Elza Temary

Filmes

Rasputin, Demon of the Women
Nina
The demonic Rasputin is poisoned but survives to continue seducing in evil ways, in this historical thriller.
Chauffeur Antoinette
The athletic young widow Antoinette Peterson gets into financial troubles when a business venture backfires and has to sell her car and her villa. On the road, she meets a stranger whose car she is able to repair and whom she later meets again as the buyer of her house. It is no one else than the venturer William P. Harrison to whom she lost her whole fortune in the first place. He offers her a bet: If she manages to stay for three months as his chauffeur and behaves accordingly, he would give her back her fortune. Although Harrison makes it as hard as possible for her, she keeps up. But they have already fallen in love with each other.
The Lost Paradise
Evelyn (as Elsa Temary)
A boiled boy
Rolly-Polly
Slapstick comedy about a couple brought together by hypnosis.
The rejuvenated Adolar
Stud. chem. Helene Willfüer
Yvonne
The Chase After Millions
Early German sound film based on the novel "Lord Spleen" by Ludwig von Wohl. Two stowaways attempt to unravel a plot onboard a steam train.
Dangers of the Engagement
Florence Miller
A man unknowingly falls madly in love with the fiancé of a close friend who has twice saved his life.
Love
Gräfin Fontaine
Based on Honore de Balzac’s story of Madame de Langeais. Costume drama about the infamous loves of the countess.
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Salamander
A Socialist Realist distortion of Dr. Paul Kammerer's experiments in the inheritance of acquired character(istic)s -- the (not entirely anti-Darwinian) conjecture that certain changes the environment produces in an individual may spontaneously appear in the next generation. As recounted in Arthur Koestler's The Case of the Midwife Toad (1971), Kammerer (1880-1926) claimed that darkened footpads he had artificially induced in a toad had been passed on to its offspring. When it was discovered that his critical specimen had been injected with ink (though why and by whom is still unknown), his credibility was destroyed and he apparently suicided. Richard Goldschmidt's synopsis of the film in "Research and Politics," Nature (1949), mocks it as Soviet propaganda in support of the inheritance of acquired characters: The importance attached to the subject is revealed by the facts that none other than the then all-powerful [People's] Commissar for [Public] Education, the highly ...
Der Bettler vom Kölner Dom
Mabel Strong
An international gang of thieves and swindlers decide to move their criminal operation to the Teutonic city of Cologne, but Tom Wilkens, one of the best agents of the international police, is not far behind and leads an investigation to unmask the criminals.
Unser täglich Brot
Der krasse Fuchs
Rose Marks