Ferdinand Bonn

Acting

Ferdinand Bonn

Born — Died

1861-12-20 — 1933-09-24

Place of birth

Donauwörth, Bavaria, Germany

Known for

Acting

Credits

39 titles

Known for

The Mountain Guide of Zakopane poster
NR

The peak of the sun is in the High Tatras. The mountain guide Carlo tried to climb it several times without success. When he finally gets it, he thinks that nobody else has to raise it and develops a special feeling with the mountain. When the Americans MacAllan, his daughter, and the engineer Harry West arrive at Zakopane with the project to build a cable car on the mountain, Carlo rejects it, because he considers the mountain of his property, a kind of sanctuary. Finally, he lives an experience that can make him change his mind. There is another version of the film titled Burza nad Zakopane, shot the same year in Polish.

The Mountain Guide of Zakopane

1931

The Fugitive Lover poster
10.0

A German soldier lies wounded on the front line in the First World War. To avoid capture or death, he assumes the identity of a fallen French officer. As the German soldier happens to speak fluent French, nobody realizes the deception. The soldier begins a new life in Paris, yet remains in constant fear of being exposed as the ‘enemy’.

The Fugitive Lover

1927

Burza nad Zakopanem poster
NR

The peak of the sun is in the High Tatras. The mountain guide Carlo tried to climb it several times without success. When he finally gets it, he thinks that nobody else has to raise it and develops a special feeling with the mountain. When the Americans MacAllan, his daughter, and the engineer Harry West arrive at Zakopane with the project to build a cable car on the mountain, Carlo rejects it, because he considers the mountain of his property, a kind of sanctuary. Finally, he lives an experience that can make him change his mind. There is another version of the film titled Der Bergführer von Zakopane, shot the same year in German.

Burza nad Zakopanem

1930

Man's Greatest Adversary poster
NR

Director Cordt is in love with the chancellor's daughter Wilda, who unfortunately has a crush on the actor Frits. But Cordt knows: The only way to convince Wilda that Frits isn't the right one for her is to let her find out about the actor's debauchery and financial irresponsibility for herself. Step by step Cordt executes his cunning plan.

Man's Greatest Adversary

1913

No artwork available
7.5

An Italian spy infiltrates a weapons factory in Germany.

Der Spion

1917

The Alchemist poster
8.0

Walter Noss is ruined trying to find malleable copper to make material for German torpedoes. One day, in a secret compartment of an old chest, he finds a document from an ancestor describing the formula for this malleable copper.

The Alchemist

1918

Film credits

1930s · 8 titles

The Mountain Guide of Zakopane poster
NR

The peak of the sun is in the High Tatras. The mountain guide Carlo tried to climb it several times without success. When he finally gets it, he thinks that nobody else has to raise it and develops a special feeling with the mountain. When the Americans MacAllan, his daughter, and the engineer Harry West arrive at Zakopane with the project to build a cable car on the mountain, Carlo rejects it, because he considers the mountain of his property, a kind of sanctuary. Finally, he lives an experience that can make him change his mind. There is another version of the film titled Burza nad Zakopane, shot the same year in Polish.

The Mountain Guide of Zakopane

1931

Burza nad Zakopanem poster
NR

The peak of the sun is in the High Tatras. The mountain guide Carlo tried to climb it several times without success. When he finally gets it, he thinks that nobody else has to raise it and develops a special feeling with the mountain. When the Americans MacAllan, his daughter, and the engineer Harry West arrive at Zakopane with the project to build a cable car on the mountain, Carlo rejects it, because he considers the mountain of his property, a kind of sanctuary. Finally, he lives an experience that can make him change his mind. There is another version of the film titled Der Bergführer von Zakopane, shot the same year in German.

Burza nad Zakopanem

1930

A Waltz by Strauss poster
8.0

Musical extravaganza, also filmed in a French language version, based on the life of Johann Strauss.

A Waltz by Strauss

1931

In the Employ of the Secret Service poster
8.0

During WWI a German agent receives an order to find out when the Russian army will carry out its expected attack against the German lines.

In the Employ of the Secret Service

1931

The Great Desire poster
7.7

A young woman leaves behind her job, home and family to try to make it in the movie business. Features cameos from about three dozen German film stars of the era.

The Great Desire

1930

Only You poster
8.5

Only You is a 1930 musical by Hermann Feiner and Willi Wolff starring Fritz Schulz and Walter Janssen.

Only You

1930

Frederica poster
10.0

Based on Franz Lehar's operetta, about the first woman whom the great German writer Goethe fell in love with.

Frederica

1932

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Danube Waltz

1930

1920s · 13 titles

The Fugitive Lover poster
10.0

A German soldier lies wounded on the front line in the First World War. To avoid capture or death, he assumes the identity of a fallen French officer. As the German soldier happens to speak fluent French, nobody realizes the deception. The soldier begins a new life in Paris, yet remains in constant fear of being exposed as the ‘enemy’.

