
Birthday:
06-23-1875
Deathday:
06-30-1960 (85 years)
Birthplace:
Berlin, Germany
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The Great Love
Act like Hauswart
event1942 star_border 6.6
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The attractive Oberleutnant Paul Wendlandt is stationed in North Africa as a fighter pilot. While in Berlin to deliver a report he is given a day's leave, and on the stage of the cabaret theatre "Skala" sees the popular Danish singer Hanna Holberg. For Paul it is love at first sight. When Hanna visits friends after the end of the performance, he follows her, and speaks to her in the U-Bahn. After the party in her friends' flat, he accompanies her home and chance throws them further together when an air raid warning forces them to take cover in the air raid shelter. Hanna reciprocates Paul's feelings, but after a night spent together Paul has to return immediately to the front. There now follows a whole series of misunderstandings, and one missed opportunity after another. While Hanna waits in vain for some sign of life from Paul, he is flying on missions in North Africa. When he tries to visit her in her Berlin flat, she is giving a Christmas concert in Paris.
A Mad Idea
Act like Onkel Michael Lüders
event1932 star_border 7
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A series of stupid coincidences causes the young Munich painter Paul to convert his uncle's castle into a hotel for four weeks. But he can't complain: business is good and he has plenty of guests. For exmple, there's Theo Muller with his revue troupe. For reasons of "sound", Muller calls himself "Miller", which, of course, causes more confusion. His daughter, the beautiful Evelyn, is confused with Mabel Miller, who has come to the hotel on a mission for her filthy rich father ... namely, to estimate the worth of the castle.
Chemistry and Love
Act like Patient
event1948 star_border 5.6
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A chemist and his assistant make a groundbreaking discovery. They manage to make butter directly from pasture grass without having to deal with either the cow or the use of dairy products. An industrialist attempts to seize the invention.
Amor am Steuer
event1921
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A millionaire daughter is to be married to a man unknown to her. To get to know him, she slips into men's clothes, sticks on a mustache and is hired as a chauffeur.
The Journey to Tilsit
Act like Gastwirt
event1939 star_border 6.2
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A villager is tempted by a sophisticated city woman and almost kills his wife in a boating accident.
The Doll
Act like The Abbott
event1919 star_border 7.4
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The misadventures of an effete young man who must get married in order to inherit a fortune. He opts to purchase a remarkably lifelike doll and marry it instead, not realizing that the doll is actually the puppet-maker’s flesh-and-blood daughter in disguise.
Sumurun
Act like Head Eunuch
event1920 star_border 6
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The favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a hunchback clown suffers unrequited love for a traveling dancer who wants to join the harem.
To New Shores
Act like Käsefabrikant Wells
event1937 star_border 6.7
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A 19th-century London cabaret singer is deported to prison in Australia. Her crime? Taking the blame when her lover bounces checks.
Dr. Wislizenus
Act like Wirt
event1924 star_border 5
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Deep in the forest lives the bitter Dr. Wislizenus, whose childhood sweetheart Maria committed suicide ten years ago. The visit of a childhood friend, he who wrote a poem about Mary, triggers a tragedy.
Romeo and Juliet in the Snow
Act like Bauer
event1920 star_border 5.9
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The story of Romeo and Juliet, a tale as old as time-- Here, played as farcical lark: A goofy comedy of manners set in a snowy Bavarian village.
So ein Flegel
Act like Rektor Knauer
event1934 star_border 6.6
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First adaptation of Heinrich Spoerl's novel.
Ein kleiner Irrtum
Act like Professor Fingerchen
event1933
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A professor is mistaken for a comedian and ends up in a vaudeville show.
Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf
Act like Guest at Henschke
event1931 star_border 6.1
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Franz Biberkopf has served four years in prison. His return to normal life is not successful.
Costly Homeland
Act like Großvater von Gretchen Jürgen
event1929
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A German mechanic considers emigrating to the United States, but changes his mind when he falls in love with a local woman.
Yorck
Act like Krause
event1931
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The story of General Yorck von Wartenburg, a commander in the army of Prussian King Wilhelm, who defied the king's orders for the Prussian army to join Napoleon in his invason of Russia.
