Frederic Zelnik

Frederic Zelnik

Nacimiento : 1885-05-17, Czernowitz, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary [now Chernivtsi, Ukraine]

Muerte : 1950-11-29

Historia

Actor, director and producer. One of the most popular directors of the German silent film scene.

Perfil

Frederic Zelnik

Películas

The Glass Mountain
Producer
An aspiring composer, in the British Air Force for WWII, is downed in Italy and rescued by an Italian girl. He returns home to his wife, inspired to write an opera and aware that he's fallen in love with his rescuer.
Heaven Is Round the Corner
Producer
A country girl goes to Paris to sing professionally, where she falls in love with a member of the British Embassy. They are parted by the outbreak of the Second World War, but subsequently reunited again...
I Killed the Count
Director
Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Davidson is trying to determine who murdered the much-hated Count Matton. The dilemma isn't that the Detective is suffering from a lack of witnesses but that four different people have come forth to confess to the killing, each of them with plenty of motive and opportunity.
Tomorrow It Will Be Better
Director
Still coming to terms with the death of her mother, Willy Verhulst loses her father as well -- just as she is about to sit her final exams. She manages to pass, and as she is trying to find a job she remembers a young man she met in the hospital. The boy, Herder, works for a radio station and gives her a job as a secretary.
Daddy Long Legs
Writer
Judy Aalders grows up in an orphanage. Albert Woudenberg happens to be present when Judy confronts the trustees of the orphanage and is expelled. He decides to send her to university and Judy, who has only ever seen his shadowy long legs, refers to him as 'Daddy-Long-Legs' from that day. Not knowing he is in fact her benefactor, Judy's relationship with Albert gradually turns into love.
Daddy Long Legs
Director
Judy Aalders grows up in an orphanage. Albert Woudenberg happens to be present when Judy confronts the trustees of the orphanage and is expelled. He decides to send her to university and Judy, who has only ever seen his shadowy long legs, refers to him as 'Daddy-Long-Legs' from that day. Not knowing he is in fact her benefactor, Judy's relationship with Albert gradually turns into love.
The Lilac Domino
Director
In this musical, an enigmatic masked woman catches the roving eye of a wily playboy gambler at a masquerade ball. If he knew that she was using her wiles as bait and was planning to reform him of his gambling womanizing ways after catching him, he may have head for different waters.
Southern Roses
Director
A musical comedy of false identities.
C'était un musicien
Director
When he is not conducting his orchestra, a talented young man invents a device to thwart car thieves.Associating himself with a rich Dutch baron, he falls in love with the baron's daughter.
Mister Cinders
Director
The Cinderella story is reversed in this light-hearted adaptation, with Cinders a young man who eventually wins the 'princess' – in this case, an oil millionaire's daughter!
Happy
Producer
A young musician invents an anti-theft device for cars, but works as a jazz conductor while waiting for his invention to be successful.
Happy
Director
A young musician invents an anti-theft device for cars, but works as a jazz conductor while waiting for his invention to be successful.
Es war einmal ein Musikus
Director
Kaiserwalzer
Writer
Kaiserwalzer
Director
Spione im Savoy-Hotel
Writer
Spione im Savoy-Hotel
Director
Barbarina, the King's Dancer
Director
A sweet secret
Director
Everyone Asks for Erika
Director
Waltz Paradise
Writer
Musical comedy about a famous opera star in Vienna.
Waltz Paradise
Director
Musical comedy about a famous opera star in Vienna.
The forest girl
Director
The Crimson Circle
Producer
Police battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.
The Crimson Circle
Director
Police battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.
Mein Herz ist eine Jazzband
Director
Mary Lou
Director
Heut tanzt Mariett
Director
