Emilie Kurz
Actor · 1874 – 1934 · Troppau, Silesia, Austria-Hungary [now Opava, Czech Republic]
Emilie Kurz was born on July 17, 1874. She was an actress, known for The Last Laugh (1924), The Burning Soil (1922) and Die Tochter des Mehemed (1919). She died in 1934.
Movies10
Movie7.8DramaAn aging doorman, after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel, is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbours and society.
Movie5.0FantasyIn this film, the people of a Tyrolean town climb up into the nearby mountains, searching for a place where they can hold a picnic and a spring festival: ideally, a place where they can eventually erect dwellings and cultivate crops. Led by the local nobleman (Arthur Ehrens), they find an appropriate spot, and the festivities begin. Some children briefly perform a charming folk dance. Suddenly the Rübezahl arrives and threatens to kill all the townsfolk if they don't leave immediately.
Movie5.9DramaA French adventurer fights to save a woman in the life of prostitution.
Manon Lescaut
1926 · 8 votes
Movie10.0CrimeDramaThe director and co-writer Lupu Pick plays musician Erik Paulsson, who loses his beloved son after a peaceful yet critical poetry reading is raided by the tsarist forces. Paulsson, beside himself with grief, kills the officer responsible and is sentenced to life, which will mean 18 years in prison before he is free again. While he is inside, by a strange quirk of fate, his daughter Karin falls in love with writer Sebald Brückner, the son of the state prosecutor, who indicted Paulsson and is a staunch advocate of the death penalty. The conflict between the fathers does not impair the relationship of the young couple. However, when Sebald’s long-desired success on the stage is threatened by a vengeful theatre director who had sexually harassed Karin, he is enraged and kills the other man in a fight. The prosecutor now must face the blow of losing his own son to the death penalty.
Movie8.0DocumentaryThis movie was featured on the DVD release of Der letzte Mann in 2004 in Germany.
- Movie5.4Comedy
The star of an operetta is engaged to its elderly director but really loves a dashing young Bavarian she met at a masked ball.
MovieComedyDirected by Ernst Lubitsch.
Ossis Tagebuch
1917
- Movie10.0Drama
The extended Steyer family lives together in a cottage in the mountains. The younger Steyer's wife Ludmilla wants money, and doesn't care if she must ruin the lives of the Steyer family to get it. Lost film.
Movie6.6DramaFun-loving Peer Gynt lives carefree on his parents' farm. Only his mother is a fixed point of reference; he doesn't think much of regular work and an orderly life. His mother's death brings him closer to the young Solveig, but he leaves her and his homeland to make his fortune in America.
Peer Gynt
1934 · 5 votes
- Movie9.0
Schwester Veronica
1927 · 1 votes