Albert Bassermann
Also Known As: Albert Basserman
Biography: Albert Bassermann (7 September 1867 – 15 May 1952) was a German stage and screen actor. He was considered to be one of the greatest German-speaking actors of his generation and received the famous Iffland-Ring. He was married to Elsa Schiff with whom he frequently performed.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mannheim, Germany
Birthday: September 06, 1867
Deathday: May 15, 1952
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Alraune
Overview: A scientist, Professor Jakob ten Brinken, interested in the laws of heredity, impregnates a prostitute in a laboratory with the semen of a hanged murderer. The prostitute conceives a female child who has no concept of love, whom the professor adopts. The girl, Alraune, suffers from obsessive sexuality and perverse relationships throughout her life. She learns of her unnatural origins and she avenges herself against the professor.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-03-02
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Fly By Night
Overview: Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff's passenger is an inventor has just escaped from a shady sanitarium, where he has been held prisoner by Nazi spies.
Genres: Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-19
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A Woman's Face
Overview: A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-09
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Reunion in France
Overview: Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-25
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Invisible Agent
Overview: The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany in this comedy-thriller.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-07
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Since You Went Away
Overview: In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose patriarch has been called up to war, leaving behind his wife and two teen daughters.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-30
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The Shanghai Gesture
Overview: A gambling queen uses blackmail to stop a British financier from closing her Chinese clip joint.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-25
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Rhapsody in Blue
Overview: Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.
Genres: Music Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-27
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Madame Curie
Overview: Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-16
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Knute Rockne All American
Overview: The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-05
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The Man in the Iron Mask
Overview: Cardinal Richelieu gives the order that the twin brother of France's King Louis XIV should be removed from the court and taken to the country. There he is educated, without knowledge of his true ancestry, and kept as a prisoner.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-01-02
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The Red Shoes
Overview: In this classic drama, Vicky Page is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance and her desire to love. While her imperious instructor, Boris Lermontov, urges to her to forget anything but ballet, Vicky begins to fall for the charming young composer Julian Craster. Eventually Vicky, under great emotional stress, must choose to pursue either her art or her romance, a decision that carries serious consequences.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-06
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Heroes of the Marne
Overview: Bernard Lefrancois is a prosperous farmer on the River Marne, while his neighbor is impoverished. Lefrancois objects strongly to the romance between his son and the neighbor's daughter, but it continues in secret. WWI begins and the son becomes an aviator with the French army, and the unwed girl presents Lefrancois with an unexpected grandchild. The German army occupies the area, and the girl is serving France as a spy and securing information needed by the French to drive out the Germans. While his son is engaged in air-combat against the Germans, and the unwed mother of his grandchild is serving as a spy against their country's enemy, Lefrancois also joins the battle as a soldier.
Genres: War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-30
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Desperate Journey
Overview: During WWII, when an allied bomber is shot down over Germany, the five surviving crew are captured but cleverly escape detention after learning German secret information and knocking out a Nazi major. With the angry major in hot pursuit, aided by military personnel, Gestapo agents and Hitler-loyal citizens, the five wend their way across perilous Germany, intent on reaching the UK with the secrets they have learned.
Genres: War Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-26
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The Moon and Sixpence
Overview: Loosely inspired from Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker who abandons his middle-classed life, his family, his duties to start painting, what he has always wanted to do. He is from now on a awful human being, wholly devoted to his ideal: beauty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-27
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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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A Certain Mr. Gran
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Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-08-15
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Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Overview: True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-23
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Escape Me Never
Overview: A penniless composer marries a young widow with a baby—even though he is in love with his brother's fiancée.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-07
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A Dispatch from Reuters
Overview: German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-19
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Escape
Overview: An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess he seeks to engineer her escape.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-01
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Der Andere
Overview: A man has an accident while out riding his horse and soon discovers that he now has a split personality, and that his alternate is helping a criminal to rob his house.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1913-01-21
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Good Luck, Mr. Yates
Overview: A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-29
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The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
Overview: A self-serving journalist uses influential women in late-1800s Paris and denies the one who truly loves him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-25
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Fräulein Else
Overview: While staying with her aunt at a fashionable spa, Else receives an unexpected telegram from her mother, begging her to save her father from debtor’s jail. The only way out, it seems, is to approach an elderly acquaintance in order to borrow money from him. Through this telegram, Else is forced into the reality of a world entirely at odds with her romantic imagination – with horrific consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-03-07
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Helen of Troy
Overview: Helena is a 1924 German silent drama film directed by Manfred Noa and starring Edy Darclea, Vladimir Gajdarov and Albert Steinrück. The film was based on the poem the Iliad by Homer. It was released in two separate parts: The Rape of Helen and The Fall of Troy. It was produced by Bavaria Film at the Emelka Studios in Munich. The film was made on an epic scale with thousands of extras, and large sets which rivalled those of the larger Berlin-based UFA.
