Diana Karenne

Acting

Diana Karenne

Born — Died

1897-07-23 — 1940-10-14

Place of birth

Kiev, Russian Empire (now Kyiv, Ukraine)

Known for

Acting

Credits

24 titles

Film actress, screenwriter, and director. She was wounded in an allied bombing of Aachen, Germany in 1940. She died in 1968 in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Known for

Film credits

1920s · 13 titles

Miss Dorothy poster
9.0

Miss Dorothy is a strange type of tutor, whom the old Duchess Sangro chose to educate Mara, her distant relative, a very rich orphan, with a capricious and rebellious character.

Miss Dorothy

1920

Loves of Casanova poster
6.3

Republic of Venice, 1760. Pursued by a vengeful husband, the intrepid womanizer Casanova, who symbolizes the decline of the city and its fall into debauchery, manages to escape and, by a circuitous route, arrives in Saint Petersburg, where he will be involved in the many plots that threaten the throne of Czar Peter III…

Loves of Casanova

1927

The Queen's Necklace poster
8.0

Adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's novel 'The Queen's Necklace' which portrays the Affair of the Diamond Necklace which occurred before the French Revolution.

The Queen's Necklace

1929

Die weißen Rosen von Ravensberg poster
7.0

The child of a woman who killed her husband is raised as the daughter of a count without any knowledge of her true origins.

Die weißen Rosen von Ravensberg

1929

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Smarrita!

1921

No artwork available
9.0

A method actress likes living out the roles she is playing in real life. To prepare for her new play, she enters the criminal underworld and ends up being implicated in a burglary of a Duke who is one of her suitors. The film was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. The film received a generally positive reception from critics, although some were doubtful about the blending of farce and tragedy.

Das Spiel mit dem Feuer

1921

Marie Antoinette - Das Leben einer Königin poster
9.0

The life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, during the years leading up to and during the French Revolution in which she was executed.

Marie Antoinette - Das Leben einer Königin

1922

Rasputins Liebesabenteuer poster
5.0

Portrays the deep intrigue and mystical fanaticism of the last days of the Romanoffs, when Rasputin, the mad monk had such a hold over them.

Rasputins Liebesabenteuer

1928

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Fecundity

1929

No artwork available
NR

A classic love triangle set in the modern era (the 1920s), featuring a woman and her daughter who both share an interest in the same man.

Die Frau von vierzig Jahren

1925

A Woman with Style poster
10.0

A sparkling Ruritanian comedy starring two great actresses: Mady Christians is an ambassador who needs to outwit a rival diplomat and find favor with the princess of Silistria, played by Diana Karenne.

A Woman with Style

1928

Frühlingsfluten poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Frühlingsfluten

1924

Sophy of Kravonia; or, The Virgin of Paris poster
9.0

Sophy, a kitchen maid, has her fortune told by a gypsy, who sees something shiny over Sophy's head: a sword, or perhaps a crown. Sophy then sets out for Paris, where she gains employment with the Zerkovitches. As war breaks out, she returns with them to Kravonia. There, Sophy meets Crown Prince Sergius and saves him from assassins, who plot to overthrow the dynasty and place Alexis, the son of the ailing king's wife, on the throne.

Sophy of Kravonia; or, The Virgin of Paris

1920

1910s · 6 titles

Behind the camera