Raimondo Van Riel
Also Known As: Raymond van Riel
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rome, Italy
Birthday: January 22, 1881
Deathday: May 09, 1962
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Esterina
Overview: Esterina, a young war orphan, joins two truck drivers, Gino and Piero, on their trips along Northern Italy. She wants to find her luck in the big city, but her dreams turn into disappointing experiences. She falls in love with Gino but he is not interested in her, until she disappears...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-09-09
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Manege
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-01-01
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City of Pain
Overview: The city of Pola is being evacuated after the peace conference of 1947 decided to assign the sovereignty to Tito's Yugoslavia. However the main character decides to stay, thinking that Communism might bring him a better future. Life turns to be hard for him and his family until he changes his mind, but he is killed before he can leave the country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-03-04
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Der Zigeunerprimas
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-03-27
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Fiamma simbolica
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1919-01-01
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Welcome Reverend!
Overview: A disguised thief talks himself into a countryside class fight immediately after WWII.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-02-15
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Margaret of Cortona
Overview: A Tuscan peasant girl in the 13th century overcomes sexual harassment, and the skepticism of her fellow citizens, as she saves plague victims, works miracles, and eventually becomes a saint.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-02-22
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First Love
Overview: Ugo meets the 18-year-old Renata in the hostel where she is staying. He falls in love with and leaves with her for several romantic places until the money ends. Ugo will try to get the girl engaged on a local TV station, but Renata falls in love with a manager.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-02-04
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Lorenzino de' Medici
Overview: Lorenzino de 'Medici manipulates Alessandro ruler of Florence to save his beloved Bianca.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-29
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Un viaggio nell'impossibile
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1923-09-01
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Gehetzte Mädchen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-01-01
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Mein Herz gehört Dir...
Overview: German drama
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-02-23
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Before the Jury
Overview: During a reception in a villa, wealthy banker Calandri is killed in the park with a gunshot. The gamekeeper Barra is immediately arrested, but he declares himself innocent. During the trial it turns out that the defendant had threatened the victim, guilty of courting his sister-in-law. But the deposition of a journalist present at the party soon leads to discover the existence of a dense network of equivocal relations between the victim, the guests and the servants. This judicial setting drama is allegedly the second Italian sound film after "The Song of Love", made using the RCA Photophone recording technique, and is also considered to be the first Italian detective film, a precursor to the later genre of Giallo films.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1931-01-31
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Im Kampf mit der Unterwelt
Overview: A banker who had fallen out with his family stipulated in his will that his fortune should only pass to the person in possession of the five keys he distributed to his relatives during his lifetime 80 years after his death. Only with all five keys can the cassette in the vault of a bank be opened, granting access to the deceased's assets. 75 years after the banker's death, the fugitive crook Murphy comes into possession of one of the keys, together with a list of the names of the owners of the four remaining keys. Over the next five years, he manages to obtain two more keys by criminal means. Now he just has to get the fourth key from Carlo and the fifth key from the young, rich widow Maria. Any means will do. But the unscrupulous villain has not reckoned with Carlo's shrewdness, who initially falls under suspicion himself, but then takes up the pursuit of the criminal.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-08-05
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Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
Overview: A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the battle of Zama.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1937-08-04
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Il trovatore
Overview: Azucena, daughter of a Gypsy burnt at the stake, to take her revenge kidnaps one of the children of Count de Luna and raises him in secret as her own.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-04-15
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Ben-Hur
Overview: In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.
Genres: History Drama Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-18
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Beatrice Cenci
Overview: The story of the sixteenth century Italian noblewoman Beatrice Cenci.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1926-01-12
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Danger! car thieves!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-06-04
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Una lettera all'alba
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-10-13
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The Golden Abyss
Overview: An eccentric millionaire brings together four men who, under different circumstances, wanted to commit suicide. The proposal made to them is the following: they will travel to an islet that, according to legend, emerged from the sea when Atlantis sank and that houses a fabulous treasure buried by the Incas. But that territory is populated by the worst band of pirates and evildoers the world has ever known.
Genres: Drama Adventure Action
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-09-26
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Waves of Passion
Overview: About the booming of smuggling alcohol across the Baltic Sea between Estonia and the neighboring and alcohol prohibited Finland. Fiery love relationships are another theme of the film.
Genres: Drama Crime Adventure
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1930-10-10
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Zigano
Overview: Filmarchiv Austria holds a non-access master print and a nitrate duplicate negative of the film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-07-27
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The Betrothed
Overview: Based on the famous historical novel by Alessandro Manzoni, and set between 1628 and 1630 in Lombardy, Northern Italy, during the Spanish domination, the film displays the marriage between two young textile workers, Renzo and Lucia. The 1922 version is one of the most ambitious and spectacular films in all Italian silent cinema, with remarkable mass scenes and some images that sparked controversy.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1922-08-11
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Quo Vadis?
Overview: "The Roman Banquet, the golden glories, the unrivaled luxuries, the wine, the dance, the song, the beautiful women, the sumptuous splendors that taxed a barbaric world for a night of feasting and revel-- Re-created for your entertainment in the most colossal drama produced", reads an ad in the Daily Argus of New York. Unione Cinematografica Italiana's lavish production of the oft-told tale stars Emil Jannings as Nero.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1924-10-01
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Der Kampf gegen Berlin
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-01-22
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Die Schmugglerbraut von Mallorca
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-07-31
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Der Bund der Drei
Overview: A waitress plans revenge on the man whom she believes killed her mother.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-12-12
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Dva pekelné dny
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1928-12-12
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The Gorgon
Overview: 1017 AD. The Republic of Pisa is organizing a fleet to drive out the Saracens who are infesting the Mediterranean. While the forces are away "The Gorgon," the young daughter of a Pisan nobleman who has been heroically killed, comes to be solemnly invested as the figurehead virgin who will maintain a lantern to celebrate the men's victorious return. In charge of the home guard is an ambitious young Florentine who feels deprived of the forthcoming honour and glory, and who seeks revenge by violating the sacred person of the virgin. He gains access to her well guarded quarters, but when the Gorgon falls helplessly in love with him, his desire for vengeance falls away. His plot exposed, he commits suicide rather than invoke the wrath of the Pisans. The Gorgon too takes her life by throwing herself from a high tower. Meanwhile, the victorious Pisan vessels return.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-10-12
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Il barone Carlo Mazza
Overview: Rosa Pezza, a beautiful young girl, is forced into a thousand maneuvers and subterfuges to gain possession of a rich inheritance. She is ultimately forced to marry the penniless and bizarre baron Carlo Mazza but the baron, tired of his wife's escapades, decides to divorce her...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-11-11
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The Chase After Millions
Overview: Early German sound film based on the novel "Lord Spleen" by Ludwig von Wohl. Two stowaways attempt to unravel a plot onboard a steam train.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-03-31
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Constantine and the Cross
Overview: Constantine is fighting against Barbarians with his father when he is called to Rome. In his way to Rome, he falls in an ambush planned by Maxence, who wants to become emperor.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-02-02
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