Alfred Abel

Alfred Abel

Born: March 11, 1879
Died: December 12, 1937
in Leipzig, Germany
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Alfred Peter Abel (12 March 1879 – 12 December 1937) was a German film actor, director, and producer. He appeared in more than 140 silent and sound films between 1913 and 1938. His best-known performance was as Joh Fredersen in Fritz Lang's 1927 film, Metropolis.

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Giorgio Moroder's Metropolis
Title: Giorgio Moroder's Metropolis
Character: Johann 'Joh' Fredersen
Released: August 10, 1984
Type: Movie
In 1984, Academy Award winning composer Giorgio Moroder introduced Fritz Lang’s science fiction epic Metropolis to a new generation of filmgoers. Working in collaboration with film archivists globally, Moroder supervised a special reconstruction, with color tinting, fewer intertitles and newly restored footage. A pioneer in the field of digital music, Moroder backed this special edition with a throbbing new score, punctuated with pop songs from some of the biggest stars of the early MTV era: Freddie Mercury, Pat Benatar, Adam Ant, Bonnie Tyler, Loverboy and others.
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Frau Sylvelin
Title: Frau Sylvelin
Character: Daffinger
Released: February 2, 1938
Type: Movie
Film by Herbert Maisch.
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Millionäre
Title: Millionäre
Character: Dollereder
Released: November 25, 1937
Type: Movie
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Seven Slaps
Title: Seven Slaps
Character: Astor Terbanks
Released: August 2, 1937
Type: Movie
William MacPhab loses seven-pounds in the stock market and decides to slap the man who was responsible for the stock manipulation that caused him to lose his money. Astor Terbanks, the stock-market manipulator is surprised the next day when he gets soundly slapped by MacPhab, and the latter promises to deliver one more a day for the next six days. Terbank's daughter, Daisy, is amused by the procedure and is attracted to MacPhab.
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Millionenerbschaft
Title: Millionenerbschaft
Character: Cyrus M. Mills
Released: March 3, 1937
Type: Movie
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Und du mein Schatz fährst mit
Title: Und du mein Schatz fährst mit
Character: Großindustrieller William Liners
Released: January 15, 1937
Type: Movie
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Unter Ausschluß der Öffentlichkeit
Title: Unter Ausschluß der Öffentlichkeit
Character: Bankier Sparrenberg
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
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The Court Concert
Title: The Court Concert
Character: Dichter Knips
Released: December 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Before he became cult director Douglas Sirk, Detlef Sierck cut his teeth on such lavish European star vehicles as Das Hofkonzert (The Court Concert). Marta Eggerth is cast as Christine, a young singer who aspires to find out who her father was. Her odyssey brings her to the court of a mythical kingdom, where she is romanced by handsome lieutenant Walter (Johannes Heesters). He is warned not to lose his heart to a "commoner," but all turns out all right when King Serenissimus (Otto Tressler) turns out to be Christine's long-lost daddy. Hofkonzert was designed as a comeback for Marta Eggerth, whose star had eclipsed by the mid-1930s.
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Spiel an Bord
Title: Spiel an Bord
Character: I. C. Corner, Konzernchef
Released: November 3, 1936
Type: Movie
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Maria, die Magd
Title: Maria, die Magd
Character: Dr. Winter, Alices Mann, Rechtsanwalt
Released: October 1, 1936
Type: Movie
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Skandal um die Fledermaus
Title: Skandal um die Fledermaus
Character: Patrick, Butler
Released: June 3, 1936
Type: Movie
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Ein seltsamer Gast
Title: Ein seltsamer Gast
Character: Bruneaux, Kunsthändler
Released: April 7, 1936
Type: Movie
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Kater Lampe
Title: Kater Lampe
Character: Gemeindediener Seifert
Released: February 19, 1936
Type: Movie
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Die Liebe siegt
Title: Die Liebe siegt
Character: Direktor Berger
Released: November 22, 1934
Type: Movie
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Eine Siebzehnjährige
Title: Eine Siebzehnjährige
Character: Werner von Schlettow, sein Sohn
Released: August 29, 1934
Type: Movie
Walter is in love with the 17-year-old Erika, but she raves for older, experienced men. When Walter and Erika visit his parents' estate after passing their exams, Erika shows increasing interest in Walter's father, Werner von Schlettow.
