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| Danton | Danton | 1921-05-03 | At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his fellow leading French revolutionaries i… |
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| The Last Laugh | Hotelportier [Hotel Doorman] | 1924-12-23 | An aging doorman, after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious Hotel is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbours and society…. |
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| Waxworks | Harun al Raschid | 1924-11-13 | A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper. While writing, … |
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| Uncle Kruger | Ohm (Paul)Krüger | 1941-01-02 | Ohm Krüger (English: Uncle Krüger) is a 1941 German biographical film directed by Hans Steinhoff and starring Emil Jannings, Lucie Höflich and Wern… |
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| Darling of the Gods | Albert Winkelmann | 1930-10-13 | Also known as Darling of the Gods, this was Emil Jannings’ second talkie appearance. Jannings stars as famed operatic singer Albert Winkelmann, who is… |
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| The Last Command | Gen. Dolgorucki / Grand Duke Sergius Alexander | 1928-01-21 | A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary…. |
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| The Patriot | Czar Paul I | 1928-09-01 | In 18th-Century Russia, the Czar, Paul, is surrounded by murderous plots and trusts only Count Pahlen. Pahlen wishes to protect his friend, the mad ki… |
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| Tartuffe | Tartüff | 1926-01-25 | A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière’s play “Tartuffe” in order to expose the old man’s hypocritical governess who c… |
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| Anna Boleyn | Henry VIII, King of England | 1920-12-03 | The story of the ill-fated second wife of the English king Henry VIII, whose marriage to the Henry led to momentous political and religious turmoil in… |
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| The Way of All Flesh | August Shilling | 1927-10-01 | The story takes place in Milwaukee during the early 1900s with a bank clerk named August Schiller who is happy with both his job and his family. He is… |
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| The Loves of Pharaoh | Pharao Amenes | 1922-02-21 | The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries…. |
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| Variety | Boss Huller | 1925-11-16 | The murderer “Boss†Huller – after having spent ten years in prison – breaks his silence to tell the warden his story…. |
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| The Dismissal | Fürst Otto von Bismarck | 1942-09-15 | German chancellor Otto von Bismarck promises the dying emperor Wilhelm I. to be loyal to his grandson. But the gap between young Kaiser Wilhelm II. an… |
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| Quo Vadis? | Nerone | 1924-10-01 | “The Roman Banquet, the golden glories, the unrivaled luxuries, the wine, the dance, the song, the beautiful women, the sumptuous splendors that taxed… |
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| Kohlhiesel’s Daughters | Peter Xaver | 1920-03-08 | Somewhere in Southern Bavaria Xaver wants to marry Gretel, but her father Kohlhiesel wants his elder daughter Liesel to marry first. The problem is, n… |
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| Algol: Tragedy of Power | Robert Herne | 1920-09-03 | An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that creates enough energy to power the entire world…. |
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| Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes | Dr. Robert Koch | 1939-12-30 | Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his district and no one is able to do anything about it. … |
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| Alles für Geld | S. I. Rupp | 1923-11-04 | Rupp (Jannings) is a former butcher, made rich in the meat packing industry as a result of the reversal of fortunes brought on by WWI. He is crude, un… |
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| The Broken Jug | Adam | 1937-10-18 | The man who broke the jug, the judge, is trying a case who determine who broke the jug. Long before the evidence becomes conclusive against the suspec… |
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| Altes Herz wird wieder jung | Friedrich Hoffmann, Seniorchef | 1943-04-02 | … |
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| The Sovereign | Matthias Clausen | 1937-03-17 | Der Herrscher (The Sovereign) was based on Before Sunset, a play by Gerhart Hauptmann. The great Emil Jannings stars as Mathias Clausen, a self-made b… |
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| Where Is Mr. Belling? | Eberhard Belling | 1945-01-01 | … |
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| The Tempest | Gustav Bumke | 1932-01-22 | Two inspiration sources appear clearly: contemporary American gangster movies and Alfred Döblin’s novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929)…. |
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| Traumulus | Prof. Niemeyer, gen. Traumulus | 1936-01-23 | This film is a fascinating showcase for Emil Janning’s theatrical play. He’s a gentle school teacher who believes in his boys and is easily fooled ab… |
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| Der alte und der junge König | König Friedrich Wilhelm I. | 1935-01-02 | The story of the stormy relationship between King Friedrich Wilhelm and his son, who later became known as King Frederick the Great of Prussia…. |
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| A Night of Horror | | 1917-02-09 | An extremely jealous artist slips into a monkey costume and kills all those men who come too close to his wife, another artist…. |
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| Fuhrmann Henschel | | 1918-01-01 | … |
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| Othello | Othello | 1922-02-08 | Even without the benefit of sound, the 1922 German adaptation of Othello seems more operatic than Shakespearean. This may be due to the casting of Emi… |
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| When Four Do the Same | Segetoff | 1917-11-16 | Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Lubitsch plays a book shop employee who falls in love with Jannings’ daughter…. |
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| Keimendes Leben | James Fraenkel | 1918-10-01 | … |
