Maurits Binger

Maurits Binger

Birth : 1868-04-05, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

Death : 1923-04-09

History

Maurits Binger (1868–1923) was a Dutch film director, producer and screenwriter of the silent era. He directed 39 films between 1913 and 1922 and is considered one of the pioneers of fictional films in the Netherlands. The Binger Filmlab, formerly the Maurits Binger Film Institute, was named after him.

Profile

Maurits Binger

Movies

Bulldog Drummond
Producer
A captain saves a kidnapped magnate from a nursing home run by foreign agents.
Mottige Janus
Producer
Janus Rechtsom, nicknamed De Mottige (The Pock-Marked), is an honest seaman with a heart of gold that belongs to Lena Doorn, the girl next-door. His rival Frans van Klarenberghe comes up with one scheme after another to seduce Lena.
Mottige Janus
Director
Janus Rechtsom, nicknamed De Mottige (The Pock-Marked), is an honest seaman with a heart of gold that belongs to Lena Doorn, the girl next-door. His rival Frans van Klarenberghe comes up with one scheme after another to seduce Lena.
The Black Tulip
Director
In 17th century Holland, a faction of royalists is scheming to restore the monarchy and jail the De Witt brothers, who control the Republic. At the same time Tulip Fever is raging, and bulb-grower Cornelis van Baerle tries to obtain the secret of black tulips. Van Baerle will soon find himself threatened by radical royalists and rival bulb-grower Isaac van Boxtel.
The Other Person
Director
A séance proves a ghost compelled a spiritualist to kill his rich father.
John Heriot's Wife
Director
A usurer cancels a woman's debt in return for wresting a financial secret from a minister's wife.
As God Made Her
Producer
A Lady persuades her son's lowly wife to desert him.
As God Made Her
Director
A Lady persuades her son's lowly wife to desert him.
Fate's Plaything
Director
Dolores gets a marriage proposal from the promising young doctor Lucas, but on the day of their marriage, she leaves him in the lurch and takes off with the South American dancer and adventurer Hugo Amadis. But Hugo treats her badly. Dolores leaves Hugo and begins a career as a dancer to make ends meet for her and her son. One day, the son gets sick, and the doctor who helps the child through the crisis is Doctor Lucas. Lucas and Delores decide to start over.
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Screenplay
When self-made businessman Pancras Duif decides to marry his much younger housekeeper, his entire family protests; eager to protect the family capital, sons Henk, Jan and Toon enlist a psychiatrist for help. The film is considered lost.
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Producer
When self-made businessman Pancras Duif decides to marry his much younger housekeeper, his entire family protests; eager to protect the family capital, sons Henk, Jan and Toon enlist a psychiatrist for help. The film is considered lost.
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Director
When self-made businessman Pancras Duif decides to marry his much younger housekeeper, his entire family protests; eager to protect the family capital, sons Henk, Jan and Toon enlist a psychiatrist for help. The film is considered lost.
Zonnetje
Director
When Joy, the daughter of the actress Gloria Grey, is six years old, her mother realises that the theatrical life is contaminating the child. She confides in Mark Halliday, an actor who has helped her in the past and who proposes marriage. She tells him that she is still married and - in a series of flash-backs - relates her story.
A Carmen of the North
Writer
On the verge of getting married to Marijke, young and insecure detective Jozef is assigned the case of a murdered factory girl. His relationship is threatened when he becomes madly infatuated with Carmen, the alluring prime suspect.
A Carmen of the North
Producer
On the verge of getting married to Marijke, young and insecure detective Jozef is assigned the case of a murdered factory girl. His relationship is threatened when he becomes madly infatuated with Carmen, the alluring prime suspect.
A Carmen of the North
Director
On the verge of getting married to Marijke, young and insecure detective Jozef is assigned the case of a murdered factory girl. His relationship is threatened when he becomes madly infatuated with Carmen, the alluring prime suspect.
American Girls
Director
Beppie, Margie and Lola, the three talented daughters of American millionaire James Brown, set course to Amsterdam with their art teacher ms. Polly Dewar. There all three of them fall for the charms of attractive tenor Adelqui, the boyfriend of famous diva Anny.
Oorlog en vrede: 1918
Producer
Ducrot and Ninette accuse Mario and Anny of owing their wealth to the murderous effects of Mario's bombs. Anny leaves for the front to care for the wounded. Third part of Maurits Binger's epic silent trilogy. Most of the film is considered lost – a single fragment remains.
Oorlog en vrede: 1918
Writer
Ducrot and Ninette accuse Mario and Anny of owing their wealth to the murderous effects of Mario's bombs. Anny leaves for the front to care for the wounded. Third part of Maurits Binger's epic silent trilogy. Most of the film is considered lost – a single fragment remains.
Oorlog en vrede: 1918
Director
Ducrot and Ninette accuse Mario and Anny of owing their wealth to the murderous effects of Mario's bombs. Anny leaves for the front to care for the wounded. Third part of Maurits Binger's epic silent trilogy. Most of the film is considered lost – a single fragment remains.
Op Hoop van Zegen
Writer
Op Hoop van Zegen
Director
Oorlog en Vrede: 1916
Producer
Anny helps Mario escape from prison after his attempted murder of Gaston de Roqueville, who is now married to Ninette. Banker Sorga, an enemy spy, attempts to steal Mario's latest invention: a powerful explosive that could alter the course of the war. Second part of Maurits Binger's epic trilogy, now considered lost.
Oorlog en Vrede: 1916
Director
