Willy Prager
Also Known As: Willi Prager
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kattowitz, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Katowice, Slaskie, Poland]
Adult: No
Birthday: May 22, 1877
Age: 147 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 04, 1956
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Delikatessen
Overview: Friends Franz and Bela work in a deli belonging to Mr. Wallis. Franz is the manager and Bela a salesclerk. Both get to know the lovely Lilo. But while Bela is rebuffed, the charming womanizer Franz is more successful. After a boisterous celebration in the deli, Mr. Wallis tells Franz to get lost and hires Lilo as a new salesperson. Franz and Bela take a job at Mr. Markow's deli across the street and a serious competition begins between the two delis for survival.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-03-05
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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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One Night at the Grand Hotel
Overview: Fritz is in love with artist Glay, who stays at the Grand Hotel. In spite of not having any money he gets to know her, invites her to supper and after dancing a tango even hires the royal suite. How will he get out of this is a mystery even to himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-12-08
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The Cabinet of Dr. Larifari
Overview: Three friends who are broke decide to found a film production company. When they start shooting their first film chaos arises...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-07-31
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Love waltz
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-02-07
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The Island of the Blessed
Overview: Max Reinhardt’s second and last silent film. It tells the story of two young girls (Cheerful & Shy) who, in order to escape their father’s authority, reaches an island of wonder filled with gods, nymphs, fauns and other creatures.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1913-10-03
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Moritz macht sein Glück
Overview: Comedy about a clerk in a clothing store.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-03-02
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King Fu's yellow house
Overview: When a criminal named King Fu who has terrorized a city substitutes himself for a stage actor who resembles him, the staff and spectators at that night's show think the actor is giving an unusually good performance.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-04-16
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Kohlhiesel's Daughters
Overview: Somewhere in Southern Bavaria Xaver wants to marry Gretel, but her father Kohlhiesel wants his elder daughter Liesel to marry first. The problem is, nobody wants to marry her, because she is too brutal. Seppel suggests, that he should marry Liesel first, get rid of her and then he can marry Gretel...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-03-08
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Marriage in the Shadows
Overview: Set during the rise of the Nazi regime, Elisabeth Maurer and Hans Wieland enjoy successful careers as actors in Berlin. Confident in her career, Elisabeth, who is Jewish, ignores the advice of a colleague to leave Germany in the face of increasing anti-Semitism. Believing that he can protect her if she becomes his wife, Hans convinces Elisabeth to marry him. In the following years, as Hans's career thrives, Elisabeth awaits the end of the Nazi terror which bars her from public life. When the situation worsens in 1938 with the Kristallnacht pogrom, Elisabeth decides to leave the country, but Hans, who still believes he can protect her, convinces her to stay with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1947-10-03
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Shooting festival in Schilda
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-10-18
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Morituri
Overview: As the end of the Second World War approaches and the Soviet Red Army is advancing, a group of concentration camp inmates is helped to escape by a Polish doctor. They hide in a wood where they meet other fugitives, who have been there for months, constantly in fear of being discovered. Out of fear of the German army patrols, they do not dare to leave the forest, even as the food supplies run low.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1948-09-24
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Aus einer kleinen Residenz
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-04-28
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Heart of Stone
Overview: Lavish adaptation of Wilhelm Hauff′s fairy tale: Young charburner Peter Munk dreams of joining the upper class. He makes a deal with the sinister Holländer-Michel, who offers to trade Peter′s human heart for one made of stone. Once he has the "cold heart" in his body, Peter eventually strikes a fortune and enjoys great wealth, but at the same time, he becomes a bitter and emotionless man – and, having lost all traces of humanity, even murders his wife Lisbeth. Only then does Peter Munk finally realize what has become of him, and he decides to regain his real heart from Holländer-Michel.
Genres: Family Drama Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-12-08
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Beate
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1948-08-06
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