Fritz Kortner

Fritz Kortner

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Fritz Kortner (12 May 1892 – 22 July 1970) was an Austrian-born stage and film actor and theatre director. Kortner was born in Vienna as Fritz Nathan Kohn. He studied at the Vienna Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. After graduating, he joined Max Reinhardt in Berlin in 1911 and then Leopold Jessner in 1916. Also in that year he made his first appearance in a silent film. He became one of Germany's best known character actors. His speciality was playing sinister and threatening roles, though he also appeared in the title role of 1930's Dreyfus. With the coming to power of the Nazis, Kortner, being Jewish, chose to flee Germany in 1933. He emigrated to the United States, where he found work as a character actor and theatre director for a time before returning to Germany in 1949. Upon his return, he became noted for his innovative staging and direction, particularly of classics such as his Richard III (1964) in which the king crawls over piles of corpses at the end. Kortner died in Munich. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fritz Kortner, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Fritz Kortner
  • Popularity: 2.887
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1892-05-12
  • Place of Birth: Vienna - Austria
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Fritz Kortner Movies

  • 1929
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    Pandora's Box

    Pandora's Box

    7.5 1929 HD

    Lulu is a young woman so beautiful and alluring that few can resist her siren charms. The men drawn into her web include respectable newspaper...

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  • 1923
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    Nora

    Nora

    1 1923 HD

    Adaptation of A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen.

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  • 1947
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    The Brasher Doubloon

    The Brasher Doubloon

    5.9 1947 HD

    Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock hires Marlowe to find an old rare coin, the Brasher Doubloon, that belonged in her deceased husband's collection....

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  • 1920
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    Catherine the Great

    Catherine the Great

    1 1920 HD

    The film was an epic portrayal of the life of Catherine the Great of Russia.

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  • 1924
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    The Hands of Orlac

    The Hands of Orlac

    6.9 1924 HD

    A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he is horrified to learn they once belonged to a murderer.

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  • 1948
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    Berlin Express

    Berlin Express

    6.136 1948 HD

    In post-war Europe, a diverse group of passengers aboard a U.S. Army train to bombed-out Frankfurt becomes involved in a Nazi assassination plot.

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  • 1948
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    The Vicious Circle

    The Vicious Circle

    5.5 1948 HD

    In Hungary, a rich baron discovers that there are extensive oil deposits underneath nearby properties owned by villagers. He manages to convince all...

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  • 1929
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    Die stärkere Macht

    Die stärkere Macht

    1 1929 HD

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  • 1928
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    Marquis d’Eon, der Spion der Pompadour

    Marquis d’Eon, der Spion der Pompadour

    1 1928 HD

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  • 1946
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    The Razor's Edge

    The Razor's Edge

    6.8 1946 HD

    An adventurous young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will...

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  • 1923
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    Warning Shadows

    Warning Shadows

    6.5 1923 HD

    During a dinner given by a wealthy baron and his wife, attended by four of her suitors in a 19th century German manor, a shadow-player rescues the...

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  • 1924
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    Dr. Wislizenus

    Dr. Wislizenus

    5 1924 HD

    Deep in the forest lives the bitter Dr. Wislizenus, whose childhood sweetheart Maria committed suicide ten years ago. The visit of a childhood...

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  • 1929
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    The Woman Men Yearn For

    The Woman Men Yearn For

    5.5 1929 HD

    After a chance meeting at a train station, Henry and Stascha, unhappy with their circumstances, are determined to leave and be together.

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  • 1921
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    Backstairs

    Backstairs

    6 1921 HD

    In a poor neighborhood of a big city, a crippled mailman is in love with a maid who lives in his building. However, she is in love with a wealthy and...

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  • 1934
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    Chu Chin Chow

    Chu Chin Chow

    4.3 1934 HD

    Musical retelling of the "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" Arabian Nights tale.

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  • 1929
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    The Ship of Lost Men

    The Ship of Lost Men

    4.9 1929 HD

    A young doctor gets stuck on a ship after treating an injured first mate. Later, he rescues a woman from plane wreckage, and with the help of the...

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  • 1935
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    Abdul the Damned

    Abdul the Damned

    5.3 1935 HD

    In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by the Young Turk party. He allows Hilmi Pasha, the...

