Also Known As: Swetislaw Petrowitsch, Svetislav Petrovic, Иван Петровић, Szvetiszláv Petrovich
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Iván Petrovich (1 January 1894 – 18 October 1962), born Svetislav Petrović, was a Serbian film actor and singer. He was the first actor from Yugoslavia to have a successful international movie career. Petrovich mainly worked in German cinema, but also collaborated with established directors in some 100 Hungarian, French, Spanish, Czechoslovakian and Hollywood movies.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Újvidék, Austria-Hungary [now Novi Sad, Serbia]
Birthday: January 01, 1894
Deathday: October 18, 1962
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Gender: Male
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Overview: A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-01-29
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Overview: Hanns Heinz Ewers' grim science-fiction novel Alraune has already been filmed twice when this version was assembled in 1928. In another of his "mad doctor" roles, Paul Wegener plays Professor Brinken, sociopathic scientist who combines the genes of an executed murderer with those of a prostitute. The result is a beautiful young woman named Alraune (Brigitte Helm), who is incapable of feeling any real emotions -- least of all guilt or regret. Upon attaining adulthood, Alraune sets about to seduce and destroy every male who crosses her path. Ultimately, Professor Brinken is hoist on his own petard when he falls hopelessly in love with Alraune himself. Alraune was remade in 1930, with Brigitte Helm repeating her role, and again in 1951, with Hildegarde Knef as the "heroine" and Erich von Stroheim as her misguided mentor.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-01-25
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Overview: A young woman, Margaret Dauncey, is caught between the forces of a charlatan magician, Oliver Haddo, whom she is unable to resist, and the love of a handsome surgeon, Arthur Burdon, who has saved her from being a helpless cripple by performing a delicate operation on her spine.
Genres: Drama Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-24
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1920-08-30
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Release Date: 1921-11-04
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Release Date: 1932-03-25
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Overview: On the occasion of a charity ball in Vienna a kiss of a famous actress should be auctioned. Misunderstandings between the manager of the film star, a record producer and a student lead too all kinds of mistakes, during which a student is mistaken for a prince in disguise and almost breaks his hapiness. - Quickly and expertly produced mistake comedy with a lot of singing desposits and an at than popular comedian line-up, which offers amusing surface entertainment.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-02-27
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Overview: The daughter of a landowner helps save an aristocratic neighbor from ruin, in this operetta adaptation.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-10-24
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Overview: A Communist officer falls hard for a married woman trying to escape from Hungary.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-11
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1948-12-20
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1922-10-22
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1942-11-08
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-09-06
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Overview: An adaptation of the operetta The Flower of Hawaii by Paul Abraham. It is based on the life of the last Queen of Hawaii Liliuokalani.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-03-21
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Overview: Biopic about Ludwig van Beethoven.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1949-07-31
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Overview: In 1882 a country girl disappears from a small Hungarian village. The inhabitants suggest that she was murdered by the Jews. Everything is done to accuse them before the trial. A study in stubbornness, racism and intolerance and how to fight against it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1948-03-05
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1926-12-10
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Overview: The story, a tale of political and amorous intrigue in Beirut, is based on one of Pierre Benoit's novels, " La châtelaine du Liban," and the film exploits the scenic backgrounds of the novel, Beirut, Palmyra and the Syrian Desert. A young captain in the Camel Corps. goes mad when he finds himself on the point of selling his country's secrets to get the money to satisfy the enchantress whose mysterious activities are concerned with espionage. The captain's eventual return to his Camel Corps. and the desert provides the opportunity for a fight with Bedouins, which marks the dramatic climax of the film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1927-01-02
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Overview: To fulfill her Father's wish, Grand Duchess Aurora (Huguette Duflos) is forced into an unhappy marriage with Grand Duke Rudolph (Henry Houry). He prepares to leave for the Congo but is murdered by his own brother (Georges Vaultier). Aurora goes to Paris with her father and, there, is told on the phone of her husband's death. After returning to the Kingdom, she meets a tutor (Jaque Catelain) who falls in love with her..
Genres: Mystery History Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-01
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-02-19
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-07-02
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-03-17
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1952-09-24
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-07-25
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-04-01
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Overview: The focus of this wartime propaganda film from 1940 is the foreman Keith, who works at a Polish sawmill, not far from the German border. It is 1939 and the War is fast approaching. The Polish workers at the sawmill revolt and kill the mill's German owner, as well as threaten their German colleagues. Keith flees with the children of his dead boss and joins other German refugees on their way to safety across the borders of the Reich.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-11-07
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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Overview: Composer Franz Schubert becomes involved with a family with three daughters, falling in love with the two blonds, first one, then the other; but will he notice the quiet brunet third daughter, who has fallen madly in love with him?
