
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
7.7Dr. 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
7.4As 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
10.0A 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
8.5Botto 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
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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Bordellos of Algiers
1927
Film credits
1930s · 6 titles
6.4The captain of a battleship of a small Balkan country is fed up with following strange orders from the country's queen.
Bombs Over Monte Carlo
1931
6.7A nightclub waiter and a manicurist share the same room, she sleeps there by night and he by day. They've never meet , but they can't stand each other. Then they meet by chance, not knowing who's who and fall in love.
I by Day, You by Night
1932
No synopsis available yet.
O girl, my girl, how I love you!
1930
6.7A Russian lady singer in Germany falls for a countryman working in a car factory there, who unknown to her is really a grand Duke. an attempt to steal the famous Orloff diamond adds to the complications.
The Tsar's Diamond
1932
Ivan Mozzhukhin is a "...hot-headed Caucasian mountaineer leader whose irrational behavior comes to the attention of the Czar . Hoping to use Hajji Murad as a go-between in his plans to conquer the Caucasus mountaineers, the Russian ruler finds that the hero is not so easily manipulated. Rescuing the beautiful Saira from the Czar's clutches, Hajji Murad leads the mountain people's revolt against the despotic regent." Needless to say, the film ends in tragedy.
The White Devil
1930
7.0No synopsis available yet.
The widow's ball
1930
1920s · 53 titles
7.7Dr. 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
7.4As 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
10.0A 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
10.0A 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
8.5Botto 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
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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Bordellos of Algiers
1927
7.5No synopsis available yet.
Psicha, die Tänzerin Katherina
1923
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Wandering Souls
1921
No synopsis available yet.
Auf der Reeperbahn nachts um halb eins
1929
9.0Mary 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
7.3Gerhard 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
10.0Parisian 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
5.9A French adventurer fights to save a woman in the life of prostitution.
Manon Lescaut
1926
5.9Austrian 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
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Der größte Gauner des Jahrhunderts
1928
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Der größte Gauner des Jahrhunderts
1928
No synopsis available yet.
Das Mädchen aus der Fremde
1927
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Don Juan in der Mädchenschule
1928
8.0A 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
8.0The 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
7.0Because 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
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Die Fahrt ins Abenteuer
1926
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Mein Herz ist eine Jazzband
1929
8.0A 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 synopsis available yet.
Mikosch rückt ein
1928
No synopsis available yet.
Der Stolz der Kompagnie
1926
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Amor auf Ski
1928
No synopsis available yet.
Kennst du das kleine Haus am Michigansee?
1929
8.0No synopsis available yet.
German Women - German Faithfulness
1927
No synopsis available yet.
Die Kleine und ihr Kavalier
1926
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Erniedrigte und Beleidigte
1922
7.0When 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 synopsis available yet.
Die Bräutigame der Babette Bomberling
1927
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Das Erwachen des Weibes
1927
No synopsis available yet.
Flucht vor Blond
1928
No synopsis available yet.
Familie Schimek
1926
8.0No synopsis available yet.
O alte Burschenherrlichkeit
1925
No synopsis available yet.
Ich hab mein Herz im Autobus verloren
1929
NRA 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 synopsis available yet.
Leidenschaft
1925
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Circus of Life
1921
8.0The 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
8.0No synopsis available yet.
A Better Master
1928
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Die drei Mannequins
1926
6.8Naughty 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
9.0No synopsis available yet.
The Circus Princess
1929
No synopsis available yet.
Königsliebchen
1924
8.0In 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 synopsis available yet.
Schatz, mach' Kasse
1926
No synopsis available yet.
Ledige Mütter
1928
No synopsis available yet.
Heimweh
1927
10.0No synopsis available yet.
The Modern Casanova
1928

