Acting
Hugo Werner-Kahle
Born — Died
1882-08-05 — 1961-05-01
Known for
Acting
Credits
50 titles
Known for
6.8One night Toni forces Rose to reveal where in his house Bergern keeps his money. As Toni is robbing the house, the banker unexpectedly returns and is shot dead by Toni. Rose and Toni escape to the Austrian "Semmering" to avoid capture as well as starting a new life.
The Strangling Hand
1920
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Katharina Karaschkin
1917
No synopsis available yet.
Die Rosenkreuzer
1922
NRDancer Lola Montez is the star of Madrid's theaters. All the important men are after her, among them the English ambassador. But the leader of the "Carlist - Movement", a gang of desperados, kidnaps her, she falls for him and he proposes. But the English ambassador is trying to improve the Spanish-English relations and sent his spies after her, getting the information about her future groom, and the Spanish government is very interested in getting ahead.
Lola Montez
1918
10.0Johann Strauss helps the business of a Viennese wine merchant and his daughter by showing up to conduct the orchestra at a party.
Roses from the South
1934
10.0The young opera singer Carla is in love with the talented young composer Michele, who wants to make it big with classical music and writes his first opera, "The Return of Odysseus," for Carla. But Carla is more successful than he is and gets a gig at La Scala in Milan. Through her connections, she manages to find a publisher for Michele's opera. But when Michele learns what the publisher really thinks of his work, he leaves and abandons Carla. A year later, Carla finds Michele again. He has since become a sought-after composer, but is embittered because he is only successful with pop songs. His new revue "Dream Music," a reworking of his opera, is about to premiere. Carla then arranges for Michele's original opera to premiere in Budapest with her in the lead role.
Dream Music
1940
Film credits
1940s · 2 titles
10.0The young opera singer Carla is in love with the talented young composer Michele, who wants to make it big with classical music and writes his first opera, "The Return of Odysseus," for Carla. But Carla is more successful than he is and gets a gig at La Scala in Milan. Through her connections, she manages to find a publisher for Michele's opera. But when Michele learns what the publisher really thinks of his work, he leaves and abandons Carla. A year later, Carla finds Michele again. He has since become a sought-after composer, but is embittered because he is only successful with pop songs. His new revue "Dream Music," a reworking of his opera, is about to premiere. Carla then arranges for Michele's original opera to premiere in Budapest with her in the lead role.
Dream Music
1940
6.0Prussia, at the time of Frederick the Great. In his service is Major General Dietrich Edler von Roedern, a renowned fortress builder who pursues his work with fanatical zeal and seriousness. He is not in the mood for women or festivities. Although he is married to Elisabeth, a woman who has gradually become estranged from him due to his nature, this marriage only exists on paper. When Frederick II invites him to a soiree, Roedern meets the singer Maria Raven. The two feel connected from the very beginning, a fateful, invisible bond that seems to chain the two very different people together. For the first time, Dietrich von Roedern experiences something like passionate love.
The Roedern Affair
1944
1930s · 19 titles
10.0Johann Strauss helps the business of a Viennese wine merchant and his daughter by showing up to conduct the orchestra at a party.
Roses from the South
1934
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
6.9Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines describing steadily-rising unemployment figures. This is followed by scenes of a young man looking for work in the city and the family discussing the unpaid back rent. The young man, brother of the protagonist Anni, removes his wristwatch and throws himself from a window out of despair. Shortly thereafter his family is evicted from their apartment. Now homeless, the family moves into a garden colony of sorts with the name “Kuhle Wampe.”
Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World?
1932
7.5A forest ranger, after spending years tracking down a poacher, is taken aback to learn the man is the father of his beloved.
The Heath Is Green
1932
8.0A wholesome youth returns from Canada to the Fatherland, to rescue his father's business from a crooked accountant and a scheming lawyer.
Fresh Wind from Canada
1935
8.0Spanning the years between the Bolshevik Revolution and 1930, this Negri vehicle focuses on an exiled Russian noblewoman who has lost track of her daughter and of a young officer she pined for.Until she finds them both again and together.
Moscow Shanghai
1936
8.0No synopsis available yet.
