Acting

Eduard von Winterstein

Born — Died

1871-08-01 — 1961-07-22

Place of birth

Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Eduard von Winterstein was born on August 1, 1871 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was an actor, known for The Blue Angel (1930), Die Sonnenbrucks (1951) and Hamlet (1921). He was married to Hedwig Pauly-Winterstein and Minna Mengers. He died on July 22, 1961 in East Berlin, East Germany.

Known for

The Blue Angel poster
7.3

Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there. Seeing Lola perform, the teacher is filled with lust, eventually resigning his position at the school to marry the young woman. However, his marriage to a coquette -- whose job is to entice men -- proves to be more difficult than Rath imagined.

The Blue Angel

1930

The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes poster
7.3

Two dubious characters disguise themselves as Holmes and Watson to gain attention and end up chasing counterfeiters and stolen stamps.

The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes

1937

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

The Sailor's Song poster
6.2

A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of 1917, German and Russian soldiers start to solidarize with each other. By disarming the officers, machinist Henne Lonke and stoker Jens Kasten prevent the attack on a Russian freighter. When German admiralty gives out orders for operation "Nibelungen", which would lead the German fleet into a suicidal attack against England and quell the revolutionary spirit, seamen and soldiers from different political backgrounds unite in protest.

The Sailor's Song

1958

Münchhausen poster
6.5

Legendary, immortal nobleman Baron Munchausen regales a lovestruck woman with tales of his amazing adventures.

Münchhausen

1943

Nerves poster
6.8

The film tries to capture the "nervous epidemic" caused by war and misery which "drives people mad". This unique portrait of the life in 1919 Germany, filmed on location in Munich, describes the cases of different people from all levels of society: Factory owner Roloff, who loses his mind in view of catastrophies and social disturbances; teacher John, who is the hero of the masses; and Marja who turns into a radical revolutionary.

Nerves

1919

Film credits

1950s · 4 titles

The Sailor's Song poster
6.2

A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of 1917, German and Russian soldiers start to solidarize with each other. By disarming the officers, machinist Henne Lonke and stoker Jens Kasten prevent the attack on a Russian freighter. When German admiralty gives out orders for operation "Nibelungen", which would lead the German fleet into a suicidal attack against England and quell the revolutionary spirit, seamen and soldiers from different political backgrounds unite in protest.

The Sailor's Song

1958

The Kaiser's Lackey poster
6.7

Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that he has to offer his services to the powers-that-be if he wants to wield power himself. His life motto now runs: bow to those at the top and tread on those below. In this way, he always succeeds: as a student in a duel-fighting student fraternity and as a businessman in a paper factory. He cajoles the obese district administrative president Von Wulkow and wins his favor. He slanders his financial rivals and hatches a plot with the social democrats in the town council. On his honeymoon with his rich wife Guste, he finally finds a chance to do his beloved Kaiser a favor. And when a memorial to the Kaiser is unveiled in the town where Diederich lives and works, he delivers the address. He stands behind the lectern in the pouring rain, saluting his Kaiser. The crowd is dispersed. Everything is laid in ruins...

The Kaiser's Lackey

1951

The Sonnenbrucks poster
7.0

Professor Sonnenbruck is a scientist who is not particularly interested in politics. Even the meeting in 1943 with his former assistant Peters does not change him. He does not betray Peters, who has escaped from a concentration camp, but that is already enough for him. But after the war Sonnenrbruck gets into a conflict of conscience. He thought that science was finally free of politics again only to find the opposite happening at his university in Göttingen. A medical congress in the GDR brings him together with Peters, who is working on a major research contract there. Sonnenbruck decides to visit Peters.

The Sonnenbrucks

1951

Semmelweis – Retter der Mütter poster
6.2

In the middle of the 19th century, almost one in three women who gave birth died of puerperal fever. The Hungarian doctor Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis also observed these terrible occurrences in his clinic in Vienna. He came to the conclusion that it was primarily the unhygienic conditions in the clinic itself that led to this disease, as his colleagues were constantly shuttling back and forth between the anatomy department and the delivery room. He tries to convince the doctors of the absolute necessity of thorough disinfection by washing their hands with chlorinated lime. He meets with fierce resistance from his colleagues until he himself sets up an exemplary clinic in Budapest.