Gretl Wins First Prize
Act like Ihr Onkel
event1933
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A modest young woman, who dreams of a radio career, forges a lottery ticket so that she can win the prize.
Love and the First Railroad
Act like F.W. Eichmann, Posthalter in Zehlendorf
event1934 star_border 5
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'Love and the First Railway' is what this movie's title would mean in English. This is one of those films that depicts fictional characters participating in an historic incident. The actual first railway was built in England, of course. But according to this movie, the first railway (in Germany, at least) was built from Berlin to Potsdam, in 1838. I haven't the faintest idea if that's correct, but the people who made this movie do seem to take a great deal of interest in historical accuracy, so I'll take their word for it. Anyway, a title at the beginning establishes that this movie is set in 1838.
Süss, the Jew
Act like Konsistorialrat
event1940 star_border 4.3
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Nazi historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer.
Montparnasse Girl
Act like Herr Ravin
event1932
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A count's son has a place to meet his poor Parisian girlfriend and they even make some money for a while with him singing and her playing piano.But the father offers him support to marry someone else.
The Waltz Dream
Act like Eberhard XXIII von Flausenthurm
event1926 star_border 5.6
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Austrian actress Mady Christians stars alongside German matinee idol Willy Fritsch in this adaptation of the Oscar Straus operetta about a Prince who, after falling for a Viennese girl, becomes obsessed with the city and its customs.
Lockvogel
Act like Juwelier Schott
event1934 star_border 5
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Viktor Schott, daredevil and womanizer, is charged by his father, a jeweler, to go to Istanbul and purchase a valuable emerald necklace from a rich Persian and to bring it back by ship to Marseille. A pair of criminals are watching him and attractive Delia, with whom Viktor is in love, is used as bait. His boyhood friend Sibyl, who is in love with Viktor, warns him of the criminal ship owner and the captain, who intend to steal the jewel during a masked ball on board. Shortly before reaching the coast of France, an explosion causes the ship to capsize.
Schoeller's Boarding House
Act like Philipp Klapproth
event1930 star_border 6
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Adaptation of a popular comedy: When the country uncle he has been bilking comes to town to visit, a young student takes him to a boarding house full of exaggerated eccentric characters.
Cairo Season
Act like Exzellenz Ismael Pascha
event1933
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Comedy with an Egyptian backdrop: Businessman Tobby and the Countess Stafanie wish to take all the fun away from their single parents and make them marry each other. Their parents have the same plan, too ... but with regards to their nosy kids. And so it happens, that Tobby wants to surprise the parents with the announcement of their -- the parents' -- engagement at a party (so nice to let them know), but is one-upped by Stefanie's father, the old Count, who announces the engagement of the kids. To avoid a scandal, they have to get married, but will divorce later.
Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes
Act like Amtsdiener Michalke
event1939 star_border 5.8
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Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his district and no one is able to do anything about it. Every fourth child is already sick and the parents must helplessly watch as their young ones die. Now Koch is undertaking to find the cause of the tuberculosis --- something he has already been working on for years --- which has been causing this plague of illness. His work is made more difficult by envy; for example, that of his teacher, who was wounded defending his honor. But his greatest obstacle is the famous Berliner scientist and Reichstag deputy, Privy Councilor Rudolf Virchow: He is extraordinarily skeptical of Koch's theory, that the cause for tuberculosis is a bacteria.
The Golem
event1915 star_border 6.7
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This mostly lost film is often confused with director Paul Wegener third and readily available interpretation of the legend; Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam (1920). In this version of the golem legend, the golem, a clay statue brought to life by Rabbi Loew in 16th century Prague to save the Jews from the ongoing brutal persecution by the city's rulers, is found in the rubble of an old synagogue in the 20th century. Brought to life by an antique dealer, the golem is used as a menial servant. Eventually falling in love with the dealer's wife, it goes on a murderous rampage when its love for her goes unanswered.
Der streitbare Herr Kickel
Act like Mr. Kickel
event1933
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Mr. Kickel makes a bet with Mr. Müller as to whether Kickel will be arrested that very day.
