Friedrich Kayssler

Friedrich Kayssler

Born: April 7, 1874
Died: April 24, 1945
in Neurode, Lower Silesia, Germany [now Nowa Ruda, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]

Movies for Friedrich Kayssler...

Das Leben geht weiter
Title: Das Leben geht weiter
Character: Prof. Hübner
Released: March 1, 1945
Type: Movie
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Träumerei
Title: Träumerei
Character: Friedrich Wieck
Released: May 3, 1944
Type: Movie
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Wenn du noch eine Heimat hast
Title: Wenn du noch eine Heimat hast
Character: Wilhelm Doorn
Released: January 8, 1942
Type: Movie
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Bismarck
Title: Bismarck
Character: Wilhelm I.
Released: December 6, 1940
Type: Movie
A biographical film of Otto von Bismarck, the Prime Minister of Prussia, and how he and his policies - including aggressive war - helped to unite Germany.
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Friedrich Schiller – Der Triumph eines Genies
Title: Friedrich Schiller – Der Triumph eines Genies
Character: Vater Schiller
Released: November 13, 1940
Type: Movie
The young Schiller, whose heart and soul are writing and poetry, is forced into the military academy (the pride and joy of the Duke of Württemberg). Schiller is disgusted by the everyday routine of the military, always back and forth between breeding and drills. Conversation, conflict or even critique are discouraged – the oppression insufferable for the young rebel. Disgusted by the brutality, he writes his drama "The Bandit", which he would later publish anonymously. But following a frank conversation with the Duke, Schiller is dishonored and must leave the land.
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The Fox of Glenarvon
Title: The Fox of Glenarvon
Character: O'Riordon
Released: January 2, 1940
Type: Movie
An English peace judge in an Irish district is married to an Irishwoman. She is a caring patriot. He is heavily indebted by a life of luxury, and doesn't shy away from dark deeds to maintain his lifestyle. Anti-Britsh propaganda film.
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Der singende Tor
Title: Der singende Tor
Character: Judge
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
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Dreizehn Mann und eine Kanone
Title: Dreizehn Mann und eine Kanone
Released: December 22, 1938
Type: Movie
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Covered Tracks
Title: Covered Tracks
Character: Polizeipräfekt von Paris
Released: August 25, 1938
Type: Movie
Séraphine and her mother arrive in Paris to visit the 1867 World Exhibition. In an overcrowded city they must be accommodated in separate hotels. During the night the mother, who wasn't feeling very well, gets suddenly worse. When next morning Séraphine goes to meet her every trace of her presence has disappeared and everybody denies having ever met her. The bewildered young woman must find someone who believes her. Previous version of So Long at the Fair (1950).
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Anna Favetti
Title: Anna Favetti
Character: Herr Favetti
Released: April 27, 1938
Type: Movie
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The Broken Jug
Title: The Broken Jug
Character: Walter
Released: October 18, 1937
Type: Movie
The man who broke the jug, the judge, is trying a case who determine who broke the jug. Long before the evidence becomes conclusive against the suspects, it becomes apparent that the blustering and bullying - and naive - village judge is the guilty one.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Title: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Character: Lord Charles Baskerville
Released: January 12, 1937
Type: Movie
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson look into reports that a huge, vicious hound has killed Lord Charles Baskerville and that Lord Henry Baskerville is the next to be killed.
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Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung
Title: Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung
Character: Pfarrer Kelvil
Released: October 26, 1936
Type: Movie
Sylvia, the daughter of the pastor Kelvil, is lectrice to Lady Patricia and gets to know the young Lord Harford. They love one another, but their class differences forbid marriage. There's a sharp argument with the father, who afterwards wants to send the young lord abroad. Then Sylvia is offered money to disappear, unaware that she's already pregnant. 18 years later: Sylvia raised her son on her own as best she could. He is now known as Lord Harford, who, besides having the title Lord Illingworth, also has inherited his father's total estate and has now returned from India. Unaware of their identities, the father and son get to know one another; get into a fight; and the young man challenges the father to a duel. In order to prevent that from happening, the mother must now tell each of them the truth about their identities. The film is based on the theatre piece of the same name by Oscar Wilde.
