Alfred Schirokauer

Nascimento : 1880-07-13, Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]

Morte : 1934-10-27

História

German novelist and screenwriter.

Filmes

Lucrèce Borgia
Novel
In the early 16th century, Italy is ruled by the powerful Borgia family, led by César Borgia and his sister Lucrèce. In a ruthless power play, César plots to have his sister’s husband murdered. But without her brother’s knowledge, Lucrèce has taken a strong lover who will challenge the Borgias.
Idol of Paris
Novel
The Idol of Paris is based on Paiva, Queen of Love, a novel by Alfred Schirokauer. Set in the mid-19th century, the film traces the rags-to-riches story of a girl named Theresa. Sleeping her way to the top, she becomes a highly sought-after Parisian courtesan, one worthy of the attentions of the Emperor Napoleon. But Theresa has no time for the Emperor, not with such virile lovers as Hertz around and about.
Lucrecia Borgia
Novel
Lucrezia Borgia
Novel
French silent film pioneer Abel Gance directs this 1935 classic about Lucrezia Borgia, her brother, Cesare. and her father, Pope Alexander VI -- one of history's most ruthless and ambitious crime families.
Kadetten
Screenplay
Impossible Love
Novel
An Auto and No Money
Screenplay
Slapstick-style comedy in which a celebrity, to escape a marriage, trades places with his personal chauffeur.
Elisabeth of Austria
Writer
Elisabeth of Austria is a German movie with Lil Dagover as royalty Elisabeth who has many men to choose from.
Two Souls
Writer
Gustav Froehlich and Charlotte Susa play Rochus and Judith, the zwei menschen (two humans) of the title. Rochus' domineering mother insists that he enter the priesthood, but he is reluctant to break up his blissful romance with the fair Judith. A religious fanatic of the first order, the mother swears before God and her Church that Rochus will indeed take his vows. When this does not come about, she dies of grief, whereupon the guilt-stricken Rochus abandons Judith to become a priest. The girl subsequently commits suicide -- and it is Rochus who must officiate over her body during the funeral. This final scene was excised from the print of Zwei Menschen released in New York, leaving audiences hanging in regard to Judith's ultimate fate.
Boycott
Writer
A film about the pupils of a posh Berlin gymnasium in their final term, and their class teacher teaching them about humanism and tolerance, a lesson that would be badly needed three years later.
Marriage in Name Only
Writer
a movie by Heinz Paul
The experience of a night
Writer
Careers
Story
In French Indochina, a magistrate is assigned to investigate the murder of his boss. Unknown to him, the boss had a policy of requiring the wives of his subordinates to sleep with him if they wanted their husbands to get promoted. What he also didn't know was that his wife was in the boss' office when he was killed. Complications ensue.
Fräulein Fähnrich
Writer
The Runaway Princess
Writer
A prince in disguise saves a runaway princess from becoming a forger's dupe.
Die Frau von gestern und morgen
Writer
Die Frau von gestern und morgen
Novel
The Orlov
Writer
Based on the operetta of the same name.
Heaven on Earth
Screenplay
Reinhold Schünzel plays the rigid representative Traugott Bellmann, who publicly condemns the low morals of the night life. Although Belmann's stance is supported by his wife, he is strongly opposed by his father-in-law, a champagne manufacturer. But when he inherits 500 000 Marks in cash and the infamous nightclub "Der Himmel auf Erden" ("Heaven on Earth") from his deceased brother, Bellmann really gets himself into trouble: In order to fulfil his brother's will - and to get hold of the money - , he has to be at the club every night at 9 pm.
Heaven on Earth
Director
Reinhold Schünzel plays the rigid representative Traugott Bellmann, who publicly condemns the low morals of the night life. Although Belmann's stance is supported by his wife, he is strongly opposed by his father-in-law, a champagne manufacturer. But when he inherits 500 000 Marks in cash and the infamous nightclub "Der Himmel auf Erden" ("Heaven on Earth") from his deceased brother, Bellmann really gets himself into trouble: In order to fulfil his brother's will - and to get hold of the money - , he has to be at the club every night at 9 pm.
Primanerliebe
Writer
"First Love" - Karsten, a college boy, oppressed to the point of suicide by harsh teachers, calls on the girl he loves Ellen. He finds her about to be raped by a seducer. Karsten shoots the attacker.
Arme kleine Colombine
Writer
Cab No. 13
Writer
The film starts with a woman on the run from her millionaire husband giving birth to a daughter in the home of a washerwoman. The woman dies in childbirth, but the baby survives. The washerwoman leaves the baby in a horsedrawn Parisian taxicab (No. 13). The paperwork of the birth is lost in a huge tome. Sixteen years pass. The tome is bought by a poor student. One day his bookshelf collapses, and the tome opens at the page where the paperwork has been hidden. The student realises that the paperwork relates to a millionaire who has spent the last sixteen years looking for his pregnant wife. The student traces the washerwoman, and he tricks her into confessing what she has done with the baby. Meanwhile, the baby has been adopted by the cab driver and his wife, and has grown into Lili Damita.
Die Frau für 24 Stunden
Writer
Der Hahn im Korb
Writer
Der Trödler von Amsterdam
Novel
Mutter und Sohn
Director
Der Favorit der Königin
Writer
German film by Franz Seitz.
Die Erlebnisse einer Kammerzofe
Writer
Frauenbeichte, 3. Teil - Die Beichte der Krankenschwester
Writer
Frauenbeichte. 2. Die Beichte der Mörderin
Writer
Frauenbeichte, 1. Teil - Die Beichte einer Ausgestossenen
Writer
Camera obscura
Writer
Der Totenkopf, 50 000 Mark-Prämienfilm
Writer
Der Sprung ins Dunkle
Writer
Der Sprung ins Dunkle
Director
Ferdinand Lassalle
Novel