Alfred Abel

In 1984, Academy Award winning composer Giorgio Moroder introduced Fritz Lang’s science fiction epic Metropolis to a new generation of filmgoers. Working in collaboration with film archivists globally, Moroder supervised a special reconstruction, with color tinting, fewer intertitles and newly restored footage. A pioneer in the field of digital music, Moroder backed this special edition with a throbbing new score, punctuated with pop songs from some of the biggest stars of the early MTV era: Freddie Mercury, Pat Benatar, Adam Ant, Bonnie Tyler, Loverboy and others.

Film by Herbert Maisch.

William MacPhab loses seven-pounds in the stock market and decides to slap the man who was responsible for the stock manipulation that caused him to lose his money. Astor Terbanks, the stock-market manipulator is surprised the next day when he gets soundly slapped by MacPhab, and the latter promises to deliver one more a day for the next six days. Terbank's daughter, Daisy, is amused by the procedure and is attracted to MacPhab.

Before he became cult director Douglas Sirk, Detlef Sierck cut his teeth on such lavish European star vehicles as Das Hofkonzert (The Court Concert). Marta Eggerth is cast as Christine, a young singer who aspires to find out who her father was. Her odyssey brings her to the court of a mythical kingdom, where she is romanced by handsome lieutenant Walter (Johannes Heesters). He is warned not to lose his heart to a "commoner," but all turns out all right when King Serenissimus (Otto Tressler) turns out to be Christine's long-lost daddy. Hofkonzert was designed as a comeback for Marta Eggerth, whose star had eclipsed by the mid-1930s.

Walter is in love with the 17-year-old Erika, but she raves for older, experienced men. When Walter and Erika visit his parents' estate after passing their exams, Erika shows increasing interest in Walter's father, Werner von Schlettow.

Film by Abel.

Film by Trotz.

One autumn, Edgar, a 12 year old boy, spends a holiday with his mother at a plush hotel in Switzerland. His father, a busy lawyer, remains at the family home in Vienna. When he sees a stylish motorcar pull up at the hotel, Edgar wastes no time befriending its owner, an amiable dandy. The latter pays more attention to the boy’s mother than to the boy himself, and decides to use Edgar to wheedle his way into her affections. When Edgar realises he has been used, he is far from happy...

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.

Helene has agreed to marry a man that she isn't in love with. On the day of her wedding her cousin arrives just in time to rescue her and they run away together. They stay with her aged grandmother who assumes the young man (whom she doesn't know) to be the new husband and has prepared a bridal bed for them.

A count's son has a place to meet his poor Parisian girlfriend and they even make some money for a while with him singing and her playing piano.But the father offers him support to marry someone else.

Trece maletas caras, marcadas sólo con las iniciales O.F., y un telegrama con una reserva llegan al hotel del aburrido pueblucho de Ostend. Todos los habitantes especulan sobre el misterioso visitante. El editor del periódico local aprovecha la ocasión y asegura que las maletas pertenecen a un millonario que está de vuelta a su hogar, y enseguida el pueblo rebosa de actividad. Se ensaya una fiesta y comienzan a construir un cine, una ópera, un ayuntamiento. En medio de una época en crisis Ostend vive el auge de la ciudad y se convierte en un símbolo para la economía mundial.

Viena, 1814. Después de las guerras napoleónicas se reúnen los gobernantes y estadistas de toda Europa para pactar un nuevo orden internacional. El astuto Príncipe de Metternich, ministro del emperador austríaco, actúa de anfitrión y hace lo posible para distraer a sus húespedes, con la taimada intención de que no asistan a las sesiones de la conferencia y le permitan hacer y deshacer el traje de Europa a la medida de sus intereses. Una joven ingenua se verá inmersa en estas intrigas, en lo que ella tomará como una aventura romántica con el poderoso y apuesto Zar de todas las Rusias.

A mousy bank clerk is married to an ambitious woman.

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.

The film focuses on the leadership of the Great Powers of Europe in the days leading up to the outbreak of the First World War.

Vehículo musical para la prometedora Dolly Haas, como actriz con un novio compositor. Canta, en un momento, que tiene el andar de (Lilian) Harvey, la boca de Garbo y las piernas de Dietrich.

Arnold Horn, a young idealistic chemist, discovers a compound that can be used for the production of an effective deadly poisonous gas. Against his will the chemical factory starts production of the poison gas to increase the value of their shares.

Adaptación de un novela de Stefan Zweig

Adaptación de un novela de Stefan Zweig

Paris, France, 1784. After living many tribulations, Joseph Balsamo, known as Count Cagliostro, an infamous adventurer, enigmatic magician and necromancer, experienced physician and ruthless swordsman, triumphs among the members of the decadent French aristocracy. But a bold foretelling about a very prominent noblewoman causes his fall in disgrace… (Partially lost film.)

Adapted from the novel L'Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s.

Portrays the deep intrigue and mystical fanaticism of the last days of the Romanoffs, when Rasputin, the mad monk had such a hold over them.

A cabaret singer in Germany is in love with a young American boy, and must convince his disapproving father that she is worthy of his son.