Semmelweis – Retter der Mütter

1950

1940s · 6 titles

Münchhausen poster
6.5

Legendary, immortal nobleman Baron Munchausen regales a lovestruck woman with tales of his amazing adventures.

Münchhausen

1943

Bismarck poster
5.9

A biographical film of Otto von Bismarck, the Prime Minister of Prussia, and how he and his policies - including aggressive war - helped to unite Germany.

Bismarck

1940

Stukas poster
5.6

This Nazi propaganda film details the exploits of a group of German Luftwaffe pilots flying Stukas--fighter-bombers--in the Battle of France in the early days of World War II.

Stukas

1941

No artwork available
6.5

Jordan, a famous criminal lawyer, will only represent clients, of whose innocence he is convinced (must be financially not-too-well-off). One day, his future son-in-law, the jeweler Fabian, is arrested on suspicion of murder on the day before his wedding. He is said to have murdered his ex-wife, the dancer Ria Norady. The conductor Gillmore found her dead in her dressing room shortly after a visit from Fabian. Gisela Jordan asks her father to defend him. After speaking to Fabian, the lawyer is convinced he's innocent. But since there is no proof of this, he decides to go and try and find the real murderer himself.

Der Verteidiger hat das Wort

1944

Rembrandt poster
5.5

Already a famous painter, Rembrandt van Rijn is commissioned to paint the Amsterdam Archers' Guild. But upon completion of the picture, the men of the guild feel duped, because they don't consider themselves flatteringly depicted in the painting. They therefore decline to pay for the work. During this dispute, the painter finds out his wife is close to death. He finds himself terribly lonely after her passing and suffers from depression until he decides once more to marry.

Rembrandt

1942

The Heart of a Queen poster
6.3

As the title "The Queen's Heart" suggests, this early German black and white version of Mary Queen of Scott's eventful reign and death focuses on her emotional perception rather lyrically, with some songs, mainly by her.

The Heart of a Queen

1940

1930s · 18 titles

The Blue Angel poster
7.3

Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there. Seeing Lola perform, the teacher is filled with lust, eventually resigning his position at the school to marry the young woman. However, his marriage to a coquette -- whose job is to entice men -- proves to be more difficult than Rath imagined.

The Blue Angel

1930

The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes poster
7.3

Two dubious characters disguise themselves as Holmes and Watson to gain attention and end up chasing counterfeiters and stolen stamps.

The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes

1937

Steputat & Co. poster
5.8

A rich East Prussian shopkeeper,jealous that one of his male employees is in love with a female employee he himself covets, frames the couple for stealing lottery tickets.

Steputat & Co.

1938

The Man Who Can't Say No poster
7.0

This 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

Napoleon Is to Blame for Everything poster
8.5

English Lord Arthur Cavershoot is a passionate Napoleon scholar who badly neglects his wife Josephine for his obsession with the French emperor. When the cranky historian travels to a Napoleon conference in Paris, his smart spouse secretly follows him. Unnoticed by her, the city of love threatens to spark a romance between Arthur and a chorus girl.

Napoleon Is to Blame for Everything

1938

The Immortal Heart poster
7.0

Nuremberg durting the time of Albrecht Durer and the famous geographer Martin Behaim: the locksmith Peter Henlein is looking for a way to make bullets more accurate by designing a new form. Just as he welds together two round balls into an elongated shape, he believes he's discovered that his assistant Konrad is trying to alienate his wife from him. There is a struggle, during which Henlein's new kind of bullet strikes him in the chest. The doctor, unaware that there are two bullets lodged in his body, because there was only one shot, only removes one.

The Immortal Heart

1939

No artwork available
9.0

A son, in defending Prussia circa 1814 under the thumb of Napoleon, washes away the disgrace of his aristocrat father who had collaborated with the French and caused the deaths of countrymen.

