Ilka Grüning

Born: 1876-09-04


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Casablanca

as Mrs. Leuchtag - Carl's Immigrating Friend (uncredited)
Released: 1943-01-15

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover,...

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A Foreign Affair

as German Wife (uncredited)
Released: 1948-08-20

In occupied Berlin, a US Army Captain is torn between an ex-Nazi cafe singer and the US...

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Madame Curie

as Seamstress (uncredited)
Released: 1943-12-16

Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women...

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Caught

as Grandmother Rudetzki (uncredited)
Released: 1949-02-17

Wide-eyed and poor young Leonora weds an obsessive millionaire named Ohlrig, but the marriage is...

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Kings Row

as Anna
Released: 1942-02-02

Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin...

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Raw Deal

as uncredited
Released: 1948-05-21

A revenge-seeking gangster is sent to prison after being framed for a crime he didn't commit....

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Lady Hamilton

as Wirtin
Released: 1921-10-19

The married Lady Emma Hamilton has an ill fated romance with Admiral Horatio Nelson.

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Words and Music

as Mrs. Rogers
Released: 1948-12-31

Encomium to Larry Hart (1895-1943), seen through the fictive eyes of his song-writing partner,...

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Repeat Performance

as Mattie
Released: 1947-05-22

On New Year's Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive...

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Captain China

as Mrs. Marguerite Haasvelt
Released: 1950-02-02

The title character, played by John Payne, is a ship's captain whose embittered behavior after...

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Mr. Soft Touch

as Old Woman (Uncredited)
Released: 1949-07-28

When he learns that a gangster has taken over his nightclub and murdered his partner, returning...

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Desperate Journey

as Frau Brahms
Released: 1942-09-26

During WWII, when an allied bomber is shot down over Germany, the five surviving crew are...

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Underground

as Frau Franken
Released: 1941-06-28

A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third...

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Phantom

as Baronin / Baroness
Released: 1922-11-13

Lorenz Lubota is a city clerk with no direction in life. One day on his way to work he is run...

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Joyless Street

as uncredited
Released: 1925-03-01

In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as...

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Convicted

as Martha Lorry (uncredited)
Released: 1950-08-01

A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.

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Prostitution II

as uncredited
Released: 1919-08-29

About a deceptive bourgeois couple that blends their acquaintances into their dubious business.

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Monika Vogelsang

as Witwe Walterspiel
Released: 1920-01-02

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Address Unknown

as Grandma (uncredited)
Released: 1944-06-01

When a German art dealer living in the US returns to his native country he finds himself...

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Desperate

as Aunt Klara
Released: 1947-06-20

An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he's accused of robbery.

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Die Fledermaus

as Rosalindes Mutter
Released: 1923-04-12

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Soll und Haben

as Madame Sidonie Ehrenthal
Released: 1924-10-09

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Dangerously They Live

as Mrs. Steiner
Released: 1941-12-24

A doctor tries to rescue a young innocent from Nazi agents.

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The Finances of the Grand Duke

as Augustina, die Leibköchin
Released: 1924-01-07

The likeable and carefree Grand Duke of Abacco is in dire straits. There is no money left to...

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Passage West

as Mama Ludwig
Released: 1951-10-01

In 1863, having escaped from a rock-quarry prison in Salt Lake, six inmates led by convicted...

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Menschen

as uncredited
Released: 1920-01-01

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Elegantes Pack

as Leos Mutter
Released: 1925-08-27

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Pogrom

as Wera Cheberiak
Released: 1919-08-02

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Christian Wahnschaffe II: Escape from the Golden Dungeon

as uncredited
Released: 1921-03-30

Escape from the Golden Dungeon is the second part of the two-part silent movie Christian...

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Die Kreutzersonate

as uncredited
Released: 1922-01-01

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Friendly Enemies

as Mrs. Pfeffier
Released: 1942-06-21

During World War I, two German men friends who emigrated to the US and become millionaires agree...

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Melodie des Herzens

as Fräulein Czibulka
Released: 1929-12-15

A young maid from the country looses her job as maid in k.u.k. Budapest, when she stays out too...

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Des Lebens Würfelspiel

as Emils Mutter
Released: 1925-08-21

a silent movie by Heinz Paul

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Secrets of a Soul

as Die Mutter
Released: 1926-03-24

Werner Krauss, who had played the deranged Dr. Caligari six years earlier, stars as a scientist...

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The Crimson Circle

as Eine Vermieterin
Released: 1929-03-25

Police battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.

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Die Bestie im Menschen

as uncredited
Released: 1921-02-14

Jacques Lantier, the "human beast" of the title, has a hereditary madness and has several times...

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Aus den Memoiren einer Filmschauspielerin

as uncredited
Released: 1921-09-22

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Jugend

as uncredited
Released: 1922-10-01

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Trix, der Roman einer Millionärin

as uncredited
Released: 1921-07-21

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Hasenklein can't help it

as Frau Hasenklein
Released: 1932-05-08

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Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend

as Elisabeth Dorothea, seine Frau
Released: 1923-03-26

In his film version, Curt Goetz shifts the focus away from the poetic output towards the young...

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The Venus of Tivoli

as uncredited
Released: 1953-04-04

Unemployed and homeless actors following the dream of finding the future in South America. The...

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Film Emigration from Nazi Germany

as Self (archive footage)
First aired: 1975-11-11

Based on extensive interviews, shot on 16mm in a series of static long takes, Filmemigration aus...

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