Olga Engl

Acting

Olga Engl

Born May 30, 1871 · Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]

Died September 21, 1946 · aged 75

Olga Engl was an Austrian-German actress who achieved great fame during the silent film era.

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The Life and Works of Richard WagnerThe Life and Works of Richard Wagner · 1913
The Life and Works of Richard Wagner
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This biographical portrait of composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883), feature-length and lavishly produced, was released in conjunction with the centennial of his birth. It's an outstanding achievement in many respects. Naturally it looks primitive by modern standards, but contemporary viewers should bear in mind that it was made at a time when the motion picture industry was still in its infancy, and feature films were still a novelty. The very notion of a silent movie about a composer may seem odd, but Wagner is an ideal choice, simply because his life was so tempestuous and dramatic. Wagner's personality was operatic, while his tumultuous love life unfolded like a soap opera. He knew great success and abysmal failure, luxury one day and poverty the next. He participated in the wave of revolutions that swept Europe in the late 1840s, and had to flee Germany under threat of arrest.

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