Cast: Asta Nielsen
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Asta Nielsen. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 42
The Joyless Street
1925 · Movie · 125 min. · Germany
Direction Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Cast Greta Garbo · Werner Krauss · Asta Nielsen · Agnes Esterhazy
Plot Vienna in the biggest depression, directly after WWI. In a slum, Lila Leid, the wife of lawyer Leid is murdered, Egon, secretary of one of Leid's clients is arrested. He...
7.3
363 votes
7.3
363 votes
Hamlet
1921 · Movie · 131 min. · Germany
Direction Svend Gade · Heinz Schall
Cast Asta Nielsen · Paul Conradi · Mathilde Brandt · Eduard von Winterstein
Plot Free adaptation of Shakespeare's drama: The Danish queen masquerades her daughter as a boy. Thus, the girl lives her whole life as Prince Hamlet. When the King is killed in...
6.8
23 votes
6.8
23 votes
Afgrunden
1910 · Movie · 40 min. · Denmark
Direction Urban Gad
Cast Asta Nielsen · Robert Dinesen · Poul Reumert · Hans Neergard
Plot Magda meets her fiancé and he invites her to visit him and his parents. While visiting them, a circus comes to town and Magda asks her fiancé to take her...
6.2
223 votes
6.2
223 votes
The Black Dream
1911 · Movie · 53 min. · Denmark
Direction Urban Gad
Cast Asta Nielsen · Valdemar Psilander · Gunnar Helsengreen · Emil Albes
Plot The young circus performer Stella is adored by two men: An earl and a jeweler. She fancies the earl the most, but at some point the jeweler made advances to...
5.8
25 votes
5.8
25 votes
Towards the Light
1919 · Movie · 55 min. · Denmark
Direction Holger-Madsen
Cast Asta Nielsen · Augusta Blad · Frederik Jacobsen · Carl Schenstrøm
Plot Spoiled Ysabel marries a man of respectability but he later turns out to a criminal. Consequently, her mother breaks down, and on her deathbed, Ysabel wows to become an evangelist.
5.6
22 votes
5.6
22 votes
The Treacherous Woman
1911 · Movie · 40 min. · Germany
Direction Urban Gad
Cast Asta Nielsen · Emil Albes · Max Obal · Robert Valberg
5.5
38 votes
5.5
38 votes
Downfall
1923 · Movie · 84 min. · Germany
Direction Ludwig Wolff
Cast Giuseppe Becce · Albert Bozenhard · Ivan Bulatov · Gregori Chmara
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The Film in the Film (S)
1925 · Documentary · 17 min. · Germany
Direction Friedrich Porges
Cast Ernst Deutsch · Ewald André Dupont · Richard Eichberg · Maria Jacobini
Plot An educational film about the technological and artistic development of cinematography.
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Vanina oder Die Galgenhochzeit
1922 · Movie · 68 min. · Germany
Direction Arthur von Gerlach
Cast Asta Nielsen · Paul Wegener · Paul Hartmann · Albrecht Viktor Blum
Plot Vanina loves rebel leader Octavio, who gets caught. He gets a pardon and marries Vanina. When he is captured again, Vanina helps him to escape prison. They are both caught,...
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The Merry-Go-Round
1920 · Movie · 65 min. · Germany
Direction Richard Oswald
Cast Asta Nielsen · Conrad Veidt · Eduard von Winterstein · Irmgard Bern
Plot Drama about street walker Elena who marries shop keeper Albert. When her former pimp Peter shows up, her life is ruined. She shoots him and poisons herself.
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The Dance to Death
1912 · Movie · 34 min. · Germany
Direction Urban Gad
Cast Asta Nielsen · Oskar Fuchs · Fritz Weidermann · Fred Immler
Plot Bella is married to engineer Burk who meets with an accident. To provide an income she starts as a performer, but happen to meet an infatuated, intriguing composer. On the...
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Die Geliebte Roswolskys
1921 · Movie · 55 min. · Germany
Direction Felix Basch
Cast Asta Nielsen · Paul Wegener · Wilhelm Diegelmann · Ferdinand von Alten
Plot Trying to kill herself, Mary is saved by rich Roswolsky.
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Cinderella
1916 · Movie · 49 min. · Germany
Direction Urban Gad
Cast Asta Nielsen · Max Landa
Plot Growing up with mean foster parents, Lotte is employed as a kitchen maid with the von Harten family. After a dramatic interlude including accusation of theft, Mrs. von Harten reveals...
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The White Roses
1916 · Movie · 70 min. · Germany
Direction Urban Gad
Cast Asta Nielsen · Ernst Hofmann · Max Landa · Mary Scheller
Plot Drama. When Hedda is about to appear on stage in Ostende she borrows a piece of jewelry from her fiancé, de Rochord. When a gang of thieves steals it, he...
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The Film Primadonna (S)
1913 · Movie · 17 min. · Germany
Direction Urban Gad
Cast Asta Nielsen · Paul Otto · Fritz Weidermann · Fred Immler
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Engelein
1914 · Movie · 49 min. · Germany
Direction Urban Gad
Cast Asta Nielsen · Alfred Kuehne · Max Landa · Fred Immler
Plot Engelein is a comedy of deliberately mistaken identity. If Jesta, a 17-year-old, can play the part of a 12-year-old, her family will gain a large inheritance from a rich uncle...
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Felix
1921 · Movie · 62 min. · Norway
Direction Rasmus Breistein
Cast Aagot Børseth · Julian Strøm · Edvard Drabløs · Lars Tvinde
Plot The priest wife dies in childbirth, and the child also dies while awful weather is thundering outside, which also makes a ship go down, with only a three-month-old baby surviving....
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Im Lebenswirbel
1918 · Movie · 71 min. · Germany
Direction Heinz Schall
Cast Asta Nielsen · Bruno Eichgrün · Walter Wolffgram
Plot Marriage between Margit and artist Erik Lind is interrupted by her infatuation with squire *Arvid Sund. She gives up the relationship because of Erik's illness and death. Arvid's brother however,...
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Poor Jenny
1912 · Movie · 34 min. · Germany
Direction Urban Gad
Cast Asta Nielsen · Leo Peukert · Emil Albes · Hans Staufen
Plot Jenny is a cleaner. Seduced by a local boy, Edouard, her parents reject her. She finds a job as a vaudeville dancer, but winds up in the gutter and decides...
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Earth Spirit
1923 · Movie · 50 min. · Germany
Direction Leopold Jessner
Cast Asta Nielsen · Albert Basserman · Carl Ebert · Gustav Rickelt
Plot Dr. Schön marries a lower class girl, Lulu. Young and voluptuous she attracts the attention of the all the male gender, but the doctor will not let her go. After...
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