Alexander Murski
Actor · 1869 – 1943 · Saint Petersburg, Russia
Alexander Alexandrovich Murski (Russian: Александр Александрович Мурский) (1 November 1869 – April 1943) was a Saint Petersburg, Russian-born German actor. Murski died in 1943 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France. He was occasionally credited with the names Alexander Mursky and Aleksandr Murskij.
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Movie6.4DramaRomanceA mature and visually elegant period romance that remains one of the earliest and most compassionate overtly gay-themed films in movie history. Based upon Herman Bang's 1902 novel, Dreyer's Michael refashions the classical Greek myth of Jupiter and Ganymede into a love triangle between an aging artist, Zoret, his protagonist Michael, and Princess Zamikoff, an aristocratic femme fatale as entranced by Michael’s youthful beauty as Zoret is.
Michael
1924 · 55 votes
Movie5.8DramaA house in Paris happens to have two families living there with the same last name. In one apartment lives opera singer Gambetta Duval with his two daughters, Jeanne and Nita. In the second apartment lives old lady Duval with her grandchild Philippa and an her lodger, the physician Leon Monnier. Jeanne is secretly in love with Dr. Monnier who is secretly in love with Nita, who is secretly having an affair with the great playwright Armand de Marny.
Movie6.9CrimeHorrorOne of the last of the silent Sherlock films.
Movie10.0DramaDie berühmte Frau
1927 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaBased on the short story "Der Fall des Generalstabschefs Redl" by Egon Erwin Kisch. Alfred Redl, a colonel on the Austrian General Staff, leads an extravagant private life. No one suspects that in reality he is passing information to Russian spies. Alternate-language version of "Aféra plukovníka Rédla" (1931).
Movie6.9DramaWhile staying with her aunt at a fashionable spa, Else receives an unexpected telegram from her mother, begging her to save her father from debtor’s jail. The only way out, it seems, is to approach an elderly acquaintance in order to borrow money from him. Through this telegram, Else is forced into the reality of a world entirely at odds with her romantic imagination – with horrific consequences.
Fräulein Else
1929 · 7 votes
Movie8.3DramaThe demonic Rasputin is poisoned but survives to continue seducing in evil ways, in this historical thriller.
Movie8.0Drama
Movie7.5DramaA French violinist saves his beloved princess from the Russian revolution..
- Movie9.0DramaRomance
German drama
Mein Herz gehört Dir...
1930 · 1 votes
- Movie7.2Drama
Ivan Mozzhukhin is a "...hot-headed Caucasian mountaineer leader whose irrational behavior comes to the attention of the Czar . Hoping to use Hajji Murad as a go-between in his plans to conquer the Caucasus mountaineers, the Russian ruler finds that the hero is not so easily manipulated. Rescuing the beautiful Saira from the Czar's clutches, Hajji Murad leads the mountain people's revolt against the despotic regent." Needless to say, the film ends in tragedy.
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Flucht in die Fremdenlegion
1929 · 1 votes
Movie10.0- Movie10.0Drama
Der Mann, der nicht liebt
1929 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaDie Geliebte des Gouverneurs
1927 · 1 votes
Movie9.0CrimeDramaAn unknown guest checks into an obscure hotel. He is a burly but well-dressed gentleman carrying an umbrella and a tree frog in a glass. This man spends most of his time wandering the hallways and staircases of the inn, ostensibly to hunt for flies to feed his pet. But quite obviously, there is more to it than that: the man also listens at doors and peeks through their keyholes.
Der Mann mit dem Laubfrosch
1929 · 1 votes
Movie6.8DramaIn 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.
Movie7.0ComedyPeter Verdy falls in love with Lola (Ossi Oswalda) who is mistaken for a boy when she appears in stage regalia before a rich uncle who has other marriage plans for his nephew. The tangle ensuing is finally sorted out with excellent results all round.
Die Kleine vom Varieté
1926 · 2 votes
MovieDrama
Movie8.0DramaMusical extravaganza, also filmed in a French language version, based on the life of Johann Strauss.
Movie10.0DramaMata Hari, die rote Tänzerin (English: Mata Hari: The Red Dancer), often shortened on release to Mata Hari, is a 1927 German silent drama film directed by Friedrich Feher and starring Magda Sonja, Wolfgang Zilzer and Fritz Kortner. It depicts the life and death of the German World War I spy Mata Hari. It was the first feature-length portrayal of Hari.
Movie9.0ComedyDie Zirkusprinzessin
1929 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0Drama
Es flüstert die Nacht
1929 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaRomance