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Dilemma (1940)
Character: Mister Reed
17-year-old Edith is celebrating at her friend's house in Zurich when she is dragged to a nightclub by the unscrupulous seducer Jean, who gets her drunk and abuses her. When she becomes pregnant, she asks her father, who is a gynecologist, to perform an abortion. He initially refuses, but eventually agrees to perform the procedure—with fatal consequences.
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Anna Karenina (1920)
Character: N/A
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.
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Der Amönenhof (1920)
Character: N/A
A lady-in-waiting is to become the companion of a young lady at the splendid estate Amönenhof.
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Pension Schöller (1930)
Character: Jallings
Adaptation of a popular comedy: When the country uncle he has been bilking comes to town to visit, a young student takes him to a boarding house full of exaggerated eccentric characters.
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Ich und meine Frau (1953)
Character: Ernst Noak
The conversion of a pedantic family tyrant into an understanding husband and father.
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Das Mädel vom Montparnasse (1932)
Character: André Laboudèle
A count's son has a place to meet his poor Parisian girlfriend and they even make some money for a while with him singing and her playing piano.But the father offers him support to marry someone else.
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Meine Cousine aus Warschau (1931)
Character: Fred Carteret
Meine Kusine aus Warschau (My Cousin From Warsaw) was based on a stage play by Louis Verneuil. It's a romantic farce, with the heroine posing as her own cousin to carry on two amours at once.
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Wenn vier dasselbe tun (1917)
Character: Tobias Schmalzstich, Lehrling
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Lubitsch plays a book shop employee who falls in love with Jannings' daughter.
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Sag' mir, wer Du bist (1933)
Character: Dr. Claudius Berger
The star of an operetta is engaged to its elderly director but really loves a dashing young Bavarian she met at a masked ball.
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Drei Tage Mittelarrest (1930)
Character: Max Plettke
When an attractive maid in a garrison town becomes pregnant, she reveals that one of three soldiers stationed there who had been chasing after her, is responsible.
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Der Storch streikt (1931)
Character: Harry
Her rich uncle is coming from America so a woman has a clerk in her father's store act as her husband. Until the fake husband loses his clothes while using a washroom.
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Die schwebende Jungfrau (1931)
Character: Paul Brandt
In this theatrical adaptation, a well meaning eccentric tries to patch up a rift between his niece and her fiancé.
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Teure Heimat (1929)
Character: N/A
A German mechanic considers emigrating to the United States, but changes his mind when he falls in love with a local woman.
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Nur Du (1930)
Character: Georg Lenz
Only You is a 1930 musical by Hermann Feiner and Willi Wolff starring Fritz Schulz and Walter Janssen.
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Waltz Time (1933)
Character: Fritz Eisenstein
An author travels to Vienna, Austria, to do some background research for his new book.
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Der Bettelstudent (1931)
Character: Jan
First of several filmed versions of a popular period operetta, in which an early 18th century noblewoman in Poland falls in love with a revolutionary student activist.
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The Constant Nymph (1933)
Character: Jacob Birnbaum
Second of three versions of Margaret Kennedy’s novel about a sickly, sensitive Belgian schoolgirl, Tessa (Victoria Hopper), in love with world-famous composer Lewis Dodd (Brian Aherne), who marries her wealthy cousin Florence (Leonora Corbett). Undermining the already delicate Tessa’s health, the composer realises that life without Tessa is unbearable and leaves his unloving wife – but sadly too late.
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Die unvollkommene Ehe (1959)
Character: Ernst Fiala - Bürovorsteher
Divorce lawyer Dr. Winifred Lert tries to convince her daughter Susi of the futility of marriage. But Susi has long since married herself. Susi also wants to use trickery to bring her parents back together.
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Einer Frau muß man alles verzeih'n (1931)
Character: Fritz Meyer, Weinreisender
"A woman must forgive everything"- Brunhilde's parents expects her to marry Mr. Kuhn. To avoid this Brunhilde makes plans with her lover and piano teacher. She will wear the ugliest possible dress and sing horribly when she meets with Kuhn.
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Die spanische Fliege (1931)
Character: Heinrich Meisel
As a young man, mustard manufacturer Ludwig Klinke had an affair with a dancer, the “Spanish Fly”. The dancer had a son and Klinke has been secretly paying maintenance ever since. Wimmer and Tiedemeier also had a relationship with the dancer. With the appearance of the dancer's supposed son, Heinrich Meisel, chaos breaks out.
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Tötet nicht mehr! (1919)
Character: N/A
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 Marchesa d'Arminiani (1920)
Character: Lothar von Raff
A police chief raids a gambling den, and arrests the elderly mother of the young Assunta. Though she pleads with him, he will not release her mother. Years later, Assunta plots her revenge.
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Sehnsucht 202 (1932)
Character: Bobby
After a mix-up with a newspaper advertisement, a shop-girl and a millionairess are mistaken for one another by two businessmen. A musical romantic comedy.
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Das Lied einer Nacht (1932)
Character: Koretzky
He was known as Anatole Litvak during his Hollywood directorial career, but he was still Anatole Litwak when he helmed the German musical Das Lied Einer Nacht (The Song of Night). Famed Polish tenor Jan Kiepura stars as famed Italian tenor Ferraro. Escaping from his tyrannical manager, Ferraro switches identities with a young tourist (Fritz Schulz) and goes off on an unscheduled Swiss holiday. Still travelling incognito, our hero falls in love with a winsome mountain girl (Magda Schneider). Alas, both his romance -- and his freedom -- are placed in jeopardy when it turns out that the charming young fellow with whom Ferraro traded identities was actually a notorious swindler. Anatole Litvak also directed the English-language version of Das Lied Einer Nacht, Be Mine Tonight
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Das Licht der Liebe (1954)
Character: Dr. Franz Kellermann
After her husband's death, Kate Zeller had to sell the farm and move with her four children from the countryside to Vienna. There she opened a small laundry and raised her children. When they grew up, they thought they no longer needed their mother. But it turns out that they still need her...
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Gesetze der Liebe (1927)
Character: N/A
A documentary by Magnus Hirschfeld, which contains a shortened version of Different From the Others (1919).
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Anders als die Andern (1919)
Character: Kurt Sivers
Conrad Veidt plays a famous musician who is blackmailed for being gay. Eventually he stands trial and is convicted. At the end the film pleads for the abolition of §175 (the law that punishes homosexuality).
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An heiligen Wassern (1960)
Character: Der Dorfpfarrer
Water is a scarce and sometimes dangerous resource in the Swiss Mountain Village. Anytime the wooden pipe is damaged and the supply breaks, one man from the village is determined by "unlucky" draw to take on the life-threatening repairs.
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Salto in die Seligkeit (1934)
Character: Fritz Wiesinger
An unemployed artist must choose between a flower seller and a Hungarian dancer and defend himself against suspicion of shoplifting.
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