Cat Walk

1937

Darling of the Gods poster
6.2

Also known as Darling of the Gods, this was Emil Jannings' second talkie appearance. Jannings stars as famed operatic singer Albert Winkelmann, who is greeted with cheers, applause and romantic propositions whenever he performs in his native Vienna. But when he embarks on a tour of South America, tragedy strikes. The sweltering climate causes Winkelmann to lose his voice on stage, a disaster met with hoots and cat-calls. Dispirited he returns to Europe, where he soon learns that no one is aware of what happened in South America. Intending to retire so as not to be exposed to further humiliation, Winkelmann is goaded back on stage -- where, miraculously, his gorgeous voice returns.

Darling of the Gods

1930

Familie Schimek poster
6.8

For three difficult orphans living by her aunt the former employee of the family searches a new premouth; he releases with it a result of tumultuous involvements. - Humble-entertaining mistake farce, completely fitted on Hans Moser.

Familie Schimek

1935

Wedding at Lake Wolfgang poster
8.0

An actress from the big city encourages the proprietor of a resort inn in the Austrian Tyrol to try his luck on the stage in Berlin.

Wedding at Lake Wolfgang

1933

The Journey to Tilsit poster
6.4

A villager is tempted by a sophisticated city woman and almost kills his wife in a boating accident.

The Journey to Tilsit

1939

The Girl from the Marsh Croft poster
7.0

A farm boy betrothed to a socialite falls in love with his maid - an impoverished girl from the marsh.

The Girl from the Marsh Croft

1935

Unter Ausschluß der Öffentlichkeit poster
10.0

A small banking family is put to the test: Brigitte, the wife of the banker Sparrenberg, has a secret: she was once the lover of the fraudster Baron Gaffris, who once used her to get close to well-off businessmen. Now Gaffris is trying to use her to trick her husband. After a fight between Brigitte and Gaffris, Brigitte’s daughter Ina seeks out the baron in an attempt to help her mother. Afterwards, the baron’s suddenly found dead on the floor. Brigitte takes all the blame, goes to the cops and admits to having stabbed Gaffris.

Unter Ausschluß der Öffentlichkeit

1937

The Other poster
6.4

A psychological drama based on the popular Jekyll and Hyde theme involving a strict legal official. Based on the 1893 play "Der Andere" by Paul Lindau.

The Other

1930

The White Demon poster
10.0

When Albers takes his drug-addicted opera star sister Gerda to a sanitarium, they both become targets of slimy dope peddler Peter Lorre, who fears that Gerda will blow the whistle on him. Lorre kidnaps the woman, leading Albers on a frantic chase.

The White Demon

1932

No artwork available
7.0

Simultaneously shot German version of Italian Terra Madre: A young aristocrat, planning to spend time in town, returns to sell his farmland to a modernizing new owner, thus threatening the welfare of the peasants who work for him.

Do you know the country

1931

Maja zwischen zwei Ehen poster
8.0

After six years, a man shows up, whom his wife had declared dead. Her current husband is regarded by the son of the once-missing man as his father. Only after many tear can the returning man be convinced not to press for custody of the son.

Maja zwischen zwei Ehen

1938

Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes poster
6.6

Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his district and no one is able to do anything about it. Every fourth child is already sick and the parents must helplessly watch as their young ones die. Now Koch is undertaking to find the cause of the tuberculosis --- something he has already been working on for years --- which has been causing this plague of illness. His work is made more difficult by envy; for example, that of his teacher, who was wounded defending his honor. But his greatest obstacle is the famous Berliner scientist and Reichstag deputy, Privy Councilor Rudolf Virchow: He is extraordinarily skeptical of Koch's theory, that the cause for tuberculosis is a bacteria.

Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes

1939

1920s · 19 titles

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

The Burning Soil poster
6.3

When farmer Rog dies, his eldest Peter takes over the farm while his youngest Johannes is determined for a better life: he becomes secretary to Count Rudenberg and starts courting his daughter Gerda. When he learns that the Count, who is terminally ill, has bequeathed a piece of land under which lies a petroleum field to his second wife, he courts her instead.

The Burning Soil

1922

No artwork available
NR

Silent Film Drama by Adolf Gärtner. Starring Ellen Richter

Maria Tudor

1920

The Marriage of Figaro poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Marriage of Figaro

1920

The Woman House of Brescia poster
8.0

"The House of Pillory" - a place where the enemy women captured during wartime were imprisoned so that the people could exploit them as they wished.

