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Unentschuldigte Stunde (1937)
Character: Sophie - seine Gattin
When the schoolgirl Kate defends her friend, she is expelled from school. To conceal the incident from her parents, she positions herself ill. Promptly she falls in love with the treating doctor who cures her sudden illness not only, but marries his patient also immediately. But Kate soon bores the life of a doctor's wife. So she decides to secretly catch her high school.
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I pagliacci (1943)
Character: La contessa Valmondi
Movie adaptation of the Leoncavalo's famous opera. A troupe of traveling actors is being welcomed by villagers in Calabria in the summer of 1866.
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Alles für Geld (1923)
Character: Asta
Rupp (Jannings) is a former butcher, made rich in the meat packing industry as a result of the reversal of fortunes brought on by WWI. He is crude, uncouth and uneducated. His son, Fred, is the apple of his father's eye and is an auto enthusiast. The widowed Rupp falls in love with a former aristocrat, Helen, now down on her luck and pawning her last heirloom. He proposes marriage and she accepts in order to save her ailing mother who needs a monetary influx to avoid death. Her former boyfriend, Platen, warns Helen against Rupp's intentions - he and Rupp are enemies, Rupp having caused his being fired for protecting a chorus girl against Rupp's unwanted advances. Meanwhile, Graf, a shyster, arranges purchase of a near bankrupt auto manufacturing firm, Phoenix, to Rupp's great advantage with practically no monetary recognition to Graf, who swears revenge. Rupp comes upon his son begging Helen not to marry his father but to return to Platen.
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Kleine Mädchen – große Sorgen (1941)
Character: Gina, seine Frau
When Dr Hartung (Fritz Odemar) hits Eva (Geraldine Katt) with his car, she decides to make him her "life's mission" and free him of his "unhappy marriage" which he never declares as such. In her way stands only her best friend Ursula (Hannelore Schroth) who happens to be Dr Hartung's daughter and is all but enthusiastic about her friend trying to seduce her father.
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Das vierte Gebot (1950)
Character: Barbara Schalanter - seine Frau
Schalanter, once a prosperous craftsman is hit by the industrialization in Europe of the outgoing 19th century and self-inflicted negligence, he and his family - Gattin Barbara and the children Martin and Josefa - falls into considerable economic distress. More and more, the old man grabs the bottle and thus aggravates the economic situation. Schalanter is marked and predestined for a serious downfall and collapse.
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Lache Bajazzo (1943)
Character: Frau Valmondi
A dramatization of the melodramatic story that inspired the popular opera, Pagliacci.German language version of a film simultaneously shot in an Italian version.
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Oberst Redl (1925)
Character: Sonja Uraskow
Austria silent film from 1925 directed by Hans Otto, telling the story about the Austrian officer who rose to head the counter-intelligence efforts of Austria-Hungary. He was himself a paid spy for the Russians.
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Die Regimentstochter (1953)
Character: Marquise
A Tyrolean rifle regiment adopt a young baby girl they have rescued and she becomes the "Daughter of the Regiment". In 1811, as a full-grown woman she falls in love with one of the new recruits while the regiment battles French forces during the Napoleonic Wars.
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Grand Hotel...! (1927)
Character: N/A
German adaptation of Béla Balázs's Grand Hotel, which was later remade by MGM in 1932.
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Stein unter Steinen (1917)
Character: Lore Eichhorn
A stonemason who killed his landlord faces hardship trying to reintegrate into society after being released from prison.
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Die Töchter ihrer Exzellenz (1934)
Character: Leonie
A young woman tries to hinder her sister from committing adultery - by wooing the man she thinks is the suitor herself.
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Maria Theresia (1951)
Character: Gräfin Hagen, Obersthofmeisterin
A biography of the eighteenth century Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa.
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Der Fall Deruga (1938)
Character: Baronin Truschkowitz
The physician Dr. Deruga is suspected of having poisoned his wife out of greed. She died after naming Deruga, poor and in debt, the sole heir in her will. There are a lot of people willing to testify against him in court, including Marta, the dead woman's best friend. Only his niece Mingo believes him to be innocent and goes out on her own to prove it.
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Umwege zu Dir (1944)
Character: Baronin von Dobeneck
Careless Fritzi, the wife of a much older professor, has secretly been meeting with the unmarried Baron von Burghammer. Fritzi's husband finds out about the affair. Leoni, Fritzi's sister, pretends to be Burghammer's lover to spare her sister. Burghammer then falls head over heels for the brave woman.
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Peter der Große (1922)
Character: Katharina II.
