Karl Bernhard

History

The actor Karl Bernhard (also credited as Carl Bernhardt) joined the film business in 1916 when he appeared in the production "Jenseits der Hürde" with Lotte Neumann and Max Ruhbeck. Afterwards Karl Bernhard acted in "Phantome des Lebens" with Lil Dagover, Sascha Gura, Werner Krauss and Maria Forescu, Otto Rippert's "Totentanz" at the side of Werner Krauss, Fred Selva-Goebel and Sascha Gura, again for Otto Rippert as salesman Lorenzo "Die Pest in Florenz" with Theodor Becker, Juliette Brandt and Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg as well as playing the title role in "Kord Kamphues" directed by Richard Kirsch with Kurt Middendorf, Clementine Plessner, Max Kaufmann and Richard Senius. At the beginning of the 20s came his last cinematical works into being with "Der Kampf um die Ehe" (20) mit Thea Sandten, Rolf Randolf, Hermann Vallentin, Paul Bildt, Hugo Flink, Käthe Haack, Olga Engl, Erich Walter, Ernst Pittschau and Albert Paul. Regie führte Willy Zeyn, "Maulwürfe", Mysterium", "Tingeltangel" and "Das Gespensterschloss" as Doctor Heinsius.

Movies

The Dance of Death
The Dance of Death
Frederic Hennekemper
In this apparently lost film, a beautiful dancer's sexual allure is used by an evil cripple to entice men to their deaths. Falling in love with one of the potential victims, she is told by the cripple that he will set her free if her lover, actually a murderer himself, survives and escapes a bizarre labyrinthe which runs beneath the cripple's house.
The Plague in Florence
The Plague in Florence
Lorenzo's Confidant
Suddenly appearing in Florence, an evil seductress causes Cesare, the city's ruler, and his son to both fall madly in love with her. The son, killing his father before an order to torture the woman can be carried out, then turns the city's churches into dens of sexual debauchery. Acts of evil and corruption continue unabated until the arrival of Death, who brings with her a horrible plague which she is about to loose upon the city.
Master of Love
Master of Love
A man's devotion for a woman brings about his ruin.