The Fugitive Lover

1927

The Golden Butterfly poster
10.0

A restaurant cashier, who has a mutual attraction to the restauranteur, has a secret passion for dance. As soon as she finishes work she is off down to the dance studio for a practice. She has a chance meeting with a handsome impresario, who promises to make her into the greatest dancer the world has ever known.

The Golden Butterfly

1926

No artwork available
NR

First film of Molly Picon. Plot unknown, the film is considered lost.

The Jewish Girl

1921

Das Schweigen am Starnbergersee poster
4.4

This is a very early feature by Rolf Raffé concerning the supposedly "mad" King of Bavaria, Ludwig II, probably the first feature film concerning the life of that King. In the piece, which is for the most part a straightforwards historical biopic from the DW Griffith school of narrative filmmaking, Ludwig is portrayed as an Idealist who cannot fit into the world of his contemporaries.

Das Schweigen am Starnbergersee

1920

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Gustav Mond, Du gehst so stille

1928

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Das vierte Gebot

1920

Rasputins Liebesabenteuer poster
5.0

Portrays the deep intrigue and mystical fanaticism of the last days of the Romanoffs, when Rasputin, the mad monk had such a hold over them.

Rasputins Liebesabenteuer

1928

Der Bankkrach unter den Linden poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Bankkrach unter den Linden

1926

No artwork available
9.0

a silent movie by Heinz Paul

Der falsche Prinz

1927

The White Horse Inn poster
7.0

Based on the play of the same name by Oskar Blumenthal and Gustav Kadelburg.

The White Horse Inn

1926

A Crazy Night poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Crazy Night

1927

Rags and Silk poster
10.0

At the center of this social satire is the wealthy and bored couple Irene and Erik. When Erik meets Hilde, who comes from a humble background, one evening in a chic club, he sees an opportunity for the couple to sexually spice up their worn-out relationship and to escape through a ménage à trois.

Rags and Silk

1925

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

When I Came Back

1926

1910s · 18 titles

Man's Greatest Adversary poster
NR

Director Cordt is in love with the chancellor's daughter Wilda, who unfortunately has a crush on the actor Frits. But Cordt knows: The only way to convince Wilda that Frits isn't the right one for her is to let her find out about the actor's debauchery and financial irresponsibility for herself. Step by step Cordt executes his cunning plan.

Man's Greatest Adversary

1913

No artwork available
7.5

An Italian spy infiltrates a weapons factory in Germany.

Der Spion

1917

The Alchemist poster
8.0

Walter Noss is ruined trying to find malleable copper to make material for German torpedoes. One day, in a secret compartment of an old chest, he finds a document from an ancestor describing the formula for this malleable copper.

The Alchemist

1918

Tales of Hoffmann poster
5.2

This movie, directed by Richard Oswald, is based on the operetta "Les contes de Hoffmann" by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), which is a genial musical potpourri from various short stories and novels by the Prussian writer, composer, painter, lawyer and judge E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822). While Hoffmann's literary work was longtime considered to be merely fantastical, it was finally researched, in the last years, according to its metaphysical background. Characteristic for Hoffmann's work is his life-long fight against rationalism and for the revelation of nature morte, culminating mostly in carnival-like scenes anticipating literary techniques only described in the works of Bachtin and Bachelard.

Tales of Hoffmann

1916

Count Michael poster
NR

A count with a gambling addiction is set up with the daughter of a minister by his father, who hopes she will be a good influence on him.

Count Michael

1918

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Silent Mill

1914

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hölle der Jungfrauen

1919

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Das Werkzeug des Cosimo

1919

Lache, Bajazzo! poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Lache, Bajazzo!

1915

No artwork available
10.0

1912 film by August Blom.

The Story of a Mother

1912

Robert and Bertram poster
8.0

Based on the 1856 Gustav Räder play Robert and Bertram about the adventures of two wandering vagrants, which has been turned into films on several occasions.

Robert and Bertram

1915

No artwork available
NR

Adaptation of 18th century French novel "Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux, et de Manon Lescaut."

Manon: The High Song of Love

1919

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Leichtsinn und Lebewelt

1919

Die Memoiren des Satans. 1. Teil - Doktor Mors poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Die Memoiren des Satans. 1. Teil - Doktor Mors

1917

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

En moders kærlighed

1912

His Most Difficult Part poster
NR

Count von Pfalz is engaged to countess Linda, but her affections belong to the famous actor Kurt Barner. When von Pfalz sees Linda give Barner an amulet containing her portrait, his fears are confirmed, and he breaks off the engagement. Linda is relieved, but her parents are dismayed at the prospect of having a dissolute artist as a son-in-law. Linda’s mother approaches Barner in tears and asks him to end the relationship with her daughter. Crumpling at the sight of these maternal tears, Barner comes up with a plan to push Linda away. By the time he realises the true depth of his feelings for the young countess, it is too late. (Stumfilm.dk)

His Most Difficult Part

1913

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Mexican

1919

No artwork available
7.0

Based on the novel Trilby by George du Maurier. A girl named Trilby meets Svengali, a musician and hypnotist, who claims he can turn her into a talented singer via hypnosis.

Svengali

1914