Fritz Greiner
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria
Adult: No
Birthday: January 18, 1879
Age: 146 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 16, 1933
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Manon Lescaut
Overview: A French adventurer fights to save a woman in the life of prostitution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-02-15
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Haus Nummer 17
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-01-01
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Darling of the Gods
Overview: Also known as Darling of the Gods, this was Emil Jannings' second talkie appearance. Jannings stars as famed operatic singer Albert Winkelmann, who is greeted with cheers, applause and romantic propositions whenever he performs in his native Vienna. But when he embarks on a tour of South America, tragedy strikes. The sweltering climate causes Winkelmann to lose his voice on stage, a disaster met with hoots and cat-calls. Dispirited he returns to Europe, where he soon learns that no one is aware of what happened in South America. Intending to retire so as not to be exposed to further humiliation, Winkelmann is goaded back on stage -- where, miraculously, his gorgeous voice returns.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-10-13
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The Squeeker
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-07-30
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The Black Hussar
Overview: In 1812, during the French period, large parts of Germany are occupied by the troops of Napoleon. Several paramilitary Freikorps units battle the French forces, among them the Black Brunswickers led by the 'Black Duke' Frederick William of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. After the War of the Fifth Coalition, the Black Hussars are pursued by Napoleon throughout the country, but frequently take refuge with the noble-minded German people.
Genres: Drama Romance Adventure History Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-10-12
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Viennese Waltz
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-08-11
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Das Opfer der Iris
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Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-01-01
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The Company's Mother
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-10-22
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S.A. Mann Brand
Overview: This Nazi propaganda film tells the story of a young truck driver who is having trouble making ends meet until he is exposed to the teachings of Adolf Hitler, and he joins the S.A., aka Storm Troopers, and manages to convert his father--a former soldier with Marxist leanings--and his girlfriend of the rightness of the Nazi cause.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-06-13
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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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Der Erzieher meiner Tochter
Overview: An American billionaire's daughter is obsessed with the idea of marrying a count. Her father would prefer her to marry the son of a competitor. So he comes up with the idea of hiring the dashing Heinz to spoil her aristocratic ways. Heinz introduces himself to her as Count Rüttow-Mallwitz and takes her to Europe. There, the two fall in love, but when she finds out about the scam, she indignantly takes the next ship and returns to America. It is only on the crossing that Heinz manages to convince her that he really loves her
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-01-07
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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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Adventures of a Ten Mark Note
Overview: Anna receives her first weekly wage: a ten-mark note with the no. K 13513. She gives it to her mother, who hides it in her Bible. Anna's brother Robert steals the note and uses it to buy a knife with which he becomes a murderer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-10-28
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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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Das schwarze Gesicht
Overview: During the silent film era, Mara Chukleva was perhaps the most famous actress of Bulgarian origin. Success came to her in Italy during the heyday of Italian silent cinema; later the actress worked in Germany, where she starred in the film Blackface directed by Franz Osten.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1920-11-25
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Abenteuer im Nachtexpreß
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-12-25
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Panic in the House of Ardon
Overview: A silent movie by Rober Wiene.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-10-04
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Heldentum und Todeskampf unserer Emden
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Genres: Drama Documentary War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-11-13
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The Raider Emden
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Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-12-22
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Cruiser Emden
Overview: Story of the Kreuzer (cruiser) Emden and his men during WWI, garnished with a love Story, rivalry and heroism.
Genres: War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-05-20
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Love's Command
Overview: During the Austro Hungarian empire, a girl substitutes for her brother in a military academy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-11-10
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Bright Eyes
Overview: A 1929 British-Austrian romance film directed by Géza von Bolváry.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-29
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The Night of Temptation
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-08-08
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The Fallen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-01-18
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Andreas Hofer
Overview: A film based on the story of the Tyrolean innkeeper and patriot Andreas Hofer who led an Austrian uprising against Bavarian and French troops during the Napoleonic Wars.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-10-14
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Waves of Passion
Overview: About the booming of smuggling alcohol across the Baltic Sea between Estonia and the neighboring and alcohol prohibited Finland. Fiery love relationships are another theme of the film.
Genres: Drama Crime Adventure
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1930-10-10
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Tropical Nights
Overview: "Tropical Nights" - The young violinist Alma comes to Simbali with an orchestra led by conductor Zangiacoma, hired for a series of performances at the Schomberg hotel. Both the conductor Zangiacomo and Schomberg are obsessed with Alma. One evening, when Alma is, as usual, forced to entertain the guests she meets Mr. Heyst from his island Sourabaya, where he lives in solitude. He takes Alma to his place on the island.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-05-27
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What's Going on in Beely Circus?
Overview: Harry Piel plays Harry Peel who receives an urgent telephone call from a friend who has returned from South America recently. The call is being made from the circus "Beely" and our hero arrives there too late to prevent the murder of his friend. Now Harry must find his friend's killer and go on a strange mission involving a hidden document.
Genres: Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-14
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Um eines Weibes Ehre
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-03-01
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Hungarian Rhapsody
Overview: On the plains of Hungary, Franz, a Hussard lieutenant, broods about his future; Born into an aristocratic family, his father drank away the family fortune and marriage seems an unlikely prospect. Impoverished Franz's love for effervescent and upright country girl Marika coincides with the tragic tale of lovelorn violinist Josef, all but ignored by royal beauty Camilla.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-01-02
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Nathan der Weise
Overview: Silent movie adaptation of Lessing's play. Set in Jerusalem during the Third Crusade, it describes how the wise Jewish merchant Nathan, the enlightened sultan Saladin and the (initially anonymous) Templar bridge their gaps between Judaism, Islam and Christianity.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-12-28
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Der Klosterjäger
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-11-26
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Der Ochsenkrieg
Overview: Berchtesgaden in the 15th century: A power struggle between mountain peasants who have been raising milk cows on common land and a village bailiff trying to gain power driving them off the land. Both have a ducal documents that states the opposite.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-10-16
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Zigano
Overview: Filmarchiv Austria holds a non-access master print and a nitrate duplicate negative of the film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-07-27
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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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Der schwarze Pierrot
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-05-31
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Wallenstein, 1. Teil - Wallensteins Macht
Overview: Historical drama about the life of Albrecht von Wallenstein.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-05-20
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Der schwarze Jack
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Genres: Western
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-01-01
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Kampf um Blond
Overview: Lotte and Daisy run away from the orphanage and make their way to Berlin, where they meet shady characters. The police are looking for the two of them, especially as several girls have recently disappeared without trace.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-01-02
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Gewitter im Mai
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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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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An Invisible Man Goes Through the City
Overview: A taxi driver, (Piel), finds an odd contraption on the back seat that renders him invisible, but his friend steals the device to rob a bank. An inventive comedy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-09-28
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