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1962
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One of several films helmed by internationally renowned actor-director Fritz Kortner after his return to Germany in 1947, Die...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1955
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Director
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1955
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1950
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In this witty, well-written, and fast-moving drama, director Josef von Baky and scripter Fritz Kortner have fashioned a...
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Screenwriter, Prof.Mauthner
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1949
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1948
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On a trip from France to Allied-occupied Berlin, a group of travelers -- a mysterious and very secretive European woman...
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1948
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Vannier
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1947
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After several years' service with the Marines in World War II, Tyrone Power made his much anticipated return to the screen in...
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1946
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Alexandre Dumas' famous fictional count gets revenge in this lively sequel to the original story. The Monte Cristo count...
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1946
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George Taylor (John Hodiak) is a war veteran suffering from amnesia with only two clues to his past: the bitter letter from...
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1946
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Though it takes several liberties with facts and motivations, The Hitler Gang is a reasonably absorbing chronicle of Hitler's...
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1944
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Though technically a Republic "B", the 58-minute The Purple V has glossy production values commensurate to a top-of-the-bill...
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Thomas Forster
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1943
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This curious bit of wartime wish-fulfillment stars Ludwig Donath as Franz Huber, a famed Austrian actor known for his...
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Screenwriter, Bauer
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1943
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In this German drama, a French military officer finds himself discriminated against during a trial because he is Jewish. ~...
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1940
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When his Hollywood starring career dried up in the mid-1930s, matinee idol Charles Farrell headed to England, where he played...
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Peters
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1937
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The Crouching Beast was based on Clubfoot, an espionage novel by Valentine Williams. Set in 1915 Constantinople, the story is...
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Ahmed Bey
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1935
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This epic costume drama is set in turn-of-the-century Turkey and chronicles the ruthless reign of a paranoid ruler who...
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Abdul Hamid II
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1935
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Evensong is based on the teary novel by Beverly Nichols, which had previously spawned a lachrymose (and enormously...
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Kober
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1934
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The timeworn British stage musical Chu Chin Chow had already been made into a silent picture when this talkie version made...
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Abu Hassan
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1934
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Music, drama and comedy are neatly integrated in this low-key backstage romance. After a lengthy spell of unemployment,...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1932
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Leading German actor Fritz Kortner made his film directorial debut with Der Brave Suender (The Good Sinner). In his first...
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Director, Screenwriter
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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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Dmitri Karamazov
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1931
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The "great yearning" of the title refers to the desire of heroine Camilla Horn to become a famous movie star. Fortunately,...
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1931
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This pre-WW II German costume drama chronicles the French Revolution with a particular focus upon Danton, Robespierre, and...
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Danton
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1931
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1930
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1930
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Der Anders (The Other) was adapted from the stage play of the same name by Paul Lindau. Fritz Kortner dominates the...
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The Prosecutor Haller
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1930
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1930
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Ladislaus Vajda adapted the screenplay for The Woman Men Yearn For from the book Die Frau, nach der man sich sehnt by Czech...
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Dr. Karoff
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1929
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The German Somnambul raises the question "Can a man be influenced by hypnosis to commit a crime?" The answer is never clearly...
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1929
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1929
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1929
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Celebrated stage and screen actor/director Fritz Kortner was a formidable (if unrelentingly dour) presence as the title...
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Beethoven
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1929
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German filmmaker G.W. Pabst's late-silent classic Pandora's Box (Die Büchse der Pandora) stars the hauntingly beautiful...
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Dr. Peter Schon
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1929
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1929
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1928
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The first full-length screen treatment of the life of infamous WWI spy Mata-Hari was produced in Germany in 1926, a full...
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Count Rakovski
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1927
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Odette was adapted from the Victorien Sardou story of the same name. Suspecting his wife Odette of being unfaithful, Count...
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1927
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Primanerliebe was the first of director Robert Land's films to gain a release in the United States. The title translates as...
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1927
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In this classic horror film, based on a novel by Maurice Renard and filmed by Robert Wiene (of Dr. Caligari fame), a...
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1925
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A jealous husband becomes enraged with his dinner guests when they pretend to kiss the silhouetted shadow of his beautiful...
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1922
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The German silent film Backstairs falls between the two schools of Expressionism and Naturalism. The story anticipates the...
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The Postman
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1921
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1920
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1919
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