Werner Krauss

Landesschau Baden-Württemberg

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went thro...

Waxworks

A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrib...

Süss, the Jew

Nazi historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer.

Joyless Street

In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to bette...

Variety

Murderer “Boss” Huller—after having spent ten years in prison—breaks his silence to tell the warden his story.

The Film in the Film

The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different perso...

Nana

Count Moffat becomes infatuated with Nana, a presumptuous stage actress, vulgar, hypocritical and promiscuous,...

Secrets of a Soul

Scientist Martin Fellmann is tormented by an irrational fear of knives and the irresistible compulsion to murde...

Universal Horror

A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and...

Jedermann Remixed

Based on archive holdings from nine decades, director Hannes Rossacher has created a complete Jedermann perform...

Paracelsus

The story of the Renaissance-era Swiss physician, alchemist and astrologer Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bomb...

The Student of Prague

For Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the tip of the swo...

I.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity

From the director of Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, this is the Passion embedded in a contemporary story. An anarchis...

Tartuffe

A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's play "Tartuffe" in order to expose the...

The Burning Soil

When farmer Rog dies, his eldest Peter takes over the farm while his youngest Johannes is determined for a bett...

Danton

At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his...

The Treasure

On the surface a straightforward tale of the search for a buried treasure, the film is a textbook example of Ge...

Othello

Based on Shakespeare's play: The treacherous Iago plans to ruin the life of Othello by provoking him to jealous...

The Dismissal

German chancellor Otto von Bismarck promises the dying emperor Wilhelm I. to be loyal to his grandson. But the...

Burg Theatre

In this convoluted melodrama, an elderly thespian falls for a rising young starlet. He admits his love for her...

Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes

Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his district and no...

Shattered

The everyday lives of a poverty-stricken railway trackman, his wife and daughter in a remote, isolated house in...

Opium

In China, Professor Gesellius has completed his long research on the many uses of opium. When he is about to re...

The Ancient Law

Baruch Mayer, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the family traditio...

Mazeppa, Folk Hero of the Ukraine

The film tells the story of Ivan Mazeppa, a Ukrainian page at the Polish court who has an affair with the young...

Napoleon at St. Helena

Napoleon at Saint Helena (German: Napoleon auf Sankt Helena) is a 1929 German silent historical film directed b...

Nathan der Weise

Silent movie adaptation of Lessing's play. Set in Jerusalem during the Third Crusade, it describes how the wise...

The Wife's Crusade

A working-class couple with four children live in extreme poverty in a rear building. When the woman becomes pr...

The Unknown Tomorrow

A melodrama about a virtuous wife unjustly abandoned by her husband, who get him back with the help of a Hindu...

The Jew of Mestri

The film "Der Kaufmann von Venedig" ( The Jew Of Mestri ) was written, produced and directed by Peter Paul Feln...

The House of Lies

Adaptation of Ibsen's play Vildanden.

Tales of Hoffmann

This movie, directed by Richard Oswald, is based on the operetta "Les contes de Hoffmann" by Jacques Offenbach...

Sohn ohne Heimat

Lady Hamilton

The married Lady Emma Hamilton has an ill fated romance with Admiral Horatio Nelson.

Yorck

The story of General Yorck von Wartenburg, a commander in the army of Prussian King Wilhelm, who defied the kin...