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Wege zur guten Ehe
Title: Wege zur guten Ehe
Character: Generaldirektor Veller
Released: June 13, 1933
Type: Movie
Film by Trotz.
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Die kleine Schwindlerin
Title: Die kleine Schwindlerin
Character: Vater
Released: April 2, 1933
Type: Movie
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The Burning Secret
Title: The Burning Secret
Character: Der Mann
Released: March 20, 1933
Type: Movie
One autumn, Edgar, a 12 year old boy, spends a holiday with his mother at a plush hotel in Switzerland. His father, a busy lawyer, remains at the family home in Vienna. When he sees a stylish motorcar pull up at the hotel, Edgar wastes no time befriending its owner, an amiable dandy. The latter pays more attention to the boy’s mother than to the boy himself, and decides to use Edgar to wheedle his way into her affections. When Edgar realises he has been used, he is far from happy...
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Manolescu, der Fürst der Diebe
Title: Manolescu, der Fürst der Diebe
Character: Jan Hendriks
Released: March 17, 1933
Type: Movie
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Kampf
Title: Kampf
Character: Wagemann
Released: December 20, 1932
Type: Movie
The race car drivers Robert Wenck and Kurt Harder are good friends. They become rivals when it appears that Robert is married to Eva. Eva was the former lover of Kurt Harder. Complications will follow.
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The White Demon
Title: The White Demon
Character: Gorre
Released: November 19, 1932
Type: Movie
When Albers takes his drug-addicted opera star sister Gerda to a sanitarium, they both become targets of slimy dope peddler Peter Lorre, who fears that Gerda will blow the whistle on him. Lorre kidnaps the woman, leading Albers on a frantic chase.
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Spione im Savoy-Hotel
Title: Spione im Savoy-Hotel
Character: Mr. Palmer
Released: November 4, 1932
Type: Movie
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The Beautiful Adventure
Title: The Beautiful Adventure
Character: Graf d'Eguzon
Released: August 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Helene has agreed to marry a man that she isn't in love with. On the day of her wedding her cousin arrives just in time to rescue her and they run away together. They stay with her aged grandmother who assumes the young man (whom she doesn't know) to be the new husband and has prepared a bridal bed for them.
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Viennese Waltz
Title: Viennese Waltz
Released: August 11, 1932
Type: Movie
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Jonny Steals Europe
Title: Jonny Steals Europe
Character: Jack Matting
Released: July 14, 1932
Type: Movie
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Montparnasse Girl
Title: Montparnasse Girl
Character: Graf Laboudèle
Released: April 8, 1932
Type: Movie
A count's son has a place to meet his poor Parisian girlfriend and they even make some money for a while with him singing and her playing piano.But the father offers him support to marry someone else.
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The Thirteen Trunks of Mr. O.F.
Title: The Thirteen Trunks of Mr. O.F.
Character: Bürgermeister
Released: December 2, 1931
Type: Movie
In the very oldfashioned town of Ostend suddenly 13 suitcases are delivered to the hotel, with a note, that O.F. will be here soon and needs 6 rooms (the hotel just has five). This event, probably the biggest in 300 years, starts a small wave of modernisation, yet everybody is wondering who O.F. is. Journalist Stix and architect Stark have an idea how to use this event. They proclaim, that O.F. is a former citizen of the town, who became a millionaire abroad. They tell their fellow citizens that the town still needs modernisation, like better hotels, nightclubs, shops, etc. And soon, Ostend is a boomtown, then a capital. The architect, responsible for the new buildings is finaly allowed to marry the mayor's daughter, while Stix marries the cabaret star and the widowed mayor his new secretary. The only problem is, O.F. hasn't shown up, while finance experts from all over the world are trying to solve the depression problem.
