Otto Wallburg
Also Known As: Отто Вальбург, Otto Maximilian Wasserzug, Otto Wasserzug
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Birthday: February 21, 1889
Deathday: October 30, 1944
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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What Women Dream
Overview: In this pre-WWII German mystery-comedy, a lovely kleptomaniac with a taste for fine jewelry is unable to resist temptation. Strangely, every time she steals something, a mysterious man pays for it. A clumsy detective begins investigating and finds a crucial clue: a strongly scented woman's glove. The perfume is an expensive scent and the detective's pal realizes that it belongs to a popular nightclub singer. The friend quickly becomes enamored of the girl, but then so does her mystery man, a notorious international criminal. Eventually he gets arrested, leaving the detective's pal to move in on the singer.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-04-19
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Infidelities
Overview: When both husband and wife find romance outside their marriage, it's a shock to everyone. Robert and Annemarie break up to elope with their respective lovers, only to be thrown together again when they show up at the justice of the peace.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-03-19
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Ball at the Savoy
Overview: Musical comedy set in a Grand Hotel.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-04-11
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Liebe im Kuhstall
Overview: An impoverished nobleman would rather chase after the local milkmaid than seek a wealthy match, to the chagrin of his family.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-10-19
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Madame Wants No Children
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-01-06
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The Congress Dances
Overview: Vienna glove-sales-lady Christel falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander. Austrian Prince Metternich tries to use this and other pleasant diversions to keep him out of the negotiation conferences of the 1815 Vienna Congress.
Genres: History Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-09-29
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Zwei Herzen und ein Schlag
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-02-19
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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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Catherine the Last
Overview: Story of a naive kitchen maid who falls in love with a wealthy womanizer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-01-20
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Yorck
Overview: The story of General Yorck von Wartenburg, a commander in the army of Prussian King Wilhelm, who defied the king's orders for the Prussian army to join Napoleon in his invason of Russia.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-12-23
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Der große Bluff
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-02-02
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Hokuspokus
Overview: Hokuspokus is a 1930 German comedy film directed by Gustav Ucicky and starring Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch and Oskar Homolka. It was an adaptation of the play Hokuspokus by Curt Goetz.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-07-10
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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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Die Abenteuer eines Zehnmarkscheines
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-10-28
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Ehe in Not
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-12-06
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Who Takes Love Seriously?
Overview: Max Hansen and Willi Schur play two small-time criminals who steal dogs from their owners in the hope that they will get a reward. When the police catches them at their 'work', Hansen flees and gets into the apartment of Jenny Jugo, who takes a liking to the man and pretends that he's her boyfriend. Her landlady isn't amused, and so our heroine loses her rooms and moves in with Hansen. The two of them soon become lovebirds, of course. But when they later go to an entertainment park and Jugo takes part in a beauty contest, trouble arises...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-09-27
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Crossroads
Overview: A wealthy industrialist, Roger de Vetheuil, married, feels assured of aging in peace. Then appears a blackmailer who accuses him of being a usurper, actually called Jean Pelletier, a mobster well known to police. Vetheuil, judging himself slandered, refuses to listen to his tormentor and goes to the police. The man speaks. The scandal is public soon ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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Hans in Every Street
Overview: A bold crime caper about muckraking journalist Hans Steindecker, who happens to witness a spectacular murder. Shortly afterwards, he makes the acquaintance of Nelly who desperately wants to leave the country and asks for Steindecker′s assistance. Without giving a second thought, he agrees, and only after Nelly has disappeared does he realize that the young woman duped him.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-12-23
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The Song Is Ended
Overview: Das Lied ist Aus (The Song Is Ended) is a typical early-talkie German musical in every respect, save one. The story, concerning the lives and loves of show folk, ends unhappily -- and surprisingly so. The doleful denouement didn't seem to have much effect on the film's box-office appeal, since Das Lied ist Aus proved a major moneymaker.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-10-07
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Die Königin einer Nacht
Overview: A navy lieutenant contemplates suicide in his despair but then meets a beautiful stranger, who turns out to be a princess.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-02-07
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The Song of Night
Overview: He was known as Anatole Litvak during his Hollywood directorial career, but he was still Anatole Litwak when he helmed the German musical Das Lied Einer Nacht (The Song of Night). Famed Polish tenor Jan Kiepura stars as famed Italian tenor Ferraro. Escaping from his tyrannical manager, Ferraro switches identities with a young tourist (Fritz Schulz) and goes off on an unscheduled Swiss holiday. Still travelling incognito, our hero falls in love with a winsome mountain girl (Magda Schneider). Alas, both his romance -- and his freedom -- are placed in jeopardy when it turns out that the charming young fellow with whom Ferraro traded identities was actually a notorious swindler. Anatole Litvak also directed the English-language version of Das Lied Einer Nacht, Be Mine Tonight
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-05-27
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Her Majesty Love
Overview: Fred von Wellingen is a wealthy industrialist, part of a large family-owned corporation. Fred has fallen for Lia, a comely bartender in the Berlin Cabaret. He proposes to her, much to the horror of his family, which considers Lia and her unsophisticated father far below their caste. The family convinces Fred to give up the girl in exchange for increased position and income in the company. But Fred's lapse is momentary, and he again pursues Lia. But she, by this time, has learned of his erstwhile agreement and has agreed to marry someone else.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-02-06
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Heut' ist der schönste Tag in meinem Leben
Overview: Two twin brothers working in a Vienna fair and who are both gifted for singing meet different luck both in love and their careers.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-05-21
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Cabaret program No. 1
Overview: Several variety show acts perform in front of the camera.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-05
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Kind, ich freu' mich auf Dein Kommen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-06-25
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How Shall I Tell My Husband?
