Hermann Vallentin
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Hermann Vallentin (24 May 1872 – 18 September 1945) was a German actor born in Berlin. He was the son of a Jewish timber merchant and factory owner, Felix Vallentin. He was the older brother of actress Rosa Valetti. After training as an actor at the Royal Theatre in Berlin with Max Grube and Hans Oberländer, he received his first engagement at the Central-Theatre in Berlin in the 1895/96 season. In the next few years, appearances on various Berlin stages followed. From 1914, Vallentin was also a film actor. He mostly embodied fatherly figures, patriarchs and directors, but also small-minded philistines. In the 1931 film version of Der Hauptmann von Köpenick, he played the uniform tailor Adolph Wormser. The seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933, ended his film career abruptly. In 1933 Vallentin, emigrated to Czechoslovakia, where he appeared on German language stages in Ústí and Prague. In 1938 he left for Switzerland and worked at the Stadttheater Basel and the Schauspielhaus Zürich. In 1939 he emigrated to Mandatory Palestine and settled in Tel Aviv. Not being able to speak Hebrew, he retired from acting altogether. In Tel Aviv, he lectured, read poetry and was a sporadic anchorman for German-language news on the Palestine Broadcasting Service (PBS). He died in Tel Aviv in 1945, aged 73.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Adult: No
Birthday: May 24, 1872
Age: 152 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 18, 1945
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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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The Haunted Castle
Overview: The sinister Count Oetsch scandalizes the aristocratic social gathering at Castle Vogelod as he announces his intention to "crash" the festivities. Baroness Safferstätt is expected shortly, and the guests are well-aware of the rumors that Count Oetsch murdered the baroness' late husband. Oetsch refuses to leave, vowing that he will reveal the identity of the real killer. Before the weekend is through, the Count and Baroness will reveal secrets too shocking to be believed!
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-04-07
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Die seltsame Vergangenheit der Thea Carter
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-12-03
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The Stolen Face
Overview: Bill's girlfriend Lore is an art student in Berlin. Since her professor doesn't think much of painting women, she exchanges a genuine Raphael painting in a gallery for a copy made by her. In a spectacular theft, the copy is stolen. Detective Keller suspects Bill and Lore. But Bill, who is a talented quick-change artist, keeps escaping arrest by constantly altering his appearance.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-11-10
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Die letzte Galavorstellung des Zirkus Wolfson
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-04-11
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The Finances of the Grand Duke
Overview: The likeable and carefree Grand Duke of Abacco is in dire straits. There is no money left to service the State's debt; the main creditor is looking forward to expropriating the entire Duchy. The marriage with Olga, Grand Duchess of Russia, would solve everything, but a crucial letter of hers about the engagement has been stolen. Besides, a bunch of revolutionaries and a dubious businessman have other plans regarding the Grand Duke. With the intrusion of adventurer Philipp Collins into the Grand Duke's affairs, a series of frantic chases, plots and counter-plots begins.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-01-07
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The Story of a Little Parisian
Overview: Totte works in Paris when she meets the wealthy Renato. Renato's father wants him to marry so to fool him he proposes to Totte.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-01-26
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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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The Sun's Revenge
Overview: An innkeeper in sheer despair murders a passing by musician and steals his money in order to buy medicine for his dying wife. Eventually, he falls into an endless turmoil of guilt and madness.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1915-07-09
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The Flight in the Night
Overview: Based on the play Henry IV by Luigi Pirandello. Conrad Veidt plays Count di Nolli, a nobleman who, after a head injury, imagines he is the medieval emperor. His friends and relatives choose to play along, dressing up as medieval courtiers, but is di Nolli truly mad, or just pretending? The art direction was by Hermann Warm. It was shot on location in Italy. 6 acts, 1856 meters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-12-13
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Only You
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Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-09-04
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The Dangerous Age
Overview: The gorgeous 40-year-old Elsie Lindtner lives in a beautiful house, and is married to a respectable university professor. And yet, there’s something that nags her. She’s about to reach “the dangerous age”, when beauty begins to fade and boredom kicks in. She falls in love with a younger man and divorces her husband, but ends up hiding away in a country house where she can age in secret. (Stumfilm.dk)
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-11-17
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Das Frühlingslied
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-07-05
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John Riew
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1917-01-01
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The Ancient Law
Overview: Baruch Mayer, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the family tradition and leave the shtetl to become an actor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-10-29
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The Captain from Köpenick
Overview: Based on the true story of a cobbler who bought a second-hand captain's uniform, assumed command of a troop of guardsmen, declared the town of Köpenick under military law, arrested the mayor and confiscated the town treasury.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-12-22
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Sprung in den Abgrund
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-03-29
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Das Gift im Weibe
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-01-01
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Die glühende Gasse
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-01-01
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Hölle der Jungfrauen
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-10-01
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Börse und Adel
Overview: A young woman marries a wealthy count she does not love, after she learns of her beau's flirtations with another woman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1917-04-01