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The Office Manager
Title: The Office Manager
Character: Georg von Zamokki
Released: November 19, 1931
Type: Movie
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The Duke of Reichstadt
Title: The Duke of Reichstadt
Character: Hofrat Gentz
Released: November 13, 1931
Type: Movie
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The Congress Dances
Title: The Congress Dances
Character: König von Sachsen
Released: September 29, 1931
Type: Movie
Vienna glove-sales-lady Christel falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander. Austrian Prince Metternich tries to use this and other pleasant diversions to keep him out of the negotiation conferences of the 1815 Vienna Congress.
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My Wife, the Adventuress
Title: My Wife, the Adventuress
Character: Mr. Knast
Released: September 17, 1931
Type: Movie
A mousy bank clerk is married to an ambitious woman.
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The Scoundrel
Title: The Scoundrel
Character: Guide
Released: June 5, 1931
Type: Movie
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Mary
Title: Mary
Character: Sir John Menier
Released: March 2, 1931
Type: Movie
A juror in a murder trial, after voting to convict, has second thoughts and begins to investigate on his own before the execution. German version of "Murder."
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The Fate of Renate Langen
Title: The Fate of Renate Langen
Character: Dr. Walter Langen
Released: February 11, 1931
Type: Movie
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1914
Title: 1914
Character: Leopold Graf Berchtold
Released: January 20, 1931
Type: Movie
The film focuses on the leadership of the Great Powers of Europe in the days leading up to the outbreak of the First World War.
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Dolly is making a career
Title: Dolly is making a career
Character: Eberhard
Released: September 29, 1930
Type: Movie
Musical vehicle for up and coming Dolly Haas, as a would be actress with a would be composer boyfriend. She sings,at one point, that she has the walk of (Lilian) Harvey, the mouth of Garbo and the legs of Dietrich.
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Sei gegrüßt, Du mein schönes Sorrent
Title: Sei gegrüßt, Du mein schönes Sorrent
Released: June 11, 1930
Type: Movie
Drama by Romano Mengon
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Ehe in Not
Title: Ehe in Not
Released: December 6, 1929
Type: Movie
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Giftgas
Title: Giftgas
Character: Direktor Hansen
Released: November 13, 1929
Type: Movie
Arnold Horn, a young idealistic chemist, discovers a compound that can be used for the production of an effective deadly poisonous gas. Against his will the chemical factory starts production of the poison gas to increase the value of their shares.
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Narkose
Title: Narkose
Released: September 9, 1929
Type: Movie
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Cagliostro
Title: Cagliostro
Character: Prince of Rohan
Released: April 8, 1929
Type: Movie
Paris, France, 1784. After living many tribulations, Joseph Balsamo, known as Count Cagliostro, an infamous adventurer, enigmatic magician and necromancer, experienced physician and ruthless swordsman, triumphs among the members of the decadent French aristocracy. But a bold foretelling about a very prominent noblewoman causes his fall in disgrace… (Partially lost film.)
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Mein Herz ist eine Jazzband
Title: Mein Herz ist eine Jazzband
Character: Gellony
Released: January 28, 1929
Type: Movie
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L'Argent
Title: L'Argent
Character: Alphonse Gunderman
Released: December 25, 1928
Type: Movie
Adapted from the novel L'Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s.
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Rasputins Liebesabenteuer
Title: Rasputins Liebesabenteuer
Character: Generaladjutant Sablin
Released: September 25, 1928
Type: Movie
Portrays the deep intrigue and mystical fanaticism of the last days of the Romanoffs, when Rasputin, the mad monk had such a hold over them.
