Lydia Potechina

Acting

Lydia Potechina

Born — Died

1883-09-05 — 1934-04-07

Place of birth

St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Known for

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler poster
7.7

Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to make huge profits on the stock exchange. Afterwards, Mabuse disguises himself and attends the Folies Bergères show, where Cara Carozza, the main attraction of the show, passes him information on Mabuse's next intended victim, the young millionaire Edgar Hull. Mabuse then uses psychic manipulation to lure Hull into a card game where he loses heavily. When Police Commissioner von Wenk begins an investigation of this mysterious crime spree, he has little to go on, and he needs to find someone who can help him.

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler

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

The Fugitive Lover poster
10.0

A German soldier lies wounded on the front line in the First World War. To avoid capture or death, he assumes the identity of a fallen French officer. As the German soldier happens to speak fluent French, nobody realizes the deception. The soldier begins a new life in Paris, yet remains in constant fear of being exposed as the ‘enemy’.

The Fugitive Lover

1927

Looping the Loop poster
8.5

Botto the Clown is in love with the much younger Blanche but she is in love with the handsome daredevil acrobate Andre.

Looping the Loop

1928

Fräulein Raffke poster
7.0

"Raffke" was a war profiteer, shifter, the white-collar criminal, who came to wealth with not very clean methods in a short time and also likes to show it. And this film tells the story of Raffke's daughter Lilli, who, instead of marrying the Baron chosen by the father of vanity, marries a simple employee who is about to perish.

Fräulein Raffke

1923

The Bordellos of Algiers poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Bordellos of Algiers

1927

Film credits

1930s · 6 titles

1920s · 53 titles

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler poster
7.7

Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to make huge profits on the stock exchange. Afterwards, Mabuse disguises himself and attends the Folies Bergères show, where Cara Carozza, the main attraction of the show, passes him information on Mabuse's next intended victim, the young millionaire Edgar Hull. Mabuse then uses psychic manipulation to lure Hull into a card game where he loses heavily. When Police Commissioner von Wenk begins an investigation of this mysterious crime spree, he has little to go on, and he needs to find someone who can help him.

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler

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

The Fugitive Lover poster
10.0

A German soldier lies wounded on the front line in the First World War. To avoid capture or death, he assumes the identity of a fallen French officer. As the German soldier happens to speak fluent French, nobody realizes the deception. The soldier begins a new life in Paris, yet remains in constant fear of being exposed as the ‘enemy’.

The Fugitive Lover

1927

The Fugitive Lover poster
10.0

A German soldier lies wounded on the front line in the First World War. To avoid capture or death, he assumes the identity of a fallen French officer. As the German soldier happens to speak fluent French, nobody realizes the deception. The soldier begins a new life in Paris, yet remains in constant fear of being exposed as the ‘enemy’.

The Fugitive Lover

1927

Looping the Loop poster
8.5

Botto the Clown is in love with the much younger Blanche but she is in love with the handsome daredevil acrobate Andre.

Looping the Loop

1928

Fräulein Raffke poster
7.0

"Raffke" was a war profiteer, shifter, the white-collar criminal, who came to wealth with not very clean methods in a short time and also likes to show it. And this film tells the story of Raffke's daughter Lilli, who, instead of marrying the Baron chosen by the father of vanity, marries a simple employee who is about to perish.

Fräulein Raffke

1923

The Bordellos of Algiers poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Bordellos of Algiers

1927

Psicha, die Tänzerin Katherina poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Psicha, die Tänzerin Katherina

1923

Wandering Souls poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Wandering Souls

1921

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Auf der Reeperbahn nachts um halb eins

1929

Eva and the Grasshopper poster
9.0

Mary and Eva are best friends, although they couldn't be more different. Armand, Mary's fiancee, falls in love with the seductive Eva, who is busy becoming a revue star. When Eva fails and loses her money, Armand tries to help her out.

Eva and the Grasshopper

1927

People Among Us poster
7.3

Gerhard Lamprecht sketches a cross-section of Germany's new post-war society, with its winners, social climbers, and losers, represented by the social microcosm of an apartment building. The gossip-mad Frau Mierig from the rear building gives the newly-arrived Frau Kaminski, the janitor's wife, a lively initiation into the tenants and their peculiarities.

People Among Us

1926

Parisian Women poster
10.0

Parisian Women (German: *Pariserinnen*) is a 1921 German silent film directed by Léo Lasko. Ressel Orla, Xenia Desni, and Ralph Arthur Roberts starred in the film. The film premiered at the Marmorhaus cinema in Berlin.

Parisian Women

1921

Manon Lescaut poster
5.9

A French adventurer fights to save a woman in the life of prostitution.

Manon Lescaut

1926

The Waltz Dream poster
5.9

Austrian actress Mady Christians stars alongside German matinee idol Willy Fritsch in this adaptation of the Oscar Straus operetta about a Prince who, after falling for a Viennese girl, becomes obsessed with the city and its customs.

The Waltz Dream

1926

Der größte Gauner des Jahrhunderts poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der größte Gauner des Jahrhunderts

1928

Der größte Gauner des Jahrhunderts poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der größte Gauner des Jahrhunderts

1928

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Das Mädchen aus der Fremde

1927

Don Juan in der Mädchenschule poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Don Juan in der Mädchenschule

1928

Leap Into Life poster
8.0

A young intellectual falls in love with a circus performer and decides to cultivate her into a lady and marry her. Eventually however she decides to return to her tightrope walker lover.

Leap Into Life

1924

A Sister of Six poster
8.0

The young Tony will travel from Budapest to the countryside to marry his cousin Katinka, the oldest of the seven sisters Gyurkovics. Because Tony is already secretly married to another, the situation is problematic. Mizzi is the impish middle sister of seven who is glad to leave boarding school and has many adventures making her way back home. This includes impersonating a countess and meeting Count Horkay who is impersonating her cousin Tony, his friend whom Mizzi's mother intends to marry her oldest sister. The younger set all have their own ideas of who they love despite the plans of the older folks.

A Sister of Six

1926

The Masked Mannequin poster
7.0

Because she has fallen in love with an unknown man, young princess Antoinette has fled to Berlin before her planned marriage with a prince. Incognito, she works for the fashion house Pappenheim, where salesman Egon Fürst falls for the young girl. Antoinette′s rigid uncle is sent to bring the royal runaway home, but he mistakes another mannequin for his niece, therefore taking the wrong girl to his castle in Baden-Baden. The whole Pappenheim company, including the princess, also goes to Baden-Baden for a fashion show, which means even more excitement and confusion.

The Masked Mannequin

1927

Die Fahrt ins Abenteuer poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Fahrt ins Abenteuer

1926

Mein Herz ist eine Jazzband poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mein Herz ist eine Jazzband

1929

Humanity Unleashed poster
8.0

A Bolshevik agitator is enticing workers into a violent rebellion in post-WWI Berlin, in order to create anarchy. He charms the wife of a factory director into helping him, but the forces of law and order are fighting back.

Humanity Unleashed

1920

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mikosch rückt ein

1928

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Stolz der Kompagnie

1926

Amor auf Ski poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Amor auf Ski

1928

No artwork available
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kennst du das kleine Haus am Michigansee?

1929

German Women - German Faithfulness poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

German Women - German Faithfulness

1927

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Kleine und ihr Kavalier

1926

Erniedrigte und Beleidigte poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Erniedrigte und Beleidigte

1922

Gentlemen Among Themselves poster
7.0

When a henpecked beauty salon owner goes out for one final, wild night of revelry with his friends, the stag party spirals completely out of control into a chaotic tavern brawl. He wakes up with a massive hangover and a bump on his head, only to discover that his missing engraved lighter has been left at a crime scene, implicating him in the assault of a police officer. Terrified of both the law and his domineering wife, the innocent business owner goes into hiding in the rough part of town, sparking a classic, fast-paced silent film comedy of errors.

Gentlemen Among Themselves

1929

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Bräutigame der Babette Bomberling

1927

Das Erwachen des Weibes poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Das Erwachen des Weibes

1927

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Flucht vor Blond

1928

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Familie Schimek

1926

O alte Burschenherrlichkeit poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

O alte Burschenherrlichkeit

1925

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ich hab mein Herz im Autobus verloren

1929

Auferstehung. Katjuscha Maslowa poster
NR

A nobleman wishes to help the woman he had seduced and abandoned years earlier when he learns that she is now on trial for murder.

Auferstehung. Katjuscha Maslowa

1923

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Leidenschaft

1925

Circus of Life poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Circus of Life

1921

Gräfin Plättmamsell poster
8.0

The fun-loving laundress Mieze spends a romantic evening with the womanizer and fashion designer Max, who, however, wants nothing to do with her the next day. This only changes when Mieze appears to be the daughter of a count and "Countess Radebeul" moves into the elegant Hotel Bristol. After all sorts of complications and embarrassments, the countess turns out to be a misunderstanding, and Mieze and Max find each other after all.

Gräfin Plättmamsell

1926

A Better Master poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Better Master

1928

Die drei Mannequins poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die drei Mannequins

1926

The Chaste Susanne poster
6.8

Naughty Susanne leads an exciting double life between her hometown and Paris: in the provincial nest she is considered the ever virtuous and down to earth girl, while in the cosmopolitan city she always escapes to, she is the queen of the night, sophisticated and seductive. In Paris, she meets René and begins to recruit him, but she has a noble competitor: Jacqueline. A spirited love triangle begins, complicated by the interventions of uncomprehending moral preachers. Their befitting final finds the story in the Moulin Rouge.

The Chaste Susanne

1926

The Circus Princess poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Circus Princess

1929

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Königsliebchen

1924

His Late Excellency poster
8.0

In the Ruritanian kingdom of Leuchtenstein, the old ruler has just died. His subjects are a bunch of intrigants, and his only real friend was the Baroness Windegg (Olga Tschechowa), a kind-hearted, witty, and very attractive woman, who however was not much loved by the Leuchtenstein upper class. And as these are only interested in getting better positions and other wealths after His Excellency's death, the baroness invents the story that the old ruler wrote his memoirs before his death, containing a lot of intimate, delicate and potentially embarrassing details about the Leuchtenstein dignitaries. Unsurprisingly, everyone is afraid about the details to be revealed. Only the successor to the throne, Prince Ernst Albrecht (Willy Fritsch) sees through the baroness' scheme, and as he is a lusty young man, he joins in her prank.

His Late Excellency

1927

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Schatz, mach' Kasse

1926

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ledige Mütter

1928

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Heimweh

1927

The Modern Casanova poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Modern Casanova

1928