Das tanzende Wien
Director
A cabaret singer in Germany is in love with a young American boy, and must convince his disapproving father that she is worthy of his son.
Die Weber
Director
Die Weber (1927), a rousing German tale of the 1844 weavers’ revolution.
Der Zigeunerbaron
Director
Die lachende Grille
Director
Der Veilchenfresser
Director
An der schönen blauen Donau
Director
Die Försterchristel
Director
Die Mühle von Sanssouci
Director
Frauen, die man oft nicht grüßt
Director
Jazz-Age gender comedy about a Berlin party girl with a big heart - a heart sought after by many admirer. Only for her to become a boring stay-at-home-mom.
Athleten
Director
Die Venus von Montmartre
Director
Auf Befehl der Pompadour
Director
Daisy. Das Abenteuer einer Lady
Director
Auferstehung. Katjuscha Maslowa
Director
A nobleman wishes to help the woman he had seduced and abandoned years earlier when he learns that she is now on trial for murder.
Lyda Ssanin
Director
A beautiful and popular young woman enters a relationship with a wealthy womanizing cavalry captain.
Die Männer der Sybill
Director
Das Mädel aus der Hölle
Director
Graf Festenberg
Max Wessely alias Graf Festenberg
A waiter in love with a countess assumes the identity of an aristocrat.
Graf Festenberg
Director
A waiter in love with a countess assumes the identity of an aristocrat.
Die Tochter Napoleons
Director
Erniedrigte und Beleidigte
Director
Yvette, die Modeprinzessin
Director
Die Geliebte des Königs
Director
Die Ehe der Fürstin Demidoff
Director
C.d.E.
Tanja, die Frau an der Kette
Director
Die Kreutzersonate
Wassja Posdnyschow
Das Mädel von Picadilly
Director
Das begrabene Ich
Aus den Memoiren einer Filmschauspielerin
Director
Der Sträfling von Cayenne
Trix, der Roman einer Millionärin
Director
Miss Beryll... die Laune eines Millionärs
Director
Die Geliebte des Grafen Varenne
Director
Wer unter Euch ohne Sünde ist
Producer
Monte Carlo
Fasching
Director
Anna Karenina
Producer
Anna Karenina
Director
Der Apachenlord
Director
Der Apachenlord
Kri-Kri, die Herzogin von Tarabac
Producer
Kri-Kri, die Herzogin von Tarabac
Director
Spiritismus
Director
Die Pflicht zu leben
Director
Hölle der Jungfrauen
Director
Pogrom
Producer
Manon. Das hohe Lied der Liebe
Producer
Manon. Das hohe Lied der Liebe
Director
Eugen Onegin
Producer
Leichtsinn und Genie
Producer
The romantic dalliances of stage actor Edmund Kean with both a married woman and a young wannabe actress cause difficulties.
Eugen Onegin
Eugen Onegin
Leichtsinn und Genie
Kean
The romantic dalliances of stage actor Edmund Kean with both a married woman and a young wannabe actress cause difficulties.
Maria Evere
Director
Das Frühlingslied
Die Rothenburger
Die Nonne und der Harlekin
Graf Michael
Producer
A count with a gambling addiction is set up with the daughter of a minister by his father, who hopes she will be a good influence on him.
Graf Michael
Graf Michael
A count with a gambling addiction is set up with the daughter of a minister by his father, who hopes she will be a good influence on him.
Durchlaucht Hypochonder
Director
Nachtschatten
Director
Klein Doortje
Director
Das große Los
Director
Das Geschlecht der Schelme. 1. Teil
A young woman marries a count who is not what he seems.
Die Gräfin von Navarra
Director
Am Amboß des Glücks
von Hoven
Der schwarze Pierrot
Producer
Helene, a painter, loses a necklace and takes work as a caricaturist to pay the debt. Not wishing to be recognized, she does the work in a clown costume.
Ein Gruß aus der Tiefe
Das Rätsel von Sensenheim
Das dunkle Schloß
Originally planned as the third entry in the Der Hund von Baskerville series, it was reworked into a stand alone film before release.
Arme Maria
Warenhausbesitzer / store owner
Seelen, die sich nachts begegnen
Fred Hohn
§ 14 BGB
Heinrich Vollmer
Das Liebesglück der Blinden
Arzt
A blind patient and her doctor fall in love, but the doctor fears that she will no longer love him if her sight is restored.
Forget About Luck
Japanese Sacrifice
A friend sacrifices himself, taking the blame for a murder upon himself. A guilty conscience will end up killing the real culprit.