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Strauss, the Waltz King
Title: Strauss, the Waltz King
Character: Johann Strauss Vater
Released: September 25, 1928
Type: Movie
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Jahrmarkt des Lebens
Title: Jahrmarkt des Lebens
Released: February 16, 1928
Type: Movie
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Das Geheimnis von Genf
Title: Das Geheimnis von Genf
Released: January 4, 1928
Type: Movie
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Das tanzende Wien
Title: Das tanzende Wien
Character: Dichter
Released: October 1, 1927
Type: Movie
A cabaret singer in Germany is in love with a young American boy, and must convince his disapproving father that she is worthy of his son.
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Ein Tag der Rosen im August..
Title: Ein Tag der Rosen im August..
Character: Geheimrat Lüttjens
Released: August 12, 1927
Type: Movie
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The Vice of Humanity
Title: The Vice of Humanity
Character: Mangol
Released: April 5, 1927
Type: Movie
Tamara becomes addicted to cocaine but hides from her daughter by moving in with the dealer Mangol. The father tells his daughter that her mother has died, but years later the daughter rediscovers her mother appearing on stage. Mangol pursues the daughter, but Tamara intervenes before dying amongst family members.
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Die Tragödie eines Verlorenen
Title: Die Tragödie eines Verlorenen
Character: Bank employee
Released: February 10, 1927
Type: Movie
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Metropolis
Title: Metropolis
Character: Johann 'Joh' Fredersen
Released: February 6, 1927
Type: Movie
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
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A Modern Dubarry
Title: A Modern Dubarry
Character: Maler Sillon
Released: January 24, 1927
Type: Movie
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Die lachende Grille
Title: Die lachende Grille
Character: Chopin
Released: December 1, 1926
Type: Movie
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The People among Us
Title: The People among Us
Character: Helmuth Köhler
Released: April 3, 1926
Type: Movie
The story of a Berlin tenement and its inhabitants. A silent drama by Gerhard Lamprecht.
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The Guardsman
Title: The Guardsman
Character: Schauspieler
Released: January 15, 1926
Type: Movie
a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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Der Bankkrach unter den Linden
Title: Der Bankkrach unter den Linden
Character: Dr. Lothar Reimers
Released: January 8, 1926
Type: Movie
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The Woman in Flames
Title: The Woman in Flames
Character: Hans Fennhofer
Released: December 28, 1924
Type: Movie
Dancing, sports and erotic pursuits are the main ingredients in this drama about the fate of this scorned and abandoned woman, Josefine, who falls for the selfish Fennhofer. This film is considered lost.
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Mensch gegen Mensch
Title: Mensch gegen Mensch
Released: December 2, 1924
Type: Movie
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Dudu, a Human Destiny
Title: Dudu, a Human Destiny
Released: January 22, 1924
Type: Movie
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The Finances of the Grand Duke
Title: The Finances of the Grand Duke
Character: Philipp Collin, alias Professor Pelotard
Released: January 7, 1924
Type: Movie
The likeable and carefree Grand Duke of Abacco is in dire straits. There is no money left to service the State's debt; the main creditor is looking forward to expropriating the entire Duchy. The marriage with Olga, Grand Duchess of Russia, would solve everything, but a crucial letter of hers about the engagement has been stolen. Besides, a bunch of revolutionaries and a dubious businessman have other plans regarding the Grand Duke. With the intrusion of adventurer Philipp Collins into the Grand Duke's affairs, a series of frantic chases, plots and counter-plots begins.
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Das Spiel mit dem Schicksal
Title: Das Spiel mit dem Schicksal
Character: Albert Unna
Released: January 1, 1924
Type: Movie
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Das Spiel der Liebe
Title: Das Spiel der Liebe
Released: January 1, 1924
Type: Movie
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Die Buddenbrooks
Title: Die Buddenbrooks
Character: Christian Buddenbrook
Released: August 30, 1923
Type: Movie
Four-generation story-saga dealing with the decline of a middle-class Lübeck family. The first adaptation of a Thomas Mann book was also Gerhard Lamprecht’s first major film.
