Emil Jannings
Also Known As: Theodor Friedrich Emil Janenz
Biography: Emil Jannings (1884–1950) was a German actor. He was the first actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rorschach, Switzerland
Birthday: July 22, 1884
Deathday: January 02, 1950
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Faust
Overview: God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-10-13
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Danton
Overview: At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his fellow leading French revolutionaries including Georges Danton.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-05-03
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Keimendes Leben. 2. Teil
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-10-01
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The Last Laugh
Overview: An aging doorman, after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbours and society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-12-23
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Waxworks
Overview: A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper. While writing, the poet and the daughter of the owner, Eva, fantasize the fantastic stories and fall in love for each other.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-11-13
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The Eyes of the Mummy
Overview: Egyptians Radu and Ma milk British tourists out of their money by offering phony tours of a mummy's tomb-- Radu has the girl lend her eyes to the "mummy" from inside an empty sarcophagus. When adventurer Wendland comes to visit the tomb, Ma is rescued and falls in love with him, leaving Radu in the dust. Needless to say, her former employer / captor follows them abroad in order to exact his revenge.
Genres: Drama Horror Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-10-03
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Hitler's Hollywood
Overview: Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945, when the Third Reich collapsed. (A sequel to From Caligari to Hitler, 2015.)
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-02-23
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The Merry Jail
Overview: A neglected wife disguises herself in order to lure her wastrel husband into a compromising position.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1917-11-30
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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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Darling of the Gods
Overview: Also known as Darling of the Gods, this was Emil Jannings' second talkie appearance. Jannings stars as famed operatic singer Albert Winkelmann, who is greeted with cheers, applause and romantic propositions whenever he performs in his native Vienna. But when he embarks on a tour of South America, tragedy strikes. The sweltering climate causes Winkelmann to lose his voice on stage, a disaster met with hoots and cat-calls. Dispirited he returns to Europe, where he soon learns that no one is aware of what happened in South America. Intending to retire so as not to be exposed to further humiliation, Winkelmann is goaded back on stage -- where, miraculously, his gorgeous voice returns.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-10-13
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The Last Command
Overview: A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.
Genres: Drama History War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-21
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The Patriot
Overview: In 18th-Century Russia, the Czar, Paul, is surrounded by murderous plots and trusts only Count Pahlen. Pahlen wishes to protect his friend, the mad king, but because of the horror of the king's acts, he feels that he must remove him from the throne.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-01
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Tartuffe
Overview: A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's play "Tartuffe" in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who covets the young man's inheritance.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-01-25
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Anna Boleyn
Overview: The story of the ill-fated second wife of the English king Henry VIII, whose marriage to the Henry led to momentous political and religious turmoil in England.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-12-03
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Liebe macht blind
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-08-16
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The Way of All Flesh
Overview: The story takes place in Milwaukee during the early 1900s with a bank clerk named August Schiller who is happy with both his job and his family. He is tasked with transporting $1,000 in securities to Chicago. On the train he meets a blond seductress who convinces him to buy her a bottle of champagne, and takes him to a saloon. The next morning he awakes alone in a dilapidated bedroom and without the securities.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-01
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The Loves of Pharaoh
Overview: The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-02-21
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Variety
Overview: The murderer “Boss” Huller – after having spent ten years in prison – breaks his silence to tell the warden his story.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-11-16
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The Dismissal
Overview: German chancellor Otto von Bismarck promises the dying emperor Wilhelm I. to be loyal to his grandson. But the gap between young Kaiser Wilhelm II. and old Bismarck is rapidly widening. It soon appears that an era is coming to an end.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1942-09-15
