Victor Janson
Also Known As: Victor Arthur Eduard Janson
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Riga, Russian Empire
Birthday: September 24, 1884
Deathday: June 29, 1960
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Great Love
Overview: The attractive Oberleutnant Paul Wendlandt is stationed in North Africa as a fighter pilot. While in Berlin to deliver a report he is given a day's leave, and on the stage of the cabaret theatre "Skala" sees the popular Danish singer Hanna Holberg. For Paul it is love at first sight. When Hanna visits friends after the end of the performance, he follows her, and speaks to her in the U-Bahn. After the party in her friends' flat, he accompanies her home and chance throws them further together when an air raid warning forces them to take cover in the air raid shelter. Hanna reciprocates Paul's feelings, but after a night spent together Paul has to return immediately to the front. There now follows a whole series of misunderstandings, and one missed opportunity after another. While Hanna waits in vain for some sign of life from Paul, he is flying on missions in North Africa. When he tries to visit her in her Berlin flat, she is giving a Christmas concert in Paris.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1942-06-12
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Keimendes Leben. 2. Teil
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-10-01
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Unter heißer Zone
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1916-01-01
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Superstition
Overview: In a circus, visitor who has just fallen for the “gypsy” dancer Militza is stabbed by a jealous clown, Bajazzo. Militza escapes to the country village of Marienhagen, finding shelter in the house of a local Catholic priest. The priest also falls for Militza. When he is subsequently struck dead by a bolt of lightning one evening during Mass, his mother blames Militza and has her cast out of the village. Militza joins a theatrical troupe whose married leader is disappointed with the general lack of artistic talent and begs Militza to leave with him. Militza refuses, and instead flees on her own. Onboard a ship, she is surprised to encounter the leader of the troupe again. The ship sinks, he dies. She is rescued by a nobleman who takes her to his country estate. Here she finds peace and true love. When the dead priest’s vengeful mother learns that Militza is alive, she kindles fear and superstition among the villagers, who stone Militza to death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-10
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Amor am Steuer
Overview: A millionaire daughter is to be married to a man unknown to her. To get to know him, she slips into men's clothes, sticks on a mustache and is hired as a chauffeur.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-07
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The Doll
Overview: The misadventures of an effete young man who must get married in order to inherit a fortune. He opts to purchase a remarkably lifelike doll and marry it instead, not realizing that the doll is actually the puppet-maker’s flesh-and-blood daughter in disguise.
Genres: Comedy Romance Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-12-05
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I Don't Want to Be a Man
Overview: A teenage tomboy, tired of being bossed around by her strict guardian, impersonates a man so she can have more fun. She quickly discovers that being the opposite sex isn’t as easy as she had hoped for. What ensues is a gender-bending comedy decades ahead of its time.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-10-01
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The Oyster Princess
Overview: A pampered American oyster tycoon decides to buy a husband for his daughter, but things don’t go quite as planned. Along the way there are mishaps, misunderstandings and a foxtrot sequence that must be seen to be believed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-06-26
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Unfaithful Eckehart
Overview: An exchanged suitcase and a burglary with an actress give occasions to whirl a family with daughters-in-law and brides hard in a mess. Old mistake comedy according to pattern.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-01-25
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Menschen vom Varieté
Overview: In a cosmopolitan city vaudeville theatre, meeting place of the most successful artistes, the art shooter gets in suspicion to have committed a murderous poster on his jealous partner. - Not particularly successful mixture of vaudeville theatre numbers, artiste's destiny and crime film tension, on an average produced and played. A production rotated in Budapest with the popular dancer La Jana.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-04-14
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The Wildcat
Overview: A charismatic lieutenant newly assigned to a remote fort is captured by a group of mountain bandits, thus setting in motion a madcap farce that is Lubitsch at his most unrestrained. A wonderfully anarchic and playfully subversive satire of military life from one of the great comedy filmmakers.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-04-14
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Kakadu und Kiebitz
Overview: German silent film directed by Erich Schönfelder.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-06-26
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Nebel und Sonne
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1916-04-21
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Heart of Stone
Overview: Lavish adaptation of Wilhelm Hauff′s fairy tale: Young charburner Peter Munk dreams of joining the upper class. He makes a deal with the sinister Holländer-Michel, who offers to trade Peter′s human heart for one made of stone. Once he has the "cold heart" in his body, Peter eventually strikes a fortune and enjoys great wealth, but at the same time, he becomes a bitter and emotionless man – and, having lost all traces of humanity, even murders his wife Lisbeth. Only then does Peter Munk finally realize what has become of him, and he decides to regain his real heart from Holländer-Michel.
