Acting
Karl Meixner
Born — Died
1903-02-13 — 1976-12-29
Place of birth
Wien, Austria
Known for
Acting
Credits
36 titles
Known for
7.6After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professor's preoccupation with another patient, the criminal genius Dr. Mabuse the hypnotist. When Mabuse's notes are found to be connected with a rash of recent crimes, Commissioner Lohmann must determine how Mabuse is communicating with the criminals, despite conflicting reports on the doctor's whereabouts, and capture him for good.
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
1933
6.1In 1912, the Titanic embarks on its inevitable collision course with history. In the wake of the over-spending required to build the largest luxury ship in the world, White Star Line executive Sir Bruce Ismay schemes to reverse the direction of his company's plummeting stock value. Onboard the Titanic, brave German 1st Officer Petersen struggles to convince his self-important British superiors not to overexert the ship's engines.
Titanic
1943
8.0Spanning the years between the Bolshevik Revolution and 1930, this Negri vehicle focuses on an exiled Russian noblewoman who has lost track of her daughter and of a young officer she pined for.Until she finds them both again and together.
Moscow Shanghai
1936
No synopsis available yet.
Großstadtgeheimnis
1952
6.0Nazi propaganda film based on the life and death of Hitler Youth Herbert "Quex" Norkus – in the film, renamed Heini Völker – who was killed while distributing flyers in a Communist neighborhood.
Hitler Youth Quex
1933
5.7Espionage, war and romance in the Far East in 1904: Russian naval officer Boris Ranewsky marries Youki, the sister of a fanatical Japanese officer, but war is imminent.
Port Arthur
1936
Film credits
1960s · 6 titles
No synopsis available yet.
Die verlorenen Schuhe
1966
In 1828 a man called Kaspar Hauser appears in Nuremberg, barely able to speak and walk. He is admitted to the house of a professor, who among other things explores Kaspar's unusual characteristics and deals with his education.
Der Spielverderber - Das kurze, verstörte Leben des Kaspar Hauser
1965
No synopsis available yet.
Zwischen Montag und Samstag
1961
No synopsis available yet.
Der Hund des Generals
1964
6.4A farmer from Eastern Germany decides to flee to West Germany.
Escape to Berlin
1961
No synopsis available yet.
Über den Gehorsam. Szenen aus Deutschland, wo die Unterwerfung des eigenen Willens unter einen Fremden als Tugend gilt
1968
1950s · 7 titles
No synopsis available yet.
Großstadtgeheimnis
1952
5.3No synopsis available yet.
Der Major und die Stiere
1955
9.0A Belgian industrial magnate returns home after spending ten years in Siberia. There he learns that he has since been declared dead and that his wife has remarried.
Nacht der Entscheidung
1956
8.0Violin virtuoso Fedor Varany meets on the train from Nice to Vienna Helene Samboni, the lover of the Chamber of Commerce President Alexander Grabner and still-wife of the artist Samboni. Fedor falls in love with her without betraying his identity.
Dark Eyes
1951
7.5No synopsis available yet.
Die fröhliche Wallfahrt
1956
9.0Ingeborg starts her new job at the hospital. Her boss is the venerable Professor Burger, a famous heart surgeon who devotes himself entirely to his work. His son, womanizer Manfred, is an assistant doctor on the same ward. After an affair between Ingeborg and Manfred, the father sends his son away and dismisses Ingeborg, unaware that she is expecting Manfred's child. She gives birth in secret. Only when Manfred has a car accident and the father saves his son's life in a costly operation is there a reconciliation at his bedside.
Nachtschwester Ingeborg
1958
5.5No synopsis available yet.
Cuba Cabana
1952
1940s · 8 titles
6.1In 1912, the Titanic embarks on its inevitable collision course with history. In the wake of the over-spending required to build the largest luxury ship in the world, White Star Line executive Sir Bruce Ismay schemes to reverse the direction of his company's plummeting stock value. Onboard the Titanic, brave German 1st Officer Petersen struggles to convince his self-important British superiors not to overexert the ship's engines.
Titanic
1943
5.5Already a famous painter, Rembrandt van Rijn is commissioned to paint the Amsterdam Archers' Guild. But upon completion of the picture, the men of the guild feel duped, because they don't consider themselves flatteringly depicted in the painting. They therefore decline to pay for the work. During this dispute, the painter finds out his wife is close to death. He finds himself terribly lonely after her passing and suffers from depression until he decides once more to marry.
