Maria Forescu
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian opera singer and film actress. Killed in the Holocaust.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Czernowitz, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary [now Chernivtsi, Ukraine]
Birthday: January 15, 1875
Deathday: January 01, 1942
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Das Goldene Krönlein
Overview: A fairy-tale fantasy set in the backdrop of Snow White.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-11-30
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Susie Cleans Up
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-11-22
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Wer wird denn weinen, wenn man auseinandergeht?
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-08-15
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Shadows of the Underworld
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-04-26
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The Vice of Humanity
Overview: Tamara becomes addicted to cocaine but hides from her daughter by moving in with the dealer Mangol. The father tells his daughter that her mother has died, but years later the daughter rediscovers her mother appearing on stage. Mangol pursues the daughter, but Tamara intervenes before dying amongst family members.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-04-05
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Husbands or Lovers
Overview: A wife, bored by her overweight slob of a husband, gives in to the temptation of a slickly seductive poet.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-11-21
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The Circle of Death
Overview: This anti-communist propaganda film discusses the revolutionary curse of communism in the Soviet-Union shortly before and after the fall of czardom in Russia, told from the point of view of Belarusians in exile. Anti-communist copy in color which has been discovered, restored and printed by the Royal Belgian Filmarchive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-04-04
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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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In the Slums of Berlin
Overview: It was not just the children who were treated badly by the wealthy Weimar republic. Robert Kramer is released from prison but struggles to adjust to civilian life. His father disowns him, his wife has left him for another man. There is no work. He eventually arrives in a shelter for the homeless, and seeks salvation through Emma, a prostitute.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-08-28
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The Thirteen Trunks of Mr. O.F.
Overview: In the very old-fashioned town of Ostend suddenly 13 suitcases are delivered to the hotel, with a note, that O.F. will be here soon and needs 6 rooms (the hotel just has five). This event, probably the biggest in 300 years, starts a small wave of modernisation, yet everybody is wondering who O.F. is. Journalist Stix and architect Stark have an idea how to use this event. They proclaim, that O.F. is a former citizen of the town, who became a millionaire abroad. They tell their fellow citizens that the town still needs modernisation, like better hotels, nightclubs, shops, etc. And soon, Ostend is a boomtown, then a capital. The architect, responsible for the new buildings is finaly allowed to marry the mayor's daughter, while Stix marries the cabaret star and the widowed mayor his new secretary. The only problem is, O.F. hasn't shown up, while finance experts from all over the world are trying to solve the depression problem.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-12-02
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The Bordellos of Algiers
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-05-10
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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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Peer Gynt - 1. Teil: Peer Gynts Jugend
Overview: Based on Henrik Ibsen's play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-04-06
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Phantome des Lebens
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-01-01
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Der Mann mit dem Laubfrosch
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-02-04
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Hanseaten
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-12-16
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Der König und das kleine Mädchen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-06-18
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Könnyved, der große Unbekannte
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-01-16
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Die Fremde aus der Elstergasse
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-06-08
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Der Sieg der Jugend
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-01-01
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Der Liebe Lust und Leid
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1926-01-01
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Das Abenteuer der Sybille Brant
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Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-10-15
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Veritas vincit
Overview: "Truth Wins" - A history film that is particularly elaborate in terms of its features and that attempts to illustrate the perpetual victory of the truth about the lie in three epic episodes.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-01-02
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The Great Industrialist
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-01-01
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Der Teufelsreporter
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-07-19
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Tabitha, Stand Up
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-12-22
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Colomba
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-11-08
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A Crazy Night
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-01-21
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Tanja, die Frau an der Kette
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-01-04
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Das Mädel aus der Provinz
Overview: Young Steffi goes to the city to take a job in a factory and falls for the son of the owner.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-01-01
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Bummellotte
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-04-10
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Der Tänzer
Overview: Andreas Rellnow decides to leave his troubled parents and pursue an artistic career. As a violin virtuoso, he quickly became popular and a first-class heart-breaker.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-09-06
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Faded Dreams
Overview: A wealthy skirt-chasing drunkard marries a simple country gal, yet he doesn't take time off from his regular 'affairs'.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-10-20
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Sein gefährlichstes Spiel
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-01-01
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The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi
Overview: Ayan, Maharajah of Eschnapur, believes that his wife, Princess Savitri, has been unfaithful to him with officer Mac Allan. He decides to bury her alive, so he sends the Yogi Ramigani to England to look for Herbert Rowland, an architect; but when he orders him to build a tomb, Rowland refuses.
Genres: Adventure Drama Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-10-22
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Professor Nissens seltsamer Tod
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1917-02-01
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Kampf um Blond
Overview: Lotte and Daisy run away from the orphanage and make their way to Berlin, where they meet shady characters. The police are looking for the two of them, especially as several girls have recently disappeared without trace.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-01-02
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Fighting the White Slave Traffic
Overview: A young woman in Berlin is offered a job at a night club in Budapest. There she is abducted and brought to a brothel in Athens.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-05-12
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Jimmy, ein Schicksal von Mensch und Tier
Overview: Captain Bryde, who is a guest of young Percy, Duke of Glauburne, rescues the artist Maud and her bear Jimmy, the only survivors of a shipwreck. Maud and her bear find shelter in the Duke's castle, but immediately arouse the jealousy of Percy's girlfriend Ethel
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-06-15
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The Folk Upstairs
Overview: In "Menschen Untereinander" ("The Folk Upstairs"), director Gerhard Lamprecht sketches a cross-section of Germany's new post-war society, with its winners, social climbers, and losers, represented by the social microcosm of an apartment building. The gossip-mad Frau Mierig (Lydia Potechina) from the rear building gives the newly-arrived Frau Kaminski (Käthe Haack), the janitor's wife, a lively initiation into the tenants and their peculiarities.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-04-03
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