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Die Prinzessin Suwarin
Title: Die Prinzessin Suwarin
Character: Kipman
Released: April 11, 1923
Type: Movie
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Die Flamme
Title: Die Flamme
Character: Gaston
Released: February 2, 1923
Type: Movie
In 19th century Paris a hedonistic woman marries an aristocrat but has trouble keeping faithful to him.
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Bigamie
Title: Bigamie
Character: Fedja
Released: December 8, 1922
Type: Movie
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Phantom
Title: Phantom
Character: Lorenz Lubota
Released: November 13, 1922
Type: Movie
Lorenz Lubota is a city clerk with no direction in life. One day on his way to work he is run over by a woman driving a chariot and he is immediately infatuated with her.
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Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler: Part 2 – Inferno
Title: Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler: Part 2 – Inferno
Character: Graf Told
Released: May 26, 1922
Type: Movie
As the police intensify their bemusing search on Doctor Mabuse's notorious band of gangsters, the deceptive, elusive hypnotist Mabuse simultaneously begins to close in on himself.
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Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
Title: Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
Character: Count Told
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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Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler: Part 1 – The Great Gambler
Title: Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler: Part 1 – The Great Gambler
Character: Graf Told
Released: April 27, 1922
Type: Movie
Doctor Mabuse is a criminal mastermind, doctor of psychology, and master of disguise, armed with the powers of hypnosis and mind control, who oversees the counterfeiting and gambling rackets of the Berlin underworld. He visits gambling dens by night under various guises and aliases, using the power of suggestion to win at cards and finance his plans.
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The Burning Soil
Title: The Burning Soil
Character: Ludwig von Lellewel
Released: March 3, 1922
Type: Movie
The film follows tells the story of a struggle over a plot of petroleum-rich land.
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Die Intriguen der Madame de la Pommeraye
Title: Die Intriguen der Madame de la Pommeraye
Released: January 20, 1922
Type: Movie
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Die Geschichte des grauen Hauses
Title: Die Geschichte des grauen Hauses
Released: December 31, 1921
Type: Movie
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Wandering Souls
Title: Wandering Souls
Character: Parfen
Released: November 28, 1921
Type: Movie
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Mad Love
Title: Mad Love
Character: Andreas de la Croix
Released: September 9, 1921
Type: Movie
Richard de la Croix's brother, Andreas, has been driven insane by a notorious vamp and socialite named Sappho. A friend takes Richard to the Odeon to meet her, but when Sappho actually meets him, he is unaware that she is the woman who drove Andreas to be institutionalised. Sappho genuinely falls in love with Richard, and decides to leave her vampy ways and her older lover behind her so that she can have him.
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Grausige Nächte
Title: Grausige Nächte
Character: Frank Cunning
Released: August 25, 1921
Type: Movie
The young Evelyne lives with a man, her fiancee Frank, with whom she has a child. But her fiancee is a rundown drunk constantly hanging over the bottle. Evelyne wants to leave Frank.
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Mann über Bord
Title: Mann über Bord
Released: May 19, 1921
Type: Movie
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Die große und die kleine Welt
Title: Die große und die kleine Welt
Character: Graf Hart
Released: April 28, 1921
Type: Movie
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Lotte Lore
Title: Lotte Lore
Released: January 1, 1921
Type: Movie
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Die Frau im Himmel
Title: Die Frau im Himmel
Character: Schoolmaster
Released: August 23, 1920
Type: Movie
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Die Frau ohne Seele
Title: Die Frau ohne Seele
Released: May 13, 1920
Type: Movie
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Kameraden
Title: Kameraden
Character: Axel
Released: October 1, 1919
Type: Movie
Axel and Bertha are a modern, emancipated artist couple in Paris. He is feminine and vain. She is financially independent, member of the women's association "Married's Women's right of ownership" and uses male nude models.
