07-01-1890
Birthday
Capricorn
Zodiac Sign
-
Genres
102
Total Films
Frieda Ulricke Porten
Also known as (female)
Magdeburg, Germany
Place of Birth
07-01-1890
Birthday
Capricorn
Zodiac Sign
-
Genres
102
Total Films
Frieda Ulricke Porten
Also Known As (female)
Magdeburg, Germany
Place of Birth
actor
102 Works
producer
7 Works
director
9 Works
writer
1 Works
other
1 Works
Lyrical Nitrate
Compilation of film clips from 1905-1915, found footage of silent movies and documentaries from the Jean Desmet Archive of the Netherlands Film Museum. Jean Desmet was one of the first Dutch film distributors. Lyrisch nitraat is a tribute to the craftsmanship of early filmmakers, but also shows the brittleness of old nitrate films. Composed as an opera about love and death, set to music by Bizet, Masek and Puccini.Year:
1991
The Young Woman of Scuderi
Several men have been murdered lately, mostly rich lovers on their way to meet their mistresses with gifts of fine jewelry. To fight this scourge, King Louis XIV decides to create a special court named "La chambre ardente", designed to find and punish the perpetrators of such heinous crimes. An unexpected person, Mademoiselle de Scudéry, the famous poetess, will find herself entangled in the web of a criminal intrigue linked with the jewel murders, along with a a goldsmith, his daughter and her fiancé...Year:
1955
Carola Lamberti
Carola has been running the family-owned circus alone since her husband’s death, but she suddenly finds herself at odds with her three adult sons who are also performance artists and want to have a say in how the business is run. The family discord leads Carola to turn her back on the circus, leaving the three inexperienced sons in charge. This turn of events forces the family to learn to work together or face bankruptcy.Year:
1954
Unknown Sender
Year:
1950
Neigungsehe
Year:
1944
Familie Buchholz
Year:
1944
When the Young Wine Blossoms
An interfering mother plans husbands for her three daughters as they come of marriageable age. However she pays no attention to her daughters own feeling until the eventual intervention of her husband manages to bring things to a happy conclusion.Year:
1943
Symphonie eines Lebens
Year:
1943
The Comedians
Although she is known as a patron of the arts, a graceful duchess nevertheless refuses her nephew to marry an enterprising actress in this German melodrama starring Kathe Dorsch and silent screen legend Henny Porten. When Philine (Hilde Krahl), the troupe's ingénue, is rejected as proper marital material by the Duchess of Weissenfels (Porten), Karoline Neuber (Dorsch) creates such a furor that she is banished from the country. A performance at the court at St. Petersburg also ends in disaster for the unhappy actress and abandoned by all, Karoline dies a suicide.Year:
1941
War es der im 3. Stock?
Year:
1939
Der Optimist
Year:
1938
Trouble Backstairs
Year:
1935
Mother and Child
Consul Petersen and his wife are desperate, because they lost their only child and can’t have another. At the same time, the maid Anna is expecting a child, whose father, Jurgen, works in a sawmill. When both of them lose their jobs, they fear they won’t be able to feed the newborn. Thus, they strike a deal with the Petersens, which works for both couples: Anna and Jurgen will receive a farm from the Petersens, free and clear; and the two will allow the Petersens to adopt the child. Anna and Jurgen marry and are quite happy; but when the child is finally born, Anna doesn’t wish to surrender him and flees with the child into the Wattenmeer.Year:
1934
Luise, Queen of Prussia
Vehicle for one of the Weimar era's most beloved actresses: as the popular Prussian queen in 1806-1807, she presides over the humiliating Peace of Tilsit which Napoleon forces on the defeated Germans.Year:
1931
24 Hours of a Woman's Life
After the tragic death from malaria of her beloved husband his rich widow Helga Vanroh travels restlessly around various Mediterranean countries. In the luxurious surroundings of a hotel in Monte Carlo Mrs. Vanroh keeps apart from society, until one evening she decides to visit the casino. There a young man attracts her curiosity and compassion.Year:
1931
Gretel and Liesel
Remake of an Ernst Lubitsch silent comedy about a farm boy who is fond of two sisters, one of whom is beautiful, the other, not so much.Year:
1930
Scandalous Eva
An engaged woman discovers her fiancé has a four year old son. Pretending to take a cure she travels to the boy's foster-parents to make his acquaintance.Year:
1930
The Mistress and Her Servant
Year:
1929
Mutterliebe
Year:
1929
Die Frau, die jeder liebt, bist du!
