Ernst Legal
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Schlieben, Germany
Adult: No
Birthday: May 02, 1881
Age: 144 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 29, 1955
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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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Charley's Aunt
Overview: Charley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley's Brazilian Aunt Donna Lucia. Their purpose is to have a chaperone for their amorous visits with Amy and Kitty, niece and ward of crusty Stephen Spettigue. Complications begin when Fancourt, in drag, becomes the love object of old Spettigue and Sir Francis Chesney.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-08-16
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The Journey to Tilsit
Overview: A villager is tempted by a sophisticated city woman and almost kills his wife in a boating accident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-11-02
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To New Shores
Overview: A 19th-century London cabaret singer is deported to prison in Australia. Her crime? Taking the blame when her lover bounces checks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-08-30
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Diskretion – Ehrensache
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-08-23
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Die Umwege des schönen Karl
Overview: Karl Kramer is a waiter in a beach hotel on the Baltic Sea. But he has completely different plans in mind for the future. Before he marries Grete Wernicke, the daughter of the hotel manager, he wants to have enough money himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-01-30
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The Mountain Calls
Overview: The Italian mountaineer Carel wants to be the first man to stand on the top of the Matterhorn. Since the climb is very difficult, he agrees to try it together with the British mountaineer Whymper. But due to an intrigue this agreement is dropped and the two man try it on the same day with two different teams and then disaster strikes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-01-06
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Es kommt ein Tag
Overview: Melodrama set during wartime.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-10-16
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Figaros Hochzeit
Overview: Shortly after WWII, the DEFA Studios produced a series of operas and operettas which belonged to the classical German musical heritage. This enchanting film, the very first opera production of DEFA, stands out because of its lavish decor and costumes, its outstanding actors and their masterful voices of that time.
Genres: Romance Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1949-11-25
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Und wieder 48
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1948-11-05
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Die gläserne Kugel
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-04-11
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Anschlag auf Schweda
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-11-05
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Seven Slaps
Overview: William MacPhab loses seven-pounds in the stock market and decides to slap the man who was responsible for the stock manipulation that caused him to lose his money. Astor Terbanks, the stock-market manipulator is surprised the next day when he gets soundly slapped by MacPhab, and the latter promises to deliver one more a day for the next six days. Terbank's daughter, Daisy, is amused by the procedure and is attracted to MacPhab.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-08-02
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Kinderarzt Dr. Engel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-12-30
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Die göttliche Jette
Overview: Cheeky Jette is a typical Berlin girl. Together with her mother, she performs couplets in a Berlin suburb theatre every night. Then, a young Austrian baron, who is worshipping Jette, enables her to audition for Königstädtisches Theater. Although she at first fails with an aria from an opera, Jette wins over the hearts of the board members with her fresh style when she performs a cheeky couplet that was written by Barsch, the stage manager of the suburb theater.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-03-18
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The Kaiser's Lackey
Overview: Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that he has to offer his services to the powers-that-be if he wants to wield power himself. His life motto now runs: bow to those at the top and tread on those below. In this way, he always succeeds: as a student in a duel-fighting student fraternity and as a businessman in a paper factory. He cajoles the obese district administrative president Von Wulkow and wins his favor. He slanders his financial rivals and hatches a plot with the social democrats in the town council. On his honeymoon with his rich wife Guste, he finally finds a chance to do his beloved Kaiser a favor. And when a memorial to the Kaiser is unveiled in the town where Diederich lives and works, he delivers the address. He stands behind the lectern in the pouring rain, saluting his Kaiser. The crowd is dispersed. Everything is laid in ruins...
Genres: Drama History Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1951-08-31
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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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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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Andalusische Nächte
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-07-04
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Kein Platz für Liebe
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1947-03-30
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Der Mustergatte
Overview: Heinz Rühmann plays the "model husband" who, when his bored wife threatens to leave him, embarks on an adventurous night.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-10-12
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Tanz auf dem Vulkan
Overview: Paris, 1830: Jean-Gaspard Debureau performs on the stage and delights his audience with song, wit and charm. He is, however, very unpopular with King Charles X, who is the target of much of Debureau's scornful jests. That would be a somewhat tolerable situation if it weren't for the fact that Debureau has fallen for a countess, who happens to be the King's mistress.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-11-30
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Immensee
Overview: A man and a woman struggle to stifle their love for each other, even after he moves away to travel the world and she marries a suitor.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1943-12-08
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The Golden City
Overview: Anna Jobst is the daughter of a rich, conservative farmer. Living on the bank of the Moldau, she wishes nothing more than follow the river to Prague, the "Golden City". After arriving, she quickly falls into a bad crowd.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1942-09-03
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The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes
Overview: Two dubious characters disguise themselves as Holmes and Watson to gain attention and end up chasing counterfeiters and stolen stamps.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-07-14
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Maria, die Magd
Overview: An actress and her lawyer husband are so busy that their maid becomes the real mother to their six year old boy and at one point causes consternation by taking the child away to her home village.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-10-01
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Die Jungfern vom Bischofsberg
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1943-05-28
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Frech und verliebt
Overview: Penniless Peter Schild looks for work when arrived in Germany. Working as a private eye he has to observe a young lady who is willing to marry an unemployed actor against the will of her parents.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-03-30
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Sieben Briefe
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1944-03-28
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Rätsel der Nacht
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1945-01-01
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His Best Friend
Overview: Remake of a 1929 German film by the same title about a man and a police dog.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-02-26
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Der Mann mit der Pranke
Overview: "The Man with the Paw" is what people call the very successful banker Wiegant, who is desperately in love with Lena Kroning, the wife of the lawyer Hugo Kroning. So as to be nearer to her, Wiegant hires her husband to be the bank's lawyer. Shortly thereafter, Wiegant is suspected of having conned the Countess Steindorff during a telephone conversation; but he never did. During the relevant period of time, he was with Lena "having tea" (uh huh), which he conceals from the lawyer-husband, so as to protect Lena.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-10-30
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Rotkäppchen und der Wolf
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Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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August der Starke
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-01-17
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The Leghorn Hat
Overview: Der Florentiner Hut (The Leghorn Hat), a 1939 German film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-04-04
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Andreas Schlüter
Overview: Historical drama portraying the life of German baroque architect Andreas Schlüter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1942-09-11
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Karriere in Paris
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1952-01-25
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Romance in a Minor Key
Overview: A grieving husband tries to uncover the truth behind his wife's suicide, leading him to discover a tragic tale of infidelity and redemption.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1943-06-25
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Altes Herz geht auf die Reise
Overview: The underage Rosemarie is still too young to run her inherited farm by herself; but she's more than aware that her foster father and the farm's administrator, the farmer Schlieker, is constantly skimming from the farm's finances to line his own pocket. To put an end to Schlieker's scheme, Rosemarie asks her godfather, Professor Kittgus, for help. But when Kittgus confronts Schlieker, the farmer not only proves to be unreasonable but also violent...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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The Death Agony of the Eagles
Overview: After the death of Napoleon, colonel Montaner plots to restore the Empire, but falls in love with Lise, a beautiful dancer.
Genres: History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1922-02-03
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