Ruth Goetz

Birth : 1880-11-05, Oberglogau, Silesia, Germany

Death : 1965-06-19

History

German screenwriter. Active from 1911 - 1928.

Movies

Schenk mir das Leben
Screenplay
Tragedy of the Street
Screenplay
Before road movies there were street films, a distinct cycle within German silent cinema. The essential ingredient - misalliance between bourgeois and slum dweller - is present here, though somewhat displaced by Asta Nielsen's star persona. She plays an aging hooker who falls for handsome Felix, a student who has rowed with his parents and ventured into the lower depths. Dreaming of a new life, she ejects her pimp and invests her savings in a cake shop. Even without that title, though, you wouldn't bet on a happy ending. Nielsen is a quite restrained sort of diva, and Rahn likewise soft pedals the melodrama, except for the grand finale. He died soon after making this, his contemporaries regretting the masterworks the cinema was thus denied. Well, maybe.
Ehegeheimnisse
Writer
Le bateau de verre
Writer
Das Gasthaus zur Ehe
Writer
A non-access print of the film is held by Filmarchiv Austria.
Marriage Announcement
Screenplay
The Fallen
Writer
Frauen und Banknoten
Screenplay
Reveille, das große Wecken
Screenplay
The Salesgirl from the Fashion Store
Screenplay
In the Valleys of the Southern Rhine
Writer
The Monk from Santarem
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S.O.S. Die Insel der Tränen
Writer
The Second Shot
Screenplay
Das Geheimnis des Renngrafen
Screenplay
The Great Industrialist
Screenplay
The Circle of Death
Screenplay
This anti-communist propaganda film discusses the revolutionary curse of communism in the Soviet-Union shortly before and after the fall of czardom in Russia, told from the point of view of Belarusians in exile. Anti-communist copy in color which has been discovered, restored and printed by the Royal Belgian Filmarchive.
Die verbotene Frucht
Screenplay
The Three Aunts
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Die Strahlen des Todes
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Der Amönenhof
Screenplay
A lady-in-waiting is to become the companion of a young lady at the splendid estate Amönenhof.
The Mistress of the World, Part VIII: The Revenge of Maud Fergusson
Writer
After the death of Alan Stanley, Maud Fergusson seeks revenge. On her behalf, the detective Hunt begins to investigate and proves that Murphy is responsible for the murder. Maud's revenge plan involves launching a newspaper campaign against Murphy, defaming and embarrassing him.
The Mistress of the World, Part VII: The Benefactress of Mankind
Screenplay
Billionaire Maud Fergusson lives happily with engineer Allan Stanley. Nothing stands in the way of their love wedding - except Maud's dark past. She has told Allan everything about herself, but he insists on knowing the name of her former seducer - otherwise he won't be able to marry her.
The mistress of the world, Part VI: The woman with the millionaires
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Thanks to the treasure of the Queen of Sheba, Maud, who now calls herself Fergusson, has become an immensely wealthy woman. The plane that rescued her and Allan Stanley from Ophir belongs to newspaper king Fletcher, who reports on the rescue operation on the front pages of his newspapers.
The Mistres of the World, part V: Ophir, the city of the past
Writer
As Madsen and Maud explore the city of Ophir, they witness an ancient ritual performed by the residents. The two are discovered, and with strangers desecrating the city's sacred ground, Maud is to be sacrificed to the goddess Ophirs, while Madsen is taken to the Sabytes, an enslaved native tribe.
The Mistress of the World, Part IV: King Makombe
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Through the plan hidden in Astarte's jewelry, Maud Gregaards, Kien-Lung and Consul Madsen get on the trail of the Queen of Sheba's treasure. Their search takes them to Africa, where they want to know from King Makombe the location of the Fire Mountain, near which the legendary city of Ophir, the center of the Astarte cult, is said to be.
The Mistress of the World, Part III: The City of Gold
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Together with Kien-Lung and the Consul Madsen, Maud travels to Kuan-Fu to learn from the old rabbi where the treasures of the Queen of Sheba are hidden. The dying rabbi entrusts Madsen with the jewelery of Astarte, who carries the plan for the treasure's hiding place.
The Mistress of the World, Part II: The Race for Life
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Maud Gregaards tells her rescuer, the Chinese Dr. Kien-Lung, her life: Her father was an archivist in the Foreign Office who was run by the unscrupulous Dr. Frohner was blackmailed into giving him a secret Chinese treaty.
The Mistress of the World, Part I: The Girlfriend of the Yellow Man
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Maud Gregaards travels to China in search of a fabled treasure said to have belonged to the Queen of Sheba. Once there, she is taken captive by an evil man and nearly killed in the belief she is a witch.
The Bodega of Los Cuerros
Writer
Das törichte Herz
Screenplay
Die platonische Ehe
Writer
Veritas vincit
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"Truth Wins" - A history film that is particularly elaborate in terms of its features and that attempts to illustrate the perpetual victory of the truth about the lie in three epic episodes.
The Beggar Countess
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