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List Of German Films Of 1923
This is a list of the most notable films produced in the Cinema of Germany in 1923. References External links IMDB listing for German films made in 1923 {{Filmsbycountry 1923
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Cinema Of Germany
The film industry in Germany can be traced back to the late 19th century. German cinema made major technical and artistic contributions to early film, broadcasting and television technology. Babelsberg became a household synonym for the early 20th century film industry in Europe, similar to Hollywood later. Germany witnessed major changes to its identity during the 20th and 21st century. Those changes determined the periodisation of national cinema into a succession of distinct eras and movements. History 1895–1918 German Empire The history of cinema in Germany can be traced back to the years shortly after the medium's birth. On 1 November 1895, Max Skladanowsky and his brother Emil demonstrated their self-invented film projector, the Bioscop, at the Wintergarten music hall in Berlin. A 15-minute series of eight short films were shown – the first screening of films to a paying audience. This performance pre-dated the first paying public display of the Lumière brothe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduard Von Winterstein
Eduard Clemens Franz Anna Freiherr von Wangenheim (1 August 1871 – 22 July 1961), known as Eduard von Winterstein, was an Austrian-German film actor who appeared in over one hundred fifty German films during the silent and sound eras. He was also a noted theater actor. Biography Von Winterstein was born in Vienna on 1 August 1871 to landowner Hugo von Wangenheim and his second wife, Hungarian-born actress Aloysia "Luise" von Wangenheim-Dub. His predecessors were the Barons of Wangenheim. He took acting lessons from his mother, who had played at the Burgtheater in Vienna. Winterstein came to Gera in 1889 and acted in theaters along with his mother and sister Clementine, where he had "undeservedly forgotten" experiences. He acted in the play ' in 1893. The same year, he played the title role in ''Egmont'' at the opening of a theater in Annaberg on 2 April 1893. "I was re-born in Annaberg and became like a completely different person. In this small town I had really become an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Mack
Max Mack (1884–1973) was a German screenwriter, film producer and director during the silent era. He is particularly known for his 1913 film '' The Other''. He directed, and co-starred in, an early film adaptation of ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' in 1914, called ''Ein Seltsamer Fall'', written by Richard Oswald. During the 1910s, he directed nearly a hundred films in a variety of different genres.Elsaesser & Wedel p.205 Born as Moritz Myrthenzweig in Halberstadt, the Jewish Mack was later forced to emigrate to escape Nazism, and settled in the United Kingdom. His final film was the 1935 quota quickie ''Be Careful, Mr. Smith''. Selected filmography Director * '' The Other'' (1913) * ''The Blue Mouse'' (1913) * '' Where Is Coletti?'' (1913) * '' A World Without Men'' (1914) * ''Ein Seltsamer Fall'' (1914) A film adaptation of ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' * '' Robert and Bertram'' (1915) * '' The Confessions of the Green Mask'' (1916) * '' The Maharaja's Favourite Wife'' (1921) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Beautiful Girl (1923 Film)
''The Beautiful Girl'' (german: Das schöne Mädel) is a 1923 German silent film directed by Max Mack and starring Hella Moja, Fritz Richard and Ilka Grüning. The film's sets were designed by the art director Carl Ludwig Kirmse. Cast *Hella Moja as Gött's daughter * Fritz Richard as old Gött *Ilka Grüning as Frau Gött *Walter Rilla as Franz, Gött's son *Margit Barnay as Gött's daughter * Rudolf Klein-Rhoden as Wyslicenus *Ernst Pröckl as Student Kunze *Heinz Salfner as Prof. Wessely * Alfred Haase as Baron von Riemer * Ludwig Hartau as Rubiner, department store owner *Dora Bergner as Frau Rubiner, his wife *Hermann Blaß as Balduin, photograph * Fred Immler as gentleman *Ludwig Rex as doctor *Hermann Picha Hermann Picha (20 March 1865 – 7 June 1936) was a German stage and film actor. Picha was extremely prolific, appearing in over 300 short and feature films during the silent and early sound eras. Picha played a mixture of lead and supporting r ... as antiquearia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lost Film
A lost film is a feature or short film that no longer exists in any studio archive, private collection, public archive or the U.S. Library of Congress. Conditions During most of the 20th century, U.S. copyright law required at least one copy of every American film to be deposited at the Library of Congress at the time of copyright registration, but the Librarian of Congress was not required to retain those copies: "Under the provisions of the act of March 4, 1909, authority is granted for the return to the claimant of copyright of such copyright deposits as are not required by the Library." A report created by Library of Congress film historian and archivist David Pierce claims: * 75% of original silent-era films have perished. * 14% of the 10,919 silent films released by major studios exist in their original 35 mm or other formats. * 11% survive only in full-length foreign versions or film formats of lesser image quality. Of the American sound films made from 1927 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (born Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe; December 28, 1888March 11, 1931) was a German film director, producer and screenwriter. He was greatly influenced by Arthur Schopenhauer, Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche, William Shakespeare, Shakespeare and Henrik Ibsen, Ibsen plays he had seen at the age of 12, and became a friend of director Max Reinhardt. During World War I he served in the Imperial German Army, initially as an company (military unit), infantry company commander on the Eastern Front (World War I), Eastern Front. Murnau later transferred to the German Army's Luftstreitkräfte, Flying Corps, as an air observer, observer/air gunner, gunner, and survived several crashes without any severe injuries. One of Murnau's acclaimed works is the film ''Nosferatu'' (1922), an adaptation of Bram Stoker's ''Dracula''. Although not a commercial success, owing to copyright issues with Stoker's estate, the film is considered a masterpiece of German Expressi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Expulsion (film)
