Cast: Elsa Wagner

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Elsa Wagner. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Burning Soil

1922 · Movie · 110 min. · Germany

Direction F.W. Murnau

Cast Eugen Klöpfer · Vladimir Gajdarov · Werner Krauss · Eduard von Winterstein

Synopsis When farmer Rog dies, his son Peter stays, but Johannes can not be satisfied with such a condition (and servant Maria's love) and finds a job as old Count Rudenberg's secretary. His ambition leads him to charm Gerda, the Count's...

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6.6

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Emil and the Detectives

1964 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Peter Tewksbury

Cast Walter Slezak · Bryan Russell · Roger Mobley · Heinz Schubert

Synopsis When Emil travels by bus to Berlin to visit his grandmother and his cousin, his money is stolen by a crook who specializes in digging tunnels. Emil must get the money back as it is for his grandmother. While following...

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5.5

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Direction Edwin Zbonek

Cast Hansjörg Felmy · Marianne Koch · Dietmar Schönherr · Hans Nielsen

Synopsis Then the spirit of Jack the Ripper seems to be very much alive in 1960s London as a series of brutal slayings by the Monster of London City has Scotland Yard baffled. In a macabre coincidence, a new play about...

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Wozzeck

1947 · Movie · 98 min. · Germany

Direction Georg C. Klaren

Cast Max Eckard · Kurt Meisel · Helga Zülch · Paul Henckels

Synopsis The body of Franz Wozzeck lies on a table in an anatomy lecture of a small German university. Whereas the doctor in charge of dissecting the cadaver can only see the corpse of a murderer, Buechner, a medical student, sees...

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The Wandering Light

1916 · Movie · 72 min. · Germany

Direction Robert Wiene

Cast Theodor Becker · Bruno Decarli · Henny Porten · Emil Rameau

Synopsis A Count marries a woman who come to wrongly believe that he is mad.

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Song of Life

1931 · Movie · 65 min. · Germany

Direction Alexis Granowsky

Cast Aribert Mog · Margot Ferra · Elsa Wagner · Ernst Busch

Synopsis After discovering that her elderly fiance has false teeth, a young bride-to-be becomes so distraught that she contemplates suicide. She is rescued by a young sailor, with whom she has a baby, which she eventually delivers by Caesarian section.

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Die Koffer des Herrn O.F.

1931 · Movie · 80 min. · Germany

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Direction Alfred Vohrer

Cast Peter van Eyck · Christian Wolff · Heidi Brühl · Corny Collins

Synopsis High school student Fabian König is kicked out of school and starts a gang that specializes in theft. He falls in love with the orphan girl Ulla, but she rejects him when she finds out how he spends his time....

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And the Heaven Above us

1947 · Movie · 103 min. · Germany

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Der Student von Prag

1935 · Movie · 87 min. · Germany

Direction Arthur Robison

Cast Anton Walbrook · Theodor Loos · Dorothea Wieck · Erich Fiedler

Synopsis Prague in the 1860s: Balduin is a popular, handsome student, the best fencer in town, in amicable rivalry with his friend Dahl for the affections of Lydia, the innkeeper's niece. While the students are celebrating Lydia's birthday, the opera singer...

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The Leghorn Hat

1939 · Movie · 91 min. · Germany

Direction Wolfgang Liebeneiner

Cast Heinz Rühmann · Herti Kirchner · Christl Mardayn · Paul Henckels

Synopsis Nazi version of a play more famously done as the French silent, An Italian Straw Hat: en route to his wedding, the groom's horse eats the chapeau of a baroness whose husband would be suspicious if she returned without it.

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Das Mädchen Johanna

1935 · Movie · 87 min. · Germany

Direction Gustav Ucicky

Cast Angela Salloker · Gustaf Gründgens · Heinrich George · René Deltgen

Synopsis The recount of the 17-year-old peasant girl Joan of Arc of the 15th century tinted to the presence of the National Socialist ideology.

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The Pied Piper of Hamelin

1918 · Movie · 64 min. · Germany

Direction Paul Wegener

Cast Paul Wegener · Lyda Salmonova · Clemens Kaufung · Wilhelm Diegelmann

Synopsis A traveler comes into a town overrun with rats and vermin. He promises to free the place of the pests and names his price. When the townspeople refuse to pay him after he has done what he promised, he plays...

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