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Asphalt
Overview: One of the last great German Expressionist films of the silent era, Joe May’s Asphalt is a love story set in the traffic-strewn Berlin of the late 1920s. Starring the delectable Betty Amann in her most famous leading role, Asphalt is a luxuriously produced UFA classic where tragic liaisons and fatal encounters are shaped alongside the constant roar of traffic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-03-12
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Destiny
Overview: As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and is sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall. The woman finds a mystic entrance and is met by Death, who tells her three separate stories set in exotic locales, all involving circumstances similar to hers.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-10-06
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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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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 drei Tänze der Mary Wilford
Overview: a silent movie by Robert Wiene
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-04-01
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The Abyss of Souls
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-09-02
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Am anderen Ufer
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-05-01
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Bookkeeper Kremke
Overview: In this realistic, unsentimental portrait of Germany’s dire economic situation, a middle-aged payroll clerk loses his job due to technological advances and, unable to find another, descends into despair. The film’s director, Marie Harder, was one of only a few women directors of the time and was also the head of the German Social Democratic Film Office. She made only two known films before her accidental death in exile in Mexico in 1936.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-09-14
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Die Buddenbrooks
Overview: Four-generation story-saga dealing with the decline of a middle-class Lübeck family. The first adaptation of a Thomas Mann book was also Gerhard Lamprecht’s first major film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-08-30
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Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend
Overview: In his film version, Curt Goetz shifts the focus away from the poetic output towards the young Friedrich Schiller himself: on the misery of his soul whilst a pupil of the ducal military academy, his opposition to the strict physical drill and the narrow intellectual confines of the "Karlsschule", his juvenile passion for the works of Shakespeare, Klopstock and Lessing, his anger at unjust authorities, his devotion to women, and finally his inability to cope with financial matters
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-03-26
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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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Two Worlds
Overview: German language version of Two Worlds.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-09-15
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She and the Three
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-06-22
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Hearts Are Trumps
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-12-03
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Der zeugende Tod
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1921-04-14
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Das Erwachen des Weibes
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-10-12
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Him or Me
Overview: Prince Valona has a bit of trouble with his girlfriend Eveline (Olivia Fried), so he's quite open for the attraction of a young lady he meets by chance (Valerie Boothby). He doesn't know, however, that this lady is a detective who follows the con-man Carlo Moreno, and as the prince and the criminal look alike, she mistakes the prince for the criminal. The real Moreno isn't far away, though, and he first deprives the prince of his train ticket and then also takes on his identity in order to steal a pearl necklace from Eveline.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-11-27
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Das Herz der Lilian Thorland
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-01-01
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The Fallen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-01-18
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Königsliebchen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-09-27
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Das Geheimnis des Renngrafen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-01-01
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Marie Antoinette - Das Leben einer Königin
Overview: The life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, during the years leading up to and during the French Revolution in which she was executed.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-10-26
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Die Königin von Whitechapel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-01-01
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Planetenschieber
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-02-06
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Die 3 Niemandskinder
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-01-01
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Ledige Mütter
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-02-14
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Die Sache mit Schorrsiegel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-04-06
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Die Dame und der Landstreicher
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-02-02
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Hannele's Ascension
Overview: A young woman is abused or abandoned by the men in her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-04-09
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Das zweite Leben
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-12-02
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Der Sohn der Hagar
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-03-24
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Lotte
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-04-17
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Die goldene Krone
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-08-05
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Die Liebe einer Königin
Overview: In 1766, the young English princess Caroline Mathilde is sent to Denmark to marry the King Christian VII. The marriage is unhappy and Caroline Mathilde finds herself drawn instead to court physician Johann Friedrich Struensee.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-09-13
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Ihr schlechter Ruf
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-02-22
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Help! Raid!