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Intoxication
Title: Intoxication
Character: Gaston, ein Schriftsteller
Released: August 1, 1919
Type: Movie
Gaston finally succeeds as a dramatist and decides to leave his wife and child for another woman. When the child dies, the finger is pointed at him and he winds up as a destitute before all is revealed. This film is considered lost.
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Die Dame, der Teufel und die Probiermamsell
Title: Die Dame, der Teufel und die Probiermamsell
Character: Der Baron
Released: December 16, 1918
Type: Movie
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Es werde Licht! 4. Teil: Sündige Mütter
Title: Es werde Licht! 4. Teil: Sündige Mütter
Character: Spork
Released: November 22, 1918
Type: Movie
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Colomba
Title: Colomba
Released: November 8, 1918
Type: Movie
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Drohende Wolken am Firmament
Title: Drohende Wolken am Firmament
Released: July 19, 1918
Type: Movie
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Nur ein Schmetterling
Title: Nur ein Schmetterling
Released: July 1, 1918
Type: Movie
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Lola Montez
Title: Lola Montez
Character: Madons, criminal
Released: January 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Dancer Lola Montez is the star of Madrid's theaters. All the important men are after her, among them the English ambassador. But the leader of the "Carlist - Movement", a gang of desperados, kidnaps her, she falls for him and he proposes. But the English ambassador is trying to improve the Spanish-English relations and sent his spies after her, getting the information about her future groom, and the Spanish government is very interested in getting ahead.
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Die nach Glück und Liebe suchen
Title: Die nach Glück und Liebe suchen
Released: January 1, 1918
Type: Movie
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Ein Blatt im Sturm...doch das Schicksal hat es verweht
Title: Ein Blatt im Sturm...doch das Schicksal hat es verweht
Character: Alfred
Released: July 20, 1917
Type: Movie
The relationship between a painter and his lover fractures after the painter finds out she did not acquire a sum of money by selling his paintings, as she had claimed.
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Der Seele Saiten schwingen nicht
Title: Der Seele Saiten schwingen nicht
Character: Kurt von Altenstein
Released: March 2, 1917
Type: Movie
A middle class woman's marriage to a nobleman quickly becomes an unhappy one.
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Wenn Menschen reif zur Liebe werden
Title: Wenn Menschen reif zur Liebe werden
Character: Erwin
Released: December 22, 1916
Type: Movie
A young woman becomes pregnant and is abandoned by her lover, as her mother had been.
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Ernst ist das Leben
Title: Ernst ist das Leben
Character: Holger
Released: October 27, 1916
Type: Movie
Fany, an up and coming dancer, is saved by a sculptor during a theatre fire. The two bond, distressing Fany's fiancee.
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The White Roses
Title: The White Roses
Released: October 22, 1916
Type: Movie
When Hedda is about to appear on stage in Ostende she borrows a piece of jewellery from her fiancé, de Rochord. When a gang of thieves steals it, he calls off the engagement, but Hedda solves the crime singlehandedly and the two are reunited.
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Das Laster
Title: Das Laster
Released: March 12, 1915
Type: Movie
Early drama about alcoholism.
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Lache, Bajazzo!
Title: Lache, Bajazzo!
Character: Alfred
Released: January 7, 1915
Type: Movie
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The Silent Mill
Title: The Silent Mill
Character: Johann
Released: December 15, 1914
Type: Movie
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A Venetian Night
Title: A Venetian Night
Character: Anselmus Aselmeyer
Released: April 15, 1914
Type: Movie
The young Anselmus Aselmeyer fulfilled a long cherished dream: He travels to Venice, the city of his dreams. Once there, the porter Pipistrello directs him immediately to the hotel of his boss, and Anselmus lands in the middle of a wedding party. Mestre Mangiabene, a wealthy oilman, marries the beautiful but completely depleted Marchesina dei Bisognosi. But the secretly loves an officer.
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Sodoms Ende
Title: Sodoms Ende
Released: January 1, 1913
Type: Movie