Rembrandt
1942
Nazi propaganda film showing the development of the German navy's submarine fleet.
Geheimakte W.B. 1
1942
5.8No synopsis available yet.
Die Sache mit Styx
1942
5.9A biographical film of Otto von Bismarck, the Prime Minister of Prussia, and how he and his policies - including aggressive war - helped to unite Germany.
Bismarck
1940
6.0A sinister man instigates blackmail against the wayward wife of a banker.
The Chaste Beloved
1940
4.4This is the directorial debut of Artur Pohl and tells the story of war refugees as they try to settle in a small town in Germany.
The Bridge
1949
9.0This film tells the unusually sensitive story of two women who try to cope with men, one a pragmatic gold digger type, not unsympathetic though, the other a dreamer who falls in love with a man in a magic moment ... or so she thinks.
The Enchanted Day
1944
1930s · 14 titles
7.6After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professor's preoccupation with another patient, the criminal genius Dr. Mabuse the hypnotist. When Mabuse's notes are found to be connected with a rash of recent crimes, Commissioner Lohmann must determine how Mabuse is communicating with the criminals, despite conflicting reports on the doctor's whereabouts, and capture him for good.
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
1933
8.0Spanning the years between the Bolshevik Revolution and 1930, this Negri vehicle focuses on an exiled Russian noblewoman who has lost track of her daughter and of a young officer she pined for.Until she finds them both again and together.
Moscow Shanghai
1936
6.0Nazi propaganda film based on the life and death of Hitler Youth Herbert "Quex" Norkus – in the film, renamed Heini Völker – who was killed while distributing flyers in a Communist neighborhood.
Hitler Youth Quex
1933
5.7Espionage, war and romance in the Far East in 1904: Russian naval officer Boris Ranewsky marries Youki, the sister of a fanatical Japanese officer, but war is imminent.
Port Arthur
1936
6.0Vienna, 1753. Baron Neuhaus is flirting with two ladies-in-waiting, hoping to get a job at the imperial court. He succeeds, and the empress orders him to investigate the immoral conduct in the palace of which Neuhaus himself is the cause.
The Young Baron Neuhaus
1934
7.0The French language production of original German film The Testament of Dr. Mabuse.
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
1933
9.0On the eve of the Russian Revolution, a performance of "Tosca" is taking place at the opera house. The artists and staff are too engrossed in their work to notice the unrest in the streets. The leading roles are played by Marina Marta and René Areno, who are also lovers. However, Marina has another admirer in Captain Alexander von Harbin. When, during the final performance, the insurgent communists suddenly storm the opera house, Alexander seems to be Marina's last hope…
Strong Hearts in the Storm
1937
6.2Propaganda film detailing the plight of ethnic Germans, known as "Volga Germans", in the Soviet province of Manchuria.
Refugees
1933
5.5Amid the Russian Revolution of 1917, a mutiny aboard the battleship Sevastopol helps revolutionary forces seize control of the port city. Maria, the daughter of the deposed governor, struggles to protect her family and reunite with her lover while a ruthless former servant, now a revolutionary commissar, pursues her. A dramatic blend of romance, naval action, and revolutionary violence, this 1937 Nazi propaganda film presents the upheaval through an intensely anti-communist perspective.
White Slaves
1937
7.4No synopsis available yet.
Nanu, Sie kennen Korff noch nicht?
1938
6.6This Nazi propaganda film chronicles the rise of the German Air Force ("Luftwaffe") from World War I until Adolf Hitler took power in 1933.
Pour le Mérite
1938
6.0In Latvia at the end of the First World War, a group of Freikorps battle against an attempted takeover of the Baltic States by Communist forces.
Menschen ohne Vaterland
1937
9.0Escaping her school teacher life, a lady marries a British military doctor who takes her to Malaysia. But realizing there that the marriage isn't working, she turns to an Oriental prince instead.
Andere Welt
1937
In an imaginary Scandinavian country, an ambitious radical buys an indebted estate in order to become a member of parliament as a local resident, which he ultimately succeeds in doing. Salvation in the party turmoil comes in the form of a military dictatorship under the determined Governor General Werkonen. The new member of parliament arranges for an assassination attempt on the general. However, the general is only slightly injured in the attack. The hired assassin now feels betrayed by his client and takes revenge by murdering him...
The Governor
1939
