Gustav Fröhlich
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gustav Fröhlich (21 March 1902 – 22 December 1987) was a German actor and film director. He landed secondary roles in a number of films and plays before landing his breakthrough role of Freder Fredersen in Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis. He remained a popular film star in Germany until the 1950s.
Metropolis
as Freder FredersenIn a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's...
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Asphalt
as Wachtmeister Albert HolkOne of the last great German Expressionist films of the silent era, Joe May’s Asphalt is a love...
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The Company's in Love
as Werner Loring jr. - stellvertr. Direktor der Ideal TonfilmThe story follows a movie crew who is filming a musical in a small and idyllic alpine village....
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Die Sünderin
as AlexanderIt is a love story between a prostitute and an artist. It was one of the first German films to...
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Giorgio Moroder's Metropolis
as Freder FredersenIn 1984, Academy Award winning composer Giorgio Moroder introduced Fritz Lang’s science fiction...
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The Great King
as Sgt. TreskowKing Frederick II (aka "Frederick the Great") of Prussia is engaged in a major battle against...
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I Do Not Want to Know Who You Are
as Robert Lindt, eigentlich Graf LerchenauAn impoverished count has to work as a chauffeur but because of his good looks attracts women,...
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The Immortal Vagabond
as Hans RitterPrevented from wedding a postman's daughter (her father prefers she marry a farmer) a Tyrol...
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What Women Dream
as Walter KönigIn this pre-WWII German mystery-comedy, a lovely kleptomaniac with a taste for fine jewelry is...
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Torreani
as Erich HolstenAcrobat assumes identity of jailed fellow-artist to take over a theatre which had been...
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The Stars Shine
as GastGerman all-star musical from 1938 that was a big commercial success.
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Adventures in Vienna
as Toni SponerTaking place over 12 hours on New Years Eve, a concert pianist murders his wife's lover, then...
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Von Liebe reden wir später
as Jonny PitterThe beautician Angela Bell, a well-off middle-aged lady, and the respected fashion doctor Prof....
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The Little Town will go to Sleep
as Peter BruckIn a small town a bag with delicate letters disappears. Many of the residents are worried about...
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Das Konzert
as Dr.JuraA concert pianist, the romantic idol of many women, is seduced away from his wife. The...
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Two Souls
as uncreditedGustav Froehlich and Charlotte Susa play Rochus and Judith, the zwei menschen (two humans) of...
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Eva and the Grasshopper
as Armand NoretMary and Eva are best friends, although they couldn't be more different. Armand, Mary's fiancee,...
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Inquest
as Fritz Bernt, StudentWhen a prostitute is murdered in a cheap Berlin boarding house, an investigating judge suspects...
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A Night of Change
as Frank CorneliusNacht der Verwandlung (A Night of Change) stars Gustav Froelich as a globe-circling aviator, a...
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The Eleven Devils
as Tommy, der MittelstürmerDie elf Teufel / The Eleven Devils was made in Berlin in the summer of 1927, in the last throes...
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Die Stunde der Versuchung
as Rechtsanwalt Dr. LeutternIrene is unhappy because her lawyer husband Dr. Leuttern never has time for her. Womanizer Mac...
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Fire in the Opera House
as Richard FaberIt begins with a Tannhäuser performance and ends with the premiere of The Tales of Hoffmann. In...
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Ray of Sunshine
as HansHans, living in Vienna during the Great Depression, intends to drown himself in the river after...
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Paganini
as Franz Von LisztHistorical film about Italian musician Niccolo Paganini.
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We're switching to Hollywood
as SelfA German reporter visits Hollywood and is escorted through the MGM Studio by a German nobleman,...
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Love Whispers
as Peter von RonanTo escape dreary country life, a count travels to Italy with a friend every year. Instead of...
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The Green Alley
as Gustav BrennerAn ill-fated love affair between a brothel waitress and a doctor's son.
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Kismet
as uncreditedHajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter...
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The Fugitive from Chicago
as Michael NissenWerner Dux, heir of the big car company "Dux-Werke", is a gambler who has just been arrested in...
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Gloria
as Georg KöhlerThis is the German version of Gloria with Gustav Fröhlich & Brigitte Helm in the leads. A...
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Agitated Woman
as Alexander RadnyThe aging singer Clarina receives a new engagement from a cabaret called the Maison Mouche and...
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Homecoming
as KarlFollowing World War I, after a long imprisonment, two German prisoner-of-war soldiers escape...
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Der große Preis
as WesthoffThe moral is simple: keep your mouth shut, especially when you're working during the wartime in...
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Stradivari
as Sándor TelekiIn 1914 a Hungarian officer inherits a Stradivarius which is believed to bring back luck to its...
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Alarm in Peking
as Oberleutnant BrockSet against the backdrop of the 1900 Boxer Rebellion...
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This Man Belongs to Me
as Dr. Wilhelm LöhnefinkCountry doctor Wilhelm Löhnefink has had enough of being a bachelor and goes looking for a wife.
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Gabriele eins, zwei, drei
as Der IngenieurGabriele Bordersen, a woman from a good home, wants to see what real life is like among the...
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Love's Command
as Leutnant von LorenzDuring the Austro Hungarian empire, a girl substitutes for her brother in a military academy.
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Liebesleute
as Hermann v. GorenBaron von Goret is an impoverished landowner, whose estate is about to go into receivership. ...
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Barcarole
as Eugen ColloredoA young reckless womaniser is trapped one night at his club into a bet with a Mexican that he...
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The Night of the Great Love
as Holger RhonThe story, set in Constantinople, of a young man who falls in love with a woman much older than...
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A Song, A Kiss, A Girl
as Peter FrankePeter Franke owns Supraphon record company, which has one main competitor in Lyraphon. As a...
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The Holy Flames
as Walter TaylorThis is the German-language version of 1929's "The Sacred Flame", from the W. Somerset Maugham...
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Synthwave Horror: Metropolis
as Freder FredersenNew color and sound design were given to Fritz Lang's legendary science-fiction film, Metropolis...
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Die kleine und die große Liebe
as Prinz Louis Alexander alias Dr. Alexander Bordam
The Burning Heart
as Georg WittigA young composer and inventor meets a poverty stricken singer.
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Angst - Die schwache Stunde einer Frau
as Francard"The Fear of an Unfaithful Woman" - Inge Duhan lives with her husband, the lawyer Erich Duhan,...
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Hurrah! I'm Alive!
as Hendrik HansenPieter Kruis runs a grocer's shop in a small Dutch town, with which he and his wife Johanne can...
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A Man With a Heart
as Paul RitterA story about a series of confusions, in which Paul Ritter, a bank employee, is unaware that the...
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Paths in Twilight
as Otto LukasThree homeless youths commit petty crimes to get by in the difficult time just after the end of...
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Money Governs the World
as Léon SavalIn this French set comedy, five million francs change hands one weekend between a man pretending...
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Incognito
as Severin MatthiasThe bored heir to a soap factory is able through pure chance to work incognito in the 153rd...
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A Waltz by Strauss
as Johann Strauß - der SohnMusical extravaganza, also filmed in a French language version, based on the life of Johann Strauss.
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Das Kriminalmuseum
as Herr EggersDas Kriminalmuseum was a German television series. It ran from 1963 to 1970 on ZDF and was one...
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