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  • 1924
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    Armes kleines Mädchen

    Armes kleines Mädchen

    1 1924 HD

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  • 1922
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    What Belongs to Darkness

    What Belongs to Darkness

    1 1922 HD

    What Belongs to Darkness (German: Die Finsternis und ihr Eigentum) is a 1922 German silent drama film directed by Martin Hartwig and starring Karl...

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  • 1943
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    The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler

    The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler

    4.6 1943 HD

    Austrian actor Franz Huber, known for his impressions, is captured by the Gestapo and forced into plastic surgery to become Hitler's body double....

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  • 1921
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    The House on the Moon

    The House on the Moon

    1 1921 HD

    The House on the Moon

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  • 1937
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    Midnight Menace

    Midnight Menace

    6.5 1937 HD

    When a reporter is killed under mysterious circumstances, the political cartoonist on his paper begins to investigate on his own. He finds that a...

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  • 1977
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    Hitler: A Career

    Hitler: A Career

    7.3 1977 HD

    A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of...

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  • 1946
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    Somewhere in the Night

    Somewhere in the Night

    6.769 1946 HD

    George Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, he tries to track down his old identity, stumbling into a 3-year old murder...

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  • 1930
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    The Other

    The Other

    5.5 1930 HD

    A psychological drama based on the popular Jekyll and Hyde theme involving a strict legal official. Based on the 1893 play "Der Andere" by Paul...

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  • 1931
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    Danton

    Danton

    5 1931 HD

    This pre-WW II German costume drama chronicles the French Revolution with a particular focus upon Danton, Robespierre, and Marat. It depicts the...

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  • 1930
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    Dreyfus

    Dreyfus

    5.6 1930 HD

    In late nineteenth century Alfred Dreyfus, a French army officer of Jewish heritage, is falsely accused of espionage. Found guilty of treason he is...

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  • 1931
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    The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov

    The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov

    5.7 1931 HD

    Suspicion surrounds a lieutenant for killing his father; based on Dostoevsky's novel.

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  • 1920
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    The Night of Queen Isabeau

    The Night of Queen Isabeau

    1 1920 HD

    The film depicts the marriage between the mad Charles VI of France and his wife Queen Isabeau.

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  • 1949
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    The Last Illusion

    The Last Illusion

    6.3 1949 HD

    Professor Mauthner, after many years of exile (having emigrated in 1933 to the USA), returns to Germany in 1948. He can in fact return to his...

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  • 1950
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    Epilogue

    Epilogue

    5.8 1950 HD

    The reporter Peter Zabel stumbles upon the sinking of the luxury yacht Orplid in Hamburg on August 14, 1949. The ship went down with a wedding party...

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  • 1926
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    Should We Be Silent?

    Should We Be Silent?

    5 1926 HD

    A melodrama about a painter who is infected with syphilis, refuses treatment, turns to the use instead of narcotics, and withers away.

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  • 1928
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    The Last Night

    The Last Night

    1 1928 HD

    The fate of a French aristocrat is revealed in this historical costume drama, who, in 1792, finds herself confronted with the choice of either...

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  • 1930
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    The Love Storm

    The Love Storm

    1 1930 HD

    This is the German-language version of the British film The Love Storm (1931).

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  • 1934
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    Evensong

    Evensong

    1 1934 HD

    Loosely based on the story of the singer Nellie Melba...

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  • 1929
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    Giftgas

    Giftgas

    6 1929 HD

    Arnold Horn, a young idealistic chemist, discovers a compound that can be used for the production of an effective deadly poisonous gas. Against his...

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  • 1934
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    Little Friend

    Little Friend

    3.5 1934 HD

    A girl becomes an unwilling witness in her parents' scandalous divorce case.

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  • 1980
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    Kortnergeschichten

    Kortnergeschichten

    1 1980 HD

    Documentary about director Fritz Korner

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  • 1918
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    Das andere Ich

    Das andere Ich

    1 1918 HD

    A professor discovers a way to separate the soul from the body.

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  • 1930
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    The Great Longing

    The Great Longing

    6 1930 HD

    During lunch break at the movie studio, the extras rush to the canteen Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Maria Paudler and Luis Trenker are chatting. Eva von...

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  • 1921
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    Landstraße und Großstadt

    Landstraße und Großstadt

    1 1921 HD

    Two poor musicians rise from rags to riches. Money, fame and their love for the same woman begin to crumble their friendship, revealing the true...

