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Karl Bernhard

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The actor Karl Bernhard (also credited as Carl Bernhardt) joined the film business in 1916 when he appeared in the production "Jenseits der Hürde" with Lotte Neumann and Max Ruhbeck. Afterwards Karl Bernhard acted in "Phantome des Lebens" with Lil Dagover, Sascha Gura, Werner Krauss and Maria Forescu, Otto Rippert's "Totentanz" at the side of Werner Krauss, Fred Selva-Goebel and Sascha Gura, again for Otto Rippert as salesman Lorenzo "Die Pest in Florenz" with Theodor Becker, Juliette Brandt and Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg as well as playing the title role in "Kord Kamphues" directed by Richard Kirsch with Kurt Middendorf, Clementine Plessner, Max Kaufmann and Richard Senius. At the beginni…

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In this apparently lost film, a beautiful dancer's sexual allure is used by an evil cripple to entice men to their deaths. Falling in love with one of the potential victims, she is told by the cripple that he will set her free if her lover, actually a murderer himself, survives and escapes a bizarre labyrinthe which runs beneath the cripple's house.

The Dance of Death

1919

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Suddenly appearing in Florence, a seductress causes Cesare, the city's ruler, and his son to both fall madly in love with her. The son, killing his father before an order to torture the woman can be carried out, then turns the city's churches into dens of sexual debauchery. Acts of wild abandon continue unabated until the arrival of Death, who brings with her a horrible plague to loose upon the city.