Ferdinand von Alten
Also Known As: Baron von Lamezan auf Altenhofen
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Adult: No
Birthday: April 12, 1885
Age: 140 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 17, 1933
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Catherine the Great
Overview: The film was an epic portrayal of the life of Catherine the Great of Russia.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-22
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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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The Mad Bomberg
Overview: A nobleman gradually falls in love with a woman he was forced by relatives to marry, against his will.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-03-28
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The Student of Prague
Overview: For Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the tip of the sword have lost their charms. He wants to find love; but how would he, a penniless student, ever dare looking up to any woman worth of loving? Absorbed in his dreary thoughts and indifferent to the advances of Lyduschka, Balduin is unexpectedly offered a fortune by the mysterious money-lender Scapinelli - but on a strange condition...
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-10-19
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Champagne
Overview: Betty, the rebellious daughter of a millionaire, decides to marry the penniless Jean—against her father's will—and runs away to France and lives a life of luxury on the profits from her father's business. Pretending his business is crashing, her father finally puts a stop to her behavior, which forces Betty to support herself by getting a job in a night club.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-17
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Die Geschwister Barelli
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-01-07
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Das Rennen des Todes
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-01-01
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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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Warning Shadows
Overview: During a dinner given by a wealthy baron and his wife, attended by four of her suitors in a 19th century German manor, a shadow-player rescues the marriage by giving all the guests a vision what might happen tonight if the baron stays jealous and the suitors do not reduce their advances towards his beautiful wife. Or was it a vision?
Genres: Thriller Fantasy Drama Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-10-16
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The Pride of Company Three
Overview: The adventures of smart soldier Gustav Diestelbeck include managing his superior officer, competing for the canteneer's daughter, evading punishment for discipline faults and hosting Prinz Willibald during his visit to the regiment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-01-04
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Die Garde-Diva
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-11-01
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Rosen blühen auf dem Heidegrab
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-12-25
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Mein Freund der Chauffeur
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-01-01
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Kaêna
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-01-01
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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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The Master of Death
Overview: A aristocratic lieutenant is forced to resign his commission and give up his career in the cavalry after having defended himself against deliberate provocations by a superior officer who is competing with him for the love of the daughter of a respected privy councillor. His family bans him to New York, where he falls on hard times until a former circus performer helps him to become a world-renowned trapeze and aerial artiste.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-11-26
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Im Kampf mit der Unterwelt
Overview: A banker who had fallen out with his family stipulated in his will that his fortune should only pass to the person in possession of the five keys he distributed to his relatives during his lifetime 80 years after his death. Only with all five keys can the cassette in the vault of a bank be opened, granting access to the deceased's assets. 75 years after the banker's death, the fugitive crook Murphy comes into possession of one of the keys, together with a list of the names of the owners of the four remaining keys. Over the next five years, he manages to obtain two more keys by criminal means. Now he just has to get the fourth key from Carlo and the fifth key from the young, rich widow Maria. Any means will do. But the unscrupulous villain has not reckoned with Carlo's shrewdness, who initially falls under suspicion himself, but then takes up the pursuit of the criminal.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-08-05
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The Theft of the Mona Lisa
Overview: This German crime drama was based on a true story. Willy Forst stars as a poverty-stricken Italian glazier who falls in love with French hotel maid Rosa Valletti. Struck by the girl's resemblance to Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Forst manages to steal the painting from the Louvre in hopes of impressing his sweetheart. But when the girl proves to be a fickle sort, the crestfallen hero confesses his crime and is carted off to jail. Unwilling to admit that he'd been led astray by a woman, Forst claims that he stole the Mona Lisa to restore it to his native Italy, and as a result is hailed as a national hero! Raub der Mona Lisa was distributed in the U.S. by RKO Radio, under the title The Theft of the Mona Lisa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-08-24
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Hokuspokus
Overview: Hokuspokus is a 1930 German comedy film directed by Gustav Ucicky and starring Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch and Oskar Homolka. It was an adaptation of the play Hokuspokus by Curt Goetz.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-07-10
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Ludwig II, King of Bavaria
Overview: In the last years of his life, Bavarian king Ludwig II (1845 – 1886) devotes himself to ambitious architectural projects, which strain the state coffers to the extreme. The monarch, who is afraid of people, also withdraws more and more into a dream world at his various castles. His brother is already in a psychiatric institute and Ludwig is also eventually put under the care of psychiatrist Bernhard von Gudden. The king attempts to get out from under this guardianship at Starnberg lake…
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-03-10
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Des Lebens Würfelspiel
Overview: a silent movie by Heinz Paul
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-08-21
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Die Straße des Vergessens
Overview: a silent movie by Heinz Paul
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-12-19
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The Woman on the Rack
Overview: a silent movie by Robert Wiene
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-09-12
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Marshal Forward
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Genres: War Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-11-23
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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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Three from the stamp office
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-02-24
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This One or None
Overview: The title of this heavily plotted German melodrama translates as "This One or None". Gitta Alpar stars as Eve, whose emotions are torn between two European princes, lifelong rivals who happen to be brothers. Eve prefers the nicer of the two princes, but this doesn't stop the other from aggressively stepping up his courtship. When the less agreeable of the two monarches takes control of the throne, he orders Eve to make an immediate choice between himself and his brother. Though old-fashioned in concept and execution, "Die - oder keine" benefitted from the charming presence of Gitta Alper.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-09-25