Tamara becomes addicted to cocaine but hides from her daughter by moving in with the dealer Mangol. The father tells his daughter that her mother has died, but years later the daughter rediscovers her mother appearing on stage. Mangol pursues the daughter, but Tamara intervenes before dying amongst family members.

En una megalópolis del año 2000, los obreros están condenados a vivir recluidos en un gueto subterráneo, donde se encuentra el corazón industrial de la ciudad. Sin embargo, incitados por un robot, se rebelan contra la clase dominante y amenazan con destruir la ciudad exterior. Freder (Gustav Frölich), el hijo del soberano de Metrópolis, y María, una muchacha de origen humilde, intentarán evitar la destrucción apelando a los sentimientos y al amor.

The story of a Berlin tenement and its inhabitants. A silent drama by Gerhard Lamprecht.

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

Dancing, sports and erotic pursuits are the main ingredients in this drama about the fate of this scorned and abandoned woman, Josefine, who falls for the selfish Fennhofer. This film is considered lost.

Cinta de intrigas 'palaciegas' ambientada en el diminuto ducado mediterráneo de Abacco.

Four-generation story-saga dealing with the decline of a middle-class Lübeck family. The first adaptation of a Thomas Mann book was also Gerhard Lamprecht’s first major film.

En el siglo XIX, una mujer hedonista se casa con un aristócrata, pero le cuesta mantenerse fiel a él. "Die Flamme" fue la última película de Lubitsch en Alemania, antes de su partida a Estados Unidos. Desafortunadamente, sólo queda una bobina de este melodrama con Pola Negri. La reconstrucción realizada para el Museo de Cine de Munich se compone, por tanto, de numerosas fotografías del rodaje y dibujos del guion que complementan los 22 minutos restantes de película. Pola interpreta con garra a su personaje de mujer perdida. Se advierte el toque de Lubitsch en detalles muy concretos, como el pequeño gesto de la mano de Yvette hacia su compañera de cuarto para mantener alejado al peligroso Gaston. Es difícil tener una opinión verdadera sobre esta película porque sólo queda un fragmento muy pequeño. Es obligado remarcar, no obstante, el cuidado con la decoración y el vestuario para reconstituir el París del Segundo Imperio. Alfred Abel es un excelente villano.

Adaptación de una novela de Gerhart Hauptmann, que mediante la historia de amor no correspondido de un contable opone a la sordidez del mundo proletario y pequeño burgués con el ambiente cosmopolita de los ricos.

Mientras la policía intensifica su desconcertante búsqueda de la notoria banda de gánsteres del Dr. Mabuse, el engañoso y elusivo hipnotizador Mabuse comienza simultáneamente a encerrarse en sí mismo.

Doctor Mabuse is a criminal mastermind, doctor of psychology, and master of disguise, armed with the powers of hypnosis and mind control, who oversees the counterfeiting and gambling rackets of the Berlin underworld. He visits gambling dens by night under various guises and aliases, using the power of suggestion to win at cards and finance his plans.

La primera versión cinematográfica del Dr. Mabuse consta de dos partes: “El gran jugador” y “El infierno”. El doctor Mabuse es un villano que no se siente atraído por los bienes materiales, sino por el placer que le proporciona jugar con el destino de los hombres.

Drama rural de luchas familiares por la posesión de la tierra que escenifica la pasión y la codicia, las supersticiones y las leyendas, en una narración expresionista. (FILMAFFINITY)

The drama begins when handsome Johannes Riemann (as Richard de la Croix) is summoned to an asylum, to check on insane brother Alfred Abel (as Andreas de la Croix). As we see in a later flashback, the alluring Pola Negri (as Sappho) left the innocent Mr. Abel, a lowly engineer, for his well-heeled boss Albert Steinrück (as George Bertink); this helped drive Mr. Abel insane. Presently, when Mr. Riemann finds Ms. Negri, she leaves Mr. Steinruck and moves in with Riemann.

The young Evelyne lives with a man, her fiancee Frank, with whom she has a child. But her fiancee is a rundown drunk constantly hanging over the bottle. Evelyne wants to leave Frank.

Axel and Bertha are a modern, emancipated artist couple in Paris. He is feminine and vain. She is financially independent, member of the women's association "Married's Women's right of ownership" and uses male nude models.

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.

Dancer Lola Montez is the star of Madrid's theaters. All the important men are after her, among them the English ambassador. But the leader of the "Carlist - Movement", a gang of desperados, kidnaps her, she falls for him and he proposes. But the English ambassador is trying to improve the Spanish-English relations and sent his spies after her, getting the information about her future groom, and the Spanish government is very interested in getting ahead.

When Hedda is about to appear on stage in Ostende she borrows a piece of jewellery from her fiancé, de Rochord. When a gang of thieves steals it, he calls off the engagement, but Hedda solves the crime singlehandedly and the two are reunited.

Early drama about alcoholism.

The young Anselmus Aselmeyer fulfilled a long cherished dream: He travels to Venice, the city of his dreams. Once there, the porter Pipistrello directs him immediately to the hotel of his boss, and Anselmus lands in the middle of a wedding party. Mestre Mangiabene, a wealthy oilman, marries the beautiful but completely depleted Marchesina dei Bisognosi. But the secretly loves an officer.