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Paul Wegener

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Paul Wegener was a German actor known for his pioneering roles in Expressionist films. He can also be considered a father of horror for his breakout role in The Student of Prague (1913). Wegener maintained a career throughout and after the Nazi era, starring in his last film in 1948.

11-12-1874

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Sagittarius

Zodiac Sign

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64

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Arnoldsdorf, West Prussia, Germany [now Jarantowice, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland]

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64 Works

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30 Works

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FASCISM(s): A Film in Six Parts

FASCISM(s): A Film in Six Parts

Six sequences about Fascism and its segments throughout history.
0.0

Year:

2025

Eyes of Love

Eyes of Love

6.0

Year:

1951

Kolberg

Kolberg

During Napoleon's victorious campaign in Germany, the city of Kolberg gets isolated from the retreating Prussian forces. The population of Kolberg refuses to capitulate and organizes the resistance against the French army, which immediately submits the city to massive bombardments.
6.5

Year:

1945

The Molander Case

The Molander Case

0.0

Year:

1945

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

A man of mystery known only as Doctor Terror recounts seven stories from his casebook of personal encounters with evil and the supernatural.
8.0

Year:

1943

Diesel

Diesel

6.1

Year:

1943

Wenn die Sonne wieder scheint

Wenn die Sonne wieder scheint

The Termoehlens belong to the old farming class in Flanders. Their estate does well and their flax is the best far and wide. And as is the custom, old Termoehlen is like a ruler over his family, the servants and the maidens. Even his son Ludwig, who has just returned from agricultural school with all his ideas on how to improve the farm, doesn’t stand a chance. When Ludwig falls in love with the maiden Rieneke – known as Schellebelle – his father become a despotic enemy.
7.5

Year:

1943

The Great King

The Great King

King Frederick II (aka "Frederick the Great") of Prussia is engaged in a major battle against the Austrian army at Kunersdorf, and things aren't going well. The Austrians are inflicting major casualties, and his army is beginning to crumble. Defeat seems inevitable when a combination of events gives him hope that he may pull victory from the jaws of defeat after all.
6.9

Year:

1942

My Life for Ireland

My Life for Ireland

A Nazi propaganda movie from 1941 directed by Max W. Kimmich, covering a story of Irish heroism and martyrdom over two generations under the occupation of the British.
6.2

Year:

1941

Zwielicht

Zwielicht

6.0

Year:

1940

The Immortal Heart

The Immortal Heart

Nuremberg durting the time of Albrecht Durer and the famous geographer Martin Behaim: the locksmith Peter Henlein is looking for a way to make bullets more accurate by designing a new form. Just as he welds together two round balls into an elongated shape, he believes he's discovered that his assistant Konrad is trying to alienate his wife from him. There is a struggle, during which Henlein's new kind of bullet strikes him in the chest. The doctor, unaware that there are two bullets lodged in his body, because there was only one shot, only removes one.
6.5

Year:

1939

Stärker als die Liebe

Stärker als die Liebe

1938 German film.
0.0

Year:

1938

Der Mann mit der Pranke

Der Mann mit der Pranke

"The Man with the Paw" is what people call the very successful banker Wiegant, who is desperately in love with Lena Kroning, the wife of the lawyer Hugo Kroning. So as to be nearer to her, Wiegant hires her husband to be the bank's lawyer. Shortly thereafter, Wiegant is suspected of having conned the Countess Steindorff during a telephone conversation; but he never did. During the relevant period of time, he was with Lena "having tea" (uh huh), which he conceals from the lawyer-husband, so as to protect Lena.
5.0

Year:

1935

Only a Comedian

Only a Comedian

A moving actor at the rococo era shows the power-hungry-crude minister of a small state prince in the barriers, while he makes use of his resemblance to the sovereign and slips in his role. - Double role for Rudolf Forster who plays his figures very much chilly.
6.5

Year:

1935

A Man Wants to Get to Germany

A Man Wants to Get to Germany

On the eve of the Great War, an expatriate German working in Latin America learns that the Fatherland is in peril, and risks various obstacles to get back to Europe to join the ranks of fighting men.
4.8

Year:

1934

Inge and the Millions

Inge and the Millions

A well scripted and captivating thriller about the owners of a small private bank in Berlin, squeezing money out of honest business firms, causing their bankruptcies, and then trying to smuggle the cash into Switzerland.
0.0

Year:

1933

Hans Westmar

Hans Westmar

Nazi film about the story of a Nazi Storm Trooper named Horst Wessel--here called "Hans Westmar"--who took part in street brawls and assassinations in Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s against Communists and other opponents of the Nazis, and was killed by Communists not long before this film came out.
5.1

Year:

