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Die Ehe (1929)
Character: N/A
Marriage and sexuality is examined through the lens of screenwriter Dr. van de Velde, a Dutch gynocologist.
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Die Rache ist mein (1919)
Character: N/A
Revenge Is Mine (German: Die Rache ist mein) is a 1919 German silent film directed by Alwin Neuß and starring Paul Otto and Lil Dagover.
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Bettler GmbH (1919)
Character: N/A
Bettler GmbH is a 1919 German silent film directed by Alwin Neuß and starring Paul Otto and Lil Dagover
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Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 3. Teil: Der Mann im Dunkel (1921)
Character: Malatti
The old man and McAllan then got into a physical altercation on the roof of a train that was moving at full speed, in which Malatti's father fell. McAllan assumes that his adversary died in the process. When a gang of rogue robbers board the train, McAllan's life doesn't seem worth a damn anymore. But then, almost out of nowhere, his faithful servant Lubzang appears and saves his master's life at the last moment. Malatti, also on board, falls into the clutches of the gang and is sent to Tibet by the sinister fellowsabducted to be offered as a sacrifice to the goddess Bhawani. However, a kind-hearted member of the gang of robbers takes pity on her and helps the exotic beauty to escape. A little later, Malatti meets Lubzang, who has meanwhile broken away from his master McAllan. He takes her with him.
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Der Fußgänger (1973)
Character: Frau Eschenlohr
When a German businessman causes a car accident with deadly consequences, the papers start digging into his past to find scandals. What they find causes him to reevaluate his own past during WW2 when he was in Greece.
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Schloß Hubertus (1954)
Character: Baronin Gundi Kleesberg
The count Egge is barely a visitor in his Alpine family castle Hubertus, being preoccupied with hunting. He's furious when his young adult sons miss an annual municipal hunting concession auction, being both in love with local commoner girls, deemed undesirable although their mother was an actress herself, as is their sister's lover, painter Forbeck. So comital heir Tassilo marries in secret, spare heir Willy courts 'discretely'. Then tragedy strikes, with further consequences for the whole comital family.
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Der weiße Teufel (1930)
Character: Nelidowa
Ivan Mozzhukhin is a "...hot-headed Caucasian mountaineer leader whose irrational behavior comes to the attention of the Czar . Hoping to use Hajji Murad as a go-between in his plans to conquer the Caucasus mountaineers, the Russian ruler finds that the hero is not so easily manipulated. Rescuing the beautiful Saira from the Czar's clutches, Hajji Murad leads the mountain people's revolt against the despotic regent." Needless to say, the film ends in tragedy.
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Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald (1979)
Character: Helene
Based on a popular 1931 play, the film tells the fate of a naive young woman named Marianne, who breaks off her reluctant engagement with Oskar the butcher after falling in love with a fop named Alfred who, however, has no serious interest in returning her love. For this error, she must pay bitterly.
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Rätsel um Beate (1938)
Character: Beate Kaiserling
After her husband suddenly dies, a small town woman becomes the target of gossip, as to whether he had been having an affair and whether she is connected to his demise.
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Wien 1910 (1943)
Character: Maria Anschütz
Vienna 1910 is a 1943 German biographical film directed by Emerich Walter Emo and starring Rudolf Forster, Heinrich George and Lil Dagover. It is based on the life of Mayor of Vienna Karl Lueger. Its antisemitic content led to it being banned by the Allied Occupation forces following the Second World War.
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Dreiklang (1938)
Character: Cornelia Contarini
Melodrama written by Douglas Sirk.
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Das Mädchen Irene (1936)
Character: Jennifer Lawrence
A woman (Lil Dagover) who has lost her husband falls in love again, but is bitterly opposed by her daughters especially the title figure who can't stand the thought of seeing her mother going into a relationship with another man. Those who want to see if Schünzel can pull of drama as easily as he does comedy should give it a try.
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Le Tourbillon de Paris (1928)
Character: N/A
Story of a woman who thinks she prefers a life of glory on stage in Paris to life with her Scottish lord of a husband in his castle.