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| Der schwarze Walfisch | Peter Petersen | 1934-03-02 | Film by Wendhausen…. |
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| Peter the Great | Tsar Peter the Great | 1922-11-02 | … |
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| Street of Sin | Basher Bill | 1928-05-26 | … |
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| Betrayal | Poldi Moser | 1929-05-11 | André Frey, a bohemian artist, woos and wins a rustic Swiss maid, promising to return to her after a visit to the city. The girl, Vroni, finds hersel… |
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| The Blue Angel | Immanuel Rath | 1930-04-01 | Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in … |
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| The Great Light | Lorenz Ferleitner | 1920-05-07 | Lorenz Ferleitner has worked his way up from a poor but gifted farm boy to a recognized master builder. When a new cathedral is to be built, he is giv… |
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| The Rats | | 1921-07-29 | Die Ratten was produced by actress and singer Grete Ly. Her company, Grete Ly-Film, made five films between 1919 and 1921. Die Ratten, which is based … |
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| Sins of the Fathers | Wilhelm Spengler | 1928-12-28 | A married restaurant owner is persuaded to become a bootlegger by a beautiful young girl. When he starts making money at it, she steals it, then runs … |
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| Keimendes Leben. 2. Teil | James Fraenkel/John Smith | 1918-10-01 | … |
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| Faust | Mephisto | 1926-10-13 | God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist…. |
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| The Eyes of the Mummy | Radu | 1918-10-03 | Egyptians Radu and Ma milk British tourists out of their money by offering phony tours of a mummy’s tomb– Radu has the girl lend her eyes to the “mum… |
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| The Merry Jail | Quabbe – der Gaoler | 1917-11-30 | A neglected wife disguises herself in order to lure her wastrel husband into a compromising position…. |
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| Madame DuBarry | Ludwig XV. | 1919-09-18 | The story of Madame du Barry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution…. |
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| Husbands or Lovers | Ehemann | 1924-11-21 | A wife, bored by her overweight slob of a husband, gives in to the temptation of a slickly seductive poet…. |
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| Passionels Tagebuch | | 1916-09-01 | … |
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| Der Morphinist | | 1916-06-01 | … |
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| The Making of ‘The Last Laugh’ | Hotelportier (archive footage) | 2003-12-17 | This movie was featured on the DVD release of Der letzte Mann in 2004 in Germany…. |
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| Dear Eva | | 1914-01-01 | a silent movie by Robert Wiene… |
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| The Countess of Paris | Ombrade | 1923-10-12 | … |
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| Die Ehe der Luise Rohrbach | | 1917-02-02 | … |
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| Die Tochter des Mehemed | Vaco Juan Riberda | 1919-08-15 | An enslaved girl, Leila, is bought by Vaco Juan Riberda as a gift for his friend, Dr. Jan van Zuylen. van Zuylen is outraged, and refuses. Years later… |
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| Stein unter Steinen | Göttlingk | 1917-01-01 | A stonemason who killed his landlord faces hardship trying to reintegrate into society after being released from prison…. |
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| Life is a Dream | | 1916-01-01 | A silent movie by Robert Wiene… |
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| Cavalcade of the Academy Awards | Self (archive footage) | 1940-07-31 | This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeche… |
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| Der letzte Appell | | 1939-01-01 | … |
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| Die Brüder Karamasoff | | 1921-07-20 | … |
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| Vendetta | Tomasso | 1919-08-22 | … |
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| Frau Eva | ihr Mann, der Fabrikant | 1916-02-01 | a silent movie by Robert Wiene… |
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| The Movie City of Hollywood | | 1928-11-18 | German documentary about Hollywood… |
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| Lulu | Alfredo, a clown | 1917-11-22 | The circus dancer Lulu is a thoroughly liberal being. Although she loves her former savior, the clown Alfredo, she begins a relationship with the nobl… |
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| Rose Bernd | Arthur Streckmann | 1919-10-05 | An adaptation of the Gerhart Hauptmann play of the same name. A young farmer’s daughter is used and abused by the men in her life…. |
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| Los 5 Faust de F. W. Murnau | Himself / Mephisto (archive footage) | 2002-11-26 | … |
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| The Film in the Film | Himself | 1924-06-26 | The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors of… |
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| Liebe macht blind | | 1926-08-16 | … |
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| Tragedy of Love | | 1923-09-21 | … |
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| Hitler’s Hollywood | Self – Actor (archive footage) | 2017-02-23 | Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945, when the Third Reich colla… |
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| Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films | Himself (archive footage) | 2011-04-03 | Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford’s The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of Al… |
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| 100 Years of the UFA | Self – Actor (archive footage) | 2017-08-28 | The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime, the Adenauer era and t… |
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| The Love Goddesses | (archive footage) | 1965-03-03 | This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry change… |
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