Hermann Vallentin

Hermann Vallentin

Birth : 1872-05-24, Berlin, Germany

Death : 1945-09-18

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Hermann Vallentin

Movies

Sprung in den Abgrund
Generaldirektor Schenk
The Tempest
Two inspiration sources appear clearly: contemporary American gangster movies and Alfred Döblin’s novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929).
The Captain from Köpenick
Adolph Wormser
Based on the true story of a cobbler who bought a second-hand captain's uniform, assumed command of a troop of guardsmen, declared the town of Köpenick under military law, arrested the mayor and confiscated the town treasury.
Help! Raid!
Kriminalrat Kipping
He or I
Kriminalkommissar
Two Worlds
Uhrmacher Simon Goldschneider
German language version of Two Worlds.
Bookkeeper Kremke
Kremke
In this realistic, unsentimental portrait of Germany’s dire economic situation, a middle-aged payroll clerk loses his job due to technological advances and, unable to find another, descends into despair. The film’s director, Marie Harder, was one of only a few women directors of the time and was also the head of the German Social Democratic Film Office. She made only two known films before her accidental death in exile in Mexico in 1936.
Only You
Richard Geldern
Cyankali
Drama based on a play by Friedrich Wolf. Hete is pregnant, hoping to have soon a family with her fiancé Paul. When the factory, where she and Paul work, sacks all striking workers, she tries to find a legal way for abortion. But there is only the illegal option - the eponymous cyanide.
Lotte
Burgkastellan Süßkind
Die Sache mit Schorrsiegel
Isaak
Luther
Professor Karlstadt
German silent film about the life of Martin Luther
Ledige Mütter
The Story of a Little Parisian
Gavard's Father
Totte works in Paris when she meets the wealthy Renato. Renato's father wants him to marry so to fool him he proposes to Totte.
The Dangerous Age
Fischer Jensen
The gorgeous 40-year-old Elsie Lindtner lives in a beautiful house, and is married to a respectable university professor. And yet, there’s something that nags her. She’s about to reach “the dangerous age”, when beauty begins to fade and boredom kicks in. She falls in love with a younger man and divorces her husband, but ends up hiding away in a country house where she can age in secret.
Das Erwachen des Weibes
Vater Ponath
Der Kampf des Donald Westhof
Der Sohn der Hagar
Steinert
Die glühende Gasse
Die 3 Niemandskinder
Kastellan
Madame Wants No Children
The Flight in the Night
Irrenarzt, Prof. Genoni
Based on the play Henry IV by Luigi Pirandello. Conrad Veidt plays Count di Nolli, a nobleman who, after a head injury, imagines he is the medieval emperor. His friends and relatives choose to play along, dressing up as medieval courtiers, but is di Nolli truly mad, or just pretending? The art direction was by Hermann Warm. It was shot on location in Italy. 6 acts, 1856 meters.
Die drei Kuckucksuhren
Lakington
Lord Ernest Clifton lives with his beautiful wife, Gladys, at Easton Lodge. He has lost immense wealth in the lap of his uncle's death. One day Lord Clifton receives a mysterious package with an even more mysterious letter from his uncle. Three cuckoo clocks that strike only once a month should show him the way to find the second part of the pot of gold buried somewhere. Ernest's thirst for adventure only awakens and waits for the first cuckoo clock to mark the room number of a hotel in Cairo, where the second cuckoo clock hangs.
Qualen der Nacht
The Fallen
Ein Raffke
Des Lebens Würfelspiel
Kommerzienrat Reichenberg
a silent movie by Heinz Paul
Im Namen des Kaisers
The Last Laugh
Spitzbäuchiger Gast [Potbellied Guest]
An aging doorman, after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious Hotel is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbours and society.
Königsliebchen
La vierge du portail
The Finances of the Grand Duke
Herr Bekker
The likeable and carefree Grand Duke of Abacco is in dire straits. There is no money left to service the State's debt; the main creditor is looking forward to expropriating the entire Duchy. The marriage with Olga, Grand Duchess of Russia, would solve everything, but a crucial letter of hers about the engagement has been stolen. Besides, a bunch of revolutionaries and a dubious businessman have other plans regarding the Grand Duke. With the intrusion of adventurer Philipp Collins into the Grand Duke's affairs, a series of frantic chases, plots and counter-plots begins.
The House by the Sea
The proprietors of a small inn on the Italian coast suddenly have to cater for a company of conscripts on their way to a nearby port. One of the sergeants recognizes Resa as a former "camp-follower". When her husband hears of this he becomes insanely jealous and decides to join the company.
Das Herz der Lilian Thorland
The Ancient Law
Heinrich Laube
Baruch Mayer, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the family tradition and leave the shtetl to become an actor.
The Countess of Paris
Polizeikommissar
Die Liebe einer Königin
