Friedrich Kühne

Berlin 1952, seven years after WWII. Four women are looking for a good man and happiness in the divided city. Their destinies are loosely connected through one person: the West Berlin dandy and womanizer, Conny.

Film by Richard Oswald.

Carlos y Elisabeth es una película dramática muda alemana de 1924 dirigida por Richard Oswald y protagonizada por Conrad Veidt

Cardinal Richelieu gives the order that the twin brother of France's King Louis XIV should be removed from the court and taken to the country. There he is educated, without knowledge of his true ancestry, and kept as a prisoner.

A melodrama about a virtuous wife unjustly abandoned by her husband, who get him back with the help of a Hindu mystic.

The Earl of Essex, a person favourite of the Queen, is in jeopardy of losing his relationship with the monarch after secretly marrying one of the Queen's ladies-in-waiting.

La devoción por una bella esclava provoca una guerra entre el faraón Amenes y el rey de Etiopía. Pero ella ama a Ramphis. Fue la película más espectacular que se había producido hasta entonces en Europa y utilizaba una impresionante reconstrucción de las pirámides, los templos, los desiertos e incluso el Nilo en los estudios alemanes Ufa.

Even without the benefit of sound, the 1922 German adaptation of Othello seems more operatic than Shakespearean. This may be due to the casting of Emil Jannings, to whom restraint and subtlety were strangers. Werner Krauss, of Cabinet of Dr. Caligari fame, is on hand as the duplicitous Iago. Appearing as the unfortunate Desdemona is Lea Von Lenkeffy, better known as Lya de Putti. Produced on an elaborate scale, Othello may not be true to the letter of Shakespeare, but is undeniably a smorgasbord of visual delights.

Based on the novel 'Elsker hverandre' by Aage Madelung, the film follows various lives, one of which is Jewish girl Hanne-Liebe, as she grows up, and experiences the pains of living as a Jew in Russia, leading to a revolution.

Kornej is a young painter of primitivism. An art agent discover the works of Kornej and buy the whole collection. The art critic Moulin is very excited about Kornejs paintings and style. Kornej marries his childhood sweetheart Rita. They have a child that carries a mystic disease. Allt the money Kornej got from selling his collection is put into the care of the sick child. Rita leaves Kornej.

At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his fellow leading French revolutionaries including Georges Danton.

Suntuosa recreación histórica que fue calificada como 'la película más grande de todos los tiempos'. El Enrique VIII robusto, brutal y cruel de Emil Jannings contrasta con la inocencia de la Ana Bolena de Henny Porten. Dos arquitectos dirigieron la construcción de las réplicas de la Torre de Londres, el Castillo de Windsor y la Abadía de Westminster.

A vengeful antique dealer targets a dancer.

En la segunda parte, el aventurero Kay Hoog tendrá que enfrentarse de nuevo a la conspiración de "Las Arañas". Además, descubrirá una ciudad china subterránea, custodiada por tigres y cuya existencia nadie conoce. Si en la primera aventura los incas ofrecían sus sacrificios humanos para ser mucho más fuertes y vencer a los enemigos de Occidente, en la segunda los indios desean recuperar el diamante, que perteneció a la dinastía Ming, para devolver la libertad a Asia y expulsar a todos los extranjeros; si en Der goldene See las Arañas enloquecen y luchan entre sí por el fabuloso tesoro del lago de oro, en Das Brillantenschiff pelean frenéticamente entre ellos para conseguir salir de la gruta venenosa. Y, es muy posible, de haber dirigido Lang las otras dos partes previstas, que Kay Hoog olvidara a su amada dejándose caer en los brazos de Ellen Terry, a la que salva en el último momento.

"The Girl's Shepherd" - at that time a common name for a pimp. About promiscuity and naivety leading up to complicated situations.

Kay Hoog es un millonario aventurero, una especie de cruce entre Phileas Fogg e Indiana Jones. En la primera parte de la serie, "Der goldene see", Hoog encuentra una botella con un mensaje que ha sido arrojada al mar por un profesor de Harvard desaparecido en Perú. A partir de aquí, se suceden las más diversas aventuras: el hallazgo de un gran tesoro de la antigua civilización inca, una organización secreta llamada "Las Arañas", dirigida por una mujer fría y calculadora, viajes en barco y globo. Y, finalmente, Hoog se enamora de una bella princesa inca y la lleva consigo a San Francisco. De Las arañas en particular, de la cual solo pudieron llevarse a cabo las dos primeras partes de las cuatro en que se había concebido, diré que prefigura en cierta manera el tipo de El doctor Mabuse y que está, al menos en su primera parte, inspirada ya de un modo totalmente languiano, a través de noticias y artículos de los periódicos, como haría hasta el fin de su obra en tantas películas.

In China, Professor Gesellius has completed his long research on the many uses of opium. When he is about to return home, he hears about a special variety that produces fabulous sensations because of the way it is made, but can also cause the total destruction of the mind and body of the person who consumes it.

Mad scientist, doctor Ten Brinken artificially inseminates a prostitute with a dead man's semen. The resulting child grows up to be a beautiful, evil woman who turns against her creator.

A group of scientists, led by a Professor Ortmann, produce a living human child using scientific processes - a "homunculus." This creature is human in every way, except that he cannot experience love.

For a long time the homunculus had to hide from his pursuers. But now he mingles with humanity again and sows discord, strife and murder. One day, when he meets an orphaned girl, he takes her to the shepherd Rudolf's parents. His goal is to pair the two together in order to breed a new human race from them. To this end, he kidnaps her to a deserted island. But the plan fails because Rudolf tries to kill the homunculus after learning his true identity. In revenge, the homunculus destroys the entire island, including the young couple. His hitherto loyal companion Edgar Rodin is so horrified by this deed that he renounces the homunculus and threatens him with death.

Richard Ortmann the artificial man (Homunculus) has become the head of the corporation that represents the capital and power of the country, but he has stopped believing in human love. All the more clear is his goal now: the annihilation of mankind.

The homunculus and his companion Edgar Rodin make an invention that would allow the hateful homunculus to destroy the world. But first he wants to find out about love. When he observes how young Anna is rejected by her parents, he takes care of her and asks her parents for forgiveness - without success. He brings her to her seducer, who also rejects the girl. The homunculus then takes revenge by ruining the man financially and throwing Anna at his feet. But she still loves the villain and asks Homunculus for mercy. The homunculus cannot understand this feeling of love - he wants to try it out on himself. He puts a young woman who loves him to the hardest test, but she will do anything for him, sacrificing her fiancé and her parents. Only when he reveals his artificial nature to her, she leaves him. This experience confirms the homunculus in his intention to destroy mankind.

A group of scientists, led by a Professor Ortmann, produce a living human child using scientific processes - a "homunculus." This creature is human in every way, except that he cannot experience love.

Part of the artificial-creature series encompassing Der Golem (1914 and 1920), Alraune (1918, 1928, 1930) and Metropolis (1926), 'Homunculus' was the most popular serial in Germany during World War I even influencing the dress of fashionable Berlin. Foenss, a Danish star, is the perfect creature manufactured in a laboratory by Kuehne. Having discovered his origins, that he has no 'soul' and is incapable of love, he revenges himself on mankind, instigating revolutions and becoming a monstrous but beautiful tyrant, relentlessly pursued by his creator-father who seeks to rectify his mistake.

Georg Bertrand, a gambling addict and the son of a wealthy landowner, is kicked out of his family home. The director of a travelling circus takes him in. In time, Georg marries the director's daughter and himself becomes the director. Georg's brother visits the circus and recognizes him. Georg must now decide whether to stay with the circus or return to the family that kicked him out.

This movie, directed by Richard Oswald, is based on the operetta "Les contes de Hoffmann" by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), which is a genial musical potpourri from various short stories and novels by the Prussian writer, composer, painter, lawyer and judge E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822). While Hoffmann's literary work was longtime considered to be merely fantastical, it was finally researched, in the last years, according to its metaphysical background. Characteristic for Hoffmann's work is his life-long fight against rationalism and for the revelation of nature morte, culminating mostly in carnival-like scenes anticipating literary techniques only described in the works of Bachtin and Bachelard.

Originally planned as the third entry in the Der Hund von Baskerville series, it was reworked into a stand alone film before release.

In this early version the classic "Hound of the Baskervilles" mystery is faithfully adapted, although Watson's character is absent. Holmes' foe is called Stapleton and he menaces Holmes' client Lord Henry and his fiancée, Laura Lyons.

Nymphs and gods and their foul play. Directed by Max Reinhardt.

Re-imagination of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice set in Poland. Directed by Carl Wilhelm.