Nils Asther

Nils Asther

Born: January 16, 1897
Died: October 13, 1981
in Copenhagen, Denmark
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Nils Anton Alfhild Asther (17 January 1897 - 13 October 1981) was a Danish-born Swedish actor active in Hollywood from 1926 to the mid 1950s, known for his beautiful face and often called "the male Greta Garbo". Between 1916 and 1963 he appeared in over 70 feature films, 16 done in the silent era.

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Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer
Title: Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: February 25, 2022
Type: Movie
A journey through Swedish queer film history.
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Gudrun
Title: Gudrun
Character: Mr. Roscoe
Released: November 20, 1963
Type: Movie
Danish drama about a young woman's rites of passage in finding romance.
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Lady in White
Title: Lady in White
Character: Simon Ek
Released: July 2, 1962
Type: Movie
A ghost called Vita Frun (White Lady) is accused of several murders. Detective Hillman is contacted to resolve the case.
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Svenska Floyd
Title: Svenska Floyd
Character: Vincent Mitella
Released: July 10, 1961
Type: Movie
The world-famous Swedish boxer Flosse travels to Italy to fight for the world boxing title. In Rome he meets the nightclub singer Lollo.
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When Darkness Falls
Title: When Darkness Falls
Character: Vicar Tord Ekstedt
Released: December 26, 1960
Type: Movie
Young Elisabeth comes to Västlinge to meet her old relative, the vicar and and his young daughter. She is going to spend the Christmas there in peace and quiet but on Christmas Eve, the grocer is brutally murdered with an axe. Police inspector Christer Wijk comes to the small village to find the murderer. He soon discovers the puzzle of evidence that makes almost everybody a suspect.
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That Man from Tangier
Title: That Man from Tangier
Character: Henri
Released: May 8, 1953
Type: Movie
Mary Ellen travels abroad and ends up marrying a Count while she is intoxicated. The Count disappears and with the aid of her father, George, she tracks down his address in the Casbah, only to discover he was an impostor. The real count is Henri, a nondescript man with a shrewd business sense. Mary Ellen pays him to carry on the masquerade of being her husband so she can get a divorce.
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The Feathered Serpent
Title: The Feathered Serpent
Character: Paul Evans
Released: December 19, 1948
Type: Movie
In order to learn the location of a fabled Aztec treasure, a professor kidnaps his colleague, the only man able to read the ancient Aztec script that is supposed to reveal the location of the treasure. Charlie Chan and his #1 and #2 sons journey to the jungles of Mexico to find the victim and bring the kidnapper and his gang to justice.
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Love, Honor and Goodbye
Title: Love, Honor and Goodbye
Character: Tony Linnard
Released: September 15, 1945
Type: Movie
A lawyer's wife walks out on him, then poses as a French nurse to spy on him.
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Jealousy
Title: Jealousy
Character: Peter Urban
Released: July 23, 1945
Type: Movie
A female cabbie is suspected of killing her drunken husband.
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Son of Lassie
Title: Son of Lassie
Character: Olav
Released: April 20, 1945
Type: Movie
Laddie (Son of Lassie) and his master are trapped in Norway during WW2 - has he inherited his mothers famous courage?
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The Man in Half Moon Street
Title: The Man in Half Moon Street
Character: Dr. Julian Karell
Released: January 19, 1945
Type: Movie
A British doctor and painter must kill for the glands he needs to stop the aging process.
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Alaska
Title: Alaska
Character: Thomas Leroux
Released: November 18, 1944
Type: Movie
A man who has been framed on a murder charge is placed in the custody of a crooked U.S. marshal, who is secretly running a murderous claim-jumping gang.
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Bluebeard
Title: Bluebeard
Character: Inspector Lefevre
Released: November 11, 1944
Type: Movie
Young female models are being strangled. Will law enforcement be able to stop the crime wave before more women become victims?
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The Hour Before the Dawn
Title: The Hour Before the Dawn
Character: Kurt van der Breughel
Released: May 10, 1944
Type: Movie
A beautiful Austrian refugee in England--who is also a Nazi agent--marries a scholarly English pacifist. He lives near a secret military base she needs to get information about so she can help in Hitler's planned invasion of England.
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Mystery Broadcast
Title: Mystery Broadcast
Character: Ricky Moreno
Released: November 23, 1943
Type: Movie
A radio detective sets out to solve an old murder case, with the help of her sound man and another radio detective. They manage to talk to the people involved in the case, but shortly afterwards the main suspects turn up dead.
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Submarine Alert
Title: Submarine Alert
Character: Dr. Arthur Huneker
Released: June 28, 1943
Type: Movie
Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an offshore Japanese sub. To nab the spy ring, the Government has the West Coast's top radio engineers fired and shadowed to see if the Nazis recruit them to complete work on the prototype radio. Radio engineer Lew Deerhold, a resident alien without a job to pay for his adorable little ward Gina's life-saving operation, falls prey to the spy ring, and is swept up in a maelstrom of deceit and danger.
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Night Monster
Title: Night Monster
Character: Agor Singh
Released: October 20, 1942
Type: Movie
Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet horrible deaths.
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Sweater Girl
Title: Sweater Girl
Character: Prof. Henri Menard
Released: July 13, 1942
Type: Movie
College students attempt to solve a series of murders on campus while also trying to put together the school's big show.
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The Night Before the Divorce
Title: The Night Before the Divorce
Character: Victor Roselle
Released: March 6, 1942
Type: Movie
Marital comedy with a dash of murder.
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The Night of January 16th
Title: The Night of January 16th
Character: Bjorn Faulkner
Released: November 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Accused of killing her employer, financier Bjorn Faulkner, Kit is championed by wisecracking sailor-on-leave Steve Van Ruyle, who has a vested interest in the outcome of the trial.
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Flying Blind
Title: Flying Blind
Character: Eric Karolek
Released: August 29, 1941
Type: Movie
A spy steals a secret military device, then hijacks an airliner to get away. The airliner crashes in the wilderness & the survivors are threatened by a raging forest fire.
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Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day
Title: Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day
Character: Constanzo Labardi
Released: August 22, 1941
Type: Movie
A variety of predicaments arise to distract Dr. Kildare from his wedding to Nurse Mary Lamont.
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Forced Landing
Title: Forced Landing
Character: Col. Jan Golas
Released: July 11, 1941
Type: Movie
On faraway Mosaque, an American pilot finds that he is in a desperate struggle with a military officer intent on sabotaging a local fort.
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The Man Who Lost Himself
Title: The Man Who Lost Himself
Character: Peter Ransome
Released: March 21, 1941
Type: Movie
John Evans encounters his lookalike, Malcolm Scott. When Scott is killed in an accident, Evans finds himself mistaken for Scott and decides to do some good in his new role.
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Make-Up
Title: Make-Up
Character: Bux
Released: June 28, 1937
Type: Movie
Make-Up is a 1937 British drama film directed by Alfred Zeisler and starring Nils Asther, June Clyde and Judy Kelly. It was a circus film made by an independent production company at Shepperton Studios.
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Guilty Melody
Title: Guilty Melody
Character: Galloni
Released: July 21, 1936
Type: Movie
A British spy falls in love with a singer whose husband is working for the enemy.
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The Marriage of Corbal
Title: The Marriage of Corbal
Character: Varennes
Released: May 28, 1936
Type: Movie
The film hinges on the love triangle between a young aristocratic lady on the run (Cleonie, played by Hazel Terry), the murderous Varennes, Citizen-Deputy of the Revolution who saves her by disguising her as his nephew (Nils Asther) and finally the Marquis of Corbal of the film's title, played by Hugh Sinclair.
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Abdul the Damned
Title: Abdul the Damned
Character: Kadar Pasha, Chief of Police
Released: August 5, 1935
Type: Movie
In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by the Young Turk party. He allows Hilmi Pasha, the leader of the Young Turks, to return from exile and form the country's first constitutional government. With tensions still growing, chief of police Kadar Pasha assassinates Hassan Bey, the leader of the Old Turk party, and makes it look as if a Young Turk committed the crime, in order to give Abdul an excuse for arresting the Young Turk leaders. Meanwhile, Abdul becomes infatuated with a visiting Austrian singer. When she rejects his advances, she endangers both herself and her fiancé, a Turkish officer who also knows who really shot Hassan Bey.
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Do You Remember?
Title: Do You Remember?
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Compilation film with scenes from different Swedish silent films, many of the films have since been lost and the only surviving fragments can be found in this film.
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Love Time
Title: Love Time
Character: Franz Schubert
Released: November 3, 1934
Type: Movie
Romaticized biopic about the life of composer Franz Schubert.
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The Crime Doctor
Title: The Crime Doctor
Character: Gary Patten
Released: March 14, 1934
Type: Movie
When he finds out that his wife is having an affair, a criminologist commits the perfect murder--and pins the crime on his wife's boyfriend so well that the man is convicted of the murder.
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Madame Spy
Title: Madame Spy
Character: Capt. Franck
Released: February 10, 1934
Type: Movie
Maria is married to Captain Franck of German Intelligence. He does not know she is a Russian assigned to spy on him. When he is told to uncover a leak, he vows revenge on his wife.
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By Candlelight
Title: By Candlelight
Character: Prince Alfred Von Rommer
Released: December 18, 1933
Type: Movie
A beautiful woman mistakes a Prince's butler for the Prince.
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If I Were Free
Title: If I Were Free
Character: Tono Casanove
Released: December 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A recently divorced interior decorator falls in love with a married barrister.
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The Right To Romance
Title: The Right To Romance
Character: Dr. Helmuth Heppling
Released: November 17, 1933
Type: Movie
Against her better judgment, a dedicated and hard-working plastic surgeon (Ann Harding) finds herself falling in love with a playboy (Robert Young). Drama.
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Storm at Daybreak
Title: Storm at Daybreak
Character: Capt. Geza Petery
Released: June 14, 1933
Type: Movie
Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand. While there he runs into Geza, an old friend in the Hungarian Army and invites him to come to his house and visit him and his new wife.
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The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Title: The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Character: General Yen
Released: January 6, 1933
Type: Movie
An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.
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The Washington Masquerade
Title: The Washington Masquerade
Character: Henri Brenner
Released: July 9, 1932
Type: Movie
An honest, talented and well respected attorney defeats a corrupt incumbent U.S. Senator. After a very good start he has to face the subtle temptations and innocent looking traps of Washington.
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Screen Snapshots (Series 12, No. 2)
Title: Screen Snapshots (Series 12, No. 2)
Character: Himself
Released: June 17, 1932
Type: Movie
A Columbia Pictures promotional short which explains how a movie is made.
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Letty Lynton
Title: Letty Lynton
Character: Emile Renaul
Released: April 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Socialite Letty Lynton is returning to New York, abandoning one-time lover Emile Renaul in South America, when she strikes up a shipboard romance with Jerry Darrow. Renault is waiting for her in New York and will not leave her alone, so she poisons him. When detectives take her to the D.A.s office, Jerry cooks up an alibi.
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But the Flesh Is Weak
Title: But the Flesh Is Weak
Character: Prince Paul
Released: April 9, 1932
Type: Movie
A poor-but-charming father and son try to enter high society by marrying rich English widows.
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The Sea Bat
Title: The Sea Bat
Character: Carl
Released: July 5, 1930
Type: Movie
The sister of a sponge diver killed by a stingray loves an escaped convict posing as a priest.
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The Single Standard
Title: The Single Standard
Character: Packy Cannon
Released: July 27, 1929
Type: Movie
A bored socialite finds fleeting romance with an artist.
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Wild Orchids
Title: Wild Orchids
Character: Prince de Gace
Released: February 23, 1929
Type: Movie
A prince in J... tries to seduce his visitor's wife, but he's discovered.
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Dream of Love
Title: Dream of Love
Character: Prince Mauritz
Released: December 1, 1928
Type: Movie
A duke has deposed Prince Mauritz's father, so Mauritz spends his time in affairs with a countess, the duke's wife and a gypsy girl Adrienne. Years later she is a famous actress in a play resembling the sad story of their earlier relationship. He falls in love with her again. The jealous duchess and the duke arrange to have him shot by firing squad but revolutionaries save him and make him King.
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The Cardboard Lover
Title: The Cardboard Lover
Character: Andre
Released: September 2, 1928
Type: Movie
A ditzy American girl visiting Monte Carlo is hired by a tennis champ to be his "cardboard lover"--to pretend to be in love with him so he can teach his two-timing fiancé a lesson and win her back. What he doesn't realize is that the girl isn't pretending --she actually is in love with him, and she sets out to win him for herself.
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Our Dancing Daughters
Title: Our Dancing Daughters
Character: Norman
Released: September 1, 1928
Type: Movie
A flapper sets her hat for a man with a hard-drinking wife.
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Loves of an Actress
Title: Loves of an Actress
Character: Raoul Duval
Released: August 18, 1928
Type: Movie
Rachel becomes the leading actress in the Comédie Française through the patronage of three influential men: Baron Hartman, the wealthiest man in France; Count Vareski, a relative of Napoleon; and Dr. Durande. All three men are in love with her, but she throws them over when she falls in love with Raoul Duval....
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The Cossacks
Title: The Cossacks
Character: Prince Olenin Stieshneff
Released: June 23, 1928
Type: Movie
Stirring romance, hard riding, desperate fighting with the Cossacks playing their game of war and chivalry. A mighty picturization of Count Leo Tolstoi's famous novel of the same name.
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Laugh, Clown, Laugh
Title: Laugh, Clown, Laugh
Character: Count Luigi Ravelli
Released: April 14, 1928
Type: Movie
A despairing clown suffering a broken heart and a self-indulgent count who uncontrollably laughs learn to help each other with their problems, but both fall in love with the same young woman.
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The Blue Danube
Title: The Blue Danube
Character: Erich von Statzen
Released: March 11, 1928
Type: Movie
Marguerite, the beauty of an Austrian village, loves the poverty-stricken Baron Erich von Statzen, although her mother is opposed to the affair, having been made suspicious by the hunchback Ludwig, who is smitten by Marguerite's charms and insanely jealous of Statzen. Statzen's uncle would have him marry Helena Boursch, the local brewer's daughter, to save his dwindling estate. Ordered to the front when war is declared, Statzen is forced to leave without saying goodby to Marguerite.
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Sorrell and Son
Title: Sorrell and Son
Character: Christopher 'Kit' Sorrell
Released: December 2, 1927
Type: Movie
Stephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts husband and child in the boy's infancy. Sorrell loses a promising job offer and is forced to take work as a menial. Both his dignity and his health are damaged as he suffers under the exhausting labor and harsh treatment he receives as a hotel porter. But Sorrell thrives in the knowledge that his son will benefit from his labors. Sorrell has allowed the boy to believe his mother dead, but when the mother shows up, wanting to re-enter the young man's life, Sorrell must make hard decisions.
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Topsy and Eva
Title: Topsy and Eva
Character: George Shelby
Released: July 26, 1927
Type: Movie
Topsy, a Black slave girl who "jes' growed" is auctioned but nobody will bid. A young girl named Eva purchases Topsy for a nickel.
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Hotelratten
Title: Hotelratten
Character: Fürst Ladrone
Released: April 13, 1927
Type: Movie
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Gauner im Frack
Title: Gauner im Frack
Character: George Valeska
Released: February 4, 1927
Type: Movie
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Wrath of the Seas
Title: Wrath of the Seas
Character: Torpedooffizier Günther Adenried
Released: December 1, 1926
Type: Movie
The film portrays the Imperial German Navy during the First World War, particularly the Battle of Jutland and is based on a novel by Helmut Lorenz.
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The Golden Butterfly
Title: The Golden Butterfly
Character: Andy McFarland
Released: July 31, 1926
Type: Movie
A restaurant cashier, who has a mutual attraction to the restauranteur, has a secret passion for dance. As soon as she finishes work she is off down to the dance studio for a practice. She has a chance meeting with a handsome impresario, who promises to make her into the greatest dancer the world has ever known. (IMDb)
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Die drei Kuckucksuhren
Title: Die drei Kuckucksuhren
Character: Reginald Ellis
Released: May 25, 1926
Type: Movie
Lord Ernest Clifton lives with his beautiful wife, Gladys, at Easton Lodge. He has lost immense wealth in the lap of his uncle's death. One day Lord Clifton receives a mysterious package with an even more mysterious letter from his uncle. Three cuckoo clocks that strike only once a month should show him the way to find the second part of the pot of gold buried somewhere. Ernest's thirst for adventure only awakens and waits for the first cuckoo clock to mark the room number of a hotel in Cairo, where the second cuckoo clock hangs.
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Carl XII:s kurir
Title: Carl XII:s kurir
Character: Stanislaus, Potockis nevö
Released: April 7, 1924
Type: Movie
Adjutant general Axel Roos is selected by King Charles XII to deliver a message to the court from the army in Bender, current day Moldova. His ride will take him straight through hostile Europe, where both Russians and Poles have interests in capturing him.
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The Norrtull Gang
Title: The Norrtull Gang
Released: December 23, 1923
Type: Movie
A collective of office girls and their tribulations in the male world, female solidarity, the place of women in the labor and civil rights struggles and the conflict between love and work.
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Love's Crucible
Title: Love's Crucible
Character: Apprentice
Released: January 1, 1922
Type: Movie
At the end of the middle ages, Ursula is accused of having poisoned her own husband. She claims she is innocent, but to prove it, she must submit to a ritual: trial by fire, walking on fire along a path leading directly to a crucifix. A film that has been much commended for the visual creativity shown by the director in successive blending in of images involving Ursula, her husband, the Virgin Mary, and Jesus Christ. Much applauded, also: the performance of Jenny Hasselqvist, thus described by French director René Clair: “We shall never forget her flaming eyes, the severity of her spirit, her abrupt and alarmed expressions, like an animal under threat.”
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The Gyurkovics Boys
Title: The Gyurkovics Boys
Character: Bandi Gyurkovics
Released: December 26, 1920
Type: Movie
Mr. and Mrs. Gyurkovics have a dozen children the oldest of which, the twins Géza and Bandi, just preparing for their matriculation examination. When graduation day has come Géza refuses to set up but taken by force by the principal's henchmen. When dad Gyurkovics later dies, takes over Bandi goods while Géza becoming an officer cadet in the nearby garrison city.
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A Trip to Mars
Title: A Trip to Mars
Character: Martian citizen
Released: February 22, 1918
Type: Movie
The navy captain Avanti Planetaros is inspired by his astronomer-father to travel through outer space to reach other worlds. He becomes an aviator and, along with the young scientist Dr. Krafft, the driving force behind the construction of a space-ship. Despite oppostion from the mocking Professor Dubius, Planetaros gathers a crew of fearless men and takes off. During the long voyage, the crew becomes restless; a mutiny is narrowly avoided. Finally, they reach Mars and discover that the planet is inhabited by people who have reached a higher stage of development, free of diseases, sorrow, violence, sexual urges, and the fear of death. Avanti falls in love with Marya, daughter of the Prince of Wisdom, the head of the Martians. Marya shares his feelings and decides to return with him in order to bring the wisdom of the Martians to the backward Earthlings. (stumfilm.dk)
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Retten sejrer
Title: Retten sejrer
Released: January 21, 1918
Type: Movie
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Hittebarnet
Title: Hittebarnet
Released: November 26, 1917
Type: Movie
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The Wings
Title: The Wings
Character: Aspiring actor
Released: September 4, 1916
Type: Movie
The story is that of a conniving countess coming between a gay sculptor, Claude Zoret, and his bisexual model and lover, Mikaël, ultimately leading to Zoret's death in a raging storm at the base of a statue of Mikaël as the mythological Icarus. The film is missing 19 minutes of run time.