1933

Marshal Forward

Marshal Forward

0.0

Year:

1932

The Mystery of Johann Orth

The Mystery of Johann Orth

A Hapsburg archduke in the 1880s gives up his title, changes his name, marries a Viennese actress, and then disappears with her on a South American ocean voyage.
0.0

Year:

1932

The Living Dead

The Living Dead

A crazed scientist murders his wife, walls her up, then flees. A reporter sets out to track him down. Remake of Unheimliche Geschichten (Richard Oswald, 1919).
5.8

Year:

1932

Fundvogel

Fundvogel

Young Jan Bergwall visits his grandmother, the so-called centenary, at Woyland Castle. There he meets his cousin Andrea, who everyone calls "Fundvogel". Jan is fascinated by the young girl's beauty, and soon there is an erotic tension in the air between the two. Although they both have strong feelings for each other, they are afraid to make a commitment, even though their domineering grandmother is determined that they marry. Panicked that he might feel obliged to marry Andrea, Jan escapes from this place. Andrea is deeply disappointed and seeks revenge. Out of spite, she becomes involved with the falconer Bartel and is later raped in a wooden hut. The centigress, concerned about morals and customs, then sends Fundvogel to a convent. She escapes from there and flees into the arms of Jan. When he learns from a letter from the countess what has happened to Andrea, he leaves her a second time. In her despair, Fundvogel then throws herself off a bridge into the floods with suicidal intent.
0.0

Year:

1930

A Daughter Of Destiny

A Daughter Of Destiny

Hanns Heinz Ewers' grim science-fiction novel Alraune has already been filmed twice when this version was assembled in 1928. In another of his "mad doctor" roles, Paul Wegener plays Professor Brinken, sociopathic scientist who combines the genes of an executed murderer with those of a prostitute. The result is a beautiful young woman named Alraune (Brigitte Helm), who is incapable of feeling any real emotions -- least of all guilt or regret. Upon attaining adulthood, Alraune sets about to seduce and destroy every male who crosses her path. Ultimately, Professor Brinken is hoist on his own petard when he falls hopelessly in love with Alraune himself. Alraune was remade in 1930, with Brigitte Helm repeating her role, and again in 1951, with Hildegarde Knef as the "heroine" and Erich von Stroheim as her misguided mentor.
6.4

Year:

1928

The Strange Case of Captain Ramper

The Strange Case of Captain Ramper

Paul Wegener gives one of his most active performances here as Captain Ramper, a heroic aviator who makes a pioneering flight across the Arctic accompanied only by Ippling, his faithful mechanic (Kurt Gerron). Near the North Pole, their plane develops engine failure and crashes in the desolate wastes. Ippling dies straight off but Ramper finds a supply base containing food which has been left behind by a previous expedition. After fifteen years in the Arctic wastes, Ramper has considerably mutated.
4.0

Year:

1928

Die Welt ohne Waffen

Die Welt ohne Waffen

An engineer develops a device that will disarm any electrically power device, in an attempt to prevent armed conflicts.
0.0

Year:

1927

Svengali

Svengali

The hypnotist Svengali makes an artist's model sing, but cannot force her love.
0.0

Year:

1927

Arme kleine Sif

Arme kleine Sif

0.0

Year:

1927

The Weavers

The Weavers

Die Weber (1927), a rousing German tale of the 1844 weavers’ revolution.
8.0

Year:

1927

Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen

Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen

Balzac adaptation: Escaped convict moves into a brothel where he becomes father to a boy. But his advantageous position is eventually threatened by one of the whores who has fallen in love with the convict's grown up son.
0.0

Year:

1927

Dagfin

Dagfin

0.0

Year:

1926

The Magician

The Magician

A young woman, Margaret Dauncey, is caught between the forces of a charlatan magician, Oliver Haddo, whom she is unable to resist, and the love of a handsome surgeon, Arthur Burdon, who has saved her from being a helpless cripple by performing a delicate operation on her spine.
6.3

Year:

1926

Der Mann aus dem Jenseits

Der Mann aus dem Jenseits

Film by Manfred Noa.
0.0

Year:

1926

Living Buddhas

Living Buddhas

0.0

Year:

1925

The Film in the Film

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.
7.5

Year:

1924

Das Liebesnest

Das Liebesnest

0.0

Year:

1922

Monna Vanna

Monna Vanna

0.0

Year:

1922

Herzog Ferrantes Ende

Herzog Ferrantes Ende

In medieval Italy, a group of men plot to kill a cruel and despotic duke.
0.0

Year:

1922

Lucrezia Borgia

Lucrezia Borgia

Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, has three adult children: Juan, who is virtuous and has a sweetheart who is a woman of the people, Lucrezia, who is virtuous and wants to marry Alfonso, and Cesare, who is wicked and lusts after Lucrezia, Juan's girlfriend, and probably others. Cesare has vowed to kill any suitor for Lucrezia's love, and he has three thugs to carry out his wishes. Bodies fall into the Tiber, into the Colosseum (with lions prowling), and onto the Vatican floors.
4.4

Year:

1922

Vanina

Vanina

Vanina loves rebel leader Octavio, who gets caught. He gets a pardon and marries Vanina. When he is captured again, Vanina helps him to escape prison. They are both caught, and after his execution she dies from grief.
5.2

Year:

1922

The Loves of Pharaoh

The Loves of Pharaoh

The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries.
6.6

Year:

1922

Roswolsky's Mistress

Roswolsky's Mistress

Mia Verhag loses her job as a chorus singer when she rejects the advances of the theatre director. While she is in the grips of despair, she encounters the millionaire Roswolsky, who takes her to his luxurious house and gives her a key to the garden gate, allowing her to visit the surrounding park whenever she pleases. This chance meeting sends rumours flying everywhere, and soon Mia appears on the front pages of all the newspapers as Roswolsky’s mistress. The city’s merchants and creditors compete to lend her money, and she lands the leading role in the theatre’s new production. There, she falls in love with Count Albich – but, believing the rumours, he avoids her. Mia follows him to Monte Carlo, while Roswolsky himself falls genuinely in love with her and plots to take Albich out of the running. A grand drama is set to unfold.
0.0

Year:

1921

Der verlorene Schatten

Der verlorene Schatten

A man sells his shadow to gain success and fame but soon suffers the terrible consequences of that deal.
0.0

Year:

1921

Steuermann Holk

Steuermann Holk

0.0

Year:

1920

The Golem: How He Came Into the World

The Golem: How He Came Into the World

In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.
7.0

Year:

1920

Sumurun

Sumurun

The favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a hunchback clown suffers unrequited love for a traveling dancer who wants to join the harem.
6.0

Year:

1920

Figures of the Night

Figures of the Night

"Night people". Thomas Bezug, the richest man in the world, is a solitary, domineering and cruel cripple, who hardly can move on his crutches. He dwells a fanatical love for his son, whom he holds like a monkey in a cage. His servants are defaced dwarfs. His secretary is trying to steal Bezugs assets. These are the night people.
0.0

Year:

1920

Madame DuBarry

Madame DuBarry

The story of Madame du Barry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
6.4

Year:

1919

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

A traveler comes into a town overrun with rats and vermin. He promises to free the place of the pests and names his price. When the townspeople refuse to pay him after he has done what he promised, he plays his tune again with consequences. This film survives in incomplete/fragmentary form.
6.0

Year:

1918

Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty

An adaptation of the famous fairy tale.
5.0

Year:

1917

Hans Trutz in the Land of Milk and Honey

Hans Trutz in the Land of Milk and Honey

A stylized fairy tale in which a farmer sells his soul to Satan in exchange for prosperity.
0.0

Year:

1917

The Golem and the Dancing Girl

The Golem and the Dancing Girl

As a practical joke, an actor impersonates the screen monster he made famous. A lost film.
5.5

Year:

1917

The Yoghi

The Yoghi

An Indian mystic uses his power of invisibility to scare a young inventor.
0.0

Year:

1916

Rübezahl's Wedding

Rübezahl's Wedding

In this film, the people of a Tyrolean town climb up into the nearby mountains, searching for a place where they can hold a picnic and a spring festival: ideally, a place where they can eventually erect dwellings and cultivate crops. Led by the local nobleman (Arthur Ehrens), they find an appropriate spot, and the festivities begin. Some children briefly perform a charming folk dance. Suddenly the Rübezahl arrives and threatens to kill all the townsfolk if they don't leave immediately.
5.0

Year:

1916

The Golem

The Golem

This mostly lost film is often confused with director Paul Wegener third and readily available interpretation of the legend; Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam (1920). In this version of the golem legend, the golem, a clay statue brought to life by Rabbi Loew in 16th century Prague to save the Jews from the ongoing brutal persecution by the city's rulers, is found in the rubble of an old synagogue in the 20th century. Brought to life by an antique dealer, the golem is used as a menial servant. Eventually falling in love with the dealer's wife, it goes on a murderous rampage when its love for her goes unanswered.
6.7

Year:

1915

Evinrude

Evinrude

0.0

Year:

1914

The Student of Prague

The Student of Prague

Prague, Bohemia, 1820. Balduin, a penniless student, falls in love with Countess Margit, a wealthy noblewoman whom he has saved from drowning.
6.0

Year:

1913