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Unheimliche Geschichten (1919 Film)
''Unheimliche Geschichten'' ( ''Uncanny Stories''), also known as ''Grausige Nächte'' ( ''Nights of Terror'') or ''Eerie Tales'', is a 1919 German silent film, silent anthology film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Conrad Veidt, Reinhold Schünzel, and Anita Berber. The film is divided into five segments: "The Apparition" (based on a story by Anselm Heine), "The Hand" (based on a story by Robert Liebmann), "The Black Cat" (based on The Black Cat (short story), the short story by Edgar Allan Poe), "The Suicide Club" (based on The Suicide Club (short story collection), the short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson) and "Der Spuk" ("The Spectre", an original work by Oswald). ''Unheimliche Geschichten'' is also known under the titles ''Weird Tales'', ''Five Sinister Stories'', or ''Tales of the Uncanny''. The original Film negative, negative of the film is considered Lost film, lost, though a restoration sourced from a nitrate print by the Cinémathèque française has been rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Oswald
Richard Oswald (5 November 1880 – 11 September 1963) was an Austrian film director, producer, screenwriter, and father of German-American film director Gerd Oswald. Early life and career Richard Oswald, born in Vienna as Richard W. Ornstein, began his career as an actor on the Viennese stage. He made his film directorial debut at age 34 with ''The Iron Cross'' (1914) and worked a number of times for Jules Greenbaum. In 1916, Oswald set up his own production company in Germany, writing and directing most of his films himself. His pre-1920 efforts include such literary adaptations as ''The Picture of Dorian Gray (1917 German film), The Picture of Dorian Gray'' (1917), ''Peer Gynt (1919 film), Peer Gynt'' (1919), the once scandalous ''Different from the Others'' (1919) and ''Around the World in Eighty Days (1919 film), Around the World in Eighty Days'' (1919). Oswald directed nearly 100 films. Some critics have suggested that Oswald was more prolific than talented, but such fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unheimliche Geschichten (1932 Film)
''Unheimliche Geschichten'' ( ''Uncanny Stories''), titled ''The Living Dead'' in English, is a 1932 German comedy horror film, directed by the film director Richard Oswald, starring Paul Wegener, and produced by Gabriel Pascal. It is a remake of Oswald's 1919 film of the same name. The story is a merging of three separate short stories, Edgar Allan Poe's " The Black Cat," " The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" and Robert Louis Stevenson's '' The Suicide Club'', set within a frame story of a reporter's hunt for a mad scientist. It is a black comedy revisiting many of the classic themes of the horror genre. It was Paul Wegener's first talking movie. Plot A crazed scientist, Morder (Paul Wegener), driven even crazier by his nagging wife, murders her and walls her up in a basement, à la Poe's "The Black Cat". He then flees as the police and a reporter, Frank Briggs ( Harald Paulsen), set out to track him down. Morder eventually escapes, by pretending to be insane, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1919 Horror Films
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German Silent Feature Films
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Der Kinematograph
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Berliner Tageblatt
The ''Berliner Tageblatt'' or ''BT'' was a German language newspaper published in Berlin from 1872 to 1939. Along with the '' Frankfurter Zeitung'', it became one of the most important liberal German newspapers of its time. History The ''Berliner Tageblatt'' was first published by Rudolf Mosse as an advertising paper on 1 January 1872, but developed into a liberal newspaper. During World War I, the Berliner Tageblatt published disinformation on April 19, 1915, regarding the alleged use of gas by British forces. This was part of a broader German propaganda effort to accuse the Allies of employing chemical weapons, thereby deflecting attention from their own plans to use poison gas in the upcoming attack at Ypres. On 5 January 1919 the office of the newspaper was briefly occupied by Freikorps soldiers in the German Revolution. By 1920, the ''BT'' had achieved a daily circulation of about 245,000. Prior to the National Socialist administration taking office on 30 January 193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filmportal
filmportal.de is an online database of information related to German film. It includes extensive information on films and filmmakers as well as articles on film issues. The website was released on occasion of the 54th Berlin International Film Festival on 11 February 2005. ''filmportal.de'' was revised and expanded in 2011/2012. Content The database provides information on about 85 000 German cinema and television films (as of June 2015) from 1895 to the present. About 8 000 films are presented in detail with content descriptions, stills and/or posters. In addition, ''filmportal.de'' catalogues about 190 000 names of filmmakers, 5 000 of these entries feature a biography. The lexical information is supplemented by trailers, film clips from German classics, and, increasingly, full-length films. Moreover, editorial texts link the information with the history of film in the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany and the GDR. Organising institutions ''filmportal.de'' was established b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Suicide Club (Stevenson)
