifelong friend, composer Johannes Brahms.
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A Dispatch from Reuters
England 🇧🇪 Belgium 🇫🇷 France 🇩🇪 Germany The 1860s The 1850s The 1840sGerman Julius Reuter (Edward G. Robinson) sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
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The King Steps Out
🇦🇹 Austria 🇩🇪 Germany The 1850sPrincess is destined to marry the Emperor, until her sister steps in.
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Valse royale
🇦🇹 Austria 🇩🇪 Germany The 1850sIn 1852, the young Austrian emperor Franz Joseph persuades his friend, Count Michel de Thalberg, to act as a go-between in his love affair with the Bavarian duchess Elisabeth. Not long after his arrival in Munch, Thalberg has an embarrassing encounter in a public garden with an attractive young woman. The innocent incident is misinterpreted by a passer-by who, recognising the woman as the youngest daughter of Ludwig Tomasini, a highly respected caterer, persuades her father that she should marry the man who flirted with her to avoid a scandal (FilmsdeFrance).
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The White Angel
England 🇩🇪 Germany The 1850sHer heart was too big for one man to possess! One world was too small to share all her love! — In mid-nineteenth century England the medical establishment does not recognize the value of skilled nurses, cleanliness, nutrition and kindness. Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly changes all of this.
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Königswalzer
🇩🇪 Germany The 1850sA love story based in Munich in 1852: An Austrian officer belonging to the nobility has the mission of ensuring the young Kaiser Franz Joseph doesn’t endanger his future marriage to Princess Elisabeth by his acquaintanceship with the daughters of a coffee-house owner.
