
Acting
Olga Engl
Born — Died
1871-05-30 — 1946-09-21
Place of birth
Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]
Known for
Acting
Credits
60 titles
Olga Engl was an Austrian-German actress who achieved great fame during the silent film era.
Known for
6.9Lorenz Lubota is a city clerk with no direction in life. One day on his way to work he is run over by a woman driving a chariot and he is immediately infatuated with her.
Phantom
1922
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Der Dieb
1918
No synopsis available yet.
Mother
1917
7.3When a suspicious man bribes Emil with chocolate in return for a bundle of cash, the young lad thinks of a plan to catch him.
Emil and the Detectives
1931
7.0A wife believes her husband has been deceiving her and decides to have some fun at his expense. After a bit of mischief, her husband, a lawyer who is preparing a divorce for a client, decides to start divorce proceedings himself. The wife then realises she has gone too far.
The Little Escapade
1931
7.0This 1938 film by Mario Camerini is the German version of a previously-made film by the same director. However, unlike the previous film, this one isn't quite as serious. A libertine gets married, but is free to carry out his adventures in this marriage of convenience. Eventually, however, he will discover that the marriage is more than something convenient and will lead, surprisingly, to something he never expected.
The Man Who Can't Say No
1938
Film credits
1940s · 4 titles
7.5Berlin's theatre crowd is excited about the new operetta "Frau Luna". But for the head of the city's vice police, who was invited to the dress rehearsal, the costumes for the ladies onstage are a bit too revealing. He demands the show be cancelled as offensive. The president of the Thusneldenbund has taken it upon himself to alert everyone about the growth of immorality in the capital. The theatre director Knopp has come up with an idea to convince these "fine" gentlemen to let the operetta go onstage again: He intends to win over the friendship of the moral police and then nothing will stand in the way of "Frau Luna" once more being performed.
Mistress Moon
1941
8.0The popular trapeze artist Cora is married to the respected doctor Frank Crippen. After a party at the Crippens' house, Cora suddenly disappears. Apparently, she traveled to Brazil alone overnight. However, a friend of the couple is skeptical and calls the police. While excavating the garden, Inspector Düwell makes a gruesome discovery: body parts. Meanwhile, the prime suspect, Dr. Crippen, has already gone into hiding...
Doctor Crippen
1942
6.8The attractive Oberleutnant Paul Wendlandt is stationed in North Africa as a fighter pilot. While in Berlin to deliver a report he is given a day's leave, and on the stage of the cabaret theatre "Skala" sees the popular Danish singer Hanna Holberg. For Paul it is love at first sight. When Hanna visits friends after the end of the performance, he follows her, and speaks to her in the U-Bahn. After the party in her friends' flat, he accompanies her home and chance throws them further together when an air raid warning forces them to take cover in the air raid shelter. Hanna reciprocates Paul's feelings, but after a night spent together Paul has to return immediately to the front. There now follows a whole series of misunderstandings, and one missed opportunity after another. While Hanna waits in vain for some sign of life from Paul, he is flying on missions in North Africa. When he tries to visit her in her Berlin flat, she is giving a Christmas concert in Paris.
The Great Love
1942
7.0The German estate owner Corner travels to Marseilles, looking for his daughter. He had a relationship with a French aristocrat before the World War and knows she was pregnant, when he had to return to Germany. The War separated them however and the mother died giving birth to his child. He knows neither the name of his daughter, nor where she is living. A lawyer named Beauchamps is tasked with finding her and one days introduces a young singer named Isabel to him. She is with great probability the one, who is being sought. She follows her father back to Germany, but only with great reluctance.
Der Weg zu Isabel
1940
1930s · 13 titles
7.3When a suspicious man bribes Emil with chocolate in return for a bundle of cash, the young lad thinks of a plan to catch him.
Emil and the Detectives
1931
7.0A wife believes her husband has been deceiving her and decides to have some fun at his expense. After a bit of mischief, her husband, a lawyer who is preparing a divorce for a client, decides to start divorce proceedings himself. The wife then realises she has gone too far.
The Little Escapade
1931
7.0This 1938 film by Mario Camerini is the German version of a previously-made film by the same director. However, unlike the previous film, this one isn't quite as serious. A libertine gets married, but is free to carry out his adventures in this marriage of convenience. Eventually, however, he will discover that the marriage is more than something convenient and will lead, surprisingly, to something he never expected.
