Alfred Peter Abel was a German film actor, director, and producer. He appeared in more than 140 silent and sound films between 1913 and 1938. His best-known performance was as Joh Fredersen in Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis.
Blandine Ebinger was a German actress and chansonniere.
Hertha von Walther was a German film actress. She appeared in 80 films between 1921 and 1983.
Karin Hardt Meta Therese was a German actress.
Love '47 is a 1949 German drama film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner and starring Dieter Horn, Hilde Krahl and Sylvia Schwarz. It was part of the cycle of rubble films made in post-war Germany. A young man and a woman about to commit suicide by jumping into a river, recount to each other their experiences of the Second World War and the struggles of the immediate post-war situation. Eventually they convince each other that life is worth living after all.
Intoxication is a 1919 German silent drama film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Asta Nielsen, Alfred Abel and Karl Meinhardt. It was based on the play Brott och brott by August Strindberg, which was later remade as the 1928 film Sin. Lubitsch was loaned out by UFA to the smaller Argus-Film for the production.
The Wedding Hotel is a 1944 German comedy film directed by Carl Boese and starring Karin Hardt, René Deltgen and Walter Janssen. Due to Allied bombing raids on German cities like Berlin, much of the film was shot around Kitzbühel in Tyrol. It was one of a number of light-hearted German films made in the final year of the Third Reich.
The Burning Secret is a 1933 Austrian-German drama film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Alfred Abel, Hilde Wagener and Hans Joachim Schaufuß. It was based on the 1913 novella of the same title by Stefan Zweig. It was released by the German branch of Universal Pictures. It was shot at the EFA Studios in Berlin and on location around Ascona in Switzerland. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert A. Dietrich.
Wenn die Musik nicht wär is a 1935 German drama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Paul Hörbiger, Willi Schaeffers and Ida Wüst. The film was shot at the Grunewald Studios in Berlin. It is based on the novel Der Kraft-Mayr by Ernst von Wolzogen. The film's art direction was by Fritz Maurischat and Karl Weber.
Athletes is a 1925 German silent film directed by Frederic Zelnik and starring Asta Nielsen, Gregori Chmara and Arnold Korff.
Impossible Love is a 1932 German drama film directed by Erich Waschneck and starring Asta Nielsen, Ery Bos and Ellen Schwanneke. It was Nielsen's final film, and the only sound film she appeared in. It premiered at the Mozartsaal in Berlin. Neilsen had been a major star during the First World War and the early 1920s but her screen career gradually declined and she had not appeared in a film since That Dangerous Age in 1927. Four years after making Impossible Love she returned to her native Denmark. The film is also known by the alternative title of Crown of Thorns.
Frontstairs and Backstairs is a 1915 German silent film directed by Urban Gad and starring Asta Nielsen and Paul Otto. It is based on the 1889 play Honour by Hermann Sudermann.
Does a Woman Have to Become a Mother? or Paragraph 144 is a 1924 Austrian-German silent film directed by Georg Jacoby and Hans Otto and starring Harry Liedtke. Originally intended as a pro-abortion film, by the time it was released it was advocating the opposite view.
The Woman in Flames is a 1924 German silent thriller film directed by Carl Boese and starring Asta Nielsen, Alfred Abel, and Gregori Chmara.
Battle of the Butterflies is a 1924 German silent drama film directed by Franz Eckstein and starring Asta Nielsen, Reinhold Schünzel and Hans Brausewetter. It is based on a play by Hermann Sudermann. It was shot at the National Studios in Berlin.
My Friend the Chauffeur is a 1926 German silent comedy film directed by Erich Waschneck and starring Hans Albers, Ferdinand von Alten and Barbara von Annenkoff.
Cock of the Roost is a 1925 German silent comedy film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Reinhold Schünzel, Elga Brink and Maly Delschaft. The film's sets were designed by the art director Walter Reimann.
Kurfürstendamm is a 1920 German silent drama film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Conrad Veidt, Asta Nielsen, Erna Morena and Henry Sze. It is set on the Kurfürstendamm in central Berlin. It is now considered a lost film.
Playing with Destiny is a 1924 German silent film directed by Siegfried Philippi and starring Alfred Abel, Sascha Gura and Claire Rommer.
Ways to a Good Marriage is a 1933 German drama film directed by Adolf Trotz and starring Olga Chekhova, Alfred Abel and Hilde Hildebrand. It was shot at the EFA Studios in Halensee in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Heinz Fenchel and Botho Hoefer. The film was based on the ideas of the sexologist Theodore H. Van de Velde and was in the tradition of the enlightenment films of the Weimar Republic. Although his work had already been forbidden by the new Nazi regime, it was not formally banned until 1937 despite protests by Nazi students in Kiel who were successful in having the film pulled from cinemas there.
