Benno Vigny
Nacimiento : , Commercy, France
Historia
Novelist and screenwriter.
Screenplay
El científico Karl Rother descubre que su esposa, además de serle infiel, le está pasando información sobre sus descubrimientos a los aliados. Rothe la asesina y las fuerzas de seguridad del gobierno, en lugar de castigarlo por ello, ocultan lo sucedido para que el científico prosiga con unas investigaciones muy útiles para ellos. Pero, tras el crimen, Rothe comienza a sentir un ansia insana de asesinar, de la que sentirá tal culpabilidad que le irá consumiendo poco a poco.
Writer
A biography of the composer Johann Strauss.
Screenplay
Armande, the wife of surgeon Colbert, has numerous love affairs and pursues Jacques, whom Armande’s girlfriend Liliane has in her sights.
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Bariole gives cheap singing lessons, which annoys the official teachers.
Screenplay
English-language version. 'A sergeant in the Foreign Legion falls in love with Zinah, the daughter of a Berber chief.' (British Film Institute)
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In Morocco, a French sergeant falls in love with the sister of an Arab colleague, a dangerous situation that could result in death for both of them.....
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Set among the traveling circus community. Artists of many talents and origins. A showman causes an accident in which his wife is killed. He accuses the circus clown who spends ten years in prison. It was made as a polyglot film with each actor speaking in their own language.
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German language version of The Virtuous Sin (1930).
Story
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Lydia is a spoiled young woman who thinks she can get anything for money. One day she causes an accident in which a motorcyclist is killed. At the trial she meets prosecutor Dan O'Bannon. She is sentenced to prison for manslaughter.
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Lighthouse keeper Uwe Bull lives with his wife Hanne and the silent assistant Jens in a secluded, small world. When the only survivor from a shipwreck, young Margot from Reeperbahn, is washed up on the island, Uwe's feelings arouses. But dark clouds appear in the sky.
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En una ciudad marroquí donde está la Legión extranjera, Amy Jolly (Dietrich), una cantante de cabaret que por problemas económicos se ve obligada a cantar en un café de segunda fila, tiene como novio a un rico pintor (Menjou), pero se enamora del apuesto legionario Tom Brown (Cooper).
Theatre Play
En una ciudad marroquí donde está la Legión extranjera, Amy Jolly (Dietrich), una cantante de cabaret que por problemas económicos se ve obligada a cantar en un café de segunda fila, tiene como novio a un rico pintor (Menjou), pero se enamora del apuesto legionario Tom Brown (Cooper).
Screenplay
A prostitute in an act of pity is keeping chaste company with a condemned man through the night before he is to be hung.
Writer
The Wrecker is a British film that tells the story of a crook who organises train crashes to discredit the railway, in favour of a rival bus company. The stunts in this film were groundbreaking for 1920s British cinema A scene wich has been discribed as "the most spectacular rail crash in cinema history" was recorded by 22 cameras.
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Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead of night, carrying ghosts from a long-ago train wreck in the area. The travelers eventually get to the bottom of the things that go bump in the night.
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Scenes from the beginning of the Russian revolution against the czaristic regime.