Hermann Picha
Birth : 1865-03-20, Berlin, Germany
Death : 1936-06-07
Bessies Großvater
The story of the stormy relationship between King Friedrich Wilhelm and his son, who later became known as King Frederick the Great of Prussia.
Der Garderobier
Harry Piel
Rippe
Consul Petersen and his wife are desperate, because they lost their only child and can’t have another. At the same time, the maid Anna is expecting a child, whose father, Jurgen, works in a sawmill. When both of them lose their jobs, they fear they won’t be able to feed the newborn. Thus, they strike a deal with the Petersens, which works for both couples: Anna and Jurgen will receive a farm from the Petersens, free and clear; and the two will allow the Petersens to adopt the child. Anna and Jurgen marry and are quite happy; but when the child is finally born, Anna doesn’t wish to surrender him and flees with the child into the Wattenmeer.
Herr Fiedler
Portier
When Ilona visits her married friend Otti, she is just delighted to discover that the man she likes is not other than Otti's brother-in-law, Paul. As he is in need of a maid, she disguises herself as such to try to enamour him.
Gesangslehrer Schubert
A military comedy in which Annemarie is the center of attention.
Bürgermeister
A town's business begins to suffer, when a military outfit is confined to quarters for three weeks because they have been harassing the local women.
Feuerwehrmann
Kultusminister
Kaffeehauswirt
A man swallows a diamond - and suddenly all people around him change their attitude towards him.
Lehmann
Kasimir Makeldey
Slapstick comedy about a couple brought together by hypnosis.
Kellner
Hausdiener
Nestor
Eduardo
Artonis is an acrobat employed in the circus owned by Elvira Starke. Apparently he confines his acrobatics to the bedroom, because he's carrying on two separate affairs on the trot: one with his boss Elvira, and one with the circus's beautiful equestrienne Kitty Rallay. Someone shoots Artonis dead.
Detektiv
Enterich
First of several filmed versions of a popular period operetta, in which an early 18th century noblewoman in Poland falls in love with a revolutionary student activist.
Wirt
Gustav Müller
Different kinds of Berliners, the well to do along with the ordinary shopkeepers, enjoy their weekends in the city's suburban garden colonies.
Hotelier
Mahnke
Inspizient
Paul Lyon
Peter Fistelhahn
Pamphile
Prof. Voronoffsky
Kunibert Wespe
Tito Tartini
Hieronymus Abendroth
Silent version of a story later remade in French and German as Baby: A count's daughter wants a stage career, her show girl friend wants an education, so they change places.
Directed by Alexandre Volkoff
Ein Spitzel
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.
Knurrhahn
Sunny
Franz Kiekebusch
Tobias Rinke
Saccabona
Kampl
Seven episodes tell the story of the exciting life of legendary charmer Casanova.
An ill-fated love affair between a brothel waitress and a doctor's son.
Buchhändler
Alexander Bessel is a young man in a failing marriage. His wife cheats on him, and so the outbreak of WW1 comes in handy for a change. When young French soldier dies right in front of him Bessel seize the opportunity assuming his identity.
Beppo
Enterich
Schuster
Philipp
Badedirektor
Schopfinger
Sekretär Kraatz
Lebrecht Haase
Musiker
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.
Meiseken
Caféhauswirt
Bürgermeister
Portier
Baumert
Die Weber (1927), a rousing German tale of the 1844 weavers’ revolution.
Kauzke - Pianist
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.
Johannes Rabe
Schütte
Landstreicher
The film follows the comic (mis)adventures of a poor street musician, who is roped into posing as an eccentric nobleman. He and his antics are rapturously received by the members of a bourgeois family desperate to mingle with the aristocracy. The daughter of the family takes a fancy to the baron (in reality, merely a “joke baron”), assuming him to be immensely wealthy.
Minister
Polizeihauptmann
A gentleman trades place with a notorious gangster who's his dead ringer to prevent an evil baron to marry his fiancée.
Heinrich Taube
Frau Meier, Hebamme
Jesus Kümmelbacke
Lehrer von Maxhausen
Müller
Hinzelmann
a silent movie by Heinz Paul
Bräblich
Ein alter Bauer
Bürovorsteher
Kellner
Bähmchen
Hofrat Anton Hutter
Siegfried Spitz
Jochen
Theophil
Jeremias Scharwächter
The story of a Berlin tenement and its inhabitants. A silent drama by Gerhard Lamprecht.
