Directing
Frederic Zelnik
Born — Died
1885-05-17 — 1950-11-29
Place of birth
Czernowitz, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary [now Chernivtsi, Ukraine]
Known for
Directing
Credits
67 titles
Actor, director and producer. One of the most popular directors of the German silent film scene.
Known for
7.3Die Weber (1927), a rousing German tale of the 1844 weavers’ revolution.
The Weavers
1927
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Das Frühlingslied
1918
8.0Judy Aalders grows up in an orphanage. Albert Woudenberg happens to be present when Judy confronts the trustees of the orphanage and is expelled. He decides to send her to university and Judy, who has only ever seen his shadowy long legs, refers to him as 'Daddy-Long-Legs' from that day. Not knowing he is in fact her benefactor, Judy's relationship with Albert gradually turns into love.
Daddy Long Legs
1938
10.0A beautiful and popular young woman enters a relationship with a wealthy but womanizing cavalry captain.
Lyda Ssanin
1923
6.8An aspiring composer, in the British Air Force for WWII, is downed in Italy and rescued by an Italian girl. He returns home to his wife, inspired to write an opera and aware that he's fallen in love with his rescuer.
The Glass Mountain
1949
When he is not conducting his orchestra, a talented young man invents a device to thwart car thieves. Associating himself with a rich Dutch baron, he falls in love with the baron's daughter.
C'était un musicien
1934
Film credits
1920s · 7 titles
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Monte Carlo
1921
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Der Apachenlord
1920
7.0No synopsis available yet.
C.d.E.
1922
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Der Sträfling von Cayenne
1921
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Das begrabene Ich
1921
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Die Kreutzersonate
1922
8.0A waiter in love with a countess assumes the identity of an aristocrat.
Graf Festenberg
1922
1910s · 20 titles
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Das Frühlingslied
1918
No synopsis available yet.
§ 14 BGB
1915
A blind patient and her doctor fall in love, but the doctor fears that she will no longer love him if her sight is restored.
Das Liebesglück der Blinden
1911
No synopsis available yet.
Eugen Onegin
1919
Van Dola is a wealthy, enthusiastic young man who is completely infatuated with the mechanical work of art that is a doll modeled after a real woman named Felicitas.
Das Abenteuer des van Dola
1915
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Ein Gruß aus der Tiefe
1915
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Spiel im Spiel
1916
NRA 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Nun and the Harlequin
1918
Originally planned as the third entry in the Der Hund von Baskerville series, it was reworked into a stand alone film before release.
Das dunkle Schloß
1915
No synopsis available yet.
Am Amboß des Glücks
1916
No synopsis available yet.
Seelen, die sich nachts begegnen
1915
No synopsis available yet.
Die gelbe Fratze
1919
No synopsis available yet.
Das Rätsel von Sensenheim
1915
A young woman marries a count who is not what he seems.
Das Geschlecht der Schelme. 1. Teil
1917
An inventor leaves his family after finding success with the financial help of his wife; in despair, the wife walks into the water with their child.
Forget About Luck
1911
NRThe romantic dalliances of stage actor Edmund Kean with both a married woman and a young wannabe actress cause difficulties.
Leichtsinn und Genie
1919
No synopsis available yet.
Arme Maria
1915
NRA medical officer decides to become a doctor, change his name and devote his life to research after the woman he loves marries his best friend.
Die Rothenburger
1918
A friend sacrifices himself, taking the blame for a murder upon himself. A guilty conscience will end up killing the real culprit.
Japanese Sacrifice
1910
Behind the camera
7.3Die Weber (1927), a rousing German tale of the 1844 weavers’ revolution.
The Weavers
1927
8.0Judy Aalders grows up in an orphanage. Albert Woudenberg happens to be present when Judy confronts the trustees of the orphanage and is expelled. He decides to send her to university and Judy, who has only ever seen his shadowy long legs, refers to him as 'Daddy-Long-Legs' from that day. Not knowing he is in fact her benefactor, Judy's relationship with Albert gradually turns into love.
