Karl Morvilius
Oyuncu · 1883 – 1960 · Germersheim, Germany
Filmler17
Film5.7SavaşDramEspionage, war and romance in the Far East in 1904: Russian naval officer Boris Ranewsky marries Youki, the sister of a fanatical Japanese officer, but war is imminent.
Port Arthur
1936 · 6 votes
Film8.0KomediAll throughout his entire life, Friedrich Wilhelm Hoffmann let his career run roughshod over his personal life. He had no wife, because he was married instead to his chocolate factory. Now he’s old and gray, and his relatives, who are greedily waiting for him to kick the bucket so they can get their hands on his worldly goods, keep their distance from him. Then one day, an astonished Hoffmann is visited by a young woman named Brigitte, who asserts, that she’s his granddaughter. Suddenly, it all comes back to the old man: as a young man, he had a short, but intense, love affair, which he had to end on the insistence of his father.
Film7.8DramA young woman moves to Berlin to work as a press photographer.
Film6.0KomediThe bored heir to a soap factory is able through pure chance to work incognito in the 153rd branch of the business. While doing so, he falls in love with a beautiful customer, gets into a rivalry with a jealous worker and helps to expose a dishonest boss.
- Film9.0Dram
The great Franz Liszt helps a struggling, unworldly piano tutor advance to a position in Munich, and ward off a villainous foreign competitor for his lady love.
Film9.0DramA Prokurist in a bank is suspected of murdering her boss and refuses to take the stand in her defense, because she believes she has to cover for the boss' nephew.
Film7.5KomediGabriele Bordersen, a woman from a good home, wants to see what real life is like among the common folk. With her stewardess Fanny Flint and the tour guide Simikry, she goes off to visit a sailors' bar. Fanny and Gabriele change clothes, which allows the stewardess to introduce herself as a fine lady. When Gabriele asks Fanny to leave with her, Fanny begs her to give her an hour more out of fear of embarrassment. Gabriele, however, is thrown out of the bar by the owner without money and papers; is picked up by the cops; and suffers a nervous breakdown, leading to her being sent to a hospital. No one believes in the slightest that she's really Gabriele Brodersen.
Gabriele eins, zwei, drei
1937 · 2 votes
- Film10.0RomantikMüzik
Film5.9DramA biographical film of Otto von Bismarck, the Prime Minister of Prussia, and how he and his policies - including aggressive war - helped to unite Germany.
Bismarck
1940 · 8 votes
- Film7.0
During a performance of Calderón's "The Judge of Zalamea," a young actor encounters his famous older colleague, whose daughter committed suicide years ago after he seduced and abandoned her. The older man finds the strength to reconcile when he is convinced of his adversary's remorse and inner transformation.
Der große Schatten
1942 · 1 votes
Film6.0KomediHotel tycoon Paulsen re-meets an old flame who mistakes him for a waiter. Paulsen's daughter Toni likes hotelier Reno and accepts to work for him as a waitress and chambermaid because she wants to be loved for herself, not her money.
- Film8.0Komedi
Teresa is a young, always cheerful woman, who has a harmonious marriage with the writer Peter Duhren. Unfortunately, it’s so harmonious, that he’s uncapable of writing a novel. So he decides instead to write a book about his own marriage. Teresa is so horrified about this indiscretion, that she asks for a divorce. Peter is prepared to withdraw the book from circulation to save his marriage, but when he finally is about to do so, it becomes a bestseller. Despite attempts at reconciliation, Teresa leaves his. So much for the alleged ‘harmonious’ marriage.
Film6.3DramMüzikWarsaw 1831: The young music student Frédéric Chopin falls in love with the singer Constantia. When his professor learns that Polish revolutionaries want to persuade Chopin to take part in their uprising, he and Constantia hatch a plan to keep Chopin away from the revolution: Constantia pretends that she no longer loves him, so that Chopin accepts an offer to go to a concert in Paris. There, however, he meets the famous writer George Sand and falls in love with her.
- Film8.0
The cousin of an ugly duckling, during a search for missing documents, brings out her hidden charm and falls in love with her.
- Film7.0Dram
A WWI veteran comes home and with a scientist's help opens an artificial silk factory later used for clothing. Crooked international profiteers ,a lawyer and a banker, threaten the profitability of the concern and the workers' jobs.
Am seidenen Faden
1938 · 1 votes
Film10.0DramMelodrama about an entrepreneur and his family.
Film7.0DramThis film tells the story of the fictional Dr Barnay and recounts his experience of the First World War. He works as a doctor in a military hospital and has always been committed to bringing about the end of war. When his wife dies in an air raid, he spends all of his time working on an anti-war invention to distract himself, and in the process neglects his new wife and his child. When the child is killed in an accident because of his machinery, he ends up pushing away his wife and best friend and focusing solely on his invention. In the end he sees the error of his ways, reconciles with his wife and friend and realizes that peace for humanity is something which comes from within.
Kämpfende Gewalten oder Welt ohne Krieg
1920 · 1 votes