Fritz Kortner
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Fritz Kortner (12 May 1892 – 22 July 1970) was an Austrian-born stage and film actor and theatre director. Kortner was born in Vienna as Fritz Nathan Kohn. He studied at the Vienna Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. After graduating, he joined Max Reinhardt in Berlin in 1911 and then Leopold Jessner in 1916. Also in that year he made his first appearance in a silent film. He became one of Germany's best known character actors. His speciality was playing sinister and threatening roles, though he also appeared in the title role of 1930's Dreyfus. With the coming to power of the Nazis, Kortner, being Jewish, chose to flee Germany in 1933. He emigrated to the United States, where he found work as a character actor and theatre director for a time before returning to Germany in 1949. Upon his return, he became noted for his innovative staging and direction, particularly of classics such as his Richard III (1964) in which the king crawls over piles of corpses at the end. Kortner died in Munich. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fritz Kortner, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Vienna - Austria
Adult: No
Birthday: May 12, 1892
Age: 133 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 22, 1970
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Pandora's Box
Overview: Lulu is a young woman so beautiful and alluring that few can resist her siren charms. The men drawn into her web include respectable newspaper publisher Dr. Ludwig Schön, his musical producer son Alwa, circus performer Rodrigo Quast, and seedy old Schigolch. When Lulu's charms inevitably lead to tragedy, the downward spiral encompasses them all.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-01-30
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Nora
Overview: Adaptation of A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-02-02
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The Brasher Doubloon
Overview: Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock hires Marlowe to find an old rare coin, the Brasher Doubloon, that belonged in her deceased husband's collection. Marlowe begins investigating, but quickly finds himself entangled in a series of unexplained murders.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-06
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Catherine the Great
Overview: The film was an epic portrayal of the life of Catherine the Great of Russia.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-22
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The Hands of Orlac
Overview: A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he is horrified to learn they once belonged to a murderer.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-09-24
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Berlin Express
Overview: In post-war Europe, a diverse group of passengers aboard a U.S. Army train to bombed-out Frankfurt becomes involved in a Nazi assassination plot.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-01
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The Vicious Circle
Overview: In Hungary, a rich baron discovers that there are extensive oil deposits underneath nearby properties owned by villagers. He manages to convince all the property owners to sell to him, except for a few properties owned by Jewish families. Infuriated at their refusal to sell to him, he attempts, with the help of some corrupt local police, to have the men charged with the murder of a local woman, who in reality actually committed suicide.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-21
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Die stärkere Macht
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-09-23
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Marquis d’Eon, der Spion der Pompadour
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-09-06
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The Razor's Edge
Overview: An adventurous young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-19
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Warning Shadows
Overview: During a dinner given by a wealthy baron and his wife, attended by four of her suitors in a 19th century German manor, a shadow-player rescues the marriage by giving all the guests a vision what might happen tonight if the baron stays jealous and the suitors do not reduce their advances towards his beautiful wife. Or was it a vision?
Genres: Thriller Fantasy Drama Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-10-16
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Dr. Wislizenus
Overview: Deep in the forest lives the bitter Dr. Wislizenus, whose childhood sweetheart Maria committed suicide ten years ago. The visit of a childhood friend, he who wrote a poem about Mary, triggers a tragedy.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1924-03-03
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The Woman Men Yearn For
Overview: After a chance meeting at a train station, Henry and Stascha, unhappy with their circumstances, are determined to leave and be together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-04-29
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Backstairs
Overview: In a poor neighborhood of a big city, a crippled mailman is in love with a maid who lives in his building. However, she is in love with a wealthy and handsome young man, who soon disappears. The mailman provides the maid with letters that get her hopes up... but tragedy will soon befall all three.
Genres: Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-12-11
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Chu Chin Chow
Overview: Musical retelling of the "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" Arabian Nights tale.
