Acting

Sybille Schmitz

Born December 2, 1909 · Düren, Germany

Died April 13, 1955 · aged 45

Sybille Maria Christina Schmitz (2 December 1909 – 13 April 1955) was a German actress. Schmitz attended an acting school in Cologne and got her first engagement at Max Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater in Berlin in 1927. Only one year later, she made her film debut with Freie Fahrt (1928), which attracted her first attention from critics. Her other early movies include Pabst's Diary of a Lost Girl (…

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Diary of a Lost Girl

Diary of a Lost Girl · 1929

Diary of a Lost Girl

Thymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must fend for herself in a harsh, cruel world.

Ferryman Maria

Ferryman Maria · 1936

MovieThrillerDrama

A beautiful young drifter comes to a small village and battles Death itself to save the man she loves.

Titanic

Titanic · 1943

MovieDramaHistory

In 1912, the Titanic embarks on its inevitable collision course with history. In the wake of the over-spending required to build the largest luxury ship in the world, White Star Line executive Sir Bruce Ismay schemes to reverse the direction of his company's plummeting stock value. Onboard the Titanic, brave German 1st Officer Petersen struggles to convince his self-important British superiors not to overexert the ship's engines.

Accident

Accident · 1928

MovieCrimeDrama

A tense vignette about the fate of an unlucky man in poverty-stricken Weimar-era Germany.

Vampyr

MovieHorrorFantasy

Allan Gray, a young man fascinated by the supernatural, goes to a small village where he feels a sinister force descending upon him. There, Allan meets an old man who asks him to protect his two daughters, for one of them has been bitten by a vampire.

F.P.1 Doesn't Answer

F.P.1 Doesn't Answer · 1932

F.P.1 Doesn't Answer

MovieScience Fiction

F.P.1 is a huge airplane landing dock in the Atlantic where pilots making the transatlantic flight can stop. Yet a saboteur tries to sink the technical wonder in this classic German science fiction film from 1932. The film was also created with English and French speaking actors at the same time.

Farewell Waltz

Farewell Waltz · 1934

MovieDramaMusic

Warsaw 1831: The young music student Frédéric Chopin falls in love with the singer Constantia. When his professor learns that Polish revolutionaries want to persuade Chopin to take part in their uprising, he and Constantia hatch a plan to keep Chopin away from the revolution: Constantia pretends that she no longer loves him, so that Chopin accepts an offer to go to a concert in Paris. There, however, he meets the famous writer George Sand and falls in love with her.

The Stars Shine

The Stars Shine · 1938

The Stars Shine

German all-star musical from 1938 that was a big commercial success.

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Diary of a Lost Girl

Diary of a Lost Girl · 1929

Diary of a Lost Girl

Thymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must fend for herself in a harsh, cruel world.

Elisabeth

Ferryman Maria

Ferryman Maria · 1936

MovieThrillerDrama

A beautiful young drifter comes to a small village and battles Death itself to save the man she loves.

Maria

Titanic

Titanic · 1943

MovieDramaHistory

In 1912, the Titanic embarks on its inevitable collision course with history. In the wake of the over-spending required to build the largest luxury ship in the world, White Star Line executive Sir Bruce Ismay schemes to reverse the direction of his company's plummeting stock value. Onboard the Titanic, brave German 1st Officer Petersen struggles to convince his self-important British superiors not to overexert the ship's engines.

Sigrid Olinsky

Accident

Accident · 1928

MovieCrimeDrama

A tense vignette about the fate of an unlucky man in poverty-stricken Weimar-era Germany.

Vampyr

MovieHorrorFantasy

Allan Gray, a young man fascinated by the supernatural, goes to a small village where he feels a sinister force descending upon him. There, Allan meets an old man who asks him to protect his two daughters, for one of them has been bitten by a vampire.

Léone

F.P.1 Doesn't Answer

F.P.1 Doesn't Answer · 1932

F.P.1 Doesn't Answer

MovieScience Fiction

F.P.1 is a huge airplane landing dock in the Atlantic where pilots making the transatlantic flight can stop. Yet a saboteur tries to sink the technical wonder in this classic German science fiction film from 1932. The film was also created with English and French speaking actors at the same time.

Claire Lennartz

Farewell Waltz

Farewell Waltz · 1934

MovieDramaMusic

Warsaw 1831: The young music student Frédéric Chopin falls in love with the singer Constantia. When his professor learns that Polish revolutionaries want to persuade Chopin to take part in their uprising, he and Constantia hatch a plan to keep Chopin away from the revolution: Constantia pretends that she no longer loves him, so that Chopin accepts an offer to go to a concert in Paris. There, however, he meets the famous writer George Sand and falls in love with her.

George Sand

The Stars Shine

The Stars Shine · 1938

The Stars Shine

German all-star musical from 1938 that was a big commercial success.