Peter the Great, having become Tsar of Russia, using his shipbuilding knowledge acquired in a foreign country to establish a navy, and being able to use it, provokes a war with Sweden, defeating that country at the Battle of Poltava. This battle marks a turning point between Peter and Russia. His only son turns out to be a coward, meets a refugee girl and makes her his Empress, alienating himself from the church and many nobles. All these factors lead to a conspiracy...
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Svatý Václav (1930)
Character: N/A
St. Wenceslas (Czech: Svatý Václav) is a 1930 Czechoslovak historical film about Saint Wenceslas.[2] It was the most expensive Czech film to date,[3] with the largest set constructed in Europe to accommodate an all-star cast of over a hundred, together with 1,000 extras for the lavish battle scenes.
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Eroica (1949)
Character: Karls Mutter
Biopic about Ludwig van Beethoven.
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Das Tagebuch des Dr. Hart (1918)
Character: Jadwiga Bransky
Dr. Robert Hart visits his friend Ursula von Hohenau in Saxony in July 1914. There he hears about the Austrian ultimatum to Serbia. He immediately returns to his home town where, just before mobilisation, he meets the Polish count Bransky and his daughter Jadwiga, the French Vicomte Latour and the Russian counsellor of embassy count Bronislaw Krascinsky. Bronislaw is madly in love with Jadwiga and jealous of Dr. Hart. After the outbreak of the war Dr. Hart works close to the Polish frontlines. Bronislaw leads the Russian troops in this area. When Bronislaw is wounded during a battle with the Germans Dr. Hart finds him and takes care of his wounds.
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Jiskor (1924)
Character: Helena, the count's daughter
A period drama set in a Volhynian village.
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Kiedy kobieta zdradza męża (1924)
Character: N/A
When Professor Horski learns that his wife has published a volume of novellas under his name entitled "Wife" he feels compromised and is angered at her. But as he reads them, he finds that they are great. Also, he reads in them a warning to himself: one should not neglect one's wife for the sake of academic work. The film is considered to be lost.
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Hochzeit im Heu (1951)
Character: Theres Sentner
In rural Bavaria the violent antagonism between the heads of two farming families, the Sentners and the Hauderers, causes problems for their respective son and daughter who are in love and wish to marry.
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Nanon (1938)
Character: Ninon de l'Enclos
An operetta directed by Herbert Maisch.
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Unsterblicher Walzer (1939)
Character: Anna Strauß Mutter
Johann Strauss firmly established himself as the leader of a dance orchestra in Vienna in the 1840s. His sons Johann junior and Josef have clearly inherited their father's talent. Nevertheless, father Johann is strictly opposed to both of them training as composers.
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Don Carlos und Elisabeth (1924)
Character: Elisabeth von Valois
Don Carlos, heir to the Spanish throne, and Princess Elisabeth of Valois are deeply in love but King Philip, Carlos's father, wants Elisabeth for himself.
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Die Weber (1927)
Character: Luise Hise
Die Weber (1927), a rousing German tale of the 1844 weavers’ revolution.
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Friedrich Schiller – Der Triumph eines Genies (1940)
Character: Frau Rieger
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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Die goldene Stadt (1942)
Character: N/A
Anna Jobst is the daughter of a rich, conservative farmer. Living on the bank of the Moldau, she wishes nothing more than follow the river to Prague, the "Golden City". After arriving, she quickly falls into a bad crowd.
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Hoffmanns Erzählungen (1923)
Character: N/A
"The Tales of Hoffmann" - The story of the poet Hoffmann, who falls in love with a mechanical doll, loses his mirror image in Venice and finally liberates his lover from the clutches of a sinister doctor.
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Sensationsprozess Casilla (1939)
Character: Sylvia Casilla
They meet on the plane from Dakar to Casablanca: the well-known American defense lawyer Vandegrift, his daughter Jessie and the arrested Peter Roland, who allegedly kidnapped and murdered the famous film child Binnie Casilla in Stockford in 1928. Vandegrift, convinced of Roland's innocence, decides to represent the man at his upcoming sensational trial. But just as public opinion is increasingly questioning Roland's guilt, he testifies under pressure from prosecutor Adams. Now only Binnie herself can save the young man, but the search for her has so far been in vain...
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Der Schandfleck (1956)
Character: Maria
Leni charms everyone with her friendly nature. Nevertheless, her father rejects her. When Leni wants to get engaged to Florian, she learns the reason: Florian is her half-brother, and she herself is merely the product of her mother's affair. Devastated, Leni leaves the farm to build a new life in a foreign land without a "stain."
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Das Weib des Pharao (1922)
Character: Theonis
The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries.
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