Paul Biensfeldt
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Adult: No
Birthday: March 04, 1869
Age: 156 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 02, 1933
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Gilgi: One of Us
Overview: A young woman born illegitimately comes to terms with the challenge of getting married.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-10-03
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Dyckerpotts Erben
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-10-02
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A Tremendously Rich Man
Overview: A man swallows a diamond - and suddenly all people around him change their attitude towards him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-02-13
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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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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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All for Money
Overview: Rupp (Jannings) is a former butcher, made rich in the meat packing industry as a result of the reversal of fortunes brought on by WWI. He is crude, uncouth and uneducated. His son, Fred, is the apple of his father's eye and is an auto enthusiast. The widowed Rupp falls in love with a former aristocrat, Helen, now down on her luck and pawning her last heirloom. He proposes marriage and she accepts in order to save her ailing mother who needs a monetary influx to avoid death. Her former boyfriend, Platen, warns Helen against Rupp's intentions - he and Rupp are enemies, Rupp having caused his being fired for protecting a chorus girl against Rupp's unwanted advances. Meanwhile, Graf, a shyster, arranges purchase of a near bankrupt auto manufacturing firm, Phoenix, to Rupp's great advantage with practically no monetary recognition to Graf, who swears revenge. Rupp comes upon his son begging Helen not to marry his father but to return to Platen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-11-04
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The Spanish Fly
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-12-09
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The Beggar Student
Overview: First of several filmed versions of a popular period operetta, in which an early 18th century noblewoman in Poland falls in love with a revolutionary student activist.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-02-03
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Tell Me Who You Are
Overview: The star of an operetta is engaged to its elderly director but really loves a dashing young Bavarian she met at a masked ball.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-05-14
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Stein unter Steinen
Overview: A stonemason who killed his landlord faces hardship trying to reintegrate into society after being released from prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1917-01-01
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Cab No. 13
Overview: The film starts with a woman on the run from her millionaire husband giving birth to a daughter in the home of a washerwoman. The woman dies in childbirth, but the baby survives. The washerwoman leaves the baby in a horsedrawn Parisian taxicab (No. 13). The paperwork of the birth is lost in a huge tome. Sixteen years pass. The tome is bought by a poor student. One day his bookshelf collapses, and the tome opens at the page where the paperwork has been hidden. The student realises that the paperwork relates to a millionaire who has spent the last sixteen years looking for his pregnant wife. The student traces the washerwoman, and he tricks her into confessing what she has done with the baby. Meanwhile, the baby has been adopted by the cab driver and his wife, and has grown into Lili Damita.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-03-06
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Explodigger 1010
Overview: The engineer Karl Hartmann invents a new, gigantic brown coal excavator. He discovers that there are large deposits below his home country and decides to use the excavator there.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-11-25
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The Merry Jail
Overview: A neglected wife disguises herself in order to lure her wastrel husband into a compromising position.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1917-11-30
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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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Die Abenteuerin von Monte Carlo
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-11-25
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Her Dark Spot
Overview: When registering in a Berlin hotel, the beautiful Lilian realizes that she apparently has a doppelganger: She is arrested as a wanted jewel thief. Lilian decides to find the woman who is preparing her next coup in Nice.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-01-19
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The Stone Rider
Overview: In a distant Teutonic village, people dance and drink merrily celebrating a wedding feast. However, an elderly man tells the villagers that the valley where they live wasn't always happy but sorrowful. This was due to the tyranny of the master of the mountains who ruled the valley despotically.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-03-31
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Sumurun
Overview: The favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a hunchback clown suffers unrequited love for a traveling dancer who wants to join the harem.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-09-01
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Der Mitternachtswalzer
Overview: a silent movie by Heinz Paul
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-07-26
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Carmen
Overview: The tragic story of Don Jose, a Spanish cavalryman, who falls under the spell of a gypsy girl, Carmen, who treats him with both love and contempt and leads him into temptation and thus damnation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-12-20
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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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Student Life in Merry Springtime
Overview: a music movie by Heinz Paul
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-12-01
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Trenck - Der Roman einer großen Liebe
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-10-27
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Die Konservenbraut
Overview: a silent movie by Robert Wiene
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1915-06-21
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Der Liebesbrief der Königin
Overview: a silent movie by Robert Wiene
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1917-03-30
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Countess Kitchenmaid
Overview: Henny Porten plays the dual role of a rather indecorous Countess and her kitchen maid Karoline Blum, an amateur actress.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-01-18
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Die Königin von Moulin Rouge
Overview: a silent movie by Robert Wiene
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-10-04
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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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Aus den Erinnerungen eines Frauenarztes - 2. Lüge und Wahrheit
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-04-06
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Aus den Erinnerungen eines Frauenarztes - 1. Fliehende Schatten
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-03-29
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Madame DuBarry
Overview: The story of Madame du Barry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-09-18
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My Wife, the Movie Star
Overview: While making a movie in the Alps, the female star falls in love with a nobleman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-01-24
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Romeo and Juliet in the Snow
Overview: The story of Romeo and Juliet, a tale as old as time-- Here, played as farcical lark: A goofy comedy of manners set in a snowy Bavarian village.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-03-11
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The Wildcat
Overview: A charismatic lieutenant newly assigned to a remote fort is captured by a group of mountain bandits, thus setting in motion a madcap farce that is Lubitsch at his most unrestrained. A wonderfully anarchic and playfully subversive satire of military life from one of the great comedy filmmakers.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-04-14
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A Student's Song of Heidelberg
Overview: A long time ago, John Miller emigrated from Germany to America. Now he wants his daughter Elinor to get to know his old homeland and sends her off to Heidelberg, where she is to study for a year. Pretty soon, the pretty young girl is in demand among the young men in town. Especially the students Dahlberg and Bornemann try to win Elinor's heart.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-08-27
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Harakiri
Overview: The daughter of a Daimyo, one forced to commit harakiri to secure her a future to choose her own destiny, falls in love with and marries a European officer. The officer returns to Europe but promises to come back for her and his new child, but when he comes back to Japan, he brings his European wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-12-18
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The Ideal Wife
Overview: The bachelor Paul lives as the only man in a household with his mother, his aunts, sisters and cousins. They are annoyed by his teasing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1913-09-19
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When the Dead are Living Again
Overview: The story concerns a sculptor who visits a fishing village, where he marries a fisherman's daughter who dies in childbirth. Grief-stricken, he returns to the city, where in a Vertigo-like moment he sees his dead wife's lookalike - an opera singer. He later becomes jealous and strangles her with the tresses of his dead wife.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1919-09-01
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Sleeping Beauty
Overview: An adaptation of the famous fairy tale.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1917-12-20
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Kill No More!