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  • 1940
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    The Eternal Jew

    The Eternal Jew

    4.7 1940 HD

    A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of Jewish neighborhoods in recently-conquered Poland...

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  • 1969
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    Der Kaufmann von Venedig

    Der Kaufmann von Venedig

    8 1969 HD

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  • 1943
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    The Purple V

    The Purple V

    1 1943 HD

    German expatriate Fritz Kortner plays the largest role, as an anti-Nazi schoolmaster who helps a downed American flyer (John Archer) reached Allied...

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  • 1920
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    Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter

    Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter

    1 1920 HD

    A pharaonic tragedy to the content that spans six different eras. In the first episode, the emergence and dramatic end of the love story between the...

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  • 1935
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    The Crouching Beast

    The Crouching Beast

    1 1935 HD

    In 1915 during the First World War, a British secret agent is killed while stealing secret Turkish plans for the Gallipoli Campaign but manages to...

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  • 1927
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    Alpentragödie

    Alpentragödie

    1 1927 HD

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  • 1927
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    Mata Hari: the Red Dancer

    Mata Hari: the Red Dancer

    1 1927 HD

    Mata Hari, die rote Tänzerin (English: Mata Hari: The Red Dancer), often shortened on release to Mata Hari, is a 1927 German silent drama film...

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  • 1918
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    Der Sonnwendhof

    Der Sonnwendhof

    1 1918 HD

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  • 1918
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    Der Märtyrer seines Herzens

    Der Märtyrer seines Herzens

    6 1918 HD

    The film traces the individual stages in the life of Ludwig van Beethoven.

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  • 1921
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    Die Verschwörung zu Genua

    Die Verschwörung zu Genua

    1 1921 HD

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  • 1928
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    Frau Sorge

    Frau Sorge

    1 1928 HD

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  • 1927
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    Primanerliebe

    Primanerliebe

    1 1927 HD

    An exploration of the misery of youth. A student, his friends, and the girl he loves all suffer due to the harsh and unforgiving nature of the adults...

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  • 1921
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    Haschisch, das Paradies der Hölle

    Haschisch, das Paradies der Hölle

    1 1921 HD

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  • 1920
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    Die Verschleierte

    Die Verschleierte

    1 1920 HD

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  • 1951
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    Bluebeard

    Bluebeard

    5.3 1951 HD

    Just before wowing international critics and moviegoers with his adventure romp Fanfan la Tulipe, director Christian-Jaque dashed off the lampoonish...

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  • 1920
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    Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand

    Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand

    1 1920 HD

    Weltbrand is the first part of the two-part silent movie Christian Wahnschaffe.

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  • 1965
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    Fünfter Akt, siebente Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe

    Fünfter Akt, siebente Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe

    1 1965 HD

    This documentation of a Kortner stage rehearsal shows in detail and fascinatingly how Kortner developed psychological tensions with meticulous...

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  • 1923
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    Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant

    Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant

    1 1923 HD

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  • 1922
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    Am Rande der Großstadt

    Am Rande der Großstadt

    1 1922 HD

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  • 1946
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    The Wife of Monte Cristo

    The Wife of Monte Cristo

    5.8 1946 HD

    In this sequel to the original story, Monte Cristo count Edmund Dantes (Martin Kosleck) returns to Paris to get revenge but soon finds himself...

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  • 1966
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    Fritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte

    Fritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte

    1 1966 HD

    Film by Syberberg.

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  • 1922
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    Am roten Kliff

    Am roten Kliff

    1 1922 HD

    A man is found dead on the small German island of Sylt. There is speculation that it may have been a murder, motivated by romantic jealousy. The man...

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  • 1920
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    Va banque

    Va banque

    1 1920 HD

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  • 1921
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    Die Brüder Karamasoff

    Die Brüder Karamasoff

    1 1921 HD

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  • 1921
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    Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha

    Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha

    1 1921 HD

    The Maharaja of Odhapur goes on a trip to Europe and meet the young dancer Ellen Esmond. In her London accommodation, the Savoy Hotel, the Indian...

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  • 1922
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    Der Graf von Essex

    Der Graf von Essex

    1 1922 HD

    The Earl of Essex, a person favourite of the Queen, is in jeopardy of losing his relationship with the monarch after secretly marrying one of the...

