
Birthday:
05-01-1887
Deathday:
07-13-1957 (70 years)
Birthplace:
Kulmsee, West Prussia, Germany [now Chelmza, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland]
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Polterabend
Act like Klaus
event1940
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Rudi, who’s been quite the ladies’ man, finally wants to settle down and marry Hilde. So as to not get into a touchy situation with all his many women, he plans to bring them all together the night before his wedding. While sitting alone in his apartment and burning all his old photos and love letters, he notices a woman in the garden. She assets, that she’s hiding from a stubborn admirer and he stupidly offers her to come in … and then it all begins! First, his wife-to-be Hilde shows up, who wants to spend the night before their wedding together. While Rudi tries to hide the unknown woman in his bedroom, a hotel detective shows up and claims he’s following a thief.
Viktor und Viktoria
Act like Intendant
event1957 star_border 7
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Aspiring singer Susanne takes over for ham actor Viktor at a small cabaret in Berlin where he works a woman impersonator and per chance she's discovered by an agent, who thinks, that she really is a man. She becomes famous, but her situation becomes troublesome, when she falls in love with Robert.
Die schwarze Schmach
event1921
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German propaganda film by Carl Boese.
Yacht of the Seven Sins
Act like Alfons Costa
event1928 star_border 6
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The ship-owner Herr Reeder Roberts organizes a world trip on his luxury liner "Yoshiwara". Aboard are millionaires and famous artists, but also criminals. The manager of the ship-owner, Stefan Martini, has been murdered shortly before the departure in a mysterious way. Several persons are suspected and these are, precisely, the passengers of the "Yoshiwara".
The Folk Upstairs
Act like Fritz
event1926 star_border 7.5
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In "Menschen Untereinander" ("The Folk Upstairs"), director Gerhard Lamprecht sketches a cross-section of Germany's new post-war society, with its winners, social climbers, and losers, represented by the social microcosm of an apartment building. The gossip-mad Frau Mierig (Lydia Potechina) from the rear building gives the newly-arrived Frau Kaminski (Käthe Haack), the janitor's wife, a lively initiation into the tenants and their peculiarities.
Ein ganz grosses Kind
Act like Vater Killian
event1952
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Aging actor Hieronymus agrees to coach amateur Hans in his craft, but Hans doesn't live up to the demands of theater pros although he is supported by actress Ina who then helps him to break into the movies - but not as he expected.
The Third Sex
Act like Dr. Schmidt
event1957 star_border 4.9
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Klaus is a young man in post-war Berlin. He is drawn to his friend Manfred and, under the encouragement of their acquaintance, Dr. Winkler, explore the underground world of gay clubs and electronic music. His family begins to learn of his other life and do everything they can to set him straight.
The Czar's Courier
Act like Jolivet, französischer Journalist
event1936 star_border 6
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A Czarist courier has to get across the Siberia frontier, threatened by Tartar invaders and a treacherous Russian helping them. Strogoff encounters several colorful characters along the way. German language version of the French film Michel Strogoff, adapting the novel by Jules Verne.
Schoeller's Boarding House
Act like Ernst Kissling
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.
Solange noch die Rosen blüh'n
Act like Diener
event1956 star_border 4.8
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Another German Heimatfilm.
Before Sundown
Act like Wuttke, Fahrer bei Clausen
event1956 star_border 6.3
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Based on a play by Gerhardt Hauptmann, the film details a bittersweet May-December romance between ageing Mathias Clausen (Albers) and young, beautiful Inken Peters (Annemarie Dueringer).
A Shot at Dawn
Act like Bobby
event1932
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A Berlin policeman tracks down a group of diamond thieves in the outskirts by posing as a gang member.
Isn't My Husband Wonderful?
Act like Friedrich Zirbelschuh
event1933
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Trying to impress his wife, a newly-wed office clerk makes up a story about being promoted to manager of a record-company.
Eine Frau die weiß, was sie will
Act like Peter Carsten
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.