Genres: History Action Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-01-21
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Last Love
Overview: A middle aged composer returns to Vienna after ten years in America, falls in love with a Japanese student and writes his last opera for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-02-27
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The Searching Wind
Overview: Always the diplomat, Alex Hazen is slow to take sides in Europe of the 1920s and 1930s. Cassie Bowman wants him to be more decisive and leaves him in Rome just as Mussolini is coming to power. There Alex marries Emily, daughter of a newspaper publisher who hires Cassie for his Paris bureau -- just before retiring from active management of his paper. Alex and Emily's son Sam, recently returned from active duty in World War II, learns the whole story one night in Washington when Emily invites Cassie to dinner. Sam has a story to tell, too.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-09
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Earth Spirit
Overview: When the old, wealthy Doctor Schön takes Lulu under his wing, he has no idea that she will be his certain death. Young and beautiful, Lulu is endowed with tremendous erotic charisma that utterly enchants any man in her reach. Although Schön sees disaster approaching, he cannot let go of her. (Stumfilm.dk)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-02-22
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Moon Over Burma
Overview: The managers of a teak lumber camp in Burma compete for the affections of a beautiful American entertainer who gets stranded in Rangoon.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-26
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Foreign Correspondent
Overview: American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-16
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1914
Overview: The film focuses on the leadership of the Great Powers of Europe in the days leading up to the outbreak of the First World War.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-01-20
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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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Inquest
Overview: When a prostitute is murdered in a cheap Berlin boarding house, an investigating judge suspects that the killer is her boyfriend, unaware that his own son and daughter are also mixed up in the case.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-04-19
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Lucrezia Borgia
Overview: Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, has three adult children: Juan, who is virtuous and has a sweetheart who is a woman of the people, Lucrezia, who is virtuous and wants to marry Alfonso, and Cesare, who is wicked and lusts after Lucrezia, Juan's girlfriend, and probably others. Cesare has vowed to kill any suitor for Lucrezia's love, and he has three thugs to carry out his wishes. Bodies fall into the Tiber, into the Colosseum (with lions prowling), and onto the Vatican floors.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-10-20
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Cadets
Overview: The sensitive, music-loving son of a German general reluctantly attends a military academy and after warning a fellow officer to stay away from the cadet's attractive young stepmother, lands up being charged for murder.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-12-21
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Once Upon a Honeymoon
Overview: A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-27
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Napoleon at St. Helena
Overview: Napoleon at Saint Helena (German: Napoleon auf Sankt Helena) is a 1929 German silent historical film directed by Lupu Pick and starring Werner Krauss, Hanna Ralph and Albert Bassermann. The film depicts the final years of Napoleon between 1815 and 1821 during his period of exile on the British Atlantic island of Saint Helena following his defeat at Waterloo.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-11-07
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I Was a Criminal
Overview: Aka Passport to Heaven. In Prussia shoemaker Voight needs a residence permit to get a job, but can only get a job if he already has a permit. He dons a captain's uniform to order a platoon of soldiers to Koepenick to take over the Town Hall to get his permit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-01
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Wenn das Herz der Jugend spricht
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-10-17
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New Wine
Overview: The romantic story of Franz Schubert 's fight for recognition of his music. The 1941 Reinhold Schunzel biographical musical composer melodrama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-10
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Frauenopfer
Overview: An old count has been keeping an eye on the granddaughter of his lock-keeper for quite some time. But the young Maria is in love with the young painter Walter, who is only moderately gifted as an artist. The two marry and become parents of a child. However, the count does not want to let go of his desire for Mary and now chooses another way to gain her favor. Author: Ulf Kjell Gür
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-02-15
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Alt Heidelberg
Overview: Prince Karl Heinz enjoys his carefree life as a student in Heidelberg. He falls in love with the beautiful Käthe and everything is fine and dandy till his father is reported very ill.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-10-21
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Du sollst keine anderen Götter haben
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1917-09-14
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Die Söhne des Grafen Dossy
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-05-07
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Der eiserne Wille
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1917-12-05
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Die Brüder von Zaarden
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-08-10
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Herr und Diener
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1917-01-01
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Lorenzo Burghardt
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-12-13
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Dr. Schotte
Overview: A doctor's marriage to a single mother comes unravelled.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-08-30
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Urteil des Arztes
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1914-12-13
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Der letzte Tag
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1913-09-19
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Vater und Sohn
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-07-26
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Strange Holiday
Overview: An American businessman returns from a hunting trip to find fascists have overrun the country in this propaganda film.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-19
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Die kleine Dagmar
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-09-09
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Der letzte Zeuge
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-08-08
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Die Stimme
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-03-26
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Die Duplizität der Ereignisse
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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Dolls of Death
Overview: Crime film based on Nikolaus Lenau's poem "Die Marionetten."
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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