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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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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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Kohlhiesel's Daughters
Overview: Somewhere in Southern Bavaria Xaver wants to marry Gretel, but her father Kohlhiesel wants his elder daughter Liesel to marry first. The problem is, nobody wants to marry her, because she is too brutal. Seppel suggests, that he should marry Liesel first, get rid of her and then he can marry Gretel...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-03-08
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Algol: Tragedy of Power
Overview: An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that creates enough energy to power the entire world.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-09-03
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Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes
Overview: Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his district and no one is able to do anything about it. Every fourth child is already sick and the parents must helplessly watch as their young ones die. Now Koch is undertaking to find the cause of the tuberculosis --- something he has already been working on for years --- which has been causing this plague of illness. His work is made more difficult by envy; for example, that of his teacher, who was wounded defending his honor. But his greatest obstacle is the famous Berliner scientist and Reichstag deputy, Privy Councilor Rudolf Virchow: He is extraordinarily skeptical of Koch's theory, that the cause for tuberculosis is a bacteria.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-12-30
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All for Money
Overview: Rupp (Jannings) is a former butcher, made rich in the meat packing industry as a result of the reversal of fortunes brought on by WWI. He is crude, uncouth and uneducated. His son, Fred, is the apple of his father's eye and is an auto enthusiast. The widowed Rupp falls in love with a former aristocrat, Helen, now down on her luck and pawning her last heirloom. He proposes marriage and she accepts in order to save her ailing mother who needs a monetary influx to avoid death. Her former boyfriend, Platen, warns Helen against Rupp's intentions - he and Rupp are enemies, Rupp having caused his being fired for protecting a chorus girl against Rupp's unwanted advances. Meanwhile, Graf, a shyster, arranges purchase of a near bankrupt auto manufacturing firm, Phoenix, to Rupp's great advantage with practically no monetary recognition to Graf, who swears revenge. Rupp comes upon his son begging Helen not to marry his father but to return to Platen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-11-04
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The Broken Jug
Overview: The man who broke the jug, the judge, is trying a case who determine who broke the jug. Long before the evidence becomes conclusive against the suspects, it becomes apparent that the blustering and bullying - and naive - village judge is the guilty one.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-10-18
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Altes Herz wird wieder jung
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1943-04-02
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The Sovereign
Overview: Der Herrscher (The Sovereign) was based on Before Sunset, a play by Gerhart Hauptmann. The great Emil Jannings stars as Mathias Clausen, a self-made businessman who is forced to do a great deal of soul-searching when his wife unexpectedly dies. Determining to start life anew, he falls in love with his secretary Inken (Marianne Hoppe) and impulsively takes a vacation to Italy. Clausen's selfish grown children, not wishing to share their father's affections -- nor his money -- with his new wife-to-be, go to court demanding that Clausen be declared mentally incompetent. Upon finding this out, Clausen flies into a rage, leaving the audience to wonder whether or not he really as gone off his trolley. Der Herrscher was directed by Veit Harlan, more famous (or notorious) for his viciously anti-Semitic Jud Suess (1940).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-03-17
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Where Is Mr. Belling?
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1945-01-01
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The Old and The Young King
Overview: The story of the stormy relationship between King Friedrich Wilhelm and his son, who later became known as King Frederick the Great of Prussia.
Genres: History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-01-02
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Traumulus
Overview: This film is a fascinating showcase for Emil Janning's theatrical play. He's a gentle school teacher who believes in his boys and is easily fooled about all things, while the other town officials want him dismissed. Curiously it's very hard to see what the film is exactly aiming for. Disaster strikes and the lax prof proves to be too far removed of the real problems of the world, on the other hand his enemies are shown in the most unsympathetic, satirical way denouncing the militaristic, bourgeois ideology of the Kaiserreich.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-01-23
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The Tempest
Overview: Two inspiration sources appear clearly: contemporary American gangster movies and Alfred Döblin’s novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929).
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-01-22
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Uncle Krüger
Overview: An anti-British propaganda film from Nazi Germany which depicts the life of the South African politician Paul Kruger and his eventual defeat by the British during the Boer War.
