The Last Laugh
An aging doorman, after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel, is forced to face the scorn...
Acting
Hermann Vallentin (24 May 1872 – 18 September 1945) was a German actor born in Berlin. He was the son of a Jewish timber merchant and factory owner, Felix Vallentin. He was the older brother of actress Rosa Valetti. After training as an actor at the Royal Theatre in Berlin with Max Grube and Hans Oberländer, he received his first engagement at the Central-Theatre in Berlin in the 1895/96 season. In the next few years, appearances on various Berlin stages followed.
From 1914, Vallentin was also a film actor. He mostly embodied fatherly figures, patriarchs and directors, but also small-minded philistines. In the 1931 film version of Der Hauptmann von Köpenick, he played the uniform tailor Adolph Wormser.
The seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933, ended his film career abruptly. In 1933 Vallentin, emigrated to Czechoslovakia, where he appeared on German language stages in Ústí and Prague. In 1938 he left for Switzerland and worked at the Stadttheater Basel and the Schauspielhaus Zürich. In 1939 he emigrated to Mandatory Palestine and settled in Tel Aviv. Not being able to speak Hebrew, he retired from acting altogether. In Tel Aviv, he lectured, read poetry and was a sporadic anchorman for German-language news on the Palestine Broadcasting Service (PBS). He died in Tel Aviv in 1945, aged 73.
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An aging doorman, after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel, is forced to face the scorn...
As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and is sequestered behin...
The likeable and carefree Grand Duke of Abacco is in dire straits. There is no money left to service the State'...
The sinister Count Oetsch scandalizes the aristocratic social gathering at Castle Vogelod as he announces his i...
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The gorgeous 40-year-old Elsie Lindtner lives in a beautiful house, and is married to a respectable university...
The life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, during the years leading up to and during the French Revolution...
In 1766, the young English princess Caroline Mathilde is sent to Denmark to marry the King Christian VII. The m...
German silent film about the life of Martin Luther
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German-language version. "Atlantic" is a drama film based on the sinking of the RMS "Titanic" and set aboard a...
Prince Valona has a bit of trouble with his girlfriend Eveline (Olivia Fried), so he's quite open for the attra...
German language version of Two Worlds.
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Four-generation story-saga dealing with the decline of a middle-class Lübeck family. The first adaptation of a...
Only You is a 1930 musical by Hermann Feiner and Willi Wolff starring Fritz Schulz and Walter Janssen.
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In this realistic, unsentimental portrait of Germany’s dire economic situation, a middle-aged payroll clerk los...
The proprietors of a small inn on the Italian coast suddenly have to cater for a company of conscripts on their...
Based on the play Henry IV by Luigi Pirandello. Conrad Veidt plays Count di Nolli, a nobleman who, after a head...
Bill's girlfriend Lore is an art student in Berlin. Since her professor doesn't think much of painting women, s...
A pharaonic tragedy to the content that spans six different eras. In the first episode, the emergence and drama...
After the revelation that Georg has seduced her, Maria is driven away by her father. Georg, fearing the wrath o...
Based on the true story of a cobbler who bought a second-hand captain's uniform, assumed command of a troop of...
Two inspiration sources appear clearly: contemporary American gangster movies and Alfred Döblin’s novel Berlin...
Drama based on a play by Friedrich Wolf. Hete is pregnant, hoping to have a family with her fiancé Paul. When t...
A young woman is abused or abandoned by the men in her life.
In his film version, Curt Goetz shifts the focus away from the poetic output towards the young Friedrich Schill...
Weltbrand is the first part of the two-part silent movie Christian Wahnschaffe.
A mysterious man saves the son of a wealthy couple so they allow him to stay at their place for one night but s...
a silent movie by Heinz Paul