Leo Slezak

Leo Slezak

Born: August 18, 1873
Died: June 1, 1946

Movies for Leo Slezak...

Geliebter Schatz
Title: Geliebter Schatz
Character: Generaldirektor
Released: August 3, 1943
Type: Movie
1943 German film.
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Münchhausen
Title: Münchhausen
Character: Sultan Abd ul Hamid
Released: March 5, 1943
Type: Movie
Wanting a lavish production to mark the 25th anniversary of UFA, the German film studio, Joseph Goebbels, director of the Nazi propaganda machine, commissioned an adaptation of Baron von Münchhausen‘s “autobiographical” stories. Baron von Münchhausen (1720-97) was an eccentric figure in European history, whose tall tales about his adventures rival anything to be found in the legends of Paul Bunyan or classic figures like Odysseus. This film recounts some of the episodes from the Baron’s sensational stories, which are set in the world of the 18th century.
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Alles für Gloria
Title: Alles für Gloria
Character: Kammersänger Möbius
Released: October 25, 1941
Type: Movie
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Operette
Title: Operette
Character: Franz von Suppé
Released: December 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Operetta (German: Operette) is a 1940 musical film directed by Willi Forst and starring Forst, Maria Holst and Dora Komar. The film was made by Wien-Film, a Vienna-based company set up after Austria had been incorporated into Greater Germany following the 1938 Anschluss. It is the first film in director Willi Forst's "Viennese Trilogy" followed by Vienna Blood (1942) and Viennese Girls (1945). The film portrays the life of Franz Jauner (1832–1900), a leading musical figure in the city. It is both an operetta film and a Wiener Film.
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Rosen in Tirol
Title: Rosen in Tirol
Character: Baron Weps
Released: December 5, 1940
Type: Movie
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Der Herr im Haus
Title: Der Herr im Haus
Character: Kammersänger Wolfram Schellenberg
Released: October 3, 1940
Type: Movie
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Golowin geht durch die Stadt
Title: Golowin geht durch die Stadt
Character: Juranitsch, Stadtpräfekt
Released: May 31, 1940
Type: Movie
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It Was a Gay Ballnight
Title: It Was a Gay Ballnight
Character: Prof. Maxililian Hunsinger
Released: August 12, 1939
Type: Movie
1865. Katharina goes to a ball in Moscow. There she meets again Tchaikowsky, her first and only love. The young, who is now married to wealthy Michael Iwanowitsch Murakin, a man she does not love, has not forgotten Piotr Illich, the (not yet) famous composer. Both are still in love with each other but Piotr is engaged to Nastassia, a dancer, while for her part Katharina cannot leave her husband. Tchaikowky's first love then decides to sacrifice her happiness to the success of the composer, sponsoring him in secret. Something Piotr will learn only years after. When Katharina finds herself free at last it is too late: Tchaikowsky is dying of cholera and she only has time to close his eyes.
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Woman at the Wheel
Title: Woman at the Wheel
Character: Generaldirektor
Released: June 19, 1939
Type: Movie
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The Four Companions
Title: The Four Companions
Character: Professor Lange
Released: October 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Four graduates of an industrial design school team up and form a small business. The protagonist is so excited by the venture that she turns down the proposal of her dashing instructor. Time passes and her three partners lose interest in the business for different reasons. This leaves the heroine who has a change of heart and decides to forgo the business and marry the instructor after all.
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Homeland
Title: Homeland
Character: Rohrmoser
Released: June 25, 1938
Type: Movie
In 1885, famous New York Metropolitan Opera singer Maddalena dall' Orto is scheduled to perform at a festival in the German residence of Ilmingen. It soon becomes obvious that she is non other than Magda von Schwartze, who left the town eight years ago against her father's wishes to become a singer.
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Der Mann, der nicht nein sagen kann
Title: Der Mann, der nicht nein sagen kann
Character: Barranco
Released: February 1, 1938
Type: Movie
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Gasparone
Title: Gasparone
Character: Statthalter Nasoni
Released: December 17, 1937
Type: Movie
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The Happiest Married Couple in Vienna
Title: The Happiest Married Couple in Vienna
Character: Mr.Wurl
Released: August 17, 1937
Type: Movie
The happiest one should be selected from 500 married couples to move a marriage-hostile American millionnaire's daughter to the marriage. - Shallow and turbulent love banter with some tumultuous and funny climaxes.
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Husaren heraus
Title: Husaren heraus
Character: Adrian Fabius - Rittergutsbesitzer auf Taus
Released: July 21, 1937
Type: Movie
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Love in Waltz Time
Title: Love in Waltz Time
Character: Leopold Weinzierl
Released: March 4, 1937
Type: Movie
A working class young woman disregards the wishes of her father to stay in her place, and marries higher in society by wooing a wealthy car manufacturer.
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Das Frauenparadies
Title: Das Frauenparadies
Character: Holub, Oberbuchhalter
Released: August 5, 1936
Type: Movie
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Rendezvous in Wien
Title: Rendezvous in Wien
Character: Marschner - Wiener Verleger
Released: April 29, 1936
Type: Movie
Gusti Aigner and Franz Lenhardt are in love, but composer Lenhardt is too shy and bashful to go out and sell his compositions to music publishers. Gusti takes the burden on herself; and while there are complications and humorous situations she runs into.
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Konfetti
Title: Konfetti
Character: August Sommerbauer
Released: April 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Confusion comedy with musical interludes around a carnival ball, to dare the pretty shop assistant for a fashion store with one of the best gowns of her salon and posing in her embarrassment as the wife of a guest. - Harmlessly entertaining comedy, a little bit too poorly to bring to bear the first-time meeting of three most popular Austrian comic specialists Moser-Slezak-Romanowsky at that time appropriately.
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Herbstmanöver
Title: Herbstmanöver
Character: Josef von Randau
Released: January 24, 1936
Type: Movie
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Die lustigen Weiber
Title: Die lustigen Weiber
Character: Sir John Falstaff
Released: January 24, 1936
Type: Movie
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The Postman from Longjumeau
Title: The Postman from Longjumeau
Character: Graf de Latour
Released: January 14, 1936
Type: Movie
La Marquise de Pompadour desires the best tenor in France for her opera company, and after an extensive search in the provinces, Chapelou is selected and forced to leave his bride-of-an-hour to go to Paris. Alfer seeing the handsome tenor, the Marquise decides not to let his bride, Madeliane, join him in Paris. Graf de Latour, banished from the court for his bawdy song about La Pompadour, goes to the town where Chapelou has left his bride and sees an opportunity to get even. He takes Madeleine in hand and after exhaustive grooming and make-over he returns to court with her as his banishment has been lifted, and Chepelou, failing to recognize hie own wife, falls in love with her.
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Eine Nacht an der Donau
Title: Eine Nacht an der Donau
Character: Janos Török
Released: December 13, 1935
Type: Movie
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Zirkus Saran
Title: Zirkus Saran
Character: Direktor Saran
Released: November 29, 1935
Type: Movie
Knox owns half of the Circus Saran and acts as a clown there. He hides his circus life from his daughter and is very embarrassed when his daughter finds out his true profession. Hans Moser, who plays Knox, performs poorly, because the character he plays is simply not funny. Leo Slezak, who owns the other half of the circus, as well as Pat and Patachon perform better. The only really good thing about this film is its music, composed by Robert Stolz; especially the song "Ein bisschen Sing-Sang und gute Kameradschaft" , which can be heard throughout the movie.
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Immortal Melodies
Title: Immortal Melodies
Character: Publisher Haslinger
Released: November 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Vienna, Austria, late 1870s. After suffering an irreparable misfortune, the Austrian composer Johann Strauss Jr. (1825-99), the Waltz King, falls in love with a ballet dancer, which disappoints the famous operetta singer Marie Geistinger…
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Ein Walzer um den Stephansturm
Title: Ein Walzer um den Stephansturm
Character: Melchior
Released: November 1, 1935
Type: Movie
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Die Pompadour
Title: Die Pompadour
Character: Barbanelle, ein Schankwirt
Released: October 23, 1935
Type: Movie
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The World's in Love
Title: The World's in Love
Character: Adalbert v. Waldenau
Released: October 4, 1935
Type: Movie
A Hungarian squire and his son compete for the favour of an operetta diva; the younger makes the running. - Unplausible mistakes, small intrigues and a lot of love in an old-fashioned musical comedy with proven comedians.
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Tanzmusik
Title: Tanzmusik
Character: Koppler, Inhaber einer Konzertagentur
Released: September 23, 1935
Type: Movie
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Die blonde Carmen
Title: Die blonde Carmen
Character: Otto Bachmeier
Released: August 6, 1935
Type: Movie
A singer tired of the stage retreats to a hotel in the country. There, she finds love and a way back into show business.
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Die Fahrt in die Jugend
Title: Die Fahrt in die Jugend
Character: Dr. Oelschläger, Landarzt
Released: January 4, 1935
Type: Movie
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Der Herr ohne Wohnung
Title: Der Herr ohne Wohnung
Character: Kreindl, ein Kutscher
Released: December 22, 1934
Type: Movie
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Ihr größter Erfolg
Title: Ihr größter Erfolg
Character: Ferdinand Raimund
Released: December 20, 1934
Type: Movie
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La Paloma. Ein Lied der Kameradschaft
Title: La Paloma. Ein Lied der Kameradschaft
Character: Ramiro, Gastwirt 'Zum stolzen Torero'
Released: November 14, 1934
Type: Movie
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Musik im Blut
Title: Musik im Blut
Character: Friedrich Hagedorn, Kapellmeister
Released: July 31, 1934
Type: Movie
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Freut Euch des Lebens
Title: Freut Euch des Lebens
Character: Gottfried Bumm
Released: May 14, 1934
Type: Movie
A Bavarian comedy centered around Gusti, the lovely waitress of the restaurant „Bratwurstglockl“, who is adored by all the men. When the spoiled snob Carl Maria complains to the manager about the restaurant, Gusti is summarily dismissed and accepts the invitation of the poor chamber singer Gottlieb Bumm to accompany him on a three-day trip to the Zugspitze he won in a contests. While there, they both live well above their means and Gusti runs into Carl Maria again.
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Tales from the Vienna Woods
Title: Tales from the Vienna Woods
Character: Alois Jeremias Schopf
Released: April 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A journalist travelling by train to Vienna meets an American millionairess travelling incognito. They become friends and decide it'd be fun to swap places for awhile.
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Mein Liebster ist ein Jägersmann
Title: Mein Liebster ist ein Jägersmann
Released: December 29, 1933
Type: Movie
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Großfürstin Alexandra
Title: Großfürstin Alexandra
Character: Fürst Nikolai
Released: October 12, 1933
Type: Movie
Film by Thiele.
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Die Herren vom Maxim
Title: Die Herren vom Maxim
Character: Rübsam - Kammersänger
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
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Modern dowry
Title: Modern dowry
Released: August 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Dan Douglas is a typical Scottish. When his niece Evelyne marries engineer Fred Keller aboard the ship to Scotland, he gives her a pearl necklace as dowry, but it's false. The newlyweds face their differences when the necklace gets lost.
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A Mad Idea
Title: A Mad Idea
Character: Theo Müller
Released: May 12, 1932
Type: Movie
A series of stupid coincidences causes the young Munich painter Paul to convert his uncle's castle into a hotel for four weeks. But he can't complain: business is good and he has plenty of guests. For exmple, there's Theo Muller with his revue troupe. For reasons of "sound", Muller calls himself "Miller", which, of course, causes more confusion. His daughter, the beautiful Evelyn, is confused with Mabel Miller, who has come to the hotel on a mission for her filthy rich father ... namely, to estimate the worth of the castle.
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Skandal in der Parkstraße
Title: Skandal in der Parkstraße
Released: March 26, 1932
Type: Movie
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The Ladies Diplomat
Title: The Ladies Diplomat
Character: Iwan Milhailow
Released: March 18, 1932
Type: Movie
Diplomat Fürst Windischberg is known for spending too much time with women, receiving frequent reprimands and even a threat to be sent to Afrika. In Berlin he meets chorus girl Hella, who tells her companions she is his current flirt.
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Sodom and Gomorrah
Title: Sodom and Gomorrah
Released: October 13, 1922
Type: Movie
Exposed to bad influences since childhood, Mary, a young girl is pushed by her mother to approach an elderly banker by the name of Harber. After almost driving her fiancee to suicide and seducing his mentally-ill son, she realizes through a metaphorical dream the scope of her negligence. Sentenced to prison for incitement to murder Harber, she sees herself as a parallel figure to Lea, Lot's wife in Sodom, where the Angel of the Lord warns the sinful citizens of the city of their impending doom. Lea oppresses the angel and eventually turns it over to the pagan priests when her sexual advances to it are rejected. In another dream sequence, Mary becomes the Queen of Syria, whose oppressed people turn against her and who, in turn, condemns a young man who loves her to death. Finally, her dream returns to the present time and when she awakens, she runs back to her former lover.