Daddy Long Legs
1938
8.0Judy Aalders grows up in an orphanage. Albert Woudenberg happens to be present when Judy confronts the trustees of the orphanage and is expelled. He decides to send her to university and Judy, who has only ever seen his shadowy long legs, refers to him as 'Daddy-Long-Legs' from that day. Not knowing he is in fact her benefactor, Judy's relationship with Albert gradually turns into love.
Daddy Long Legs
1938
10.0A beautiful and popular young woman enters a relationship with a wealthy but womanizing cavalry captain.
Lyda Ssanin
1923
6.8An aspiring composer, in the British Air Force for WWII, is downed in Italy and rescued by an Italian girl. He returns home to his wife, inspired to write an opera and aware that he's fallen in love with his rescuer.
The Glass Mountain
1949
When he is not conducting his orchestra, a talented young man invents a device to thwart car thieves. Associating himself with a rich Dutch baron, he falls in love with the baron's daughter.
C'était un musicien
1934
No synopsis available yet.
Eugen Onegin
1919
10.0A forester's daughter arrests a poacher without knowing it is Emperor Franz Joseph. A lively game with a melancholic touch begins. Set in Austria, 1850, this romantic tragicomedy is based on the operetta by Georg Jarno.
The Bohemian Dancer
1926
6.0A young musician invents an anti-theft device for cars, but works as a jazz conductor while waiting for his invention to be successful.
Happy
1933
6.0A young musician invents an anti-theft device for cars, but works as a jazz conductor while waiting for his invention to be successful.
Happy
1933
No synopsis available yet.
The Gypsy Baron
1927
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Die Geliebte des Grafen Varenne
1921
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Margarete. Die Geschichte einer Gefallenen
1918
7.0Still coming to terms with the death of her mother, Willy Verhulst loses her father as well -- just as she is about to sit her final exams. She manages to pass, and as she is trying to find a job she remembers a young man she met in the hospital. The boy, Herder, works for a radio station and gives her a job as a secretary.
Tomorrow It Will Be Better
1939
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Miss Beryll... die Laune eines Millionärs
1921
No synopsis available yet.
Athletes
1925
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Maria Evere
1919
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Die Venus von Montmartre
1925
No synopsis available yet.
Hölle der Jungfrauen
1919
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Die Geliebte des Königs
1922
No synopsis available yet.
Der Veilchenfresser
1926
A country girl goes to Paris to sing professionally, where she falls in love with a member of the British Embassy. They are parted by the outbreak of the Second World War, but subsequently reunited again...
Heaven Is Round the Corner
1944
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Der Apachenlord
1920
5.5Prussian King Frederick II was keen to hire the dancer Barberina, who had already enjoyed great success in Italy and England, for the Berlin opera house.
Barbarina, the King's Dancer
1932
7.0In this musical, an enigmatic masked woman catches the roving eye of a wily playboy gambler at a masquerade ball. If he knew that she was using her wiles as bait and was planning to reform him of his gambling womanizing ways after catching him, he may have head for different waters.
The Lilac Domino
1937
10.0No synopsis available yet.
The forest girl
1931
5.0The film takes place on two time levels: first in contemporary France and then in the time of Louis XV. in the 18th century. Lucienne is a young, dynamic woman who, although she loves the chief engineer of her uncle Abel Fernay’s car factory, is forced to marry an unloved man, a noble businessman.
Auf Befehl der Pompadour
1924
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Tanja, die Frau an der Kette
1922
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Die Ehe der Fürstin Demidoff
1922
NRA 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
10.0No synopsis available yet.
An der Schönen Blauen Donau
1926
10.0No synopsis available yet.
An der Schönen Blauen Donau
1926
8.0Police battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.
The Crimson Circle
1929
8.0Police battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.
The Crimson Circle
1929
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Everyone Asks for Erika
1931
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Erniedrigte und Beleidigte
1922
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Erniedrigte und Beleidigte
1922
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Es war einmal ein Musikus
1933
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Es war einmal ein Musikus
1933
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Pogrom
1919