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Queen Louise
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Genres: History
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1927-12-22
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Luther
Overview: German silent film about the life of Martin Luther
Genres: History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-02-16
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Mensch gegen Mensch
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1924-12-02
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Vienna, City of My Dreams
Overview: The young Queen of Nlilrania and her consort, Prince Ferdinand, are deeply attached to each other, but a hectic youth in Vienna has left him with a flirtatious disposition. An old flame visits the palace, and the Queen apparently has justification for her jealousy. She orders her husband to remain in his apartments. He retaliates by returning the key of the door between their rooms. After a furious scene he departs for Vienna with the Countess. The Queen secretly follows with her aide-de-camp. in the train they encounter sonic officers, and the Queen not only dances, but at Vienna goes to the Arts Ball, where her husband awaits the Countess. Though masked, he recognizes her, and reconciliation ensues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-08-06
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Poor little Eva
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-04-01
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Secret Agent
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-02-18
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Im Kampf mit dem unsichtbaren Feind
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-06-27
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Die Fürstin der Ozeanwerft
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-01-01
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Der Mann ohne Kopf
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-11-18
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Small Town Sinners
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-09-12
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Die Bräutigame der Babette Bomberling
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-04-03
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Die lachende Grille
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-12-01
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German Women - German Faithfulness
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-02-02
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Fräulein Mama
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-01-01
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Moral
Overview: When a travelling troupe threatens to unleash a saucy Berlin revue on the provincial town of Emilsburg, the local Morality Society, a band of sanctimonious middle-aged men, stages a protest. Meanwhile, the reigning monarch is concerned that his son and heir is not living his life to the full. Ninon d’Hauteville, a showgirl and the revue’s star attraction, takes a job as piano teacher to the young prince after her engagement at the local theatre was brought to a premature end, a result of the Morality Society’s interference. It doesn’t take long for those hypocrites to get wind of this. While on the outside they appear to be concerned with running the immoral woman out of their town, behind closed doors they rank among the new piano teacher’s most ardent pupils. However, Ninon, out to right the wrong done against her, secretly keeps a “diary” of their visits, recording each encounter on film with a hidden camera.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-01-20
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Ash Wednesday
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-01-28
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Wem nie durch Liebe Leid geschah!
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-01-01
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Ein Traum vom Glück
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-04-04
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Die geheime Macht
Overview: "The Secret Power" - Hardly anyone who strays into the emigrant's restaurant "Strange Bird" would suspect that the porter once was a general, the waiter a prince and the cook an admiral, and that the lady at the bar is actually the princess Sinaide forced was leaving their home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-03-19
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Die blaue Laterne
Overview: Based on a novel by Paul Lindau.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-11-29
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Countess Mariza
Overview: When Gräfin Mariza visits her country estate it is certainly an event. She gives a party to celebrate her engagement to a certain Koloman Zsupan, who unexpectedly shows up. Her authoritarian ways collide with Török, her manager. Based on Emerich Kálmán operetta.
Genres: Music Romance Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-09-15
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Die Perle des Orients
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-08-12
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Countess Donelli
Overview: A lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-11-27
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Die Banditen von Asnières
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-07-17
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Madame Récamier
Overview: Madame Récamier hosts fashionable and influential salons. Her beauty and intelligence attract many suitors, and her politics put her in conflict with the French government.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-10-25
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Die Liebe der Bajadere
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-01-01
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Das Geheimnis der Mumie
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-02-18
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Weib in Flammen
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-11-28
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Der Graf von Charolais
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Genres: History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-09-08
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The Jew of Mestri
Overview: The film "Der Kaufmann von Venedig" ( The Jew Of Mestri ) was written, produced and directed by Peter Paul Felner in the silent year of 1923 and is a free adaptation of "Merchant of Venice" written by Herr William Shakespeare. It is an elegant and expensive German film production that was shot on location in beautiful and decadent Venice with some of the most important Teutonic actors of the time: Henny Porten, Harry Liedtke und Werner Krauss and even the mysterious Max Schreck.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-10-12
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Roswolsky's Mistress
Overview: Mia Verhag loses her job as a chorus singer when she rejects the advances of the theatre director. While she is in the grips of despair, she encounters the millionaire Roswolsky, who takes her to his luxurious house and gives her a key to the garden gate, allowing her to visit the surrounding park whenever she pleases. This chance meeting sends rumours flying everywhere, and soon Mia appears on the front pages of all the newspapers as Roswolsky’s mistress. The city’s merchants and creditors compete to lend her money, and she lands the leading role in the theatre’s new production. There, she falls in love with Count Albich – but, believing the rumours, he avoids her. Mia follows him to Monte Carlo, while Roswolsky himself falls genuinely in love with her and plots to take Albich out of the running. A grand drama is set to unfold.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-09-02
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Die Flamme
Overview: In 19th century Paris a hedonistic woman marries an aristocrat but has trouble keeping faithful to him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-02-02
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