Lydia Potechina
Also Known As: Lydia Potokaja, Лидия Потехина
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Birthday: September 05, 1883
Deathday: April 07, 1934
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Heimweh
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-10-21
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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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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 Fahrt ins Abenteuer
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-04-16
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The Folk Upstairs
Overview: In "Menschen Untereinander" ("The Folk Upstairs"), director Gerhard Lamprecht sketches a cross-section of Germany's new post-war society, with its winners, social climbers, and losers, represented by the social microcosm of an apartment building. The gossip-mad Frau Mierig (Lydia Potechina) from the rear building gives the newly-arrived Frau Kaminski (Käthe Haack), the janitor's wife, a lively initiation into the tenants and their peculiarities.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-04-03
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The Waltz Dream
Overview: Austrian actress Mady Christians stars alongside German matinee idol Willy Fritsch in this adaptation of the Oscar Straus operetta about a Prince who, after falling for a Viennese girl, becomes obsessed with the city and its customs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-03-14
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The Bordellos of Algiers
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-05-10
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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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Flucht vor Blond
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-11-22
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A Sister of Six
Overview: A silent romantic comedy
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-12-28
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Fräulein Raffke
Overview: "Raffke" was a war profiteer, shifter, the white-collar criminal, who came to wealth with not very clean methods in a short time and also likes to show it. And this film tells the story of Raffke's daughter Lilli, who, instead of marrying the Baron chosen by the father of vanity, marries a simple employee who is about to perish.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-09-17
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Familie Schimek
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-03-25
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Der Stolz der Kompagnie
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-02-25
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Leidenschaft
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-04-25
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Königsliebchen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-09-27
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Mikosch rückt ein
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-01-01
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Amor auf Ski
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-04-09
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A Better Master
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-08-27
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Die fidele Herrenpartie
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-09-30
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Der moderne Casanova
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-11-16
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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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Das Mädchen aus der Fremde
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-01-01
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Die Bräutigame der Babette Bomberling
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-04-03
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German Women - German Faithfulness
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-02-02
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Schatz, mach' Kasse
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-11-25
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Die drei Mannequins
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-08-06
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Die Kleine und ihr Kavalier
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-10-07
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O alte Burschenherrlichkeit
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1925-09-28
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Herkules Maier
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-02-10
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Ledige Mütter
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-02-14
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Danger! car thieves!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-06-04
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The White Devil
Overview: Ivan Mozzhukhin is a "...hot-headed Caucasian mountaineer leader whose irrational behavior comes to the attention of the Czar . Hoping to use Hajji Murad as a go-between in his plans to conquer the Caucasus mountaineers, the Russian ruler finds that the hero is not so easily manipulated. Rescuing the beautiful Saira from the Czar's clutches, Hajji Murad leads the mountain people's revolt against the despotic regent." Needless to say, the film ends in tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-01-28
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Die Zirkusprinzessin
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-03-08
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Der größte Gauner des Jahrhunderts
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-03-16
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Auf der Reeperbahn nachts um halb eins
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Genres: Drama Action Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-04-11
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Don Juan in der Mädchenschule
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-09-06
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The Transformation of Dr. Bessel
Overview: Alexander Bessel is a young man in a failing marriage. His wife cheats on him, and so the outbreak of WW1 comes in handy for a change. When young French soldier dies right in front of him Bessel seize the opportunity assuming his identity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-12-08
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The widow's ball
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-02-04
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The Tsar's Diamond
Overview: A Russian lady singer in Germany falls for a countryman working in a car factory there, who unknown to her is really a grand Duke. an attempt to steal the famous Orloff diamond adds to the complications.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-11-29
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I by Day, You by Night
Overview: A nightclub waiter and a manicurist share the same room, he sleeps there by night and she by day. They've never meet , but they can't stand each other. Then they meet by chance, not knowing who's who and fall in love.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-11-29
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Bombs Over Monte Carlo
Overview: The captain of a battleship of a small Balkan country is fed up with following strange orders from the country's queen.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-08-31
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O girl, my girl, how I love you!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-03-12
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Looping the Loop
Overview: Botto the Clown is in love with the much younger Blanche but she is in love with the handsome daredevil acrobate Andre.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-09-15
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Mein Herz ist eine Jazzband
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-01-28
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Leap Into Life
Overview: A young intellectual falls in love with a circus performer and decides to cultivate her into a lady and marry her. Eventually however she decides to return to her tightrope walker lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-04-01
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The Chaste Susanne
Overview: Naughty Susanne leads an exciting double life between her hometown and Paris: in the provincial nest she is considered the ever virtuous and down to earth girl, while in the cosmopolitan city she always escapes to, she is the queen of the night, sophisticated and seductive. In Paris, she meets René and begins to recruit him, but she has a noble competitor: Jacqueline. A spirited love triangle begins, complicated by the interventions of uncomprehending moral preachers. Their befitting final finds the story in the Moulin Rouge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-11-11
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The Masked Mannequin
Overview: Because she has fallen in love with an unknown man, young princess Antoinette has fled to Berlin before her planned marriage with a prince. Incognito, she works for the fashion house Pappenheim, where salesman Egon Fürst falls for the young girl. Antoinette′s rigid uncle is sent to bring the royal runaway home, but he mistakes another mannequin for his niece, therefore taking the wrong girl to his castle in Baden-Baden. The whole Pappenheim company, including the princess, also goes to Baden-Baden for a fashion show, which means even more excitement and confusion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-09-07
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His Late Excellency
Overview: In the Ruritanian kingdom of Leuchtenstein, the old ruler has just died. His subjects are a bunch of intrigants, and his only real friend was the Baroness Windegg (Olga Tschechowa), a kind-hearted, witty, and very attractive woman, who however was not much loved by the Leuchtenstein upper class. And as these are only interested in getting better positions and other wealths after His Excellency's death, the baroness invents the story that the old ruler wrote his memoirs before his death, containing a lot of intimate, delicate and potentially embarrassing details about the Leuchtenstein dignitaries. Unsurprisingly, everyone is afraid about the details to be revealed. Only the successor to the throne, Prince Ernst Albrecht (Willy Fritsch) sees through the baroness' scheme, and as he is a lusty young man, he joins in her prank.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-09-16
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Wandering Souls
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-11-28
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Gräfin Plättmamsell
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-11-25
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Zirkus des Lebens
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-12-15
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Auferstehung. Katjuscha Maslowa
Overview: A nobleman wishes to help the woman he had seduced and abandoned years earlier when he learns that she is now on trial for murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-08-01
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Pariserinnen
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-12-21
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Hon, den enda
Overview: Love entanglements among the upper class of Paris. The young upper-class Parisian Valentin van Zanten has a luxurious lunch-density dinner with the flirtatious Inez Maria, when the "friend" shows up and interferes with his own and successful pre-man manners.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1926-11-08
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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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Psicha, die Tänzerin Katherina
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-08-17
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Der größte Gauner des Jahrhunderts
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-03-16
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Kennst du das kleine Haus am Michigansee?
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-09-20
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Anita Jo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-01-01
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Insulted and Humiliated
Overview: A 1922 silent adaptation of the 1861 novel Humiliated and Insulted by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-09-01
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Erniedrigte und Beleidigte
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-09-01
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