Friedrich Kayssler
Also Known As: Friedrich Kayßler, Friedrich Martin Adalbert Kayssler
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Neurode, Lower Silesia, Germany [now Nowa Ruda, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]
Birthday: April 07, 1874
Deathday: April 24, 1945
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Two Souls
Overview: Gustav Froehlich and Charlotte Susa play Rochus and Judith, the zwei menschen (two humans) of the title. Rochus' domineering mother insists that he enter the priesthood, but he is reluctant to break up his blissful romance with the fair Judith. A religious fanatic of the first order, the mother swears before God and her Church that Rochus will indeed take his vows. When this does not come about, she dies of grief, whereupon the guilt-stricken Rochus abandons Judith to become a priest. The girl subsequently commits suicide -- and it is Rochus who must officiate over her body during the funeral. This final scene was excised from the print of Zwei Menschen released in New York, leaving audiences hanging in regard to Judith's ultimate fate.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-22
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The Girl from the Marsh Croft
Overview: A farm boy betrothed to a socialite falls in love with his maid - an impoverished girl from the marsh.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-10-30
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Gold
Overview: Using an atomic reactor, two scientists try to create gold.
Genres: Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-03-29
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Mazurka
Overview: A woman is put on trial for murdering a musician who ruined her marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-11-14
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Overview: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson look into reports that a huge, vicious hound has killed Lord Charles Baskerville and that Lord Henry Baskerville is the next to be killed.
Genres: Crime Mystery Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-01-12
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The Broken Jug
Overview: The man who broke the jug, the judge, is trying a case who determine who broke the jug. Long before the evidence becomes conclusive against the suspects, it becomes apparent that the blustering and bullying - and naive - village judge is the guilty one.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-10-18
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24 Hours of a Woman's Life
Overview: After the tragic death from malaria of her beloved husband his rich widow Helga Vanroh travels restlessly around various Mediterranean countries. In the luxurious surroundings of a hotel in Monte Carlo Mrs. Vanroh keeps apart from society, until one evening she decides to visit the casino. There a young man attracts her curiosity and compassion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-10-11
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A Modern Dubarry
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-01-24
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Der ewige Traum
Overview: At the end of the 18th century, the wealthy French scholar Saussure comes to a small Alpine village and offers 1,000 pieces of gold to anyone who can lead him to the summit of Mont Blanc. The young farmer's son Jacques Balmat wants to take on the dangerous task, even though his father has told him from an early age about the mighty mountain spirits who guard a legendary treasure of gold on the mountain peak.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-11-20
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Storm Over Mont Blanc
Overview: In a lonely outpost atop the treacherous Mont Blanc, an intrepid scientist lives with minimal connection to the world below. Through the telegraph, Hannes (Sepp Rist) communicates with a beautiful astronomer (Leni Riefenstahl) and is occasionally visited by an airplane pilot (Ernst Udet) upon whom he depends on supplies. In the midst of a ferocious snowstorm, Hannes loses his gloves and his weather station is battered by the elements. Suffering frostbite and unable to descend the mountain, he sends out a desperate S.O.S. in the hope that someone can brave the elements and rescue him from certain death. Eerily romantic and overshadowed by the constant threat of doom, "Storm Over Mont Blanc" is a "quintessential" mountain film by Arnold Fanck, the genre's innovator and unparalleled master.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-12-25
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Bismarck
Overview: A biographical film of Otto von Bismarck, the Prime Minister of Prussia, and how he and his policies - including aggressive war - helped to unite Germany.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-12-06
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Yorck
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-12-23
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Friesennot
Overview: The peaceful life of a village of Frisions by the river Volga is troubled by the arrival of a troop of Red Guards led by the inhuman commissary Tschernoff.Not only content to mistreat the brave villagers led by no-nonsense young man Jürgen Wagner, he makes Mette, a girl born from a Frision man and a Russian woman, his mistress. Outraged, the villagers expel the girl who takes refuge in the marshes. The Bolsheviks are prompt to react, one of them raping a young Frision girl. The Frisions, in desperation, set fire to their village after slaughtering the "Reds" and head for a new motherland, Nazi Germany maybe...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-11-19
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The Flute Concert of Sans-souci
Overview: In 1756, a masked ball was officially celebrated in the Dresden Palais of the Saxon Minister Heinrich von Brühl. Unofficially, however, talks are taking place with the envoys of Austria, Russia and France with the aim of conspiring against the Prussian King Frederick II. The Prussian envoy, Major von Lindeneck, succeeded in bringing a copy of the concluded secret treaty to the Prussian king. Friedrich consults with his generals, who urge caution. Friedrich is stunned by the reaction and now develops a counter-plan. To do this, he sends von Lindeneck back to Dresden. However, the latter is not very enthusiastic about this, as he thinks he has reason to doubt his wife Blanche's marital fidelity, and he now has to leave her alone.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-12-19
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Cadets
Overview: The sensitive, music-loving son of a German general reluctantly attends a military academy and after warning a fellow officer to stay away from the cadet's attractive young stepmother, lands up being charged for murder.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-12-21
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The Captain from Köpenick
Overview: Based on the true story of a cobbler who bought a second-hand captain's uniform, assumed command of a troop of guardsmen, declared the town of Köpenick under military law, arrested the mayor and confiscated the town treasury.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-12-22
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Under False Flag
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-02-12
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The Ship Without a Harbor
Overview: Klaus Hansen is a Sea Police, patrolling on the German North Sea coast. Having just married the singer Kitty Korff, the couple goes on honeymoon. But there is a ghost ship bothering him.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-12-25
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Anna Favetti
Overview: The daughter of a reclusive couple in the St. Moritz mountains tends to her brother, disabled from the Great War, though a handsome young architect who has just arrived waits for her attentions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-04-27
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Wenn du noch eine Heimat hast
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1942-01-08
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Luise, Queen of Prussia
Overview: Vehicle for one of the Weimar era's most beloved actresses: as the popular Prussian queen in 1806-1807, she presides over the humiliating Peace of Tilsit which Napoleon forces on the defeated Germans.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-12-04
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Schill's eleven officers
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Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-08-19
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Der singende Tor
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-12-22
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Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung
Overview: Sylvia, the daughter of the pastor Kelvil, is lectrice to Lady Patricia and gets to know the young Lord Harford. They love one another, but their class differences forbid marriage. There's a sharp argument with the father, who afterwards wants to send the young lord abroad. Then Sylvia is offered money to disappear, unaware that she's already pregnant. 18 years later: Sylvia raised her son on her own as best she could. He is now known as Lord Harford, who, besides having the title Lord Illingworth, also has inherited his father's total estate and has now returned from India. Unaware of their identities, the father and son get to know one another; get into a fight; and the young man challenges the father to a duel. In order to prevent that from happening, the mother must now tell each of them the truth about their identities. The film is based on the theatre piece of the same name by Oscar Wilde.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-10-26
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Träumerei
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Genres: Drama Music History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1944-05-03
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Marshal Forward
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Genres: War Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-11-23
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The Man Who Committed the Murder
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
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Dreizehn Mann und eine Kanone
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Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-12-22
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In the Employ of the Secret Service
Overview: During WWI a German agent receives an order to find out when the Russian army will carry out its expected attack against the German lines.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-08-13
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Two Worlds
Overview: German language version of Two Worlds.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-09-15
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Das Leben geht weiter
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1945-03-01
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The Fox of Glenarvon
Overview: An English peace judge in an Irish district is married to an Irishwoman. She is a caring patriot. He is heavily indebted by a life of luxury, and doesn't shy away from dark deeds to maintain his lifestyle. Anti-Britsh propaganda film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-01-02
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Assassination
Overview: "Assassination" - A far-right political organization called "Fellowship Loyalty" seeks contact with an easily seducable man whom she finds in Joachim Burthe. The leader of this deeply democratizing group, the equally characterless and unscrupulous Gregor of Askanius, whispers to the fanatical student seeking guidance that it is finally time to put the death sentence on the corrupt system and its representatives.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-08-22
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Mother and Child
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-11-13
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The Burning Heart
Overview: A young composer and inventor meets a poverty stricken singer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-02-16
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Goethe Lives...!
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-03-01
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Covered Tracks
Overview: 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).
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-08-25
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Friedrich Schiller – Der Triumph eines Genies
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
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The Tunnel
Overview: Max Allan, a visionary engineer persuades investors to fund building an undersea railway connecting France to the United States. But there are powerful forces who wants to stop his futuristic dream.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1915-09-01
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Countess Donelli
Overview: A lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-11-27
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Ein Lebenskünstler
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-09-01
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Strafsache van Geldern
Overview: Paulus van Geldern is a lawyer who has made a name for himself as a criminal defense attorney, but is notoriously short of funds due to his unbridled passion for gambling. His gambling causes problems with his marriage to Martha who is thriving.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-08-22
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