Nepomuk Zavadil
A French adventurer fights to save a woman in the life of prostitution.
Der Greis
A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's play "Tartuffe" in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who covets the young man's inheritance.
Betrunkener
Herr Storchschnabel
Hermann
Schuster
Rentier Kaltenbach
Schuster
Gerichtsschreiber
A movie about road safety education.
Portier
Piefke
Photograph
Foulard
Ballettmeister Saltini
Waldemar Bornemann
A spectacular action-adventure travelogue with stages in Genoa, Suez, Colombo, Singapore, Canton, Yokohama, Honolulu, San Francisco, New York and Brest.
Maler
Direktors Garderobier
"Comedians" - Axel Swinborne is a celebrated stage star. Although much in demand, he now wants to recover and travel by train on vacation. He leans out of the window at full speed, as happens a momentous mishap: his jacket gets tangled on the window lever so unhappy that it ejects the suction force out of the window.
Wirt
Der Notar des Herzogs
Signierer Pix
Bürovorsteher
Ortsvorsteher
Hofmeister
Jerusalem
Glanden
The neglected young wife of a workaholic businessman looks for love.
Baron Alleardi
Antiquitätenhändler
Hafenwirt
Sekretär bei Falke
Gospodar von Valona
Here Richter plays an Armenian princess whose father is being held prisoner by a despotic and corrupt pasha. A confrontation at the New Year’s Eve Ball at the Paris Opera leads to the princess being wrongly suspected of attempted assassination against the pasha. With the help of an English diplomat, she manages to flee Paris, but the pasha and his henchmen are hot on her heels. This marks the start of an extended, action-driven cat-and-mouse game that stretches to the outer regions of the Bosporus – and back again.
Deviating from the historical facts, Lola is introduced as a young Spanish “Gypsy” who becomes involuntarily embroiled in an attempt to poison the Infante of Spain (a short but splendid cameo by Heinrich George). As a result, she has to flee the country, arriving first in Italy, where she is taught how to act like a lady. Later, in Paris, she is invited to dance at the city’s prestigious opera house, becoming a worldwide sensation. She then becomes secretly involved in a revolutionary plot by Louis Napoléon, the future emperor of France. When the plot fails, Lola is once again forced to flee, this time to Munich, where she captures the attention of Ludwig I. Their ensuing affair arouses a great deal of hatred among the people and the establishment, however. In the end, Lola has no choice but to leave again, and vanishes into the night mist.
Nielson
Ein Gelehrter
Bert Andersen
Lahme Jonny
Komiker
Geizhals
Jess
The Island of the Lost (German: Die Insel der Verschollenen) is a 1921 German silent science fiction film . It is a loose unauthorized adaptation of the 1896 novel The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells. Author Wells was allegedly unaware that this unauthorized version of his novel existed.
Thought at one time to have been lost, a print has turned up at the Bundesarchiv in Berlin, Germany. The film was only screened in the US for the first time at a "Monster Bash" convention in 2014. Comments from the attendees included the fact that the film was somewhat illogical, and had more emphasis on comedy and romance than horror, but that it offered "memorable glimpses of human-animal hybrids".
Det. Ohlsen
Professor Leyden, an Orientalist
Ayan, Maharajah of Eschnapur, believes that his wife, Princess Savitri, has been unfaithful to him with officer Mac Allan. He decides to bury her alive, so he sends the Yogi Ramigani to England to look for Herbert Rowland, an architect; but when he orders him to build a tomb, Rowland refuses.
Marquis d'Yssé
Taylor
As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and is sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall. The woman finds a mystic entrance and is met by Death, who tells her three separate stories set in exotic locales, all involving circumstances similar to hers.
Ferdinand Grünmeier
Exzellenz Graf Buchlohe
Wibbel
Schreiber
The story of Romeo and Juliet, a tale as old as time-- Here, played as farcical lark: A goofy comedy of manners set in a snowy Bavarian village.
Jonathan Fletcher
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.
Alte hexe
An adaptation of the famous fairy tale.
Billionaire's daughter Ethel Vandergolt has rejected so many lovers that they set up a club to get revenge on her.
A millionaire steals an ancient idol causing some natives call upon him a terrible curse.
A young woman marries a count who is not what he seems.