The Woman House of Brescia

1920

The Yellow Death, Part 1 poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Yellow Death, Part 1

1920

No artwork available
NR

A German circus drama.

The Circus Diva

1924

Danton poster
6.5

At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his fellow leading French revolutionaries including Georges Danton.

Danton

1921

Die Abenteuerin von Monte Carlo - 3. Der Mordprozeß Stanley poster
NR

A dramatic courtroom trial decides the fate of the characters and exposes the schemes behind the international conflict.

Die Abenteuerin von Monte Carlo - 3. Der Mordprozeß Stanley

1921

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Claire

1924

Die Bestie im Menschen poster
9.0

Jacques Lantier, the "human beast" of the title, has a hereditary madness and has several times in his life wanted to murder women. At the beginning of the story he is an engine driver, in control of his engine "La Lison". His relationship with "La Lison" is almost sexual and provides some degree of control over his mania.

Die Bestie im Menschen

1921

The Merry-Go-Round poster
7.0

Drama about street walker Elena who marries shop keeper Albert. When her former pimp Peter shows up, her life is ruined. She shoots him and poisons herself.

The Merry-Go-Round

1920

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Der erste Stand. Der Großkapitalist

1925

Human Law poster
9.0

A jealous husband leaves jail to find his wife loves his lawyer.

Human Law

1927

Lady Godiva poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Lady Godiva

1921

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Beute der Erinnyen

1922

No artwork available
8.0

Film shot in Berlin, edited and supplemented in Warsaw. W. Jewsiewicki believes that the copy produced by the German studio contained numerous distortions of the writer's ideas, which is why director Juliusz Zagrodzki entrusted Eugeniusz Modzelewski with rewrites and reshoots featuring the two main characters. Assuming the film's program was faithful, the screen version of "The Beauty of Life" unfolded as follows: Piotr Rozłucki, the son and grandson of an insurgent, was raised in the Mikhailovsky Corps, far from his homeland and all memories. Promoted to officer status, thanks to his family's efforts, he was assigned to a regiment stationed in Poland, and there, at the home of his superior, General Polenov, he met his daughter, Tatiana. Simultaneously, he became close to a circle of patriotic youth. A struggle rages within the young officer: on the one hand, a passionate and mutual love for a charming Russian woman, and on the other, conscience, homeland, and duty.

The Beauty of Life

1921

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Aschermittwoch

1925

Der Kampf der Geschlechter poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Kampf der Geschlechter

1920

1910s · 12 titles

Nerves poster
6.8

The film tries to capture the "nervous epidemic" caused by war and misery which "drives people mad". This unique portrait of the life in 1919 Germany, filmed on location in Munich, describes the cases of different people from all levels of society: Factory owner Roloff, who loses his mind in view of catastrophies and social disturbances; teacher John, who is the hero of the masses; and Marja who turns into a radical revolutionary.

Nerves

1919

Madame DuBarry poster
6.5

The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.

Madame DuBarry

1919

Hiob poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hiob

1919

Siri poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Siri

1916

Sumurûn poster
9.0

Earlier version of Reinhardt Orientalist pantomime, later remade by Lubitsch: a pathetic hunchback performer and a flirtatious dancing girl get involved at the court of a despotic Arabian desert sheikh, complete with sinister eunuchs.

Sumurûn

1910

Pique Dame poster
9.0

Russia in the 19th century. The young Lieutenant Stanislaus Kovolski is in constant financial difficulties. One day he meets a fortune-teller, who prophesies that the great blessing is to expect.

Pique Dame

1918

Madeleine poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Madeleine

1919

Princess Tatjana’s Tragedy poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Princess Tatjana’s Tragedy

1919

Felsenfest poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Felsenfest

1916

Opium poster
7.1

In China, Professor Gesellius has completed his long research on the many uses of opium. When he is about to return home, he hears about a special variety that produces fabulous sensations because of the way it is made, but can also cause the total destruction of the mind and body of the person who consumes it.

Opium

1919

Blonde Poison poster
8.0

Loni 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

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Claudi vom Geiserhof

1917