Gustav Diessl

Gustav Diessl

Birth : 1899-12-30, Wien, Austria

Death : 1948-03-20

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Gustav Diessl

Movies

Ruf an das Gewissen
Dr. Gregor Karpinski
The Trial
Staatsanwalt Both
In 1882 a country girl disappears from a small Hungarian village. The inhabitants suggest that she was murdered by the Jews. Everything is done to accuse them before the trial. A study in stubbornness, racism and intolerance and how to fight against it.
Kolberg
Schill
During Napoleon's victorious campaign in Germany, the city of Kolberg gets isolated from the retreating Prussian forces. The population of Kolberg refuses to capitulate and organizes the resistance against the French army, which immediately submits the city to massive bombardments.
Nebbie sul mare
Pietro Rosati
A woman struggles to make a living after her husband is mistakenly presumed dead.
Nora
Dr. Rank
The film is an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House. The film uses Ibsen's alternate ending where the unhappy couple are reconciled at the end
La danza del fuoco
Giulio Boldrini
An Italian drama from 1943.
Calafuria
Tommaso Bardelli
Menschen im Sturm
Alexander Oswatic
Il bravo di Venezia
Marco Fuser
Clarissa
Bankdirektor Feerenbach
The Comedians
Ernst Biron, Herzog von Kurland
Although she is known as a patron of the arts, a graceful duchess nevertheless refuses her nephew to marry an enterprising actress in this German melodrama starring Kathe Dorsch and silent screen legend Henny Porten. When Philine (Hilde Krahl), the troupe's ingénue, is rejected as proper marital material by the Duchess of Weissenfels (Porten), Karoline Neuber (Dorsch) creates such a furor that she is banished from the country. A performance at the court at St. Petersburg also ends in disaster for the unhappy actress and abandoned by all, Karoline dies a suicide.
Senza cielo
Dott. Martin
Herz ohne Heimat
Alexander Diersberg, sein Stiefbruder
The Star of Rio
Don Felipe Escobar
Ich bin Sebastian Ott
Strobl
After a shady collector of paintings has been murdered, adept Dr. Sebastian Ott discovers a big organised fraud with fake paintings. His twin brother Ludwig is responsible for it, kidnaps him and locks him away in his house. He uses Otts ID and 'replaces' him...
Ich verweigere die Aussage
Robert Lenart
Der grüne Kaiser
Henry Miller / Hendrik Mylius
Kautschuk
Don Alonzo de Ribeira
About how the British broke the Brazilian monopoly on natural rubber. The storyline suggests a complex relation between adventure, military conquest and imperialism.
Fortsetzung folgt
Fred, sein Freund
The Indian Tomb
Sascha Demidoff
After the events of Der Tiger von Eschnapur, Maharadscha Chandra is ready to execute his well-planned vengeance, in which German architect Peter Fürbringer, his fiancée Irene and his assistant will have to fight for their lives amidst a revolt fueled by traitor Prinz Ramigani.
The Tiger of Eschnapur
Sascha Demidoff
Starke Herzen im Sturm
Rittmeister Alexander von Harbin
Moskau - Shanghai
Sergej Smrirnow
A drama film directed by Paul Wegener.
Schatten der Vergangenheit
Dr. Hans Hellwig, Staatsanwalt
The Love of the Maharaja
Maharadscha
Demon of the Himalayas
Dr. Norman - Ethnologe
Movie about an expedition in search of a mythical demon in the Himalaya mountains.
Alles um eine Frau
Frederic Keyne, Flugzeuginsustrieller
White Majesty
Jakob Burghardt
Directed by August Kern & Anton Kutter
S.O.S. Iceberg
Professor Dr. Karl Lorenz
An expedition goes in search of a party lost in the Arctic the year before. The English language version of this German film was made at the same time but with a slightly different cast and released later that year as S.O.S. Iceberg, directed by Tay Garnett.
Roman einer Nacht
Der Fremde
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Kent
After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professor's preoccupation with another patient, the criminal genius Dr. Mabuse the hypnotist. When Mabuse's notes are found to be connected with a rash of recent crimes, Commissioner Lohmann must determine how Mabuse is communicating with the criminals, despite conflicting reports on the doctor's whereabouts, and capture him for good.
