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Und das Licht erlosch (1914)
Character: Werle
The film tells the story of the shipowner Werle attempt to cover up a crime. And out of jealousy, he sends his employee Gerd to India, forcing his ward Inge Sorensen marry him....
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Die Unehelichen (1926)
Character: Schneider Martens
If watching a fellow facing indifference/rejection in the slums of Berlin didn't convey enough pathos, Gerhard Lamprecht gathered much of the same crew from Die Verrufenen and turned his attention to the city's population of unwanted children for the heart-tugging Die Unehelichen, released the following year. The trio of foster children at the center of Die Verrufenen are survivors who use their own resourcefulness to get by when the kids' guardians and the system itself let them down.
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Menschen untereinander (1926)
Character: Mr. Rudloff
Gerhard Lamprecht sketches a cross-section of Germany's new post-war society, with its winners, social climbers, and losers, represented by the social microcosm of an apartment building. The gossip-mad Frau Mierig from the rear building gives the newly-arrived Frau Kaminski, the janitor's wife, a lively initiation into the tenants and their peculiarities.
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Mata Hari, die rote Tänzerin (1927)
Character: Militär Auditor
Mata Hari, die rote Tänzerin (English: Mata Hari: The Red Dancer), often shortened on release to Mata Hari, is a 1927 German silent drama film directed by Friedrich Feher and starring Magda Sonja, Wolfgang Zilzer and Fritz Kortner. It depicts the life and death of the German World War I spy Mata Hari. It was the first feature-length portrayal of Hari.
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Bobby, der Benzinjunge (1929)
Character: Prof. Junghans
Five year old Bobby is an illegitimate child being raised by an innkeeper and his wife. His mother's fiance is excited to have Bobby come to live with them, but his mother is less enthusiastic.
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Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha (1921)
Character: Marino, theatre agent
The Maharaja of Odhapur goes on a trip to Europe and meet the young dancer Ellen Esmond. In her London accommodation, the Savoy Hotel, the Indian prince can prove to be a gallant gentleman and protect Ellen from an intrusive theatrical agent. The Maharaja asks the artist to entertain his guests the following evening with her dancing skills, including England's representatives in India. The maharaja is thrilled with both the person Ellen and her dance performances. His brother Bhima, who was always in the shadow of the Maharajah, drinks excessively and also is also magically attracted to Ellen Esmond.
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Ein steinreicher Mann (1932)
Character: Juwelier
A man swallows a diamond - and suddenly all people around him change their attitude towards him.
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Feme (1927)
Character: Geheimrat Burthe
"Assassination" - A far-right political organization called "Fellowship Loyalty" seeks contact with an easily seducable man whom she finds in Joachim Burthe. The leader of this deeply democratizing group, the equally characterless and unscrupulous Gregor of Askanius, whispers to the fanatical student seeking guidance that it is finally time to put the death sentence on the corrupt system and its representatives.
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Der Schienenweg unterm Ozean (1915)
Character: George Irving
Shocked by the Titanic’s collision with an iceberg and its subsequent sinking in 1912, leading scientists, engineers, and financiers began to consider new ways to connect North America and Europe without having to take the obviously dangerous sea route. The sensational solution: a railroad route would be built under the ocean!
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Tötet nicht mehr! (1919)
Character: Lundt
The director and co-writer Lupu Pick plays musician Erik Paulsson, who loses his beloved son after a peaceful yet critical poetry reading is raided by the tsarist forces. Paulsson, beside himself with grief, kills the officer responsible and is sentenced to life, which will mean 18 years in prison before he is free again. While he is inside, by a strange quirk of fate, his daughter Karin falls in love with writer Sebald Brückner, the son of the state prosecutor, who indicted Paulsson and is a staunch advocate of the death penalty. The conflict between the fathers does not impair the relationship of the young couple. However, when Sebald’s long-desired success on the stage is threatened by a vengeful theatre director who had sexually harassed Karin, he is enraged and kills the other man in a fight. The prosecutor now must face the blow of losing his own son to the death penalty.
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Die Verrufenen (1925)
Character: Rottmann
It was not just the children who were treated badly by the wealthy Weimar republic. Robert Kramer is released from prison but struggles to adjust to civilian life. His father disowns him, his wife has left him for another man. There is no work. He eventually arrives in a shelter for the homeless, and seeks salvation through Emma, a prostitute.
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Die Koffer des Herrn O.F. (1931)
Character: Reisebürodirektor
In the very old-fashioned town of Ostend suddenly 13 suitcases are delivered to the Grand Hotel, with a note, that O.F. will be here soon and needs 6 rooms. This event, probably the biggest in 300 years, starts a small wave of modernisation, yet everybody is wondering who O.F. is.
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Manon Lescaut (1926)
Character: Marschall Des Grieux
A French adventurer fights to save a woman in the life of prostitution.
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