Year:
1929
Liebfraumilch
Fragment of "Our Lady's Milk" (Liebfraumilch German wine)Year:
1929
Liebe im Kuhstall
An impoverished nobleman would rather chase after the local milkmaid than seek a wealthy match, to the chagrin of his family.Year:
1928
Refuge
After eight years in exile Martin returns to Berlin. He was involved in the German Revolution of 1918/1919 and had to leave the country as a result. Impoverished and lonely, he struggles on alone until the market saleswoman Hanne offers him shelter, although she does not have much money either. They fall in love and Martin even finds work on the construction site for the subway through Tempelhofer Feld. One day, however, he collapses there, whereupon the pregnant Hanne tries to nurse him back to health.Year:
1928
Lotte
Year:
1928
Die Hotelratte
Year:
1928
Violantha
Year:
1928
The Long Intermission
Year:
1927
Meine Tante - deine Tante
Year:
1927
Die Flammen lügen
Year:
1926
Rosen aus dem Süden
Year:
1926
Wehe wenn sie losgelassen
Year:
1926
Tragödie
Year:
1925
Das Abenteuer der Sybille Brant
Year:
1925
Das goldene Kalb
Year:
1925
Kammermusik
Year:
1925
Prater
Year:
1924
Countess Donelli
A lost film.Year:
1924
Mother and Child
Year:
1924
The Film in the Film
The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors of the era at work on the set including Fritz Lang, Robert Wiene, and E.A. Dupont.Year:
1924
Inge Larsen
Year:
1924
Das Geheimnis von Brinkenhof
After the family estate is destroyed by fire, Maria rebuilds the farm and leads it to renewed economic success through hard work and discipline. But one day Jasper, her deceased father's brother, returns from America and wants to take over the estate. Although Maria can count on the support of her employees and the villagers, there is a dark secret in her past that Jaspar knows about and wants to use to blackmail the young woman.Year:
1923
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 anarchist jailed for an attempted assassination is told the Passion story by the prison chaplain.Year:
1923
The Ancient Law
Baruch Mayer, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the family tradition and leave the shtetl to become an actor.Year:
1923
The Jew of Mestri
The film "Der Kaufmann von Venedig" ( The Jew Of Mestri ) was written, produced and directed by Peter Paul Felner in the silent year of 1923 and is a free adaptation of "Merchant of Venice" written by Herr William Shakespeare. It is an elegant and expensive German film production that was shot on location in beautiful and decadent Venice with some of the most important Teutonic actors of the time: Henny Porten, Harry Liedtke und Werner Krauss and even the mysterious Max Schreck.Year:
1923
Die Liebe einer Königin
In 1766, the young English princess Caroline Mathilde is sent to Denmark to marry the King Christian VII. The marriage is unhappy and Caroline Mathilde finds herself drawn instead to court physician Johann Friedrich Struensee.Year:
1923
She and the Three
Year:
1922
Frauenopfer
An old count has been keeping an eye on the granddaughter of his lock-keeper for quite some time. But the young Maria is in love with the young painter Walter, who is only moderately gifted as an artist. The two marry and become parents of a child. However, the count does not want to let go of his desire for Mary and now chooses another way to gain her favor. Author: Ulf Kjell GürYear:
1922
Backstairs
In a poor neighborhood of a big city, a crippled mailman is in love with a maid who lives in his building. However, she is in love with a wealthy and handsome young man, who soon disappears. The mailman provides the maid with letters that get her hopes up... but tragedy will soon befall all three.Year:
1921
Die Geierwally
"The Bear Joseph", so named because of a fight with a bear, is rescued by Wally, a farmer's daughter, from a dangerous situation in a vulture's nest. He then calls her "Geierwally". They fall in love. Wally's father disapproves of this romance. He has other plans for Wally.Year:
1921
Anna Boleyn
The story of the ill-fated second wife of the English king Henry VIII, whose marriage to the Henry led to momentous political and religious turmoil in England.Year:
1920
Die goldene Krone
Year:
1920
Kohlhiesel's Daughters
Somewhere in Southern Bavaria Xaver wants to marry Gretel, but her father Kohlhiesel wants his elder daughter Liesel to marry first. The problem is, nobody wants to marry her, because she is too brutal. Seppel suggests, that he should marry Liesel first, get rid of her and then he can marry Gretel...Year:
1920
Monika Vogelsang
Year:
1920
Die Fahrt ins Blaue
Year:
1919
Rose Bernd
An adaptation of the Gerhart Hauptmann play of the same name. A young farmer's daughter is used and abused by the men in her life.Year:
1919
Die beiden Gatten der Frau Ruth
A young academic decides to accept guardianship of the daughter of a late friend. Expecting her to be a young child, the household is shocked to find out she is in fact a young woman. The two marry but more miscommunications cause troubles in their relationship.Year:
1919
Die Schuld
An art student in love with her instructor poses for his sculpture. She leaves him and the world of art when she finds out he is married. The statue, created with purpose of symbolizing guilt, comes back to haunt her.Year:
1919
Her Sport
Her Sport is a 1919 German silent comedy film directed by Rudolf Biebrach and starring Henny Porten, Georg H. Schnell and Hermann Thimig. A man-hating young woman tries to break up her friend's new marriage, but while in the Alps she meets her own ideal man.Year:
1919
Irrungen
Year:
1919
Die Dame, der Teufel und die Probiermamsell
Year:
1918
Die blaue Laterne
Based on a novel by Paul Lindau.Year:
1918
Die Heimkehr des Odysseus
Year:
1918
Die Sieger
Year:
1918
Das Maskenfest des Lebens
Year:
1918
Agnes Arnau und ihre drei Freier
Two rich men decide that their son and daughter will marry when they're grown. Now, as adults, the fathers decide the two should meet. It doesn't go quite as planned due to the mischievous ways of the daughter.Year:
1918
Das Geschlecht derer von Ringwall
Year:
1918
Auf Probe gestellt
Countess Marlene, a young and impoverished widow, is set to marry an old and wealthy count when she falls for a painter.Year:
1918
Countess Kitchenmaid
Henny Porten plays the dual role of a rather indecorous Countess and her kitchen maid Karoline Blum, an amateur actress.Year:
1918
The Giant's Fist
A farmer's wife decides to take her children and leave her gambling addict husband.Year:
1917
Die Claudi vom Geiserhof
Year:
1917
Hann, Hein und Henny
Short film produced by Messter-Film for the Seventh War Bond drive.Year:
1917
Gefangene Seele
Year:
1917
Die Prinzessin von Neutralien
Billionaire's daughter Ethel Vandergolt has rejected so many lovers that they set up a club to get revenge on her.Year:
1917
Christa Hartungen
Year:
1917
Der Liebesbrief der Königin
a silent movie by Robert WieneYear:
1917
Die Ehe der Luise Rohrbach
Year:
1917
Der wandernde Blumentopf
a silent movie by Rober WieneYear:
1916
The Robber Bride
a silent movie by Robert WieneYear:
1916
Das wandernde Licht
a silent movie by Robert WieneYear:
1916
Abseits vom Glück
Year:
1916
Der Schirm mit dem Schwan
Year:
1916
Das große Schweigen
A patient with chronic anemia marries her doctor, but falls in love with his colleague.Year:
1916
Das Ende vom Liede
Year:
1915
Alexandra
Alessandra, illegitimate daughter of a count, is raised in a circus. Everyone would like her to marry Anton, a rough gamekeeper, but she escapes helped by Count Erwin. The young girl falls in love with her savior but he has no serious intentions.Year:
1915
Nordlandrose
Year:
1914
Ein Mädchen zu verschenken
Year:
1913
Komtesse Ursel
A German dramaYear:
1913
Eva
Year:
1913
The Minister's Daughter
Klara and her father have been alone since her mother died. Her close friend Hans leaves for the military, and on returning as a fine young man, rushes to see Klara. As their families work to keep them apart, their love grows stronger and stronger.Year:
1913
Erloschenes Licht
Year:
1913
Schatten des Lebens
Year:
1912
Maskierte Liebe
Year:
1912
Adressatin verstorben
A production company holds a public competition for film ideas. The winning letter tells of a young woman's lost love in the 1840's. It is, in fact, the true story of a now elderly woman's life.Year:
1912
Specter of the Sea
In the form of a shadow, Death emerges from the sea and convinces an unhappy woman to commit suicide by returning to the sea with him.Year:
1912
Outlawed
Year:
1911
Mütter, verzaget nicht
Year:
1911
Das Liebesglück der Blinden
A blind patient and her doctor fall in love, but the doctor fears that she will no longer love him if her sight is restored.Year:
1911
Forget About Luck
Year:
1911
Andreas Hofer
First feature film produced by the German pioneer Oskar MessterYear:
1909
Meißner Porzellan
Two statues come to live and start to sing.Year:
1906
Apachentanz
Year:
1906
Vater ist im Kriege
Year:
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