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-10-27
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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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Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
Overview: Weltbrand is the first part of the two-part silent movie Christian Wahnschaffe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1920-11-12
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Qualen der Nacht
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-04-23
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Madame Wants No Children
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-12-14
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Schlagende Wetter
Overview: After the revelation that Georg has seduced her, Maria is driven away by her father. Georg, fearing the wrath of Maria's father, has swiftly abandoned the girl and left for the mining town of Sankt Anton, where he expects to hide easily amongst the large population of colliers. Maria must care for herself, and ends up in Sankt Anton, where she attempts to rebuild her life. There, she gets to know Thomas, and soon the young people are engaged. When Georg and Maria meet again, drama ensues. The film originally ran 97 minutes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-02-15
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The House by the Sea
Overview: The proprietors of a small inn on the Italian coast suddenly have to cater for a company of conscripts on their way to a nearby port. One of the sergeants recognizes Resa as a former "camp-follower". When her husband hears of this he becomes insanely jealous and decides to join the company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-01-01
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Die drei Kuckucksuhren
Overview: Lord Ernest Clifton lives with his beautiful wife, Gladys, at Easton Lodge. He has lost immense wealth in the lap of his uncle's death. One day Lord Clifton receives a mysterious package with an even more mysterious letter from his uncle. Three cuckoo clocks that strike only once a month should show him the way to find the second part of the pot of gold buried somewhere. Ernest's thirst for adventure only awakens and waits for the first cuckoo clock to mark the room number of a hotel in Cairo, where the second cuckoo clock hangs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-05-25
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Cyanide
Overview: Drama based on a play by Friedrich Wolf. Hete is pregnant, hoping to have a family with her fiancé Paul. When the factory where she and Paul work sacks all striking workers, she tries to find a legal abortion. But there is only the illegal option - the eponymous cyanide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-05-22
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The Tunnel
Overview: Max Allan, a visionary engineer persuades investors to fund building an undersea railway connecting France to the United States. But there are powerful forces who wants to stop his futuristic dream.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1915-09-01
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Im Namen des Kaisers
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-02-18
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Die Nonne und der Harlekin
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-06-01
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Das lebende Rätsel
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Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1916-09-01
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Judith Trachtenberg
Overview: In the nineteenth century a young Jewish woman living in the part of Poland controlled by Austria, meets an Austrian Count at a ball held by one of her father's business associates. After he rescues her from the unwanted attentions of a Polish army officer, they fall in love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-12-09
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Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-12-29
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Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-12-29
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The Black Panther
Overview: Kornej is a young painter of primitivism. An art agent discover the works of Kornej and buy the whole collection. The art critic Moulin is very excited about Kornejs paintings and style. Kornej marries his childhood sweetheart Rita. They have a child that carries a mystic disease. Allt the money Kornej got from selling his collection is put into the care of the sick child. Rita leaves Kornej.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-10-14
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Der Kampf des Donald Westhof
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-09-29
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Wüstenrausch
Overview: A romantic adventure set in the Sahara desert.
Genres: Adventure Romance Action Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-01-01
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Der geheimnisvolle Wanderer
Overview: A mysterious man saves the son of a wealthy couple so they allow him to stay at their place for one night but soon a murder happens.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Crime Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1915-01-01
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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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-07-29
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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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La vierge du portail
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1924-05-09
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Die Gespenster von Garden Hall
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-01-01
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Atlantic
Overview: German-language version. "Atlantic" is a drama film based on the sinking of the RMS "Titanic" and set aboard a fictional ship, called the "Atlantic". The main plotline revolves around a man who has a shipboard affair with a fellow passenger, which is eventually discovered by his wife. The ship also has aboard an elderly couple, Heinrich and Anna Thomas, who are on their anniversary cruise. Midway across the Atlantic Ocean, the "Atlantic" strikes an iceberg and is damaged to the point where it is sinking into the Atlantic. The German version was filmed at the same time as the British version, with each scene first being filmed in English for the British version, then the same scene being filmed in German by a German cast, using the same sets.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-10-28
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Die Last
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1916-01-01
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