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  • 1920
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    Satanas

    Satanas

    7 1920 HD

    A lost film. Only 40 seconds survive today.

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  • 1929
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    The Somnambulist

    The Somnambulist

    1 1929 HD

    Originally named "The Clairvoyant" presenting the many talents of parapsychologist Elsbeth Günther-Geffers. First banned, later extensively...

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  • 1922
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    Peter the Great

    Peter the Great

    1 1922 HD

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  • 1927
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    Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs

    Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs

    1 1927 HD

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  • 1919
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    Das Auge des Buddha

    Das Auge des Buddha

    1 1919 HD

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  • 1921
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    Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon

    Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon

    1 1921 HD

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  • 1921
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    Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod

    Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod

    1 1921 HD

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  • 1927
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    Draga Maschin

    Draga Maschin

    1 1927 HD

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  • 1929
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    Atlantic

    Atlantic

    6.5 1929 HD

    German-language version. "Atlantic" is a drama film based on the sinking of the RMS "Titanic" and set aboard a fictional ship, called the "Atlantic"....

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  • 1924
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    Moderne Ehen

    Moderne Ehen

    1 1924 HD

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  • 1927
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    The Life of Beethoven

    The Life of Beethoven

    7.5 1927 HD

    Filmed in Austria for the hundredth anniversary of Beethoven's death, this 1927 silent film tells the story of the German genius' eventful emotional...

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  • 1927
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    Die Ausgestoßenen

    Die Ausgestoßenen

    1 1927 HD

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  • 1924
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    Kiedy kobieta zdradza męża

    Kiedy kobieta zdradza męża

    1 1924 HD

    When Professor Horski learns that his wife has published a volume of novellas under his name entitled "Wife" he feels compromised and is angered at...

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  • 1929
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    Die Frau im Talar

    Die Frau im Talar

    1 1929 HD

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  • 1923
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    The Ghost with the Deadly Kiss

    The Ghost with the Deadly Kiss

    1 1923 HD

    Two couples arrived to the village where an old legend of a ghost with the deadly kiss circulates in.

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  • 1931
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    The Upright Sinner

    The Upright Sinner

    1 1931 HD

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  • 1943
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    The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler

    The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler

    4.6 1943 HD

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  • 1961
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    Die Sendung der Lysistrata

    Die Sendung der Lysistrata

    1 1961 HD

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  • 1958
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    Androcles and the Lion

    Androcles and the Lion

    1 1958 HD

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  • 1933
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    A Girl You Don't Forget

    A Girl You Don't Forget

    10 1933 HD

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  • 1931
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    The Upright Sinner

    The Upright Sinner

    1 1931 HD

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  • 1955
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    Secrets of the City

    Secrets of the City

    8 1955 HD

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  • 1955
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    Sarajevo

    Sarajevo

    5.5 1955 HD

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  • 1933
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    A Girl You Don't Forget

    A Girl You Don't Forget

    10 1933 HD

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  • 1961
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    Die Sendung der Lysistrata

    Die Sendung der Lysistrata

    1 1961 HD

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  • 1970
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    Clavigo

    Clavigo

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Clavigo

    Clavigo

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1971
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    Emilia Galotti

    Emilia Galotti

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1964
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    Der eingebildete Kranke

    Der eingebildete Kranke

    1 1964 HD

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  • 1949
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    The Last Illusion

    The Last Illusion

    6.3 1949 HD

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  • 1964
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    Leonce und Lena

    Leonce und Lena

    9.5 1964 HD

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  • 1955
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    Secrets of the City

    Secrets of the City

    8 1955 HD

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  • 1927
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    Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs

    Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs

    1 1927 HD

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  • 1918
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    Der Märtyrer seines Herzens

    Der Märtyrer seines Herzens

    6 1918 HD

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  • 1951
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    Deutscher Filmpreis

    Deutscher Filmpreis

    6 1951 HD

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  • 1962
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    Das Profil

    Das Profil

    1 1962 HD

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  • 1975
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    Film Emigration from Nazi Germany

    Film Emigration from Nazi Germany

    9 1975 HD

    Based on extensive interviews, shot on 16mm in a series of static long takes, Filmemigration aus Nazideutschland, is one of the most fascinating...

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