Paula Wessely
Also Known As: Паула Вессели
Biography: Paula Anna Maria Wessely (20 January 1907 – 11 May 2000) was an Austrian theatre and film actress. Die Wessely (literally "The Wessely"), as she was affectionately called by her admirers and fans, was Austria's foremost popular postwar actress.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria
Adult: No
Birthday: January 20, 1907
Age: 118 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: May 11, 2000
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Masquerade in Vienna
Overview: After a masked carnival ball, Gerda Harrandt, wife of the surgeon Carl Ludwig Harrandt, allows the fashionable artist Ferdinand von Heidenick to paint a portrait of her wearing only a mask and a muff. This muff however belongs to Anita Keller, in secret the painter's lover but also the fiancée of the court orchestra director Paul Harrandt. The picture is then published in the newspaper. When Paul sees it and asks von Heidenick some questions about the identity of the model, the artist is forced to improvise a story and on the spur of the moment invents a woman called Leopoldine Dur as the alleged model. Leopoldine Dur however turns out to be a real woman whose acquaintance Heidenick makes shortly afterwards.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-09-27
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Anatol
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-12-15
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Everyman
Overview: Everyman (German: Jedermann) is a 1961 Austrian drama film directed by Gottfried Reinhardt, based on the play written by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. The film was selected as the Austrian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 34th Academy Awards, but was not nominated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-12-21
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Von Reinhardt bis Karajan - 50 Jahre Salzburger Festspiele
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-08-16
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The Third Sex
Overview: Klaus is a young man in post-war Berlin. He is drawn to his friend Manfred and, under the encouragement of their acquaintance, Dr. Winkler, explore the underground world of gay clubs and electronic music. His family begins to learn of his other life and do everything they can to set him straight.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-08-29
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Episode
Overview: Vienna, 1922. Due to a sudden financial tragedy, a young woman begins accepting checks from an older, rich gentleman for companionship in order for her to keep attending college. Their relationship is purely platonic, but eventually she begins a romance with the tutor of the older man's sons who has a completely wrong impression as to the nature of her arrangement with his employer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-10-31
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The Angel with the Trumpet
Overview: A long time-span of Austrian history (from the late 19th century to the years after world war II) is reflected in the ups and downs of a family of piano-makers in Vienna.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1948-08-19
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Die Wirtin zur Goldenen Krone
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-12-20
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Maria Theresia
Overview: A biography of the eighteenth century Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa.
Genres: History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1951-12-18
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Eine Stadt als Bühne - 100 Jahre Salzburger Festspiele
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2020-08-02
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The Light of Love
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-07-31
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Ich und meine Frau
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-08-03
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Späte Liebe
Overview: A drama about marriage in a small town, which takes place at the turn of the 19th into the 20th Century.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1943-02-16
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Das Herz muß schweigen
Overview: On New Year's Eve 1900, Paul Holzgruber started a new praxis as a radiologist. The young Maximiliane Frey is his assistant and they have worked side by side for years helping people. Holzgruber repeatedly points out the dangers of radiation to Maximiliane, but is silent about the ulcers on his hand and the severe pain they have caused. Maximiliane has gotten to know the widower Axel von Bonin and has fallen in love with him. But then she is diagnosed with incurable cancer. To spare Axel the inevitable grief over her impending death, she leaves him and dedicates what is left her life to medicine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1944-12-19
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Vagabunden
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1949-10-17
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Der Bauer als Millionär
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Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-11-24
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Die ganz großen Torheiten
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-04-29
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Maria Ilona
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-12-14
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Die unvollkommene Ehe
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-09-03
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Ein Leben lang
Overview: In 1910, the landlord's daughter Agnes from the Steiermark gets to know the diplomat Hans. They have a short love affair and then part from one another. Hans gets sent to Beijing, where he marries and American and has a son with her. Agnes, too, has a son by Hans and moves to Vienna, where she works in a restaurant. She is still in love with Hans ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-10-11
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Die kluge Marianne
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1943-06-10
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Unter Achtzehn
Overview: The social worker Luise Gottschalk dedicates all her passion to the Viennese caretakers and derailed young people. Tirelessly, she advertises to adults for understanding the needs of adolescents. She is particularly committed to a girl named Elfie Breitner who is at risk of drifting into prostitution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-06-01
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So Ended a Great Love
Overview: The political advisor to the French emperor Napoleon, and the Austrian emperor Franz I, arrange a marriage between Napoleon and the Austrian archduchess Marie-Luise in order to prevent another war.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-10-17
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Homecoming
Overview: A Nazi propaganda film which aims to justify the invasion of Poland by portraying the plight of ethnic Germans in Poland who were discriminated against and oppressed by the Poles, and how they were saved by the intervention of the German army.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1941-10-10
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Cordula
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-09-27
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Spiegel des Lebens
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-06-07
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Weg in die Vergangenheit
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-12-20
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Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-09-17
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Nichts als Erinnerung
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-01-06
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Der Unbestechliche
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-01-08
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Das weite Land
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-06-06
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Maria Stuart
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-01-06
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Fast ein Poet
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-05-30
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Die Julika
Overview: 1936 Austrian film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-10-25
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Port Royal
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-05-14
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Überfahrt
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-01-13
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Leckerbissen
Overview: "Gems" - Embedded in a frame story, the film shows excerpts from 18 entertainment films of the time, among others, "The Gypsy Baron", "The Three Codonas", "La Habanera", "Viennese Blood", "Sophienlund", and "Mask in Blue".
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1948-06-05
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Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
Overview: "The Great Magician" - Max Reinhardt (1873-1943) was an Austrian theater and film director, director, theater producer and theater founder. With his Jedermann production on August 22, 1920, he founded the Salzburg Festival.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-10-30
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Glücksachen
Overview: For thirty years Anna sat at the checkout in the supermarket; now she is retired and doesn't know what to do with her life. She drifts through Viennese museums and cafés until one day in the park she gets into a conversation with a group of bikers. And suddenly the old lady reveals quite unexpected talents ...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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