Genres: History War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1941-01-02
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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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Lulu
Overview: The circus dancer Lulu is a thoroughly liberal being. Although she loves her former savior, the clown Alfredo, she begins a relationship with the noble Henri von Reithofen. Henri kills himself ruined by the horrendous expenses for Lulu. She however is fishing for the next rich patron, the much older Baron Waldheim. His son knows Lulu and warns his father that she will also hurt him. Waldheim succumbs to Lulus's insinuations and punishes his son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1917-11-22
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Die Tochter des Mehemed
Overview: An enslaved girl, Leila, is bought by Vaco Juan Riberda as a gift for his friend, Dr. Jan van Zuylen. van Zuylen is outraged, and refuses. Years later, van Zuylen meets Riberda and Leila again, and finds that they have married. Leila and van Zylen acquaint themselves and fall in love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-08-15
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Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Overview: Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh (1927), the only Oscar®-winning performance in a lost film. Fragments also features clips from such lost films as Cleopatra (1917), starring Theda Bara; The Miracle Man (1919), with Lon Chaney; He Comes Up Smiling (1918), starring Douglas Fairbanks; an early lost sound film, Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), filmed in early Technicolor, and the only color footage of silent star Clara Bow, Red Hair (1928). The program is rounded out with interviews of film preservationists involved in identifying and restoring these films. Also featured is a new interview with Diana Serra Cary, best known as "Baby Peggy", one of the major American child stars of the silent era, who discusses one of the featured fragments, Darling of New York (1923).
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-03
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Stein unter Steinen
Overview: A stonemason who killed his landlord faces hardship trying to reintegrate into society after being released from prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1917-01-01
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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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A Night of Horror
Overview: An extremely jealous artist slips into a monkey costume and kills all those men who come too close to his wife, another artist.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1917-02-09
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Rose Bernd
Overview: An adaptation of the Gerhart Hauptmann play of the same name. A young farmer's daughter is used and abused by the men in her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-10-05
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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 Making of 'The Last Laugh'
Overview: This movie was featured on the DVD release of Der letzte Mann in 2004 in Germany.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-12-17
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Dear Eva
Overview: a silent movie by Robert Wiene
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1914-01-01
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Life is a Dream
Overview: A silent movie by Robert Wiene
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1916-01-01
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Frau Eva
Overview: An ambitious wife spends all of her husband's hard-earned money and then commits suicide out of remorse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1916-02-01
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Passionels Tagebuch
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1916-09-01
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Der Morphinist
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1916-06-01
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Othello
Overview: Even without the benefit of sound, the 1922 German adaptation of Othello seems more operatic than Shakespearean. This may be due to the casting of Emil Jannings, to whom restraint and subtlety were strangers. Werner Krauss, of Cabinet of Dr. Caligari fame, is on hand as the duplicitous Iago. Appearing as the unfortunate Desdemona is Lea Von Lenkeffy, better known as Lya de Putti. Produced on an elaborate scale, Othello may not be true to the letter of Shakespeare, but is undeniably a smorgasbord of visual delights.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-02-08
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Fuhrmann Henschel
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-01-01
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Los 5 Faust de F. W. Murnau
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-11-26
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Keimendes Leben
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-10-01
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Der schwarze Walfisch
Overview: Adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's 1931 play Fanny.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-03-02
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Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Overview: This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeches for films released in 1939 with recipients and presenters including Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Hattie McDaniel, Fay Bainter, Mickey Rooney, Thomas Mitchell, Sinclair Lewis, and more, with host Bob Hope.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-31
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Der letzte Appell
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-01-01
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The Countess of Paris
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-10-12
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The Tragedy of Love