Genres: Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-08-03
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1951-01-26
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-11-15
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Overview: In order to impress a socially superior woman with money, an unsuccessful insurance agent commits sophisticated fraud: he concludes contracts with fictitious people and collects the insurance sums after their "death". However, his first fictional persona is his downfall.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-01-13
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-12-22
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-04-20
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Overview: Desires (German: Das Letzte Rezept) is a 1952 German drama film directed by Rolf Hansen. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-14
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-10-28
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-10-09
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-06-01
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1948-06-08
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-10-31
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-08-28
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-02-01
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Overview: The beautiful Evelyne Schratt, who has many admirerers, and whose two husbands both died under mysterious circumstances, is giving a reception. When one of her admirers is found stabbed to death in a room upstairs, the police detains everyone in the house and begins an interrogation (oh goody: does dinner come with this mystery theatre, too?). Evelyne admits, that the murdered man tried to blackmail about some information he had about the death of the two husbands.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-05-03
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-03-27
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1951-08-28
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-10-25
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Overview: Maria Halmborg is a widow. Her husband Erik - missing for years - is considered dead. Suddenly she learns that her husband allegedly lives in Rio and sets out on the journey to clarify the matter.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-10-04
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Overview: A Russian lady singer in Germany falls for a countryman working in a car factory there, who unknown to her is really a grand Duke. an attempt to steal the famous Orloff diamond adds to the complications.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-11-29
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Overview: Jeff Elliot is an American GI investigating a black market gang in Munich.
Genres: Crime Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-19
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-04-24
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Overview: 'Romantic story of a gallant adventurer at the Court of Maria Teresa.' (The Bioscope)
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-17
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Overview: A millionaire returns from the United States to his native Dubrovnik.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-11-26
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Overview: A Lord's son aids a seaman's mission but returns to save his sick father's shipyard from strikers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-02
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Overview: Father Adrien had taken the vows of eternal silence, prayer and, of course, celibacy, when he entered the Trappist Monastry of Notre Dame d'Afrique in Algeria. One day, he chopped down a tree that blocked a part of the Monastery wall, but as it fell it knocked a young girl senseless. As Father Adrien bathes her face she regains consciousness and in a mischievous mood embraces him. The embrace was seen by another monk but the Monastic discipline imposed is as nothing compared to the torturing penances of mind and body which the contrite Father Adrien has imposed upon himself. In the end it is all too much for poor Father Adrien and he abandons his vows and escapes into the desert, resuming his secular name Androvsky. On the way to the oasis of Beni-Mora he encounters Domini Enfilden who has been brought up as a Catholic. Androvsky rescues Domini from a rioting crowd and she finds herself deeply attracted to him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-02
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-08-05
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Overview: Sonja, a little ballerina at the Grand Theater, is secretly in love with the handsome tenor Luis Mariano. One night, she hurts her feet while dancing and under the influence of a sedative falls asleep and starts dreaming. She is Sonja Ilyanova now, a young gypsy dancer who dreams of performing before Alexei, the son of the Czar.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-08-11
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-05-31
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Overview: Viktoria is a Hungarian countess who believes her Hussar captain husband was killed in World War I. She marries an American and resettles at the American consulate in Tokyo. Her first husband reappears, alive; and the American generously releases Viktoria from their union.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-10-12
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Overview: 1938 German film.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-09-22
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Overview: 1938 German film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-01-05
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Overview: Desire brings out the worst in an actress' suitors-- One a well-to-do patron of London's theatre set, the other a lovestruck loner on the verge of penning a play dedicated to her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1924-10-07
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-06-08
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Overview: Directed by Alexandre Volkoff
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-10-18
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-01-06
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Overview: Film by Randolf.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-11-22
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Overview: Film by Karel Lamac.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-12-25
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Overview: Film by Jacoby.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-11-27
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1928-03-02
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Overview: Based on the play and subsequent operetta of the same name.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-03-28
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-04-12
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Overview: The respected gynecologist Prof. Hausen is averse to performing abortions. In contrast, his up-and-coming colleague Dr. Schäfer sees abortion as a means of helping women in need and openly advocates an amendment of the law. The professor’s convictions are shaken when misfortune befalls his own family. Louise Fleck presents her drama about the untimeliness of restrictive abortion legislation against the backdrop of modern urban reality. Seriousness, however, is preserved, because topics such as unwanted pregnancy, sexual violence, and the consequences of improperly performed abortions are not only addressed through minor characters, but also placed at the center of the cinematic narrative. (Anna Dobringer)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-04-24
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Overview: A wealthy man pretends to be a starving artist to gain the affections of a young painter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-05-10
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Overview: Five friends, a piano-player, an actor, a critic, a doctor and a banker meet again for a twentieth school anniversary in the countryside mansion of the piano player. But the sudden arrival of an attractive woman upsets their peaceful plans...
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Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1943-06-17
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Overview: In an outbreak of a rightful anger, Péter Keresztessy kills Ágota, his deceased wife's cousin, who, in an attempt to become her successor, speaks ill of her thus trying to malign her character. Péter is prepared for capital punishment but is sentenced for life. 15 years later he is pardoned.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-01
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Overview: On 26th of August 1939 the Ocania1 steamboat leaves the New York harbour with the ex-spy Maria Holm on board. Now she is the owner of a dressmaker's showroom, but for just one last time is taking important documents to Europe for the sake of peace.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1941-01-10
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-09-05
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Overview: An unemployed man who plays a concertina gets involved with a band of crooks and tries to frustrate a kidnapping, in this farcical caper.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-02-05
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Overview: Based on the operetta of the same name.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-10-06
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Overview: Love, rivalry and humiliation in a Hungarian village.
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Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1920-07-06
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Overview: A female spy goes to Budapest to steal the plans of an anti-aircraft gun.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1944-04-05
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Overview: The ambassador of a Ruritanian land charges his attache with cozying up to the wife of the war minister, to get her to change her husband's mind about a treaty he opposes. Complications both political and romantic ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-06-19
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Overview: A young artist living 'off-grid' in the mountains meets a young woman, visiting the village below, wandering in the forest; and they quickly fall in love.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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