Robert Wiene
Birth : 1873-04-25, Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]
Death : 1938-07-17
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Robert Wiene was a film director of the German silent cinema. He is particularly known for directing the German silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and a succession of other expressionist films. Wiene also directed a variety of other films of varying styles and genres. Following the Nazi rise to power in Germany, Wiene fled into exile.
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A man trapped in purgatory must come face to face with his own demons.
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About the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War. Focuses on the relationship between a Serbian officer and his Austrian-born wife and their involvement in espionage between the countries.
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About the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War. Focuses on the relationship between a Serbian officer and his Austrian-born wife and their involvement in espionage between the countries.
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Chicago gangsters use cunning and a series of false identities in a violent battle for dominance, all while attempting to dodge the police.
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Musical about a girl typist who leaves Berlin for Venice after winning a contest. A rich bachelor pretending to be poor takes a job with her and competes for her affections with a count and a tenor.
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Simultaneously filmed French version of the German film Der Andere: A strict legal official,in a variation of the Jekyll and Hyde plot, turns into a criminal at night.
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Simultaneously filmed French version of the German film Der Andere: A strict legal official,in a variation of the Jekyll and Hyde plot, turns into a criminal at night.
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Simultaneously filmed French version of the German film Der Andere: A strict legal official,in a variation of the Jekyll and Hyde plot, turns into a criminal at night.
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The Other (Der Andere) is a psychological drama based on the popular Jekyll and Hyde theme.
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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The story: While her husband is becoming famous in the war, the marshal of Werdenberg's wife consoles herself in the arms of the youngster Octavian and tries to arrange the love affairs of her cousin, the baron Ochs, by presenting him to young Sophie. This baron is taken with her and the Marschallin proposes Octavian to be his "Rosenkavalier" in order to present the traditional silver rose to his fiancée. But youngsters are youngsters and sex hormones hold sway over the whole world so for that reason immediately Octavian and Sophie fall in love with each other…
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The story: While her husband is becoming famous in the war, the marshal of Werdenberg's wife consoles herself in the arms of the youngster Octavian and tries to arrange the love affairs of her cousin, the baron Ochs, by presenting him to young Sophie. This baron is taken with her and the Marschallin proposes Octavian to be his "Rosenkavalier" in order to present the traditional silver rose to his fiancée. But youngsters are youngsters and sex hormones hold sway over the whole world so for that reason immediately Octavian and Sophie fall in love with each other…
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he is horrified to learn they once belonged to a murderer.
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The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors of the era at work on the set including Fritz Lang, Robert Wiene, and E.A. Dupont.
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Highly theatrical version of Tolstoy's play.
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From the director of Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, this is the Passion embedded in a contemporary story. An anarchist jailed for an attempted assassination is told the Passion story by the prison chaplain.
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From the director of Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, this is the Passion embedded in a contemporary story. An anarchist jailed for an attempted assassination is told the Passion story by the prison chaplain.
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From the director of Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, this is the Passion embedded in a contemporary story. An anarchist jailed for an attempted assassination is told the Passion story by the prison chaplain.
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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Student Raskolnikow, who has written an article about laws and crime, proposing the thesis, that un-ordinary people can commit crimes if their actions are necessary for the benifit of mankind, murders an old woman, who operates a crooked loaning house, as well as her sister, who made the mistake of visiting her at the wrong time. He is suspected of the crime, but somebody else confesses to the murder.
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Student Raskolnikow, who has written an article about laws and crime, proposing the thesis, that un-ordinary people can commit crimes if their actions are necessary for the benifit of mankind, murders an old woman, who operates a crooked loaning house, as well as her sister, who made the mistake of visiting her at the wrong time. He is suspected of the crime, but somebody else confesses to the murder.
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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A method actress likes living out the roles she is playing in real life. To prepare for her new play, she enters the criminal underworld and ends up being implicated in a burglary of a Duke who is one of her suitors.
The film was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. The film received a generally positive reception from critics, although some were doubtful about the blending of farce and tragedy.
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"A Woman's Revenge" - In order to punish her cold, brutal aristocratic husband for murdering her lover, a woman becomes a common prostitute to shame him.
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"A Woman's Revenge" - In order to punish her cold, brutal aristocratic husband for murdering her lover, a woman becomes a common prostitute to shame him.
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The film depicts the marriage between the mad Charles VI of France and his wife Queen Isabeau.
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The film depicts the marriage between the mad Charles VI of France and his wife Queen Isabeau.
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In Calcutta, McAllan meets the beautiful Indian woman Malatti, with whom he immediately falls in love. The engineer quickly neglects his professional obligations and follows her. After some complications, the two of them finally get closer at her home, even if Malatti's father Badhama rejects this connection. Badhama only agrees to the planned marriage when he learns how wealthy this white man must be. After some time, McAllan returns to his large construction site, where things are going haywire. Many workers die in an explosion, and McAllan is now liable with his fortune. As a result, the engineer, who became impoverished overnight, suddenly becomes uninteresting for Malatti's father as a son-in-law, especially since with a solvent Japanese man who offers a lot of money for his daughter's hand,
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The American engineer McAllan is appointed site manager for a major project in Asia. He is to oversee the branch line of the railway line from Calcutta to Beijing. One day, the railway company in question called him to Calcutta for an interview: they were planning to stop running the branch line for cost reasons. However, McAllan is passionate about the project and uses all his powers of persuasion not to just call off construction. In fact, the construction work will continue, and the engineer is even willing to vouch for it with his private fortune.
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A silent movie by Rober Wiene.
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Since completing a portrait of Genuine, a high priestess, Percy becomes irritable and withdrawn. He loses interest in painting and refuses to see his friends, preferring to spend his time alone with the portrait in his study. After turning down a wealthy patron's offer to buy the picture, Percy falls asleep while reading stories of Genuine's life. Genuine comes to life from the painting and escapes. The film's sets were designed by the Expressionist painter César Klein.
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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a slient movie by Robert Wiene
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Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.
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A lost film. Only 40 seconds survive today.
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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Her Sport is a 1919 German silent comedy film directed by Rudolf Biebrach and starring Henny Porten, Georg H. Schnell and Hermann Thimig. A man-hating young woman tries to break up her friend's new marriage, but while in the Alps she meets her own ideal man.
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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a slient movie by Robert Wiene
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a slient movie by Robert Wiene
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Henny Porten plays the dual role of a rather indecorous Countess and her kitchen maid Karoline Blum, an amateur actress.
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Billionaire's daughter Ethel Vandergolt has rejected so many lovers that they set up a club to get revenge on her.
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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A millionaire steals an ancient idol causing some natives call upon him a terrible curse.
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A millionaire steals an ancient idol causing some natives call upon him a terrible curse.
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a silent movie by Rober Wiene
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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A silent movie by Robert Wiene.
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A silent movie by Robert Wiene.
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A silent movie by Robert Wiene
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A silent movie by Robert Wiene
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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a silent movie by Bruno Ziener
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