In 1766, the young English princess Caroline Mathilde is sent to Denmark to marry the King Christian VII. The marriage is unhappy and Caroline Mathilde finds herself drawn instead to court physician Johann Friedrich Struensee.
Die Buddenbrooks
Smith
Four-generation story-saga dealing with the decline of a middle-class Lübeck family. The first adaptation of a Thomas Mann book was also Gerhard Lamprecht’s first major film.
Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend
Herzog Karl Eugen von Württemberg
In his film version, Curt Goetz shifts the focus away from the poetic output towards the young Friedrich Schiller himself: on the misery of his soul whilst a pupil of the ducal military academy, his opposition to the strict physical drill and the narrow intellectual confines of the "Karlsschule", his juvenile passion for the works of Shakespeare, Klopstock and Lessing, his anger at unjust authorities, his devotion to women, and finally his inability to cope with financial matters
Schlagende Wetter
Marie's father
After the revelation that Georg has seduced her, Maria is driven away by her father. Georg, fearing the wrath of Maria's father, has swiftly abandoned the girl and left for the mining town of Sankt Anton, where he expects to hide easily amongst the large population of colliers. Maria must care for herself, and ends up in Sankt Anton, where she attempts to rebuild her life. There, she gets to know Thomas, and soon the young people are engaged. When Georg and Maria meet again, drama ensues. The film originally ran 97 minutes.
Wüstenrausch
A romantic adventure set in the Sahara desert.
Das Geheimnis des Renngrafen
Marie Antoinette - Das Leben einer Königin
Mirabeau
She and the Three
Räuberhauptmann Krause
Hannele's Ascension
Mattern
A young woman is abused or abandoned by the men in her life.
Ihr schlechter Ruf
Die Dame und der Landstreicher
Die Königin von Whitechapel
Bertot
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon
Das zweite Leben
Die schwarze Pantherin
Antonius, a poet
Kornej is a young painter of primitivism. An art agent discover the works of Kornej and buy the whole collection. The art critic Moulin is very excited about Kornejs paintings and style. Kornej marries his childhood sweetheart Rita. They have a child that carries a mystic disease. Allt the money Kornej got from selling his collection is put into the care of the sick child. Rita leaves Kornej.
Destiny
(uncredited)
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.
The Rats
Die Ratten was produced by actress and singer Grete Ly. Her company, Grete Ly-Film, made five films between 1919 and 1921. Die Ratten, which is based on the play of the same name by Gerhart Hauptmann, was the last one. Hauptmann, one of the most important promoters of literary naturalism, had received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1912. The screen adaptation of his play is beautifully photographed in a realistic style by Karl Freund, one of best German cameraman of that time who also worked with directors such as Lang, Murnau, Dreyer, Dupont and Ruttmann. Moreover, the cast of Die Ratten also acts in a very naturalistic way, far from the affected expressionistic style. Die Ratten was made on a modest budget, but the collaboration of an excellent team produced a film that was ahead of its time.
Der zeugende Tod
Tessling
The Haunted Castle
Landgerichtsrat a.D.
The sinister Count Oetsch scandalizes the aristocratic social gathering at Castle Vogelod as he announces his intention to "crash" the festivities. Baroness Safferstätt is expected shortly, and the guests are well-aware of the rumors that Count Oetsch murdered the baroness' late husband. Oetsch refuses to leave, vowing that he will reveal the identity of the real killer. Before the weekend is through, the Count and Baroness will reveal secrets too shocking to be believed!
Planetenschieber
Judith Trachtenberg
In the nineteenth century a young Jewish woman living in the part of Poland controlled by Austria, meets an Austrian Count at a ball held by one of her father's business associates. After he rescues her from the unwanted attentions of a Polish army officer, they fall in love.
Hearts Are Trumps
Sebaldus Dühringer
Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
Cardillac
Weltbrand is the first part of the two-part silent movie Christian Wahnschaffe.
The Abyss of Souls
Die goldene Krone
Gustav Lindlieb
Die drei Tänze der Mary Wilford
a silent movie by Robert Wiene
Hölle der Jungfrauen
Das Gift im Weibe
Die Gespenster von Garden Hall
Das Frühlingslied
Die Nonne und der Harlekin
Börse und Adel
Graf Hochfeld oder Bankier Bath
A young woman marries a wealthy count she does not love, after she learns of her beau's flirtations with another woman.
John Riew
Das lebende Rätsel
The Tunnel
Max Allan, a visionary engineer persuades investors to fund building an undersea railway connecting France to the United States. But there are powerful forces who wants to stop his futuristic dream.
The Sun's Revenge
Mörder
An innkeeper in sheer despair murders a passing by musician and steals his money in order to buy medicine for his dying wife. Eventually, he falls into an endless turmoil of guilt and madness.
Der geheimnisvolle Wanderer