Olga Tschechowa
Birthday: 1897-04-12
Place of Birth: Aleksandropol, Erivan Governorate, Russian Empire [now Gyumri, Armenia]
Biography: Olga Konstantinovna Tschechowa (Russian: Ольга Константиновна Чехова; born Knipper; 14 April 1897 – 9 March 1980) was a Russian-German actress. She was born in Aleksandropol, Erivan Governorate, Russian Empire or now known as Gyumri, Armenia. Her film roles include the female lead in Alfred Hitchcock's Mary (1931).
Movies
The Three from the Filling Station
Willy, Kurt and Hans are broke, so they sell their car and open a filling station. Then, they all fa...
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The Haunted Castle
The sinister Count Oetsch scandalizes the aristocratic social gathering at Castle Vogelod as he anno...
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Liebelei
Vienna in the beginning of the twentieth century. Cavalry Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer is about to end...
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Hannerl und ihre Liebhaber
Everyday and social drama. In Vienna a girl from the people about social prejudices finds away the e...
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Burg Theatre
In this convoluted melodrama, an elderly thespian falls for a rising young starlet. He admits his lo...
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Darling of the Gods
Also known as Darling of the Gods, this was Emil Jannings' second talkie appearance. Jannings stars ...
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The Twins from Immenhof
Alexander Arkens lives a happy life as the tenant of the Immenhof. His twin daughters Billy and Bobb...
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Frühling auf Immenhof
There is a lot of sunshine on the traditional Immenhof: owner Dalli and tenant Alexander Arkens want...
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Masquerade in Vienna
After a masked carnival ball, Gerda Harrandt, wife of the surgeon Carl Ludwig Harrandt, allows the f...
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A Certain Mr. Gran
An Italian engineer who had made a strategically important invention to ward off enemy aircraft is k...
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Mary
When actress Mary Baring is found in a daze beside her colleague’s murdered body, all evidence point...
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The Italian Straw Hat
On the day of Fadinard's wedding, his horse eats a lady's hat on a bush at the roadside, while the l...
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Moulin Rouge
An odd and tightly directed tale of a singer/dancer at the Moulin Rouge, who meets her daughter's fi...
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The Anthem of Leuthen
The story of the rise to power of King Frederick II (aka "Frederick the Great") of Prussia of his mi...
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Brennende Grenze
The story of Brennende Grenze (= Burning Border) starts after the end of WWI. Polish franctireurs in...
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Behind Monastery Walls
Thomas Holinka has returned home from war and captivity. In the absence of a suitable home, he finds...
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Andreas Schlüter
Historical drama portraying the life of German baroque architect Andreas Schlüter....
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Bel Ami
Shortly after being demobilized, Georges Duroy becomes aware of his power over women in the arms of ...
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Peer Gynt
Fun-loving Peer Gynt lives carefree on his parents' farm. Only his mother is a fixed point of refere...
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Cavalry Captain Wronski
A Polish officer works undercover in 1930s Berlin to discover Nazi Germany's plans against his homel...
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Rosen-Resli
The nine-year-old orphan Therese has recently moved in with a family of gardeners. She continues to ...
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Rote Orchideen
In a made-up country somewhere in northern Europe: In the armaments factory F.N.G., an important dr...
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U47 - Kapitänleutnant Prien
In 1939 German U-boat captain Günther Prien receives orders to infiltrate the British Royal Navy bas...
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The Fox of Glenarvon
An English peace judge in an Irish district is married to an Irishwoman. She is a caring patriot. He...
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Der Polizeibericht meldet
Director Burckhardt is found shot just after making the moves on Gisela Ostercamp, the wife of a bus...
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Jack and Jenny
Saleswoman Jenny is crazy about the painter Jack. But Jack does not want to marry, even though he l...
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The Sinister Wish
After losing almost all of his money, a young marquis discovers that among his few remaining possess...
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The Yellow Flag
An adventurer, Peter Diercksen, travels to South America to guide an expedition into the jungle. How...