Kohlhiesel's Daughters
Act like Mathias Kohlhiesel
event1920 star_border 5.9
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Somewhere in Southern Bavaria Xaver wants to marry Gretel, but her father Kohlhiesel wants his elder daughter Liesel to marry first. The problem is, nobody wants to marry her, because she is too brutal. Seppel suggests, that he should marry Liesel first, get rid of her and then he can marry Gretel...
Prince Woronzeff
Act like Onkel Iwan
event1934
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Baron Franz von Naydek is constantly being mistaken for Prince Woronzeff, since both look identical. One day, Woronzeff decides that this similarity might come in handy. Since he is very ill and can no longer deal with the intrigues of his relatives, he begs his friend Naydek to play the role of prince for a while. Naydek agrees and everything seems to be going splendidly. Woronzeff’s ex-nag Diane sees through the game, however, but says nothing, since she’s fallen for Naydek. He, in turn, has the hots for Nadja, Woronzeff’s daughter, long thought lost and who has now reappeared. The prince’s relatives fear for their inheritance and so refuse to acknowledge Nadja’s existence. In the interim, Woronzeff dies. Now Naydek is obliged to play the role for a much longer time than he bargained for.
Schuß um Mitternacht
Act like Kriminalrat Christian Katte
event1950
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Kathrin von Hagen runs an extremely successful guesthouse in the stylish Löwenberg Castle. Kathrin also has a passion that she pursues with dedication: writing. She would love to see her latest crime play on stage, but the publisher Thomas Brand, who is currently a guest in her hotel, doesn't think much of the work. Some of Kathrin's friends decide to help her by performing a key scene in the play on site and thereby prove to Brand that the play has dramatic potential. No sooner said than done: the castle's library is chosen as the performance venue and quietly decorated to create an atmospheric atmosphere...
Luther
Act like Tetzel
event1928 star_border 6.3
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German silent film about the life of Martin Luther
Inquest
Act like Ein genierter Herr
event1931
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When a prostitute is murdered in a cheap Berlin boarding house, an investigating judge suspects that the killer is her boyfriend, unaware that his own son and daughter are also mixed up in the case.
Frühlingsmärchen
Act like Neuhof
event1934
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Film by Froelich.
Der Kampf um den Bär
event1933
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Film by Fred Sauer.
Die kalte Mamsell
Act like Knoll
event1933
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Film by Boese.
Heimat am Rhein
Act like Der alte Eckhausen
event1933
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Film by Fred Sauer.
Primanerliebe
Act like Sommer
event1927
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An exploration of the misery of youth. A student, his friends, and the girl he loves all suffer due to the harsh and unforgiving nature of the adults in their lives.
Die göttliche Jette
event1937 star_border 5
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Cheeky Jette is a typical Berlin girl. Together with her mother, she performs couplets in a Berlin suburb theatre every night. Then, a young Austrian baron, who is worshipping Jette, enables her to audition for Königstädtisches Theater. Although she at first fails with an aria from an opera, Jette wins over the hearts of the board members with her fresh style when she performs a cheeky couplet that was written by Barsch, the stage manager of the suburb theater.
The Ancient Law
Act like Direktor
event1923 star_border 6.3
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Baruch Mayer, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the family tradition and leave the shtetl to become an actor.
The Girl from Spree Woods
event1928
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Rural comedy about a farmer's fiancée who becomes distracted by a handsome young officer staying with them in 1910s Germany.
The Transformation of Dr. Bessel
Act like Fabrikant Julius Bessel
event1927
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Alexander Bessel is a young man in a failing marriage. His wife cheats on him, and so the outbreak of WW1 comes in handy for a change. When young French soldier dies right in front of him Bessel seize the opportunity assuming his identity.
Arabella
event1924
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A foal runs away from its native pasture, falls into a swamp and is rescued by the circus dancer Arabella. The stud owner, a young gentleman rider, names the animal after its rescuer Arabella. Arabella then becomes a celebrated racehorse, and when the circus performer and the gentleman rider meet again, they fall in love.
