Elsa Wagner
Birthday: 1881-01-24
Place of Birth: Reval, Harrien County, Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire [now Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia]
Biography: Elsa Wagner (January 24, 1881 – August 17, 1975) was a German actress who appeared in numerous theatrical productions and feature films during the 20th century, including 1920's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Born as Elisabeth Karoline Auguste Wagner on 24 January 1881 in Reval, in what is now Tallinn, Estonia, Elsa Wagner pursued training with Maria Spettini in Saint Petersburg, Russia prior to making her acting debut in Berlin, Germany in 1901. In addition to her performances on tour with multiple theater productions, including Faust and Peer Gynt, she went on to secure roles in more than 140 feature films, including Robert Wiene's Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) and Karl Heinz Martin's Von Morgens bis Mitternachts (From Morn to Midnight) in 1920, F. W. Murnau's 1922 Das Brennende Acker (The Burning Earth), Gerhard Lamprecht's Die Buddenbrooks and Wiene's I.N.R.I. in 1923, and E. R. Dupont's 1929 Atlantik.
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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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Emil and the Detectives
When Emil travels by bus to Berlin to visit his family, his money is stolen by a crook who specializ...
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The Haunted Castle
The ghosts of thieves help a beautiful young countess save her inherited castle from modern develope...
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Musik im Blut
In Dresden's classical music world, female students learn from an opinionated conductor and a pompou...
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Children of No Importance
If watching a fellow facing indifference/rejection in the slums of Berlin didn't convey enough patho...
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Barcarole
A young reckless womaniser is trapped one night at his club into a bet with a Mexican that he will w...
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People Among Us
Gerhard Lamprecht sketches a cross-section of Germany's new post-war society, with its winners, soci...
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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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The Night of Queen Isabeau
The film depicts the marriage between the mad Charles VI of France and his wife Queen Isabeau....
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Figaros Hochzeit
Shortly after WWII, the DEFA Studios produced a series of operas and operettas which belonged to the...
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Großalarm
The newspaper delivery driver Paul falls in love with Lotte, who works in her mother’s kiosk. One d...
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The Song of Life
This Brechtian musical about a young woman who flees from her decrepit, noble fiancé and marries a s...
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Mad Love
Richard de la Croix's brother, Andreas, has been driven insane by a notorious vamp and socialite nam...
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The Trunks of Mr. O.F.
In the very old-fashioned town of Ostend suddenly 13 suitcases are delivered to the Grand Hotel, wit...
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Joan of Arc
France in the 15th Century: The country is marked by the wars with England and internal power strugg...
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The March to the Führer
During the colorful ceremonies of the Nuremberg rallies, Hitler Youth parade before their Fuehrer an...
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The Rosentopf Case
In The the film, Ernst Lubitsch plays Sally, the clever assistant to the detective Ceeps, who only s...
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The Buddenbrooks
Four-generation story-saga dealing with the decline of a middle-class Lübeck family. The first adapt...
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No Place for Love
While on leave in Berlin during the Second World War, a soldier named Hans meets a young woman named...
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Gasparone
In the fantasy state of Olivia, the robber chief Gasparone is up to all sorts of mischief. But Prefe...
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Tanz auf dem Vulkan
Paris, 1830: Jean-Gaspard Debureau performs on the stage and delights his audience with song, wit a...
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Gefährliches Spiel
The formerly wealthy Baron Carl Erich von Wenden is desperate. His debts are out of control and he ...
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From Morning to Midnight
A cashier in a bank in a small German town is alerted to the power of money by the visit of a rich I...
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The Monster of London City
Then the spirit of Jack the Ripper seems to be very much alive in 1960s London as a series of brutal...
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Die göttliche Jette
Cheeky Jette is a typical Berlin girl. Together with her mother, she performs couplets in a Berlin s...
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Wozzeck
While an anatomy seminar prepares to examine the cadaver of Franz Wozzeck in the name of scientific ...
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The Leghorn Hat
Der Florentiner Hut (The Leghorn Hat), a 1939 German film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner...
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...and the Sky Above Us
Hans Albers plays returning war veteran Hans Richter who has trouble finding work. With nowhere else...
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The Waitress Anna
Against the wishes of his adoptive father, Stefan Burgstaller decides to become a musician. He goes ...
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Manolescu, the Prince of Swindlers
George Manolescu (Ivan Mosjoukine) plays a confidence man who works his way from Paris to New York. ...
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The Student of Prague
Prague in the 1860s: Balduin is a popular, handsome student, the best fencer in town, in amicable ri...
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Die Marchesa d'Arminiani
A police chief raids a gambling den, and arrests the elderly mother of the young Assunta. Though she...
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Atlantic
German-language version. "Atlantic" is a drama film based on the sinking of the RMS "Titanic" and se...
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Dawn
Released three days after Adolf Hitler became Reichskanzler, it was the first film to have its scree...
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Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
"The Great Magician" - Max Reinhardt (1873-1943) was an Austrian theater and film director, director...
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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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Sweetheart of the Gods
Biography of the famous German actress Renate Müller, who died in 1937 under unsettled circumstances...
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Altes Herz geht auf die Reise
The underage Rosemarie is still too young to run her inherited farm by herself; but she's more than ...
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