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Melusine
Nora and Stefan fall in love with one another after an accident takes place, but then end up losing ...
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A Girl from the Reeperbahn
Lighthouse keeper Uwe Bull lives with his wife Hanne and the silent assistant Jens in a secluded, sm...
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The Boudoir Diplomat
The ambassador of the Kingdom of Luvaria orders Baron Belmar, his attaché, to win the interest of Mo...
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Angelika
Once a celebrated opera singer, who sacrificed her career for her husband. Now she strives to become...
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Trenck - Der Roman einer großen Liebe
A celebration of strong Prussian leadership during the reign of Frederick the Great....
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Gewitterflug zu Claudia
Lufthansa captain Hans Droste is friends with English pilot William Crossley, who saved his life dur...
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Freed Hands
A German peasant woman is determined to succeed as a sculptor and ,though she has a child out of wed...
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The Circle of Death
This anti-communist propaganda film discusses the revolutionary curse of communism in the Soviet-Uni...
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Reise in die Vergangenheit
With her daughter Anita, a young singer, the widow Marianne von der Halden undertakes a journey into...
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Manja Valewska
A romantic melodrama set in 19th-century Russia: magnificent uniforms, dashing officers, glittering ...
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Mein Freund, der Dieb
Germany in the post-war period. Due to the circumstances of the time and his lack of prospects, the ...
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Dreams of Love
The film depicts the composer Franz Liszt and takes its name from his 1850 piano work of the same ti...
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Panic in Chicago
Chicago gangsters use cunning and a series of false identities in a violent battle for dominance, al...
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Parkstrasse 13
The beautiful Evelyne Schratt, who has many admirerers, and whose two husbands both died under myste...
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Two Ties
Opera style film in which a crook offers to change ties with a waiter, so he can escape. The waiter ...
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The Great Passion
This is a real curiosity; at best a reasonable film, but also a charming little gem. There is a stor...
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Love Story
A young German officer's life is turned upside when he tries to end his affair with a married barone...
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Love in the Ring
Originally Liebe in Ring, this German part-talkie is a generally agreeable effort to transform heavy...
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The Eternal Mask
Expressionistic devices depict the nervous breakdown of a young physician whose patient has died,on ...
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The concert
A concert pianist, the romantic idol of many women, is seduced away from his wife. The seductress's ...
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Regine
Frank returns to his homeland as an engineer, falls in love with Regine, the housemaid of his uncle,...
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The Lost Shoe
One of the first movies made about the fairy tale Cinderella. The film is part of the current German...
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Verliebtes Abenteuer
Charming Tom is pursuing fine Olivia both cheerfully and stubbornly. At first, she rejects him brut...
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L'Argent
Ruined by his competitor, the banker Saccard decides to set up a new business....
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The Road to Paradise
Willy, Jean and Guy are broke, so they sell their car and open a filling station. Then they all fall...
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Soll und Haben
After the death of his parents, Anton pursues a career at the Schröter trading house in Breslau. He ...
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The City of Temptation
While a Russian refugee girl attempts to get work in Constantinople to support herself and her grand...
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His Late Excellency
In the Ruritanian kingdom of Leuchtenstein, the old ruler has just died. His subjects are a bunch of...
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The Italian Straw Hat
On the day of Fadinard's wedding, his horse eats a lady's hat on a bush at the roadside, while the l...
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He Who Covets
Tatjana is a tale of Russia, the Bolshevik uprising and revolution in a rural setting, entwined with...
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Incest
Martin Hollmann, a young gardener meets his significantly older wife's daughter from her first marri...
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Die Liebeshölle
After searching in vain through Europe for her boy after 1917, a Russian ballerina settles in with a...
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let me come in
Bill Morrison’s experimental short features decayed film reels from the lost, German silent film Paw...
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Geheimnis einer Ehe
Tina Camphausen has three children, Christian, Schwänchen and Musi, who has grown up for 15 years wi...
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