Oskar Messter
Nacimiento : 1866-11-22, Berlin, Germany
Muerte : 1943-12-06
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Documentary about early cinema
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A young intellectual falls in love with a circus performer and decides to cultivate her into a lady and marry her. Eventually however she decides to return to her tightrope walker lover.
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Her Sport is a 1919 German silent comedy film directed by Rudolf Biebrach and starring Henny Porten, Georg H. Schnell and Hermann Thimig. A man-hating young woman tries to break up her friend's new marriage, but while in the Alps she meets her own ideal man.
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The tiny Hans meets the woman of his dreams. She is a big powerful nurse. Hans disguises himself as a baby.
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Henny Porten plays the dual role of a rather indecorous Countess and her kitchen maid Karoline Blum, an amateur actress.
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a silent movie
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Short film produced by Messter-Film for the Seventh War Bond drive.
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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A millionaire steals an ancient idol causing some natives call upon him a terrible curse.
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a silent movie by Rober Wiene
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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A silent movie by Robert Wiene.
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A silent movie by Robert Wiene
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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Klara and her father have been alone since her mother died. Her close friend Hans leaves for the military, and on returning as a fine young man, rushes to see Klara. As their families work to keep them apart, their love grows stronger and stronger.
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A love doctor successfully produces men on order for needy women, until his system for delivering them – through the mail as puppets in canisters - goes awry.
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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.
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A man dresses up as a woman in order to take part in the suffragette movement.
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A man dresses up as a woman in order to take part in the suffragette movement.
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A friend sacrifices himself, taking the blame for a murder upon himself. A guilty conscience will end up killing the real culprit.
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Actuality scenes of Berlin circa 1910.
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Only 3 minutes of this Oskar Messter short film survive.
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First feature film produced by the German pioneer Oskar Messter
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A short early sound film of soldiers following the orders of their commander.
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A nude couple pose in an art studio on a square rug, while the camera does a circular traveling around them; the woman has her right knee on the floor and her right arm raised in front of her face, holding the man's thighs with her right, while the man is bent forward, as if looking in the distance.
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A nude couple pose in an art studio on a square rug, while the camera does a circular traveling around them; the woman has her right knee on the floor and her right arm raised in front of her face, holding the man's thighs with her right, while the man is bent forward, as if looking in the distance.
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This film shot by Oskar Messter shows a visit by Wilhelm II the AG Vulcan in Szczecin, one of the then leading shipyards in Germany. On display are the Emperor and some military and civil dignitaries, who walk on the landing stage of the factory site on the occasion of the launch of the transatlantic speed steamer "Kaiser Wilhelm the Great" a group of spectators. In his memoirs Messter has described the motion picture as "the first good close-up of the Emperor."