Genres: Family Drama Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-12-08
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Peter Voss, der Millionendieb
Overview: Adaptation of Seeliger's novel, starting production in 1943, finished by DEFA studios after the war.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1946-09-27
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Nanu, Sie kennen Korff noch nicht?
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Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-12-21
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The Yellow Ticket
Overview: "The Yellow Ticket" (aka "The Devil's Pawn") was directed by Vicor Janson and Eugen Illes as a German project shot partially in Warsaw. A story of a Jewish girl forced to hide her identity in order to attend medical school in St. Petersburg, the movie is a melodrama of multiple oppression. Lea, as played by Negri, is at a disadvantage as a woman, an orphan and a Jew -- and yet has immense persistence and an insatiable ambition of becoming a doctor. The film includes more than one plot twist (the final one further complicating the issue of Lea's identity), but it's first and foremost a testimony to a spirit impossible to suppress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-11-21
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Münchhausen
Overview: Legendary, immortal nobleman Baron Munchausen regales a lovestruck woman with tales of his amazing adventures.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1943-03-05
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Professor Nachtfalter
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1951-02-23
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Figaros Hochzeit
Overview: Shortly after WWII, the DEFA Studios produced a series of operas and operettas which belonged to the classical German musical heritage. This enchanting film, the very first opera production of DEFA, stands out because of its lavish decor and costumes, its outstanding actors and their masterful voices of that time.
Genres: Romance Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1949-11-25
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The Woman of My Dreams
Overview: Blonde goddess Marika Rökk plays Julia Koster, a ravishing red-headed musical revue star and her opening number, "At Night It Isn't Right To Be Alone", playing to a packed theater, is both an eye-popper and a jaw-dropper.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1944-08-25
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Weißer Flieder
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-02-28
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Der heulende Wolf
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-12-01
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Die Pantherbraut
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-07-01
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Die Prinzessin und der Schweinehirt
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Genres: Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-10-03
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Der 10. Pavillon der Zitadelle
Overview: German silent film
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1917-02-01
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Talarso, der Mann mit den grünen Augen
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1916-05-01
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The Mistress of the World, Part IV: King Makombe
Overview: Through the plan hidden in Astarte's jewelry, Maud Gregaards, Kien-Lung and Consul Madsen get on the trail of the Queen of Sheba's treasure. Their search takes them to Africa, where they want to know from King Makombe the location of the Fire Mountain, near which the legendary city of Ophir, the center of the Astarte cult, is said to be.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-12-26
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Die Puppe
Overview: A child is moved around like a doll
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Das geborgte Leben
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1917-01-01
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Amsterdam Artists from the Film 'Housing Shortage' on a Trip to Volendam
Overview: In the summer of 1920, the staff of the Rembrandt Theatre in Amsterdam went on strike, which was especially unfortunate for the management of the theatre, since they had invited the German film stars Ossi Oswalda, Marga Köhler, and Victor Janson to the Dutch premiere of their film Wohnungsnot (Ernst Lubitsch, 1920). For this special occasion, there were even two extra segments shot with Ossi Oswalda playing the lead role. In one of those films, we see how Oswalda, dressed in traditional Volendam costume, cheerfully makes contact with the local inhabitants. But not every Volendammer seems charmed by the advances of the German diva. Because of the strike, the film could only be screened one time in the presence of the three stars.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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We Make Music
Overview: Caught at the window just before an air-raid warning (WWII) composer Paul tells how he met his wive Anni, a revue star and song writer, how he handled the courtship and the early years of his marriage, inspite of some professional conflicts - his operas were flops, while his wive had one success after the other - they finally found out how they could help each other.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1942-10-08
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The Leghorn Hat
Overview: Der Florentiner Hut (The Leghorn Hat), a 1939 German film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-04-04
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Die große Wette
Overview: A german silent sci-fi movie by Harry Piel
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1916-01-11
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Carmen
Overview: The tragic story of Don Jose, a Spanish cavalryman, who falls under the spell of a gypsy girl, Carmen, who treats him with both love and contempt and leads him into temptation and thus damnation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-12-20
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Komm zu mir zurück
Overview: a movie by Heinz Paul
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1944-06-30
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Männer müssen so sein
Overview: Young Beatrice has trained as a dancer against her father's wishes. At the circus, she meets the famous tamer Ruda and falls in love with him. But the next day, Ruda disappears with the circus. Beatrice gets a new engagement with another circus and makes a career as a dancer among live tigers.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-03-16
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The Tenor, Inc.