Anny helps Mario escape from prison after his attempted murder of Gaston de Roqueville, who is now married to Ninette. Banker Sorga, an enemy spy, attempts to steal Mario's latest invention: a powerful explosive that could alter the course of the war. Second part of Maurits Binger's epic trilogy, now considered lost.
Oorlog en Vrede: 1914
Producer
The wealthy De Roquevilles, the family of alcoholic veteran Jean Laurent, and that of farmer Godard; all have to deal with the outbreak of the Great War. To complicate things even more, Godard's daughter Anny falls in love with young Mario Laurent, who turns out to have inherited some of his father's vices. First part of Maurits Binger's epic silent trilogy.
Oorlog en Vrede: 1914
Director
The wealthy De Roquevilles, the family of alcoholic veteran Jean Laurent, and that of farmer Godard; all have to deal with the outbreak of the Great War. To complicate things even more, Godard's daughter Anny falls in love with young Mario Laurent, who turns out to have inherited some of his father's vices. First part of Maurits Binger's epic silent trilogy.
When the Light Goes Dark
Writer
The happy life of Sylvia and Pieter is disrupted when Sylvia loses her sight and her sister Lyda falls in love with her husband.
When the Light Goes Dark
Director
The happy life of Sylvia and Pieter is disrupted when Sylvia loses her sight and her sister Lyda falls in love with her husband.
Ulbo Garvema
Director
In the prologue, a boat with some shipwrecked persons is drifting at sea. Among them is Baron van Waldheim, who, before he dies of exhaustion, entrusts his little son Alfred to the care of his butler Hendrik. The evil Jan van Oort persuades Hendrik to give him the Baron's papers. When they put the boy ashore, he wounds himself on a nail (leaving a scar that will later prove his identity). For years Van Oort manages to pass himself off as Baron van Waldheim; he is married and has a daughter and a son. One day Hendrik turns up demanding a job as butler, swearing that otherwise he will betray Van Oort's secret. Meanwhile, Alfred - now an adult known as Ulbo Garvema - has become a teacher. Unaware of who Van Oort really is, he accepts the position of tutor to Van Oort's children. He falls in love with the daughter, but Van Oort refuses to give his consent to their marriage. Ulbo and the girl elope.
Golden Chains
Director
Lona, a young woman who has no memories of her past, has been adopted by the rich industrialist Van Haaften. She is loved by Henri van Rhenen, a neighbour whose mother still mourns the loss of her daughter, who disappeared twenty years ago under mysterious circumstances. Lona has another suitor, Frans van Borselen, who hopes to marry her so that he can pay his gambling debts with her foster-father's money. Van Haaften discovers that Frans has been cheating at cards and offers him a revolver so that he can end his life honourably.
The Secret of Delft
Director
The secret from the title is the lost recipe for shiny Delft pottery, that Jan Vogel is desperately trying to rediscover. For his attempts he needs platinum, but the funds run out because the factory owner Van Haaften has lost his money in stock-speculations. Luckily for Jan, he finds a farewell letter in the park, including a large sum of money. Meanwhile, the owner's son Leo confesses his love for Jan's daughter Annie, but Van Haaften forbids their marriage.
La Renzoni
Producer
Married housewife Alda decides to become a singer under the stage name 'La Renzoni', in a duo-act with her father. All goes well, until her husband mistakes her father for her lover...
La Renzoni
Director
Married housewife Alda decides to become a singer under the stage name 'La Renzoni', in a duo-act with her father. All goes well, until her husband mistakes her father for her lover...
Major Frans
Writer
When his granddaughter is born, debt-ridden Colonel von Zwenken misses out on Aunt Roselaar's allowance of 20,000 guilders. Anxious to keep the money, his son-in-law telegraphs the aunt that a son was born, Frans, and the girl is brought up as a boy. Based on the novel by Anna L.G. Bosboom-Toussaint.
Major Frans
Director
When his granddaughter is born, debt-ridden Colonel von Zwenken misses out on Aunt Roselaar's allowance of 20,000 guilders. Anxious to keep the money, his son-in-law telegraphs the aunt that a son was born, Frans, and the girl is brought up as a boy. Based on the novel by Anna L.G. Bosboom-Toussaint.
The Secret of the Lighthouse
Director
Young poacher Hendrik van Norden has seriously wounded a game-keeper, who has not recognized him. There was, however, one witness: captain Van Oort, but he promises to keep silent. Five years later Hendrik has become a lighthouse-keeper and is courting Annie. Van Oort is also trying to win Annie's affections, and in his jealousy he decides to remind Hendrik of what he knows about his past...
Liefdesstrijd
Producer
Liefdesstrijd
Director
Ontmaskerd
Producer
De vrouw Clasina
Producer
De vrouw Clasina
Director
De vloek van het testament
Producer
De vloek van het testament
Director
Idyllic Farm
Producer
A farmer's daughter falls in love with a farmhand.
Toffe jongens onder de mobilisatie
Producer
A1914 Dutch silent comedy film directed by Jan van Dommelen, where a bunch of women case havoc wherever they go.
Het geheim van het slot Arco
Producer
Weergevonden
Producer
An orthodox Jewish man refuses to accept the marriage of his daughter to a Christian man.
Heilig recht
Producer
De wraak van het visschersmeisje
Producer
Liefde waakt
Producer
De bloemen, die de ziel vertroosten
Producer
De Zigeunerin
Producer
Zijn viool
Producer
Zijn viool
Director
De wolf in de schaapskooi
Producer
Krates
Producer
Silvia Silombra
Producer
Two Zeeland girls in Zandvoort
Producer
The adventures of two girls from Zeeland in Zandvoort.
The Burning Mill
Producer
Annie falls in love with a circus clown, but her circus-hating father forbids their romance. Until a fire breaks out...
The Burning Mill
Director
Annie falls in love with a circus clown, but her circus-hating father forbids their romance. Until a fire breaks out...
De Kroon der Schande
Producer
De Kroon der Schande
Director
De Echo in de Put
Producer