Gast

Trenck, der Pandur

Trenck, der Pandur · 1940

Trenck, der Pandur

MovieDramaHistory

Film about the fictitious adventures of Franz Freiherr von Trenck, who lived during the times of empress Maria Theresia of Austria garnished with espionage and twisted love affairs.

Prinzessin Deinartstein

Top Sergeant Schwenke

Top Sergeant Schwenke · 1935

Top Sergeant Schwenke

A pretty girl helps a popular Berlin policeman solve the murders of a woman he knew and the crooked banker the victim worked for.

Erna Zuwade, Stütze bei Wenkstern

Punks Arrives from America

Punks Arrives from America · 1935

Punks Arrives from America

A German who has been away too long in America and has lost all of his money needs to prove himself to his fellow citizens,which he does by foiling the robbery of his uncle and then marrying his sweetheart.

Britta Geistenberg

Die Umwege des schönen Karl

Die Umwege des schönen Karl · 1938

Die Umwege des schönen Karl

Karl Kramer is a waiter in a beach hotel on the Baltic Sea. But he has completely different plans in mind for the future. Before he marries Grete Wernicke, the daughter of the hotel manager, he wants to have enough money himself.

Lu Donon - Tochter

Hotel Sacher

Hotel Sacher · 1939

Vienna is celebrating New Year’s Eve 1913/14. It is the year, which will see the outbreak of the First World War. In Hotel Sacher, the mood is excellent; and although the political atmosphere is charged, there’s an undercurrent of hate and intolerance in the air. It is with this background that Nadja, a Russian spy, meets the Austrian civil servant Stefan. He loves her, but comes under suspicion of being an agent because of this love.

Nadja Woroneff

Between Yesterday and Tomorrow

Between Yesterday and Tomorrow · 1947

Between Yesterday and Tomorrow

A group of people gathers back in the post-war ruins of a luxurious Munich hotel they inhabited at one point or another years before; each trying to cope with the tragic consequences of the war and their own actions.

Nelly Dreifuss

The Unknown

The Unknown · 1936

The body of an unknown beautiful woman is fished out of the river and leaves the policemen wondering what drove the girl to such a grisly fate. The film then flashes back to months before, showing the torrid love affair between a young cabaret singer and a rich playboy that ultimately results in tragedy for the girl.

Madeleine

Vom Schicksal verweht

Vom Schicksal verweht · 1942

Vom Schicksal verweht

The young doctor Dr. Virginia Larsen fights in vain against malaria on an island in the Antilles. She finally receives support from Dr. Dos Passos. The doctor persuades the rebellious natives to get vaccinated. They even help to dispel the suspicion of murder weighing on Dos Passos.

Dr. Virginia Larsen

Die Kronzeugin

Die Kronzeugin · 1937

Jelena Rakowska

The Last Night

The Last Night · 1949

MovieDramaRomance

Set in German-occupied France in 1944 where a female resistance operative and a German army officer fall in love.

Renée Meurier

Tanz auf dem Vulkan

Tanz auf dem Vulkan · 1938

Tanz auf dem Vulkan

MovieDramaHistory

Paris, 1830: Jean-Gaspard Debureau performs on the stage and delights his audience with song, wit and charm. He is, however, very unpopular with King Charles X, who is the target of much of Debureau's scornful jests. That would be a somewhat tolerable situation if it weren't for the fact that Debureau has fallen for a countess, who happens to be the King's mistress.

Gräfin Héloise Cambouilly

Master of the World

Master of the World · 1934

Master of the World

MovieScience Fiction

A German scientist designs and builds a machine that will do dangerous work instead of placing humans in jeopardy. But the machine itself turns out to have disastrous effects on the people involved.

Vilma, seine Frau

Die Frau ohne Vergangenheit

Die Frau ohne Vergangenheit · 1939

Die Frau ohne Vergangenheit

Eva

I Was Jack Mortimer

I Was Jack Mortimer · 1935

I Was Jack Mortimer

MovieDramaThriller

The jealous star conductor Montemayor knows that his beautiful younger wife, Winifred, is cheating on him with an American named Jack Mortimer. After the concert rehearsal, he takes a taxi to the train station, sees Mortimer and shoots him at an intersection from the backseat of his taxi. The shot is not heard during the traffic noise. The taxi driver, Sponer, sitting in his car with the now-dead Mortimer, goes into a panic.

Winifred Montemayor

Signal in der Nacht

Signal in der Nacht · 1937

Signal in der Nacht

Brigitte von Schachen

Clarissa

Clarissa · 1941

Clarissa is promoted to department head of Feerenbach's bank. He and bank clerk Lutz both love her. When she falls for Lutz she soon is led to believe that he only uses her to cover up his own illegal speculations with the bank's funds.

Clarissa von Reckwitz