Georg H. Schnell
Also Known As: G. H. Schnell , Georg Heinrich Schnell, Georg Schnell, George Snell
Biography: Georg Heinrich Schnell (11 April 1878 – 31 March 1951) was a German actor who remains perhaps best-known for his role as shipowner Harding in Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922). Georg appeared in over one hundred films. He was born in Yantai, China. He died in West Berlin, West Germany. Georg is sometimes credited as G.H. Schnell, Georg Heinrich Schnell, Georg Schnell, and George Snell.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tschifu (now Yantai), China
Adult: No
Birthday: April 11, 1878
Age: 147 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 31, 1951
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Nosferatu
Overview: The mysterious Count Orlok summons Thomas Hutter to his remote Transylvanian castle in the mountains. The eerie Orlok seeks to buy a house near Hutter and his wife, Ellen. After Orlok reveals his vampire nature, Hutter struggles to escape the castle, knowing that Ellen is in grave danger. Meanwhile Orlok's servant, Knock, prepares for his master to arrive at his new home.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-02-16
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Liebet das Leben
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-10-10
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Das Schloß in Flandern
Overview: Officers stationed in a castle in Flandes during WWI are comforted by Gloria Delamare's recorded voice. One of them even writes her a letter that will never be sent. When the war is over Miss Delamare takes a tour in Belgium and spends a night in that castle. Most unexpectedly her former admirer appears and they dine and dance together. In the morning he has disappeared and she finds the letter. She tries to find him, only to discover he is presumably dead and involved in a family secret.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-08-13
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Nosferatu: The First Vampire
Overview: The horror classic, Nosferatu, remastered with a soundtrack by Type-O Negative and hosted by David Carradine.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-15
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ScreenPlaza presents: Nosferatu
Overview: ScreenPlaza shares a new look in terror - The century old, terrifying horror film is redefined by an all-new soundtrack. Mixing modern and classical composition, this is a radical contemporary take on an old epic that should not go unnoticed.
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Original Language: en
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Dracula Unearthed
Overview: Commemorates 100 years since the release of the German classic, Nosferatu, by FW Murnau, and explores the general fascination of Count Dracula, a figure who resonates with audiences across the literary, art, mythological and historical worlds.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-31
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The Punch Bowl
Overview: Writer Johannes Pfeiffer who goes undercover as a student in a high school after his friends told him that he missed out on a great life experience since he was home schooled.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1944-01-28
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The Girl from the Marsh Croft
Overview: A farm boy betrothed to a socialite falls in love with his maid - an impoverished girl from the marsh.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-10-30
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The Arc
Overview: Engineer Walter Fahr has constructed a massive passenger submarine, the 'Gloria'. The vessel undertakes a test journey with various esteemed invitees aboard, together with several animals, and the blind passenger Professor Keigo Sotuma. […] When those aboard the 'Gloria' return to the surface, they find a ship whose entire crew is dead. It is the astronomer Sotuma who figures out what has happened: during their undersea journey, the Earth was scorched by the tail of a comet, and all life extinguished. The 'Gloria' sails back to shore, carrying the final humans into a dead world…
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-09-05
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Die Tarantel
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-09-17
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The Flame of Love
Overview: A Chinese troupe star and the Grand Duke's adjutant fall in love, to tensions from both sides' respective comrades.
Genres: Music Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-07
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The Road to Dishonour
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Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-02-26
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The Rothschilds
Overview: Biopic about the Rothschilds, a Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community during the Napoleonic era.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-07-17
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The Twelfth Hour
Overview: A version of Nosferatu to which sound was added. Some scenes were left out and new ones were added including a different ending. Additionally all the characters names were changed.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-05-16
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Marie Antoinette - Das Leben einer Königin
Overview: The life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, during the years leading up to and during the French Revolution in which she was executed.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-10-26
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Die Tochter Napoleons
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Genres: History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-11-02
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The Old Fritz II
Overview: Silent epic on the final years of Frederick II.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-01-28
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Liebelei und Liebe
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-10-20
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Der verführte Heilige
Overview: a slient movie by Robert Wiene
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-01-01
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Panic in the House of Ardon
Overview: A silent movie by Rober Wiene.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-10-04
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Das Werkzeug des Cosimo
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-09-30
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Der Springer von Pontresina
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-05-22
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In the Employ of the Secret Service
Overview: During WWI a German agent receives an order to find out when the Russian army will carry out its expected attack against the German lines.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-08-13
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Die Reiter von Deutsch-Ostafrika
Overview: German colonial soldiers fight against the British during World War I.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-10-19
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Ein Mann auf Abwegen
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-03-04
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Kampf
Overview: The race car drivers Robert Wenck and Kurt Harder are good friends. They become rivals when it appears that Robert is married to Eva. Eva was the former lover of Kurt Harder. Complications will follow.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-12-20
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Tannenberg
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Genres: War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-09-07
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My Wife, the Adventuress
Overview: A mousy bank clerk is married to an ambitious woman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-09-17
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Shadows of the Arena
Overview: Artonis is an acrobat employed in the circus owned by Elvira Starke. Apparently he confines his acrobatics to the bedroom, because he's carrying on two separate affairs on the trot: one with his boss Elvira, and one with the circus's beautiful equestrienne Kitty Rallay. Someone shoots Artonis dead.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-02-20
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Kaiserliebchen
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-01-12
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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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Das Donkosakenlied
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-01-14
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Hurrah! I'm Alive!
Overview: Pieter Kruis runs a grocer's shop in a small Dutch town, with which he and his wife Johanne can hardly feed themselves. Nonetheless, he is satisfied with his life, although he suspects that he will probably never win the jackpot. Suddenly Pieter receives a telegram from America: his old school friend Joe, who has made a fortune in the “new world”, asks whether Pieter would like to visit him. As “compensation” for expenses incurred, Pieter will also receive $ 50,000! Of course, Pieter doesn't hesitate for long - the suitcase is quickly packed and a ship ticket reserved. But the little “world traveler” has no idea what kind of adventures await him! Fearing that his insidious brother might speculate on his life insurance and stage a small “accident” on board the ship, Pieter disembarked in Rotterdam, where his entire travel budget was by a few crooks. Then he learns that his ship has actually sunk and suspects that his brother is already worried about the sum insured...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-12-21
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Moderne Piraten
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-10-24
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Hast Du geliebt am schönen Rhein?
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-11-07
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Die Achtzehnjährigen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-04-07
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Gauner im Frack
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-02-04
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Der gute Ruf
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1926-10-20
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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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Die Mühle von Sanssouci
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-02-01
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Nora
Overview: The film is an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House. The film uses Ibsen's alternate ending where the unhappy couple are reconciled at the end
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1944-02-14
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Das Gewehr über
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Genres: War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-12-07
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Das Recht auf Liebe
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-11-24
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In letzter Minute
Overview: A retired rail official and his wife Amalie purchase a disused railroad wagon to convert it into a villa in the countryside. One day, Amalie discovers 25,000 Marks hidden behind a picture in the rail car. The money was put there by a Dutch couple, who tried to smuggle the money across the border during the train’s last journey. Sorely tempted to keep the money, Amalie turns it over to the authorities. The smugglers, who finally find the rail car after a long search, will be turned over to the cops, too.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-09-07
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Der Polizeifunk meldet
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-07-24
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Die Frau ohne Vergangenheit
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-07-17
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Die Nacht der Entscheidung
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-12-22
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Am seidenen Faden
Overview: A WWI veteran comes home and with a scientist's help opens an artificial silk factory later used for clothing. Crooked international profiteers ,a lawyer and a banker, threaten the profitability of the concern and the workers' jobs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-09-22
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Stärker als die Liebe
Overview: 1938 German film.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-09-22
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Die kleine und die große Liebe
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-04-28
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The impossible Mr. Pitt
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-04-15
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Das Mädchen von gestern Nacht
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-04-01
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Mit versiegelter Order
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-01-14
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Die Korallenprinzessin
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-10-28
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Ein Volksfeind
Overview: Before the First World War, Dr. Hans Stockmann had a practice in a small town. His powerhungry brother is the mayor of Bad Trimburg, which has developed into a respectable resort. Dr. Stockmann is called in to become the town’s chief physician. He considers the sanitary conditions to be intolerable and insists on a clean-up. His ambitious brother and all those who, till now, have profited well from the corner cutting, are, of course, against that for financial reasons. The doctor is condemned from all sides and the conflict escalates.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-10-25
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Der Mustergatte
Overview: Heinz Rühmann plays the "model husband" who, when his bored wife threatens to leave him, embarks on an adventurous night.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-10-12
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Heimweh
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-09-02
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Alarm in Peking
Overview: Set against the backdrop of the 1900 Boxer Rebellion...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-07-16
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Seven Slaps
Overview: William MacPhab loses seven-pounds in the stock market and decides to slap the man who was responsible for the stock manipulation that caused him to lose his money. Astor Terbanks, the stock-market manipulator is surprised the next day when he gets soundly slapped by MacPhab, and the latter promises to deliver one more a day for the next six days. Terbank's daughter, Daisy, is amused by the procedure and is attracted to MacPhab.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-08-02
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Wenn Frauen schweigen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-09-09
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Madame Bovary
Overview: A drama film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-04-22
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Die Kronzeugin
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-04-20
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Moral
Overview: The double standards of a social class, which pontificates with big words what is proper and improper in the world of morality, while in its heart thinks very differently and acts accordingly.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-08-02
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Hot Blood
Overview: Baroness Marika von Korossy dresses up as a man, in order to compete in a horse race. Her victorious horse, Satan, will only allow her to ride him and throws everyone else off of him. That includes the dandy lieutenant Tibor von Denes, who immediately recognizes that Marika isn't a man. It isn't long before he makes friends with her and even gets her to dance with him. It's then that Marika takes off her hat and shows she's a woman, which causes jealous Ilonka von Peredy to go into a rage. When Marika is forced to sell her estate to raise money, Ilonka is able to get Marika's beloved Satan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-03-20
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Der Ammenkönig
Overview: Rather coarse, pre-War comedy about a Markgraf -- Heinrich XXVI -- who bathes in the springs of the Ammendorf to strengthen his potency. The town and its springs are especially well known for the many couples with lots of children, who, for tax reasons, live there unmarried. The town smithy and bully provides his vitality to ensure the countess has an heir for the throne.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-12-05
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Stradivari
Overview: In 1914 a Hungarian officer inherits a Stradivarius which is believed to bring back luck to its owner. He and his Italian fiancée are separated by the First World War, and he is badly wounded.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-08-25
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Ferien vom Ich
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-12-07
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Die Insel
Overview: A case of espionage in high society: To save the reputation of his county, a diplomat voluntarily takes his own life.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-08-29
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Der Polizeibericht meldet
Overview: Director Burckhardt is found shot just after making the moves on Gisela Ostercamp, the wife of a business colleague. When the criminal investigator Haupt inspects items in the apartment of the dead man, he comes to the conclusiong that Gisela herself is the murderess and accusations start flying between the married couple. The murdered man's brother, the lawyer Burckhardt, steps up to act as defense counsel for the woman, with whom he has learned to love in the meantime.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-01-12
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Wilhelm Tell
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-01-12
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Die Arche. 2. Teil: Die letzten Menschen
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Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-10-01
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Um eines Weibes Ehre
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-03-01
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Die Schuld
Overview: An art student in love with her instructor poses for his sculpture. She leaves him and the world of art when she finds out he is married. The statue, created with purpose of symbolizing guilt, comes back to haunt her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-06-06
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Die Dreizehn aus Stahl
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-01-14
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Fräulein Julie
Overview: A loose adaptation of August Strindberg's Miss Julie. The daughter of a count witnesses her mother's increasing mental instability after being spurned by a lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-01-02
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Die Tragödie eines Großen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-06-24
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Marcco, der Bezwinger des Todes
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-08-21
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Das rote Plakat
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-05-21
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Die rollende Kugel
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-05-09
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Her Sport
Overview: Her Sport is a 1919 German silent comedy film directed by Rudolf Biebrach and starring Henny Porten, Georg H. Schnell and Hermann Thimig. A man-hating young woman tries to break up her friend's new marriage, but while in the Alps she meets her own ideal man.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-04-12
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Dolls of Death
Overview: Crime film based on Nikolaus Lenau's poem "Die Marionetten."
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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