Robert Liebmann — Playwright (5)

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Congress Dances (1931) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Der Kongress tanzt
director: Erik Charell actor: Lilian Harvey / Willy Fritsch …
other title: Il congresso si diverte / Der Kongress tanzt …
An Austrian prince hatches a plan to keep his rival, the Russian czar, busy by keeping him surrounded by beautiful women and away from the negotiating table. The Czar, however, has his own plan—he hires a man who is his exact double to impersonate him and confuse the Austrians by appearing to be everywhere at once. In addition, both the Czar and his double fall for the same woman.

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Looping the Loop (1928) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Die Todesschleife
director: Arthur Robison actor: Werner Krauss / Jenny Jugo …
other title: Die Todesschleife
Botto the Clown is in love with the much younger Blanche but she is in love with the handsome daredevil acrobate Andre.

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The Arc (1919) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Die Arche
director: Richard Oswald actor: Leo Connard / Eva Speyer …
other title: Die Arche
Engineer Walter Fahr has constructed a massive passenger submarine, the 'Gloria'. The vessel undertakes a test journey with various esteemed invitees aboard, together with several animals, and the blind passenger Professor Keigo Sotuma. […] When those aboard the 'Gloria' return to the surface, they find a ship whose entire crew is dead. It is the astronomer Sotuma who figures out what has happened: during their undersea journey, the Earth was scorched by the tail of a comet, and all life extinguished. The 'Gloria' sails back to shore, carrying the final humans into a dead world…

Movie

The Blue Angel (1930)
Der blaue Engel
director: Josef von Sternberg actor: Emil Jannings / Marlene Dietrich …
other title: L'angelo azzurro / Den blå engel …
Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there. Seeing Lola perform, the teacher is filled with lust, eventually resigning his position at the school to marry the young woman. However, his marriage to a coquette — whose job is to entice men — proves to be more difficult than Rath imagined.