Victor Vicas (Director)

A Girl in a Pocket

A professor experimenting in suspended animation accidentally shrinks his dog and later, his female lab assistant, when she drinks the liquid by accident and shrinks to 3 inches tall. The professor keeps her in his pocket until he can find an antidote. Sometimes she's naked, too.

Release Date1957-11-06

Charactersd Town hall secretary

Vote Count3

No Way Back

A Russian army officer is haunted by the memory of a girl he met during the war.

Release Date1953-11-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd

Vote Count5

Deutscher Filmpreis

Release Date1951-01-01

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Les Brigades du Tigre

Release Date1974-12-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count36

Vote Count9

The Wayward Bus

Three strangers embark on a life-changing journey on a fateful bus ride. As the road presents challenges, each character faces his or her own shortcomings, not knowing where life will lead next.

Release Date1957-05-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count16

L'Étrange Monsieur Duvallier

Release Date1979-06-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

Jack and Jenny

Saleswoman Jenny is crazy about the painter Jack. But Jack does not want to marry, even though he loves Jenny passionately. So Jenny looks elsewhere to find the right man. She marries twice, but always ends up back with Jack and gives herself to him with no attachments. Will Jack and Jenny find true love? Of course!

Release Date1963-12-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

L'Homme d'Amsterdam

Release Date1976-04-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

Vote Count1

Johann Sebastian Bachs vergebliche Reise in den Ruhm

The last journey of Thomaskantor Johann Sebastian Bach leads from Leipzig to Potsdam. Already 60 years old, he hopes that an audition with the Prussian King Frederick II will not only bring him artistic recognition and renewed appreciation, but also an end to his grueling financial worries.

Release Date1980-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Count Five and Die

Dutch patriots, a U.S. officer and a British spy fool the Nazis with a fake Soho film company.

Release Date1957-12-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count8

Murder with Music

Night club singer Nelle Hill has many suitors an escaped convict, a piano player and a newspaper man. One is killed. With musical shorts such as “Murder in Swingtime,” “Black and Tan Fantasy,” “Symphony in Black,” and “Ain’t Misbehaving.”

Release Date1941-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count2

Double Destiny

A soldier fighting for France loses his memory and has a second career as a national leader, but in Germany.

Release Date1954-11-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Stop Train 349

Cold War drama about an East German man trying to escape to the West via a U.S. military train passing through the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany.

Release Date1963-06-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count4

Jons und Erdme

Adaptation of Hermann Sudermann's novel about the troubled relationship between the strong willed Erdme and her irascible husband Jons in the Lithunian moors.

Release Date1959-03-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Two Among Millions

Release Date1961-10-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

I'll Get Back to Kandara

One evening, professor André Barret sees the author of a murder in the darkness; cafe owner Cordelec is the victim. From then on, his suspicions fall on one of his students who had just arrived in his class, Bernard Cormiere.

Release Date1956-12-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

SOS - Gletscherpilot

Glacier pilot Hermann Geiger flies over a four-thousand-meter peak in the Valais Alps and observes a glacier collapse. The next day, three rope teams climb through this glacier to Dent Blanche. However, Dr. Gruber, accompanied by his wife, a young engineer named Gisler with his girlfriend Monica, two young men named Charly and Roby, mountain guide Perren, and the athletic Englishman Puckle get caught in a storm. Due to the weather conditions, Gruber slips and drags the other participants down with him. His wife, who had stayed behind in a hut, alerts the mountain rescue service. The storm initially prevents glacier pilot Geiger from taking action, but he then risks a breakneck landing to rescue the group.

Release Date1959-03-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Man with the Transplanted Brain

Professor Marcilly is a famed brain specialist who, following in-depth and extended research work, is now able to perform brain transplant surgery. One day, he finds himself in the presence of a young car accident victim for whom the only hope of survival would be a brain transplant. Marcilly, who has a heart condition and is terminally ill, decides to become the "donor". The operation is a success. But who is actually the patient discharged from the hospital: a young fellow with the brain of a young man or an old man in the body of a young one?

Release Date1972-03-29

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count1

A Tough Day

A strike has broken out in a big factory in the North of France. Two workers, Robert and Etienne, go through the experience in a different way. Etienne, who has worked there since the start, is still influenced by the time when workmen and their bosses found an agreement directly. Unlike him, his young friend believes in the power of labor unions. He even goes to Paris to attend special classes in trade unionism.

Release Date1952-03-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Master Over Life and Death

Barbara is married to Georg Bertram, a professor of medicine who once saved her father's life. Things go awry for the couple when she gives birth to a mentally defective child. For Georg, coldly clinical, euthanizing the infant is the only way out. He is about to commit the irreparable when Barbara manages to interrupt his fatal act. By mutual agreement, husband and wife decide that Barbara will go to Saint-Guénolé in Brittany, where she and their son will be cared for by Louise Kerbrec, Georg's former nurse, in the hypothetical hope that the boy's condition will improve. What they do not know yet is that Barbara will meet there another doctor, Daniel Karentis, much more sympathetic than Georg and also much handsomer.

Release Date1955-01-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Invisible Link

The invisible link that powers Austria’s industry, cities and farms is, of course, electric power. Ultimately that power means jobs for the nation’s many unemployed. Kaprun Dam, in the mountains north of Salzburg—Austria’s largest—and some 20 others will provide more electricity than ever before, thanks to Marshall Plan aid.

Release Date1950-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector