Gustav Diessl

Gustav Diessl

Born: December 30, 1899
Died: March 20, 1948
in Wien, Austria

Movies for Gustav Diessl...

Ruf an das Gewissen
Title: Ruf an das Gewissen
Character: Dr. Gregor Karpinski
Released: May 13, 1951
Type: Movie
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The Trial
Title: The Trial
Character: Staatsanwalt Both
Released: March 5, 1948
Type: Movie
In 1882 a country girl disappears from a small Hungarian village. The inhabitants suggest that she was murdered by the Jews. Everything is done to accuse them before the trial. A study in stubbornness, racism and intolerance and how to fight against it.
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Kolberg
Title: Kolberg
Character: Schill
Released: January 30, 1945
Type: Movie
During Napoleon's victorious campaign in Germany, the city of Kolberg gets isolated from the retreating Prussian forces. The population of Kolberg refuses to capitulate and organizes the resistance against the French army, which immediately submits the city to massive bombardments.
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Nebbie sul mare
Title: Nebbie sul mare
Character: Pietro Rosati
Released: May 10, 1944
Type: Movie
A woman struggles to make a living after her husband is mistakenly presumed dead.
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Nora
Title: Nora
Character: Dr. Rank
Released: February 14, 1944
Type: Movie
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
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The Fire Dance
Title: The Fire Dance
Character: Giulio Boldrini
Released: April 26, 1943
Type: Movie
A decadent noblewoman, whose stranded husband has dilapidated their whole fortune on gambling, tries to keep her daughter in school while hiding their state of poverty from her, by leading a double life as an exotic dancer.
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Calafuria
Title: Calafuria
Character: Tommaso Bardelli
Released: March 11, 1943
Type: Movie
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Menschen im Sturm
Title: Menschen im Sturm
Character: Alexander Oswatic
Released: December 19, 1941
Type: Movie
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Il bravo di Venezia
Title: Il bravo di Venezia
Character: Marco Fuser
Released: September 17, 1941
Type: Movie
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Clarissa
Title: Clarissa
Character: Bankdirektor Feerenbach
Released: September 8, 1941
Type: Movie
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The Comedians
Title: The Comedians
Character: Ernst Biron, Herzog von Kurland
Released: September 5, 1941
Type: Movie
Although she is known as a patron of the arts, a graceful duchess nevertheless refuses her nephew to marry an enterprising actress in this German melodrama starring Kathe Dorsch and silent screen legend Henny Porten. When Philine (Hilde Krahl), the troupe's ingénue, is rejected as proper marital material by the Duchess of Weissenfels (Porten), Karoline Neuber (Dorsch) creates such a furor that she is banished from the country. A performance at the court at St. Petersburg also ends in disaster for the unhappy actress and abandoned by all, Karoline dies a suicide.
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Senza cielo
Title: Senza cielo
Character: Dott. Martin
Released: November 24, 1940
Type: Movie
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Herz ohne Heimat
Title: Herz ohne Heimat
Character: Alexander Diersberg, sein Stiefbruder
Released: August 6, 1940
Type: Movie
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The Star of Rio
Title: The Star of Rio
Character: Don Felipe Escobar
Released: March 20, 1940
Type: Movie
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Ich bin Sebastian Ott
Title: Ich bin Sebastian Ott
Character: Strobl
Released: August 10, 1939
Type: Movie
After a shady collector of paintings has been murdered, adept Dr. Sebastian Ott discovers a big organised fraud with fake paintings. His twin brother Ludwig is responsible for it, kidnaps him and locks him away in his house. He uses Otts ID and 'replaces' him...
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Ich verweigere die Aussage
Title: Ich verweigere die Aussage
Character: Robert Lenart
Released: March 17, 1939
Type: Movie
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Der grüne Kaiser
Title: Der grüne Kaiser
Character: Henry Miller / Hendrik Mylius
Released: February 13, 1939
Type: Movie
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Kautschuk
Title: Kautschuk
Character: Don Alonzo de Ribeira
Released: November 1, 1938
Type: Movie
About how the British broke the Brazilian monopoly on natural rubber. The storyline suggests a complex relation between adventure, military conquest and imperialism.
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Fortsetzung folgt
Title: Fortsetzung folgt
Character: Fred, sein Freund
Released: August 25, 1938
Type: Movie
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The Indian Tomb
Title: The Indian Tomb
Character: Sascha Demidoff
Released: January 27, 1938
Type: Movie
After the events of Der Tiger von Eschnapur, Maharadscha Chandra is ready to execute his well-planned vengeance, in which German architect Peter Fürbringer, his fiancée Irene and his assistant will have to fight for their lives amidst a revolt fueled by traitor Prinz Ramigani.
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The Tiger of Eschnapur
Title: The Tiger of Eschnapur
Character: Sascha Demidoff
Released: January 6, 1938
Type: Movie
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Starke Herzen im Sturm
Title: Starke Herzen im Sturm
Character: Rittmeister Alexander von Harbin
Released: January 3, 1937
Type: Movie
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Moskau - Shanghai
Title: Moskau - Shanghai
Character: Sergej Smrirnow
Released: October 7, 1936
Type: Movie
A drama film directed by Paul Wegener.
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Schatten der Vergangenheit
Title: Schatten der Vergangenheit
Character: Dr. Hans Hellwig, Staatsanwalt
Released: July 16, 1936
Type: Movie
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The Love of the Maharaja
Title: The Love of the Maharaja
Character: Maharadscha
Released: April 14, 1936
Type: Movie
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Demon of the Himalayas
Title: Demon of the Himalayas
Character: Dr. Norman - Ethnologe
Released: March 16, 1935
Type: Movie
Movie about an expedition in search of a mythical demon in the Himalaya mountains.
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Alles um eine Frau
Title: Alles um eine Frau
Character: Frederic Keyne, Flugzeuginsustrieller
Released: February 14, 1935
Type: Movie
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White Majesty
Title: White Majesty
Character: Jakob Burghardt
Released: December 27, 1933
Type: Movie
Directed by August Kern & Anton Kutter
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S.O.S. Iceberg
Title: S.O.S. Iceberg
Character: Professor Dr. Karl Lorenz
Released: August 30, 1933
Type: Movie
An expedition goes in search of a party lost in the Arctic the year before. The English language version of this German film was made at the same time but with a slightly different cast and released later that year as S.O.S. Iceberg, directed by Tay Garnett.
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Roman einer Nacht
Title: Roman einer Nacht
Character: Der Fremde
Released: August 21, 1933
Type: Movie
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The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Title: The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Character: Kent
Released: April 21, 1933
Type: Movie
After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professor's preoccupation with another patient, the criminal genius Dr. Mabuse the hypnotist. When Mabuse's notes are found to be connected with a rash of recent crimes, Commissioner Lohmann must determine how Mabuse is communicating with the criminals, despite conflicting reports on the doctor's whereabouts, and capture him for good.
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The Mistress of Atlantis
Title: The Mistress of Atlantis
Character: Morhange
Released: December 25, 1932
Type: Movie
In this mythical fantasy, the evil queen of Atlantis lives in a magnificent palace, the halls of which are filled with the mummified remains of former lovers.
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The Herrgotts-Grenadiers
Title: The Herrgotts-Grenadiers
Character: Faletti
Released: November 5, 1932
Type: Movie
In the middle of the mountains around the Lötschental is a lonely village that is exposed to the forces of nature. A state of excitement arouses when an international mining company discover a gold vein and acquired mining rights.
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Gilgi: One of Us
Title: Gilgi: One of Us
Character: Martin
Released: October 3, 1932
Type: Movie
A young woman born illegitimately comes to terms with the challenge of getting married.
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Teilnehmer antwortet nicht
Title: Teilnehmer antwortet nicht
Character: Konrad Quandt
Released: August 18, 1932
Type: Movie
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Queen of Atlantis
Title: Queen of Atlantis
Character: Capt. Morange
Released: June 28, 1932
Type: Movie
Antinea, the Queen of Atlantis, rules her secret kingdom hidden beneath the Sahara Desert. One day two lost explorers stumble into her kingdom, and soon realize that they haven’t really been saved—Antinea has a habit of taking men as lovers, then when she’s done with them, she kills them and keeps them mummified.
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Nights in Port Said
Title: Nights in Port Said
Released: May 6, 1932
Type: Movie
The niece of a shady tavern-keeper of Port Said, surrounded by dangerous men who haunt the ports, meets a man whom she will love and with whom she flees.
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Men Behind Bars
Title: Men Behind Bars
Character: Morris
Released: June 23, 1931
Type: Movie
German-language version of "The Big House" (MGM, 1930), with Heinrich George in Wallace Beery's role, filmed by MGM parallel to the English-speaking version, at a time when good subtitles weren't yet in use.
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King Fu's yellow house
Title: King Fu's yellow house
Character: King-Fu / Scalpa
Released: April 16, 1931
Type: Movie
When a criminal named King Fu who has terrorized a city substitutes himself for a stage actor who resembles him, the staff and spectators at that night's show think the actor is giving an unusually good performance.
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Hans in Every Street
Title: Hans in Every Street
Character: Soranzo
Released: December 23, 1930
Type: Movie
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Love Comes But Once
Title: Love Comes But Once
Character: Fedor Karew
Released: October 29, 1930
Type: Movie
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The Great Longing
Title: The Great Longing
Character: Himself
Released: August 24, 1930
Type: Movie
During lunch break at the movie studio, the extras rush to the canteen Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Maria Paudler and Luis Trenker are chatting. Eva von Loe a beautiful young extra rushes past; she is looking for her fiancé, Paul Wessel, who is also an extra. She has to return to the set where the famous director Regisseur Hall is shooting a scen. He is dissatisfied with his star, Carla Marventa, who is wrong for the scene he must photograph. Hall notices Eva, but laughs at her desire to replace Marventa. At that moment Conrad Veidt comes on the scene and assumes that Eva is the star.
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Morals at Midnight
Title: Morals at Midnight
Character: Brat, a prisoner
Released: June 20, 1930
Type: Movie
Berlin, the center of pleasures and kingdom of small virtues. From all over Germany, young night owls come to burn themselves cheerfully in its lights, to drown in its champagne and fill its boxes and restaurants until dawn.
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Westfront 1918
Title: Westfront 1918
Character: Karl
Released: May 23, 1930
Type: Movie
A group of German infantrymen of the First World War live out their lives in the trenches of France. They find brief entertainment and relief in a village behind the lines, but primarily terror fills their lives as the attacks on and from the French army ebb and flow. One of the men, Karl, goes home on leave only to discover the degradation forced on his family by wartime poverty. He returns to the lines in time to face an enormous attack by French tanks.
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Three Around Edith
Title: Three Around Edith
Character: Roger Brown
Released: November 12, 1929
Type: Movie
Notorious jewel thief Roger "Tiger" Brown sneaks into the trust of diamond dealer Thomas Morland. Not only does Morland's jewels appeal to him, but also his fiancée, Lady Edith Trent. But when Morland acquires the largest diamond in the world in Amsterdam, Brown decides against Edith and for the diamond, takes it and runs away.
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The White Hell of Pitz Palu
Title: The White Hell of Pitz Palu
Character: Dr. Johannes Krafft
Released: October 10, 1929
Type: Movie
Dr. Johannes Krafft climbs a 12,000-foot mountain over and over again to search for his wife, who was lost on their honeymoon. Another couple makes the dangerous climb with him.
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Mutterliebe
Title: Mutterliebe
Character: Hans Immermann
Released: August 19, 1929
Type: Movie
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Der Mann, der nicht liebt
Title: Der Mann, der nicht liebt
Character: Mérone
Released: August 2, 1929
Type: Movie
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Die Ehe
Title: Die Ehe
Released: April 23, 1929
Type: Movie
Marriage and sexuality is examined through the lens of screenwriter Dr. van de Velde, a Dutch gynocologist.
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The Living Corpse
Title: The Living Corpse
Released: February 14, 1929
Type: Movie
The central character of the play, Fedor Protasov, is tormented by the belief that his wife Liza has never really chosen between him and the more conventional Victor Karenin, a rival for her hand. He wants to kill himself, but doesn't have the nerve. Running away from his life, he first falls in with Gypsies, and into a sexual relationship with a Gypsy singer, Masha.
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Pandora's Box
Title: Pandora's Box
Character: Jack the Ripper
Released: January 30, 1929
Type: Movie
Lulu is a young woman so beautiful and alluring that few can resist her siren charms. The men drawn into her web include respectable newspaper publisher Dr. Ludwig Schön, his musical producer son Alwa, circus performer Rodrigo Quast, and seedy old Schigolch. When Lulu's charms inevitably lead to tragedy, the downward spiral encompasses them all.
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The Devious Path
Title: The Devious Path
Character: Thomas Beck
Released: August 10, 1928
Type: Movie
Neglected by her husband, an ambitious lawyer, Irene seeks variety in Berlin's nightlife-- An evening of dancing, dolls, cocaine and immoral passion. Irene takes the "devious path" as she seeks to make her husband jealous.
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Sensations-Prozess
Title: Sensations-Prozess
Character: Dr. Spindler
Released: March 23, 1928
Type: Movie
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Vineta. Die versunkene Stadt
Title: Vineta. Die versunkene Stadt
Released: December 21, 1923
Type: Movie