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Friesennot
Title: Friesennot
Character: Jürgen Wagner
Released: November 19, 1935
Type: Movie
The peaceful life of a village of Frisions by the river Volga is troubled by the arrival of a troop of Red Guards led by the inhuman commissary Tschernoff.Not only content to mistreat the brave villagers led by no-nonsense young man Jürgen Wagner, he makes Mette, a girl born from a Frision man and a Russian woman, his mistress. Outraged, the villagers expel the girl who takes refuge in the marshes. The Bolsheviks are prompt to react, one of them raping a young Frision girl. The Frisions, in desperation, set fire to their village after slaughtering the "Reds" and head for a new motherland, Nazi Germany maybe...
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Mazurka
Title: Mazurka
Released: November 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A woman is put on trial for murdering a musician who ruined her marriage.
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The Girl from the Marsh Croft
Title: The Girl from the Marsh Croft
Character: Vater Dittmar
Released: October 30, 1935
Type: Movie
A farm boy betrothed to a socialite falls in love with his maid - an impoverished girl from the marsh.
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Der ewige Traum
Title: Der ewige Traum
Character: Dorfpfarrer
Released: November 20, 1934
Type: Movie
At the end of the 18th century, the wealthy French scholar Saussure comes to a small Alpine village and offers 1,000 pieces of gold to anyone who can lead him to the summit of Mont Blanc. The young farmer's son Jacques Balmat wants to take on the dangerous task, even though his father has told him from an early age about the mighty mountain spirits who guard a legendary treasure of gold on the mountain peak.
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Gold
Title: Gold
Character: Prof. Achenbach
Released: March 29, 1934
Type: Movie
Using an atomic reactor, two scientists try to create gold.
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The Ship Without a Harbor
Title: The Ship Without a Harbor
Character: Chef der Seepolizei
Released: December 25, 1932
Type: Movie
Klaus Hansen is a Sea Police, patrolling on the German North Sea coast. Having just married the singer Kitty Korff, the couple goes on honeymoon. But there is a ghost ship bothering him.
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Marshal Forward
Title: Marshal Forward
Character: Scharnhorst
Released: November 23, 1932
Type: Movie
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Schill's eleven officers
Title: Schill's eleven officers
Character: Freiherr von Trachtenberg
Released: August 19, 1932
Type: Movie
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Goethe lives...!
Title: Goethe lives...!
Released: March 1, 1932
Type: Movie
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Under False Flag
Title: Under False Flag
Character: Oberst Seefeldt
Released: February 12, 1932
Type: Movie
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Yorck
Title: Yorck
Character: General Kleist von Nollendorff
Released: December 23, 1931
Type: Movie
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.
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The Captain from Köpenick
Title: The Captain from Köpenick
Character: Friedrich Hoprecht
Released: December 22, 1931
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of a cobbler who bought a second-hand captain's uniform, assumed command of a troop of guardsmen, declared the town of Köpenick under military law, arrested the mayor and confiscated the town treasury.
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Cadets
Title: Cadets
Character: Vorsitzender des Schwurgerichts
Released: December 21, 1931
Type: Movie
The sensitive, music-loving son of a German general reluctantly attends a military academy and after warning a fellow officer to stay away from the cadet's attractive young stepmother, lands up being charged for murder.
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Luise, Queen of Prussia
Title: Luise, Queen of Prussia
Character: Freiherr von Stein
Released: December 4, 1931
Type: Movie
Vehicle for one of the Weimar era's most beloved actresses: as the popular Prussian queen in 1806-1807, she presides over the humiliating Peace of Tilsit which Napoleon forces on the defeated Germans.
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24 Hours of a Woman's Life
Title: 24 Hours of a Woman's Life
Character: Professor Merk
Released: October 11, 1931
Type: Movie
After the tragic death from malaria of her beloved husband his rich widow Helga Vanroh travels restlessly around various Mediterranean countries. In the luxurious surroundings of a hotel in Monte Carlo Mrs. Vanroh keeps apart from society, until one evening she decides to visit the casino. There a young man attracts her curiosity and compassion.
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In the Employ of the Secret Service
Title: In the Employ of the Secret Service
Character: Bethmann-Hollweg
Released: August 13, 1931
Type: Movie
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.