Genres: Music Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-01
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The Ship of Lost Men
Overview: A young doctor gets stuck on a ship after treating an injured first mate. Later, he rescues a woman from plane wreckage, and with the help of the cook, he hides her away from the rowdy and dangerous crew.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-09-17
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Abdul the Damned
Overview: In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by the Young Turk party. He allows Hilmi Pasha, the leader of the Young Turks, to return from exile and form the country's first constitutional government. With tensions still growing, chief of police Kadar Pasha assassinates Hassan Bey, the leader of the Old Turk party, and makes it look as if a Young Turk committed the crime, in order to give Abdul an excuse for arresting the Young Turk leaders. Meanwhile, Abdul becomes infatuated with a visiting Austrian singer. When she rejects his advances, she endangers both herself and her fiancé, a Turkish officer who also knows who really shot Hassan Bey.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-05
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Armes kleines Mädchen
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-01-01
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What Belongs to Darkness
Overview: What Belongs to Darkness (German: Die Finsternis und ihr Eigentum) is a 1922 German silent drama film directed by Martin Hartwig and starring Karl Etlinger, Erra Bognar, and Fritz Kortner. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alfred Columbus.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-12-08
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The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
Overview: Austrian actor Franz Huber, known for his impressions, is captured by the Gestapo and forced into plastic surgery to become Hitler's body double. Their plan is to poison Hitler and use Huber to take control of the Reich. Meanwhile, Huber's wife Anna sees her life coming undone as her husband has disappeared and her two sons are indoctrinated into the Hitler Youth.
Genres: Drama War Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-10
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The House on the Moon
Overview: The House on the Moon
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-01-28
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Midnight Menace
Overview: When a reporter is killed under mysterious circumstances, the political cartoonist on his paper begins to investigate on his own. He finds that a vengeful industrialist may be trying to manipulate an international peace conference to stage a bombing attack on London.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-04
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Hitler: A Career
Overview: A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of mass psychology and how the desperate crowd can be deceived and shepherded to the slaughterhouse.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-07-08
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Somewhere in the Night
Overview: George Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, he tries to track down his old identity, stumbling into a 3-year old murder case and a hunt for a missing $2 million.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-12
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The Other
Overview: A psychological drama based on the popular Jekyll and Hyde theme involving a strict legal official. Based on the 1893 play "Der Andere" by Paul Lindau.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-08-11
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Danton
Overview: This pre-WW II German costume drama chronicles the French Revolution with a particular focus upon Danton, Robespierre, and Marat. It depicts the dramatic downfall and execution of Georges Danton in 1794 at the hands of Maximilien Robespierre. The film also presents an interesting, if not historically inaccurate, portrayal of Louis XVI.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-01-21
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Dreyfus
Overview: In late nineteenth century Alfred Dreyfus, a French army officer of Jewish heritage, is falsely accused of espionage. Found guilty of treason he is drummed out of the army and sent to prison on Devil's Island.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-08-15
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The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov
Overview: Suspicion surrounds a lieutenant for killing his father; based on Dostoevsky's novel.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-02-05
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The Night of Queen Isabeau
Overview: The film depicts the marriage between the mad Charles VI of France and his wife Queen Isabeau.
Genres: History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-11-18
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The Last Illusion
Overview: Professor Mauthner, after many years of exile (having emigrated in 1933 to the USA), returns to Germany in 1948. He can in fact return to his teaching post, but the rejection and petty intrigues of his reactionary colleagues and students make his work almost unbearable.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1949-04-19
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Epilogue
Overview: The reporter Peter Zabel stumbles upon the sinking of the luxury yacht Orplid in Hamburg on August 14, 1949. The ship went down with a wedding party run by artists on a pleasure trip from Hamburg to Scotland . In spite of good weather and no technical problems. Out of personal curiosity, Zabel starts researching. Could the sinking of Orplid have political reasons? A German political thriller and film noir inspired by Carol Reed's "The Third Man".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-09-28
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Should We Be Silent?
Overview: A melodrama about a painter who is infected with syphilis, refuses treatment, turns to the use instead of narcotics, and withers away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-04-05
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The Last Night
Overview: The fate of a French aristocrat is revealed in this historical costume drama, who, in 1792, finds herself confronted with the choice of either standing with her peers or becoming a revolutionary.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-10-11
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The Love Storm
Overview: This is the German-language version of the British film The Love Storm (1931).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-11-21
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Evensong
Overview: Loosely based on the story of the singer Nellie Melba...
