Anita Berber
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Anita Berber was a German dancer, actress, and writer who was the subject of an Otto Dix painting. She lived during the Weimar period.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dresden, Saxony, Germany
Birthday: June 10, 1899
Deathday: November 10, 1928
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Eerie Tales
Overview: A demon, a reaper, and the ghost of a prostitute read gothic short stories and act them out.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-11-05
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Different from the Others
Overview: Conrad Veidt plays a famous musician who is blackmailed for being gay. Eventually he stands trial and is convicted. At the end the film pleads for the abolition of §175 (the paragraph which punishes homosexuality).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-05-28
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Lucrezia Borgia
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.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-10-20
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Different from the Others
Overview: Conrad Veidt plays a famous musician who is blackmailed for being gay. Eventually he stands trial and is convicted. At the end the film pleads for the abolition of §175 (the paragraph which punishes homosexuality).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-05-28
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Prostitution
Overview: Hedwig and Lola, two sisters of opposite temperaments, have their lives upended in when Lola decides to pursue prostitution and Hedwig is forced into it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-03-19
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The Circus Diva
Overview: A German circus drama.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-08-30
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Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-11-11
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The Golden Plague
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Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-11-18
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Tänze des Grauens, des Lasters und der Ekstase
Overview: Anita Berber and Sebastian Droste performed their macabre dances of vice, horror and ecstasy. Saturated with an air of morbidity and decadence; death, dreams, torture, sex and sensuality.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-03-09
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Figures of the Night
Overview: "Night people". Thomas Bezug, the richest man in the world, is a solitary, domineering and cruel cripple, who hardly can move on his crutches. He dwells a fanatical love for his son, whom he holds like a monkey in a cage. His servants are defaced dwarfs. His secretary is trying to steal Bezugs assets. These are the night people.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-01-09
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Around the World in 80 Days
Overview: Wealthy Englishman Phileas Fogg bets his friends that he can travel around the world in 80 days.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-03-20
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Irrlichter der Tiefe
Overview: "Lights of the Abyss". Anita Berber enchants men and women as the seductive goddess Astarte.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-04-20
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Ways to Strength and Beauty
Overview: The perfect body as an object of cult worship. Based on the mass sports and body worship movement of the 1920s, the film propagates physical training and shows in stylized documentary scenes aspects of physical hygiene, gymnastics, sports and dancing as well as scenes in which supposed sportsmen of antiquity pose naked.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-03-16
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The Story of Dida Ibsen
Overview: Dida Ibsen, daughter of impoverished farmers, has, according to her father's will, to marry the main creditor. But she refuses and decides to live with a married man as a mistress, till he gets his divorce. In the town she opens a restaurant with the money of her wealthy lover, from whom she soon gets pregnant, but their dreams of marriage fail, his wife refuses the divorce. After a while, she decides to marry one of the regular guests at her restaurant, van Galen, who spent quite some time in the tropics and because of this is at the brink of madness. Shortly after the marriage his condition worsens and life becomes hell for Dida.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-12-12
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Die drei Marien und der Herr von Marana
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-03-09
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The Count of Cagliostro
Overview: About a lurid tale of magic and secret societies during the reign of Luis XVI, focused on the figure of the Italian occultist Giuseppe Balsamo, known under his alias of Count Alessandro di Cagliostro.
Genres: Horror History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-12-21
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Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
Overview: Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to make huge profits on the stock exchange. Afterwards, Mabuse disguises himself and attends the Folies Bergères show, where Cara Carozza, the main attraction of the show, passes him information on Mabuse's next intended victim, the young millionaire Edgar Hull. Mabuse then uses psychic manipulation to lure Hull into a card game where he loses heavily. When Police Commissioner von Wenk begins an investigation of this mysterious crime spree, he has little to go on, and he needs to find someone who can help him.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-04-27
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Das Dreimäderlhaus
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-09-22
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