
Birthday:
09-17-1883
Deathday:
02-21-1971 (87 years)
Birthplace:
Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
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Nora
event1923
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Adaptation of A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen.
Phantom
Act like Wigottschinski
event1922 star_border 6.8
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Lorenz Lubota is a city clerk with no direction in life. One day on his way to work he is run over by a woman driving a chariot and he is immediately infatuated with her.
Unentschuldigte Stunde
Act like Dr. Karl Henning - Professor
event1937 star_border 5
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When the schoolgirl Kate defends her friend, she is expelled from school. To conceal the incident from her parents, she positions herself ill. Promptly she falls in love with the treating doctor who cures her sudden illness not only, but marries his patient also immediately. But Kate soon bores the life of a doctor's wife. So she decides to secretly catch her high school.
Vienna Girls
Act like Hofrat Munk
event1949 star_border 6
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Begun in Austria in 1944/45, finished and released in 1949, this is a biography of the minor Austrian composer Carl Michael Ziehrer, who overcomes hypersensitivity in competitive situations which leads initially to failures in both career and romance.
The Street
Act like The pimp
event1923 star_border 6.9
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The movie follows two distinct plot lines until the two eventually merge: the first is that of the bored middle-aged man seeking a departure from monotony in his life; the second is that of the blind man and the little boy, his grandson, who are interdependent. None of the characters have been given names and are therefore referred to only by description. The city is an expressionistic nightmare, a dangerous and chaotic place.
Eine Frau die weiß, was sie will
Act like Erik Mattisson
event1934
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Woman concert singer seeks to connect with her adult daughter, by her former marriage to a staid industrialist who has kept the two apart since the daughter was a small child, and gets inadvertent help from the industrialist's fired employee who has fallen in love with the girl.
Four Around the Woman
Act like Werner Krafft / William Krafft
event1921 star_border 5.8
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Harry Yquem buys his beloved wife some jewelry in a place where underworld middlemen trade in fake and stolen goods. By chance, he spots a man with whom his wife had an affair in the past.
Dreaming Lips
Act like Peter
event1932
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The young Gaby is happily married to the musician Peter but cannot ignore the impression that his friend Michael, a violin virtuoso, makes on her. Even when Peter falls seriously ill, she cannot forget her love for Michael. Torn between the two men, Gaby sees only one way out...
Das Opfer
event1918
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Maria, an accountant at a factory, falls for Rudolph, who has his eyes set on the factory owner's daughter.
Poor as a Church Mouse
Act like Baron Thomas von Ullrich
event1931 star_border 5.5
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Comedy about an ambitious woman who starts working at a bank.
Playing with fire
Act like Der Dichter Carlo Spini
event1921
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A method actress likes living out the roles she is playing in real life. To prepare for her new play, she enters the criminal underworld and ends up being implicated in a burglary of a Duke who is one of her suitors.
The film was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. The film received a generally positive reception from critics, although some were doubtful about the blending of farce and tragedy.
Boarding House Groonen
event1925
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
The Guardsman
Act like Kritiker
event1926
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
Artisten - Im Zauber der Manege
Act like Henrik Elcot
event1928
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The magic of the circus stables. Controversies and small private conflicts between the artists, clowns and entertainers.
Madame Bluebeard
event1931
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"The fate of a beautiful woman" tells a story of Erika Dankwarth that reflects herself in a multitude of men.
The Angel with the Trumpet
event1948 star_border 5
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A long time-span of Austrian history (from the late 19th century to the years after world war II) is reflected in the ups and downs of a family of piano-makers in Vienna.
Pygmalion
Act like Obert Pickering
event1935 star_border 6
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The poor, lower-class girl Eliza Dolittle sells flowers at London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral to passers-by. Her plain jargon, her headstrong way of expressing herself, fascinates the briefly passing-by language researcher and phonetics teacher professor Higgins. He meets a good acquaintance, colonel Pickering, who is also interested in science, and makes a wager with him: Higgins bets that he can accomplish that, within just six months, he can turn the squalid girl with grubby looks into a gentle lady of the London society with splendid manners and a likewise pronunciation. Eliza may not know what’s coming for her, but after some persuasiveness, she agrees to move into the fine house of the professor.
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