Acting

Elsa Bassermann

Born 1878-01-14 · Leipzig, Saxony, German Empire [now Germany]

Elsa Bassermann (born Elsa Sarah Schiff; January 14, 1878 – May 30, 1961) was a German screenwriter, stage and film actress. She was married to Albert Bassermann and often acted with him. As she was Jewish, the couple had to leave Nazi Germany and go into exile in Switzerland and the United States. She later returned to Germany, where she died in 1961. From Wikipedia.

Acting credits

9.0

A doctor's marriage to a single mother comes unravelled.

Dr. Schotte

1918

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8.0

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Die Stimme

1920

Du sollst keine anderen Götter haben poster

9.0

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Du sollst keine anderen Götter haben

1917

7.2

Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.

Madame Curie

1943

6.1

A British bomber crew, including Australian and American, is shot down over Germany during a bombing run. The five make their way across a perilous Germany, intent on reaching the UK with the war secrets they have learned, battling Nazis along the way.

Desperate Journey

1942

7.5

An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess he seeks to engineer her escape.

Escape

1940

5.1

Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, has three adult children: Juan, who is virtuous and has a sweetheart who is a woman of the people, Lucrezia, who is virtuous and wants to marry Alfonso, and Cesare, who is wicked and lusts after Lucrezia, Juan's girlfriend, and probably others. Cesare has vowed to kill any suitor for Lucrezia's love, and he has three thugs to carry out his wishes. Bodies fall into the Tiber, into the Colosseum (with lions prowling), and onto the Vatican floors.

Lucrezia Borgia

1922

9.0

Silent film

Der Mutter Augen

1913

9.0

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Urteil des Arztes

1914

9.0

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Der letzte Tag

1913

9.0

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Herr und Diener

1917

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9.0

Crime film based on Nikolaus Lenau's poem "Die Marionetten."

Dolls of Death

1920

10.0

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Der eiserne Wille

1917

8.0

Aka Passport to Heaven. In Prussia shoemaker Voight needs a residence permit to get a job, but can only get a job if he already has a permit. He dons a captain's uniform to order a platoon of soldiers to Koepenick to take over the Town Hall to get his permit.

I Was a Criminal

1941

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7.0

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Die Söhne des Grafen Dossy

1920

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8.0

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Die Duplizität der Ereignisse

1920

7.0

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Die Brüder von Zaarden

1918

10.0

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Der letzte Zeuge

1919

7.0

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Vater und Sohn

1918

5.5

A middle aged composer returns to Vienna after ten years in America, falls in love with a Japanese student and writes his last opera for her.

Last Love

1935

8.0

Toni van Eyck became known with her leading role in this early "Aufklärungsfilm" (education film) Gefahren der Liebe/A Woman Branded (Eugen Thiele, 1931) opposite Hans Stüwe. She played a rape victim, who finally becomes a murderess.