Werner Krauß
Werner Johannes Krauss (Krauß in German; 23 June 1884 – 20 October 1959) was a German stage and film actor. Krauss dominated the German stage of the early 20th century. However, his participation in the antisemitic propaganda film Jud Süß and his collaboration with the Nazis made him a controversial figure.
Tartuffe
as Herr OrgonA young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's play "Tartuffe" in order...
Movie pageThe Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
as Dr. CaligariFrancis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane...
Movie pageThe Joyless Street
as Josef GeiringerIn 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as...
Movie pageWaxworks
as Jack the Ripper / Spring-Heeled JackA poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid,...
Movie pageSüss, the Jew
as Rabbi LoewNazi historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer.
Movie pageNana
as Count MuffatCount Moffat becomes infatuated with Nana, a presumptuous stage actress, vulgar, hypocritical...
Movie pageThe Dance of Death
as The CrippleIn this apparently lost film, a beautiful dancer's sexual allure is used by an evil cripple to...
Movie pageVariety
as uncreditedThe murderer “Boss” Huller – after having spent ten years in prison – breaks his silence to tell...
Movie pageRobert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes
as Geheimrat Rudolf VirchowCountry Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his...
Movie pageThe Student of Prague
as Scapinelli, WuchererFor Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the...
Movie pageJealousy
as Mann - Georges MénardA couple are at the theatre with a playwright friend. At the end of the play the jealous husband...
Movie pageParacelsus
as ParacelsusThe story of the Renaissance-era Swiss physician, alchemist and astrologer Philippus Aureolus...
Movie pageThe Ancient Law
as Nathan, der ProfessorBaruch Mayer, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the...
Movie pageUniversal Horror
as (archive footage)A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during...
Movie pageThe Burning Soil
as Der alte Rog / Old RogThe film follows tells the story of a struggle over a plot of petroleum-rich land.
Movie pageA Night of Horror
as The artistAn extremely jealous artist slips into a monkey costume and kills all those men who come too...
Movie pageMazeppa, Folk Hero of the Ukraine
as MazeppaThe film tells the story of Ivan Mazeppa, a Ukrainian page at the Polish court who has an affair...
Movie pageOpium
as Nung-TschangIn China, Professor Gesellius has completed his long research on the many uses of opium. When he...
Movie pageAlt Heidelberg
as Dr. JüttnerPrince Karl Heinz enjoys his carefree life as a student in Heidelberg. He falls in love with the...
Movie pageThe Story of Dida Ibsen
as Philipp GalenDida Ibsen, daughter of impoverished farmers, has, according to her father's will, to marry the...
Movie pageSecrets of a Soul
as Martin FellmanWerner Krauss, who had played the deranged Dr. Caligari six years earlier, stars as a scientist...
Movie pageThe Dismissal
as Geheimrat von HolsteinGerman chancellor Otto von Bismarck promises the dying emperor Wilhelm I. to be loyal to his...
Movie pageOthello
as IagoEven without the benefit of sound, the 1922 German adaptation of Othello seems more operatic...
Movie pageDecameron Nights
as SoldanA Saracen sultan's disguised son loves an amnesiac Moslem princess.
Movie pageThe Film in the Film
as HimselfThe only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the...
Movie pageDanton
as RobespierreAt the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of...
Movie pageOpfer
as PremierAfter her brother is sent to Siberia, Sonja heads to Moscow to participate in a revolution.
Movie pageNathan der Weise
as NathanSilent movie adaptation of Lessing's play. Set in Jerusalem during the Third Crusade, it...
Movie pageThe Vice of Humanity
as Willibald CooksTamara becomes addicted to cocaine but hides from her daughter by moving in with the dealer...
Movie pageProstitution
as MannHedwig and Lola, two sisters of opposite temperaments, have their lives upended in when Lola...
Movie pageYorck
as General Ludwig Yorck von WartenburgThe story of General Yorck von Wartenburg, a commander in the army of Prussian King Wilhelm, who...
Movie pageAnnelie
as Katasteramtsrat Reinhold DörensenOn New Year′s Eve 1871 Annelie is born – 15 minutes too late, since her parents had calculated...
Movie pageLooping the Loop
as BottoBotto the Clown is in love with the much younger Blanche but she is in love with the handsome...
Movie pageI.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity
as Pontius PilatusFrom the director of Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, this is the Passion embedded in a contemporary...
Movie pageThe House of Lies
as Hjalmar EkdalAdaptation of Ibsen's play Vildanden.
Movie pageLady Hamilton
as Lord William HamiltonThe married Lady Emma Hamilton has an ill fated romance with Admiral Horatio Nelson.
Movie pageJedermann Remixed
as Death (archive footage)Based on archive holdings from nine decades, director Hannes Rossacher has created a complete...
Movie pageThe Uncanny House
as Albert von SieversA young unemployed man gets a job as a private secretary by chance. A good salary, a first-class...
Movie pageThe Fallen Star
as Lenura / LenoirThe Falling Star (German: Der Fallende Stern) is a 1950 West German drama film directed by...
Movie pageTales of Hoffmann
as Conte DapertuttoThis movie, directed by Richard Oswald, is based on the operetta "Les contes de Hoffmann" by...
Movie pageEveryman
as DeathBased on several medieval mystery plays, including the late 15th-century English morality play...
Movie pageBurg Theatre
as Friedrich MittererIn this convoluted melodrama, an elderly thespian falls for a rising young starlet. He admits...
Movie pageDie Insel der Glücklichen
as Dr. WenningThe daughter of a revolutionary runs away with a married prince.
Movie pageFräulein Raffke
as Emil Raffke"Raffke" was a war profiteer, shifter, the white-collar criminal, who came to wealth with not...
Movie pageThe Jew of Mestri
as Shylock (Mordecai)The film "Der Kaufmann von Venedig" ( The Jew Of Mestri ) was written, produced and directed by...
Movie pageDie Kwannon von Okadera
as HarlanderHarlander, a media mogul and war profiteer, has been told that he has six months before his...
Movie pagePrämien auf den Tod
as Dr. SchmidtIn order to impress a socially superior woman with money, an unsuccessful insurance agent...
Movie pageZirkusblut
as uncreditedGeorg Bertrand, a gambling addict and the son of a wealthy landowner, is kicked out of his...
Movie pageDas verwunschene Schloß
as Bauer GrödnerTwenty years ago, the Count of Groningen left his ancestral castle. Since then, it is said to be...
Movie pageEwiger Strom
as FerrymanAn abandoned baby is saved by a river god. Now aged 20, she yearns to see the world outside the...
Movie pageChristian Wahnschaffe II: Escape from the Golden Dungeon
as uncreditedEscape from the Golden Dungeon is the second part of the two-part silent movie Christian...
Movie pageThe Merry Farmer
as uncreditedThe Merry Farmer is based on the 1907 operetta of the same name.
Movie pageEs werde Licht! 3. Teil
as Waldemar GorskyA tyrannical landowner terrorizes his wife and seduces the daughter of one of his employees.
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