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...nur ein Komödiant (1935)
Character: Minna
A moving actor at the rococo era shows the power-hungry-crude minister of a small state prince in the barriers, while he makes use of his resemblance to the sovereign and slips in his role. - Double role for Rudolf Forster who plays his figures very much chilly.
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Leichtsinnige Jugend (1931)
Character: N/A
Lydia is a spoiled young woman who thinks she can get anything for money. One day she causes an accident in which a motorcyclist is killed. At the trial she meets prosecutor Dan O'Bannon. She is sentenced to prison for manslaughter.
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Terra Melophon Magazin Nr. 1 (1930)
Character: Ada
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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Rinaldo Rinaldini (1927)
Character: Linda
A gentleman trades place with a notorious gangster who's his dead ringer to prevent an evil baron to marry his fiancée.
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Menschen untereinander (1926)
Character: N/A
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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Fürst Seppl (1932)
Character: Lenerl
A simple inn in the mountains is transformed into a grand hotel.
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Ein süsses Geheimnis (1931)
Character: Hermine
Mrs. Hansi Aichinger owns a flourishing fashion house in Berlin in which she employs her two married daughters Hermine and Dora, her sons-in-law and also her youngest, still unmarried daughter Liesel. Only her husband, Professor Hugo Aichinger, doesn’t need to be involved with the company.
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Andreas Hofer (1929)
Character: Moidl
A film based on the story of the Tyrolean innkeeper and patriot Andreas Hofer who led an Austrian uprising against Bavarian and French troops during the Napoleonic Wars.
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Im Kampf mit der Unterwelt (1930)
Character: Maria Bendley
A banker who had fallen out with his family stipulated in his will that his fortune should only pass to the person in possession of the five keys he distributed to his relatives during his lifetime 80 years after his death. Only with all five keys can the cassette in the vault of a bank be opened, granting access to the deceased's assets. 75 years after the banker's death, the fugitive crook Murphy comes into possession of one of the keys, together with a list of the names of the owners of the four remaining keys. Over the next five years, he manages to obtain two more keys by criminal means. Now he just has to get the fourth key from Carlo and the fifth key from the young, rich widow Maria. Any means will do. But the unscrupulous villain has not reckoned with Carlo's shrewdness, who initially falls under suspicion himself, but then takes up the pursuit of the criminal.
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Saxophon-Susi (1928)
Character: La Tanja
Silent version of a story later remade in French and German as Baby: A count's daughter wants a stage career, her show girl friend wants an education, so they change places.
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