Cast: Werner Krauss

Direction Robert Wiene

Cast Werner Krauss · Conrad Veidt · Friedrich Feher · Lil Dagover

Synopsis Caligari appears in the town with his marvel Cesare the Somnambulist, a man who has been asleep for 23 years and is now under Caligari’s hypnotic control. Caligari claims that Cesare can predict the future. The arrogant young Alan rises...

Direction Ewald André Dupont

Cast Emil Jannings · Maly Delschaft · Lya De Putti · Warwick Ward

Synopsis The murderer "Boss" Huller - after having spent ten years in prison - breaks his silence to tell the warden his story. "Boss", a former trapeze artist, and his wife own a cheap side-show that displays ''erotic sensations''. But he...

Direction Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Cast Greta Garbo · Werner Krauss · Asta Nielsen · Agnes Esterhazy

Synopsis 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 was with her, and had her necklace, because he needed...

Direction F.W. Murnau

Cast Emil Jannings · Werner Krauss · Lil Dagover · Hermann Picha

Synopsis In Tartuffe, Murnau revisits Moliére's fable of religious hypocrisy, in which a faithful wife (Lil Dagover) tries to convince her husband (Werner Krauss) that their morally superior guest, Tartuffe (Emil Jannings), is in fact a lecherous hypocrite with a taste...

Direction Henrik Galeen

Cast Fritz Alberti · Agnes Esterhazy · Ferdinand von Alten · Conrad Veidt

Synopsis For Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the tip of the sword have lost their charms. He wants to find love; but how would he, a penniless student, ever dare looking...

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...

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Catherine Hessling · Jean Angelo · Werner Krauss · André Cerf

Synopsis Based on the famous novel by Emile Zola. The vivacious and beautiful Nana seeks fame on the stages of Paris in the shows at the Théâtre des Variétés. (which will look familiar to lovers of "Children of Paradise"). When she...

Direction Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Cast Werner Krauss · Ruth Weyher · Ilka Grüning · Jack Trevor

Direction Paul Leni · Leo Birinsky

Cast Emil Jannings · Conrad Veidt · Werner Krauss · William Dieterle

Synopsis The owner of a Waxmuseum needs for three of his models stories to be told to the audience. For that reason he has hired a writer, who after one look athe owner's pretty daughter, starts writing stories featuring the models,...

Direction Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Cast Albert Steinrück · Lucie Mannheim · Ilka Grüning · Hans Brausewetter

Synopsis In and around a bell maker near Marburg (today Slovenia) people tell the story of a treasure that was hidden during the Turki invasion of 1683, the year the Turkish Army was besieging Vienna. Everybody think it's nonsense except for...

Direction Lupu Pick

Cast Werner Krauss · Edith Posca · Hermine Straßmann-Witt · Paul Otto

Synopsis Scherben is about the everyday lives of a railway trackman, his wife and daughter in a remote, isolated house in a winter landscape, Mayer and Pick introduce increasingly stronger disturbances into their daily routines.

Direction Veit Harlan

Cast Ferdinand Marian · Werner Krauss · Heinrich George · Kristina Söderbaum

Synopsis The Nazi version of the story begins with the coronation of Karl Alexander, Duke of Württemberg (Heinrich George), a man much beloved by his people, who swears an oath to obey the laws of the dukedom. Unfortunately, the duke does...

Direction Carl Froelich · Dimitri Buchowetzki

Cast Fritz Kortner · Bernhard Goetzke · Emil Jannings · Hermann Thimig

Direction Friedrich Porges

Cast Ernst Deutsch · Ewald André Dupont · Richard Eichberg · Maria Jacobini

Synopsis An educational film about the technological and artistic development of cinematography.

Direction Lupu Pick

Cast Werner Krauss · Hanna Ralph · Albert Basserman · Philippe Hériat

Direction Richard Oswald · Arthur Robison

Cast Emil Jannings · Werner Krauss · Laurence Köhler · Hans Mierendorff

Synopsis An extremely jealous artist slips into a monkey costume and kills all those men who come too close to his wife, another artist.

Direction Urban Gad

Cast Conrad Veidt · Rose Müller · Werner Krauss · Esther Hagan

Synopsis Wealthy heir Christian Wahnschaffe decides to give up his fortune and dedicate his life to the poor.

Direction Richard Oswald

Cast Werner Krauss · Alfred Breiderhoff · Lupu Pick · Kathe Oswald

Synopsis A young unemployed man gets a job as a private secretary by chance. A good salary, a first-class apartment - but things are not going right in his new residence. Notes warn him, a beautiful woman appears in the mirror,...

Direction Martin Berger

Cast Conrad Veidt · Maly Delschaft · Harry Liedtke · Werner Krauss

Direction Herbert Wilcox

Cast Lionel Barrymore · Ivy Duke · Werner Krauss · Randle Ayrton