Die Sporkc'schen Jaeger (The Sporck Batallion) is where Lt. von Naugaard (Fritz Genschow) calls his home during WWI. A...
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1937
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The music of Johann Strauss counterbalances the various intrigues in Ein Liebesroman im Hause Habsburg (A Romance in the...
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Zar Alexander II
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1936
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Gustav Froehlich and Charlotte Susa play Rochus and Judith, the zwei menschen (two humans) of the title. Rochus' domineering...
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Count Enna
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1931
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1931
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The title of this German comedy is derived from a colloquialism which translates as By the Skin of His Teeth. In the...
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1931
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This is a loose adaptation of Dostoyevsky's classic The Brothers Karamazov. It chronicles the story of Dimitri who gave up...
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1931
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This German-language version of the Italian film Canzone del L'Amore (Song of Love) was based on Silence, a novel by Luigi...
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1931
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Student Sein (To be a Student) once again musically paints a picture of campus life that has precisely no connection with...
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Her Father
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1931
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1931
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The legendary European clown Grock plays himself in this lachrymose German biopic. Celebrated by countless admirers as the...
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1931
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Hereditary Instinct suggests that "blood will tell" no matter what one's upbringing. It begins when the heroine is raped...
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Jean Bourtyns
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1930
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This self-conscious German "art" picture stars musical-comedy favorite Jenny Jugo, here doing a Marlene Dietrich imitation...
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1930
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1930
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Because I Loved You was the first German-made talking picture to obtain a widespread release in the U.S. Mady Christians...
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1930
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1930
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The great Russian actor Ivan Mozzhukhin co-stars with popular German leading lady Lil Dagover in this cinemadaptation of Leo...
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The Czar
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1930
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1929
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1929
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Eleven Who Were Loyal is set in 1808, during the Prussian uprising against Emperor Napoleon. King Wilhelm III (Gustav...
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1929
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Prolific filmmaker Gustav Ucicky cut his cinematic teeth on such minor efforts as Inherited Passions (Vererbte Triebe)....
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1929
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1929
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1928
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The biggest-budgeted movie ever produced at Germany's UFA, Fritz Lang's gargantuan Metropolis consumed resources that would...
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1927
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Considered the magnum-opus of filmmaker/screenwriter Henrik Galeen, and featuring actor Conrad Veit in one of his finest...
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1927
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1927
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After the Great War, much of Europe was in chaos, and this German-made film uses that historical backdrop as a starting...
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Henry Raschoff, Governor,Henry Raschoff
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1927
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This lushly produced UFA production from Fritz Lang was adapted from the Norse sagas, and also from the Wagner operas...
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1924
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The second portion of German director Fritz Lang's two-part silent epic Die Nibelungen (part one was 1924's Siegfried),...
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1924
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