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Les saltimbanques (1930)
Character: N/A
An old clown loves a young dancer to whom he gives lessons. He heroically withdraws from the love of a rich young man.
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Terra Melophon Magazin Nr. 1 (1930)
Character: N/A
Film in the style of a magazine. Various topics, e.g. reading from the book "Ich lasse Dich nicht"; explanation of how a telephone conversation between Berlin and New York works; making a martini; sports teacher Siegfried Dietrich on gymnastic exercises; a sketch; a pop song; revue girls. Maria Ney hosts the program.
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Frau Sorge (1928)
Character: Ulrich Erdmann
Young peasant Paul's life is one of poverty and hardship from an early age. His lifelong struggle as he is forced to take on the responsibility of caring for his dysfunctional relatives prevents him from experiencing personal happiness, love, or a life for himself.
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Skeppsbrutne Max (1936)
Character: Max Mattsson / Hans Madsen
Max Mattsson gets stranded on a remote island in the archipelago together with four other people and a dog.
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Trötte Teodor (1945)
Character: N/A
Teodor is happy and newly married to Marianne; unfortunately, his domineering mother-in-law shares the young couple's home.
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Der Frauendiplomat (1932)
Character: Fürst Windischberg
Diplomat Fürst Windischberg is known for spending too much time with women, receiving frequent reprimands and even a threat to be sent to Afrika. In Berlin he meets chorus girl Hella, who tells her companions she is his current flirt.
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Die Kleine vom Varieté (1926)
Character: Fred
Peter Verdy falls in love with Lola (Ossi Oswalda) who is mistaken for a boy when she appears in stage regalia before a rich uncle who has other marriage plans for his nephew. The tangle ensuing is finally sorted out with excellent results all round.
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Bröllopsnatten (1947)
Character: Albert Lorentz
It is a great day for Albert and Yvonne. They will finally get divorced. Together with their lawyers they celebrate their new happy lives without each other, and all the fighting.
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Das häßliche Mädchen (1933)
Character: Fritz
An unattractive secretary is hired so the men in the office will focus on their work, but comic complications ensue.
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Glückliche Reise (1933)
Character: Stefan Schwarzenberg
This operetta adaptation centers on two men who return to Hamburg from Brazil: one seeks a woman for love whereas the other seeks a woman who claims to be an heiress.
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Der Hampelmann (1930)
Character: Baron Max von Storch
Herr Eickmeyer is a wealthy parfumier: well past middle age, and stout with it. His blonde wife Lissy is much younger, pretty and vivacious. Since Eickmeyer can't keep up with his young wife, he commissions a companion for her in the form of a life-sized talking clockwork man, purchased for 5,000 deutschemarks ... to be shipped to his home immediately it's assembled.
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Die selige Exzellenz (1927)
Character: Sekretär Conrad Weber
In the Ruritanian kingdom of Leuchtenstein, the old ruler has just died. His subjects are a bunch of intrigants, and his only real friend was the Baroness Windegg (Olga Tschechowa), a kind-hearted, witty, and very attractive woman, who however was not much loved by the Leuchtenstein upper class. And as these are only interested in getting better positions and other wealths after His Excellency's death, the baroness invents the story that the old ruler wrote his memoirs before his death, containing a lot of intimate, delicate and potentially embarrassing details about the Leuchtenstein dignitaries. Unsurprisingly, everyone is afraid about the details to be revealed. Only the successor to the throne, Prince Ernst Albrecht (Willy Fritsch) sees through the baroness' scheme, and as he is a lusty young man, he joins in her prank.
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Im weißen Rößl (1926)
Character: Leopold Brandmayer
Based on the play of the same name by Oskar Blumenthal and Gustav Kadelburg.
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Rosor varje kväll (1939)
Character: N/A
Birgit Johansson works at the Match Factory in Jönköping. In a matchbox she puts her photo and address to find a partner.
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Bröder emellan (1946)
Character: N/A
Identical twin brothers Patrik and Peter Brodd haven't seen each other for twelve years until Peter returns from America and goes to Patrik's office and demands that he gives him more money. Patrik becomes so upset that he faints. Peter quickly sends the unconscious Patrik to the hospital and takes over his brother's identity. He soon discovers that Peter is having an affair with his secretary. Peter's wife discovers that her husband has become very charming, not at all the usual boor. Meanwhile, Patrik tries to leave the hospital and stop his brother.
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En flicka för mej (1943)
Character: N/A
The story about Klas Ekengren, the mayor of a small Swedish town, and his mother Alma.
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Stockholm by Night (1958)
Character: N/A
An exposé on the nightlife of Sweden's capital, Stockholm, in company with Danish actor/singer Max Hansen and Swedish actress Lena Granhagen.
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Die - oder keine (1932)
Character: Prinz Michael von Marana
Eve's emotions are torn between two European princes, lifelong rivals who happen to be brothers. Eve prefers the nicer of the two princes, but this doesn't stop the other from aggressively stepping up his courtship. When the less agreeable of the two monarches takes control of the throne, he orders Eve to make an immediate choice between himself and his brother.
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Schuberts Frühlingstraum (1931)
Character: N/A
An episode in the life of the Austrian composer Franz Schubert, who wrote the most beautiful love songs, but whose love life was very unhappy: The timid, myopic and rather portly Schubert falls for the beautiful, blond Countess Maria Esterhazy and has impossibly unrealistic fantasies about the two of them as she only admires him for his music. When he’s fired from his position as a teacher in the parish school, the village innkeeper Therese, who secretly has the hots for Schubert, gets him an engagement at a concert in Palace Esterhazy.
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Das Kabinett des Dr. Larifari (1930)
Character: Max Hansen / Pepperl Kröninger
Three friends who are broke decide to found a film production company. When they start shooting their first film chaos arises...
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Sköna Helena (1951)
Character: King Menelaus
Intrigues and entanglements before Prince Paris wins the heart of beautiful Helena. It all happens in the small kingdom of Arcadia at the time of the Trojan War. Swedish version of Jacques Offenbach's operetta of the classic Greek myth.
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Csárdás (1935)
Character: Dr. Helwing
When their relatives from the countryside miss the train to their wedding anniversary, Lawyer Dr. Helwing and his wife Dolly decide to go out together. Meanwhile, infamous burglar "Monokel-Fredy" enters the Helwing villa with some of his cronies, only to find out that the relatives have arrived after all.
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Wienerbarnet (1941)
Character: Fritz Hertzgruber
We are in a small Heurigen-Café in Vienna. The young singer Fritz Hertzgruber meets a young Danish writer, Jesper Ellekilde, and the two young people become friends immediately. Fritz has been to Denmark as a "Viennese child" and is now an enthusiastic member of the Viennese children's own club. The following evening, the club's annual draw for a trip to Denmark takes place, and Fritz is the lucky one - albeit by detours. Fritz and Jesper are accompanied to Denmark, where Fritz is very much looking forward to the reunion with his foster parents, the composer Emilius Andersen and his wife. They were the sweetest people to their Viennese child, and their home stands in Fritz's memory as the epitome of idyll and harmony.
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Wien, du Stadt der Lieder (1930)
Character: Burgstaller
Steffi is in love with the unemployed musician Pepi. Still, her father the musical instrument retailer, Ignaz Korn, wants her to marry one of his card playing buddies, the butcher Burgstaller. When the typesetter, Cäsar Grün, purposely misprints a winning lottery number in the newspaper, Korn and Burgstaller, thinking they have won, pay the drinks for everybody in the Bock Café and then give away their businesses.
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Hvad vil De ha'? (1956)
Character: N/A
A film director sends his director and two screenwriters out into the city to find out what a film should contain in order for the person in question to want to see it. This results in many different episodes. The film includes the famous scene where Dirch Passer and Kjeld Petersen wallpaper a room.
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Tror du jeg er født i gaar? (1941)
Character: Cornelius Nielsen, Kontorist
There has just been a funeral. Outside the cemetery, the family members are standing and discussing how much their deceased great-uncle, the rich toy manufacturer Th. Olsen, has left behind. The family is waiting for little Cornelius Nielsen, who is always late. When he appears, a lively discussion begins about who Uncle Theobald has appointed as heir.
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Gröna hissen (1944)
Character: Billy Jansson
Ulla thinks her husband Billy is boring and starts dating other men. Lillans husband Peter is having important meetings, including girls. Billy and Lillan decides to pretend to be in love, to rouse jealousy of Ulla and Peter.
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Wer nimmt die Liebe ernst (1931)
Character: Max
Max Hansen and Willi Schur play two small-time criminals who steal dogs from their owners in the hope that they will get a reward. When the police catches them at their 'work', Hansen flees and gets into the apartment of Jenny Jugo, who takes a liking to the man and pretends that he's her boyfriend. Her landlady isn't amused, and so our heroine loses her rooms and moves in with Hansen. The two of them soon become lovebirds, of course. But when they later go to an entertainment park and Jugo takes part in a beauty contest, trouble arises...
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En förtjusande fröken (1945)
Character: Paul Norman
Insurance salesman Paul is to be engaged with Louise, the daughter of his boss. Trying to sell insurance to a millionaire he meet the millionaire's daughter Annette whom he fall in love with after complications and funny business.
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War’n Sie schon mal in mich verliebt? (2006)
Character: Self (archive footage)
"Did you ever fall in love with me?" - that was how the popular comedian Max Hansen ironically yet endearingly attacked Adolf Hitler as a homosexual. In the late 1920s Hansen was forced to leave Germany. The multi-talented entertainer lost his audience and was never again to be seen on a German stage. His children and many others who were part of his life tell their side of the story about the tragicomic life of the popular artist.
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