Genres: War Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-03
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Giftgas
Overview: Arnold Horn, a young idealistic chemist, discovers a compound that can be used for the production of an effective deadly poisonous gas. Against his will the chemical factory starts production of the poison gas to increase the value of their shares.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-11-13
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Little Friend
Overview: A girl becomes an unwilling witness in her parents' scandalous divorce case.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-18
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Kortnergeschichten
Overview: Documentary about director Fritz Korner
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-08-13
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Das andere Ich
Overview: A professor discovers a way to separate the soul from the body.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-09-06
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The Great Passion
Overview: This is a real curiosity; at best a reasonable film, but also a charming little gem. There is a story (in the line of "A Star is Born"), but this merely serves as an excuse, as it is more importantly a kind of moving encyclopedia of about 35 stars making their debut in a talkie (although some of them had already made one talkie), of the technical sound possibilities and of film making. Besides all that, it is entertaining and sometimes hilarious and it has fine one-liners that split my side. The film is also remarkable for making mock of typical German film genres (like the overly sweet romances involving the military), of too heavy acting and of film making in general. I have to mention this one: a short, hysterically funny parody of "Der blaue Engel". What this film in fact says is: do not take any film too seriously. (J. Steed)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-08-24
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Landstraße und Großstadt
Overview: Two poor musicians rise from rags to riches. Money, fame and their love for the same woman begin to crumble their friendship, revealing the true natures of both men--one noble and kind, the other a greedy, ruthless beast.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-04-22
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The Eternal Jew
Overview: A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of Jewish neighborhoods in recently-conquered Poland is combined with preexisting film clips and stills to defame the religion and advance Hitler's slurs that its adherents were plotting to undermine European civilization.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-11-28
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Der Kaufmann von Venedig
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-03-02
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The Purple V
Overview: German expatriate Fritz Kortner plays the largest role, as an anti-Nazi schoolmaster who helps a downed American flyer (John Archer) reached Allied lines with vital war information. As usual, the Nazis are incredibly stupid and lead-footed, enabling the flyer to accomplish his mission.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-12
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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 Crouching Beast
Overview: In 1915 during the First World War, a British secret agent is killed while stealing secret Turkish plans for the Gallipoli Campaign but manages to pass his information to an American journalist.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-29
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Alpentragödie
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-09-19
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Mata Hari: the Red Dancer
Overview: Mata Hari, die rote Tänzerin (English: Mata Hari: The Red Dancer), often shortened on release to Mata Hari, is a 1927 German silent drama film directed by Friedrich Feher and starring Magda Sonja, Wolfgang Zilzer and Fritz Kortner. It depicts the life and death of the German World War I spy Mata Hari. It was the first feature-length portrayal of Hari.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-05-02
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Der Sonnwendhof
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-11-15
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Der Märtyrer seines Herzens
Overview: The film traces the individual stages in the life of Ludwig van Beethoven.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-02-08
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Die Verschwörung zu Genua
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1921-02-25
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Frau Sorge
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-02-07
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Primanerliebe
Overview: An exploration of the misery of youth. A student, his friends, and the girl he loves all suffer due to the harsh and unforgiving nature of the adults in their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-06-02
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Haschisch, das Paradies der Hölle
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-02-07
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Die Verschleierte
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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Bluebeard
Overview: Just before wowing international critics and moviegoers with his adventure romp Fanfan la Tulipe, director Christian-Jaque dashed off the lampoonish Barbe-Bleue. Ostensibly the story of the famed wife-killing potentate Bluebeard (Pierre Brasseur), this lighthearted costumer begins as the title character is poised to march down the matrimonial aisle for the eighth time. Barbe-Bleue's newest spouse Aline (Cécile Aubry) is kept in line by her husband's claims of murdering her predecessors. But when Aline opens the famous locked door to the equally famous hidden room, both she and the audience are in for quite a surprise. The frivolous nature of Barbe-Bleue is underlined by its pleasing utilization of the French Gezacolor process.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-09-27
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Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
Overview: Weltbrand is the first part of the two-part silent movie Christian Wahnschaffe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1920-11-12
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Fünfter Akt, siebente Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe
Overview: This documentation of a Kortner stage rehearsal shows in detail and fascinatingly how Kortner developed psychological tensions with meticulous precision in linguistic expression and gestural construction.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-05-19
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Am Rande der Großstadt
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-12-12
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Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-11-01
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The Wife of Monte Cristo
Overview: In this sequel to the original story, Monte Cristo count Edmund Dantes (Martin Kosleck) returns to Paris to get revenge but soon finds himself pursued by a cruel policeman (John Loder). The count's brave wife Haydée (Lenore Aubert) throws the cop off her husband's scent by dressing up as the masked avenger herself and proving that she too is most competent with a sword.