Black Fighter Johanna
Act like Amtmann Cropp
event1934 star_border 5
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Germany under Napoleon. Johanna is travelling by stagecoach when one of its occupants, Major Korfes, is arrested by the French militia. Before capture, he gives Johanna a mysterious letter. To solve the mystery, she joins the German corps as the “Black Hunter”. A fantastic breeches role for the lesbian Marianne Hoppe, who two years later, married her gay film partner Gustav Gründgens to prevent persecution by the Nazis.
Was die Kinder ihren Eltern verschweigen
Act like Mäzen
event1927
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What the children conceal from their parents. Banned at first in Europe. Released in the U.S.
Only a Dancing Girl
event1926
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Heinrich Zentler is a successful man, both on football and in his legal career.
Wrong Number, Miss
Act like Kantinenwirt Sperling
event1932 star_border 5
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Miss Inge Becker is a telephone operator. She makes an appointment with her unknown opera singer West. Simultaneously, Rainer, the young director of the telephone distribution, makes an appointment with him unknown Miss Lotte Schröder. The location of the meeting and sign of recognition of the two pairs are the same. An exchange with consequences cannot be avoided, as the next day the director wants to speak with Inge, because she neglects her service.
Leichte Muse
Act like Hauswirt Stilpe
event1941
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A composer finds commercial success but has to confront difficulties in his private life.
Das leichte Mädchen
Act like Onkel Otto
event1941 star_border 5
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Dietz' relatives are horrified to discover that Dietz, the son of a wealthy merchant, is planning to marry an actress, who is known to appear in rather daring roles. Dietz finds a way to escape from a gathering over coffee, during which he's supposed to be introduced to "decent ladies". After all, his great love is waiting for him somewhere else.
Onkel Bräsig
Act like Pomuchelskopp
event1936
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The clever Zacharias Bräsig is a good friend to all and tries to help out, where he can. Bräsig also meddles in the relationships of young people, so that by the end of the film, there's a double marriage.
That's All That Matters
Act like Wilhelm
event1931
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A woman accompanies her husband to a party. Both leave with other partners.
The Immortal Heart
Act like Schöffe Weihrauch
event1939 star_border 6.5
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Nuremberg durting the time of Albrecht Durer and the famous geographer Martin Behaim: the locksmith Peter Henlein is looking for a way to make bullets more accurate by designing a new form. Just as he welds together two round balls into an elongated shape, he believes he's discovered that his assistant Konrad is trying to alienate his wife from him. There is a struggle, during which Henlein's new kind of bullet strikes him in the chest. The doctor, unaware that there are two bullets lodged in his body, because there was only one shot, only removes one.
The Jew of Mestri
Act like Beppo (Marco)
event1923 star_border 5.3
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The film "Der Kaufmann von Venedig" ( The Jew Of Mestri ) was written, produced and directed by Peter Paul Felner in the silent year of 1923 and is a free adaptation of "Merchant of Venice" written by Herr William Shakespeare. It is an elegant and expensive German film production that was shot on location in beautiful and decadent Venice with some of the most important Teutonic actors of the time: Henny Porten, Harry Liedtke und Werner Krauss and even the mysterious Max Schreck.
Der Weg ins Freie
Act like Director
event1941 star_border 5
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In Vienna, during the 1848 Revolution, opera singer Antonia Corvelli marries Detlev von Blossin, a rich landowner. But, as she refuses to give up her career, her infuriated husband returns to Pomerania without her. After falling into the clutches of the cruel and wicked count Stefan Oginski, whose lover she unfortunately becomes, Antonia has no other choice but to pass for dead in order to escape him. She then returns to Italy where she joins small theater companies under various aliases. Until one day she is overtaken by her fate...
Königin einer Nacht
Act like Moritzki
event1951 star_border 6
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Duke Ferdinand of Novara-Liechtenstein flees the duchy to avoid an arranged marriage with princess Anna Silvana of Este-Parma. He loses his papers on the flight and is treated as an imposter at the inn where he stays. The princess is hot on his heels, and ends up staying at the same inn under an assumed name. Mayhem ensues.