The Night in Venice
Act like Nicolo, Italienischer Theaterdirektor
event1942 star_border 5
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The marriage of the celebrated operetta diva Vilma and the chamber singer Peter has come to an end. Peter, however, is intent on winning back his now ex-wife. So he’s come up with the idea of a guest performance in Venice, where the two will both appear. Vilma, however, has already found a new man – Niki. He’s a salesman and she wants to marry him. With the help of Annemarie, a friend, who has won a trip to Venice, Peter succeeds in diverting Niki, for he falls in love with Annemarie. Now the way is free for Peter to win back the ex-wife, who couldn’t care if he lived in a hole six feet underground.
Der Mann mit der Pranke
Act like Richard Möllenhof
event1935 star_border 5
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"The Man with the Paw" is what people call the very successful banker Wiegant, who is desperately in love with Lena Kroning, the wife of the lawyer Hugo Kroning. So as to be nearer to her, Wiegant hires her husband to be the bank's lawyer. Shortly thereafter, Wiegant is suspected of having conned the Countess Steindorff during a telephone conversation; but he never did. During the relevant period of time, he was with Lena "having tea" (uh huh), which he conceals from the lawyer-husband, so as to protect Lena.
Der Gasmann
Act like Staatsanwalt
event1941 star_border 5.6
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A man comes into money unexpectatly. That's when the trouble starts.
It Was a Gay Ballnight
Act like Ferdyschtschenko
event1939 star_border 6.4
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1865. Katharina goes to a ball in Moscow. There she meets again Tchaikowsky, her first and only love. The young, who is now married to wealthy Michael Iwanowitsch Murakin, a man she does not love, has not forgotten Piotr Illich, the (not yet) famous composer. Both are still in love with each other but Piotr is engaged to Nastassia, a dancer, while for her part Katharina cannot leave her husband. Tchaikowky's first love then decides to sacrifice her happiness to the success of the composer, sponsoring him in secret. Something Piotr will learn only years after. When Katharina finds herself free at last it is too late: Tchaikowsky is dying of cholera and she only has time to close his eyes.
Wunschkonzert
Act like Steinberg
event1955
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Accountant and would-be song-writer Willy inadvertently gets into a live TV game show and is tasked with finding, presenting and performing with a motley band of six amateur musicians within 90 minutes.
Parkstrasse 13
Act like Mieke
event1939 star_border 5
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The beautiful Evelyne Schratt, who has many admirerers, and whose two husbands both died under mysterious circumstances, is giving a reception. When one of her admirers is found stabbed to death in a room upstairs, the police detains everyone in the house and begins an interrogation (oh goody: does dinner come with this mystery theatre, too?). Evelyne admits, that the murdered man tried to blackmail about some information he had about the death of the two husbands.
No Celebration Without Meyer
Act like Elsas Verlobter
event1931
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Siegmund Meyer might be a professional matchmaker, but his own married bliss will not come that easily. In order to impress city councillor Goebel, the father of Meyer's love interest Mary, he tries to pass as an industrial tycoon. But Mary's heart belongs to someone else, and while Meyer continues his risky role-changing, he fails to notice that his loyal secretary Ms. Krause has been secretly in love with him for a long time.
The Beautiful Adventure
Act like Herr Desmigneres
event1932
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Helene has agreed to marry a man that she isn't in love with. On the day of her wedding her cousin arrives just in time to rescue her and they run away together. They stay with her aged grandmother who assumes the young man (whom she doesn't know) to be the new husband and has prepared a bridal bed for them.
Ripening Youth
Act like Oberstudienrat Dr. Türck
event1955
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The trials and tribulations of love in a school community in the still young Federal Republic of Germany.
Asphalt
event1929 star_border 7.2
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One of the last great German Expressionist films of the silent era, Joe May’s Asphalt is a love story set in the traffic-strewn Berlin of the late 1920s. Starring the delectable Betty Amann in her most famous leading role, Asphalt is a luxuriously produced UFA classic where tragic liaisons and fatal encounters are shaped alongside the constant roar of traffic.
Die Gefangene von Shanghai
event1927
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Maria Sinclair, the wife of the British consul, is about to visit her husband when she is arrested by the Chinese. General Hai Lung, who is in charge, offers to give her husband his life if she would promise to stay with him instead.