Overview: The husband of Countess Manon Moreau is found murdered. André Rabatin, who belongs to the same club as Count Moreau, is the suspect. Rabatin, a old-school gentleman, affirms his innocence to the widow and claims that the death of the count must have been a tragic accident. Manon believes Rabatin and begins to fall in love with him. But Rabatin himself suspects that she has murdered her husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-09-21
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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 Street of Sin
Overview: "Basher Bill," a retired prizefighter turned criminal, pretends to reform by joining a Salvation Army shelter in London run by a pious wraith named Elizabeth. Attracted to Elizabeth (although he is engaged to a street girl named Annie), Bill confesses to a bank robbery, has a spiritual revelation, and decides to go straight. His cast-off sweetheart reports him to the police; then, contrite, she warns Bill of the impending danger. Bill is captured immediately, but he escapes and sacrifices his life to save Elizabeth and the Salvation Army nursery when the rest of the gang use them as a human barricade against the police.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-26
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Betrayal
Overview: André Frey, a bohemian artist, woos and wins a rustic Swiss maid, promising to return to her after a visit to the city. The girl, Vroni, finds herself pregnant and is forced by her father to marry Poldi Moser, the mayor of the small Swiss town. Moser and Vroni are happy together, and two sons are born to them. André returns to the village periodically and finally asks Vroni to go away with him. She refuses, and he writes her an angry note. That evening, Vroni and André are involved in a toboggan accident; Vroni is killed outright, and André is fatally injured. Moser finds André's note and goes to him, demanding of the dying man to know which of the boys is in fact André's child. Thinking to protect his own son, André informs Moser that Moser's own son is his (André's) son. Moser swears vengeance on the child but relents when he realizes that he loves both boys equally.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-11
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The Film in the Film
Overview: The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors of the era at work on the set including Fritz Lang, Robert Wiene, and E.A. Dupont.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-06-26
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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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The Great Light
Overview: Lorenz Ferleitner has worked his way up from a poor but gifted farm boy to a recognized master builder. When a new cathedral is to be built, he is given the honor of carrying out the task. He would like to commission the unknown young painter Fritz Rasmussen to decorate the dome. The director of the art academy, Professor Marquardt, however, wants to employ his untalented nephew for the painting work. A bitter conflict unfolds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-05-07
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The Blue Angel
Overview: Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there. Seeing Lola perform, the teacher is filled with lust, eventually resigning his position at the school to marry the young woman. However, his marriage to a coquette -- whose job is to entice men -- proves to be more difficult than Rath imagined.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-04-01
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Vendetta
Overview: In Corsica, Marianna Paoli's brother is killed by an Englishman whose identity is unknown to her. She swears vengeance and tracks the killer to Monte Carlo. There she falls in love with a handsome young officer, only to discover that he is the murderer she has sworn to punish.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-08-22
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The Rats
Overview: Die Ratten was produced by actress and singer Grete Ly. Her company, Grete Ly-Film, made five films between 1919 and 1921. Die Ratten, which is based on the play of the same name by Gerhart Hauptmann, was the last one. Hauptmann, one of the most important promoters of literary naturalism, had received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1912. The screen adaptation of his play is beautifully photographed in a realistic style by Karl Freund, one of best German cameraman of that time who also worked with directors such as Lang, Murnau, Dreyer, Dupont and Ruttmann. Moreover, the cast of Die Ratten also acts in a very naturalistic way, far from the affected expressionistic style. Die Ratten was made on a modest budget, but the collaboration of an excellent team produced a film that was ahead of its time.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-07-29
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100 Years of the UFA
Overview: The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime, the Adenauer era and the many and tumultuous events of contemporary Germany, and has always been the epicenter of the German film industry.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-08-28
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The Movie City of Hollywood
Overview: German documentary about Hollywood
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-11-18
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Sins of the Fathers
Overview: A married restaurant owner is persuaded to become a bootlegger by a beautiful young girl. When he starts making money at it, she steals it, then runs off with another man. His wife finds out what happened. Complications ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-28
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Die Ehe der Luise Rohrbach
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1917-02-02
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Cruel Images
Overview: An examination of the 1941 German blockbuster "Uncle Krüger", a film about the Boer War and the British concentration camps in south Africa, shot while a Nazi concentration camp operated only 30 kilometers away.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-25
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Colombine - Die Braut des Apachen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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