The Man Who Can't Say No
1938
7.0You Are Adorable, Rosmarie is a 1934 German romantic comedy film directed by Hans von Wolzogen and starring Herta Worell, Hans Stüwe and Hans Adalbert Schlettow. Location shooting took place around Salzkammergut.
You Are Adorable, Rosmarie
1934
9.0Sylva Varescu is an operetta singer performing Kálmán's Die Czardasfürstin through Europe with great success. Before going to Vienna she meets handsome Prinz Weylerstein and they fall in love. Offered a contract for America, she doubts until she finds out that he is already engaged to a countess.
The Csardas Princess
1934
7.0Eva goes to Budapest to visit her friend Tini's wedding but as soon as she arrives, the husband-to-be breaks up with Tini. When Eva decides to take things into her own hand and follows him to the Hotel Atlantik.
Scandal in Budapest
1933
7.4Georg Alexander plays Douglas Mavis, the son of a rich English family who falls in love with a Berlin girl (Renate Müller) and marries her. However, he doesn't tell his family, and for a reason: the resolute head of the family (played by the inimitable Adele Sandrock) has other designs for her grandson. Further complications arise when the family lawyer (Adolf Wohlbrück) gets to know the Berlin lady without knowing who she is. And meanwhile, Mavis meets an alluring lady from a cabaret (Hilde Hildebrand).
The English Marriage
1934
7.0After meeting up with a charming blonde and her female orchestra on a Danube river steamer, a nobleman who had aspired toward the classics turns to popular music instead.
A Night on the Danube
1935
7.0In Dresden's classical music world, female students learn from an opinionated conductor and a pompous dance instructor.When their work isn't appreciated, a teacher consoles them, saying Bruckner, Schubert and Wagner were also criticized.
Music in the Blood
1934
6.5The political advisor to the French emperor Napoleon, and the Austrian emperor Franz I, arrange a marriage between Napoleon and the Austrian archduchess Marie-Luise in order to prevent another war.
So Ended a Great Love
1934
9.0Produced by the Nazis in honor of the 150th anniversary of Mozart's death: a celebration of his music, as the film shows him traveling to Prague for the Don Giovanni premiere and inspired by his wife to compose the finale.
A Little Night Music
1939
No synopsis available yet.
Storm on three hearts
1930
No synopsis available yet.
Ein Kind, ein Hund, ein Vagabund
1934
1920s · 19 titles
6.9Lorenz Lubota is a city clerk with no direction in life. One day on his way to work he is run over by a woman driving a chariot and he is immediately infatuated with her.
Phantom
1922
a silent movie by Heinz Paul
Die Straße des Vergessens
1926
9.0The Girl on a Swing is a 1926 German silent film directed by Felix Basch and starring Ossi Oswalda, Harry Liedtke, and Lotte Lorring.
The Girl on a Swing
1927
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Steuerlos
1924
No synopsis available yet.
The Amazon
1921
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Hölle der Liebe
1926
7.0In order to punish her cold, brutal aristocratic husband for murdering her lover, a woman becomes a common prostitute to shame him.
A Woman's Revenge
1921
8.0No synopsis available yet.
The Circus Princess
1925
Es zogen drei Burschen (1928) is a German silent comedy film directed by Carl Wilhelm. Also known by its alternative German title Drei Seelen und ein Gedanke, the movie is a lighthearted farce famously featuring an early-career performance by the legendary actor Hans Albers.
Es zogen drei Burschen
1928
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Hochverrat
1929
8.0Based on Honore de Balzac’s story of Madame de Langeais. Costume drama about the infamous loves of the countess.
Love
1927
NRA Motion Picture Play about the Automobile.
Aus eigener Kraft - Ein Filmspiel vom Auto
1924
"How to Stay Young and Beautiful - Marital Secrets" is a German silent film from 1926, directed by Wolfgang Neff. The film, starring Hanni Weisse, William Dieterle, and Walter Rilla, humorously and dramatically explores the preservation of youth and beauty within the context of marriage.
Ehegeheimnisse
1926
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Love's Carnival
1929
No synopsis available yet.
The Salesgirl from the Fashion Store
1925
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Die Ehe der Fürstin Demidoff
1922
10.0No synopsis available yet.
An der Schönen Blauen Donau
1926
No synopsis available yet.
Ulička hříchu a lásky
1923
No synopsis available yet.
Das Spiel mit dem Schicksal
1924
1910s · 24 titles
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Der Dieb
1918
No synopsis available yet.
Mother
1917
7.0The noble family de la Porte lives at castle Medan. After the lost heir August returns unexpectedly, countess Herm, mother-in-law of younger brother Johann, fears for the inheritance of her daughter.
