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Die vom 17er Haus (1932)
Character: N/A
Vienna in the year 2032: »Friendly greenish settlements line the city«, skyscrapers are growing in the city center, »but old Steffl is still there and takes on all the high-rise buildings«. In the archives of the City of Vienna, the old archivist tells his grandson how old Vienna tried to oppose the new era a hundred years ago. "Old Vienna" is a conservative, anti-progressive place here, from which social democracy has made a "red island in the sea of capitalism".
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Parisiskor (1928)
Character: Dr. Leon Monnier
A house in Paris happens to have two families living there with the same last name. In one apartment lives opera singer Gambetta Duval with his two daughters, Jeanne and Nita. In the second apartment lives old lady Duval with her grandchild Philippa and an her lodger, the physician Leon Monnier. Jeanne is secretly in love with Dr. Monnier who is secretly in love with Nita, who is secretly having an affair with the great playwright Armand de Marny.
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Mädchenschicksale (1928)
Character: Lutz
About exciting and everyday stories and dreams in the life of young and inexperienced girls.
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Rutschbahn (1928)
Character: Boris Berischef
Heli's misfortune begins when her mother, the landlady, marries for the second time. The man is bossy and brutal. In an argument between stepfather and brother, Heli intervenes: She throws a hatchet, the stepfather falls and is killed.
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Der Walzerkönig (1930)
Character: Josef Strauß
Johann Strauss returns to Austria in 1848 after a visit to Russia.
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Liebelei (1927)
Character: Fritz Lobheimer, Student
Film by Jacob and Luise Fleck.
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Förseglade läppar (1927)
Character: Frank Wood
The film is based on a story by Guy de Maupausant. The story details several years in the life of convent-bred Angela (Mona Mårtenson) who leaves her convent in Italy to go live with her aunt Peppina (K. Swanstrom), whose husband Giambastista wants to take advantage of her. She flees and takes refuge with the painter Frank Wood ( handsome Louis Lerch) and winds up in a romance with Wood. Alas, Wood is already married, and when Martenson finds out, she returns to the convent in disgrace. On the verge of shutting herself off from the world and taking her vows as a nun, the heroine once again crosses the path of Wood, who is now free to marry her. Sandra Milowanoff has a big scene where she commits suicide on discovering that her husband no longer loves her.
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Carmen (1926)
Character: José Lizarrabengoa
Feyder's scenario very closely follows Don José's own account of his story and his fatal relation with the gypsy Carmen in the third chapter of Mérimée's short novel.
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Der rote Kreis (1929)
Character: Jack Birdmore
Police battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.
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Das Bildnis (1923)
Character: Maler
Three men fall in love with a woman from a window photograph. When they find her living as a recluse in an isolated Hungarian mansion, they decide against a visit because she wouldn't live up to their idealized images of her.
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Opfer des Hasses (1923)
Character: Lejas Bräutigam
The family of a Jewish Russian manufacturer suffer ruin and murder as victims of a pogrom during the Russian Revolution.
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Großstadtschmetterling (1929)
Character: Fedja Kusmin
In this, her second silent film with Eichberg, Wong plays Princess Butterfly, an exotic Parisian fan dancer whose “death leap through a circle of naked swords” act goes tragically wrong. Blamed for the impalement of a fellow performer, she runs away and takes shelter with a handsome but starving painter who she brings luck.
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Nocturne (1927)
Character: N/A
In Spain, a girl awaits the return of her lover, an officer in the army.
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