Werner Krauss — Actor (25)
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The Burning Soil (1922)
Der brennende Acker
F. W. Murnau actor: Werner Krauss / Eugen Klöpfer …
other title: La terra che brucia / Der brennende Acker …
When farmer Rog dies, his eldest Peter takes over the farm while his youngest Johannes is determined for a better life: he becomes secretary to Count Rudenberg and starts courting his daughter Gerda. When he learns that the Count, who is terminally ill, has bequeathed a piece of land under which lies a petroleum field to his second wife, he courts her instead.
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Looping the Loop (1928)
Die Todesschleife WikiData IMDb TMDB
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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Prostitution (1919)
Die Prostitution, 1. Teil - Das gelbe Haus WikiData IMDb TMDB
Richard Oswald actor: Fritz Beckmann / Anita Berber …
other title: Die Prostitution, 1. Teil - Das gelbe Haus / Die Prostitution
Hedwig and Lola, two sisters of opposite temperaments, have their lives upended in when Lola decides to pursue prostitution and Hedwig is forced into it.
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The Film in the Film (1924)
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Friedrich Porges actor: Ernst Deutsch / E.A. Dupont …
other title: Der Film im Film
The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors of the era at work on the set including Fritz Lang, Robert Wiene, and E.A. Dupont.
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Everyman (1916)
Jedermann IMDb TMDB
actor: Werner Krauss / Johanna Terwin
other title: Jedermann
Based on several medieval mystery plays, including the late 15th-century English morality play "Everyman". The premise is that the good and evil deeds of one's life will be tallied by God after death, as in a ledger book. The drama is the allegorical accounting of the life of Everyman, who represents all mankind.
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The Dance of Death (1919)
Der Totentanz WikiData IMDb TMDB
Otto Rippert actor: Werner Krauss / Sascha Gura …
other title: Der Totentanz / Totentanz
In this apparently lost film, a beautiful dancer's sexual allure is used by an evil cripple to entice men to their deaths. Falling in love with one of the potential victims, she is told by the cripple that he will set her free if her lover, actually a murderer himself, survives and escapes a bizarre labyrinthe which runs beneath the cripple's house.
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Shattered (1921)
Scherben WikiData IMDb TMDB
Lupu Pick actor: Werner Krauss / Edith Posca …
other title: Destroços / Scherben …
The everyday lives of a poverty-stricken railway trackman, his wife and daughter in a remote, isolated house in a winter landscape. One day, they receive a telegram announcing the arrival of the section inspector, who is to live with the family. After his arrival, a downward spiral begins.
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A Night of Horror (1917)
Nächte des Grauens WikiData IMDb TMDB
Richard Oswald / Arthur Robison actor: Emil Jannings / Werner Krauss …
other title: Nächte des Grauens / Nuit d'horreur
An extremely jealous artist slips into a monkey costume and kills all those men who come too close to his wife, another artist.
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Secrets of a Soul (1927)
Geheimnisse einer Seele WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Georg Wilhelm Pabst actor: Werner Krauß / Ruth Weyher …
other title: Il mistero dell'anima / Mistérios de Uma Alma …
Scientist Martin Fellmann is tormented by an irrational fear of knives and the irresistible compulsion to murder his wife. Driven to the brink of madness by fantastic nightmares, he encounters a psychoanalyst who offers to treat the perplexing malady.
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Joyless Street (1925)
Die freudlose Gasse WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
G.W. Pabst actor: Werner Krauss / Jaro Fürth …
other title: La via senza gioia / Die freudlose Gasse …
In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their families during the period of Austrian postwar hyperinflation.
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Süss, the Jew (1940)
Jud Süß WikiData IMDb TMDB
Veit Harlan actor: Ferdinand Marian / Werner Krauss …
other title: Suss l'ebreo / Jud Süß …
Nazi historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer.
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The Student of Prague (1926)
Der Student von Prag
Henrik Galeen actor: Conrad Veidt / Elizza La Porta …
other title: Der Student von Prag / L'étudiant de Prague …
For Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the tip of the sword have lost their charms. He wants to find love; but how would he, a penniless student, ever dare looking up to any woman worth of loving? Absorbed in his dreary thoughts and indifferent to the advances of Lyduschka, Balduin is unexpectedly offered a fortune by the mysterious money-lender Scapinelli - but on a strange condition...