Paul Leni

Paul Leni

Nacimiento : 1885-07-08, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Muerte : 1929-09-02

Perfil

Paul Leni

Películas

The Last Warning
Director
A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of the actors was murdered during a performance, by staging a production of the same play with the remaining members of the original cast.
El hombre que ríe
Director
Queriéndose vengar de Lord Clancharlie, El Rey Jacobo II ordena la muerte y el secuestro de su hijo. Como venganza contra su padre, el niño es secuestrado y deformado su rostro quedándole una sonrisa monstruosa. Tras vivir en una feria y enamorarse de una ciega, la Reina Ana se entera del origen nobiliario de Gwynplaine y le restituye su título de Lord. La reina le quiere obligar a que se case con su hermana para castigarla, pero él huye con su verdadero amor.
The Chinese Parrot
Director
The plot is motivated by a pearl necklace, which has caused the death and/or ruination of all its owners. The second screen appearance of detective Charlie Chan
El Legado Tenebroso
Director
Rich old Cyrus West's relatives are waiting for him to die so they can inherit. But he stipulates that his will be read 20 years after his death. On the appointed day his expectant heirs arrive at his brooding mansion. The will is read and it turns out that Annabelle West, the only heir with his name left, inherits, if she is deemed sane. If she isn't, the money and some diamonds go to someone else, whose name is in a sealed envelope. Before he can reveal the identity of her successor to Annabelle, Mr. Crosby, the lawyer, disappears. The first in a series of mysterious events, some of which point to Annabelle in fact being unstable.
Der Katzensteg
Art Direction
La película se centra en una familia dividida por la política. Mientras que el hijo, un prusiano acérrimo, está horrorizado por el traicionero apoyo de su padre a los franceses, también condena el espíritu de venganza sin sentido de los patriotas locales.
Wie einst im Mai
Art Direction
The Golden Butterfly
Art Direction
A restaurant cashier, who has a mutual attraction to the restauranteur, has a secret passion for dance. As soon as she finishes work she is off down to the dance studio for a practice. She has a chance meeting with a handsome impresario, who promises to make her into the greatest dancer the world has ever known. (IMDb)
Cab No. 13
Art Direction
The film starts with a woman on the run from her millionaire husband giving birth to a daughter in the home of a washerwoman. The woman dies in childbirth, but the baby survives. The washerwoman leaves the baby in a horsedrawn Parisian taxicab (No. 13). The paperwork of the birth is lost in a huge tome. Sixteen years pass. The tome is bought by a poor student. One day his bookshelf collapses, and the tome opens at the page where the paperwork has been hidden. The student realises that the paperwork relates to a millionaire who has spent the last sixteen years looking for his pregnant wife. The student traces the washerwoman, and he tricks her into confessing what she has done with the baby. Meanwhile, the baby has been adopted by the cab driver and his wife, and has grown into Lili Damita.
Manon Lescaut
Costume Design
A French adventurer fights to save a woman in the life of prostitution.
Manon Lescaut
Set Decoration
A French adventurer fights to save a woman in the life of prostitution.
Der Farmer aus Texas
Art Direction
Rebus-Film Nr. 1
Writer
An "extra" shown in two parts at the movie theater, before and after a feature: part one gives the clues to six words in a crossword puzzle, part two gives the answers. In addition to the visual clues, which are clips of a party, an Asian country, a European city, table games, winter, and bullfighting, there are montages of street scenes and spinning objects. A simple cartoon character, Mr. Rebus, walks the audience through the clues, and title cards encourage the participation of the theatergoers.
Rebus-Film Nr. 1
Director
An "extra" shown in two parts at the movie theater, before and after a feature: part one gives the clues to six words in a crossword puzzle, part two gives the answers. In addition to the visual clues, which are clips of a party, an Asian country, a European city, table games, winter, and bullfighting, there are montages of street scenes and spinning objects. A simple cartoon character, Mr. Rebus, walks the audience through the clues, and title cards encourage the participation of the theatergoers.
Rebus Film Nr. 3
Director
Animation short film by Paul Leni.
Love Letters of Baroness S
Art Direction
A married society woman strikes up a romance with a young musician. She introduces the man to high society. The society woman eventually decides to break off the relationship and the musician attempts to blackmail her.
El hombre de las figuras de cera
Art Direction
Cuenta la historia de un joven escritor que acepta un anuncio para escribir historias en torno a las figuras que se exponen en un gabinete de estatuas de cera exhibido en una feria. La hija del dueño, muy pronto, queda atraída por el joven empleado...
El hombre de las figuras de cera
Director
Cuenta la historia de un joven escritor que acepta un anuncio para escribir historias en torno a las figuras que se exponen en un gabinete de estatuas de cera exhibido en una feria. La hija del dueño, muy pronto, queda atraída por el joven empleado...
The Film in the Film
Himself
The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors of the era at work on the set including Fritz Lang, Robert Wiene, and E.A. Dupont.
The Countess of Paris
Production Design
Tragedy of Love
Art Direction
Frauenopfer
Art Direction
An old count has been keeping an eye on the granddaughter of his lock-keeper for quite some time. But the young Maria is in love with the young painter Walter, who is only moderately gifted as an artist. The two marry and become parents of a child. However, the count does not want to let go of his desire for Mary and now chooses another way to gain her favor. Author: Ulf Kjell Gür
Backstairs
Art Direction
In a poor neighborhood of a big city, a crippled mailman is in love with a maid who lives in his building. However, she is in love with a wealthy and handsome young man, who soon disappears. The mailman provides the maid with letters that get her hopes up... but tragedy will soon befall all three.
Backstairs
Director
In a poor neighborhood of a big city, a crippled mailman is in love with a maid who lives in his building. However, she is in love with a wealthy and handsome young man, who soon disappears. The mailman provides the maid with letters that get her hopes up... but tragedy will soon befall all three.
Lady Hamilton
Production Design
Biopic de Lady Hamilton, su auge y decadencia en la sociedad europea del siglo XVIII y principios del XIX, incluyendo la historia de amor con Lord Nelson.
Die Geierwally
Costume Design
"The Bear Joseph", so named because of a fight with a bear, is rescued by Wally, a farmer's daughter, from a dangerous situation in a vulture's nest. He then calls her "Geierwally". They fall in love. Wally's father disapproves of this romance. He has other plans for Wally.
Die Geierwally
Art Direction
"The Bear Joseph", so named because of a fight with a bear, is rescued by Wally, a farmer's daughter, from a dangerous situation in a vulture's nest. He then calls her "Geierwally". They fall in love. Wally's father disapproves of this romance. He has other plans for Wally.
Die Verschwörung zu Genua
Production Design
Die Verschwörung zu Genua
Writer
Die Verschwörung zu Genua
Director
Der weisse Pfau
Set Designer
Der weisse Pfau
Writer
Prinz Kuckuck
Production Design
The niece and nephew of an eccentric millionaire try to get a share of the now deceased millionaire's inheritance from his adopted son who delights in squandering it.
Prinz Kuckuck
Director
The niece and nephew of an eccentric millionaire try to get a share of the now deceased millionaire's inheritance from his adopted son who delights in squandering it.
Intoxication
Art Direction
Gaston finally succeeds as a dramatist and decides to leave his wife and child for another woman. When the child dies, the finger is pointed at him and he winds up as a destitute before all is revealed. This film is considered lost.
Die platonische Ehe
Art Direction
Die platonische Ehe
Director
Mania. Die Geschichte einer Zigarettenarbeiterin
Art Direction
The Diary of Dr. Hart
Art Direction
Dr. Robert Hart visits his friend Ursula von Hohenau in Saxony in July 1914. There he hears about the Austrian ultimatum to Serbia. He immediately returns to his home town where, just before mobilisation, he meets the Polish count Bransky and his daughter Jadwiga, the French Vicomte Latour and the Russian counsellor of embassy count Bronislaw Krascinsky. Bronislaw is madly in love with Jadwiga and jealous of Dr. Hart. After the outbreak of the war Dr. Hart works close to the Polish frontlines. Bronislaw leads the Russian troops in this area. When Bronislaw is wounded during a battle with the Germans Dr. Hart finds him and takes care of his wounds.
The Diary of Dr. Hart
Director
Dr. Robert Hart visits his friend Ursula von Hohenau in Saxony in July 1914. There he hears about the Austrian ultimatum to Serbia. He immediately returns to his home town where, just before mobilisation, he meets the Polish count Bransky and his daughter Jadwiga, the French Vicomte Latour and the Russian counsellor of embassy count Bronislaw Krascinsky. Bronislaw is madly in love with Jadwiga and jealous of Dr. Hart. After the outbreak of the war Dr. Hart works close to the Polish frontlines. Bronislaw leads the Russian troops in this area. When Bronislaw is wounded during a battle with the Germans Dr. Hart finds him and takes care of his wounds.
Das Rätsel von Bangalor
Writer
Das Rätsel von Bangalor
Director
Sleeping Beauty
Costume Design
An adaptation of the famous fairy tale.
Sleeping Beauty
Art Direction
An adaptation of the famous fairy tale.
Sleeping Beauty
Director
An adaptation of the famous fairy tale.
Der Blusenkönig
Art Direction
Sally Katz begins a new job as a supervisor in the workshop of a garment maker where the boss's nasty daughter makes him advances. But the girl's father forbids him to flirt back.
The Catwalk
Art Direction
The eternal peace
Set Designer
Guy Walser killed the unscrupulous seducer of his sister Marguerite and had to spend several years as a Bagnos convict for this bloody deed . His past is like a brand on his social existence that he can never shake off. He married Lucienne and they had a lovely daughter, Lilly. Despite all the wealth that Guy has worked for, he remains an outcast who, as the title suggests, seeks nothing more than eternal peace for himself.
Stuart Webbs: Die geheimnisvolle Villa
Art Direction
Stuart Webbs: The Man in the Cellar
Production Design
Installment in the popular Stuart Webbs detective series. Directed by Joe May.
Ein Ausgestoßener: 1. Teil
Art Direction
Robert Lambard, son of a respected Parisian banker, seduces Marguerite Walser, the sister of Guy Walser, a diligent general manager employed by his father. At these times, especially in the upper social class, such an act is of course not without social consequences, and so Guy, after learning about this relationship, demands Lambard junior to marry his sister in order to restore her "soiled" honor . But he just laughs about it and brusquely rejects this request. Since Monsieur Walser puts the family honor and that of his sister above everything else, a heated argument ensues, in which Guy summarily kills the "despoiler of Marguerite's honor". Now Guy's life is destroyed too, because he is put on trial for this bloody act. There will be a convictionmanslaughter for ten years behind bars. This punishment is connected with a deportation. For seven years, Walser spent the life of a Bagno convict in nowhere, he was an outcast.