Biography: Georg August Friedrich Hermann Schulz (9 October 1893 – 25 September 1946), better known as Heinrich George, was a German stage and film actor.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 09, 1893
Deathday: September 25, 1946
Popularity:
1927-02-06
Overview: In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-02-06
Popularity:
1984-08-10
Overview: In 1984, Academy Award winning composer Giorgio Moroder introduced Fritz Lang’s science fiction epic Metropolis to a new generation of filmgoers. Working in collaboration with film archivists globally, Moroder supervised a special reconstruction, with color tinting, fewer intertitles and newly restored footage. A pioneer in the field of digital music, Moroder backed this special edition with a throbbing new score, punctuated with pop songs from some of the biggest stars of the early MTV era: Freddie Mercury, Pat Benatar, Adam Ant, Bonnie Tyler, Loverboy and others.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1984-08-10
Popularity:
1928-01-01
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-01-01
Popularity:
1940-09-24
Overview: Nazi historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-09-24
Popularity:
1945-01-30
Overview: 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.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1945-01-30
Popularity:
1940-04-23
Overview: When two Russian captains of cavalry came to a German post station one of them recalls what happened long time ago. He begins to tell the story: Ten years ago a comrade of them made a resting at the post station and fell in love with the station master's daughter. He promised everything to her and finally convinced her to come with him to St. Petersburg. When both arrived there she had to realize that her captain never had the intention to marry her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-04-23
Popularity:
1933-02-23
Overview: The Baltic captain Terje Wiggen works as a pilot on the island of Muhu. When the mate of the ship “Carola” calls in sick, he jumps at the chance of reviving his life as a sailor. WWI breaks soon after the departure. By and by the ship’s company gets worn down by dead calm. On account of the plague-ridden captain, Wiggen disposes of the contaminated water reserve. Discontent among the crew rises until they take the sole lifeboat and leave their mate behind. Wiggen unsuccessfully tries to bring the ship under control. At the last minute he is rescued off the Japanese coast. At his return he promises to never leave his wife and child again. But the German Imperial Navy begins to blockade the waterways of the island. Wiggen paddles to Sweden with the intention of smuggling provisions for his family. On his way back he is detained by a German captain. After five years of imprisonment he returns to Muhu once more. Wiggen is hellbent on vengeance. (Deutsche Kinemathek)
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-02-23
Popularity:
1933-09-21
Overview: A psychological study of three girls who enter a boys' school to prepare for their final examination.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-09-21
Popularity:
1923-02-22
Overview: When the old, wealthy Doctor Schön takes Lulu under his wing, he has no idea that she will be his certain death. Young and beautiful, Lulu is endowed with tremendous erotic charisma that utterly enchants any man in her reach. Although Schön sees disaster approaching, he cannot let go of her. (Stumfilm.dk)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-02-22
Popularity:
1931-01-20
Overview: The film focuses on the leadership of the Great Powers of Europe in the days leading up to the outbreak of the First World War.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-01-20
Popularity:
1930-08-11
Overview: A psychological drama based on the popular Jekyll and Hyde theme involving a strict legal official. Based on the 1893 play "Der Andere" by Paul Lindau.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-08-11
Popularity:
1942-09-11
Overview: Historical drama portraying the life of German baroque architect Andreas Schlüter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1942-09-11
Popularity:
1931-10-07
Overview: Franz Biberkopf has served four years in prison. His return to normal life is not successful.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-10-07
Popularity:
1930-08-15
Overview: In late nineteenth century Alfred Dreyfus, a French army officer of Jewish heritage, is falsely accused of espionage. Found guilty of treason he is drummed out of the army and sent to prison on Devil's Island.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-08-15
Popularity:
1933-04-18
Overview: Heinrich George plays Henner who lives with his wife and child on a tugboat, going on the river to Berlin. There he meets the attractive Gescha (Betty Amann), and a story of love, betrayal and sadness ensues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-04-18
Popularity:
1923-03-18
Overview: The last part of Fridericus Rex's main focus is entirely on the battle after years of conflict with Austria, which allied itself with France and Russia finally opens against Prussia in 1756 in the Seven Years War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-03-18
Popularity:
1940-11-13
Overview: The young Schiller, whose heart and soul are writing and poetry, is forced into the military academy (the pride and joy of the Duke of Württemberg). Schiller is disgusted by the everyday routine of the military, always back and forth between breeding and drills. Conversation, conflict or even critique are discouraged – the oppression insufferable for the young rebel. Disgusted by the brutality, he writes his drama "The Bandit", which he would later publish anonymously. But following a frank conversation with the Duke, Schiller is dishonored and must leave the land.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-11-13
Popularity:
1942-09-25
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1942-09-25
Popularity:
1935-04-26