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1916-12-22
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My Wife, the Movie Star
Overview: While making a movie in the Alps, the female star falls in love with a nobleman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-01-24
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Prinz Sami
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-01-01
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The Ballet Girl
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-06-06
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Madame DuBarry
Overview: The story of Madame du Barry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-09-18
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The Housing Shortage
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-02-06
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So ein Affentheater
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-08-06
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When Four Do the Same
Overview: Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Lubitsch plays a book shop employee who falls in love with Jannings' daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1917-11-16
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Keimendes Leben
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-10-01
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The Trombonist
Overview: The Trombonist is a 1949 comedy film directed by Carl Boese and starring Paul Dahlke, Sabine Peters and Ludwig Körner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1949-12-23
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Spiel
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1944-12-25
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Alles aus Liebe
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1949-11-21
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Das schwarze Schaf
Overview: 1944 film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1944-02-29
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Hundstage
Overview: Peter and Paul are old friends who happen to meet again. Both are dentists and both want to get married the next day.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1944-08-04
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Sieben Briefe
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1944-03-28
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Frech und verliebt
Overview: Penniless Peter Schild looks for work when arrived in Germany. Working as a private eye he has to observe a young lady who is willing to marry an unemployed actor against the will of her parents.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-03-30
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The Law of Love
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1949-12-30
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Die da unten
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-01-01
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Der dumme August des Zirkus Romanelli
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-05-12
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Das Mädel mit der Maske
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-02-24
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A Man Like Maximilian
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1945-03-13
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Torreani
Overview: Acrobat assumes identity of jailed fellow-artist to take over a theatre which had been bequeathed to him. He is suspected of murdering the acrobat but is cleared in the end.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1951-12-21
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Wenn abends die Heide träumt
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1952-12-19
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Verlobte Leute
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-07-27
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The Waltz King
Overview: Johann Strauss returns to Austria in 1848 after a visit to Russia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-05-08
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Sleeping Beauty
Overview: An adaptation of the famous fairy tale.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1917-12-20
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The mistress of the world, Part VI: The woman with the millionaires
Overview: Thanks to the treasure of the Queen of Sheba, Maud, who now calls herself Fergusson, has become an immensely wealthy woman. The plane that rescued her and Allan Stanley from Ophir belongs to newspaper king Fletcher, who reports on the rescue operation on the front pages of his newspapers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-01-16
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Das Bacchanal des Todes
Overview: A tinted silent film about a murder plot.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1917-04-20
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The Game of Love
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-10-16
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Die Geächteten
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1917-01-01
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Niniche
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-02-13
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Irrwege der Liebe
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-01-01
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Das lebende Rätsel
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Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1916-09-01
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Colibri
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-03-01
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Die geschiedene Frau
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-10-08
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Der Dolch des Malayen
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-11-11
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His Highness is Having a Good Time
Overview: Princess Melani wants to find out more about her husband-to-be and impersonates a maid. Her fiancé pretends to be a secretary. An addlebrained servant is ordered to play the count. His first official act is to pass a pay rise for himself. In the meantime his highness / the secretary is flirting with the maid.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1917-08-09
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Damals
Overview: Vera Meiners' life was sweet but unfortunately for her, it was not to last. Her husband, Jan, left her after she met a former lover in a harmless friendly meeting. Forced to resume her disrupted medical career, she worked in a Swiss clinic but, without the knowledge of the chief surgeon, Vera ordered a risky operation to be performed and was thereafter fired. Penniless, she then works in Spanish nightclubs in order to provide for herself and her child. After many years, she runs into her friend Frank again in one of these nightclubs...
Genres: Drama Crime Romance Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1943-04-23
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At the Edge of the World
Overview: A mill situated on the border between two unnamed countries and the residents therein become pawns in a future war.
Genres: War Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-09-18
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Die Sünderin
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-07-01
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Raimundus und das Hexlein
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-01-01
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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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Träume des Lebens
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1917-08-01
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