Witching Hour
1917
At the age of 50, the surgeon Privy Councillor Professor Imhoff marries the young, beautiful but poor orphan Annie von Arenberg. On the wedding day, the professor's students put on a ceremonial procession. Annie falls in love with the student speaker Baron Bernfeld. After a few months, she leaves her husband for him. Although the professor can hardly bear the defeat, he does not take revenge, but saves her new young lover's life during a complicated surgical operation.
Arthur Imhoff
1916
No synopsis available yet.
Die Stricknadeln
1916
NRDisguised chef is recognized and thrown out.
From a Man's Girlhood
1913
NRNo synopsis available yet.
In Vertretung
1913
7.0An art student in love with her instructor poses for his sculpture. She leaves him and the world of art when she finds out he is married. The statue, created with purpose of symbolizing guilt, comes back to haunt her.
Die Schuld
1919
8.0Loni is a femme fatale who lives a depraved life with several lovers. She plunges her husband to ruin without any remorse. The film was banned shortly after the opening night.
Blonde Poison
1919
5.0Two French spies, Baron d’Aubigny and Clemence de Montignon, blackmail German engineer Günther Ellinghaus with his gambling debts into handing over his construction plans for the new Ikarus engine. He flees to New York and works as a waiter. When World War I breaks, he signs on as a fireman on a Dutch ship and returns to Europe. He becomes a fighter pilot in Germany and faces the former spies as his enemies. After an emergency landing he is taken into their headquarters. He escapes an attempted murder and fights his enemies in an air battle. Both of them survive and after the war Ellinghaus offers them his hand in reconciliation.
Ikarus, the Flying Man
1918
A silent German film directed by Austrian director Emmerich Hanus with Martha Novelly and Kurt Vespermann in the leads.
Die Sühne
1918
3.3Based on the semi-fictionalized autobiography of a trans and intersex person published in 1907 as an anonymous biography under the pseudonym NOBody. A child born without a clear gender is raised by the father as a boy, later by the uncle as a girl and dissected after death.
A Man's Girlhood
1919
No synopsis available yet.
Im Banne des Schweigens
1916
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Geopfert
1916
No synopsis available yet.
The Rat
1918
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Pro domo
1919
7.0Melodrama with the theme of class difference between a Count and the daughter of a ringmaster. They marry but their environment work against them in all kinds of fronts.
Um Krone und Peitsche
1919
5.2This biographical portrait of composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883), feature-length and lavishly produced, was released in conjunction with the centennial of his birth. It's an outstanding achievement in many respects. Naturally it looks primitive by modern standards, but contemporary viewers should bear in mind that it was made at a time when the motion picture industry was still in its infancy, and feature films were still a novelty. The very notion of a silent movie about a composer may seem odd, but Wagner is an ideal choice, simply because his life was so tempestuous and dramatic. Wagner's personality was operatic, while his tumultuous love life unfolded like a soap opera. He knew great success and abysmal failure, luxury one day and poverty the next. He participated in the wave of revolutions that swept Europe in the late 1840s, and had to flee Germany under threat of arrest.
The Life and Works of Richard Wagner
1913
NRPaul, the son of an innocent man convicted of murder, has found a job as secretary to the owner of a major American publishing house. Nevertheless, although the tycoon has adopted Paul as if he was his own son, he refuses him the hand of his biological daughter in marriage, since he believes that Paul may have inherited the traits of his father, the alleged murderer. When it comes to a theft, the tycoon sees his worst fears confirmed and throws his adoptive son out of his villa. Paul breaks all bridges behind him and travels the world as a newspaper correspondent. This takes him to primeval forests and steppes. In one of the distant regions, he can also immediately investigate the evidence of his innocence. The happy ending finally becomes perfect as the tycoon's brother turns out to be a true murderer and Paul's father is finally released. The motive then: jealousy. The rogue takes his life, and Paul gets the tycoon's daughter to be his wife.
Erblich belastet
1919
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Lache Bajazzo
1917
No synopsis available yet.
Das Gift der Medici
1918
No synopsis available yet.
Bubi ist eifersüchtig
1916
NRKlara and her father have been alone since her mother died. Her close friend Hans leaves for the military, and on returning as a fine young man, rushes to see Klara. As their families work to keep them apart, their love grows stronger and stronger.
The Minister's Daughter
1913
Pola Negri plays a dual supporting role as a nun and a cabaret dancer in this film.
Nicht Lange Täuschte Mich das Glück
1917