Overview: France in the 15th Century: The country is marked by the wars with England and internal power struggles. King Charles sees himself powerless against the state. As emerges from the people suddenly a young woman named Johanna, who claimed that the Archangel Gabriel to be appointed, to save France. First of all doubt the king in their words, but he remembers that the people through this "help of God" is gaining new courage. With the slogan "God and the Virgin!" pulls the revivified victorious army into battle against the English-Burgundian alliance. After Johanna King Charles is crowned at Reims, there breaks the plague over the country in. Now Johanna all the blame on the disaster: God would punish believe in the country for that a heretic; if Johanna were actual a holy, she would deal also with the plague. The waning faith weakens France, England is again on the rise. But Johanna is executed as a witch. Only years later annulled the verdict of the Holy and Johanna explained.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-04-26
Popularity:
1938-06-25
Overview: In 1885, famous New York Metropolitan Opera singer Maddalena dall' Orto is scheduled to perform at a festival in the German residence of Ilmingen. It soon becomes obvious that she is non other than Magda von Schwartze, who left the town eight years ago against her father's wishes to become a singer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-06-25
Popularity:
1942-06-08
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1942-06-08
Popularity:
1942-03-18
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1942-03-18
Popularity:
1939-01-31
Overview: 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.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-01-31
Popularity:
1922-10-20
Overview: Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, has three adult children: Juan, who is virtuous and has a sweetheart who is a woman of the people, Lucrezia, who is virtuous and wants to marry Alfonso, and Cesare, who is wicked and lusts after Lucrezia, Juan's girlfriend, and probably others. Cesare has vowed to kill any suitor for Lucrezia's love, and he has three thugs to carry out his wishes. Bodies fall into the Tiber, into the Colosseum (with lions prowling), and onto the Vatican floors.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-10-20
Popularity:
1935-01-11
Overview: Seven men in peaceful Switzerland swear lifelong friendship while the rest of the world is at strife. A conflict arises when the daughter of one falls in love with the son of another.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-01-11
Popularity:
1937-12-03
Overview: In a district of a small, German principality, things are going haywire. And this, even though Baron von Wehrhahn, who is loyal to the prince, does everything possible to make “his Highness” popular. The only problem is, he’s always using his zeal on the wrong crowd. He always seems to see free-thinkers or revolutionaries in the harmless of citizens; but the really bad ones get to go on their way unmolested! For example, the old woman Wolff: she steals everything that isn’t nailed down, while her husband pursues unhampered poaching.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-12-03
Popularity:
1940-01-01
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-01-01
Popularity:
1930-11-21
Overview: This is the German-language version of the British film The Love Storm (1931).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-11-21
Popularity:
1937-09-06
Overview: During the Great War, German soldiers are persuaded to die heroically in order to take a French village held by the British.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-09-06
Popularity:
1937-10-25
Overview: Before the First World War, Dr. Hans Stockmann had a practice in a small town. His powerhungry brother is the mayor of Bad Trimburg, which has developed into a respectable resort. Dr. Stockmann is called in to become the town’s chief physician. He considers the sanitary conditions to be intolerable and insists on a clean-up. His ambitious brother and all those who, till now, have profited well from the corner cutting, are, of course, against that for financial reasons. The doctor is condemned from all sides and the conflict escalates.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-10-25
Popularity:
1933-09-10
Overview: Nazi propaganda film based on the life and death of Hitler Youth Herbert "Quex" Norkus – in the film, renamed Heini Völker – who was killed while distributing flyers in a Communist neighborhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-09-10
Popularity:
1926-11-02
Overview: Directed by Aleksandr Razumnyj.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-11-02
Popularity:
1935-12-21
Overview: A man comes back from America after years to find his reputation ruined.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-12-21
Popularity:
1943-08-26
Overview: Vienna 1910 is a 1943 German biographical film directed by Emerich Walter Emo and starring Rudolf Forster, Heinrich George and Lil Dagover. It is based on the life of Mayor of Vienna Karl Lueger. Its antisemitic content led to it being banned by the Allied Occupation forces following the Second World War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1943-08-26
Popularity:
1931-06-23
Overview: German-language version of "The Big House" (MGM, 1930), with Heinrich George in Wallace Beery's role, filmed by MGM parallel to the English-speaking version, at a time when good subtitles weren't yet in use.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-06-23
Popularity:
1939-09-21
Overview:
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-09-21
Popularity:
1937-08-20
Overview: Maler Pratt, an artist, refuses to sell his paintings as he thinks that they still need improvement before being publicly exhibited, but his wife Monika thinks differently and sells them because she thinks they are good...and they need the money. As he only signs an "M" on his work, Monika has no difficulty in claiming she is "M", but problems arrive when she is commissioned to do a large mural and Maler refuses to help her out. However, his creative spirit gets the best of him and he does the mural which is widely acclaimed to be a great work of art. Felder , an art dealer, is not overly pleased with this turn of events as he has been pleading with Monika to divorce her shiftless husband and marry him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-08-20
