Esther Carena

Nascimento : 1898-08-24, Hannover

Morte : 1972-01-26

História

The daughter of a German father and Spanish mother, she studied medicine for one semester and trained in an Italian acrobat troupe. Until 1916 she lived mostly in Italy and performed there in stage sketches. In 1916 she came to Germany and was discovered by Swedish film actor and director Nils Olaf Chrisander. She was presented as a heroine in thrillers, dramas, and melodramas that were staged by Harry Piel at the end of the First World War. She designed many of her own costumes. In 1924 she married the set designer Franz Schroedter and retired from films.

Filmes

Der Frauenkönig
Das neue Paradies
Die Diktatur der Liebe. 2. Die Welt ohne Liebe
Die Diktatur der Liebe. 1. Die böse Lust
Wenn Colombine winkt
The Vampire
Frauen, die nicht heiraten sollten
Ada Haller
Die von der Liebe leben
Ich klage an
Ikarus, the Flying Man
Clemence de Montignon
Two French spies, Baron d’Aubigny and Clemence de Montignon, blackmail German engineer Günther Ellinghaus with his gambling debts into handing over his construction plans for the new Ikarus engine. He flees to New York and works as a waiter. When World War I breaks, he signs on as a fireman on a Dutch ship and returns to Europe. He becomes a fighter pilot in Germany and faces the former spies as his enemies. After an emergency landing he is taken into their headquarters. He escapes an attempted murder and fights his enemies in an air battle. Both of them survive and after the war Ellinghaus offers them his hand in reconciliation.
Die sprechende Hand
Die Geschichte eines Spitzentuches
Das Gift der Odawara
Der stumme Zeuge
Zur Strecke gebracht
Die Peitsche
Bert