Die blonde Carmen
Act like Regisseur
event1935
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A singer tired of the stage retreats to a hotel in the country. There, she finds love and a way back into show business.
The Second Kiss
Act like Baron von Trenck's Servant
event1930
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'Romantic story of a gallant adventurer at the Court of Maria Teresa.' (The Bioscope)
Schwert und Herd
event1916
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Drama about two families of different classes in Germany during World War I
Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter
Act like Tirhaka
event1920
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A pharaonic tragedy to the content that spans six different eras. In the first episode, the emergence and dramatic end of the love story between the pharaoh's daughter Princess Amnertis and her beloved Tirhaka is told until the latter comes to a violent death. From this drama arises a curse, which in the following episodes has had far-reaching effects over the centuries. Everyone who possesses the skull of the long-lost pharaoh's daughter must die violently until the day the skull is sunk in the sea.
Paul und Pauline
Act like Heinrich Zehnpfennig, Friseur
event1936
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a movie by Heinz Paul
Der streitbare Herr Kickel
Act like Mr. Müller
event1933
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Mr. Kickel makes a bet with Mr. Müller as to whether Kickel will be arrested that very day.
Die Buddenbrooks
Act like Renee Throta
event1923 star_border 5
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Four-generation story-saga dealing with the decline of a middle-class Lübeck family.
The first adaptation of a Thomas Mann book was also Gerhard Lamprecht’s first major film.
How Shall I Tell My Husband?
Act like Diener Johann
event1933 star_border 5
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The film starts in the fashionable seaside resort on the Baltic, Heringsdorf, where Renate Müller spends a secret weekend away from her husband with her bosom friend Ida Wüst. The husband meanwhile has a flirtation while traveling by night train from Frankfurt to Berlin, nice atmospheric shots of sleeper and dining car in the morning. The action continues in the luxury villas and apartments of Berlin, Renate Müller wears a string of very elegant outfits. Misunderstandings, jealousies, temporary separation of husband and wife, a few songs, wicked humour.
Your Life Guards
Act like Professor
event1955
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In a fantasy European principality, the headstrong and beautiful Princess Ingrid falls in love with a handsome officer, but dismisses him in a fit of temperamental overreaction when she learns of an alleged liaison.
The Unknown Guest
Act like Harry Müller
event1931
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When the master and mistress of a household are away, and the chambermaid's father visits, she pretends to be the real mistress as he is unaware of her lowly position. Slapstick complications ensue.
Married by the Stork
event1932 star_border 7
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A modernist lady sculptor seeks a model for a statue to be put in front of a Berlin hospital, and finds him in the form of a London policeman-boxer. She's also interested in having a child.
Der Mann im Feuer
Act like Karl Winter
event1926
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A dedicated firefighter is forced to retire after an injury.
Kampf
Act like Steppke
event1932
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The race car drivers Robert Wenck and Kurt Harder are good friends. They become rivals when it appears that Robert is married to Eva. Eva was the former lover of Kurt Harder. Complications will follow.
Martina
event1949 star_border 5.5
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A wayward young woman running from her past is reunited with her sister after they became separated during the war. While she worked on the streets, the sister established a professional career as a psychologist.
Der Todfeind
event1920
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A wealthy man is found bludgeoned to death near a railway. The question is, who killed him and why?
Die Sühne
event1918
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A silent German film directed by Austrian director Emmerich Hanus with Martha Novelly and Kurt Vespermann in the leads.
The Great Light
Act like Fritz Rasmussen
event1920 star_border 6
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Lorenz Ferleitner has worked his way up from a poor but gifted farm boy to a recognized master builder. When a new cathedral is to be built, he is given the honor of carrying out the task. He would like to commission the unknown young painter Fritz Rasmussen to decorate the dome. The director of the art academy, Professor Marquardt, however, wants to employ his untalented nephew for the painting work. A bitter conflict unfolds.
Durchlaucht Hypochonder
event1918
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A bored princess' flights of fancy cause troubles for the entire household, especially her husband.
Königliche Hoheit
event1953 star_border 7
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An American heiress in Europe falls in love with a German prince, but he is required to marry someone else for reasons of state convenience.
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