Albert Heine (16 November 1867, in

Braunschweig Braunschweig () or Brunswick ( ; from Low German , local dialect: ) is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz Mountains at the farthest navigable point of the river Oker, which connects it to the ...

– 13 April 1949, in Westerland) was a

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Siegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933'',

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(2007), p. 213

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and

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. He also directed two

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. He was the director of the

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between 1918 and 1921.

Selected filmography

* ''

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'' (1922) * '' The Curse'' (1924) * '' Boarding House Groonen'' (1925) * ''

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'' (1926) * '' The Monte Cristo of Prague'' (1929) * '' Play Around a Man'' (1929) * '' Daughter of the Regiment'' (1933)

Bibliography

* Jung, Uli & Schatzberg, Walter. ''Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene''. Berghahn Books, 1999.

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* 1867 births 1949 deaths Jewish German male actors German male film actors German male stage actors German male silent film actors Film directors from Lower Saxony Male actors from Braunschweig People from the Duchy of Brunswick 20th-century German male actors German silent film directors {{Germany-film-actor-1860s-stub