Overview: The director and co-writer Lupu Pick plays musician Erik Paulsson, who loses his beloved son after a peaceful yet critical poetry reading is raided by the tsarist forces. Paulsson, beside himself with grief, kills the officer responsible and is sentenced to life, which will mean 18 years in prison before he is free again. While he is inside, by a strange quirk of fate, his daughter Karin falls in love with writer Sebald Brückner, the son of the state prosecutor, who indicted Paulsson and is a staunch advocate of the death penalty. The conflict between the fathers does not impair the relationship of the young couple. However, when Sebald’s long-desired success on the stage is threatened by a vengeful theatre director who had sexually harassed Karin, he is enraged and kills the other man in a fight. The prosecutor now must face the blow of losing his own son to the death penalty.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-01-01
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Die Fahrt ins Blaue
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-11-21
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The Bodega of Los Cuerros
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-08-02
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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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Das schwarze Los
Overview: About members of a Commedia dell'arte troupe . Initially cheerful, later tragic events in a triangular relationship consisting of the classic Commedia triumvirate Pierrot, Colombina and Arlecchino.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1913-10-20
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Flight Around the World
Overview: A spectacular action-adventure travelogue with stages in Genoa, Suez, Colombo, Singapore, Canton, Yokohama, Honolulu, San Francisco, New York and Brest.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-03-06
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Die Sieger
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-09-27
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Amt Zukunft
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-01-01
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The Hunchback and the Dancer
Overview: Wilton, a hunchback, who was always scorned and ridiculed by women, returns from Java a rich man after having discovered a diamond mine. He romances Gina, who is on the rebound from a broken affair, and showers her with expensive gifts. After Gina reconciles with her boyfriend, she continues to see Wilton because of what he gives her. After he discovers her perfidy, Wilton develops a poison and mixes it into her lipstick, which will kill any man who kisses her. Lost film.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-07-08
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Prinz Kuckuck
Overview: The niece and nephew of an eccentric millionaire try to get a share of the now deceased millionaire's inheritance from his adopted son who delights in squandering it. Considered lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-09-24
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The House Without a Door
Overview: German war film. This film is considered lost.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1914-06-30
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The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
Overview: In San Francisco, well-known sportsman Kay Hoog announces to a club that he has found a message in a bottle with a map drawn by a Harvard professor who has gone missing. The map tells of a lost Incan civilization that possesses an immense treasure. Hoog immediately plans an expedition to find it. But Lio Sha, the head of a criminal organization known as the Spiders, is determined to get the treasure for herself and plans a rival expedition.
Genres: Adventure Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-10-03
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Arme Violetta
Overview: A modern adaptation of Dumas' Camille.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-12-25
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Erzherzog Johann
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-01-25
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Sodoms Ende
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-07-01
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Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
Overview: Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to make huge profits on the stock exchange. Afterwards, Mabuse disguises himself and attends the Folies Bergères show, where Cara Carozza, the main attraction of the show, passes him information on Mabuse's next intended victim, the young millionaire Edgar Hull. Mabuse then uses psychic manipulation to lure Hull into a card game where he loses heavily. When Police Commissioner von Wenk begins an investigation of this mysterious crime spree, he has little to go on, and he needs to find someone who can help him.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-04-27
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Todesurteil
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-01-01
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The White Demon
Overview: When Albers takes his drug-addicted opera star sister Gerda to a sanitarium, they both become targets of slimy dope peddler Peter Lorre, who fears that Gerda will blow the whistle on him. Lorre kidnaps the woman, leading Albers on a frantic chase.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-11-19
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Der papierene Peter
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1917-01-01
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Strafsache van Geldern
Overview: Paulus van Geldern is a lawyer who has made a name for himself as a criminal defense attorney, but is notoriously short of funds due to his unbridled passion for gambling. His gambling causes problems with his marriage to Martha who is thriving.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-08-22
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