Rudolf Klein-Rogge
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1885-11-24
Locus Natus: Cologne, Germany
Et ut: Friedrich Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Metropolis
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a...
release : 1927.02.06popularis : 42.007
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend...
release : 1920.02.27popularis : 19.139
Giorgio Moroder's Metropolis
In 1984, Academy Award winning composer Giorgio Moroder introduced Fritz Lang’s science fiction epic Metropolis to a new generation of...
release : 1984.08.10popularis : 3.232
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professor's preoccupation with another...
release : 1933.04.21popularis : 15.88
Destiny
As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and is sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall....
release : 1921.10.06popularis : 8.018
The Heart of a Queen
As the title "The Queen's Heart" suggests, this early German black and white version of Mary Queen of Scott's eventful reign and death focuses on her...
release : 1940.11.01popularis : 1.875
Menschen vom Varieté
In a cosmopolitan city vaudeville theatre, meeting place of the most successful artistes, the art shooter gets in suspicion to have committed a...
release : 1939.04.14popularis : 2.885
Warning Shadows
During a dinner given by a wealthy baron and his wife, attended by four of her suitors in a 19th century German manor, a shadow-player rescues the...
release : 1923.10.16popularis : 3.332
Spies
The mastermind behind a ubiquitous spy operation learns of a dangerous romance between a Russian lady in his employ and a dashing agent from the...
release : 1928.03.22popularis : 8.936
Der Film von der Königin Luise - 2. Abteilung: Aus Preußens schwerer Zeit
French revolutionaries had swept into Prussia to wreak havoc, and now Napoleon marches in to inflict sad defeats on the Queen's troops, in the...
release : 1913.02.21popularis : 0.348
Der Film von der Königin Luise - 1. Abteilung: Die Märtyrerin auf dem Königsthron
In this three part recreation of the life of Queen Louise of Prussia specific historical moments ,such as her meeting her future spouse, are...
release : 1913.03.24popularis : 1.228
The Wandering Image
When Irmgard becomes pregnant of Georg, a free love disciple, she decides, for the sake of her child, to pretend they are married. The secret plan is...
release : 1920.12.25popularis : 4.414
Tingel Tangel
Feature film directed by Gustav Ucicky
release : 1927.10.21popularis : 0.937
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler: Part 1 – The Great Gambler
Doctor Mabuse is a criminal mastermind, doctor of psychology, and master of disguise, armed with the powers of hypnosis and mind control, who...
release : 1922.04.27popularis : 2.56
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler: Part 2 – Inferno
As the police intensify their bemusing search on Doctor Mabuse's notorious band of gangsters, the deceptive, elusive hypnotist Mabuse simultaneously...
release : 1922.05.26popularis : 3.699
Tarakanova
Tarakanova is a 1930 French historical drama film directed by Raymond Bernard and starring Édith Jéhanne, Paule Andral and Olaf Fjord....
release : 1930.03.18popularis : 1.099
The Court Concert
Before he became cult director Douglas Sirk, Detlef Sierck cut his teeth on such lavish European star vehicles as Das Hofkonzert (The Court Concert)....
release : 1936.12.18popularis : 2.54
Der Ammenkönig
Rather coarse, pre-War comedy about a Markgraf -- Heinrich XXVI -- who bathes in the springs of the Ammendorf to strengthen his potency. The town...
release : 1935.12.05popularis : 0.932
Madame Bovary
A drama film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht.
release : 1937.04.22popularis : 2.523
Die göttliche Jette
Cheeky Jette is a typical Berlin girl. Together with her mother, she performs couplets in a Berlin suburb theatre every night. Then, a young Austrian...
release : 1937.03.18popularis : 0.854
Moral
The double standards of a social class, which pontificates with big words what is proper and improper in the world of morality, while in its heart...
release : 1936.08.02popularis : 2.004
Die Stunde der Versuchung
Irene is unhappy because her lawyer husband Dr. Leuttern never has time for her. Womanizer Mac Norris slyly benefits from her depression and lures...
release : 1936.09.28popularis : 1.249
Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes
Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his district and no one is able to do anything about it....
release : 1939.12.30popularis : 3.151
Truxa
The famous tightrope artist Truxa is drinking at the Artisan bar in New York. He meets a young man, Husen, and gives him his stage name Truxa. He is...
release : 1937.01.19popularis : 1.307
Fighting the White Slave Traffic
A young woman in Berlin is offered a job at a night club in Budapest. There she is abducted and brought to a brothel in Athens.
release : 1927.01.01popularis : 2.852
Witches
A horror and heimatfilm directed by Hans Schott-Schöbinger.
release : 1949.04.08popularis : 2.021
Elisabeth und der Narr
Elisabeth is subject of a girl's boarding school run by the nuns. The village idiot Michele adores her and is particularly drawn to her organ...
release : 1934.01.24popularis : 4.003
The Stone Rider
In a distant Teutonic village, people dance and drink merrily celebrating a wedding feast. However, an elderly man tells the villagers that the...
release : 1923.03.31popularis : 2.197
The Making of a King
The story of the stormy relationship between King Friedrich Wilhelm and his son, who later became known as King Frederick the Great of Prussia.
release : 1935.01.02popularis : 2.072
The Sovereign
Der Herrscher (The Sovereign) was based on Before Sunset, a play by Gerhart Hauptmann. The great Emil Jannings stars as Mathias Clausen, a self-made...
release : 1937.03.17popularis : 0.711
The Emperor of California
The film follows the life story of Johann Augustus Suter, the owner of Sutter's Mill, famous as the birthplace of the great California Gold Rush of...
release : 1936.07.20popularis : 2.031
Mädchenschicksale
About exciting and everyday stories and dreams in the life of young and inexperienced girls.
release : 1928.08.08popularis : 0.956
Kennwort Machin
The cashier, Jürgen Borb, has already worked for 10 years at Dadag in Hamburg and is an example for customer service and company loyalty. His...
release : 1939.10.30popularis : 2.105
Parkstrasse 13
The beautiful Evelyne Schratt, who has many admirerers, and whose two husbands both died under mysterious circumstances, is giving a reception. When...
release : 1939.05.03popularis : 0.644
Das Einmaleins der Liebe
Identities are changed in the Austrian countryside. A simple woman does this to test the affections of a store manager, he too changes character...
release : 1935.09.19popularis : 2.063
Four Around the Woman
Harry Yquem buys his beloved wife some jewelry in a place where underworld middlemen trade in fake and stolen goods. By chance, he spots a man with...
release : 1921.02.03popularis : 2.041
Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge
When Kriemhild, thirsty for revenge, marries to Etzel, king of the Huns, she invites King Gunther and his court to visit them, intending to finally...
release : 1924.04.26popularis : 7.126
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried
Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, travels to Worms, capital of the Burgundian kingdom, to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the...
release : 1924.02.14popularis : 9.983
Loves of Casanova
Republic of Venice, 1760. Pursued by a vengeful husband, the intrepid womanizer Casanova, who symbolizes the decline of the city and its fall into...
release : 1927.10.08popularis : 1.879
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to...
release : 1922.04.27popularis : 7.405