Anita Berber
Nacimiento : 1899-06-10, Dresden, Saxony, Germany
Muerte : 1928-11-10
Historia
Anita Berber was a German dancer, actress, and writer who was the subject of an Otto Dix painting. She lived during the Weimar period.
The perfect body as an object of cult worship. Based on the mass sports and body worship movement of the 1920s, the film propagates physical training and shows in stylized documentary scenes aspects of physical hygiene, gymnastics, sports and dancing as well as scenes in which supposed sportsmen of antiquity pose naked.
Astarte
"Lights of the Abyss". Anita Berber enchants men and women as the seductive goddess Astarte.
Writer
Anita Berber and Sebastian Droste performed their macabre dances of vice, horror and ecstasy. Saturated with an air of morbidity and decadence; death, dreams, torture, sex and sensuality.
Anita Berber and Sebastian Droste performed their macabre dances of vice, horror and ecstasy. Saturated with an air of morbidity and decadence; death, dreams, torture, sex and sensuality.
Gräfin Julia Orsini
Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, has three adult children: Juan, who is virtuous and has a sweetheart who is a woman of the people, Lucrezia, who is virtuous and wants to marry Alfonso, and Cesare, who is wicked and lusts after Lucrezia, Juan's girlfriend, and probably others. Cesare has vowed to kill any suitor for Lucrezia's love, and he has three thugs to carry out his wishes. Bodies fall into the Tiber, into the Colosseum (with lions prowling), and onto the Vatican floors.
Dancer in tailcoat (uncredited)
La primera versión cinematográfica del Dr. Mabuse consta de dos partes: “El gran jugador” y “El infierno”. El doctor Mabuse es un villano que no se siente atraído por los bienes materiales, sino por el placer que le proporciona jugar con el destino de los hombres.
Natascha
Lorenza
Dancer
"Night people". Thomas Bezug, the richest man in the world, is a solitary, domineering and cruel cripple, who hardly can move on his crutches. He dwells a fanatical love for his son, whom he holds like a monkey in a cage. His servants are defaced dwarfs. His secretary is trying to steal Bezugs assets. These are the night people.
Die Dirne / Various Other Roles
After the old-books shop closes, portraits of the Strumpet, Death, and the Devil come to life and amuse themselves by reading stories--about themselves.
Else Sivers
Kurt Sivers (Fritz Schulz), un virtuoso del violín, es un acérrimo admirador de Körner y se acerca a él esperando convertirse en su alumno. Körner acepta y comienzan las clases, durante las que se enamoran. Ambos hombres sufren la desaprobación de sus padres. Ninguno de los dos se lo ha dicho a los padres, pero los de Sivers se oponen a que su hijo ocupe tanto tiempo con el violín y su inusual apasionamiento con Körner. Los de Körner no entienden porque no ha mostrado interés en encontrar a una mujer y fundar una familia. Körner envía sus padres a ver a su mentor, el Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld. Considerada como una de las primeras películas en retratar el tema de la homosexualidad desde un prisma positivo.
Aouda
Wealthy Englishman Phileas Fogg bets his friends that he can travel around the world in 80 days.
Lola, dessen Tochter
Hedwig and Lola, two sisters of opposite temperaments, have their lives upended in when Lola decides to pursue prostitution and Hedwig is forced into it.
Dida Ibsen
Dida Ibsen, daughter of impoverished farmers, has, according to her father's will, to marry the main creditor. But she refuses and decides to live with a married man as a mistress, till he gets his divorce. In the town she opens a restaurant with the money of her wealthy lover, from whom she soon gets pregnant, but their dreams of marriage fail, his wife refuses the divorce. After a while, she decides to marry one of the regular guests at her restaurant, van Galen, who spent quite some time in the tropics and because of this is at the brink of madness. Shortly after the marriage his condition worsens and life becomes hell for Dida.