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Der Demütige und die Tänzerin (1925)
Character: Toni
Toni wants to become an opera-singer. Her mother was once simple chanteuse. Toni marries the brutal industrialist Liesegang. An Italian doctor falls in love with Toni. He want's to see Liesegang dead.
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Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee (1952)
Character: Lamberta
Pietro Ponz lives a happy life in the mountains on the Swiss-Italian border with his mother Lamberta. No one but his mother knows that Pietro is a girl, a deception that Lamberta was forced into by a series of tragedies almost twenty years previously. Not long after her husband Joseph Ponz died, Lamberta also lost her fragile infant son, Pietro. Whilst mourning this double loss, she began an affair with Bolzano, a notorious smuggler. After Bolzano was killed by the customs men, Lamberta gave birth to his child, a little girl that she decided to pass off as her son Pietro, in the hope of securing an inheritance from her husband's wealthy parents. Now that Pietro is fast coming of age, his tutor and grandmother are adamant that he should be sent to a religious school. Pietro escapes from the school and joins a gang of smugglers...
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Die Kwannon von Okadera (1920)
Character: Kwannon von Okadera
Harlander, a media mogul and war profiteer, has been told that he has six months before his sanity will leave him completely. He hires a young nurse, and decides to spend all his money before his six months are up.
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Das Geheimnis von Bombay (1921)
Character: Gabriela Farnese/Concha
Gabriela Farnese, a famous singer, visits Bombay to find her mysterious doppelganger, the dancer Concha.
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Kleine Residenz (1942)
Character: Herzogin von Lauffenburg
It’s 1910 and we’re in the duchy of Lauffenburg. Everybody is celebrating the 600th birthday of the local hero, Otto the Ironman, who in his time saved the duchy from annexation and beat the enemy so badly, that he fled ... well, that’s what it says in the history books, at least. Local gossip asserts, however, that Otto wasn’t even part of the battle and was spending his time having fun with a pretty girl. When one day a piece is introduced at the court theatre, which tells the heroic story of Otto, the director rejects the mediocre story.
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Das Abenteuer der Thea Roland (1932)
Character: Thea Roland
A modernist lady sculptor seeks a model for a statue to be put in front of a Berlin hospital, and finds him in the form of a London policeman-boxer. She's also interested in having a child.
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Die große Sehnsucht (1930)
Character: Herself
During lunch break at the movie studio, the extras rush to the canteen Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Maria Paudler and Luis Trenker are chatting. Eva von Loe a beautiful young extra rushes past; she is looking for her fiancé, Paul Wessel, who is also an extra. She has to return to the set where the famous director Regisseur Hall is shooting a scen. He is dissatisfied with his star, Carla Marventa, who is wrong for the scene he must photograph. Hall notices Eva, but laughs at her desire to replace Marventa. At that moment Conrad Veidt comes on the scene and assumes that Eva is the star.
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Die große Sehnsucht (1930)
Character: sie selbst
During lunch break at the movie studio, the extras rush to the canteen Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Maria Paudler and Luis Trenker are chatting. Eva von Loe a beautiful young extra rushes past; she is looking for her fiancé, Paul Wessel, who is also an extra. She has to return to the set where the famous director Regisseur Hall is shooting a scen. He is dissatisfied with his star, Carla Marventa, who is wrong for the scene he must photograph. Hall notices Eva, but laughs at her desire to replace Marventa. At that moment Conrad Veidt comes on the scene and assumes that Eva is the star.
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Fridericus (1937)
Character: Marquise de Pompadour
In 18th century Europe, King Friedrich II of Prussia leads his army through the seven-years-war with neighboring states, and after numerous near defeats, eventually brings a victorious army back to Berlin.
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Der Mord in der Greenstreet (1921)
Character: N/A
A little girl falls into the hands of a hypnotist the morning after the assassination of a jeweler. A visitor of the uncomfortable host confesses himself as the perpetrator, the girl can testify and delivers the two villains of the police.
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Nur eine Tänzerin (1926)
Character: Marie Berner
Heinrich Zentler is a successful man, both on football and in his legal career.
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Der geheime Kurier (1928)
Character: Mme. Thérèse de Renal
A silent adventure based on the classic novel by Stendhal "The Red and the Black".
