Elsa Bassermann
Actor · 1878 – 1961 · Leipzig, Saxony, German Empire [now Germany]
Elsa Bassermann (born Elsa Sarah Schiff; January 14, 1878 – May 30, 1961) was a German screenwriter, stage and film actress. She was married to Albert Bassermann and often acted with him. As she was Jewish, the couple had to leave Nazi Germany and go into exile in Switzerland and the United States. She later returned to Germany, where she died in 1961. From Wikipedia.
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Movie6.1WarAdventureA British bomber crew, including Australian and American, is shot down over Germany during a bombing run. The five make their way across a perilous Germany, intent on reaching the UK with the war secrets they have learned, battling Nazis along the way.
Desperate Journey
1942 · 33 votes
Movie7.2DramaRomancePoor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.
Madame Curie
1943 · 52 votes
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Die Stimme
1920 · 1 votes
Movie7.5DramaThrillerAn American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess he seeks to engineer her escape.
Escape
1940 · 16 votes
Movie9.0Du sollst keine anderen Götter haben
1917 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaAka Passport to Heaven. In Prussia shoemaker Voight needs a residence permit to get a job, but can only get a job if he already has a permit. He dons a captain's uniform to order a platoon of soldiers to Koepenick to take over the Town Hall to get his permit.
I Was a Criminal
1941 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaA doctor's marriage to a single mother comes unravelled.
Dr. Schotte
1918 · 1 votes
Movie7.0Die Brüder von Zaarden
1918 · 1 votes
Movie5.1Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, has three adult children: Juan, who is virtuous and has a sweetheart who is a woman of the people, Lucrezia, who is virtuous and wants to marry Alfonso, and Cesare, who is wicked and lusts after Lucrezia, Juan's girlfriend, and probably others. Cesare has vowed to kill any suitor for Lucrezia's love, and he has three thugs to carry out his wishes. Bodies fall into the Tiber, into the Colosseum (with lions prowling), and onto the Vatican floors.
Lucrezia Borgia
1922 · 8 votes
Movie10.0Der letzte Zeuge
1919 · 1 votes
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Die Duplizität der Ereignisse
1920 · 1 votes
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Die Söhne des Grafen Dossy
1920 · 1 votes
Movie10.0Der eiserne Wille
1917 · 1 votes
Movie9.0Urteil des Arztes
1914 · 1 votes
Movie9.0Der letzte Tag
1913 · 1 votes
Movie9.0Silent film
Der Mutter Augen
1913 · 1 votes
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Crime film based on Nikolaus Lenau's poem "Die Marionetten."
Movie7.0Vater und Sohn
1918 · 1 votes
Movie9.0Herr und Diener
1917 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaToni van Eyck became known with her leading role in this early "Aufklärungsfilm" (education film) Gefahren der Liebe/A Woman Branded (Eugen Thiele, 1931) opposite Hans Stüwe. She played a rape victim, who finally becomes a murderess.
Movie5.5DramaA middle aged composer returns to Vienna after ten years in America, falls in love with a Japanese student and writes his last opera for her.
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Lorenzo Burghardt
1918 · 1 votes