Julius Brandt
Nacimiento : 1873-03-05, Olmütz, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Olomouc, Czech Republic]
Muerte : 1949-12-26
Historia
Veteran Austrian character actor, on stage from 1890. In films from 1912, with occasional forays into writing and directing. Mostly used for supporting roles, with the exception of a starring role in Haydns letzter Besucher (1939). The sound movie didn't constitute a problem for the experiences theater actor and he continued his successful career with Alfred Hitchcock's "Mary - Sir John greift ein!" (1930).
Maler
Biopic about Ludwig van Beethoven.
A wealthy man murders his wife, then marries a young woman who becomes suspicious of him.
Reisender im Schlafwagenabteil
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?
Schreiber Pokorny
Kapellmeister in Prag
Richter
Dirigent
Kapitän des Handelsschiffes
A girl sneaks onto a ship and is discovered midseas.
When the schoolgirl Kate defends her friend, she is expelled from school. To conceal the incident from her parents, she positions herself ill. Promptly she falls in love with the treating doctor who cures her sudden illness not only, but marries his patient also immediately. But Kate soon bores the life of a doctor's wife. So she decides to secretly catch her high school.
Hofkanzleisekretär Juritsch
Composer Franz Schubert becomes involved with a family with three daughters, falling in love with the two blonds, first one, then the other; but will he notice the quiet brunet third daughter, who has fallen madly in love with him?
Erzbischof von Canterbury
After her Prime Minister Lord Melbourne arranges a marriage for her with the German Prince Albert, the young Queen Victoria decides to leave London and spend some time in Kent. While there she meets a handsome young German and falls in love, unaware that he is her intended husband Albert.
Diener Leopold
When Albers takes his drug-addicted opera star sister Gerda to a sanitarium, they both become targets of slimy dope peddler Peter Lorre, who fears that Gerda will blow the whistle on him. Lorre kidnaps the woman, leading Albers on a frantic chase.
A young woman born illegitimately comes to terms with the challenge of getting married.
Tras la I Guerra Mundial, Franz no tiene ni familia ni lugar donde ir. Después de una década vagando por Europa con desánimo, se instalará definitivamente en Viena. En su primera noche en la ciudad, Franz salvará a una chica de morir ahogada, momento que retratará un rápido fotógrafo.
Geschäftsführer
Leopold Pichler is a very orderly and trustworthy chief cashier who is asked by his boss to get a large sum of money from the bank which the boss urgently needs on a trip to Vienna. Due to some circumstances, getting the money takes a little longer than expected and the director leaves for Vienna without it. But Pichler sees himself as a reliable man, and so he and his assistant Wittek follow the director to Vienna with the money kept in a bag. In Vienna, the two provincials however are mistaken for guests of the director and spend an evening at a posh night club. But when it transpires that the director actually won't come to the night club that evening, Pichler and Wittek have to pay the bill with the money from the bank. And their subsequent attempts at reimbursing the money lead to situations of ever-increasing hilariousness...
Der Portier
The two happy fitters Eddy and Tommy are doing overtime to ensure the great travel-exhibition of the department store they work in is ready for display. Outside, they see a poor newspaper seller, who looks longingly at the beautiful things in the display window. So they simply decide to smuggle the unfortunate inside and compete to win her favor by giving her gifts from the shelves of the department store. In their frenzy of happiness, they don’t notice that the girl is taking the fun little game for the truth. When she realizes that she has to give back the alleged gifts, she runs away.
Una mujer es acusada de asesinato y condenada a muerte. Un miembro del jurado, Sir John Menier, empieza a investigar por su cuenta, intentando demostrar su inocencia. "Mary" es una versión que se hizo en alemán para la República de Weimar sobre la película "Murder" de 1930. Se filmó en Inglaterra con actores alemanes y en el conjunto sólo dos de ellos están en ambas versiones. Se trata de un remake total (planos exactos) de la original, salvo por el detalle de que dura 20 minutos menos.
Director
Baruch Mayer, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the family tradition and leave the shtetl to become an actor.
Klettenmeyer
"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.
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Marzelewsky