Olaf Fjord
Actor · 1897 – 1945 · Graz, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
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Movie7.8DramaHistoryA biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797.
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Biopic based on the life of the 19th-century Bavarian monarch Ludwig II.
Ludwig II
1922
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Tarakanova is a 1930 French historical drama film directed by Raymond Bernard and starring Édith Jéhanne, Paule Andral and Olaf Fjord. It depicts the life of Princess Tarakanoff, the pretender to the throne of Catherine II in Eighteenth Century Russia.
Tarakanova
1930 · 2 votes
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A British industrialist offers a job to a German who kindly rescued him when they were pilots on opposite sides of the Great War, but his wife becomes attracted to the foreigner. Complications ensue.
Movie6.3WarDramaThe film focuses on the leadership of the Great Powers of Europe in the days leading up to the outbreak of the First World War.
Movie6.3DramaRomanceAndrea, the beautiful daughter of a railway gateman, is seduced by a rich passenger, who missed his train. Left pregnant, Andrea marries another man and moves to Prague, only to encounter her former lover and recover her former lust.
Erotikon
1930 · 25 votes
MovieDocumentaryBorn in 1907, Italina Lida "Ida" Kravanja known as Ita Rina, became famous in Europe and especially in France for her role in Erotikon (1929) by Gustav Machaty. At the height of her glory she got married and refused an invitation to Hollywood. After that she appeared in a few German/Yugoslav co-productions but her career slowly faded.
Ita Rina – filmska zvezda, ki je zavrnila Hollywood
Ita Rina, a Film Star Who Declined an Invitation to Hollywood
2016
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The problem of companionship marriages , i.e. marriages determined by purely practical rather than emotional motives, is addressed with all its pros and cons using two relationships . The four protagonists are the student Erich Helmholz and his wife Elli, a seamstress, both a happily married but not in love couple, and the consultant's daughter Maria, who comes from the best "stable" and who, in her ignorance, first allows herself to be impregnated by any man (without really understanding how this could have happened) and then, under pressure from her horrified parents, enters into a companionship marriage with another man who has brilliant career prospects.
Movie10.0Frauen, die nicht lieben dürfen
1925 · 1 votes
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Middle-aged teacher Nadia experiences increasing social exclusion and paranoia as society begins to exclude her and her husband, Ange, in disturbing ways complicated by her difficult family history and her troubled relationship with her son, Ralph, and his family.
Movie8.0DramaAdventureLady Diana Wynham, a crumbling aristocrat, entrusts her new secretary, Prince Séliman, with a daring mission on whose success will depend the survival of her fortune.
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Das Geständnis der Drei
1929 · 1 votes
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Simultaneously shot German version of Italian Terra Madre: A young aristocrat, planning to spend time in town, returns to sell his farmland to a modernizing new owner, thus threatening the welfare of the peasants who work for him.
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Movie7.0Zwei Menschen
1924 · 1 votes
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Movie10.0Fred Holme is looking for candidates for the beauty contest in his London newspaper. In Rome he discovered the most beautiful woman in the world, the young arts and craftswoman Lucia Sarlo.
Die schönste Frau der Welt
1924 · 1 votes