Sybille Schmitz
Also Known As: Sybille Maria Christina Schmitz, Sybille Maria Christine Schmitz, Sybille Maria Christine Petersson
Biography: Sybille Maria Christina Schmitz (2 December 1909 – 13 April 1955) was a German actress. Schmitz attended an acting school in Cologne and got her first engagement at Max Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater in Berlin in 1927. Only one year later, she made her film debut with Freie Fahrt (1928), which attracted her first attention from critics. Her other early movies include Pabst's Diary of a Lost Girl (1929), Dreyer's Vampyr (1932), and eventually F.P.1 (1932), where she played her first leading role. Schmitz established herself as a prominent actress in German cinema with the films which followed; including Der Herr der Welt (1934), Abschiedswalzer (1934), Ein idealer Gatte (1935), and Fährmann Maria (1936). She also had roles in Die Umwege des schönen Karl (1937), Tanz auf dem Vulkan (1938), Die Frau ohne Vergangenheit (1939), Trenck, der Pandur (1940) and Titanic (1943)
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Düren, Germany
Birthday: December 02, 1909
Deathday: April 13, 1955
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Gender: Female
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Vampyr
Overview: A student of the occult encounters supernatural haunts and local evildoers in a village outside of Paris.
Genres: Horror Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-05-06
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F.P.1 Doesn't Answer
Overview: F.P.1 is a huge airplane landing dock in the Atlantic where pilots making the transatlantic flight can stop. Yet a saboteur tries to sink the technical wonder in this classic German science fiction film from 1932. The film was also created with English and French speaking actors at the same time.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-12-22
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Titanic
Overview: In 1912, the Titanic embarks on its inevitable collision course with history. In the wake of the over-spending required to build the largest luxury ship in the world, White Star Line executive Sir Bruce Ismay schemes to reverse the direction of his company's plummeting stock value. Onboard the Titanic, brave German 1st Officer Petersen struggles to convince his self-important British superiors not to overexert the ship's engines.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1943-11-10
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Accident
Overview: A tense vignette about the fate of an unlucky man in poverty-stricken Weimar-era Germany.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-11-06
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Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
Overview: A group of people gathers back in the post-war ruins of a luxurious Munich hotel they inhabited at one point or another years before; each trying to cope with the tragic consequences of the war and their own actions.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1947-12-11
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Ferryman Maria
Overview: A beautiful young drifter comes to a small village and battles Death itself to save the man she loves.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-01-07
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Die Umwege des schönen Karl
Overview: Karl Kramer is a waiter in a beach hotel on the Baltic Sea. But he has completely different plans in mind for the future. Before he marries Grete Wernicke, the daughter of the hotel manager, he wants to have enough money himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-01-30
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Tanz auf dem Vulkan
Overview: Paris, 1830: Jean-Gaspard Debureau performs on the stage and delights his audience with song, wit and charm. He is, however, very unpopular with King Charles X, who is the target of much of Debureau's scornful jests. That would be a somewhat tolerable situation if it weren't for the fact that Debureau has fallen for a countess, who happens to be the King's mistress.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-11-30
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Hotel Sacher
Overview: Vienna is celebrating New Year’s Eve 1913/14. It is the year, which will see the outbreak of the First World War. In Hotel Sacher, the mood is excellent; and although the political atmosphere is charged, there’s an undercurrent of hate and intolerance in the air. It is with this background that Nadja, a Russian spy, meets the Austrian civil servant Stefan. He loves her, but comes under suspicion of being an agent because of this love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-03-15
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Rivalen der Luft
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-01-19
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Trenck, der Pandur
Overview: Film about the fictitious adventures of Franz Freiherr von Trenck, who lived during the times of empress Maria Theresia of Austria garnished with espionage and twisted love affairs.