Der junge Graf
Act like Notar
event1935
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A young woman poses as a boy to ingratiate herself better with her strict aristocratic grandfather and to get him to better accept the new freer ways of the younger generation.
Moral
Act like Rentier Beermann
event1928 star_border 7
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When a travelling troupe threatens to unleash a saucy Berlin revue on the provincial town of Emilsburg, the local Morality Society, a band of sanctimonious middle-aged men, stages a protest. Meanwhile, the reigning monarch is concerned that his son and heir is not living his life to the full. Ninon d’Hauteville, a showgirl and the revue’s star attraction, takes a job as piano teacher to the young prince after her engagement at the local theatre was brought to a premature end, a result of the Morality Society’s interference. It doesn’t take long for those hypocrites to get wind of this. While on the outside they appear to be concerned with running the immoral woman out of their town, behind closed doors they rank among the new piano teacher’s most ardent pupils. However, Ninon, out to right the wrong done against her, secretly keeps a “diary” of their visits, recording each encounter on film with a hidden camera.
Der Mann im Feuer
Act like Freund der Diva
event1926
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A dedicated firefighter is forced to retire after an injury.
The Whirlwind of Passion
Act like Phillippsen
event1923 star_border 6
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Blanche Benton is out on her morning ride with horse and carriage, when an automobile shows up and scares the horse. The driver in the car manages to intervene and takes Blanche to her home.
Kleiner Mann – was nun?
event1933
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First adaptation of Hans Fallada's novel of the same name.
An Auto and No Money
Act like Kersten, Fabrikant
event1932
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Slapstick-style comedy in which a celebrity, to escape a marriage, trades places with his personal chauffeur.
The Blue from the Sky
Act like U-Papa
event1932 star_border 5
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Out of unlikely circumstances an underground ticket vending girl and a mail pilot fall in love.
Covered Tracks
Act like Hotelier Dompierre
event1938 star_border 5.4
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Séraphine and her mother arrive in Paris to visit the 1867 World Exhibition. In an overcrowded city they must be accommodated in separate hotels. During the night the mother, who wasn't feeling very well, gets suddenly worse. When next morning Séraphine goes to meet her every trace of her presence has disappeared and everybody denies having ever met her. The bewildered young woman must find someone who believes her. Previous version of So Long at the Fair (1950).
The Woman of My Dreams
Act like Alter Mann an der Theaterkasse
event1944 star_border 5.1
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Blonde goddess Marika Rökk plays Julia Koster, a ravishing red-headed musical revue star and her opening number, "At Night It Isn't Right To Be Alone", playing to a packed theater, is both an eye-popper and a jaw-dropper.
Kolberg
Act like Reeder
event1945 star_border 6.5
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During Napoleon's victorious campaign in Germany, the city of Kolberg gets isolated from the retreating Prussian forces. The population of Kolberg refuses to capitulate and organizes the resistance against the French army, which immediately submits the city to massive bombardments.
Agitated Woman
Act like Dr. Baran
event1927
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The aging singer Clarina receives a new engagement from a cabaret called the Maison Mouche and must evade the advances of several overbearing men. This film is considered lost.
Hanna Amon
Act like Wirt
event1951 star_border 5.3
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Hanna Amon and her brother Thomas live on an estate they've inherited from their parents. Local veterinarian Brunner loves Hanna from afar, and Thomas is in love with the daughter of the local mayor. Love, however, doesn't always mean happiness, as both Hanna and Thomas are soon to find out.
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Act like Ratsapotheker (Council Pharmacist)
event1918 star_border 6
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A traveler comes into a town overrun with rats and vermin. He promises to free the place of the pests and names his price. When the townspeople refuse to pay him after he has done what he promised, he plays his tune again with consequences. This film survives in incomplete/fragmentary form.
Die Flamme
Act like Monsieur Borell
event1923 star_border 5.8
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In 19th century Paris a hedonistic woman marries an aristocrat but has trouble keeping faithful to him.
The Expulsion
Act like Rentschreiber
event1923
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The extended Steyer family lives together in a cottage in the mountains. The younger Steyer's wife Ludmilla wants money, and doesn't care if she must ruin the lives of the Steyer family to get it. Lost film.
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