Acting

Hugo Werner-Kahle

Born — Died

1882-08-05 — 1961-05-01

Known for

Acting

Credits

50 titles

Known for

The Strangling Hand poster
6.8

One 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

Katharina Karaschkin poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Katharina Karaschkin

1917

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Die Rosenkreuzer

1922

Lola Montez poster
NR

Dancer 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

Roses from the South poster
10.0

Johann 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

Dream Music poster
10.0

The 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

1930s · 19 titles

Roses from the South poster
10.0

Johann 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

The English Marriage poster
7.4

Georg 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

Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World? poster
6.9

Kuhle 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

The Heath Is Green poster
7.5

A 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

Fresh Wind from Canada poster
8.0

A 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

Moscow Shanghai poster
8.0

Spanning 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

The Road to Dishonour poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Road to Dishonour

1930

One Too Many on Board poster
6.0

During 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

Punks Arrives from America poster
9.0

A 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

Port Arthur poster
5.7

Espionage, 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

No artwork available
6.4

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

Gabriele eins, zwei, drei poster
7.5

Gabriele 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

Pan poster
7.0

Lieutentant 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

The Mad Bomberg poster
8.0

A nobleman gradually falls in love with a woman he was forced by relatives to marry, against his will.

The Mad Bomberg

1932

A Woman of No Importance poster
7.0

Sylvia, 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

No artwork available
8.0

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 artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Es wird geheiratet

1932

Zwei Krawatten poster
7.0

Opera 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

Das Donkosakenlied poster
8.0

Viktor, 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

The Strangling Hand poster
6.8

One 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 artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Die Rosenkreuzer

1922

Dear Homeland poster
9.0

A German mechanic considers emigrating to the United States, but changes his mind when he falls in love with a local woman.

Dear Homeland

1929

Lux, der König der Verbrecher poster
8.0

A gentleman thief plans a jailbreak when one of his targets is unjustly accused of murder.

Lux, der König der Verbrecher

1929

No artwork available
9.0

A gentleman thief is accused of a murder he did not commit.

Besondere Kennzeichen

1929

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tuberculosis

1923

Das Geld auf der Strasse poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Das Geld auf der Strasse

1922

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Diebe

1928

Sex in Chains poster
5.2

Franz 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 artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Stolz der Kompagnie

1926

The Count of Cagliostro poster
8.0

About 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 artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Fräulein Frau

1923

The Golden Abyss poster
8.0

An 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

Die Andere poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Andere

1924

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die seltsame Nacht der Helga Wangen

1928

Yacht of the Seven Sins poster
7.0

The 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

Geschminkte Jugend poster
7.0

Based on the real life events of the 1927 Steglitzer Schülertragödie, in which several high school students planned murder-suicides.

Geschminkte Jugend

1929

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Adam und Eva

1928

Narkotica - Die Welt der Träume und des Wahnsinns poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Narkotica - Die Welt der Träume und des Wahnsinns

1923

Der Mann mit dem Laubfrosch poster
9.0

An 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

Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen poster
NR

a slient movie by Robert Wiene

Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen

1920

Life's Shadows poster
8.0

An 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 artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Moderne Piraten

1928

Brennende Grenze poster
7.0

The 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

Die Warenhausprinzessin poster
8.0

a silent movie by Heinz Paul

Die Warenhausprinzessin

1926

1910s · 4 titles