Werner Krauss
Birthday: 1884-06-23
Place of Birth: Gestungshausen, Sonnefeld, Bavaria, Germany
Biography: Werner Johannes Krauss (Krauß in German; 23 June 1884 – 20 October 1959) was a German stage and film actor. Krauss dominated the German stage of the early 20th century. However, his participation in the 1940 antisemitic propaganda film Jud Süß (Süss, the Jew) and his collaboration with the Nazis made him a controversial figure.
Movies
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recentl...
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Danton
At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of seve...
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Süss, the Jew
Nazi historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer....
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The Joyless Street
In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they t...
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Waxworks
A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan...
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The Student of Prague
For Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the tip...
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Nana
Count Moffat becomes infatuated with Nana, a presumptuous stage actress, vulgar, hypocritical and pr...
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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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Das verwunschene Schloß
Twenty years ago, the Count of Groningen left his ancestral castle. Since then, it is said to be hau...
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Freitag, der 13. Das unheimliche Haus. 2. Teil
Every Friday the 13th, a member of the Eulenstein family dies. The son of the most recent victim hir...
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Der chinesische Götze. Das unheimliche Haus. 3. Teil
All is not well in the Mollheim home. The elder Mollheim decides to marry off his daughter with an u...
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Tartuffe
A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's play "Tartuffe" in order to ...
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The Burning Soil
When farmer Rog dies, his eldest Peter takes over the farm while his youngest Johannes is determined...
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Secrets of a Soul
Scientist Martin Fellmann is tormented by an irrational fear of knives and the irresistible compulsi...
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Looping the Loop
Botto the Clown is in love with the much younger Blanche but she is in love with the handsome darede...
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Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes
Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his dis...
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The Fallen Star
A woman with a troubled past connects with two refugees while working at a homeless camp after World...
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Paracelsus
The story of the Renaissance-era Swiss physician, alchemist and astrologer Philippus Aureolus Theoph...
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Tales of Hoffmann
This movie, directed by Richard Oswald, is based on the operetta "Les contes de Hoffmann" by Jacques...
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The Treasure
On the surface a straightforward tale of the search for a buried treasure, the film is a textbook ex...
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Yorck
The story of General Yorck von Wartenburg, a commander in the army of Prussian King Wilhelm, who def...
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The Dismissal
German chancellor Otto von Bismarck promises the dying emperor Wilhelm I. to be loyal to his grandso...
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Prämien auf den Tod
In order to impress a socially superior woman with money, an unsuccessful insurance agent commits so...
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Annelie
On New Year′s Eve 1871 Annelie is born – 15 minutes too late, since her parents had calculated her b...
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The Wife's Crusade
A working-class couple with four children live in extreme poverty in a rear building. When the woman...
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Zirkusblut
Georg Bertrand, a gambling addict and the son of a wealthy landowner, is kicked out of his family ho...
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Mazeppa, Folk Hero of the Ukraine
The film tells the story of Ivan Mazeppa, a Ukrainian page at the Polish court who has an affair wit...
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Napoleon at St. Helena
Napoleon at Saint Helena (German: Napoleon auf Sankt Helena) is a 1929 German silent historical film...
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A Night of Horror
An extremely jealous artist slips into a monkey costume and kills all those men who come too close t...
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The Tell-Tale Heart
Austrian television version of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart from 1958....
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Prostitution
Hedwig and Lola, two sisters of opposite temperaments, have their lives upended in when Lola decides...
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Rose Bernd
An adaptation of the Gerhart Hauptmann play of the same name. A young farmer's daughter is used and ...
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Revenge of the Dead
Ferenc life seems to be going great but after a dinner with his employer and his guest at which they...
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Shattered
The everyday lives of a poverty-stricken railway trackman, his wife and daughter in a remote, isolat...
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Variety
The murderer “Boss” Huller – after having spent ten years in prison – breaks his silence to tell the...
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Othello
Based on Shakespeare's play: The treacherous Iago plans to ruin the life of Othello by provoking him...
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Lady Hamilton
The married Lady Emma Hamilton has an ill fated romance with Admiral Horatio Nelson....
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Der Trödler von Amsterdam
The Dealer from Amsterdam (German: Der Trödler von Amsterdam) is a 1925 German silent film directed ...
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The Ancient Law
Baruch Mayer, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the fami...
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Fräulein Raffke
"Raffke" was a war profiteer, shifter, the white-collar criminal, who came to wealth with not very c...
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The Morals of the Alley
Explores the ethics of a Berlin street during the Weimar era and the struggle for survival in a shad...
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One Does Not Play with Love
The film is an adaptation of the 1834 play by Alfred de Musset, On ne badine pas avec l'amour. The f...
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I.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity
From the director of Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, this is the Passion embedded in a contemporary story. ...
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The Jew of Mestri
The film "Der Kaufmann von Venedig" ( The Jew Of Mestri ) was written, produced and directed by Pete...
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Alt Heidelberg
Prince Karl Heinz enjoys his carefree life as a student in Heidelberg. He falls in love with the bea...
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Christian Wahnschaffe II: Escape from the Golden Dungeon
Escape from the Golden Dungeon is the second part of the two-part silent movie Christian Wahnschaffe...
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Opium
In China, Professor Gesellius has completed his long research on the many uses of opium. When he is ...
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Everyman
Based on several medieval mystery plays, including the late 15th-century English morality play "Ever...
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Jedermann Remixed
Based on archive holdings from nine decades, director Hannes Rossacher has created a complete Jederm...
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Between Evening and Morning
A traumatized man returning home from war discovers that his wife has slipped into the underclass....
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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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Nathan der Weise
Silent movie adaptation of Lessing's play. Set in Jerusalem during the Third Crusade, it describes h...
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The Story of Dida Ibsen
Dida Ibsen, daughter of impoverished farmers, has, according to her father's will, to marry the main...
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The Uncanny House
A young unemployed man gets a job as a private secretary by chance. A good salary, a first-class apa...
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Opfer
After her brother is sent to Siberia, Sonja heads to Moscow to participate in a revolution....
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The Dance of Death
In this apparently lost film, a beautiful dancer's sexual allure is used by an evil cripple to entic...
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Die Insel der Glücklichen
The daughter of a revolutionary runs away with a married prince....
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Die Kwannon von Okadera
Harlander, a media mogul and war profiteer, has been told that he has six months before his sanity w...
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Jealousy
A couple are at the theatre with a playwright friend. At the end of the play the jealous husband str...
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Ewiger Strom
An abandoned baby is saved by a river god. Now aged 20, she yearns to see the world outside the wate...
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The Vice of Humanity
Tamara becomes addicted to cocaine but hides from her daughter by moving in with the dealer Mangol. ...
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The Unknown Tomorrow
A melodrama about a virtuous wife unjustly abandoned by her husband, who get him back with the help ...
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Es werde Licht! 3. Teil
A tyrannical landowner terrorizes his wife and seduces the daughter of one of his employees....
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Universal Horror
A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the...
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Make Up
Bruce Wilton, middle-aged, rich and famous, as a producer, has been rejected by Ada von Ruyt, a revu...
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