Genres: Romance Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-22
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Fritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte
Overview: Film by Syberberg.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-07-05
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Am roten Kliff
Overview: A man is found dead on the small German island of Sylt. There is speculation that it may have been a murder, motivated by romantic jealousy. The man who is to be accused of the crime becomes despondent and aimless, abandoning his wife and children.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-04-29
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Va banque
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-06-27
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Die Brüder Karamasoff
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-07-20
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Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha
Overview: The Maharaja of Odhapur goes on a trip to Europe and meet the young dancer Ellen Esmond. In her London accommodation, the Savoy Hotel, the Indian prince can prove to be a gallant gentleman and protect Ellen from an intrusive theatrical agent. The Maharaja asks the artist to entertain his guests the following evening with her dancing skills, including England's representatives in India. The maharaja is thrilled with both the person Ellen and her dance performances. His brother Bhima, who was always in the shadow of the Maharajah, drinks excessively and also is also magically attracted to Ellen Esmond.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-01-20
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Der Graf von Essex
Overview: The Earl of Essex, a person favourite of the Queen, is in jeopardy of losing his relationship with the monarch after secretly marrying one of the Queen's ladies-in-waiting.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-09-14
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Satan
Overview: A three-part historical film: the first episode takes place in ancient Egypt, the second is based on the Hugo novel La Fin de Satan, and the third takes place during the 1917 Russian revolution. Lost film, minor fragments survive
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-01-30
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Peter the Great
Overview: Peter the Great, having become Tsar of Russia, using his shipbuilding knowledge acquired in a foreign country to establish a navy, and being able to use it, provokes a war with Sweden, defeating that country at the Battle of Poltava. This battle marks a turning point between Peter and Russia. His only son turns out to be a coward, meets a refugee girl and makes her his Empress, alienating himself from the church and many nobles. All these factors lead to a conspiracy...
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-11-02
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The Somnambulist
Overview: Originally named "The Clairvoyant" presenting the many talents of parapsychologist Elsbeth Günther-Geffers. First banned, later extensively reworked.
Genres: Horror Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-02-07
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Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-12-16
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Das Auge des Buddha
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-03-21
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Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-12-29
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Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-12-29
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Draga Maschin
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-01-01
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Atlantic
Overview: German-language version. "Atlantic" is a drama film based on the sinking of the RMS "Titanic" and set aboard a fictional ship, called the "Atlantic". The main plotline revolves around a man who has a shipboard affair with a fellow passenger, which is eventually discovered by his wife. The ship also has aboard an elderly couple, Heinrich and Anna Thomas, who are on their anniversary cruise. Midway across the Atlantic Ocean, the "Atlantic" strikes an iceberg and is damaged to the point where it is sinking into the Atlantic. The German version was filmed at the same time as the British version, with each scene first being filmed in English for the British version, then the same scene being filmed in German by a German cast, using the same sets.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-10-28
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Moderne Ehen
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-12-10
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The Life of Beethoven
Overview: Filmed in Austria for the hundredth anniversary of Beethoven's death, this 1927 silent film tells the story of the German genius' eventful emotional life. Presented in a restored version and with rearranged music, a biopic to be savored with ears wide open.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-02-18
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Die Ausgestoßenen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-11-01
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Kiedy kobieta zdradza męża
Overview: When Professor Horski learns that his wife has published a volume of novellas under his name entitled "Wife" he feels compromised and is angered at her. But as he reads them, he finds that they are great. Also, he reads in them a warning to himself: one should not neglect one's wife for the sake of academic work. The film is considered to be lost.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1924-12-27
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Die Frau im Talar
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1929-08-22
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The Ghost with the Deadly Kiss
Overview: Two couples arrived to the village where an old legend of a ghost with the deadly kiss circulates in.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1923-01-01
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Gerechtigkeit
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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