The Road to Dishonour
1930
6.0During a journey of the "Ceder", the Captain, von Moltmann, disappears. It looks like an accident, but it could also have been murder. Attorney Dr. Burger and superintendent Störensen discover quickly that two of the crewmen hated the Captain: Chief officer Rohlfs suspects an affair between his fianceé Gerda and von Moltmann. Chief engineer Sparkuhl thinks the Captain has seduced his niece, who later committed suicide. The court decides that the Captain has gone overboard without anyone else's "help", but the rumors don't come to an end.
One Too Many on Board
1935
9.0A German who has been away too long in America and has lost all of his money needs to prove himself to his fellow citizens,which he does by foiling the robbery of his uncle and then marrying his sweetheart.
Punks Arrives from America
1935
5.7Espionage, war and romance in the Far East in 1904: Russian naval officer Boris Ranewsky marries Youki, the sister of a fanatical Japanese officer, but war is imminent.
Port Arthur
1936
On their way to a boxing competition in Buenos Aires, the criminal investigator Harry Winkler from Berlin and Conny Steven of Scotland Yard, meet in Lisbon. Both have a 90 minute break before their ship leaves for South America. They end up meeting Ilse Siebeck, a young woman and through her become part of a criminal mystery. Ilse's uncle is murdered and Harry Winkler is quickly able to determine that the man who murdered her uncle is the exact same man who murdered his father a few years earlier.
90 Minutes Stop
1936
7.5Gabriele Bordersen, a woman from a good home, wants to see what real life is like among the common folk. With her stewardess Fanny Flint and the tour guide Simikry, she goes off to visit a sailors' bar. Fanny and Gabriele change clothes, which allows the stewardess to introduce herself as a fine lady. When Gabriele asks Fanny to leave with her, Fanny begs her to give her an hour more out of fear of embarrassment. Gabriele, however, is thrown out of the bar by the owner without money and papers; is picked up by the cops; and suffers a nervous breakdown, leading to her being sent to a hospital. No one believes in the slightest that she's really Gabriele Brodersen.
Gabriele eins, zwei, drei
1937
7.0Lieutentant Thomas Glahn lives with his dog Aesop in a small cabin, withdrawn from the rest of the world. In the store of the merchant Mack, he gets to know Edwarda, Mack’s daughter. Edwarda takes the initiative to try and see Glahn again. A tender love develops between the two of them. Even Eva, the smithy’s wife, feels drawn to Thomas. She visits him and confides in him. An affair develops between Eva and Thomas, which Edwarda knows nothing about. Thomas is caught between the two women, in that he loves Edwarda, but can’t resist Eva’s attraction. Mack has a different opinion about her daughter’s new husband.
Pan
1937
8.0A nobleman gradually falls in love with a woman he was forced by relatives to marry, against his will.
The Mad Bomberg
1932
7.0Sylvia, the daughter of the pastor Kelvil, is lectrice to Lady Patricia and gets to know the young Lord Harford. They love one another, but their class differences forbid marriage. There's a sharp argument with the father, who afterwards wants to send the young lord abroad. Then Sylvia is offered money to disappear, unaware that she's already pregnant. 18 years later: Sylvia raised her son on her own as best she could. He is now known as Lord Harford, who, besides having the title Lord Illingworth, also has inherited his father's total estate and has now returned from India. Unaware of their identities, the father and son get to know one another; get into a fight; and the young man challenges the father to a duel. In order to prevent that from happening, the mother must now tell each of them the truth about their identities. The film is based on the theatre piece of the same name by Oscar Wilde.
A Woman of No Importance
1936
Racing driver Michael Tetjus returns from America to Berlin having broken a world record. His relationship with his wife the film actress Katja is strained due to their respective focus on work. Michael is intrigued by a new turbine being designed by his friend the engineer Zöger ANZ his assistant Enja.
Streak of Steel
1935
No synopsis available yet.
Es wird geheiratet
1932
7.0Opera style film in which a crook offers to change ties with a waiter, so he can escape. The waiter ends up getting involved with a rich American lady who takes him to Florida.
Zwei Krawatten
1930
8.0Viktor, the son of Prince Gagarin, becomes engaged to the young Natasha, which Governor Malyutov, whose ward he is, does not like at all. So he does everything in his power to separate the two.
Das Donkosakenlied
1930
1920s · 25 titles
6.8One night Toni forces Rose to reveal where in his house Bergern keeps his money. As Toni is robbing the house, the banker unexpectedly returns and is shot dead by Toni. Rose and Toni escape to the Austrian "Semmering" to avoid capture as well as starting a new life.
The Strangling Hand
1920
No synopsis available yet.
Die Rosenkreuzer
1922
9.0A German mechanic considers emigrating to the United States, but changes his mind when he falls in love with a local woman.
Dear Homeland
1929
8.0A gentleman thief plans a jailbreak when one of his targets is unjustly accused of murder.
Lux, der König der Verbrecher
1929
A gentleman thief is accused of a murder he did not commit.
Besondere Kennzeichen
1929
No synopsis available yet.
Tuberculosis
1923
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Das Geld auf der Strasse
1922
No synopsis available yet.
Diebe
1928
5.2Franz Sommer, convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to three years, forms a close relationship with his cellmate, Steineau. Upon release, his wife Helene is concerned as to how incarceration has changed the man she married.
Sex in Chains
1928
No synopsis available yet.
Der Stolz der Kompagnie
1926
8.0About a lurid tale of magic and secret societies during the reign of Luis XVI, focused on the figure of the Italian occultist Giuseppe Balsamo, known under his alias of Count Alessandro di Cagliostro.
The Count of Cagliostro
1920
No synopsis available yet.
Fräulein Frau
1923
8.0An eccentric millionaire brings together four men who, under different circumstances, wanted to commit suicide. The proposal made to them is the following: they will travel to an islet that, according to legend, emerged from the sea when Atlantis sank and that houses a fabulous treasure buried by the Incas. But that territory is populated by the worst band of pirates and evildoers the world has ever known.
The Golden Abyss
1927
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Die Andere
1924
No synopsis available yet.
Die seltsame Nacht der Helga Wangen
1928
7.0The ship-owner Herr Reeder Roberts organizes a world trip on his luxury liner "Yoshiwara". Aboard are millionaires and famous artists, but also criminals. The manager of the ship-owner, Stefan Martini, has been murdered shortly before the departure in a mysterious way. Several persons are suspected and these are, precisely, the passengers of the "Yoshiwara".
Yacht of the Seven Sins
1928
7.0Based on the real life events of the 1927 Steglitzer Schülertragödie, in which several high school students planned murder-suicides.
Geschminkte Jugend
1929
No synopsis available yet.
Adam und Eva
1928
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Narkotica - Die Welt der Träume und des Wahnsinns
1923
9.0An unknown guest checks into an obscure hotel. He is a burly but well-dressed gentleman carrying an umbrella and a tree frog in a glass. This man spends most of his time wandering the hallways and staircases of the inn, ostensibly to hunt for flies to feed his pet. But quite obviously, there is more to it than that: the man also listens at doors and peeks through their keyholes.
Der Mann mit dem Laubfrosch
1929
NRa slient movie by Robert Wiene
Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen
1920
8.0An unscrupulous husband exploits his beautiful wife to advance his own career. When he dies under mysterious circumstances, she is accused of murder. To clear her name, the widow ventures into the Parisian underworld in search of the real killer.
Life's Shadows
1925
No synopsis available yet.
Moderne Piraten
1928
7.0The story of Brennende Grenze (= Burning Border) starts after the end of WWI. Polish franctireurs invade the German bordering regions which are to be given to Poland as agreed on in the post-war peace treaties. Luise von Willkühnen's manor is invaded by Ladislaus von Zeremski, his lover Nadja and their gang. They treaten the inhabitants until Luise's son kills Zeremski.
Brennende Grenze
1927
8.0a silent movie by Heinz Paul
Die Warenhausprinzessin
1926
1910s · 4 titles
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Katharina Karaschkin
1917
NRDancer Lola Montez is the star of Madrid's theaters. All the important men are after her, among them the English ambassador. But the leader of the "Carlist - Movement", a gang of desperados, kidnaps her, she falls for him and he proposes. But the English ambassador is trying to improve the Spanish-English relations and sent his spies after her, getting the information about her future groom, and the Spanish government is very interested in getting ahead.
Lola Montez
1918
8.0Attorney General Trevor's second wife is found stabbed to death in his safe. Due to a ring with the initials DG, which is also found in the safe, the suspicion initially falls on Donald Gordon, the fiancé of Trevor's daughter.
Mitternacht
1918
No synopsis available yet.
Der Teilhaber
1918
