Victor Janson
Nacimiento : 1884-09-25, Riga, Russian Empire
Muerte : 1960-06-29
A child is moved around like a doll
Kaiser
Gerichtsvollzieher
Senor Almadez
Peter, un humilde vendedor de coles, decide casarse, por lo que acude al hombrecito de cristal, que le concede dinero y bienes. Pero Peter gasta su fortuna a manos llenas antes de la boda, y tiene que invocar al malvado Michel para salir del apuro. Éste le exige su corazón a cambio de cumplir con sus deseos. Con un corazón de piedra, Peter se vuelve cruel e injusto. Sin embargo, un resto de humanidad le hace recapacitar, y en su desesperación clama de nuevo por el hombrecito de cristal…
Hausknecht
Sanferini
Dr. Fiebrich, Konzertagent
The Trombonist is a 1949 comedy film directed by Carl Boese and starring Paul Dahlke, Sabine Peters and Ludwig Körner.
Dr. Bartolo
Shortly after WWII, the DEFA Studios produced a series of operas and operettas which belonged to the classical German musical heritage. This enchanting film, the very first opera production of DEFA, stands out because of its lavish decor and costumes, its outstanding actors and their masterful voices of that time.
Paul Knaul
Big Bill
Adaptation of Seeliger's novel, starting production in 1943, finished by DEFA studios after the war.
Theaterdirektor
Lokalgast
Estamos en la Alemania nazi, pero sin casi referencias políticas salvo que las ambientaciones de ciertos números musicales están localizadas en Italia, España y Japón. Cuenta la historia de una artista de variedades que triunfa con sus obras musicales, donde canta y levanta pierna con mucha habilidad. Cansada de tanta gira huye de su manager en tren. Por casualidad queda atrapada en una estación alpina en pleno invierno, donde conocerá a dos ingenieros que trabajan en un nuevo trazado del ferrocarril. Uno de ellos suspira por una mujer a la antigua, el otro por una mujer a la moderna. ¿Con quién se quedará nuestra starlette?
Wenig
Peter and Paul are old friends who happen to meet again. Both are dentists and both want to get married the next day.
a movie by Heinz Paul
Portier Zumm
1944 film.
Kabarettdirektor
Vera Meiners' life was sweet but unfortunately for her, it was not to last. Her husband, Jan, left her after she met a former lover in a harmless friendly meeting. Forced to resume her disrupted medical career, she worked in a Swiss clinic but, without the knowledge of the chief surgeon, Vera ordered a risky operation to be performed and was thereafter fired. Penniless, she then works in Spanish nightclubs in order to provide for herself and her child. After many years, she runs into her friend Frank again in one of these nightclubs...
Jussuf Pascha
Después de años de largos viajes, el barón Münchhausen y su criado Kuchenreutter regresan a la mansión familiar, pero por poco tiempo. Pronto emprenden viaje a San Petersburgo, donde el barón conoce a la zarina Katharina, y se bate en duelo con el celoso Potemkim; además, el diabólico Cagliostro le concede el don de la eterna juventud. Después, parte a luchar contra los turcos, rescata a la princesa Isabella, cautiva en la corte de Abdul-Hamid, y huye con ella a Venecia, desde donde viajará a la Luna.
Direktor Pröschke
Caught at the window just before an air-raid warning (WWII) composer Paul tells how he met his wive Anni, a revue star and song writer, how he handled the courtship and the early years of his marriage, inspite of some professional conflicts - his operas were flops, while his wive had one success after the other - they finally found out how they could help each other.
Theaterdirektor Mocelli
The attractive Oberleutnant Paul Wendlandt is stationed in North Africa as a fighter pilot. While in Berlin to deliver a report he is given a day's leave, and on the stage of the cabaret theatre "Skala" sees the popular Danish singer Hanna Holberg. For Paul it is love at first sight. When Hanna visits friends after the end of the performance, he follows her, and speaks to her in the U-Bahn. After the party in her friends' flat, he accompanies her home and chance throws them further together when an air raid warning forces them to take cover in the air raid shelter. Hanna reciprocates Paul's feelings, but after a night spent together Paul has to return immediately to the front. There now follows a whole series of misunderstandings, and one missed opportunity after another. While Hanna waits in vain for some sign of life from Paul, he is flying on missions in North Africa. When he tries to visit her in her Berlin flat, she is giving a Christmas concert in Paris.
