Paul Wegener
Paul Wegener was a German actor known for his pioneering roles in Expressionist films. He can also be considered a father of horror for his breakout role in The Student of Prague (1913). Wegener maintained a career throughout and after the Nazi era, starring in his last film in 1948.
The Golem: How He Came Into the World
as The GolemIn 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using...
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The Golem
as GolemThis mostly lost film is often confused with director Paul Wegener third and readily available...
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The Student of Prague
as Balduin - A Student / SelfPrague, Bohemia, 1820. Balduin, a penniless student, falls in love with Countess Margit, a...
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FASCISM(s): A Film in Six Parts
as The GolemSix sequences about Fascism and its segments throughout history.
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The Magician
as Oliver HaddoA young woman, Margaret Dauncey, is caught between the forces of a charlatan magician, Oliver...
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Kolberg
as LoucadouDuring Napoleon's victorious campaign in Germany, the city of Kolberg gets isolated from the...
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Madame DuBarry
as uncreditedThe story of Madame du Barry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of...
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Sumurun
as Der alte ScheichThe favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a...
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The Loves of Pharaoh
as SamlakThe Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two...
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A Daughter Of Destiny
as Professor ten BrinkenHanns Heinz Ewers' grim science-fiction novel Alraune has already been filmed twice when this...
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The Great King
as Gen. CzernitscheffKing Frederick II (aka "Frederick the Great") of Prussia is engaged in a major battle against...
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The Living Dead
as MörderA crazed scientist murders his wife, walls her up, then flees. A reporter sets out to track him...
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Lucrezia Borgia
as MichelettoRodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, has three adult children: Juan, who is virtuous and has a...
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My Life for Ireland
as Sir George BeverleyA Nazi propaganda movie from 1941 directed by Max W. Kimmich, covering a story of Irish heroism...
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Hans Westmar
as KuprikoffNazi film about the story of a Nazi Storm Trooper named Horst Wessel--here called "Hans...
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Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
as The Mad InventorA man of mystery known only as Doctor Terror recounts seven stories from his casebook of...
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Vanina
as Gouverneur von TurinVanina loves rebel leader Octavio, who gets caught. He gets a pardon and marries Vanina. When he...
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The Film in the Film
as SelfThe only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the...
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A Man Wants to Get to Germany
as Ship StokerOn the eve of the Great War, an expatriate German working in Latin America learns that the...
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Inge and the Millions
as Bankier SeemannA well scripted and captivating thriller about the owners of a small private bank in Berlin,...
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Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen
as VautrinBalzac adaptation: Escaped convict moves into a brothel where he becomes father to a boy. But...
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin
as Fahrender Spielmann (Traveling Minstrel)A traveler comes into a town overrun with rats and vermin. He promises to free the place of the...
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The Weavers
as Fabrikant DreißigerDie Weber (1927), a rousing German tale of the 1844 weavers’ revolution.
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The Immortal Heart
as Dr. SchedelNuremberg durting the time of Albrecht Durer and the famous geographer Martin Behaim: the...
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Rübezahl's Wedding
as RuebezahlIn this film, the people of a Tyrolean town climb up into the nearby mountains, searching for a...
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The Golem and the Dancing Girl
as uncreditedAs a practical joke, an actor impersonates the screen monster he made famous. A lost film.
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Figures of the Night
as Thomas Bezug"Night people". Thomas Bezug, the richest man in the world, is a solitary, domineering and cruel...
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Fundvogel
as Professor ReutlingerYoung Jan Bergwall visits his grandmother, the so-called centenary, at Woyland Castle. There he...
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Only a Comedian
as Staatsminister von CrevenA moving actor at the rococo era shows the power-hungry-crude minister of a small state prince...
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Herzog Ferrantes Ende
as Herzog FerranteIn medieval Italy, a group of men plot to kill a cruel and despotic duke.
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Roswolsky's Mistress
as Eugen RoswolskyMia Verhag loses her job as a chorus singer when she rejects the advances of the theatre...
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Hans Trutz in the Land of Milk and Honey
as Hans TrutzA stylized fairy tale in which a farmer sells his soul to Satan in exchange for prosperity.
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Svengali
as SvengaliThe hypnotist Svengali makes an artist's model sing, but cannot force her love.
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Sleeping Beauty
as uncreditedAn adaptation of the famous fairy tale.
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Der verlorene Schatten
as uncreditedA man sells his shadow to gain success and fame but soon suffers the terrible consequences of...
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The Yoghi
as Yogi / RasmusAn Indian mystic uses his power of invisibility to scare a young inventor.
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