Heinrich George

Acting

Heinrich George

Born 1893-10-09 · Stettin, Pomerania, Germany [now Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]

Georg August Friedrich Hermann Schulz (9 October 1893 – 25 September 1946), better known as Heinrich George, was a German stage and film actor.

Acting credits

Metropolis poster
8.1

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

Metropolis

1927

Die große und die kleine Welt poster
8.0

The taxi driver Fritz gets to know the millionaire-heiress Iris and marries her against the wishes of her family. They live together in a small apartment and are very happy. But Fritz wants to offer Iris more and thus finds a position as a laborer in a large car factory and ends up making a career for himself as a race car driver. But while he is driving from one victory to another, he is getting more and more estranged from his young wife. As his career starts to go downhill, he notices the mistakes he has made and tries to win Iris back.

Die große und die kleine Welt

1936

Andreas Schlüter poster
5.8

Historical drama portraying the life of German baroque architect Andreas Schlüter.

Andreas Schlüter

1942

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Das Mädchen Juanita

1945

Wedding in Barenhof poster
7.0

Lothar von Pütz and Roswitha von Krakow fall in love and only then discover that their fathers are bitter enemies. When Lothar's father dies, a close friend of his father's, Baron Maximilian von Hanckel, takes the boy under his wing and tries to make peace between the families. He visits Roswitha's father, who begins to hope that he can marry his daughter to the older, but wealthy, baron, who is still a bachelor. When an argument breaks out between Lothar and Roswitha, she agrees to marry Maximilian. It is only at the pre-wedding party that Roswitha and Lothar have a real conversation. Maximilian overhears everything, releases Roswitha from her vows, and brings the two young people together.

Wedding in Barenhof

1942

Kolberg poster
6.1

During Napoleon's victorious campaign in Germany, the city of Kolberg gets isolated from the retreating Prussian forces. The population of Kolberg refuses to capitulate and organizes the resistance against the French army, which immediately submits the city to massive bombardments.

Kolberg

1945

Song poster
7.3

After committing a murder for his lover, Gloria, the famous painter Jack is forced to go underground. In the harbor district, he saves the poor Malaysian girl Song in front of two intrusive sailors. She loves him for it, and together Song and Jack appear in the tingle dungeon of the port, he as a knife artist, she as a dancer.

Song

1928

Hitler Youth Quex poster
6.0

Nazi propaganda film based on the life and death of Hitler Youth Herbert "Quex" Norkus – in the film, renamed Heini Völker – who was killed while distributing flyers in a Communist neighborhood.

Hitler Youth Quex

1933

Joan of Arc poster
6.2

France in the 15th Century: The country is marked by the wars with England and internal power struggles. King Charles sees himself powerless against the state. As emerges from the people suddenly a young woman named Johanna, who claimed that the Archangel Gabriel to be appointed, to save France. First of all doubt the king in their words, but he remembers that the people through this "help of God" is gaining new courage. With the slogan "God and the Virgin!" pulls the revivified victorious army into battle against the English-Burgundian alliance. After Johanna King Charles is crowned at Reims, there breaks the plague over the country in. Now Johanna all the blame on the disaster: God would punish believe in the country for that a heretic; if Johanna were actual a holy, she would deal also with the plague. The waning faith weakens France, England is again on the rise. But Johanna is executed as a witch. Only years later annulled the verdict of the Holy and Johanna explained.

Joan of Arc

1935

Die Leibeigenen poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Leibeigenen

1928

Lady Hamilton poster
5.9

The married Lady Emma Hamilton has an ill fated romance with Admiral Horatio Nelson.

Lady Hamilton

1921

The Other poster
6.4

A psychological drama based on the popular Jekyll and Hyde theme involving a strict legal official. Based on the 1893 play "Der Andere" by Paul Lindau.

The Other

1930

No artwork available
5.0

Vienna 1910 is a 1943 German biographical film directed by Emerich Walter Emo and starring Rudolf Forster, Heinrich George and Lil Dagover. It is based on the life of Mayor of Vienna Karl Lueger. Its antisemitic content led to it being banned by the Allied Occupation forces following the Second World War.

Vienna 1910

1943

The Private's Job poster
6.2

During the Great War, German soldiers are persuaded to die heroically in order to take a French village held by the British.

The Private's Job

1937

Die Degenhardts poster
6.8

A stuffy old civil servant is forced to retire during World War II, but when his son, a Navy submariner, is lost at sea and his city is heavily bombed by English bombers, his old patriotism is re-awakened and he determines to be of use to his country once again

Die Degenhardts

1944

Süss, the Jew poster
4.4

Nazi historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer.

Süss, the Jew

1940

Lucrezia Borgia poster
5.1

Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, has three adult children: Juan, who is virtuous and has a sweetheart who is a woman of the people, Lucrezia, who is virtuous and wants to marry Alfonso, and Cesare, who is wicked and lusts after Lucrezia, Juan's girlfriend, and probably others. Cesare has vowed to kill any suitor for Lucrezia's love, and he has three thugs to carry out his wishes. Bodies fall into the Tiber, into the Colosseum (with lions prowling), and onto the Vatican floors.

Lucrezia Borgia

1922

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Die Räuber

1940

No artwork available
7.0

During a performance of Calderón's "The Judge of Zalamea," a young actor encounters his famous older colleague, whose daughter committed suicide years ago after he seduced and abandoned her. The older man finds the strength to reconcile when he is convinced of his adversary's remorse and inner transformation.

Der große Schatten

1942

No artwork available
10.0

The actor Edmund Kean, adored by his fans and critics, makes another brilliant performance. The young Anna Danby clings to his lips. But Kean has a liaison with a married woman.

Kean

1922

Steuerlos poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Steuerlos

1924

Schicksal poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Schicksal

1942

Tugboat M 17 poster
7.3

Heinrich George plays Henner who lives with his wife and child on a tugboat, going on the river to Berlin. There he meets the attractive Gescha (Betty Amann), and a story of love, betrayal and sadness ensues.

Tugboat M 17

1933

Wrath of the Seas poster
5.5

The film portrays the Imperial German Navy during the First World War, particularly the Battle of Jutland and is based on a novel by Helmut Lorenz.

Wrath of the Seas

1926

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