Acting

Max Kronert

Born January 1, 1873 · Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]

Died July 22, 1925 · aged 52

No biography available.

Known For

The Golem: How He Came into the WorldThe Golem: How He Came into the World · 1920
The Golem: How He Came into the World
★ 7.01920
MovieFantasyHorror
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.
SumurunSumurun · 1920
Sumurun
★ 6.11920
MovieAdventureDrama
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.
The Oyster PrincessThe Oyster Princess · 1919
The Oyster Princess
★ 6.81919
MovieComedy
A pampered American oyster tycoon decides to buy a husband for his daughter, but things don’t go quite as planned. Along the way there are mishaps, misunderstandings and a foxtrot sequence that must be seen to be believed.
The DollThe Doll · 1919
The Doll
★ 7.41919
MovieComedyFantasy
The misadventures of an effete young man who must get married in order to inherit a fortune. He opts to purchase a remarkably lifelike doll and marry it instead, not realizing that the doll is actually the dollmaker’s flesh-and-blood daughter in disguise.
The WildcatThe Wildcat · 1921
The Wildcat
★ 7.51921
MovieComedyDrama
A charismatic lieutenant newly assigned to a remote fort is captured by a group of mountain bandits, thus setting in motion a madcap farce that is Lubitsch at his most unrestrained. A wonderfully anarchic and playfully subversive satire of military life from one of the great comedy filmmakers.
I.N.R.I. – A Film of HumanityI.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity · 1923
I.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity
★ 5.61923
MovieDramaHistory
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.
Husbands or LoversHusbands or Lovers · 1924
Husbands or Lovers
★ 5.61924
MovieDramaRomance
A wife, bored by her overweight slob of a husband, gives in to the temptation of a slickly seductive poet.
The Riddle of the SphinxThe Riddle of the Sphinx · 1921
The Riddle of the Sphinx
★ 7.01921
MovieAdventure
In Cairo, a quest for a coveted antiquity draws the heroine into a clandestine cult devoted to Osiris. What begins as intrigue turns perilous—abductions, conspiracies, and night-time chases through temples and tombs—until she fights to escape the sect’s grip.

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All for MoneyAll for Money · 1923
All for Money
★ 8.01923
MovieDrama
Rupp (Jannings) is a former butcher, made rich in the meat packing industry as a result of the reversal of fortunes brought on by WWI. He is crude, uncouth and uneducated. His son, Fred, is the apple of his father's eye and is an auto enthusiast. The widowed Rupp falls in love with a former aristocrat, Helen, now down on her luck and pawning her last heirloom. He proposes marriage and she accepts in order to save her ailing mother who needs a monetary influx to avoid death. Her former boyfriend, Platen, warns Helen against Rupp's intentions - he and Rupp are enemies, Rupp having caused his being fired for protecting a chorus girl against Rupp's unwanted advances. Meanwhile, Graf, a shyster, arranges purchase of a near bankrupt auto manufacturing firm, Phoenix, to Rupp's great advantage with practically no monetary recognition to Graf, who swears revenge. Rupp comes upon his son begging Helen not to marry his father but to return to Platen.

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