Popularity:
1945-03-02
Overview:
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1945-03-02
Popularity:
1945-03-01
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1945-03-01
Popularity:
1935-05-30
Overview: Nacht der Verwandlung (A Night of Change) stars Gustav Froelich as a globe-circling aviator, a character clearly based on America's Wiley Post. While basking in his celebrity at a nighttime carnival, Froelich romances Rose Stradner, the unhappy wife of brutish Heinrich George. When George refuses to give Stradner her freedom, she takes it anyway, but her fling with Froelich is doomed to disappointment. Our hero learns the hard way that one can be in a teeming crowd, yet still be all alone. Leading lady Stradner later resettled in Hollywood, where she appeared in such films as The Last Gangster and Keys to the Kingdom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-05-30
Popularity:
1941-07-11
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1941-07-11
Popularity:
1944-04-06
Overview: Jordan, a famous criminal lawyer, will only represent clients, of whose innocence he is convinced (must be financially not-too-well-off). One day, his future son-in-law, the jeweler Fabian, is arrested on suspicion of murder on the day before his wedding. He is said to have murdered his ex-wife, the dancer Ria Norady. The conductor Gillmore found her dead in her dressing room shortly after a visit from Fabian. Gisela Jordan asks her father to defend him. After speaking to Fabian, the lawyer is convinced he's innocent. But since there is no proof of this, he decides to go and try and find the real murderer himself.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1944-04-06
Popularity:
1936-03-20
Overview: The taxi driver Fritz gets to know the millionaire-heiress Iris and marries her against the wishes of her family. They live together in a small apartment and are very happy. But Fritz wants to offer Iris more and thus finds a position as a laborer in a large car factory and ends up making a career for himself as a race car driver. But while he is driving from one victory to another, he is getting more and more estranged from his young wife. As his career starts to go downhill, he notices the mistakes he has made and tries to win Iris back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-03-20
Popularity:
1936-03-23
Overview: Early morning romantic excursions in a North German village under the thumb of a crusty old mayor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-03-23
Popularity:
1929-11-25
Overview: The engineer Karl Hartmann invents a new, gigantic brown coal excavator. He discovers that there are large deposits below his home country and decides to use the excavator there.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-11-25
Popularity:
1937-01-26
Overview: At a ball at the Metropol, the married Margit gives a harmless kiss to a one-time friend from her childhood and cousin, Eberhard. The two notice, however, that Margit's ill and jealous husband observed them from a distance, because he recognized the coat she recently purchased. Quickly, Margit asks the salesgirl Trude to put on her coat and meet Eberhard in the lobby. Things take a decidedly different turn, however, when Trude and Eberhard fall madly in love with each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-01-26
Popularity:
1931-01-23
Overview: The story is about Conrad Veidt as military attache in Turkey where he learns to know an English consul (Heinrich George) and his attractive wife who is treated badly. They begin an affair and soon the husband proves to be an obstacle that has to be disposed of.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-01-23
Popularity:
1931-06-09
Overview: A German reporter visits Hollywood and is escorted through the MGM Studio by a German nobleman, who is working there as an extra. They meet and speak to several actors, primarily Buster Keaton, John Gilbert, Joan Crawford and Heinrich George. Then they meet Adolphe Menjou, who rehearses a long scene in German. A final scene shows stars arriving at a film premiere, including Jean Harlow, Norma Shearer and Wallace Beery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-06-09
Popularity:
1938-03-17
Overview: German all-star musical from 1938 that was a big commercial success.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-03-17
Popularity:
1929-02-04
Overview:
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-02-04
Popularity:
1925-06-20
Overview: Mr. Blackwell discovers a relic that informs him about Blythe (as Ayesha, or "She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed"), who loved his father and others in the ancestral line. Blackwell accompanies pal Heinrich George and handyman Tom Reynolds to Arabia.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-06-20
Popularity:
1929-08-29
Overview:
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1929-08-29
Popularity:
1922-12-28
Overview: Deviating from the historical facts, Lola is introduced as a young Spanish “Gypsy” who becomes involuntarily embroiled in an attempt to poison the Infante of Spain (a short but splendid cameo by Heinrich George). As a result, she has to flee the country, arriving first in Italy, where she is taught how to act like a lady. Later, in Paris, she is invited to dance at the city’s prestigious opera house, becoming a worldwide sensation. She then becomes secretly involved in a revolutionary plot by Louis Napoléon, the future emperor of France. When the plot fails, Lola is once again forced to flee, this time to Munich, where she captures the attention of Ludwig I. Their ensuing affair arouses a great deal of hatred among the people and the establishment, however. In the end, Lola has no choice but to leave again, and vanishes into the night mist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-12-28
Popularity:
1927-09-26
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-09-26
Popularity:
1926-12-01
Overview: The film portrays the Imperial German Navy during the First World War, particularly the Battle of Jutland and is based on a novel by Helmut Lorenz.
