Dita Parlo
Nacimiento : 1908-09-04, Stettin (Empire allemand) (aujourd'hui Szczecin en Pologne
Muerte : 1971-12-12
Historia
Dita Parlo, born either Grethe Gerda Kornstädt or Gerda Olga Justine Kornstädt, was a German film actress.
Self
Documental dedicado a la vida y obra de este genio del cine, prematuramente fallecido.
Juliette (archive footage)
Documental sobre el proceso de restauración sonora de "Taris"; "Cero en conducta" y "L'atalante".
Comtesse Anna Fedorovna
A gambling countess comes by a secret three card combination that wins her a fortune, but she is allowed to use it only once and not gamble again. She passes on the info twice, and the recipients both die violently. She is warned that if she passes it on again, she too will die. Many years later, a young soldier discovers that the countess has the secret, and he resolves to get it out of her.
The 1931 German film, Tanzerinnen Fur Sud-Amerika Gesucht, adapted in 1951 for US showings with editing, added sequences, some English subtitles and English voice-over narration in lieu of dubbing.
Elisabeth
Elsa Lundestein, criada de Maurice Vaudreamont, le ayuda en todas sus investigaciones, ya que éste está afectado por un cáncer. Sin embargo Maurice consigue que Elsa le prometa que acabará con su vida en caso de que sus investigaciones no obtengan resultados. El problema es cuando el suceso es visto ante un jurado.
Lisbeth
Dupuy, the first officer of the Cristobal, a French merchant ship, is informed by cabaret dancer La Rubia that the Cristobal carries a priceless secret cargo of gold. Based on the novel by Albert t'Serstevens.
Hedwige
Anna Salic
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.
Vera
An adventuress serves as bait for a swindler, who robs the naive people she brings to him with poker. A childhood friend helps him.
Jeanne supports supports his family on his modest salary. Her boss is arrested for fraud. Jeanne is forced, out of poverty, in the street.
Dr. Anne-Marie Lesser
During the First World War, a woman doctor falls in love with one of her patients who turns out to be a German spy. She herself ends up working for German intelligence.
Mina Lesurques - The Wife of the Accused
A courier carrying a large sum of money intended for Bonaparte's army is attacked. A miscarriage of justice will lead an innocent person to the guillotine.
Elsa
Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). Una obra maestra del cine mundial sobre la camaradería y las relaciones humanas que retrata el día a día de unos prisioneros franceses en un campo de concentración alemán durante la Primera Guerra Mundial. Cuando llegan al campo dos oficiales de la aviación francesa, son informados por sus compañeros de barracón de que están excavando un túnel para poder escapar de allí.
Anne-Marie Lesser dite : Mlle Docteur
A slippery femme fatale, a spy for Germany during the Great War, is sent to Thessaloniki in Greece and becomes involved with a man on the other side, a French military officer.
Elsi
Hans has killed the dog of Firmin, a shepherd. Wild with rage, Firmin kidnaps Elsi, Hans' fiancée and locks her up at his home. Hans, a peddler, vows to find the missing girl. This is what he does and he manages, with the help of Mânu, the village idiot, to give Elsi a letter. On seeing her, the changeling falls in love at first sight with the young woman. Elsi soon realizes that Mânu can become her instrument of vengeance.
Juliette
La joven esposa de un viejo marinero está harta de su monótona vida en la barcaza “L'Atalante”. Después de dejarse llevar por la artificiosa vida de la ciudad, dejando a su marido sumido en la desesperación, regresa con él amargamente decepcionada.
The Girl (archive footage)
Ed Sullivan shows night spots all over New York in this movie, joking and listening to stories the patrons tell.
Roszi
Intrigue and greed come between an immoral woman and the man who loves her. This film is believed lost.
Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself. This is a German-language version made in Hollywood along side the 1930 production directed by John Francis Dillon.
Annie Marlow
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.
Self
A German reporter visits Hollywood and is escorted through the MGM Studio by a German nobleman, who is working there as an extra. They meet and speak to several actors, primarily Buster Keaton, John Gilbert, Joan Crawford and Heinrich George. Then they meet Adolphe Menjou, who rehearses a long scene in German. A final scene shows stars arriving at a film premiere, including Jean Harlow, Norma Shearer and Wallace Beery.
Alma
"Tropical Nights" - The young violinist Alma comes to Simbali with an orchestra led by conductor Zangiacoma, hired for a series of performances at the Schomberg hotel. Both the conductor Zangiacomo and Schomberg are obsessed with Alma. One evening, when Alma is, as usual, forced to entertain the guests she meets Mr. Heyst from his island Sourabaya, where he lives in solitude. He takes Alma to his place on the island.
Stella
This is the German-language version of 1929's "The Sacred Flame", from the W. Somerset Maugham play, shot by Warner Bros. in Hollywood with a German-speaking cast.
Dancer Inge
Denise
Adaptación de una novela de Émile Zola, que tiene como protagonista a la bella Denise, una joven huérfana de provincias que llega a París para vivir con su tío Baudu, propietario de una mercería en decadencia, sobre todo por los planes de expansión de los grandes almacenes de "Para la dicha de las damas". Justamente aquí va a ser contratada Denise, sobre todo porque el dueño ha puesto los ojos en su hermosura.
Julia Balog
A young maid from the country looses her job as maid in k.u.k. Budapest, when she stays out too long with her beau, a soldier, who's saving money to buy a horse to open a transport company. After being unemployed for quite a while and her rent is long overdue, the landlady offers her a better job in a nightclub. Meanwhile the soldiers family has decided that her son should marry the daughter of a rich farmer. The soldier finds out about his girl friends profession, and accepts after struggling with himself the match his parents have made. At the day of his engagement his girl friend comes to his hometown with enough money to buy a horse, which leads to a conflict between her, the fiancee, her family, himself and his parents.
Jeanette
George Manolescu (Ivan Mouskojine) es un estafador que trabaja entre París y Nueva York. Durante un viaje en tren a Monte Carlo, Manolescu conoce a la bella Cleo (Brigitte Helm). Juntos experimentan un intenso romance. Después de que Cleo deja a Manolescu, éste hace de todo para recuperarla...
Directed by Alexandre Volkoff
Anna
Following World War I, after a long imprisonment, two German prisoner-of-war soldiers escape from a Siberian lead-mine. Karl manages to reach Germany before Richard, and is sheltered by Anna, wife of Richard. While Richard is still on his homeward trek, Karl and Anna fall in love. And then Richard comes home.
Marika
Directed by Hanns Schwarz.