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Buddenbrooks - 2. Teil (1959)
Character: Elisabeth Buddenbrook
Second part of two of the saga of the troubled Buddenbrook family and their business in 19th century Germany.
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Karl May (1974)
Character: Berta von Suttner
This ethereal, three-hour biopic is the middle film in Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s “German Trilogy” on the mythological foundations of the Third Reich. By fusing theater, music, and cinema, Syberberg conjures up Karl May (1842-1912), the immensely popular German author, who set many of his adventure novels in an idealized version of the American Wild West. His tales of the cowboy and the Ubermensch alike were beloved by many, including (Our) Hitler, who supposedly ordered his generals to read May works after defeats in the Russian campaign.
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Königliche Hoheit (1953)
Character: Gräfin Löwenjoul
An American heiress in Europe falls in love with a German prince, but he is required to marry someone else for reasons of state convenience.
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Ungarische Rhapsodie (1928)
Character: Camilla
On the plains of Hungary, Franz, a Hussard lieutenant, broods about his future; Born into an aristocratic family, his father drank away the family fortune and marriage seems an unlikely prospect. Impoverished Franz's love for effervescent and upright country girl Marika coincides with the tragic tale of lovelorn violinist Josef, all but ignored by royal beauty Camilla.
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Seine Frau, die Unbekannte (1923)
Character: Eva
A war blind painter marries his nurse. But after he can see again through an operation, he does not recognize her. Then she decides to leave him in order to return to his service under a different name. Only when the painter falls in love with her as a stranger to him, she reveal herself.
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Congress Dances (1931)
Character: Countess
In 1815, Tsar Alexander I romances a working-class glove seller, while his double takes his place at the Vienna Congress. English-language version of Der Kongreß tanzt.
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Zur Chronik von Grieshuus (1925)
Character: Bärbe
Hinrich, the son of a feudal German landowner, falls in love with the beautiful daughter of one of his father's serfs despite opposition from both families. But when he actually offers marriage to her, this is going too far. The return of his brother Detlev, with an unscrupulous aristocratic bride of his own and a rival claim to their father's estates, proves to be the trigger for tragedy.
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Vom Teufel gejagt (1950)
Character: Frau Dakar
A doctor discovers a new medical cure with dangerous side effects, and takes the drug himself to test its limitations.
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Hans engelska fru (1927)
Character: Cathleen Paget
London socialite Cathleen Paget's adventures in love and misfortune a year after the death of her husband. Ivor Willington and Lionel Jesop play cards for who will be given the shot at flirting with Paget, as to claim her wealth. But when her brother Bruce has lost the family fortune in bad business, Cathleen is suggested to court Nordic giant Birger Holm. The two marry and the families financial problems seem to be at bay, although the life in the northern Sweden is wearing Cathleen down as she misses parties, friends and dancing at the Savoy Hotel.
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Eine Frau die weiß, was sie will (1934)
Character: Manon Cavallini
Woman concert singer seeks to connect with her adult daughter, by her former marriage to a staid industrialist who has kept the two apart since the daughter was a small child, and gets inadvertent help from the industrialist's fired employee who has fallen in love with the girl.
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Unter Palmen am blauen Meer (1957)
Character: Contessa Celestina Morini
During the summer holidays, a teenage girl in love with pop star Tedy Reno visits her aunt, an aging countess, at her mansion in Italy, where both music and men are strictly forbidden.
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Rote Rosen, rote Lippen, roter Wein (1953)
Character: Gräfin Waldenberg
Art dealer Thormann asks for the hand of his beautiful secretary Nora, but Nora loves Captain Hans Westhoff. But while Westhoff is hiding in Italy to avoid jail time, his heroic death is reported in his homeland.
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Memento Mori (1975)
Character: Charmian Colston
The writer Charmain Colson entertains a circle of old friends. One day, when the group receive an anonymous message saying Memento Mori/Remember you must die, they all panic in fear and angst.
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The Second Kiss (1930)
Character: Empress Marie Theresa
'Romantic story of a gallant adventurer at the Court of Maria Teresa.' (The Bioscope)
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Der Flüchtling aus Chicago (1934)
Character: Eveline
Werner Dux, heir of the big car company "Dux-Werke", is a gambler who has just been arrested in Chicago for shooting a cardsharper. While in jail, he learns from his friend Michael Nissen that his father has died recently. That means that the Dux-Werke are without a leader at the moment, for Werner's cousin Steffie, who is his co-heiress, is still too young to run the firm. In this situation, Werner convinces his friend Michael, who is an engineer by profession, to take over the firm as long as he is in jail and to pose as him. Michael agrees and is able to bring the firm up again. He even arranges a reliability test for motorcycles via Istanbul, Rome and Barcelona, which creates a big Turkish order for the company. When the real Werner escapes from jail and arrives in Germany, it looks as if the whole story is up to bust. But Werner needs money, so he convinces Michael to go on as before and hand over all profits of the firm to him.
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Herr Tartüff (1926)
Character: Frau Elmire / Elmire, Orgon's wife
A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's play "Tartuffe" in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who covets the young man's inheritance.
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Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 1. Teil (1920)
Character: Malatti
The American engineer McAllan is appointed site manager for a major project in Asia. He is to oversee the branch line of the railway line from Calcutta to Beijing. One day, the railway company in question called him to Calcutta for an interview: they were planning to stop running the branch line for cost reasons. However, McAllan is passionate about the project and uses all his powers of persuasion not to just call off construction. In fact, the construction work will continue, and the engineer is even willing to vouch for it with his private fortune.
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La Grande Passion (1928)
Character: Sonia de Blich
This is a love story, a story of rivalry and revenge but, above all, a story about sport. The great passion is about union rugby.
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Der Richter und sein Henker (1978)
Character: Gastmann's Mother
Hans Baerlach is a Swiss police detective who has dedicated much of his career to pursuing powerful and allegedly murderous businessman Richard Gastmann. Though Baerlach's partner meets his demise while investigating Gastmann, his replacement, Walter Tschanz, is undaunted. Meanwhile, the lovely Anna Crawley becomes involved in the case, which proceeds to take many twists and turns.
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Friedrich Schiller – Der Triumph eines Genies (1940)
Character: Gräfin Franziska von Hohenheim
The young Schiller, whose heart and soul are writing and poetry, is forced into the military academy (the pride and joy of the Duke of Württemberg). Schiller is disgusted by the everyday routine of the military, always back and forth between breeding and drills. Conversation, conflict or even critique are discouraged – the oppression insufferable for the young rebel. Disgusted by the brutality, he writes his drama "The Bandit", which he would later publish anonymously. But following a frank conversation with the Duke, Schiller is dishonored and must leave the land.
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Phantom (1922)
Character: Marie Starke
Lorenz Lubota is a city clerk with no direction in life. One day on his way to work he is run over by a woman driving a chariot and he is immediately infatuated with her.
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Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 2. Teil: Die verbotene Stadt (1920)
Character: Malatti
In Calcutta, McAllan meets the beautiful Indian woman Malatti, with whom he immediately falls in love. The engineer quickly neglects his professional obligations and follows her. After some complications, the two of them finally get closer at her home, even if Malatti's father Badhama rejects this connection. Badhama only agrees to the planned marriage when he learns how wealthy this white man must be. After some time, McAllan returns to his large construction site, where things are going haywire. Many workers die in an explosion, and McAllan is now liable with his fortune. As a result, the engineer, who became impoverished overnight, suddenly becomes uninteresting for Malatti's father as a son-in-law, especially since with a solvent Japanese man who offers a lot of money for his daughter's hand,
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100 Jahre UFA - Im Maschinenraum des deutschen Films (2017)
Character: Self - Actress (archive footage)
The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime, the Adenauer era and the many and tumultuous events of contemporary Germany, and has always been the epicenter of the German film industry.
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Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil (1959)
Character: Elisabeth Buddenbrook
First part of two of the saga of the troubled Buddenbrook family and their business in mid 19th century Germany.
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Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920)
Character: Jane
Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.