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The Man Who Committed the Murder
Title: The Man Who Committed the Murder
Character: Mehmed Pascha
Released: January 23, 1931
Type: Movie
The story is about Conrad Veidt as military attache in Turkey where he learns to know an English consul (Heinrich George) and his attractive wife who is treated badly. They begin an affair and soon the husband proves to be an obstacle that has to be disposed of.
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Storm Over Mont Blanc
Title: Storm Over Mont Blanc
Character: Astronom Armstrong
Released: December 25, 1930
Type: Movie
In a lonely outpost atop the treacherous Mont Blanc, an intrepid scientist lives with minimal connection to the world below. Through the telegraph, Hanes (Sepp Rist) communicates with a beautiful astronomer (Leni Riefenstahl) and is occasionally visited by an airplane pilot (Ernst Udet) upon whom he depends on supplies. In the midst of a ferocious snowstorm, Hannes loses his gloves and his weather station is battered by the elements. Suffering frostbite and unable to descend the mountain, he sends out a desperate S.O.S. in the hope that someone can brave the elements and rescue him from certain death. Eerily romantic and overshadowed by the constant threat of doom, Storm over Mont Blanc is a "quintessential " mountain film by Arnold Fanck, the genre's innovator and unparalleled master.
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Two Souls
Title: Two Souls
Released: December 22, 1930
Type: Movie
Gustav Froehlich and Charlotte Susa play Rochus and Judith, the zwei menschen (two humans) of the title. Rochus' domineering mother insists that he enter the priesthood, but he is reluctant to break up his blissful romance with the fair Judith. A religious fanatic of the first order, the mother swears before God and her Church that Rochus will indeed take his vows. When this does not come about, she dies of grief, whereupon the guilt-stricken Rochus abandons Judith to become a priest. The girl subsequently commits suicide -- and it is Rochus who must officiate over her body during the funeral. This final scene was excised from the print of Zwei Menschen released in New York, leaving audiences hanging in regard to Judith's ultimate fate.
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The Flute Concert of Sans-souci
Title: The Flute Concert of Sans-souci
Character: Karl Wilhelm von Finckenstein
Released: December 19, 1930
Type: Movie
In 1756, a masked ball was officially celebrated in the Dresden Palais of the Saxon Minister Heinrich von Brühl. Unofficially, however, talks are taking place with the envoys of Austria, Russia and France with the aim of conspiring against the Prussian King Frederick II. The Prussian envoy, Major von Lindeneck, succeeded in bringing a copy of the concluded secret treaty to the Prussian king. Friedrich consults with his generals, who urge caution. Friedrich is stunned by the reaction and now develops a counter-plan. To do this, he sends von Lindeneck back to Dresden. However, the latter is not very enthusiastic about this, as he thinks he has reason to doubt his wife Blanche's marital fidelity, and he now has to leave her alone.
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Two Worlds
Title: Two Worlds
Character: Oberst von Kaminsky
Released: September 15, 1930
Type: Movie
German language version of Two Worlds.
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The Burning Heart
Title: The Burning Heart
Character: Dorothees Vater
Released: February 16, 1929
Type: Movie
A young composer and inventor meets a poverty stricken singer.
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Assassination
Title: Assassination
Character: Minister
Released: August 22, 1927
Type: Movie
"Assassination" - A far-right political organization called "Fellowship Loyalty" seeks contact with an easily seducable man whom she finds in Joachim Burthe. The leader of this deeply democratizing group, the equally characterless and unscrupulous Gregor of Askanius, whispers to the fanatical student seeking guidance that it is finally time to put the death sentence on the corrupt system and its representatives.
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A Modern Dubarry
Title: A Modern Dubarry
Character: Cornelius Corbett
Released: January 24, 1927
Type: Movie
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Ein Lebenskünstler
Title: Ein Lebenskünstler
Released: September 1, 1925
Type: Movie
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Countess Donelli
Title: Countess Donelli
Released: November 27, 1924
Type: Movie
A lost film.
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Mother and Child
Title: Mother and Child
Character: Senator Hansen
Released: November 13, 1924
Type: Movie
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The Tunnel
Title: The Tunnel
Released: September 1, 1915
Type: Movie
Max Allan, a visionary engineer persuades investors to fund building an undersea railway connecting France to the United States. But there are powerful forces who wants to stop his futuristic dream.