Genres: Drama History Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-08-23
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Die Lüge
Overview: Three men are planning a balloon ascent into the stratosphere. During the balloon flight, complications arise, the balloon is driven out to sea and the men face death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-08-10
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An Ideal Husband
Overview: Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-09-05
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Master of the World
Overview: A German scientist designs and builds a machine that will do dangerous work instead of placing humans in jeopardy. But the machine itself turns out to have disastrous effects on the people involved.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-08-11
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Musik im Blut
Overview: In Dresden's classical music world, female students learn from an opinionated conductor and a pompous dance instructor.When their work isn't appreciated, a teacher consoles them, saying Bruckner, Schubert and Wagner were also criticized.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-07-31
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Punks kommt aus Amerika
Overview: A German who has been away too long in America and has lost all of his money needs to prove himself to his fellow citizens,which he does by foiling the robbery of his uncle and then marrying his sweetheart.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-01-25
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Farewell Waltz
Overview: Warsaw 1831: The young music student Frédéric Chopin falls in love with the singer Constantia. When his professor learns that Polish revolutionaries want to persuade Chopin to take part in their uprising, he and Constantia hatch a plan to keep Chopin away from the revolution: Constantia pretends that she no longer loves him, so that Chopin accepts an offer to go to a concert in Paris. There, however, he meets the famous writer George Sand and falls in love with her.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-10-02
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Stradivari
Overview: In 1914 a Hungarian officer inherits a Stradivarius which is believed to bring back luck to its owner. He and his Italian fiancée are separated by the First World War, and he is badly wounded.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-08-25
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Illusion in Moll
Overview: After the death of her husband (Albrecht Schoenhals) wealthy but lonely hotel owner Maria Alsbacher (Sybille Schmitz) falls in love with a charming bandleader and singer (Maurice Teynac) without realizing that he is only behind her money. When she decides to marry him, her son (Hardy Krüger) enlists the help of his tragically ill fiancee Lydia (Hildegard Knef) to unmask this man for the villain he really is.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1952-12-18
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Vom Schicksal verweht
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1942-07-24
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Die Kronzeugin
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-04-20
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Clarissa
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1941-09-08
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The Last Night
Overview: Set in German-occupied France in 1944 where a female resistance operative and a German army officer fall in love.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1949-02-11
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Oberwachtmeister Schwenke
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-01-14
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Wenn die Musik nicht wär
Overview: The great Franz Liszt helps a struggling, unworldly piano tutor advance to a position in Munich, and ward off a villainous foreign competitor for his lady love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-09-25
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I Was Jack Mortimer
Overview: The jealous star conductor Montemayor knows that his beautiful younger wife, Winifred, is cheating on him with an American named Jack Mortimer. After the concert rehearsal, he takes a taxi to the train station, sees Mortimer and shoots him at an intersection from the backseat of his taxi. The shot is not heard during the traffic noise. The taxi driver, Sponer, sitting in his car with the now-dead Mortimer, goes into a panic.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-10-16
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Die Leuchter des Kaisers
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-02-14
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Die Hochstaplerin
Overview: A fake countess falls in love with an honest man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1944-01-07
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Crown Jewels
Overview: As foreign troops occupy the country, the government commissions a jeweler to bring the crown jewels to safety.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-12-08
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Freie Fahrt
Overview: The struggels of the German proletariat over the course of several centuries. Propaganda film by the Social Democratic Party.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-12-07
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The Stars Shine
Overview: German all-star musical from 1938 that was a big commercial success.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-03-17
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Wetterleuchten um Barbara
Overview: After an Austrian home guard raids a group of pro Nazi mountain folk, Barbara and her husband ,part of the group, escape to Germany, from which they will return with invading troops to establish closer ties between the two countries.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1941-10-17
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Diary of a Lost Girl
Overview: Thymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must fend for herself in a harsh, cruel world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-09-27
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Das Leben ruft
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1944-12-20
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The Unknown
Overview: The body of an unknown beautiful woman is fished out of the river and leaves the policemen wondering what drove the girl to such a grisly fate. The film then flashes back to months before, showing the torrid love affair between a young cabaret singer and a rich playboy that ultimately results in tragedy for the girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-11-12
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Die Frau ohne Vergangenheit
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-07-17
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The House on the Coast
Overview: The story takes place in a town on Adriatic coast. Mother wants to marry her daughter to a wealthy doctor, but her plan proves to be challenging as they're both seduced by a handsome smuggler.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-06-30
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Signal in der Nacht
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-09-30
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Die fremde Frau
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-08-31
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Sensation im Savoy
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-09-22
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Dance with Death: The Ufa Star Sybille Schmitz
Overview: A documentary of the life of German actress Sybille Schmitz (1909–1955) who rose to prominence in the German cinema of the 1930s and whose final years were used as the basis for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1982 film 'Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss'.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-12-31
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