Overview: The film starts in the fashionable seaside resort on the Baltic, Heringsdorf, where Renate Müller spends a secret weekend away from her husband with her bosom friend Ida Wüst. The husband meanwhile has a flirtation while traveling by night train from Frankfurt to Berlin, nice atmospheric shots of sleeper and dining car in the morning. The action continues in the luxury villas and apartments of Berlin, Renate Müller wears a string of very elegant outfits. Misunderstandings, jealousies, temporary separation of husband and wife, a few songs, wicked humour.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-01-16
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The Lost Paradise
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-12-31
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The Private Secretary Gets Married
Overview: An unattractive secretary is hired so the men in the office will focus on their work, but comic complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-03-17
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Heaven on Earth
Overview: Reinhold Schünzel plays the rigid representative Traugott Bellmann, who publicly condemns the low morals of the night life. Although Belmann's stance is supported by his wife, he is strongly opposed by his father-in-law, a champagne manufacturer. But when he inherits 500 000 Marks in cash and the infamous nightclub "Der Himmel auf Erden" ("Heaven on Earth") from his deceased brother, Bellmann really gets himself into trouble: In order to fulfil his brother's will - and to get hold of the money - , he has to be at the club every night at 9 pm.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-07-24
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Little Mother
Overview: A girl from a boarding school finds a baby and has to keep it because she seems to be the real mother to everyone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-02-04
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Die kleine Schwindlerin
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-04-02
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The Crimson Circle
Overview: Police battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-03-25
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The Little Escapade
Overview: A wife believes her husband has been deceiving her and decides to have some fun at his expense. After a bit of mischief, her husband, a lawyer who is preparing a divorce for a client, decides to start divorce proceedings himself. The wife then realises she has gone too far.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-08-13
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Wege zur guten Ehe
Overview: Film by Trotz.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-06-13
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The Jumping Jack
Overview: Herr Eickmeyer is a wealthy parfumier: well past middle age, and stout with it. His blonde wife Lissy is much younger, pretty and vivacious. Since Eickmeyer can't keep up with his young wife, he commissions a companion for her in the form of a life-sized talking clockwork man, purchased for 5,000 deutschemarks ... to be shipped to his home immediately it's assembled.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-11-25
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Die leichte Isabell
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-04-06
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Tonight - Eventually
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-04-24
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Das närrische Glück
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-04-18
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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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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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Trust der Diebe
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-11-08
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Mein Freund Harry
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-01-01
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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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Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-02-01
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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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That's All That Matters
Overview: A woman accompanies her husband to a party. Both leave with other partners.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-03-23
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Die Frau, die jeder liebt, bist du!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-03-22
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Help! Raid!
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-10-27
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When the Soldiers
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-04-29
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Konjunkturritter
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-01-26
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Marion, das gehört sich nicht
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-02-15
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The High Tourist
Overview: Romantic exploits in Germany's White Mountains.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-11-27
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Weekend in Paradise
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-10-13
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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 Night Belongs to Us
Overview: During a test run for a large race in Sicily the racing car driver Bettina Bang gets into an accident and is saved by a secretive person unknown to her. It later turns out that the unknown man is the race car driver Harry Bredow.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-12-23
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Bubi
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-05-14
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Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-12-16
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Four and a Half Musketeers
Overview: A Hungarian-Austrian comedy and one of the last emigrant films made in Austria before the industry submitted to pressure from Nazi Germany and ceased to employ Jewish filmmakers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-10-01
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Derby
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-11-15
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Draga Maschin
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-01-01
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Peter
Overview: Starring Francisca Gaál in a breeches role. Dressed as a boy, a street musician gets a job pumping gas. When s/he starts to have feelings for her patron, watch out for complications in this comedy shot in German in Budapest.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-12-19
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Die Tochter des Regiments
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-03-30
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Trapeze
Overview: Robby and Jim are two friends working in a circus. When Marina, a new acrobat, enters the show, both men will compete for her love. She needs a partner for a flying number, and one of them will be elected. Then accidents will happen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-08-14
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Everything for the Company
Overview: Familial disputes surrounding a traditional business. Grandfather Sonndorfer allies himself with his grandson Otto, in order to bring his arrogant son Max on the right path. Between the fronts is Emmerich Liebling, the intriguing messenger.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-04-04
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