Acting

Erika Unruh

Born 1889-01-01

The actress Erika Unruh took part in her first movies in 1919 with "Der Herr der Liebe" and "Maria Evere". In the 20s followed other silent movies like "Kötendes Schweigen", "Kampfende Herzen", "Vier um die Frau", Fritz Lang's "Dertired Tod", "Errende Seelen" and "The Man in the Background". Her first and only sound film came in 1930 into being with "The Stolen Face".

Acting credits

The man in the background poster
NR

The guests at Count Otto von Trepow's East Prussian estate Gross-Ehrenfeld are Lord and Lady Ruthven, Mr Hendriks with his wife and foster-daughter Mariska, a gypsy they adopted years ago, Kundry, the fiancée of Otto's son Bernhard, and Count Stanislaus Larinski, who claims to be a Polish revolutionary wanted by the Russian government. A boating trip is organized but ends when the motor breaks down. While waiting for it to be repaired, the guests go to an inn run by Andreas and his daughter Käthe. Hendriks goes for a walk, sees the boat come back and that a man with a bent back leaves it. He notices that Kundry is afraid of Bernhard.

The man in the background

1922

Destiny poster
7.4

As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall. The woman poisons herself in order to join him and is met by Death, who gives her three opportunities to prove that love is stronger than death, thereby freeing her beloved from his fate.

Destiny

1921

Wandering Souls poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Wandering Souls

1921

The Stolen Face poster
7.5

Bill's girlfriend Lore is an art student in Berlin. Since her professor doesn't think much of painting women, she exchanges a genuine Raphael painting in a gallery for a copy made by her. In a spectacular theft, the copy is stolen. Detective Keller suspects Bill and Lore. But Bill, who is a talented quick-change artist, keeps escaping arrest by constantly altering his appearance.

The Stolen Face

1930

Master of Love poster
6.0

Lost film. A man's devotion for a woman brings about his ruin.

Master of Love

1919

Four Around the Woman poster
6.0

Harry Yquem buys his beloved wife some jewelry in a place where underworld middlemen trade in fake and stolen goods. By chance, he spots a man with whom his wife had an affair in the past.

Four Around the Woman

1921

Die Ehe der Frau Mary poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Die Ehe der Frau Mary

1919