Frederic Zelnik
Nascimento : 1885-05-17, Czernowitz, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary [now Chernivtsi, Ukraine]
Morte : 1950-11-29
História
Actor, director and producer. One of the most popular directors of the German silent film scene.
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An aspiring composer, in the British Air Force for WWII, is downed in Italy and rescued by an Italian girl. He returns home to his wife, inspired to write an opera and aware that he's fallen in love with his rescuer.
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A country girl goes to Paris to sing professionally, where she falls in love with a member of the British Embassy. They are parted by the outbreak of the Second World War, but subsequently reunited again...
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Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Davidson is trying to determine who murdered the much-hated Count Matton. The dilemma isn't that the Detective is suffering from a lack of witnesses but that four different people have come forth to confess to the killing, each of them with plenty of motive and opportunity.
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Still coming to terms with the death of her mother, Willy Verhulst loses her father as well -- just as she is about to sit her final exams. She manages to pass, and as she is trying to find a job she remembers a young man she met in the hospital. The boy, Herder, works for a radio station and gives her a job as a secretary.
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Judy Aalders grows up in an orphanage. Albert Woudenberg happens to be present when Judy confronts the trustees of the orphanage and is expelled. He decides to send her to university and Judy, who has only ever seen his shadowy long legs, refers to him as 'Daddy-Long-Legs' from that day. Not knowing he is in fact her benefactor, Judy's relationship with Albert gradually turns into love.
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Judy Aalders grows up in an orphanage. Albert Woudenberg happens to be present when Judy confronts the trustees of the orphanage and is expelled. He decides to send her to university and Judy, who has only ever seen his shadowy long legs, refers to him as 'Daddy-Long-Legs' from that day. Not knowing he is in fact her benefactor, Judy's relationship with Albert gradually turns into love.
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In this musical, an enigmatic masked woman catches the roving eye of a wily playboy gambler at a masquerade ball. If he knew that she was using her wiles as bait and was planning to reform him of his gambling womanizing ways after catching him, he may have head for different waters.
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A musical comedy of false identities.
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When he is not conducting his orchestra, a talented young man invents a device to thwart car thieves.Associating himself with a rich Dutch baron, he falls in love with the baron's daughter.
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The Cinderella story is reversed in this light-hearted adaptation, with Cinders a young man who eventually wins the 'princess' – in this case, an oil millionaire's daughter!
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A young musician invents an anti-theft device for cars, but works as a jazz conductor while waiting for his invention to be successful.
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A young musician invents an anti-theft device for cars, but works as a jazz conductor while waiting for his invention to be successful.
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Musical comedy about a famous opera star in Vienna.
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Musical comedy about a famous opera star in Vienna.
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Police battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.
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Police battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.
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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.
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Die Weber (1927), a rousing German tale of the 1844 weavers’ revolution.
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Jazz-Age gender comedy about a Berlin party girl with a big heart - a heart sought after by many admirer. Only for her to become a boring stay-at-home-mom.
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A nobleman wishes to help the woman he had seduced and abandoned years earlier when he learns that she is now on trial for murder.
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A beautiful and popular young woman enters a relationship with a wealthy womanizing cavalry captain.
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Max Wessely alias Graf Festenberg
A waiter in love with a countess assumes the identity of an aristocrat.
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A waiter in love with a countess assumes the identity of an aristocrat.
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Wassja Posdnyschow
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The romantic dalliances of stage actor Edmund Kean with both a married woman and a young wannabe actress cause difficulties.
Eugen Onegin
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The romantic dalliances of stage actor Edmund Kean with both a married woman and a young wannabe actress cause difficulties.
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A count with a gambling addiction is set up with the daughter of a minister by his father, who hopes she will be a good influence on him.
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A count with a gambling addiction is set up with the daughter of a minister by his father, who hopes she will be a good influence on him.
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A young woman marries a count who is not what he seems.
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von Hoven
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Helene, a painter, loses a necklace and takes work as a caricaturist to pay the debt. Not wishing to be recognized, she does the work in a clown costume.
Originally planned as the third entry in the Der Hund von Baskerville series, it was reworked into a stand alone film before release.
Warenhausbesitzer / store owner
Fred Hohn
Heinrich Vollmer
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A blind patient and her doctor fall in love, but the doctor fears that she will no longer love him if her sight is restored.
A friend sacrifices himself, taking the blame for a murder upon himself. A guilty conscience will end up killing the real culprit.
