Paul Wegener
Birthday: 1874-12-11
Place of Birth: Arnoldsdorf, West Prussia, Germany [now Jarantowice, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland]
Biography: Paul Wegener was a German actor known for his pioneering roles in Expressionist films. He can also be considered a father of horror for his breakout role in The Student of Prague (1913). Wegener maintained a career throughout and after the Nazi era, starring in his last film in 1948.
Movies
The Golem
This mostly lost film is often confused with director Paul Wegener third and readily available inter...
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The Golem: How He Came Into the World
In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he...
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A Daughter Of Destiny
Hanns Heinz Ewers' grim science-fiction novel Alraune has already been filmed twice when this versio...
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Kolberg
During Napoleon's victorious campaign in Germany, the city of Kolberg gets isolated from the retreat...
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The Student of Prague
Prague, Bohemia, 1820. Balduin, a penniless student, falls in love with Countess Margit, a wealthy n...
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The Living Dead
A crazed scientist murders his wife, walls her up, then flees. A reporter sets out to track him down...
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The Magician
A young woman, Margaret Dauncey, is caught between the forces of a charlatan magician, Oliver Haddo,...
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Only a Comedian
A moving actor at the rococo era shows the power-hungry-crude minister of a small state prince in th...
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Sumurun
The favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a hunc...
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The Loves of Pharaoh
The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countri...
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Vanina
Vanina loves rebel leader Octavio, who gets caught. He gets a pardon and marries Vanina. When he is ...
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Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen
Balzac adaptation: Escaped convict moves into a brothel where he becomes father to a boy. But his ad...
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The Great King
King Frederick II (aka "Frederick the Great") of Prussia is engaged in a major battle against the Au...
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Lucrezia Borgia
Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, has three adult children: Juan, who is virtuous and has a sweethe...
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My Life for Ireland
A Nazi propaganda movie from 1941 directed by Max W. Kimmich, covering a story of Irish heroism and ...
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The Golem and the Dancing Girl
As a practical joke, an actor impersonates the screen monster he made famous. A lost film....
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin
A traveler comes into a town overrun with rats and vermin. He promises to free the place of the pest...
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Inge and the Millions
A well scripted and captivating thriller about the owners of a small private bank in Berlin, squeezi...
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Der Mann mit der Pranke
"The Man with the Paw" is what people call the very successful banker Wiegant, who is desperately in...
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Wenn die Sonne wieder scheint
The Termoehlens belong to the old farming class in Flanders. Their estate does well and their flax ...
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The Strange Case of Captain Ramper
Paul Wegener gives one of his most active performances here as Captain Ramper, a heroic aviator who ...
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The Mystery of Johann Orth
A Hapsburg archduke in the 1880s gives up his title, changes his name, marries a Viennese actress, a...
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Hans Trutz in the Land of Milk and Honey
A stylized fairy tale in which a farmer sells his soul to Satan in exchange for prosperity....
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Fundvogel
Young Jan Bergwall visits his grandmother, the so-called centenary, at Woyland Castle. There he meet...
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Hans Westmar
Nazi film about the story of a Nazi Storm Trooper named Horst Wessel--here called "Hans Westmar"--wh...
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The Immortal Heart
Nuremberg durting the time of Albrecht Durer and the famous geographer Martin Behaim: the locksmith...
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Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
A man of mystery known only as Doctor Terror recounts seven stories from his casebook of personal en...
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Madame DuBarry
The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the Fr...
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Rübezahl's Wedding
In this film, the people of a Tyrolean town climb up into the nearby mountains, searching for a plac...
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Figures of the Night
"Night people". Thomas Bezug, the richest man in the world, is a solitary, domineering and cruel cri...
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Die Welt ohne Waffen
An engineer develops a device that will disarm any electrically power device, in an attempt to preve...
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Svengali
The hypnotist Svengali makes an artist's model sing, but cannot force her love....
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The Film in the Film
The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the diff...
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A Man Wants to Get to Germany
On the eve of the Great War, an expatriate German working in Latin America learns that the Fatherlan...
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Herzog Ferrantes Ende
In medieval Italy, a group of men plot to kill a cruel and despotic duke....
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Roswolsky's Mistress
Mia Verhag loses her job as a chorus singer when she rejects the advances of the theatre director. W...
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Der verlorene Schatten
A man sells his shadow to gain success and fame but soon suffers the terrible consequences of that d...
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FASCISM(s): A Film in Six Parts
Six sequences about Fascism and its segments throughout history....
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The Golem
A shortened, sixty-minute version of Der Golem, re-edited for US release and featuring a score by Co...
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