''The Expulsion'' (german: Die Austreibung) is a 1923 silent German drama film directed by F. W. Murnau. The film is now considered to be lost. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Erich Czerwonski and Rochus Gliese. Location shooting took place in the Riesengebirge. Plot Old man Steyer (Carl Goetz) lives on a mountainside farm with his wife (Ilka Grüning), widowed son (Eugen Klöpfer), and granddaughter, Aenne (Lucie Mannheim). The son marries Ludmilla (Aud Egede-Nissen), a very poor girl from a nearby village. Ludmilla loves Lauer (William Dieterle), a local hunter, but Lauer is too poor to marry her. Ludmilla continues her affair with Lauer even after the marriage. Ludmilla asks her new husband to sell the farm and move to the village, as she cannot stand being isolated in the mountains. The son agrees, hoping it will make Ludmilla love him. They go to the village to sign a deed of sale. The son drinks heavily, decides to marry Aenne to Lauer, and then ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich Schroth
Heinrich August Franz Schroth (23 March 1871 – 14 January 1945) was a German stage and film actor. Career Schroth was born in Pirmasens, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. He made his acting debut at the Sigmaringen Royal Theatre in 1890. In 1894 he went to the Municipal Theatre in Augsburg, in 1896 to Mainz and in 1897 to the Royal Court Theatre in Hanover. From 1899 to 1905, he spent six years as a part of the ensemble of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg and from 1905 onwards at various Berlin theatres. Schroth made his film debut in the 1916 Walter Schmidthässler-directed drama ''Welker Lorbeer''. He spent the 1910s in numerous German silent film productions, working with such directors as George Jacoby, Robert Wiene and Harry Piel. His career in the 1920s was prolific, and he appeared opposite such silent film actors as Lil Dagover, Emil Jannings, Paul Wegener and Brigitte Helm and transitioned to sound film with ease. During World War II Heinrich Schroth partici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduard Rothauser
Eduard Rothauser (1876–1956) was an Austrian-born German actor. Selected filmography * '' The Man in the Cellar'' (1914) * ''The Princess of Urbino'' (1919) * '' Nobody Knows'' (1920) * '' The Graveyard of the Living'' (1921) * '' The Maharaja's Favourite Wife'' (1921) * '' The Romance of a Poor Sinner'' (1922) * '' Esterella'' (1923) * '' And Yet Luck Came'' (1923) * '' The Chain Clinks'' (1923) * '' Garragan'' (1924) *''In den Krallen der Schuld'' (1924) * ''Slums of Berlin'' (1925) * ''The Hanseatics'' (1925) * '' Living Buddhas'' (1925) * ''People to Each Other'' (1926) *''Manon Lescaut'' (1926) * ''Children of No Importance'' (1926) *''Mata Hari'' (1927) *''Schwester Veronica'' (1927) * ''Assassination'' (1927) *''The Holy Lie'' (1927) * '' Queen Louise'' (1928) *'' Bobby, the Petrol Boy'' (1929) *'' Dreyfus'' (1930) * '' The Trunks of Mr. O.F.'' (1931) * '' A Tremendously Rich Man'' (1932) *''Marschall Vorwärts'' (1932) *'' Herthas Erwachen'' (1933) * ''What Men Know ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grete Diercks
Margarete "Grete" Diercks (September 1, 1890, in Hamburg – July 15, 1978, in Lauingen) was a German actress. Biography Diercks had been active since childhood as an actress at the 1900 Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. On her 11th birthday, she became a member of the ensemble there and regularly appeared on stage between the seasons of 1902–1903 to 1908–1909. Although she had never attended a formal acting school, she remained dedicated to the theater as a young woman. Through her work in 1912 at the theater in Riga, she gathered further acting experience. In Riga, she also met her future husband, an engineer. Then, she went to Berlin where she took on various theater engagements, including roles in the theater in the Königgrätzer street in 1917. Diercks was not only active as a theater actress, but occasionally appeared as a singer, appearing in the title role in the operetta Prinzessin Herzlieb by Eduard Mörike. The Silent film, cinema gained importance in Diercks' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerhard Lamprecht
Gerhard Lamprecht (6 October 1897 – 4 May 1974) was a German film director, screenwriter and film historian. He directed 63 films between 1920 and 1958. He also wrote for 26 films between 1918 and 1958. Life and career Lamprecht was fascinated by cinema since his childhood and started to work as a film projectionist at age twelve. He studied theatre and art history in Berlin. He also took drama lessons with Paul Bildt and appeared as a stage actor under the name of "Gerhard Otto" in some minor productions.Gerhard Lamprecht at the Deutsches Filmportal Lamprecht got drafted by the German army in 1917 and was wounded in 1918. Lamprecht had sold his first film manuscript as early as 1914. With the end of |
And Yet Luck Came
''And Yet Luck Came'' (german: Und dennoch kam das Glück) is a 1923 German silent film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht and starring Grete Diercks, Eduard Rothauser and Heinrich Schroth.Bock & Bergfelder p. 275 The film's sets were designed by the art director Otto Moldenhauer. Cast * Grete Diercks * Eduard Rothauser * Heinrich Schroth * Karl Hannemann * Frida Richard * Ernst Gronau * Martha Maria Newes * Alice Torning Alice may refer to: * Alice (name), most often a feminine given name, but also used as a surname Literature * Alice (''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''), a character in books by Lewis Carroll * ''Alice'' series, children's and teen books by ... * Hubert Jarosch References Bibliography * External links * 1923 films Films of the Weimar Republic German silent feature films Films directed by Gerhard Lamprecht German black-and-white films 1920s German films {{1920s-Germany-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
