Valeska Gert
Also Known As: Валеска Герт
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Birthday: January 11, 1892
Deathday: March 16, 1978
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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People on Sunday
Overview: A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. With authentic scenes of the metropolis city of Berlin, it's the first film from the later famous screenwriters/directors Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-02-04
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A Daughter Of Destiny
Overview: Hanns Heinz Ewers' grim science-fiction novel Alraune has already been filmed twice when this version was assembled in 1928. In another of his "mad doctor" roles, Paul Wegener plays Professor Brinken, sociopathic scientist who combines the genes of an executed murderer with those of a prostitute. The result is a beautiful young woman named Alraune (Brigitte Helm), who is incapable of feeling any real emotions -- least of all guilt or regret. Upon attaining adulthood, Alraune sets about to seduce and destroy every male who crosses her path. Ultimately, Professor Brinken is hoist on his own petard when he falls hopelessly in love with Alraune himself. Alraune was remade in 1930, with Brigitte Helm repeating her role, and again in 1951, with Hildegarde Knef as the "heroine" and Erich von Stroheim as her misguided mentor.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-01-25
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The 3 Penny Opera
Overview: In London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum without the knowledge of her father, the equally enterprising 'king of the beggars'.
Genres: Music Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-02-18
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Juliet of the Spirits
Overview: Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows increasingly questionable. One night when Giorgio initiates a seance amongst his friends, Giulietta gets in touch with spirits and learns more about herself and her painful past. Slightly skeptical, but intrigued, she visits a mystic who gives her more information -- and nudges her toward the realization that her husband is indeed a philanderer.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-10-22
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Cabaret-Berlin, the Wild Scene
Overview: Structured as a cabaret show and composed entirely of rare visual and sound archival material, Cabaret-Berlin, The Wild Scene explores Berlin during the 20s and early 30s, when it was home to Europe’s most innovative and experimental artists, writers, and musicians, and where Jews played a leading role.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-05-24
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The Good Lady
Overview: A kind old lady is not all that she seems to be, and gets more than she bargained for when she rents out a room to a handsome young student.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Diary of a Lost Girl
Overview: Thymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must fend for herself in a harsh, cruel world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-09-27
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Nana
Overview: Count Moffat becomes infatuated with Nana, a presumptuous stage actress, vulgar, hypocritical and promiscuous, willing to do anything to succeed.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1926-06-25
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The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
Overview: In collage sequences, the surrogate of synthetic sensuality takes form and seduces the sailors in the guise of a Hawaiian girl. In ritual punctuation, she distributes deaths which seemingly only the hardy siren Fatality can survive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-10-24
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Coup de Grâce
Overview: A countess loves her brother's Prussian-officer friend in the 1919 Baltic area.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-10-21
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The Joyless Street
Overview: In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their families during the period of Austrian postwar hyperinflation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-03-01
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Such Is Life
Overview: A story about domestic life in a typical working-class environment. Life and trials and how little situations have big consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1930-03-24
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Portrait of Valeska Gert
Overview: Documentary film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-04-01
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Pett and Pott: A Fairy Story of the Suburbs
Overview: The film, made to advertise domestic telephone sets, is based around two very different families. The Petts are conventional, happy and have children; the Potts are unconventional and unhappy, without children.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-16
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