Hans Muth sen.
Cnortez
An exchanged suitcase and a burglary with an actress give occasions to whirl a family with daughters-in-law and brides hard in a mess. Old mistake comedy according to pattern.
Director
Varietédirektor
In a cosmopolitan city vaudeville theatre, meeting place of the most successful artistes, the art shooter gets in suspicion to have committed a murderous poster on his jealous partner. - Not particularly successful mixture of vaudeville theatre numbers, artiste's destiny and crime film tension, on an average produced and played. A production rotated in Budapest with the popular dancer La Jana.
Barbock, Helenes Vater
Der Florentiner Hut (The Leghorn Hat), a 1939 German film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner
Gerlach, Zirkus-Regisseur
Dufour
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Gusti Aigner and Franz Lenhardt are in love, but composer Lenhardt is too shy and bashful to go out and sell his compositions to music publishers. Gusti takes the burden on herself; and while there are complications and humorous situations she runs into.
Director
Novelist Philip wants to employ a beautiful young secretary, much to his wife Inez' disgust. After a particularly nasty scene, he packs his bags and leaves. Shortly after, his father-in-law arrives from Indonesia, mistaking family friend Willem for his son-in-law. Willem falls in love with Fientje Peters, the secretary in question, who has another admirer in Mr Bakker, the chief clerk at the hotel, who in turn is worshipped by his own secretary -- a tough tangle to sort out.
Director
A singer tired of the stage retreats to a hotel in the country. There, she finds love and a way back into show business.
Director
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Woman concert singer seeks to connect with her adult daughter, by her former marriage to a staid industrialist who has kept the two apart since the daughter was a small child, and gets inadvertent help from the industrialist's fired employee who has fallen in love with the girl.
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Dolly Haas is employed as a (supposedly male) servant at a Hotel.
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Out of unlikely circumstances an underground ticket vending girl and a mail pilot fall in love.
Director
Banker Rudi Moebius and his counselor arrive in Wien for an arranged marriage which should solve their financial problems. Only they don't know, but Lucie Weidling is broken too, and in love with Gustl, a musician without the courage to elope. Meanwhile Rudi meets Steffi and falls in love not even knowing her name. He and Lucie become good friends and decide to help each other.
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A country girl, mistaken for the niece of an American millionaire, wins the prize in a toothpaste contest, a trip to the Baltic seashore.
Director
First of several filmed versions of a popular period operetta, in which an early 18th century noblewoman in Poland falls in love with a revolutionary student activist.
Fürst Pawlowsky
Johann Strauss returns to Austria in 1848 after a visit to Russia.
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Der feindliche Hauptmann
A mill situated on the border between two unnamed countries and the residents therein become pawns in a future war.
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Herr Direktor
Wilhelm
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Rodrigo Pampas
Director
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A millionaire daughter is to be married to a man unknown to her. To get to know him, she slips into men's clothes, sticks on a mustache and is hired as a chauffeur.
A millionaire daughter is to be married to a man unknown to her. To get to know him, she slips into men's clothes, sticks on a mustache and is hired as a chauffeur.
Kommandant der Festung Tossenstein
La hija del jefe de una cuadrilla de bandoleros de la montaña se enamora del jefe del comando militar encargado de arrestar a su padre...
Director
Mann
Bullbox
Thanks to the treasure of the Queen of Sheba, Maud, who now calls herself Fergusson, has become an immensely wealthy woman. The plane that rescued her and Allan Stanley from Ophir belongs to newspaper king Fletcher, who reports on the rescue operation on the front pages of his newspapers.
Bullbox
Through the plan hidden in Astarte's jewelry, Maud Gregaards, Kien-Lung and Consul Madsen get on the trail of the Queen of Sheba's treasure. Their search takes them to Africa, where they want to know from King Makombe the location of the Fire Mountain, near which the legendary city of Ophir, the center of the Astarte cult, is said to be.
Hilarius
The misadventures of an effete young man who must get married in order to inherit a fortune. He opts to purchase a remarkably lifelike doll and marry it instead, not realizing that the doll is actually the puppet-maker’s flesh-and-blood daughter in disguise.
In a circus, visitor who has just fallen for the “gypsy” dancer Militza is stabbed by a jealous clown, Bajazzo. Militza escapes to the country village of Marienhagen, finding shelter in the house of a local Catholic priest. The priest also falls for Militza. When he is subsequently struck dead by a bolt of lightning one evening during Mass, his mother blames Militza and has her cast out of the village. Militza joins a theatrical troupe whose married leader is disappointed with the general lack of artistic talent and begs Militza to leave with him. Militza refuses, and instead flees on her own. Onboard a ship, she is surprised to encounter the leader of the troupe again. The ship sinks, he dies. She is rescued by a nobleman who takes her to his country estate. Here she finds peace and true love. When the dead priest’s vengeful mother learns that Militza is alive, she kindles fear and superstition among the villagers, who stone Militza to death.
Zamor - ein Neger
Cuenta la historia de Madame DuBarry, quien de humilde origen, llegó a alcanzar el puesto de favorita del rey Luis XV, quien la hizo condesa al casarla con un noble de la Corte, así como los hechos que llevaron a la Revolución Francesa.
Mister Quaker, oyster-king of America
Quaker, el rey de las ostras, es tan rico que lo único que le sorprendería sería ver a su hija casarse con un príncipe. Hace una oferta al príncipe arruinado Nucki, quien manda a un amigo suyo para que le explique cómo es Ossi, la hija de Quaker. Sátira social en la que es para muchos -incluido el propio Lubitsch- la primera película en la que desarrolla su estilo personal; el que acabará conociéndose como el "toque Lubitsch".
Lachmann, Generaldirektor
Mientras rueda una película en los Alpes, la famosa protagonista se enamora de un noble.
The tragic story of Don Jose, a Spanish cavalryman, who falls under the spell of a gypsy girl, Carmen, who treats him with both love and contempt and leads him into temptation and thus damnation.
Ossip Storki
La historia de una niña judía obligada a ocultar su identidad para poder asistir a la escuela de medicina en San Petersburgo. POLA NEGRI
Se llamaba Apolonia (1897/1987) y a pesar de ese nombre se hizo un lugar entre las vampiresas más acreditadas del silente. Recuerdo que en mi familia se la llamaba "la de los ojos negros" y, en efecto, el rimmel corría sin mesura por su rostro. Durante el entierro de Valentino montó un número espectacular para la prensa, "desmayándose" varias veces y fingiendo ser la amante nunca correspondida de Rodolfo (algo que el hermano de éste y Mary Pickford se encargaron de desmentir). A comienzos del sonoro su estrella palideció y sus últimos años son un misterio similar al de la la Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) de "Sunset Boulevard". Nos dejó por un tumor cerebral a los noventa años y legó toda su fortuna a la St. Mary's University. (Eddie Constanti)
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La historia de una niña judía obligada a ocultar su identidad para poder asistir a la escuela de medicina en San Petersburgo. POLA NEGRI
Se llamaba Apolonia (1897/1987) y a pesar de ese nombre se hizo un lugar entre las vampiresas más acreditadas del silente. Recuerdo que en mi familia se la llamaba "la de los ojos negros" y, en efecto, el rimmel corría sin mesura por su rostro. Durante el entierro de Valentino montó un número espectacular para la prensa, "desmayándose" varias veces y fingiendo ser la amante nunca correspondida de Rodolfo (algo que el hermano de éste y Mary Pickford se encargaron de desmentir). A comienzos del sonoro su estrella palideció y sus últimos años son un misterio similar al de la la Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) de "Sunset Boulevard". Nos dejó por un tumor cerebral a los noventa años y legó toda su fortuna a la St. Mary's University. (Eddie Constanti)
Graf Moros
Ossi Oswaldo interpreta a una joven que, cansada de que le reprochen todos sus actos, decide disfrazarse de hombre. De este modo descubre la insolidaridad entre los hombres... y también sus amistades equivocadas.
Carambo di Gracho, Lebemann
The marechal
An adaptation of the famous fairy tale.
Tanzlehrer
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Lubitsch plays a book shop employee who falls in love with Jannings' daughter.
Princess Melani wants to find out more about her husband-to-be and impersonates a maid. Her fiancé pretends to be a secretary. An addlebrained servant is ordered to play the count. His first official act is to pass a pay rise for himself. In the meantime his highness / the secretary is flirting with the maid.
A tinted silent film about a murder plot.
Theater Agent
Physiker Ardan
A german silent sci-fi movie by Harry Piel
Silent film.