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The Woman from Monte Carlo (1932)
Character: Lottie Corlaix
On the eve of WW-I the French Navy ship Lafayette returns to its Toulon base for one night. There is no shore leave, although wives are permitted to come to a party. The strain of command on the older captain and his new, young wife is very great.
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Schlußakkord (1936)
Character: Charlotte Garvenberg, seine Frau
After her husband dies, a German woman who gave up her infant for adoption to emigrate to America returns to Germany, discovering that her child is being raised by a married orchestra conductor.
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Der höhere Befehl (1935)
Character: Madame Martin
A Prussian commander disobeys orders and goes to find a British envoy who can negotiate a pact with Austria to help fight off Napoleon in 1806.
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Die seltsame Gräfin (1961)
Character: Gräfin / Lady Leonora Moron
Strange fortune hunters are behind a girl's murder in this Edgar Wallace tale.
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Harakiri (1919)
Character: O-Take-San
The daughter of a Daimyo, one forced to commit harakiri to secure her a future to choose her own destiny, falls in love with and marries a European officer. The officer returns to Europe but promises to come back for her and his new child, but when he comes back to Japan, he brings his European wife.
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Monte Cristo (1929)
Character: Mercédès / Comtesse de Morcerf
This epic adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo was directed by Henri Fescourt, and stars Jean Angelo, Lil Dagover, Pierre Batcheff, the beautiful Marie Glory, and Bernhard Goetzke as the Abbé Faria.
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Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (1922)
Character: (uncredited)
Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to make huge profits on the stock exchange. Afterwards, Mabuse disguises himself and attends the Folies Bergères show, where Cara Carozza, the main attraction of the show, passes him information on Mabuse's next intended victim, the young millionaire Edgar Hull. Mabuse then uses psychic manipulation to lure Hull into a card game where he loses heavily. When Police Commissioner von Wenk begins an investigation of this mysterious crime spree, he has little to go on, and he needs to find someone who can help him.
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Elisabeth von Österreich (1931)
Character: Elisabeth von Österreich
Elisabeth of Austria is a German movie with Lil Dagover as royalty Elisabeth who has many men to choose from.
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Die Standarte (1977)
Character: Erzherzogin
During the final days of the First World War, Officer Menis does his duty in defending the battle flag of the defeated Austro-Hungarian empire, while his fellow troops, a motley gang recruited from several different countries not loyal to the royal family, simply try to survive by any means possible.
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Der müde Tod (1921)
Character: Young Woman / Zobeide / Mona Fiametta / Tiao Tsien
As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and is sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall. The woman finds a mystic entrance and is met by Death, who tells her three separate stories set in exotic locales, all involving circumstances similar to hers.
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Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt (1973)
Character: Self
"The Great Magician" - Max Reinhardt (1873-1943) was an Austrian theater and film director, director, theater producer and theater founder. With his Jedermann production on August 22, 1920, he founded the Salzburg Festival.
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Boykott (1930)
Character: Frau von Generaldirektor Haller
A film about the pupils of a posh Berlin gymnasium in their final term, and their class teacher teaching them about humanism and tolerance, a lesson that would be badly needed three years later.
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Der Tänzer (1919)
Character: Andreas Mother
Andreas Rellnow decides to leave his troubled parents and pursue an artistic career. As a violin virtuoso, he quickly became popular and a first-class heart-breaker.
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Der Kongress tanzt (1931)
Character: Komtesse
Vienna glove-sales-lady Christel falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander. Austrian Prince Metternich tries to use this and other pleasant diversions to keep him out of the negotiation conferences of the 1815 Vienna Congress.
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Bismarck (1940)
Character: Eugénie
A biographical film of Otto von Bismarck, the Prime Minister of Prussia, and how he and his policies - including aggressive war - helped to unite Germany.
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Die Spinnen, 1. Teil - Der Goldene See (1919)
Character: Sun Priestess Naela
In San Francisco, well-known sportsman Kay Hoog announces to a club that he has found a message in a bottle with a map drawn by a Harvard professor who has gone missing. The map tells of a lost Incan civilization that possesses an immense treasure. Hoog immediately plans an expedition to find it. But Lio Sha, the head of a criminal organization known as the Spiders, is determined to get the treasure for herself and plans a rival expedition.
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