The Mistress of Atlantis
Morhange
In this mythical fantasy, the evil queen of Atlantis lives in a magnificent palace, the halls of which are filled with the mummified remains of former lovers.
The Herrgotts-Grenadiers
Faletti
In the middle of the mountains around the Lötschental is a lonely village that is exposed to the forces of nature. A state of excitement arouses when an international mining company discover a gold vein and acquired mining rights.
Gilgi: One of Us
Martin
A young woman born illegitimately comes to terms with the challenge of getting married.
Teilnehmer antwortet nicht
Konrad Quandt
Nights in Port Said
The niece of a shady tavern-keeper of Port Said, surrounded by dangerous men who haunt the ports, meets a man whom she will love and with whom she flees.
Men Behind Bars
Morris
German-language version of "The Big House" (MGM, 1930), with Heinrich George in Wallace Beery's role, filmed by MGM parallel to the English-speaking version, at a time when good subtitles weren't yet in use.
King Fu's yellow house
King-Fu / Scalpa
When a criminal named King Fu who has terrorized a city substitutes himself for a stage actor who resembles him, the staff and spectators at that night's show think the actor is giving an unusually good performance.
Hans in Every Street
Soranzo
Love Comes But Once
Fedor Karew
The Great Longing
Himself
During lunch break at the movie studio, the extras rush to the canteen Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Maria Paudler and Luis Trenker are chatting. Eva von Loe a beautiful young extra rushes past; she is looking for her fiancé, Paul Wessel, who is also an extra. She has to return to the set where the famous director Regisseur Hall is shooting a scen. He is dissatisfied with his star, Carla Marventa, who is wrong for the scene he must photograph. Hall notices Eva, but laughs at her desire to replace Marventa. At that moment Conrad Veidt comes on the scene and assumes that Eva is the star.
Morals at Midnight
Brat, a prisoner
Berlin, the center of pleasures and kingdom of small virtues. From all over Germany, young night owls come to burn themselves cheerfully in its lights, to drown in its champagne and fill its boxes and restaurants until dawn.
Westfront 1918
Karl
A group of German infantrymen of the First World War live out their lives in the trenches of France. They find brief entertainment and relief in a village behind the lines, but primarily terror fills their lives as the attacks on and from the French army ebb and flow. One of the men, Karl, goes home on leave only to discover the degradation forced on his family by wartime poverty. He returns to the lines in time to face an enormous attack by French tanks.
Three Around Edith
Roger Brown
Notorious jewel thief Roger "Tiger" Brown sneaks into the trust of diamond dealer Thomas Morland. Not only does Morland's jewels appeal to him, but also his fiancée, Lady Edith Trent. But when Morland acquires the largest diamond in the world in Amsterdam, Brown decides against Edith and for the diamond, takes it and runs away.
White Hell of Pitz Palu
Dr. Johannes Krafft
Dr. Johannes Krafft climbs a 12,000-foot mountain over and over again to search for his wife, who was lost on their honeymoon. Another couple makes the dangerous climb with him.
Mutterliebe
Hans Immermann
Die Ehe
Pandora's Box
Jack the Ripper
Lulu is a young woman so beautiful and alluring that few can resist her siren charms. The men drawn into her web include respectable newspaper publisher Dr. Ludwig Schön, his musical producer son Alwa, circus performer Rodrigo Quast, and seedy old Schigolch. When Lulu's charms inevitably lead to tragedy, the downward spiral encompasses them all.
The Devious Path
Thomas Beck
Neglected by her husband, an ambitious lawyer, Irene seeks variety in Berlin's nightlife-- An evening of dancing, dolls, cocaine and immoral passion. Irene takes the "devious path" as she seeks to make her husband jealous.
Sensations-Prozess
Dr. Spindler
Vineta. Die versunkene Stadt