''The Suicide Club'' is an 1878 collection of three 19th-century detective fiction short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson that combine to form a single narrative. First published in the ''London Magazine'' in 1878, they were collected and republished in the first volume of the '' New Arabian Nights''. The trilogy introduces the characters of Prince Florizel of Bohemia and his sidekick Colonel Geraldine. In this cycle they infiltrate a secret society of people intent on losing their lives. It has been described as: "The Prince's investigation of the macabre club and its criminally inclined president makes for one of Stevenson's most exciting and suspenseful tales." The cycle has been adapted for stage, film and television on a number of occasions. Plot summary The three short stories that form this cycle are as follows. Story of the Young Man with the Cream Tarts The story is set in Victorian London, where Prince Florizel of Bohemia and Colonel Geraldine roam in search of ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernhard Goetzke
Bernhard Goetzke (5 June 1884 – 7 October 1964) was a German stage and film actor, renowned for his contributions to German silent cinema. Born in Danzig, German Empire (now Gdańsk, Poland), Goetzke began his acting career in theaters across Hagen, Düsseldorf, Dresden, and Berlin. His film debut came in 1917 with Robert Wiene's '' Furcht'' (''Fear''), but his breakthrough roles were in Fritz Lang's films, including ''Destiny'' (''Der Müde Tod'', 1921), '' Dr. Mabuse the Gambler'' (1922), and ''Die Nibelungen'' (1924). His restrained yet expressive acting style made him a favourite among filmmakers. Career After completing his training as an actor, Goetzke worked at theaters in Hagen and Dresden. He later performed on Max Reinhardt's renowned stages in Berlin and was active for several decades at the Schiller Theater. Goetzke also appeared in international productions, including Alfred Hitchcock's '' The Mountain Eagle'' (1926) and Henri Fescourt's '' Monte Cristo'' (1929 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg John
Georg John (born Georg Jacobsohn; 23 July 1879 – 18 November 1941) was a German stage and film actor. Early life Georg Jacobsohn was born into a Jewish household in Schmiegel, Province of Posen, Imperial Germany. Career John began his career around 1900 in smaller stages and traveling theatres. In 1904, he was engaged at the Theater of Wilhelmshaven, followed by appearances at Stolp in 1905, Altona, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Bochum and Göttingen. In 1914, John worked as an actor and producer for Vaterländische Schauspiele in Vienna. In 1917, John first appeared in silent movies, playing a Tibetan monk in ''Die Fremde'' (''The Stranger''), and Death in ''Hilde Warren und der Tod'' (''Hilde Warren and Death''). These roles were typical of the kinds of parts he would become known for, even if, at first, he was more often seen as a father, husband or dignitary. Beginning in the 1920s, John appeared in the films of notable German filmmakers, where he often played bizarre, gno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Morgan (actor)
Paul Morgan (October 1, 1886 – December 10, 1938) was a Jewish Austrian actor and Kabarett performer. He died in Buchenwald concentration camp in 1938. Selected filmography * '' The Gentleman Without a Residence'' (1915) * '' The Mistress of the World, Part VI'' (1919) * '' Countess Doddy'' (1919) * ''Prostitution'' (1919) * ''Around the World in Eighty Days'' (1919) * ''Diamonds'' (1920) * ''Respectable Women'' (1920) * '' Kurfürstendamm'' (1920) * '' Four Around a Woman'' (1921) * '' Peter Voss, Thief of Millions'' (1921) * ''Hedda Gabler'' (1925) * '' The Girl with a Patron'' (1925) * ''The Elegant Bunch'' (1925) * '' Cock of the Roost'' (1925) * '' Love and Trumpets'' (1925) * '' The Flower Girl of Potsdam Square'' (1925) * '' The Red Mouse'' (1926) * '' Vienna - Berlin'' (1926) * '' When She Starts, Look Out'' (1926) * '' The Third Squadron'' (1926) * '' Circus Romanelli'' (1926) * '' The Bank Crash of Unter den Linden'' (1926) * '' The Pride of the Company'' (1926) * '' Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Döblin
Hugo Döblin (29 October 1876 – 4 November 1960) was a German stage and film actor.Hardt, Ursula. ''From Caligari to California: Erich Pommer's Life in the International Film Wars''. Berghahn Books, 1996. p. 233 He appeared in more than eighty films, most of them during the silent era. The Jewish Döblin left Germany following the Nazi Party's rise to power in 1933, and after moving first to Czechoslovakia and Austria, eventually settled in Switzerland. His younger brother was novelist, essayist, and doctor Alfred Döblin (1878–1957). Selected filmography * '' Hearts are Trumps'' (1920) * '' From Morn to Midnight'' (1920) * '' Burning Country'' (1921) * ''Seafaring Is Necessary'' (1921) * '' Danton'' (1921) * '' The House on the Moon'' (1921) * '' The Oath of Stephan Huller'' (1921) * '' Lady Hamilton'' (1921) * ''Lola Montez, the King's Dancer'' (1922) * '' The Big Shot'' (1922) * ''Lucrezia Borgia'' (1922) * '' The False Dimitri'' (1922) * '' Your Valet'' (1922) * ''The Lad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
