Hertha von Walther
Also Known As: Rosa Walter, Hertha von Walter, Herta von Walther, Hertha Walther von Walther
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hildesheim, Germany
Birthday: June 12, 1903
Deathday: April 12, 1987
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Mary
Overview: A juror in a murder trial, after voting to convict, has second thoughts and begins to investigate on his own before the execution. German version of "Murder."
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-03-02
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Das Geheimnis von St. Pauli
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-01
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The School Girls
Overview: Mockumentary about German schoolgirls openly talking about their scandalous sexual experiences. Some of these are illustrated through inserted vignettes. Also, a street reporter asks actual common folk about their views on sex.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-10-23
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Das Geständnis der Drei
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-02-08
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Ghost Train
Overview: Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead of night, carrying ghosts from a long-ago train wreck in the area. The travelers eventually get to the bottom of the things that go bump in the night.
Genres: Crime Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-09-16
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Angels Who Burn Their Wings
Overview: Munich at night: Robert Susmeit, a 16-year-old teenager who is jealously obsessed with his mother Hilde, traces her and her latest lover at a mundane apartment building where he kills the man in the heat of the moment at a swimming pool. His fatal outburst is secretly witnessed by Moni Dingeldey, a girl of the same age as his. Fascinated by the shaken and devastated strange boy who she hopes to be a soul-mate, she hides Robert in her mother's apartment. Meanwhile, a crowd of policemen and reporters frantically comb through the building in search a murderer whose identity is known only to Robert's parents who are searching as well...
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-09-18
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The Devious Path
Overview: Neglected by her husband, an ambitious lawyer, Irene seeks variety in Berlin's nightlife-- An evening of dancing, dolls, cocaine and immoral passion. Irene takes the "devious path" as she seeks to make her husband jealous.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-08-10
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The Case of Helena Willfuer
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-03-03
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Jonathan
Overview: A group of vampires terrorizes a small village on the German North Sea Coast. The young Jonathan joins a group of fellow students and locals, who plan an uprising against the vampires.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-05-15
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Mountain of Destiny
Overview: After a mountaineer is killed attempting to climb a difficult mountain, his son dreams of conquering the peak that has defeated his father. But his mother makes him promise never to attempt it. Events eventually force her to release him from the promise, and he ascends the mountain successfully.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-05-10
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Ways to Strength and Beauty
Overview: The perfect body as an object of cult worship. Based on the mass sports and body worship movement of the 1920s, the film propagates physical training and shows in stylized documentary scenes aspects of physical hygiene, gymnastics, sports and dancing as well as scenes in which supposed sportsmen of antiquity pose naked.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-03-16
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Il cantastorie di Venezia
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1929-02-01
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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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-11-26
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Es kommt alle Tage vor...
Overview: German silent film
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-04-29
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The Thirteen Trunks of Mr. O.F.
Overview: In the very old-fashioned town of Ostend suddenly 13 suitcases are delivered to the hotel, with a note, that O.F. will be here soon and needs 6 rooms (the hotel just has five). This event, probably the biggest in 300 years, starts a small wave of modernisation, yet everybody is wondering who O.F. is. Journalist Stix and architect Stark have an idea how to use this event. They proclaim, that O.F. is a former citizen of the town, who became a millionaire abroad. They tell their fellow citizens that the town still needs modernisation, like better hotels, nightclubs, shops, etc. And soon, Ostend is a boomtown, then a capital. The architect, responsible for the new buildings is finaly allowed to marry the mayor's daughter, while Stix marries the cabaret star and the widowed mayor his new secretary. The only problem is, O.F. hasn't shown up, while finance experts from all over the world are trying to solve the depression problem.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-12-02
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Ratten der Großstadt
Overview: Film by Wolfgang Neff
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-01-01
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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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Only a Dancing Girl
Overview: Heinrich Zentler is a successful man, both on football and in his legal career.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-11-04
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Secrets of a Soul
Overview: Werner Krauss, who had played the deranged Dr. Caligari six years earlier, stars as a scientist who is tormented by an irrational fear of knives and the irresistible compulsion to murder his wife. Driven to the brink of madness by fantastic nightmares (designed by Ernö Metzner and photographed by Guido Seeber in a brilliant mix of expressionism and surrealism), he encounters a psychoanalyst who offers to treat the perplexing malady.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-03-24
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Die Ehe
Overview: Marriage and sexuality is examined through the lens of screenwriter Dr. van de Velde, a Dutch gynocologist.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-04-23
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Jahrmarkt des Lebens
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-02-16
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So Ended a Great Love
Overview: The political advisor to the French emperor Napoleon, and the Austrian emperor Franz I, arrange a marriage between Napoleon and the Austrian archduchess Marie-Luise in order to prevent another war.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-10-17
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The Joyless Street
Overview: In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their families during the period of Austrian postwar hyperinflation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-03-01
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The Love of Jeanne Ney
Overview: In the Crimea, the Reds and the Whites aren't done fighting, and Jeanne discovers that the man she loves is a Bolshevik (when he kills her father). Penniless, she returns to Paris where she works for her uncle. Soon after, her lover Andreas is in France to organize the sailors in Toulon. So also is a thief, traitor, and libertine, Khalibiev, who wants to seduce Jeanne. His schemes, Jeanne and Andreas's naivete, and a lost diamond bring the lovers to the brink of tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-12-06
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The Shot in the Talker Studio
Overview: During the shooting of a jealousy scene on a soundstage, one actress is murdered. Due to the fact that the male star of the movie had a relation with the victim and the female star is now his fiance, he is suspected by the police.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-07-24
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The Tiger Murder Case
Overview: Mysterious murders committed by a criminal have kept the public on their toes and the police have mistakenly accused an imposter of the crimes.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-04-15
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Man Against Man
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Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-09-23
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Eva and the Grasshopper
Overview: Mary and Eva are best friends, although they couldn't be more different. Armand, Mary's fiancee, falls in love with the seductive Eva, who is busy becoming a revue star. When Eva fails and loses her money, Armand tries to help her out.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1927-06-10
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Ledige Mütter
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-02-14
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Tannenberg
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Genres: War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-09-07
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M
Overview: In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-05-11
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Inherited Passions
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-05-03
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Spies
Overview: The mastermind behind a ubiquitous spy operation learns of a dangerous romance between a Russian lady in his employ and a dashing agent from the government's secret service.
Genres: Thriller Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-03-22
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Am Rande der Großstadt
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-12-12
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The Gripper
Overview: Inspector Harry Cross is investigating a murder case with a knife throwing killer in the the seedy world of night clubs.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-09-10
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Lady Juan
Overview: A Spanish nobleman raises his only daughter as a boy, similarly to Greta Garbo in Queen Christina (1933). In adulthood, Juana's upbringing causes complications in her love life. Possibly an early example of genderqueer representation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-01-24
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Möblierte Zimmer
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-03-29
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Osudné noci
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1929-05-03
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The Tiger of Eschnapur
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Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-01-06
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