Asta Nielsen — Actor (11)
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Vanina (1922)
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Arthur von Gerlach actor: Asta Nielsen / Paul Wegener …
other title: Vanina oder Die Galgenhochzeit
Vanina loves rebel leader Octavio, who gets caught. He gets a pardon and marries Vanina. When he is captured again, Vanina helps him to escape prison. They are both caught, and after his execution she dies from grief.
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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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The Eskimo Baby (1918)
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Heinz Schall actor: Asta Nielsen / Freddy Wingardh
other title: Das Eskimobaby / Ivigtut
Young Polar Explorer brings Eskimo Ivigtut to his parents in Berlin. After experiencing Western culture, she finds herself pregnant but the explorer comes to her rescue.
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Zapata's Gang (1914)
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Urban Gad actor: Asta Nielsen / Fred Immler …
other title: Zapatas Bande
Comedy about a film crew shooting a movie about guns and robbers, when real robbers turn up. Having to go home in robbers costume, they are mistakingly accused. In the end the real robbers are brought to justice. One of the earliest films portraying bisexual characters.
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Tragedy of the Street (1927)
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Bruno Rahn actor: Asta Nielsen / Hilde Jennings …
other title: Dirnentragödie / Tragedia de una prostituta o la tragedia de la calle …
Auguste is an aging prostitute who falls in love with Felix, a younger student. While Felix has strayed away from his parents, Auguste starts taking care of him and spends her life savings into a cake shop to move further away from prostitution, but trouble comes when another woman enters the picture.
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Joyless Street (1925)
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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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Earth Spirit (1923)
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Leopold Jessner actor: Asta Nielsen / Albert Bassermann …
other title: Erdgeist
When the old, wealthy Doctor Schön takes Lulu under his wing, he has no idea that she will be his certain death. Young and beautiful, Lulu is endowed with tremendous erotic charisma that utterly enchants any man in her reach. Although Schön sees disaster approaching, he cannot let go of her.