Genres: Adventure War
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1926-12-01
Popularity:
1923-01-01
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-01-01
Popularity:
1923-06-07
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-06-07
Popularity:
1944-08-11
Overview: A stuffy old civil servant is forced to retire during World War II, but when his son, a Navy submariner, is lost at sea and his city is heavily bombed by English bombers, his old patriotism is re-awakened and he determines to be of use to his country once again
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1944-08-11
Popularity:
1938-02-02
Overview: Film by Herbert Maisch.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-02-02
Popularity:
1924-10-09
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1924-10-09
Popularity:
1929-07-08
Overview:
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-07-08
Popularity:
1927-12-01
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-12-01
Popularity:
1924-04-13
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-04-13
Popularity:
1921-10-19
Overview: The married Lady Emma Hamilton has an ill fated romance with Admiral Horatio Nelson.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-10-19
Popularity:
1923-06-11
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-06-11
Popularity:
1928-11-05
Overview: Heli's misfortune begins when her mother, the landlady, marries for the second time. The man is bossy and brutal. In an argument between stepfather and brother, Heli intervenes: She throws a hatchet, the stepfather falls and is killed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-11-05
Popularity:
1932-03-01
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-03-01
Popularity:
1936-05-01
Overview:
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-05-01
Popularity:
1929-04-30
Overview: George Manolescu (Ivan Mouskojine) plays a confidence man who works his way from Paris to New York, along the way during a train ride to Monte Carlo he meets the voluptuous as always Cleo (Bigitte Helm) where they have a whirl wind romance which becomes short lived after she flees from him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-04-30
Popularity:
1922-06-05
Overview: The actor Edmund Kean, adored by his fans and critics, makes another brilliant performance. The young Anna Danby clings to his lips. But Kean has a liaison with a married woman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-06-05
Popularity:
1928-08-21
Overview: After committing a murder for his lover, Gloria, the famous painter Jack is forced to go underground. In the harbor district, he saves the poor Malaysian girl Song in front of two intrusive sailors. She loves him for it, and together Song and Jack appear in the tingle dungeon of the port, he as a knife artist, she as a dancer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-08-21
Popularity:
1928-11-05
Overview: The impressive cast is headed by the great Heinrich George as Boris Stroganoff, an opera composer and conductor who’s also a notorious lothario. Albani is ballet dancer Viola Suroff, who’s put her career aside to look after her partner Maxim Sadi, a baritone with unspecified health issues that have kept him off stage. Stroganoff sets his sights on Viola and offers her a job in the corps de ballet for his new opera The Boyar, which she accepts provided Maxim is also hired. However, dancer Margot (called Myrra in the French version) maintains a seething passion for Stroganoff, as does Countess Geschow (called Countess Ziska on this print), both of whom are resentful when watching his interactions with Viola. Jealousies run high on opening night between all the characters and Stroganoff is shot mid-performance, but who is the killer: Maxim, Margot, or Geschow?I
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-11-05
Popularity:
1926-12-30
Overview: Directed by Lupu Pick, who died far too young, it was billed as a melodrama about a ring of counterfeiters on its first screening in New York City. Pick plays with the already well-established conventions of the detective genre for maximum effect and humor.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-12-30
Popularity:
1928-01-11
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-01-11
Popularity: