Anita Berber

Anita Berber

Born: June 10, 1899
Died: November 10, 1928
in Dresden, Saxony, Germany
Anita Berber was a German dancer, actress, and writer who was the subject of an Otto Dix painting. She lived during the Weimar period.

Movies for Anita Berber...

Ways to Strength and Beauty
Title: Ways to Strength and Beauty
Released: March 16, 1925
Type: Movie
The perfect body as an object of cult worship. Based on the mass sports and body worship movement of the 1920s, the film propagates physical training and shows in stylized documentary scenes aspects of physical hygiene, gymnastics, sports and dancing as well as scenes in which supposed sportsmen of antiquity pose naked.
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Irrlichter der Tiefe
Title: Irrlichter der Tiefe
Character: Astarte
Released: April 20, 1923
Type: Movie
"Lights of the Abyss". Anita Berber enchants men and women as the seductive goddess Astarte.
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Die drei Marien und der Herr von Marana
Title: Die drei Marien und der Herr von Marana
Released: March 9, 1923
Type: Movie
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Tänze des Grauens, des Lasters und der Ekstase
Title: Tänze des Grauens, des Lasters und der Ekstase
Released: March 9, 1923
Type: Movie
Anita Berber and Sebastian Droste performed their macabre dances of vice, horror and ecstasy. Saturated with an air of morbidity and decadence; death, dreams, torture, sex and sensuality.
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Lucrezia Borgia
Title: Lucrezia Borgia
Character: Gräfin Julia Orsini
Released: October 20, 1922
Type: Movie
Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, has three adult children: Juan, who is virtuous and has a sweetheart who is a woman of the people, Lucrezia, who is virtuous and wants to marry Alfonso, and Cesare, who is wicked and lusts after Lucrezia, Juan's girlfriend, and probably others. Cesare has vowed to kill any suitor for Lucrezia's love, and he has three thugs to carry out his wishes. Bodies fall into the Tiber, into the Colosseum (with lions prowling), and onto the Vatican floors.
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Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
Title: Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
Character: Dancer in tailcoat (uncredited)
Released: April 27, 1922
Type: Movie
Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to make huge profits on the stock exchange. Afterwards, Mabuse disguises himself and attends the Folies Bergères show, where Cara Carozza, the main attraction of the show, passes him information on Mabuse's next intended victim, the young millionaire Edgar Hull. Mabuse then uses psychic manipulation to lure Hull into a card game where he loses heavily. When Police Commissioner von Wenk begins an investigation of this mysterious crime spree, he has little to go on, and he needs to find someone who can help him.
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The Golden Plague
Title: The Golden Plague
Character: Natascha
Released: November 18, 1921
Type: Movie
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The Count of Cagliostro
Title: The Count of Cagliostro
Character: Lorenza
Released: December 21, 1920
Type: Movie
About a lurid tale of magic and secret societies during the reign of Luis XVI, focused on the figure of the Italian occultist Giuseppe Balsamo, known under his alias of Count Alessandro di Cagliostro.
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Figures of the Night
Title: Figures of the Night
Character: Dancer
Released: January 9, 1920
Type: Movie
"Night people". Thomas Bezug, the richest man in the world, is a solitary, domineering and cruel cripple, who hardly can move on his crutches. He dwells a fanatical love for his son, whom he holds like a monkey in a cage. His servants are defaced dwarfs. His secretary is trying to steal Bezugs assets. These are the night people.
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Eerie Tales
Title: Eerie Tales
Character: Die Dirne / Various Other Roles
Released: November 5, 1919
Type: Movie
After the old-books shop closes, portraits of the Strumpet, Death, and the Devil come to life and amuse themselves by reading stories--about themselves.
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Different from the Others
Title: Different from the Others
Character: Else, Kurt's Sister
Released: May 28, 1919
Type: Movie
Conrad Veidt plays a famous musician who is blackmailed for being gay. Eventually he stands trial and is convicted. At the end the film pleads for the abolition of §175 (the paragraph which punishes homosexuality).
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Different from the Others
Title: Different from the Others
Character: Else Sivers
Released: May 28, 1919
Type: Movie
Conrad Veidt plays a famous musician who is blackmailed for being gay. Eventually he stands trial and is convicted. At the end the film pleads for the abolition of §175 (the paragraph which punishes homosexuality).
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Around the World in 80 Days
Title: Around the World in 80 Days
Character: Aouda
Released: March 20, 1919
Type: Movie
Wealthy Englishman Phileas Fogg bets his friends that he can travel around the world in 80 days.
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Prostitution
Title: Prostitution
Character: Lola, dessen Tochter
Released: March 19, 1919
Type: Movie
Hedwig and Lola, two sisters of opposite temperaments, have their lives upended in when Lola decides to pursue prostitution and Hedwig is forced into it.
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The Story of Dida Ibsen
Title: The Story of Dida Ibsen
Character: Dida Ibsen
Released: December 12, 1918
Type: Movie
Dida Ibsen, daughter of impoverished farmers, has, according to her father's will, to marry the main creditor. But she refuses and decides to live with a married man as a mistress, till he gets his divorce. In the town she opens a restaurant with the money of her wealthy lover, from whom she soon gets pregnant, but their dreams of marriage fail, his wife refuses the divorce. After a while, she decides to marry one of the regular guests at her restaurant, van Galen, who spent quite some time in the tropics and because of this is at the brink of madness. Shortly after the marriage his condition worsens and life becomes hell for Dida.
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Das Dreimäderlhaus
Title: Das Dreimäderlhaus
Released: September 22, 1918
Type: Movie